Episode 167 - Government Protection

God will use the pagan unbeliever to accomplish His perfect plan of redemption. In this we the people of God have confidence and blessed assurance.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:13):
I will lift mine eyes to the hills from whence
comes my help. My help comes from the Lord, the
Lord who made heaven and earth. He will not suffer
your foot to be moved. He who keeps Israel neither
slumbers nor sleeps. The Lord is our keeper. He is
the shade up on our right. And the sun will

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not smite us by day, nor the moon by by night.
The Lord will preserve us from all evil. He will
preserve our soul. I were going out and our coming in.
From this time forth and even forever more, we welcome
you once again to this another edition of End Time
Revival Ministries USA podcast. That is, for those of you
who listen to us by way of our audio podcasts,

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and for those of you who view us by way
of our YouTube channel one Voice in the Wilderness, we
welcome you as well. And again we are grateful to
the Lord for another day that He's allowed us to see.
And we are a man certainly again privileged and honored
to be chosen by Him to speak forth his word

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with truth and boldness and clarity. Such a time as
this we honor the Lord and give him glory and
praise for his goodness toward us, and we are a
man recipients of the many benefits that God has a man,
stored up a man, and allowed us to be participants of.

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And so again our hearts are eternally grateful. And again
we urge, we urge you as well, if you are
not already a man, aware of a man, the goodness
of God a man, it is exactly what leads man
to repentance. A man, it is to be known and

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seen and understood. And we certainly again those of us
who are in the Church of Jesus Christ, ought to
be reveling and relishing, Amen, reveling in and relishing all
of the goodness of God that He, a man, so

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undeservedly on our part, of course, bestows upon us. It
is by grace we are saved. The Bible tells us
through faith. It's not of ourselves. It's not a work
soles anyone should boast. And I'm so glad also that
we can a man live in this world with boldness
and confidence, Amen, And knowing that a man God is

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with us and force. He never leaves us, nor does
he forsake us. And of course, for those of you
who have been following along with us, we have been
in a series on God, government, church, and state. We're
coming to a close on that, but I want to
and that this will probably be in our next session.
We'll go to Romans chapter thirteen and look at Amen,

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our duties and responsibilities. But we need to also understand
a man, that government, a man has been established and
ordained by God, and that we need not live in
fear of government, nor I mean any ruler, a man
who sits in power or authority. God is sovereign and

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he reigns and rules in the kingdom. Men. He it
is who raises up leaders and rulers and governors and
mayors and presidents and prime ministers and kings. God is
in control, Amen. And so this is what we want
to look at a little bit today. Government protection. Amen.

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Government were a man designed again and ordained by God.
And God still operates and works within the confines of
government everywhere there is nothing that is out of His control.
And again this is why we as the people of God,
need not live in fear, doubt nor unbelief. Amen. So

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before we begin, we're going to be in the book
of Isaiah. Shortly. If you have your bibles, Isaiah forty five.
But before we gain we begin, of course, let's take
just a moment to amen, acknowledge the Lord Father again,
thank you for this day, Amen, this day that you
have made. We certainly are grateful that you allowed us

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to wake up this morning with the breath of life,
with the breath that comes from you, with all of
the again goodness of your mercy and grace and loving
kindness toward us. Thank you for saving us, calling us
out of the darkness into your marvelous light. Lord, We
certainly even now pray that your word will find someone's

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heart today. Prick someone's heart today, Turn someone's heart today
to you. They will come to know and experience in
the fullness all of the benefits, all of the man
loving kindness that you have stored up for them, if
they would only believe. Amen. So Father, help someone today, God,

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their feet, open their eyes, ears heart, Oh God, let
there be a amen for your glory, for your honor.
We praying give thanks Amen, and all right government protection
God has given us. And this is, by the way,
one of our benefits. Perhaps we overlook and I don't

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know if you've noticed this, and I don't know how
much this is still seen, but it used to be
quite common, and I think it is still in some places,
perhaps on the vehicles of police officers. You see and
man these words to serve and to protect, to serve

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and to protect. Amen. But again, government is God's design,
and all human governments of this world, by the way,
have their existence and authority from God. It is God
again who instituted a man human government, and he did

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it for the purpose of rewarding and promoting what is good,
while restraining and punishing what is evil. And all of
this is necessary because all of us a man, are
sinners by nature, a man living in a falling world.
And again, the world is falling, the whole creation is

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groaning and travailing a man. And because all have sin
and falling short of the glory of God, it is
necessary a man that government be instituted, a man of many,
but by God, a man. And again, sadly, so many
people have dismissed God and don't believe that God is

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involved at all, even people in the Church, of course, sadly,
who should know better. They think that God is aloof
that God is uninvolved and not even caring at all
about what happens. But certainly we need to understand that

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all of human government, and although you know again these
governments are ordained by God, they are made up of
fallen human beings. And yet they still serve as ministers,
if you will, and this is in Roman Chepter thirteen.
They all still serve as ministers of God to carry

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out what God has ordained a man, and their primary
purpose should be to maintain law and order. Again we'll
see that in Romans thirteen, perhaps in our next session.
But because of the rebellious fallen nature of man, in

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man's obstinence against God, God, in his sovereign and absolute
power and authority, and with if you will, in his
predestined plan of salvation to redeem the souls of lost man.
God is the one who can and will and does,

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and well again we've seen this throughout the scriptures. Amen.
God is the one who turns the heart of the king,
the heart of rulers, Amen, in ways that will accomplish
its eternal decrees what he has purposed to do. But
He has already established what He's already spoken in eternity past.

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And God did this long before the foundation of the world, Amen,
long before we came into existence. God purposed God predestined amen.
And again when He raises up, as it were, rulers,
when men and women come into positions of power and

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authority and government, again we need not fear, because God
sovereignly reigns and rules in the kingdom of men. And
even when kings and rulers seem to be running a
foul of the law of God, of the will of God,
as it were, they are never beyond the scope of

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His absolute power, of his sovereignty, of his amen, a
reach if you will. And they are in fact doing nothing,
of course, beyond the fore knowledge of God. And again,
neither are they beyond His ability to reconcile everything within

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his perfect plan. Proverbs twenty onety one tells us that
the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord,
every ruler, not just a king. We don't have kings
much as it were a man many many, many hundreds
of years ago throughout the world, as it were, very

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few kings reign today. But nevertheless, the Bible is speaking
the rulers and those in authority. The king's heart is
in the hand of the Lord, like the rivers of waters.
The Bible says, he turns it God turns the heart
of the king wherever he wishes, that is, wherever God desires.

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Whatever God has and designed, predestined, determined, and eternity past again.
All of this we have to keep in mind is
in keeping with God's great plan of redemption. God from
the beginning of time purposed, even though he knew again
that man would a man rebel against him. He purposed

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within himself that he would save a people for his namesake.
So the king, the ruler, the governor, the mayor, the president,
of the prime minister, whoever a man, they cannot run
a foul a man of what God has already determined
to do. And when rogue rulers are are doing their wickedness,

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when they are walking in their own way, unbeknownst to them,
they are yet fulfilling the will of God. And even
though they mean in their heart, and they do. And
God doesn't have to fear with the heart of a man.
He doesn't have to interfere a man in order to

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orchestrate in order to ensure that his will be done.
He can instill. He can allow them to make their decisions,
do as they wish, do as they please. Amen. But
what they don't understand, and what is unbeknownst to them,
they are still fulfilling the will of God even in disobedience. Amen,

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because what God has already decreed in his goodness. And
again keep in mind, this is all in keeping with
a man God's eternal plan of redemption. Amen. So whatever
God is already decreed, Amen, his goodness overrides the totality

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of all human and demonic wickedness, plans and schemes and
so forth. Amen. So, no matter what man may do,
no matter what the powers of the darkness may do,
a man go to goodness. The Bible says, where sin abounds,
grace much more abounds. So the goodness of God a

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man overrides. Amen. You remember the story of Joseph, of course,
a man when his brothers conspired against him and sold
him into slavery, and years later a man. They had
to go down to Egypt and did not know that
Joseph had been promoted to be the prime Minister, second
in command in all of Egypt, a man, and they

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didn't recognize him when they got there. But later on,
after they were revealed one to another a man, Joseph
reminded them of what they had done. And he said,
you meant it for evil, but God meant it for good.
In other words, is again God did not a man

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stop them. God did not change the disposition of their heart.
He changed their mind. He didn't bend their will a man.
He allowed them to do, Amen, wickedness. He allowed them
to carry forth, out of their passions, their jealousy, their envy,
their hatred for Joseph, carry forth what they wanted to

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do to him. Now, of course we know, if you
know the story, they really initially wanted to kill him.
God didn't allow them to do that, and again got overrides.
God overrides. But he did allow them, permit them to
sell their own blood brother into slavery. Amen. And if

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you take, for example, many years later, the pharaoh of
the Exodus, to whom Moses was sent to speak on
God's behalf in order for him to release the people
of God who had come down to Egypt. Joseph again,
through the predestined purpose and plan of God, had all

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of his family brought into Egypt. But the man hundreds
of years later, a man, this new pharaoh, who did
not know Joseph. And that's to his own demise, a team,
because he should have known one of the greatest of
all of the pharaohs or leaders rather in all of
the land of Egypt. Amen. Moses was sent to this

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pharaoh a man. God gave him a message. A man, thus,
says the Lord, God of the Hebrews, let my people go, Amen,
from slavery, from servitude, from bondage. That's the desire, that's
the will of God, that people be free. Amen. But
what the pharaoh did not know, what he did not understand,
was that God had already predestined and orchestrated the flight

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and the plight of his people. Amen. The Lord told
his servant Abraham, if you go back all the way
back to Genesis chapter fifteen, Amen. The Lord told his
servant Abraham that his descend would be strangers, a man
would be in servitude, would be in bondage for four

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hundred years. Amen. And afterwards the Lord told Abraham that
he would bring them out. So long before this pharaoh,
long before Joseph was born, a man God, a man
in eternity past, had already purposed and decreed what would
happen again, Despite the decision of Joseph's brothers, despite the

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decision of the Pharaohs, despite the decision of anyone a
man who tried to interfere, as it were, again unbeknownst
to them, they were fulfilling the will of God, even
when they were sinning and rebelling against God. And this
pharaoh again rose up in his own honor and in

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his own pride, failing to know that again in his
own nation's history, which he should have known, the greatest
leader that had ever lived, perhaps in all of Egypt,
a man was once himself a Hebrew slave, Amen, that

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was promoted to prime minister, second in command, a man
hundreds of years prior. Amen. And see, God knew that
this unwise and unwilling, ignorant pharaoh would harden his heart,

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and refusing to let the people go from slavery, he
told Moses better. As a matter of fact, when he
commissioned Moses and sent him to Egypt, he said, he's
not going to Moses go, tell him he's not gonna
let the people go until I showed my mighty hand.
So it was that again God is sovereignly in control,

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and his will will be done, Amen. His will will
be done, Amen. And again what this government tyrant did
not know did not understand was that God would be
glorified in his disobedience or in his compliance. Amen to

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obey a God. See, please understand. This is what we
need to understand. We need to get We need to
get this, We need to get this. God is going
to be glorified in obedience or disobedience, whether we comply
with his amen commands, with his word, whether we resist,

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God is still going to be glorified. God is still
going to get the honor, he said. And I'm going
to move on from this. But Paul picked this up
in the New Testament. He said, of Pharaoh, the Bible
says this, by the way the Lord said this Again,
Paul picks it up in the New Testament, makes it
an argument about a man. The sovereignty of God. He said,
even for this same purpose, speaking of Pharaoh, that Pharaoh

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of the Exodus, even for this same purpose, have I
raised you up, that my power and my name might
be declared throughout all the earth. Therefore He has mercy
on whom he will, and he hardens whom he will. Amen.
So no ruler, no leader, no king, no tyrant, no

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government official, Amen, president, prime minister, mayor, Amen, city council
person whatever doesn't matter. Amen. They are not in control period. Amen,
they're not. Amen. Whether the government ruler obeys or disobeys

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the law of God, the plans and the council of
God still stands. And whatever God is purpose to do, Amen,
whatever he its purpose to be to come to pass,
is independent of what man decides to do independent. Amen. Again,

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God overrides over rules. He will allow them to make
these plans and schemes, and and and and and even
again in opposition to the will of God. And yet
God still gets his will done through the wickedness, through

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and end and despite of if you will, or in
spite of whatever decisions that these Amen, rogue rulers may make. Again,
if it were possible, let me say this, if it
will think about it, because you have to think about this.
If it were possible for mortal man's decisions a man

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to interfere with whatever God has a purpose, or if
mere mortal man's decisions could disagnol disavowal with God is purpose.
Where God is spoken and man, then it simply means
that God could not possibly be sovereign, nor could he

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be omnipotent. Amen, and arguably not even omniscient, because if
he knew it would happen, and he has the power
to do it, and it still goes a ride. It means,
wait a minute, wait a minute, He's not in control.

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So see from our poor little, narrow little perspective, and man,
we seem to believe get and based on our own
I don't know, fears and doubts, perhaps that things are
just out of control and that God is absent, God
is aloof But we really need our eyes open, we

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really do. We really need our eyes open to see, Amen,
what God is really amen doing in the earth. And
by the way, if we were really honestly, I believe
if we would just read the Bible, read the word
of God, and allow the spirit of God to speak
to us, I mean, I believe, I understand, it would

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be open to understand that we don't need to live
in fear or doubt, that God has protection for his people. Amen.
And so not only does God operate through the will
of the resistant ruler, he also raises up kings and

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rulers who will do his will. So you have, on
the one hand, those who are obstinate, those who are rebellious,
those who resist the will of God. Amen. But there
again God has and again this is in the Bible,
this is throughout history. God has also raised up, or
elevated or promoted Amen, people to positions of power. Amen,

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who will do what He purposed? Amen. We've already seen
how God has strategically placed his own people, for example,
in positions of power, such as a Joseph, such as
a Daniel. And he did with these two individuals, by
the way, in foreign pagan gentile governments, God put them

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at the highest levels of government. And God has people
right now, by the way. I hopefully, I hopefully we
can get to some of this modern day govern meant
stuff and in in a week or so, because we
need to understand that God is still again, still sovereign,
still in control, and uh uh and and and and

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what we read in the Bible, we should be able
and we should be drawing all kinds of faith and
confidence from it. Nevertheless, again, I think I believe it
is because people don't know the word, don't know the truth,
or if they've read it, they don't believe it. I mean,

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which it has to be. It has to be our unbelief.
I mean, we're allowing the spirit of fear the rule.
And at the end of the day that but, but,
but that should not be not that really just should
not we We we're without excuse in our day. To
whom much is given, much is required, and man, and

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let it not be said, Please, let it not be said, Church, Amen,
of those in the Old Testament, as it was of
those in the Old Testament, My people are destroyed for
lack of knowledge. I mean, there's no excuse. We have
so much at our disposal today. There's no reason why
we should be in ignorance. There's no reason why we
should not know the times and the seasons. Amen. This

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is it is God, and he has failed it out
for us. There's so much revelation. God has given us,
so much revelation that we have now. People in the
Old Testament were in darkness a lot of things. Even
the prophets, whom God used mightily, they didn't know. Daniel,
one of the greatest of the prophets, didn't understand a

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lot of what God was showing him. He didn't understand it. Amen.
And so in our day now we are really without excuse.
And so we've already seen how God is operated a
man in place. People in power people in positions of authority.
And God is still doing it right now, right here

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in America, in foreign countries all over the world. God
has people that he has put in power, whether they
are in the kingdom or out of the kingdom, God
has raised them up. God has put them there. Amen.
You may not agree with God's selection, with God's choice,

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but God does have the Oh my God. I could
go on for another two hours on that God's right
to choose. I've spoken on that at nauseam in the past.
And then when you talk about the sovereignty of God,
God has a right to choose. Here again in America,
we want to always, you know, jump up and down
and yell and screen for our rights. Well, what about

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God's rights? If you will? And man does not. God
have the right to choose. Amen, and decide whom He's
going to raise up and put in power. Amen. Oh,
stop me, stop me, stop me, somebody stop me again.
God raises up kings and rulers who will do his will. Amen.

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And throughout the history of redemption, he's also not only
from among his own people, but certainly are rulers from
among gentile nations. Say again, they don't have to be
in the camp, in the kingdom, in the sheep folk,

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amongst the nation of Israel, as it was in antiquity. Amen.
God can use anybody anywhere at any time. Amen. Because
what we need to understand is God It number one
purpose goes all the way back to Genesis, when Adam
and Eve fail and Adam and Eve's sin God put

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in place. God spoke it. I mean, the first Gospel
was preached a man in the garden of Eden as
it were. Amen, God is going to save a people
for his namesake, and nothing is going to stop that.
Nothing is going to prevent that from happening. And so

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throughout the history of God's plan of redemption, God is
again also raised up rulers from among gentile nations to
carry out his eternal decrees. And again now we're ready
to go to Isaiah forty five, and we look here
at the example. This is one among many of a

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pagan king by the name of Cyrus, and the Bible
clearly speaks of him here in Isaiah forty five, being
predestined by God. Amen, to act favorably toward the people
of God long before he was conceived in his mother's wound. Amen.

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The prophetized, spoke of prophesied of predicted, if you will,
Cyrus being raised up to do exactly what God purposed
for him to do. Gold, if you will to Isaiah
forty five, Thus says the Lord verse number one, to
his anointed, see what he does. God calls Cyrus his anointed.

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That means God has purposed something for him to do
to Cyrus. See again, by the way, he's naming Cyrus
before Cyrus is even born. Only God can do that,
only God. This is why. By the way, critics of
the Bible, especially the latter half of Isaiah, there's no way.

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There's no way. This stuff is too accurate. It is
too dead on. There's no way Isaiah could have written this.
There's no way. I mean this specificity, this accuracy is
spot on. There's simply no way this could have been
written hundreds of years before Cyrus came to be. Oh,
but it was because God is sovereign, and God is

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in control. And God is the one who raises up kings,
rulers again, governments of all nations and places, and he
puts people in power that He decides will be now again.
We may not agree with them and make no mistink
about it. When the wicked are in power, the people
are grown a man. The Bible tells us that. But

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when the righteous rule, the people rejoice. So thus it's
the Lord to his knowing it to Cyrus, whose right
hand I have held to subdue nations before him, and
loose the armor of kings, to open before him the
double door, so that the gates will not be shut
by the way. This is speaking of in part amen,

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not only the judgment the conquering that would come upon
many other nations, but particularly up on Babylon. If you
go to Daniels, chapter number five, a man meets, and
the Persians came in and conquered a man, the mighty
nation of Babylon. And this was God's doing, opening up
the way, as it were, for Cyrus to and his

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army to march right in. You can read the history
books for that. And so the Bible tells us verse
number two. The Lord says of Cyrus to Cyrus, I
would go before you and make the crooked places straight.
I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and
cut the bars of iron. I will give you the
treasure of darkness and hidden riches of secret places that

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you may know that I, the Lord who call you
by your name, am the God of Israel. And by
the way, many scholars theologians perhaps believed that it was
Daniel who also was in the of Cyrus. Amen was

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the one who pointed all of these things out to Cyrus,
showed him a man from the scriptures. Amen certainly made
him aware that God had spoken these things of him,
called him by name long before he was born. Born
and a man also for Cyrus to understand and to

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know that it was God who was empowering him. It
was God who raised him up, It was God who
was with him, It was God who was going before him.
And so again, Amen, this is spoken of Cyrus, a
government ruler, Amen, who would act favorably toward the people

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of God. All of this is spoken of Cyrus long
before he was born. Amen. Look again, he says verse three.
I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches,
of secret places, that you may know that I, the
Lord who hold you by your name, am the God
of Israel. For Jacob, my servant's sake, and Israel my

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elect I have even called you by your name. Look
at that I have named you though you have not
known me. He didn't even know. Hiden again, Daniel, perhaps,

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I'm sure was the one who had to reveal all
of this to him. Amen, he said, I have done
all of these things, Cyrus. In other words, you don't
even know. You don't even understand that it is I,
the God of Israel, the God of all flesh, the
God of creation, the Almighty, the first, the last, the

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Alpha of the Omega to begin in the end. I
the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth,
the sovereign ruler over all of the kingdoms of this world.
I Cyrus, Amen have called you by your name. I
name you, though you have not known me. That's what

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I love. Cyrus had no idea yet, no clue. Ah, Oh,
let me finish. Verse five, He says, I am the Lord.
There is no other. There is no god beside me.
I will gird you though you have not known me,

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that they may know from the rising of the sun,
who is they? Everybody, every man, every woman, every boy,
every girl. Then and now that they may know, from
the rising of the sun to its setting, that there
is none beside or besides me. I am the Lord,

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and there is no mother. What he says verse seven,
the final verse, I form the light and create darkness.
I make peace and create calamity. I the Lord do
all these things. Oh, I wish I had time. Oh listen,

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please again, there's absolutely no need for the people of
God to live in fear or doubt or belief of
whatever rogue ruler. I mean, even though again they they
whatevere rulers if it's multiple rulers, and there are, by

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the way, But again I don't want to just harp
again on the negative, as it were, when it comes
to government, because again God has used government. He has
used government officials and rulers in power again of his
own people and of those who don't even know him,

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in order to accomplish his grand plan of redemption. His again,
God's plan right now for the church is this God's
plan for the world. Is this That the gospel of
Jesus Christ will be preached in all nations. Jesus said this,
and then the end will come, and we are fastly

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approaching that. By the way, So again, any ruler, any leader,
any government official that will rise up and seek to thwart,
seek to shut down, seek to destroy the work of
the Church, the mission of the church not gonna stand.

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You do yourself well to leave that alone. I mean,
I'll just give you a little if I leave it alone.
Don't think you can shut up the truth. Shut down
the truth. Amen, stop the truth. Amend. God will never
be without a witness and his word and his will Amen,
will be accomplished. Amen. And so we don't have to

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live in fear of rogue rulers, a man who seem
to be running a mock reaking have it upon the people.
Even of God. And in this world God told us,
the Lord told us, Jesus told us that we're gonna
have persecution. We're gonna have trials and tribulations. Amen. We're
gonna be hated of all nations for his namesake. But
we must never forget that God is sovereignly in control

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of the affairs of this world. And no man, no man,
can disrupt or destroy the perfect plans and purposes of
God Almighty. And even when the wicked again are in
power and the people are groaning, yes, they are growing
when the wicked, when the wicked are in power, there

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is protection. There is divine protection for the people of God.
And again, God at times will use the will of
wicked man against him, and at the same time for
the good of his people, and ultimately, of course, to
his own glory and honor and majesty and dominion and power.

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Both now and forever. He that dwells in the secret
place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow
of the Almighty Father. Help us today be glory fied.
Thank you for divine protection. Thank you that, even though
again we may be perplexing our minds about what you

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are doing and how you are orchestrating your plan. As
your people, Lord, we must learn to trust you implicitly
a man, to lean not to our own understanding, but
allow you to order our steps and lead us and
guide us in the way of truth and righteousness. For
your namesake, Father, be glorified today again someone's eyes, someone's ears,

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someone's heart. Lord, let it be changed today for your
glory and honor and Jesus name me praying your things,
Amen and Amen.