 Good morning, everyone. I hope everyone is doing well. I hope you are blessed this morning. I want to go ahead and jump into it because I want to get a quick refresher. You all recall when we first started, what we're looking at, the whole point of this is to try to figure out, we're not just reading the Bible, we're not just having these Bibles, so these just to read through the scriptures. This is not just, let's just read, it's not story time. It is, we're reading through the scripture, but there's a reason, there's a purpose. We are trying to figure out how we should read the Bible and let things just kind of fall in place. The Bible fits together neatly. All the different topics, the different doctrines, and so forth, they all fit together nice and neatly. Our problem is we try to force certain parts into the wrong holes. We will put this that goes here, we'll put it over there. And so what we've been doing is kind of walking through and we're going to start seeing a lot of the things that were spoken of early, initially in the beginning, because when you want to start reading the Bible, where should you begin? In the beginning. There's a reason why the beginning is in the beginning. And we covered a few things initially. Now today, we are going to be in First Samuel. You all recall the little chart, I'll put up again. You see, we are in First Samuel and there is one chronological book that goes along with First Samuel that is First and Second Chronicles. We'll spend a little bit of time, from time to time, as we go through First and Second Samuel and First and Second Kings because First and Second Chronicles chronicles those two books. And I say those two books. First and Second Samuel was initially one whole book, but we have divided up, which is no problem. It makes it a little bit easier. But I want to cover something. Do you all recall, matter of fact, when you pull up on the screen so you guys can see with me, we talked in the very beginning about what God is trying to do for his people. Remember, the Bible, for all intents and purposes, is a book about salvation. If it was not about our salvation, none of us would read it. There'd be no need for us to read it. If all we knew was that we are on our way to hell, well then, if the Bible was not about salvation, it will be a book about why we are on our way to hell and who wants to read that, right? But it's a book about our salvation. It's a book to show us what God has done, the links that he's gone through to save the people that he loves. He's a righteous God, a just God, but he's also a loving God. And so what he did was one of the covenants that he makes with us is the Abrahamic Covenant. So let's go back to this. I'll put it on the screen for you guys to see if there's different types of covenants, right? We have a unilateral covenant. We have a bilateral covenant and we have an unconditional covenant. The Abrahamic Covenant I've said before, guys, to me, I will say it is the Covenant of Covenants. Why? Because isn't it everything else kind of falls in line. That includes the Old Covenant, the Mosaic Covenant, the Davidic Covenant, which we're gonna talk about soon enough, as well as the New Covenant. Now obviously the Noe Covenant comes before that. And so I guess you cannot have any Covenants if the world has been destroyed again. But I say the Abrahamic Covenant because what it does is it deals with everyone, even specifically. And so it is, the question is what type of Covenant is it? It is a, let's go back to the type of Covenant, it is a not a bilateral Covenant because it's not a Covenant made between two different parties. It's one person that's responsible for keeping the Covenant. That, and so therefore it becomes a unilateral Covenant. God did not go to Abraham or anyone else and say, how about you and I have a Covenant? No, that's not what happens in the Abrahamic Covenant. Is this Covenant a conditional Covenant, meaning that Abraham or anyone else, if you do this then I'll do that? No, it's not. That's not what God says. It is an unconditional Covenant because God did not say to Abraham one, you feel like doing this Covenant? No, he didn't say that. And it's the unconditional Covenant because there's no conditions whereby the Covenant or the terms of the Covenant need to be met. In other words, God didn't say to Abraham, if you do this Abraham, then I'll do that. Some are gonna say, well, wait a second. Didn't Abraham have to get out of the land, his father's land in order for the Covenant to be enacted? No, Abraham was on his way out. So we've covered this before as we're reading the passage that we literally see Abraham walking out and why God says, get out of your father's house to a land. As you're getting out of your father's house, I'm taking you to this land. So depart from the area that you're going and go here. And so the reason why I bring this Abrahamic Covenant up is because the Abrahamic Covenant is going to be front and centered. So let's put it on the screen. The Abrahamic Covenant is a unilateral unconditional Covenant. We see it in Genesis 12 and Genesis 15. The reason why I put both of those up is because Genesis 12, we hear about it. Certain things about it is kind of marked out. Genesis 15 is when it's actually inaugurated, when the Covenant is actually established. God puts Abraham asleep, puts him to the side while he walks through the cut pieces of flesh in this fiery furnace that comes down. But I want to go over Genesis 12 in just a second. And in doing so, I want to look at a few things. As a matter of fact, let's go to it right now. Let's put it on the screen. Genesis 12, one. Now the Lord said to Abraham, go forth from your father's country and from your relatives and from your father's house to a language I will show you. And look what he says, I will make you a great nation. That's important, I will make you a great nation. He also says, and I will bless you. Notice there's no condition. I'm going to make you a great nation. Remember that first point, make your great nation. I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing. And I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. And here it is, the one that's germane to us and in you, all the families of the earth will be blessed. By the way, this is a promise. All the families of the earth will be blessed. Not, you might be blessed, possibly know you will be blessed. The promises of God are what? Yes and amen, amen is done. There's no, there's no trying to figure out is it going to happen, which is something we need to, let me just say this, we need to make sure we get that in our spirit, in our soul, tattoo that somewhere too. Anyone loves tattooing something, tattoo that. When God says it, it is going to happen. Now, does that mean it's going to happen with you? Well, not necessarily, but whatever he promises to happen will happen. So he says, all the families of the earth, called Mr. Cuth, is every family will be blessed. Not everyone in the families, but all the families will be blessed through Abraham. I need to thank you so much. I appreciate that sweetheart. But I want to focus on verse two. He says, and I will make you a great nation. This word nation is the word goy, which is people, nation. Well, what does that naturally, what must that entail necessarily? Well, let's go to it. The Abrahamic Covenant, one, it's unilateral, unconditional. Who were the parties involved? We'll deal with that in just a second. But then also the promises, what are the promises? Well, the promise is one, relate to Abraham and his people being blessed, how nations people relate to are related to, I'm sorry, how the nations and the peoples relate and are related to and how other nations are blessed. But here it is, here's an important part. The elements of this particular Covenant are these. One, the people. There must be people because the word goy means nations or peoples. Two, there is a land element to this. And then this part right here, number three, this is where we're going today. This is what's gonna kind of push us towards one where we are now, that there must of necessity since you said there's gonna be a nation, there must be a land of people and a government. Let me put it back on the screen. I want you guys to remember this, the elements of this Covenant, people, land and kingdom. We don't see the kingdom portion of this. We don't see the kingdom aspect of this until now. We're getting ready to get into where this kingdom is set up, meaning there must be a rule. Are you with me? Now, we won't deal with this until next week in terms of when Israel decides, you know what, I'm through with you, God. We want a king like every other nation. We'll deal with that on next week, but there's this little prelude to that where we're gonna see Samuel and so forth in these priests, because God is getting ready to make a statement about priests, and guess what guys? This is something that you rarely hear. What we're gonna see today, because I don't know about you, but I like finding interesting nuggets that actually relate to us. It's nice to find, hey, you know what, that's really interesting. I never knew that, I never saw that. But it's even better to find one where I can say, hey, that's interesting, I never knew that, and it also applies to us. We're gonna see something that I don't, I can't recall seeing very often, if any, really on YouTube, anyone speak on what we're gonna talk about today. So buckle up, you're gonna see that, just a little bit, I think it's a treat, I think it's pretty cool, because you just don't see people talk about what the Bible is gonna say pretty, I would say vividly, but it's there. So we're gonna have this kingdom that's gonna be these people. Well, we've got the people so far, don't we? We've got all these people, those that were in captivity, they've come out and they've come out with great wealth as a matter of fact. Then we've got this land, the land that was promised to them. However, the land is supposed to be peaceful and so forth, but we hadn't had a lot of peace, not in this land. What because of their sin? Now, God's gonna deal with their sin, but even before that, God is going to set up a kingdom, a rule, and we're gonna see that. Remember, the people are going to buck, now they're gonna push back. Before we get to them, and before we go into First Samuel, let's also remember this, we were told in Genesis, let's go to 49, because this is gonna be front and center, going forward, we were told in Genesis 49, remember this passage, the scepter shall not depart from Judah nor the ruler of staff from between his feet until Shiloh comes, and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. I think, if I recall, I think we're gonna deal with Shiloh today, but remember, who is this scepter? That's the party that won't depart from, who is that? Well, Judah, important. So even with Israel's disobedience and their rejecting of him, they are wanting a king and a kingdom. Well, long before there was an Israel and there was a desire for a king and a kingdom, God had already promised to establish that when he says that I'm gonna give you these things in Genesis 12 and 13, the elements of this covenant. God has already has this in mind. So even though when someone does wrong or messes up, you cannot thwart the plans of God. Amen. So that being said, without further ado, let's go ahead and jump into 1 Samuel and in 1 Samuel. Thank you, Jarvis Williams, I appreciate that. All right, 1 Samuel 1-1, let's go ahead and run. Now there was a certain man from Ramaphane, Zoffan. I'm so glad we have regular English-American names nowadays, you know, like Dallas, Florida, New York, you know, names that we just used to pronounce and these names here, but again, from the hill country of Ephraim and his name was Al-Khanna, the son of Jeroham or Jerome, we call them, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zoof and Ephraimite. He had two wives, the name of one was Hannah. I'm familiar with this story because I told you before that my third child, her name is Hannah and we got her name from this story. And the name of the other was Panina. No one names their child Panina, but they do name him Hannah. And Panina had children, but Hannah had no children. Now this man would go up from the city yearly to worship to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. Huh, huh, I said huh twice. I'll say it a third time, now a fourth time. Huh, did anyone see what I just read? There's a reason for, when God says something God doesn't have to kind of fix stuff in. A false prophet would try to squeeze something in that didn't quite fit, try to make himself seem like he knew what he was talking about. I meant to do that all along. Well, not God. God says what he means and means what he says and he will call those things to be. So now let's go back to Genesis 49-10. The scepter should not depart from Judah, nor the rulers die from between his feet until Shiloh comes and to him shall be the obedience of his people until Shiloh comes. So back to 1st Samuel 1. Now this man would go up from his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. So something in Porta is going to be happening here in Shiloh. Again, long time prior, God mentioned what's gonna happen. He didn't give us the details. And by the way, we talked with us before how we get things that are revealed to us progressively. Over time we'll see, we will see God unfolding his truth. So what he said in Genesis 3-15, the beginning of it all, we're not sure. No one has any idea of what God means when he's talking to the man, the woman and the serpent. No one has any idea. You said the seed of woman shall bruise the seed of the serpent on his head. Huh? What does that mean? Well, things are gonna be revealed further and further as we go. And so we're seeing more and more. And so now let's go back to 1st Samuel 1. Now we're in verse three. They would go yearly to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. What else is happening in Shiloh? Well, two sons of Eli, Hophne and Phineas, were preached to the Lord there. And this is not a throwaway statement. So remember, the priests at Shiloh are Hophne and Phineas. Then we forget about Hophne and Phineas for a moment because we've got more details than something else to talk about. When the day came that Alcona sacrificed, he would give porters to Beninah, his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters. But to Hannah, he would give a double portion for he loved Hannah, but the Lord had closed her womb. Her rival, however, that is, Beninah would provoke her bitterly to irritate her because the Lord had closed her womb. There's always somebody to make fun of your misfortune. Whatever you're going through, there's somebody oftentimes somebody close to you who wants to remind you of what your situation is. It happened year after year as often as she went to the house of the Lord that she would provoke her so she wept and she would not eat. Then Alcona, her husband said to her, Hannah, why do you weep and why do you not eat and why is your heart sad? Am I not better to you than 10 sons? Hannah, listen, you don't need any sons. You got me, baby. Yeah, not to the woman because to her, she wants children. And on top of that, this other woman that you got, she has children and she's rubbing it in my face. Then Hannah rose after eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now, Eli, the priest was sitting on the seat by the doorpost of the temple of the Lord. She greatly distressed, prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly. She made a vow and said, Oh Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your maid servants and remember me and do not forget your maid servant but will remember your maid servant, a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life and the razor shall not come or never come on his head. Now, verse 12, it came about as she continued praying before the Lord that Eli was watching her mouth. As for Hannah, she was speaking in her heart, only her lips were moving, but her voice was not heard. That used to bother me. People speaking and reading. I don't, that just wanna, you have these pet peeves. Why are you reading moving your mouth? Why are you moving your lips while you're reading silently? This is what Hannah's doing. And so Eli is looking at her. So Eli thought she was drunk. What is wrong with her? It must have been a pet peeve of Eli too, huh? Then Eli said to her, How long will you make yourself drunk? Put away your wine from you. But Hannah replied, No, my Lord, I am a woman oppressed in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the Lord. Now there are some that will say, We'll see this person that Hannah had a demon. She was oppressed in spirit. That's not what that means. That just means she was just sad. She was, she was bothered. She was, she was hurt. That's all. She was not demonized or demon possessed or anything like that. Do not consider your maid servant a worthless woman for I have, for I have spoken until now out of the, out of my great concern and provocation. Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace. That's Eli's way of saying, All right, my bad. I'm sorry, I apologize. Go in peace. I mean, if a God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him, she said, Let your maid servant find favor in your sight. So the woman went her way and ate and her face was no longer sad. Then they came across as verse 17. Then they came across and we're gonna do a lot of reading right now. They came across, they arose early in the morning, I'm sorry, and worshiped before the Lord and returned again to their house in Ramah. And Elkanna had relations with his wife, Hannah, and the Lord remembered her. The Lord remembered her. Remembered what? What did the Lord remember? Remembered her prayer. She prayed earnestly and the Lord remembered. Not that he forgot about it, that's just the way of the Lord regarding what she had said. All right, it came about in due time, after Hannah had conceived that she gave birth to a son and named him Samuel, saying, because I have asked him of the Lord. And this word Samuel, the latter part is El of God and Shemu, which is to keep, to regard, so he keeps of the Lord. So that's why. So it's kind of the two words put together. Verse 21, then the man Elkanna went up with all his household to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and pay his bow. Panina didn't say much right now, is she? But Hannah did not go up for she said to her husband, I will not go up until the child is weaned. Then I will bring him that he may appear before the Lord and stay there forever. Elkanna, her husband said to her, do what seems best to you, remain until you have weaned him, only may the Lord confirm his word. Make sure that this is of the Lord. So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him. Now, when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with her a three year old bull and one ephile flower and a jug of wine and brought him to the house of the Lord in Shiloh. Again, back in Shiloh we are, although the child was young. Now, this is a Naar, the word Naar in Hebrew is not a little bit of kid, a little bit of baby, a small, like a one or two year old, something like that. He's a little bit bigger. Now, how big it can vary? Maybe he's six, maybe he's 10. Now, I think he's older than that because after he weaned her. So maybe he's about two or three. I don't know how long, I don't know how long women weaned their children in those days, but he's now weaned himself as the following year where he can go back up. And so she said, oh my Lord, as your soul lives, my Lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you, praying to the Lord. For this boy I prayed and the Lord has given me my petition, which I asked of him. So now what she's, she's reminding the priest, oh geez, CG says, what does weaned mean? CG, in those days, they didn't have baby formula and they didn't have Gerber food. So they would feed the baby, they would breastfeed the baby. Once the baby is weaned off being breastfed. So no more milk from the source. No more milk from the tap. Now you got to get it out of a bottle. Now you got to eat like everybody else. So you ladies in the chat should have told him that. So anyway, so I also have dedicated him to the Lord as long as he lives. He is dedicated to the Lord and he worshiped the Lord. They'd never remember this was Eli, not Eli, yeah, Eli who thought that she was drunk. She's explained it. I'm praying to the Lord. And so he can, you know what? Remember is what happened. So now he's yours. So he's been reminded, which he should not have to be reminded, but he's been reminded that God does answer prayer. Now I want to read this. I debated about reading Hannah's prayer or her song of Thanksgiving, but I think this is an awesome song. So let's go ahead and read this. This is first Samuel to one. And you know what I'm wondering? Oh, I did something. I just, I just recognize something that I did. Yep. Yep. Okay, I'm sorry. Something that I did that I should not have done. Yeah, you all have to forgive me. I just, I just noticed this. The settings are you guys are a good delay behind me because I did not set the delays correctly. You should, you should be five seconds, four or five seconds behind me. You're not. You were about 15, 20 seconds behind me. That is my mistake. So I apologize. That's why I'm wondering why these, the chats are looking different than normal. So y'all forgive me. I apologize. I'll do better next time. Anyway, but here's the prayer that she said, my heart exalts in the Lord. My horn is exalted in the Lord. My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies because I rejoice in your salvation. There is no one holy like the Lord. Indeed, there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like God. This is awesome. It really is. Both know more so very proudly, do not let arrogance come out of your mouth for the Lord is a God of knowledge. And with him actions are wait. The bows of the mighty are shattered, but the feeble grot gird on strength. Those who were full hire themselves out from bread, but those who were hungry cease to hunger. Even the barren gives birth to seven, but she who has many childish children languishes. I think that's probably a shot. I think that's probably a shot at Panina, maybe. The Lord kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and raises up. The Lord makes poor and rich. He brings low. He also exalts. He raises the poor from the dust. He lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with nobles and inherit a seat of honor for the pills of the earth are the Lord's and he who set the world on them. I'm gonna keep reading these, but I just think this, you all finished reading this at your leisure, but I just think this is such an awesome song. So awesome, Corey, you didn't finish it. Yeah, that awesome. Anyway, chapter two verse, let's go to chapter two verse, starting 11. Then Elkanna went to his home at Rama, but the boy ministered to the Lord before Eli the priest. Now recall, remember guys, I want you to remember this. Where are they? They're in Shiloh. Who are the priests in Shiloh? That part, don't lose that fact. Who are the priests in Shiloh? Phineas and Haphne. So where Elkanna takes his wife, or his wife, particularly Hannah, is in Shiloh where there are these two priests there, Haphne and Phineas. Now the father shows up there also because he's the main guy, but these other two priests, these boys, this is where they serve. So verse 12. Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. Interesting fact. The sons of Eli were worthless men. If the Bible calls you worthless, then you pretty much are worthless. If the Bible makes this statement about you, well then you pretty much suck. You are a horrible person. As he says, you are worthless. You have no value. Now even I would say that we at least have three or four or five dollars worth of value as dirt, but the Lord says, no, they don't even have that. Why? They did not know the Lord and the custom of the priests with the people. When any man was offering a sacrifice, listen to this, when any man was offering a sacrifice, the priest's servants would come while the meat was boiling with a three-pronged fork in his hand. Then he would thrust into the pan or kettle or cauldron or pot. All that the fork brought up the priests would take for himself. Thus they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. Again, this is in Shiloh. This is what the prophecy was for or wherever it would take place concerning the person that's going to have this scepter in Genesis 49. Okay? So you've got these wicked, wicked, these selfish men. Horrible guys. Yeah, they were worthless. Also before they burned the fat, the priest's servants would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, give the priest meat for roasting as he will not take boiled meat from you only raw. So think about this. Think about this. They are giving an offering to the Lord. Giving an offering to the Lord. And what are they doing? They are taking this offering from the Lord for themselves. Think about this. They are giving. Now, I want you all to... We say before that we're only gonna talk about what we've earned thus far. But in this case, think about what's happening today. Are there people that are taking what is offered for the Lord for themselves, for their own benefit? Using, coming this far, the church. Using what God offers for the church, for themselves. That's happening a lot. That is happening a lot. And here we see that. And there's going to be some consequences for that. If you saw the thumbnail, there is consequences for sin. There's consequences for following false teachers. There's consequences for following evil and wickedness. There's consequences. And these two men are wicked. Or as the Bible says, worthless. Verse 16, if the man said to them, they must surely burn the fat first and then take as much as you desire. Then he would say, no, but you shall give it to me now. Or if not, I will take it by force. These are just, these are bullies. These are temple bullies. These are thugs. Thus the sin of the young man was very great before the Lord, for the man despised the offering of the Lord. Think about this. He said, the Bible says that the men, the people despise the offering of the Lord. When you do things that would cause the people of God to despise worshiping God. And that happens today. People do things that will cause people to just despise this pastor, that pastor, this preacher. You wanna know why people keep calling out false teachers, false prophets, liars, heretics. You wanna know why? For this reason, because it can cause other folks to impune the word of God because of them. And this is what's happening. It says, thus the sin of the young man was very great before the Lord, for the men despised the offering of the Lord. Samuel, I'm sorry, yeah. Now Samuel verse 18 was ministering before the Lord as a boy wearing a linen e-fight. And his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him from year to year when she would come up. So here you got mommy. She's making her little boy a little, little robe, little tiny robe, little small. So now she loves her boy. He's miles and miles away, but she's still coming. She's still coming to take care of her baby. I wanna make sure he has his best. She loves her baby. Then Eli would bless Elkhana and his wife and say, may the Lord give you children from this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the Lord. And they went to their own home. The Lord visited Hannah and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And the boy, Samuel, grew before the Lord. Amen. Amen. Her faithfulness was returned by the Lord. Verse 22, now Eli was very old. And he heard, listen this guys, this is important. He heard all that his sons were doing to all of Israel and how they lay with the women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting. He said to them, why do you do such things? The evil things that I hear from all these people. Know my sons for the report is not good, which I hear. The Lord's people circulated. If one man sins against another, God will mediate him. But if a man sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him? In other words, if me and you have a problem, God can intervene. But if me and God have a problem, there's no intervention. There's no media. There's no one to say, hey guys, break it up. No, because if God has a problem with you, that's it. But they would not listen to the voice of their father for the Lord desired to put them to death. So, now he's in charge. He is allowing a lot of this stuff to go on. He is the one that's in charge. These are his sons. There's gonna be a consequence for this. Now, verse 26, now the boy Samuel was growing in statute and in favor both of the Lord and with men. Then a man of God, listen to this, a man of God came to Eli and said to him, thus says the Lord, did I not need, I'm sorry, did I not indeed reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt? Now, this part is important. Guys, let me take a drink of my coffee because I want you all to hear what I'm getting ready to say. We're gonna talk about something that I really think we miss oftentimes. What we're gonna show, I'm going to make a connection to something in the New Testament. Yes, I know the rules state that we've stated that we haven't gotten there yet. And so, but on this, I think it's important to draw this connection. So, then a man came to Eli and said to him, thus says the Lord, did I not indeed reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh's house? So, he's speaking about how when they came out of Egypt, that he showed up and what does God end up establishing with him? But what he says, did I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be my priests? Notice what he says guys, did I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be my priests? To go up to my altar to burn incense, to carry an A-5 before me? And did I not give to the house of your father all the fire offerings of the sons of Israel? So, another part of this tribe, they're supposed to be worshiping and working as priests. They have abused this. They have messed it up. Look what he says, verse 29. Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I've commanded in my dwelling, and honor your sons above me? See, there would be some people that would say, listen, you can't talk about Eli and Phineas because touch not the Lord's anointing. No, no. What you're doing is do not honor these men above me today in America, in Africa, in England, in Canada, in South America, all over the world. We've got people that will honor these men more than you can honor, more than you honor God. We have more and more of that happening, and that should not be the case. What takes preeminence? The word of God. What takes preeminence? The word of God. We don't have that happening. We have folks that would much rather worship and follow the word of a man versus the word of God. And so, when someone says, leave them alone, let God take care of them, guys, we are seeing an example that tells us, do not just let God take, now, God will take care of them. God will take care of them. But what happens when you should have and you don't? There's going to be a problem. There's going to be a problem. So he says, why did you get my sacrifice and at my offering, which I've commanded? Now, wait a second, wait a second. Eli would say, that wasn't me, but it was your sons. It was your charge, and you didn't do it. Why have you kicked at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I've commanded in my dwelling, and honor your sons above me by making yourself fat? Now, this is on Eli. You made yourself fat with the choices of every offering of my people in Israel. So in other words, you're also benefiting from it. We're going to see that, yeah, when he says, making yourself fat, yourself's fat, it's not just his sons, it's also Eli. We're going to see that Eli also has gotten fat. When I say fat, I mean fat, like big. He's picked up some weight. He's a little rotund. He's hefty. We're going to see that. Therefore, the Lord God of Israel declares, I did not, notice he didn't say the Lord your God. The Lord God of Israel declares, I did indeed say that your house and the house of your fathers should walk before me forever. But now the Lord declares, far be it from me, for those who honor me, I will honor and those who despise me will be esteemed lightly. Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. We might have a problem. We might have a Bible problem. We might have a Christian problem. We might have a Jewish problem. We might have a contradiction problem. Did you see what he just said? Well, he says, let's back up a little bit. Let's back it up. He says, therefore the Lord God of Israel declares, I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever. What are you talking about? Well, he's talking about this priesthood. He's reminding him of this priesthood. Now, where do we get this from? Well, let's go to Exodus 29.9. Now, by the way, before we go there, before we go back to there, remember what he just said. He says in verse 27, he says, then a man of God came to Eli and said to him, thus says the Lord, did I not indeed reveal myself to the house of Israel of your fathers when they were in Egypt in bondage? So he's gonna say, this whole thing that I'm bringing up about you or this priesthood being established at the time of you coming out of Egypt. So what's he referring to? Well, let's go to Exodus 29.9. Exodus 29.9 says, you shall gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons and bind caps on them and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual or a continual statue. So you shall ordain Aaron and his sons. So what he's saying is he's going back and pointing out that here, as they come out of Egypt, as this covenant is being established, there will be these priests, these Aaronic priests, A-R, Aaronic from Aaron, these priests from this line and it is going to be established perpetually. But we might have a problem here because here he says in verse 30, therefore the Lord God of Israel declares, I did indeed say that your house and the house of your fathers should walk before me forever. But now the Lord declares far be it from me for those who honor me, I will honor and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed. So does it seem like God has changed his mind? No, he has not. God has not flipped the script. He's not changed his mind. He's not backpedal or anything. God has not, but wait a second. Wait a second though, Lord, wait a second. You just said, as a matter of fact, you reminded us that you were establishing this priesthood perpetually. We'll get to that in a second. We'll get to that in a second. So verse 31, behold, days are coming when I will break your strength and the strength of your father's house, this priesthood, so that there will not be an old man in your house. We won't have these old priests. Nope, this is going to go by the wayside. You guys catch what's being stated here. Verse 32, you will see the distress of my dwelling in spite of all the good that I do for Israel and an old man will not be in your house forever. Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from my altar so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life. This will be the sign to which will come concerning your two sons, Haphne and Phineas. On the same day, both of them will die. But I will raise up now. So he's stating, I'm going to kill your sons. They're dead. I want you to understand they are dead, dead, dead, dead. Okay, I'll come, Quarty, I'll come back to that before we end up, before we end, okay? I promise you, I'll come back to you before we end. But notice what's being stated. Notice what's being stated. He seems to be stating he is cutting off the priesthood. The time is going to come when he's going to cut off this priesthood from your line. How could that be? Because you just stated it's going to be perpetually. Then look what he says in verse 34. This will be the sign which will come. So you'll know I'm telling the truth. This will be the sign that will happen is your two sons, those two worthless pieces of skin. Yeah, those two guys with skin on them that actually have no value to the world. They're sucking up oxygen for no good reason. They will die. On the same day, both of them will die. But I will, now listen to this part. But I will raise for myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in my heart and in my soul. And I will build him an enduring house and he will walk before my anointed always. Now I do not want you guys. I do not want you to misunderstand what was just said. Let me read it again, verse 35. But I will raise up for myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in my heart and in my soul. And I will build him an enduring house and he will walk before my anointed always. Let me say it again. I almost feel like shouting. But I will raise up for myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in my heart and in my soul. And I will build him an enduring house and he will walk before my anointed always. Who in the world is he talking about? Oh, I know. Let's go just jump a little further to the book of Hebrews. Hebrews 5 tells us this, for every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in things pertaining to God in order to offer both gifts and sacrifice for sin. He can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided since he himself also is beset with weakness. And because of it, he is obligated to offer sacrifices for sin as for the people. So also for himself. And no one takes the item to himself but receives it when he is called by God even as Aaron was. So also Christ did not glorify himself so as to become a high priest. But he who said to him, you are my son today I've forgotten you. Just as he also said another passage you are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. In those days of his flesh he offered both prayers and supplication with loud crying and tears to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his piety. Although he was a son, he learned obedience from the things which he suffered and having been made perfect. He became all those who obey him the source of eternal salvation being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. Why does Hebrews, why does the book of Hebrews decide to bring up this about Jesus? Why does the book of Hebrews mention that Jesus is a high priest but a high priest like the order of Melchizedek? Well, that's what his hat, that's what's being spoken of here. It's what the man of God is saying to Eli. I gave you guys this priesthood from the order of Aaron. From the order of Aaron, however, you guys are no good. You guys seem to love to mess up as demonstrated by these two worthless men, Phineas and Hoffney. So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna cut you off. Yes, I know that I said that this will be a perpetual priesthood. God, how in the world are you gonna cut it off and it still be a perpetual priesthood? Simple, because I don't need you. God will say, I don't need you to do my work. There's a benefit in you doing so. It's an honor and a privilege, but if you don't do it right, there's somebody else. And so what does he say? I will raise up for somebody. Let's go back to it. I will raise up this day, verse 35, for myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in my heart and in my soul. And look what he says, I will build him an enduring house. Well, what do you mean about an enduring house? You know what Jesus said in my father's house are many mansions. This priest is making this statement. And so I will build him a house. And so his point is, yes, there's gonna be other people that's gonna come along and serve as priests. Now, he's not saying he's cutting off the priesthood this day. Notice what he didn't say. Let's go back and read it again. He says, let's go back to verse 33. Now let's start in verse 31 again. Behold, days are coming when I will break your strength and the strength of your father's house so that there will not be an old man in your house. I'm not gonna continue this forever. You will not see the distress of my dwelling in spite of the good that I do for Israel and old men will not be in the house, your house forever. Yet I will not cut off every man from yours from my altar so that your eyes will not fail from weeping in your soul grief and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of their life. This will be the sign to you which will come concerning this two sons of Paphne. So now here's a sign of, but I will raise up for myself a faithful priest. There is only one faithful priest. And the reason why he says out of the order of Melchizedek because he is not out of this lineage, this physical lineage of Aaron. He didn't meet the qualifications like they do because he's not like them. He is a priest that's different, called different. Such as Melchizedek was not of this Aaron, out of Aaron's lineage because he preceded Aaron obviously. He's not a Levitical priest just like Jesus is not. So what Jesus is gonna do, Jesus is gonna literally fulfill two things. He's gonna fulfill this portion that God is speaking to become this priest here. And then secondly, he's also gonna fulfill the role of him coming from the line of Judah. How can you have, because it was one of the questions that the people have asked in the past, how can you have this king from Judah, but this priest from this other tribe? How could that be? The priest must be from here. Jesus is not out of that lineage. He's out of Judah. This is how, because guys, as you know what, I'm stopping this because you guys sin, you keep sinning, you don't do right, and you defile and defame my name. What do we find when Jesus shows up in the New Testament with the priest, the high priest, the exact same thing is going on? They are showing unequal weights and measures. They are taking advantage of the people. They are claiming the best for themselves. They are walking around in a way to where they are magnifying themselves. And so what was Jesus command to people? Leave these people alone. Turn away from these people and begin to follow me. I'm the priest, and they did not like that. This is where this comes from, guys. This is where this comes from. So now let's continue. Chapter three, verse one. Now the boy, now someone will say, well, I think this is also applying to Samuel. There are some things about this applying to Samuel. There are, but not an enduring house. That's an enduring throne, or in this case, an enduring household, or enduring priesthood. That cannot fit Samuel. Now the boy, Samuel was ministering to the Lord before Eli, and the word of the Lord was rare in those days. Visions were infrequent. So there's a time where we're not getting a lot of the word of God, which might explain why people are not behaving in such a way. It happened at that time as Eli was lying down in his place. Now, I won't read this portion. You all know the story where he keeps hearing God call him. He's thinking that it's Eli calling him. And so when Samuel goes to him, Eli finally says, listen, when he goes, the next time he calls you says, say to him, Lord, here I am. So chapter three, verse 10, then the Lord came and stood and called. As the other time, Samuel, Samuel, and Samuel said, speak for yourself. Your servant is listening. The Lord said to Samuel, behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears will be tingled. So what I wanna do, everyone that hears it, their ears will be tingled. In that day, I will carry out against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house from beginning in. Now notice what I have highlighted. For I have told him that I'm about to judge his house forever. Why? I'm about to judge his house forever. So this priestly lineage, I'm about to judge his house forever. Look what he says why. For the iniquity which he knew, you knew of this iniquity because of his sons brought a curse on themselves and he did not rebuke them. Let's stop for a minute and have a heart to heart conversation. For those of you that get upset and get bothered when someone rebukes foolishness in the church, do not think that because you sit quietly and you know, you know what's happening that God is gonna give you some feather in your cap because you kept quiet. That is not a godly quality to see the word of the Lord being defiled, being defamed, being profane. To sit back and watch it. He says for the iniquity which he knew, he knew of this iniquity and did not rebuke them. Do not think that you too will get off lightly. There is a requirement, there's a consequence for you knowing and not reporting. There is a problem for you seeing danger and you will allow your own people to walk into it. Oh, by the way, oh by the way, oftentimes the very same people that will turn a blind eye and give a deaf ear to sin, in many cases are involved in or benefiting from it in some way, shape, form or fashion. Maybe even I just don't want any smoke from it. Someone, if I call this out, they're gonna come and attack me. Well, bless are those, bless are you if they revile you and say all sorts of things about you for my sake, is what the Lord would say. Therefore I have sworn the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever. Huh. So their sins will not be atoned for. Their sins will not be atoned for. That's a gloomy, that's a gloomy word. So Samuel goes and asks, or is asked by Eli what happens? And so Eli tells him, I mean Samuel tells him and so his word is verse 18. So Samuel told him everything and he had nothing from him and he said, Eli says it is the Lord. Let him do what seems good to him. Amen. He's gonna do what seems good to him. Verse 19, Thus Samuel grew and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fail. All Israel from Dan even to Rashiba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet. And the Lord appeared again where at Shiloh because the Lord revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the Lord. Because again, where does this scepter? Where does this scepter not depart from? And what out of the tribe of Judah? So something's gonna happen here again in Shiloh and we keep bringing up Shiloh. Chapter four verse one. Thus the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to meet the Philistines in battle and camped beside Ebenezer while the Philistines camped at Afec. The Philistines, by the way, thank you, monkey moose. I mean, a Chayyan cat for the super chat. I appreciate that. The Philistines drew up in battle array to meet Israel. When the battle spread, Israel was defeated before the Philistines who killed about 4,000 men on the battle field. That makes sense. You got a bunch of people who aren't or are living ungodly, don't expect the Lord to defend you because you're living ungodly. Verse three, when the people came into the camp, the elders of Israel said, why has the Lord, now they did place the blame in the proper place or the reason, why has the Lord defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us take to ourselves from Shiloh, the Ark of the Covenant. Talk about a dumb idea. You did not consult the Lord. Talk about a dumb idea. They have a dumb idea. It isn't amazing when you have a dumb idea. You tend to exacerbate this dumb idea with the confidence in this dumb idea. Let's do, this will be a good idea. This will be a wonderful, yeah, it might be dumb, but I think it is a wonderful idea. Let's take the Ark of the Covenant from Shiloh. Let's take it into battle with us. Now forget consulting the Lord. Let's just do it on our own anyway. So let's take the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord that it may come among us and deliver us from the power of our enemies, relying on things to do it. Okay, well, let's see what happens. So the people sent to Shiloh and from there they carry the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord of Hosts, who sits above the cherubim and the two sons of Eli, Hosni and Phineas were there with the Ark of the, oh, so you got these two worthless men walking with you guys. You got your two worthless leaders leading you. As the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord came to the camp, all of Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth was out of, everyone heard this. Man, what's going on? When the Philistines heard this, now they were troubled. What does this noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean? Then they understood that the Ark of the Lord had come to the camp. The Philistines were afraid, but they said, God has come into the camp. And they said, whoa to us for nothing like this has happened before. They've never brought the Ark of the Covenant into the camp. All right. These are the gods who smote the Egyptians with all kinds of plays and letters. Take courage. Someone says, take courage. The Philistines said, dog on it, take courage. We are Philistines. Take courage and be men. Oh, Philistines. Or you will become slaves to the Hebrews as they have been slaves to you. Therefore be men and fight. Come on, you're tough. We Philistines, dog on it. They probably said dog on it too, because that's what you do. When you feel confident, you say dog on it. Verse 10. So the Philistines fought and Israel was defeated and every man fled this tent. Wait a minute, what the Ark of the Covenant is there? Okay. Verse 11. And the Ark of the Covenant was taken and the two sons of Eli, Haphne and Phineas, died. They whooped you, killed the priests' sons, and then took, took the Ark of the Covenant. Now this is worse than getting beat up and the guy take your girl from Haphne beat you up. No, took the, beat you up and then took the Ark of the Covenant. It's even worse to add insult to injury. But these are ungodly people too. These are worthless people too. These are horrible people too. Now a man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh and came and the same day with his clothes torn. Someone has offered, was this man of Benjamin, was this Saul? Don't know. So we'll leave it there. When he came to Eli, he says, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road, eagerly watching because his heart was trembling for the Ark of God. So the man came to tell it in the city and all the city cried out. When Eli heard the noise of the outcry, he said, what does this noise, what's this commotion about? Now Eli was 98 years old, verse 15 and his eyes were set so that he could not see. He had bad eyes. He had worse eyes than me. Verse 16, the man said to Eli, I am the one who came from the battle line and indeed I escaped from the battle line a day and said, how did things go? Well, guess what? We got whooped. Your son's got whooped and they took the Ark of God. So what did Eli do? Verse 18, Eli fell off his seat backwards beside the gate and his neck was broken and he died. He was old and heavy. Told you the Bible said that he was fat. He was old and fat. Thus he judged Israel for 40 years. 40 not so good years. The only thing that he seemed to do and done right was to bless Hannah that she can have extra children. He didn't really quite bless her for her to have Samuel, but. Now his daughter-in-law, Phoenix's wife was pregnant and about to give birth. And when she heard the news of the Ark of God she was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband had died, she kneeled down and gave birth. And of course now they're talking to her. She doesn't respond but she does say, she named the boy Ichabod. Why? Because verse 22, the glory has departed from Israel where the Ark of God was taken. And this is where the glory of the Lord would show up. And so she's upset, she gets it too. Now, what happens to her son? Chapter five, verse one. Just because you got the Ark, that meaning thing. Just because you have this, that matter of fact, just because you got a Bible, that meaning thing. Following evil, following wickedness, being evil, being wickedness comes with a price. How am I so? Well, let's see. Now the Philistines took the Ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashtad. Then the Philistines took the Ark of God and brought it to the house of Dagon and said it by Dagon. Dagon is probably thinking, why are y'all messing with me? Well, because what happened? When the Ashtadites arose early the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the Ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and set him in his place again. Let's set him up right. But when they rose the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the Ark of the Lord. And the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off on the threshold. Only the trunk of Dagon was left to him. Therefore, neither the priests of Dagon nor all who entered Dagon's house tread on the threshold of Dagon and Ashtad to this day. We ain't never going back in that place again. We saw what happened. Now the head of the Lord was heavy on the Ashtadites and he ravaged them and smoked them with tumors, both Ashtad and his territories. Everybody's getting messed up. Why would you do this? Here's the stupidity of mankind. Same thing with us, because guess what? It's not just them. Thus, stupidity of them. Because again, we've done the same thing. You know the power of the Lord. And what do you do? Ignore it. They know the power of the Lord. So let's bring the Ark of the Covenant in with us. You know the power of the Lord. So let's go to church. Let me get two or three Bibles. Just in case the other two aren't working like I want them to. Let me go to this church and that church. Let me go to the biggest, baddest, bestest church on the planet. I know the power of the Lord, but I'm not really walking in the power of the Lord. I know what the Lord has done. I have heard, well, matter of fact, I've seen him do it in others' lives. Matter of fact, from time to time, I've seen him do some things in my life. But I'm still gonna follow after me. Do you know what we call that? Do you know what we know, what we call it when you know what God has done and man, whatever? Do you know we call it when you turn your nose up to God, when you have a disdain either verbally or internally of God? Do you know we call that? Do you know we call that when you go after other guys, but you know what God has done? Do you know we call it when you know better, but you won't do better? Yeah, we call that mocking God. We call that mocking God. And let me just submit to you guys that one of the most egregious mockers of God are people who call themselves followers of God. That's who's probably the worst at it, or should I say the best at it. We know better. Know better, but won't do better. And so we've got these folks that are mocking God. So much so, they're gonna put the Ark of the Covenant who they know the glory of God has won battles for them from the time of Egypt up to now. Let's take him, let's take him, let's take the Ark of the Covenant and put it right beside our God. That's mockery. That's Cephas Rock said, that is stupidity. That's foolishness. That's ignorance. That's dumb. That is moronic acting on a different level. It's pride. To think, let's put him right beside our God. All right, fine. I will raise your bold, daring moves and see you won. Not only will I knock over your little funky God, but I'm gonna strike you too. And as the Bible says, ravage them and smoke them with tumors, both Ash died and his territories. When the men of Ash died saw it, so they said the Ark of God of Israel must not remain with us. Do you think? For his hand is severe on us and on Dagon, our God. Here is how stupid people can be. And I'm using words, I'm trying to be harsh. I am trying to be harsh here. He is severe on us and on Dagon, our God. Why is Dagon still your God? You wonderful, brilliant idiots. Why would he still be your God? Why would you still trust in that when it's never worked? But he has. Same thing can be said for us. So what do they do? They sent and gathered all the lords of the Philistines and said to them, what shall we do with the Ark of God? And they said, let the Ark of God of Israel be brought around to Gath. Hey, you know what, I got a good idea. Let's send it to Gath. And they brought the Ark of God of Israel around. And they, I'm sorry, after they had brought it around, the hand of the Lord was against the city and with very great confusion. And he smoked the men of the city, both young and old, so that two men broke out on them. Yeah, it worked so wonderful here in Ashdod. Let's send it to Gath and see how it works out for them. Same thing. So they sent the Ark of God to Ekron. And as the Ark of God came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out saying, you people are not that bright. Wherever you send it to, the same thing is gonna keep happening. Verse 11, they sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines and said, send the way of the Ark of God of Israel and let it return to its own place. Finally, finally, finally put it in its proper place. For there was a deadly confusion throughout the city and the hand of God was very heavy. So you got people that are going to kill themselves and they're getting tumors. And the men who did not die were spent with tumors and the cry of the city went up to heaven. Chapter six, verse four, this is the last chapter, guys. The last chapter. Now the Ark of the Lord had been in the county, I mean, country of the county, Southern part of the Bible, had been in the country of the Philistines seven months. Why would you leave it there for seven months? It shouldn't have been there for seven weeks, seven days, let alone seven hours. But again, we learn slowly sometimes. And the Philistines call for the priests and the Diviners saying, what shall we do with the Ark? Tell us how we shall send to its place. They said, if the, now I'll just kind of highlight this. Let's take these cows. I'm sorry, no, I can't, I can't, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I can't, I can't go over this. They said, if you send away the Ark of God of Israel, do not send it empty, but you shall surely return to him a guilt offering. They at least know, because the Jews have this gift, this guilt offering, do the same thing. They at least know that part. Well, bow down and worship God. That's what you ought to do. But then you will be healed and it will be known to you why his hand is not removed from you. Then they said, what shall be the guilt offering, which we shall return? And they said, five golden tumors and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines. One, for one plague was on all of you and on your lords, you shall make likenesses of your tumors and likenesses of your mice that ravaged the land and you shall give glory to God of Israel. Perhaps he will ease the hand, his hand from you, your guides and your land. So there are certain little critters that I don't like. I'm not listening. There are probably, there are three critters that I don't like, three insects. Any kind of roach like critters flies, can't stand flies and maggots. But you know what's just as bad mice, rats. And so the Lord had caused all these rats and mice to be in their land, plus a tumor. So what are we going to do? Make golden mice and golden tumors. Why then verse six, why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and pharaohs harden their hearts? Why don't you learn? They're telling them, why don't you get, why don't you learn? Now, of course, I don't know if they learned themselves either, but when he had severely dealt with them, did they not allow the people to go and they departed. Now therefore, take and prepare a new cart with two milch cows on which has never been yoked and hitch the cows to the cart. What they're saying is hitch the cows to the cart and put the Ark of the Covenant on there and just send them out. If they go to their own people, then you know that's the Lord. If they just meander around, well then it's not the Lord. And so what do they do? They go to their people. And so verse 10, the men did so as they were told. They put the Ark of the Lord on the cart and the box with the golden mice and the likings of the tumors. And what happens as they leave, they begin, they got healed. You would think, you would think that that would have done it. If that would cause them, how do they know what to sacrifice? They knew what to sacrifice. Well, who knows? Well, okay, I'll take it back. I'll take it back. They're in the land that the Jews are supposed to be occupying. The Jews were to conquer them. And at the moment that the Jews were conquering them, remember, let's think back, as the Jews were conquering them, they did not thoroughly get rid of them. So they allowed them to stay. They got to see their customs. So they understood what was happening. So it's not a difficult secret. It's not a secret at all. Matter of fact, they gave up what they were supposed to do in favor of following after these gods. Now, I want to look at verse 619. The ark shows up to the man by the name of Joshua in Beth Shemite. Now, it stays there for a little bit of time, but look what the Jews do. He struck down some of the men of Beth Shemite or Beth Shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord. He struck down of all the people, 50,000 and 70 men, and the people mourned because the Lord has struck the people with a great slaughter. The men of Beth Shemesh says, who was able to stand before the Lord, this holy God, and to whom shall he go up from us? Why are you looking? Okay, don't look into the ark. That's all. But so much so, did you see the number? 50,070 men. That many people just had to go and look, huh? Now, I don't know if it's saying 50,070 looked or some look, and he killed that many because of them. You are going to follow the Lord how he tells you to. You do not get the opportunity to follow him how you want to. As he told, remember, you rain down fire or need to have to be who you will regard me as holy. You're gonna do what I tell you to do. If you don't, there is going to be a consequence. If I have to just cause these horrendous tumors to break out on you and even kill you with those, or you wanna get extra fancy and look inside the ark, you wanna do things that you weren't commanded to do, okay, there shall be a consequence for what you do. And that's the point. Now, there's two lessons that we gain from this. Following sin, wickedness, following after false teachers, false prophets, listening to them, not dealing with them, they'll be dealt with, but you too will be dealt with. We see this here, but then also we see this wonderful prophecy where God has decided, I am going to, now he didn't say he didn't give us the exact date. He did not give us the exact date as to when he was going to end this priesthood, but he says he will. But he's gonna bring about a better priest which Hebrews tells us who this priest is. Now, I wanna go and I want to, where is it? Where is it? Oh, QWERTY QWERTY says, of course, I really need to help understanding something in scripture and I have been questioning my face severely. Is it possible to talk through a Zoom call, email or anything? Okay, I'm, okay, I should have read that earlier. Here's what you can do, email me and I will get with you. I promise you, email me sometime in the day, I will go back a couple of times and check and look at the email. Make sure you tell me who you are. Okay, so email me at, what is the email? Oh, go on it. Smart Christian channel at Gmail. Email me there and I'll go back and check and then we'll get in touch. All right, so guys, we're starting to see what God has planned to do, start to unfold. The reason why I brought up this issue with Abraham and Abrahamic Covenant is because this is where it starts off and he stated what he's gonna do, we start to see it unfold. How in the world, because we were wondering this before, how is he gonna have this kingdom? Well, he prophesied this kingdom to Abraham in Genesis 12. How's it gonna be, who's the scepter, this kingdom that he that he lose to in Genesis 49? It's going to happen, a kingdom is going to be established but first, man is going to try to establish his own kingdom. That does not catch God off guard. We're gonna see next week, we're gonna see Saul and Samuel, we're gonna see the kingdom being established. We're gonna see, we've already seen what happens as a result of having bad parenting. Eli being a bad parent, we've already seen that. And so now we're gonna see what God is gonna do and how God is gonna bring about what he's playing. So I hope that has helped you guys. I thought once looking at this, you know what, this didn't get brought up very much how this priesthood, Jesus being this priest, out of this, out unlike the order of Aaron but as a order of Melchizedek, that's not like that order, we see where that comes from. I emailed you and didn't get a response, please advise, email me again. I want you guys to understand something because I saw someone give a comment. It wasn't you but someone else gave a comment, Gregory who said I emailed you last year and you didn't respond and he was upset with me, listen. I get a thousand, when I say there are thousands of emails or comments of things that come in, they're literally, I should say not at one day but a bunch, hundreds. And honestly guys, there's just no way, there's just no way for me to keep up with all of them. And so sometimes I do miss them. I do miss them, I cannot. So I would say, if you email me, if I don't catch it, email it again. I'll do my very best. Y'all forgive me if I can't credit it to my head, not to my heart, it's just something I just, I can't do, I'm sorry guys. I apologize, please forgive me. So that been the case guys, thank you so much. There are a few other things, I need an email in me. And my wife had offered to do some help with other folks but then there are some things that I have to deal with and they just can't and so it's just one of those things. It's one of those things. So I'll try to do better. So no, there's not two priesthoods out of Levi and Judah. Although Judah, it does kind of converge T.T. Where Jesus is out of the life of Judah and he becomes a priest, but he's not Levi. So anyway, guys, thank you so much. I look forward to seeing you guys later. In the meantime, be blessed.