 in reading here in Daniel chapter 11 verse 36 we'll read to verse 39 and get into our study then the king shall do according to his own will he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god shall speak blasphemies against the god of gods and shall prosper till the wrath has been accomplished for what has been determined shall be done he shall regard neither the god of his father's nor the desire of women nor regard any god for he shall exalt himself above them all but in their place he shall honor a god of fortresses and a god which his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver with precious stones and pleasant things thus he shall act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god which he shall acknowledge and advance its glory and he shall cause them to rule over many and divide the land for gain so let me remind you of a few things those of you who've been with us and uh we're with us last time we're in chapter 11 chapter 11 is a revelation of the future that has been delivered to the prophet daniel by an angel and uh i might have mentioned this in our introduction last time that this this chapter chapter 11 has been divided into two sections the first 35 verses relate to the major rulers of persia and greece but verses 36 through 35 conclude with the last ruler who is the antichrist who is in power at the return of jesus christ so throughout the first portion of the chapter daniel has given a preview of future events and the angel speaks of persian kings that will come after derrius including xerxes the first he went on to inform daniel that a great king would arise and conquer persia and the king he spoke of as we saw last time was alexander now when alexander the great died his kingdom was divided among four of his generals and these kings were not united and there was a history of warfare among them and uh their descendants out of syria would eventually come a very evil man we know him by the name antichrist epiphanes he was a military leader he led various military campaigns and eventually as we saw he came against israel and he began to occupy it that was the prophecy well in israel he attempted to make the jews into greeks the the process of turning somebody to a greek is called hellenization so he tried to hellenize the nation he had the high priest a man by the name of anias murdered he developed various treaties to strengthen his position as as king he fought against and defeated egypt but as we saw the prophecy stated that he would be put in check and he was he was put in check by roam well that forced him to return to syria but as he was enroute he vented his rage against israel israel was divided over him some began to side with him others rebelled against him and so while he was there he was in jerusalem and he polluted the altar of sacrifice he stopped the daily offerings he prohibited prohibited jewish worship he actually placed an idol of zeus olympus in the temple desecrating the temple he took that name epiphanes and i mentioned to you that his name the name epiphanes speaks of the glorious manifestation and so antiochus epiphanes is a type he's foreshadowing the coming antichrist he is he is a person in scripture that points forward to a later person he's a type of the antichrist and so last time we were together we we concluded our study at verse 35 where we read until the time of the end so until the time of the end is a phrase that introduces the next portion of the prophecy it's actually a phrase that is introducing this next several verses and that gives us insight that what is spoken of is speaking of events of what are called the last days the last times so the time that is being spoken of is the time that we are about to look at in this passage now this passage before us introduces us to a last day's figure no notice verse 36 it says the king shall do according to his own will he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god shall speak blasphemies against the god of gods and shall prosper till the wrath has been accomplished for what has been determined shall be done and so as we look at this this passage is informing us concerning last days and introducing us to a figure known as the willful king he's referred to obviously as the willful king because it says in verse 36 that the king shall do according to his own will so the phrase willful king in in in scripture has been regarded as another title or identification of someone we know better as antichrist so this willful king what we're looking at here is the things that are going to take place just prior to the return of Christ and we're seeing the antichrist here in verse 36 following being introduced to us and he's introduced first and foremost as as the willful king so so conservative scholars recognize that this is what is taking place that is leading up to the return of Christ and and so Daniel is given us various details concerning this willful king and things that are going on and that helps us to identify him the notice again here in verse 36 how it says the king shall do according to his own will in other words this king is not going to answer to anybody on earth this is the king who has absolute authority now that lines up with what Daniel had already written about him in in chapter seven verse 23 he had said the fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom on earth which shall be different from all other kingdoms and shall devour the whole earth trample it and break it in pieces this willful king the king who does as he wills is the antichrist who is going to have absolute authority the antichrist is going to answer to no one and notice he exalts and magnifies himself above every god so in his reign he's going to claim to be god and we know that he's going to demand worship in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 4 in the new testament speaking of the santa christ it says that he opposes and exalts himself above all that is called god or that is worship so that he sits as god in the temple of god showing himself that he is god so this is speaking obviously as the last days it has to for a variety of reasons one of them is the fact that it speaks of him being in the temple showing himself to be god but that hasn't happened yet what you had with the antichrist epiphanies as you had him put a statue there but no the antichrist is going to present himself in the temple as god he's going to present himself in that fashion now that temple doesn't exist right now does it and so we know that part of what's going to take place is there's going to be a covenant that is going to give the jewish people the permission to once again occupy the temple i've already mentioned this to you and so that's why we know that that when this is speaking concerning the last days in 2nd Thessalonians that the temple had to be rebuilt because it had been destroyed in ad 70 under the roman general titus and so there will be a rebuilding of this temple and so when that temple is rebuilt the antichrist is going to establish a covenant he's going to do so with the nation of israel that covenant undoubtedly is going to include the rebuilding of the temple there's going to be a way for the temple to be built on that holy site by making a an agreement more than likely with uh with the muslims who occupy that area so that the dome of the rock could continue to exist as they rebuild and restructure this temple that temple will be rebuilt every time you look at these things that relate to the last days and all you have to see that the things that we're looking at right now have not yet taken place this is something that's prophetic it will take place in the latter times and he will he will he will allow the people to come he will allow them to have worshiped the jewish people they will be completely um uh deceived by him and ultimately what he'll do is he'll exalt himself above all that is called god that is worshiped so that he sits as god in the temple of god showing himself that he is god you see what happens is the world is going to begin to worship him the world will worship the antichrist revelation 13 verse 8 all who dwell on the earth will worship him whose names have not been written in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world he will present himself as god and the world will wonder after him notice how it speaks concerning him again he'll do according to his own will he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god shall speak blasphemies against the god of gods and shall prosper till the wrath has been accomplished for what has been determined shall be done and so as he does this he begins to speak blasphemies against god again we saw that in chapter 7 at verse 25 he shall speak pompous words against the most high shall persecute the saints of the most high shall intend to change times in law then the saint shall be given into his hand for a time in times and half a time three and a half years notice in verse 36 he shall prosper until the wrath has been accomplished the wrath that's being referred to he's going to prosper until the tribulation concludes in revelation chapter 6 verse 16 it says that they called to the mountains and the rocks fallen us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb the wrath of the lamb is another way of describing the tribulation and so he will prosper until the wrath has been accomplished he's going to prosper during the tribulation until it concludes with the second coming of Christ that tells us that his rule is limited because it says it lasts until the wrath has been accomplished now if people don't worship him they will be executed and that solidifies his rule the worship of this antichrist is going to be accomplished through the work of the one who is referred to as the false prophet again revelation gives us insight in revelation 13 verse 15 it says he was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to the image of the beast to be killed so he has a false prophet like Jesus the true Messiah had John the Baptist antichrist is going to have a false prophet who's going to be causing people to be deceived and worship this one who's proclaiming himself to be God notice in verse 37 how it says he shall regard neither the god of his father's nor the desire of women nor regard any God he shall exalt himself above them all now many commentators and I want you to see this believe that this is speaking about what would be referred to as an apostate Jew a Jew who doesn't have a true faith in in the Jewish in the Jewish system of religion an apostate one who has voluntarily turned away from it and that's because of the phrase there in verse 37 that he shall regard neither the god of his father and so the god of his father is a common phrase that is spoken of of Jewish people in reference to the god of Israel because it is literally speaking concerning this and and some have said that he is going to simply disregard any gods including the god of Israel in other words in his blasphemy he's magnifying himself over any and all gods worshiped on earth he's going to say that there may be gods out there that some have given themselves to but I am the god of all those gods I am the god over all of those gods and so what he's going to do is he's going to magnify himself above all that is called god he yields to the temptation that caused satan to fall he desires to steal the glory of god and desires worship let me give you some things here Ezekiel chapter 28 verses 14 and 15 god was speaking to to uh to lucifer he's speaking to to satan and in Ezekiel 28 14 and 15 it says you were anointed as a guardian cherub for so I ordained you you were on the holy mount of god you walked among the fiery stones he went on to say you were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you in verse 17 of the same chapter he said your heart became proud on account of your beauty you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor so I threw you to the earth this is the fall of satan satan was a covering cherub a covering cherub meant that he was he was created to protect the glory of god for some reason it's a mystery to me he chose to actually rebel against being that one who leads the heavenly choir in praise of god and began to desire that that praise to for himself because if I gave you the full reading of Ezekiel 28 it speaks concerning their tim his timbrels and and this and that and and the commentators have been united in stating that this one who's been referred to was a what is spoken of in musical terms so he was what we would today refer to as the heavenly choir director you know and so this temptation to receive the praise that belongs to god alone was something that caused him to yield and to fall he became proud like he says on account of his beauty your wisdom was corrupted because of your splendor I threw you to the earth Isaiah in chapter 14 in verses 12 through 15 speaking in the same way says how you are fallen from heaven oh Lucifer son of the morning how you are cut down to the ground you who weaken the nations for you set in your heart I will ascend into heaven I will exalt my throne above the stars of god I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north I will ascend above the heights of the clouds I will be like the most high yet you shall be brought down to show to the lowest depths of the pit you have five I wills I will do these things I will ascend I will be like the most high and that was the sin of Satan Satan desired to be equal with God he wanted to be worshipped and as a result he was removed from his place of power and authority and it's interesting that he actually brought the same temptation to mother Eve and she was deceived in Genesis in chapter three notice this it says in verse five God knows Satan speaking to her God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God knowing good and evil that is what he wanted to be like God and what did he do he brought that temptation to Eve now when he said God knows God knows because he is omniscient and God knows all things so God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened when he says your eyes will be opened your eyes of understanding is a phrase will be enlarged you're going to have an enlarged understanding God knows he's omniscient that when you take of this your eyes of understanding will be enlarged and you will be like God your understanding Satan was saying to Eve will be unlimited you will understand the depth of good and you will become aware of what is evil because Eve didn't know what evil was at that time I found that interesting as you read that evil she didn't know what evil was but here he is speaking to her saying you're going to know what evil is you see in her innocence she believes Satan because she desired her eyes to be opened she wanted more understanding and hadn't experienced being lied to she desired knowledge she attempted to attain it but she did it through her own effort it's interesting how Paul told us the way for our understanding to enlarge is through the grace of God in Ephesians he says in chapter 1 verse 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of his calling what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that didn't come through self effort that didn't come through satan's temptation the way my eyes of understanding my perception spiritually was enlarged was through being regenerated by being born again and that came through hearing God's word and believing it remember how satan said as God said in calling calling to question the word of God the way that you had your eyes opened was not in your attempt to know it on your own eating granola and meditating on your belly button the way that you had your eyes open the eyes of your understanding were open being enlightened was through the power of the holy spirit the word of God was proclaimed the bible study you hear the word of God the holy spirit convicted you you opened your heart to him and that darkened understanding because it was sin darkened that darkened understanding now is enlightened by the power of the holy spirit and so what eve had been promised by satan through a lie god is fulfilled through his grace for us and that's how that works well satan satan wanted to have he wanted to be like god and so the antichrist yields to the same kind of temptation and he is given power by the enemy you see the coming world ruler gives into the promise of power and authority and he accepts what has been offered to him in revelation 13 verse 2 it says the dragon gave him his power his throne and great authority so that came through satan notice again he does not regard the god of his fathers that may mean that he is of jewish ancestry which paves the way by the way for him to claim to be messiah because the jewish people would not accept a gentile messiah the jews would not embrace one who claimed to be the the one who fulfills the word of god in terms of the promises of the one who is to come if he is not jewish they won't do that remember in the book of luke when jesus christ was born and all and the wiseman had wanted to know uh well the wiseman came to worship him and and it's found the stories combining in matthew too and and the book of luke and how that they had come seeking him who was born the king of the jews and remember how the kings went to his his uh his religious leaders and he said tell me where this is going to take place and they they went into the book of malachi and they were able to say this is where he's mica and this is where he's going to be mica five two he's going to come from bethlehem so they knew that messiah was to come from jewish ancestry they knew that messiah is a son of david they knew these things and so they know it to this day and so a gentile presenting himself as being a messiah is not going to be accepted by the jews and that's why uh many commentators say that this is an individual who is an apostate who is not practicing the jewish faith but is a jew and thus will be recognized by many as being uh the uh the messiah now what he does is he magnifies himself the scripture says above all gods notice how he says he shall regard neither the god of his fathers nor the desire of women there was a a tradition that jewish women had at one time and that is that they had the desire to be the mother of messiah and so he's not going to regard this uh desire of women nor is he going to regard any god he shall exalt himself above them all and then verse 38 but in their place he shall honor a god of fortresses and a god which his fathers didn't know he shall honor with gold and silver with precious stones and pleasant things the god that he honors is unlike any gods his forefathers worshiped in his quest for total rule and worship what he does is he replaces our religious worship with worship of himself so all kinds of religions that at one time may have prior to the anti-crisis assuming his position of power they may have been united and all you know kumbaya and all of that but what happens is he now places himself above everything he says in in their place he shall honor a god of fortresses the god he honors is is a is a is a god of war if you will his new religion is based on the power to make war symbolized by the word fortress now when you're looking revelation again in chapter 6 verse 2 john says i looked in there before me was a white horse his its rider held a bow he was given a crown he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest in revelation 13 verse 4 people worship the dragon because he had given authority to the beast and they also worship the beast and asked who's like the beast who can wage war against it so he's not a prince of peace he's the bringer of war notice verse 39 he shall act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god which he shall acknowledge and advance its glory he shall cause them to rule over many and divide the land for gain so prophesied relating to how he unites and conquers and brings people under his rule his his rule is characterized by warfare and he rewards those who are siding with him and what he does in order to to draw people is his his rule combines materialism and violence and false religion and in a society that has become dull to violence it's not hard to believe that it will follow a violent leader and a christ will combine pragmatic materialism war and false religion and will enslave the world the culmination this will be the last half of the tribulation this is the tribulation that he's speaking of revealed in revelations 6 through 18 chapter 6 through chapter 18 and his rule ends in a final war now notice verse 40 at the time of the end the king of the south shall attack him the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind with chariots horsemen many ships he shall enter the countries overwhelm them and pass through and so we went through the book of revelation many of you went through that book with me so remember that at the end of the tribulation there's going to be a great military struggle the antichrist is is going to be attacked through a combined strength of two kings the kings are mentioned here the king of the south the king of the south represents egypt it even speaks of the continent of africa the king of the north is syria the lands north including russia by this time the antichrist has become the world ruler again in revelation 13 7 he was given power to wage war against god's holy people to conquer them he had authority over every tribe people language and nation so this combined attack is a rebellion against his rule he's going to rule he's going to coalesce people the world will come under him for a while but it isn't going to last it's going to end with military combat and so it's going to be a rebellion against his rule and when they begin to unite to rebel that'll be spelling the beginning of the end and so it says that he's going to be verse 41 he shall enter into the glorious land in many countries shall be overthrown but these shall escape from his hand edam moab the prominent people of amon and chino so it's really interesting there you go so what happens well he moves into israel his armies are going to occupy the middle east edam when you look at a map is south southeast of israel moab is ancient jordan the land called amon is north of the land that we today refer to as jordan so south southeast edam jordan and that which is north of jordan somehow we're going to escape all of this but he enters into the glorious land the glorious land is another name for israel and so it's there's going to be battles and this is the point that's being made here so when he says verse 42 he shall stretch out his hand against the countries and the land of egypt shall not escape he shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver over all the precious things of egypt also the libyans and ethiopians shall follow at his heels what happens is there's going to be a counter attack egypt is going to fall to the antichrist he begins to take tribute from them they're going to be pain but this is is is going to actually foster great rebellion against him because it says in verse 44 news from the east and the north shall trouble him therefore he shall go out and with great fury with great fury to destroy and annihilate many he shall plant the tents of his palace between the seas the glorious holy mountain which represents jerusalem yet he shall come to his end and no one will help him so what he did is he collapsed seven years of tribulation into just a few scriptures so i'll kind of just close it up by sharing a few things um there's going to be a gigantic army from the east and the north that are going to attack him revelation 9 verses 13 through 16 says the six angels sounded and i heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before god saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet released the four angels who are bound at the great river euphrates so the four angels who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind the number of that army and of the horseman 200 million i heard the number of them in revelation 16 12 the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river euphrates its water was dried up so that the way the kings from the east might be prepared you know i didn't share this in the book of revelation because it's basic speculation and and i hesitate to do that i'd like to give you what the scripture actually says rather than to speculate but i can say this that number 200 million i didn't mention it to you when we study revelation what is the significant number 200 million we it would be two-thirds of the population of the united states that's what you're talking about it speaks concerning the kings of the east the kings of the east is a phrase that we actually know is the land of the rising sun that's what the kings of the east literally translated the land of the rising sun and so many commentators over the years have pointed out that uh japan you know obviously is known as that's a that's their flag but the number 200 million has caused many to to begin to speculate what what asian country could possibly have an army of 200 million and we all know that that that army is china we know that um i actually you know i i didn't prepare all the details like i usually like to give you i'm just speaking from memory but i do have notes and sources that point to the fact that uh early or rather late in the uh in the 20th century it was reported that the uh the chinese army you know over 30 40 years ago already boasted the exact number they had already stated we have a militia of 200 million uh soldiers so that number 200 million is significant because something is going to take place in the future it'll be during the tribulation where these the war the war is going to be incredible in ways that you and i that we have never even imagined or can't even imagine the war is going to be that bad when you have military personnel that number 200 million people 200 million soldiers it's very very difficult for us to understand what that actually means so this is just a snapshot that daniel is being given by the angel prophetically concerning what's going to take place there's going to be a seven-year tribulation there's going to be a rise of an antichrist he is going to have a false prophet the false prophet is going to be used to cause people to worship the beast the beast is going to unify there'll be a a confederation of nations that will become his military he's going to rule the world for some time but in the middle of that 70th week or the third and a half year of the tribulation because for three and a half years there will be peace he's going to break the covenant with israel he's going to proclaim himself to be god in the temple and he's going to demand worship the false prophet will be causing people to worship and those who don't worship him are going to be killed for their failure to worship him over time what will happen is those who he has been oppressing will begin to join militarily there will be coalitions that will gather together and there's going to be a great battle there will be a battle with antichrist and his armies against others that will unite to come against him and all of this is going to take place and here comes this 200 million military 200 million military personnel and they're going to gather according to the book of revelation chapter 16 at verse chapter 16 verse 16 they're going to gather in a place called armageddon and so against the invaders the antichrist is going to launch a counterattack what he'll do is he's going to establish his headquarters in the city of Jerusalem and they're going to be in a battle it's going to be actually not simply because a lot of times we've used the term the battle of armageddon it's really a series of of battles and so the battles are going to continue and they continue until the second coming in Zechariah chapter 14 verses one through four behold the day of the Lord is coming your spoil will be divided in your midst I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem the city shall be taken the houses houses rifled the women ravished half of the city shall go into captivity but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as he fights in the day of battle and in that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives which faces Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west making a very large valley half of the mountain shall be moved towards the north and half of it towards the south and so it's going to be uh when Christ returns and that mountain splits that and the valley begins and the Mediterranean water uh from the Mediterranean is going to come through that valley it's going to be an aqueduct and it's going to go to the dead sea and the dead sea where nothing is called dead sea for a reason nothing survives there when the water comes from the Mediterranean it's going to make it possible for the people to actually put out their nets after they catch fish there at the dead sea everything's going to be changed at the return of Jesus Christ and so in spite of all of his military power and this is what Daniel's being you can imagine his head's exploding about right now all this information but in spite of the military victories the point is being made anti-christ is defeated anti-christ is defeated yes he shall come to his end no one will help him in Revelation 19 verses 19 through 21 I saw the beast the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him speaking of Jesus who sat on the horse and against his army then the beast was captured and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image these two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of him who sat on the horse and all the birds were filled with their flesh there have been tiresome i'll close with a couple of thoughts um when i was a brand new christian that i would think because i was being taught things related to the return of christ and the hope from a very very very early christian age from the beginning we were taught the rapture is going to happen at any time be ready at any time we were taught that so anytime there was an earthquake i'd say he's coming anything that seemed to fit in with Matthew 24 1 through 8 i would i would he's coming he's coming and so we're to occupy until he does and so that means that as we wait because the next prophecy that is to be fulfilled there's nothing that needs to be fulfilled prior to this one is the rapture of the church and so the church is to be awake and aware and where to be proclaiming the gospel living for christ and simply aware of the things that are taking place around us so when we see what's going on when we see even now this great nation that we live in when we see what was what is going on instead of living in fear what we do is we we we live in faith because the the promises of God are sure and when he said there shall be pestilences and wars and rubors of war what did we expect what do we expect but you know when the son of man comes he says shall he find faith on the earth because what's happening i believe right now is simply like like birth pains we're seeing taking place right now is americans who who are living in fear many now sometimes you know i am not i'll say it this way it is it is i am not one who believes that you should you should you know run in front of a car and uh see whether or not god will deliver you from being run over by that car um testing god don't do that that's a pretty dumb thing to do you know don't do that i don't test the lord anymore than than then when satan told jesus to jump no you're not to tempt the lord your god no you don't put yourself in a position just to see whether he's going to rescue you or not you don't do that but what you do though is you live with wisdom and aware of the days that you're living in and it really really seems to me that the world is actually being prepared to welcome this evil world ruler we really in my entire lifetime i i i have known that the time would come and when it's even more obvious and that time is now people are so afraid and this this pestilence this disease this virus that many people are afraid of understandably that it's it's a it's a bad thing i had it jared he's recovered and thank god for that many of you have but we're also being we're also being manipulated and forgive me if this sounds but it's true we're being manipulated into fear you know when when you have people saying i've been watching the news and all of this and i'll just say a couple things and move on um when we're being told that our children 5 to 18 have to be vaccinated when the the mortality rate is like i heard today it was like 0.002 0.002 the mortality rate and the children who have succumbed and and our heart always will break with the child that that has died i don't say this lightly but as i was listening today they were pointing out that the the children have had had had preconditions there there are things in the overwhelming um morbidity it's been because of the children had other things they were dealing with so the average child between 5 and 18 who comes into contact with this particular virus it they said it's it's it's less uh less than a flu for them whether that's true or not there's so much confusion in confusion today so many things that people are saying that it's hard to believe but the fact is is when i see people driving in the cars by themselves with two masks on that tells me something doesn't it does it tell you something when you see someone walking down the street by themselves with a mask on when you see people who are putting trash bags over their head and cutting out the eyes and people have asked is the covid vaccination is that the mark of the beast there's so many questions people have the answer to that it's no the mark of the beast is not simply a mark on the hand or forehead the mark of the beast is in your heart that's where it begins and it's manifested by the acceptance of the mark to buy and sell but it's already in your heart so if a christian gets a vaccination are they now going to get beheaded or are they going to no no why why would they be i still it's interesting i mean i'm getting myself into a hole but um you know it's interesting how from from like 1970 or so i have been hearing the phrase it's my body i can do with it as i will the government cannot tell me what to do with my body we've all heard that that's a common thing that you hear today except now when you say this is my body if i don't believe that i need a vaccination somehow it's changed how that happened so i have to be real with you when i say i'm concerned for our nation i'm concerned for how easily easily people are willing to yield to things that are obviously unconstitutional certainly stealing our rights certainly doing that and no i'm not one who's going to get a placard and yell at people and that's not my thing i just am not going to be told what to do by some guy who doesn't know god i'm going to seek the lord in his word in his spirit and do what he says that's what we do that's what christians do and if a believer gets a an inoculation why would i make a judgment on that brother or sister why would i do that that's something between you and your god and your conscience why would i do that but would i would i stand in line saying you must do this because the government said that no i wouldn't do that either why because i believe in the ability for us to make choices and why am i saying all of that because the antichrist is going to have a system that it's going to force people to do certain things so he controls them that's how it's going to work and so whether whether it's marxon hand whether it's um you know forcing whatever it may be and so that's one of the reasons why when i first got saved and i'll get back to that thought that i was going to close with that's why i i was blessed to know that that i shall escape this wrath and that that that god is going to say come up here and then one day everything's going to be gone i'll be seeing him face to face and then at the end the scripture speaks concerning how that the enemy satan is is cast into the lake of fire and and in my heart i i learned very early to rejoice over that and and i don't know whether or not we're going to be able to know where he is or see where he went or whatever but just the knowledge that this evil one who has caused so much pain and so much hurt and has brought so much destruction that he's going to get what he deserves to me i rejoice over that i really do the day's going to come when he's going to be getting what he deserves and so with that the lord jesus christ is going to return it's all going to end daniel is pointing to these things you you combine these things with the book of revelation and you get a more clear picture of it we'll have to stop here because it's time for us to