R. B. Thieme Jr. series notes for years 1970, 1971,

Daniel 5:1–6       1970 4^th of July Conference Series 890 The Doctrine of War          Lesson #1

God has made it possible for us to know more doctrine than any previous Old Testament saint.

The rise and fall of nations his a matter of historical record. A sudden rise of the Assyria empire and its decline after 300 years. SPQR the Roman republic and the Roman empire. We have gotten much of our culture from Attic, so there is a tendency to worship at the shrine of classicism.

Many of us know of Plato’s Republic, which fallacies have been transferred to some of our governmental institutions.

The Franks were a Teutonic people and they overran Italy, France, West Germany, Holland and they established a great empire. Peppin to Charlemagne. This broke up. Modern history is a resurgence of nationalism. The US is one of the few nations to have huge groups who believe in internationalism. It is a part of the Communist conspiracy to destroy us. There is a rise today in nationalism in western Europe.

Nations rise and fall based upon certain Biblical principles.

Ultimately, when everything else fails, including the military, there is often just one hope: the spiritual solution.

Let’s take an example of a nation with a minimal number of Christians, called the Mark of Brandenburg, who was one of the electors for it. Polmerania. And some other nation, and all were united by Frederick Elector. He looked at his lands, and all of these areas were opposed to him. So he first got together an excellent standing army and it was a small one. He had them walk in step and the first to do that. The Potsdam guard and they had to be 7 feet tall at least and they used to drill and impress everyone in Europe. He realized that a country must have an economy. He went to France and imported tons of soil. They thought he was crazy, buying dirt; but he was building up a great agricultural economy. The protestants and Huguenots. He eventually had one of the strongest middle classes. There was little Fritz, a musician; and the old man walked in and saw Fritz playing this flute and busted it over his shoulder. Fritz kept buying them. His father did not like the vulgar deautch, and he insisted that his son speak German. He shaped up at the end of that year at age 17, and his father made him a 2^nd Lieutenant of the Prussian army at his 18^th birthday. They were on the verge of the industrial revolution. Everyone was looking for coal at this time. They were having a big meeting. Swedes, Austrians and some other group deciding how to divide up this land, and Frederick came and took it. They all declared was on him, with 65,000 sized army. 22,000 Prussians clobbered them, where Frederick introduced them to the oblique order of battle. He then met 90,000 Austrians and beat them with 33,000. Then there was news of 50,000 Russians knocking at the door of Berlin. He takes his remaning forces up to the 50,000 Russians and he killed 20,000 of them in 9 hours. He kept doing this for 7 years and he received Silesia. This went on to 1870 and there was a guy named Van Bismark who worked for the king of Prussia. He thought that he had a way to deal with this. Bismark said to all of these groups, and he gathers a bunch as one nation and goes and clobbers the French and this is how a new country came up. This is apparently 1871 and I guess we are talking about Germany? But this is how nations are formed—through wars and with armies.

The Communists are more afraid of the Germans than anyone else. The communists think that we are the stupidest people in the world.

First the personal side, then collective and then spiritual.

Daniel 5:1 King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.

Nitrocris is the mother of Belshazzar. Nothing about him in history, because certain historians never wrote him up . However, in the1800's, he shows up in some archeological tablets. Before, some thought that he was fictional. He was so cruel, no one would mention him by name. There were many things about him. Someone bagged their limit before the king, so the king had him shot.

He did a great feast for 1000 people. A Piel stem of the Chaldean, which means to tie one on. There is a big blow out here. The principle, when you get a maximum amount of this kind of thing. There are things which destroy the norms and standard lobe and it turns people into animals. Drugs and alcohol do this. Belshazzar is already there. He is an animal.

Euphrates River runs through the middle of Babylon and there is a10 year supply of grain in the city for 300,000 people. Huge walls around it. Armies of Medes and Persians are checking out the city. Belshazzar’s military force there, but in decline.

Daniel 5:2 Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.

The Temple displays the edification complex structure. The Old Testament canon goes from Genesis to Ezekiel, + some minor prophets. The Temple portrays the categories which can be filled in the human spirit. Grace orientation and a relaxed mental attitude. +H. Capacity for love all categories. Various types of drinking vessels and there is maximum negative volition toward Bible doctrine.

Daniel 5:3 Then they brought in the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.

When you break down RM/RW, this destroys the norms and standard lobe and builds scar tissue on the soul. These golden vessels are used to drink from. They drink and praise the gods of whatever. Marodock, who is the chief of the gods. He hunts in the day and fornicates at night. A second god Nabu. Nebo is the god of education.

Daniel 5:4 They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Then they had another god of war and Ishtar, the goddess of love. Hunting, chasing, educational dialogue, and drinking and fornication. They are singing songs of praise to these gods. They are in maximum scar tissue and the destruction of the right lobe.

Daniel 5:5 Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw the hand as it wrote.

They wrote their great deeds on walls, since they did not have newspapers. Right where there is a bit of light, there is writing being done on a wall from a man’s hand. It was a very tense moment. He perceived it. His face is altered.

Dan 5:6 Then the king's face changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.

Mental attitude sins affect a person’s appearance. This is a process which has reached a maximum. Intensive perfect here. Alteration has been going on, and it has become completed. It has reached a peak. Some of us may have seen photos of a person before and after, and it transforms a person tremendously. It looks like two different people. Faces alter. If you are strong on mental attitude sins, you understand that they can affect your outer appearance

Motivation for those getting on drugs and becoming alcoholics, and it all starts with mental attitude sins; they are implacable, frustrated, prideful, etc. His cruelty and jealousy. The whole point is that jealousy destroys the soul and alters a person’s appearance. It will destroy a nation. He can do fine on interior lines, but he is sublimating here. He has taken a road which has destroyed his right lobe. Wives and gf’s operate on promiscuity.

When a person gets angry or mad, the first thing they do is go belt down a few. They sublimate. This turns people into animals. When a whole nation is this way, the nation goes out. This is a nation of mad dogs.

In Vietnam, we have a weak-kneed policy and men are dying because of it. You stop wars by piling up dead bodies of enemies. We ought to utterly destroy North Vietnam. You make them a big hole in the ground. Show them these holes with American flags all around, and tell them, This is what can happen to Peking.

Top 3 nations are Rhodesia, and South Africa, and Israel. More believers per capita in South Africa than anywhere else. On paper, the Chaldean army looks fine. But they are falling apart.

Bob loves a good party, but this is a lousy drunken brawl. If Bob took a gal to a party and some drunk came up and pawed her, Bob would lay them out, and if someone else didn’t like it, he’s punch him out too. And if there were too many there, he’d go with the bar maid’s kiss.

This is the thing which always happens before a country goes out. The party is over. His face is changed. He was a handsome man, but he died ugly. Some Indian tribes where women are 35 and they look 90. All the face lifts in the world will not cover the destruction of the right lobe.

His face was altered because his thoughts troubled him. Piel imperfect of bechal, which means fear, agitation. Mental attitude sins not only destroy the right lobe but they alter your appearance to ugly and repulsive.

Some are not so affected because a believer with a good attitude keeps their good looks or even improves. Some dumb blondes as well.

In the priest group, those with defects were through. They were not able to continue in their priesthood. As a born-again believer, you can only improve using GAP. It also saved the nation.

He has no moral courage. The right lobe is the source of battle courage and mental attitude sins have wiped it out. He only has his perceptive lobe and he has perceived the handwriting on the wall. His perceptive lobe is working and his right lobe is shot. He will be afraid until his death.

You can go to almost any high school and find pushers. Drugs destroy the right lobes and any disaster frightens them. Mental attitude sins do the same thing. Why do believers fall apart? Mental attitude sins hinder believers from using their frame of reference. Mental attitude sins short-circuit this line, and you need your norms and standards for a crisis. People want counseling, but the only thing that helps is reestablishing your norms and standards. Some get drugs and it does no good. You must develop the frame of reference and it takes time. Here, we have a frightened man, in a permanent state of ugliness for the few hours he has left.

There’s coffee.

Daniel 5:7–                   1970 4^th of July Conference The Doctrine of War                    Lesson #2

Here, we will be seeing the king cry aloud. In the field of economy, there is a great deal of encouragement to invest. Our economy is in serious trouble, the stock market tumbling 300 points.

McNamara will go down in history as a traitor. He represents the perfect illustration of a person with high perception on his left lobe, but no character and no understanding. He tore down all that was wonderful in our military.

People have to ask permission to fire on a village. Some of you have children who will be fighting and they will be killed because of civilian interference of the military. Two answers, the first written by a general officer. Collapse of the French army in 1940. In 90 days, France was destroyed as a nation. You cannot go on the defense. All German officers had to spend their vacations in France, and they were more familiar with the terrain than the French soldiers were. The German officers made sure they knew the terrain better. Between 1914 and 1918, we made an excellent effort. We decided to enjoy ourselves or to daze ourselves. The schools taught egoism, personal interest and the cult of envy. The negation of everything spiritual. Atheism, if not proclaimed, was at least encouraged. Written by a full general in the French army.

A civilian, Whitaker Chambers. I see in Communism the focus of evil in their power. The rest of the world have lost their power to hold convictions and to act upon it. Like all powerful faiths, its focus comes from a simple vision: man without God and man’s mind displacing God as a vision for the world. It challenges man to prove that he is the masterwork of creation. A vision of man’s materialism. If man’s mind is unequal to man’s progress, it threatens. He will sink back into savagery. Communism is what happens when man frees himself from God. History is cluttered with nations who abandoned God and died. The crisis of the western world exists to the degree in which the western world is indifferenct to God, and shares Communism’s materialistic vision. A great man professor have a perception lobe but no norms and standards. We have animals and the Communists can conquer animals because they are tougher animals than we are. There is a spiritual solution and there is a moral solution.

Two men: Daniel represents the spiritual solution. In his right lobe, he has doctrine understood, which is transferred to his right lobe as the basis for his edification complex structure. Belshasar was negative toward gospel hearing. He heard the gospel and read it from Nebuchadnezzar’s tract. He went negative toward the gospel and built scar tissue on the left bank of his soul and then on the right bank. Mental attitude sins and promiscuity and he destroyed his right lobe.

Daniel heard the gospel at some early age; the Holy Spirit shed light on the gospel and he went positive toward the gospel and he exhaled faith in Jesus Christ. By the way, no one has ever been saved by inviting Jesus into his heart. The gospel goes in and you are saved by exhaling faith in Christ. You restore fellowship by rebound; no one is saved by asking Jesus into their heart. You don’t get saved by changing your behavior pattern. It is apostasy; it is the devil’s own lie. The gift of pastor teacher functions in a local church.

Lack of discernment; stupidity. You cannot be saved by asking Christ into your heart; you breathe in the gospel and exhale faith.

The king screams aloud like a baby. Piel participle of qera, in the Chaldean; he screams. He can read the writing, but his norms and standard lobe is shot; this makes him a moral coward. So, in this situation, he calls for help. The worst thing to do in a crisis is to call for the state department. The little black suits and ties and briefcases are the worst people in the world to handle a crisis. When a country has a state department. Here, these are the state department. He is depending upon man.

Belshazzar has everything and he is falling apart. He has just had a big party. He has done a lot of drinking, some fornicating; and you would say, don’t those things make you happy? Partying did not take him 5 steps down the road to happiness. In a crisis, how often do you sit down and think about the great parties you attended. You need doctrine as a frame of reference. It is divine viewpoint in the right lobe which carries you in a crisis; it is why the Bible says, Bring every thought into captivity for Christ. That is divine viewpoint. Whatever builds scar tissue also knocks out the right lobe. His approbation lust is over stimulated. He is high on fun and on wine, and he is miserable.

He calls these men in and they cannot help him. Lebash means to be invested with rank.

Nabonizer left and found a nice place to hang out and left his son in charge. He saw that his people got out of control. Another guy was impressed with him that he gave him a pension for life. Daniel will occupy the #3 spot.

Daniel 5:7 The king called loudly to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king declared to the wise men of Babylon, "Whoever reads [and interprets] this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed [invested] with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom."

These are all unbelievers so they cannot understand this writing. There are 4 words on the wall and each word is Bible doctrine.

Daniel 5:8 Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or make known to the king the interpretation.

Bahel in the Hithpael, which is reflexive, the subject acts upon himself. He begins to make himself miserable. The internal problem is an animal cannot cope with an unknown situation. He is an animal on the inside. He starts to call for help, even though he is the most powerful man in the kingdom. He faces a situation for which there is no solution and he makes himself even more unhappy with mental attitude sins. The scar tissue builds up and now he has self-pity; and there is also bitterness and anger and confusion in his right lobe. This is why a lot of Christians crack up. There is a wall , and if you want to be unhappy for the rest of your life, you knock out one lobe. The perceptive lobe works perfectly. Bitterness and hatred. You intensify your misery, even as a believer in Jesus Christ. It applies to believers and unbelievers alike. Some believers are potential psychotics, and all you need is a crisis. When you hit the panic button, and you will come to the place where you are cracking up.

Belshazzar will make himself miserable. He keeps hitting that wailing wall.

Daniel 5:9 Then King Belshazzar was greatly alarmed [he destroys himself with mental attitude sins] , and his color changed, and his lords were perplexed.

His state department shebash in the Hithpael, and it means to be perplexed, total fear; cowardice which spreads. The whole leadership was falling apart. There is a believer, the mother of the king. Nitrocris and she hears the weeping and the wailing coming from the drinking hall.

Daniel 5:10 The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banqueting hall, and the queen declared, "O king, live forever! Let not your thoughts alarm [trouble] you or your color change.

She lets him know that there is a man for the crisis. The person in the crisis is to remain with doctrine in order to be ready when he is called upon. Daniel for 23 years has been in obscurity, and he is building up doctrine in his soul. The queen is describing Daniel and she knows about his spiritual strength. Daniel has been pushed into obscurity.

The queen knows that Daniel is a man of the Holy Spirit. During the time of Nebuchadnezzar, had the edification complex. Daniel is happy. He has capacity for love. He is a master of the detail of life. He also has understanding. He has a frame of reference.

The frame of reference has the norms and standards and the divine viewpoint of life and the information needed for meeting the crisis. It handles internal as well as external problems. This is the greatest deterrent to mental attitude sins. As you build the edification complex, you are cycling up here. It is important to build up your frame of reference, which is bringing every thought into captivity for Christ. A guilt complex is a great destroyer of the soul. Let’s take a young lady who has an abortion, and she shocks herself; she has violated her own norms and standards; and she gets a guilt complex. This guilt will destroy her. She will try to suppress it, like with some system of works. Gradually, she suppresses this into the subconscious. Now, when going to sleep at night, she has a worry or a fear in her mind, and she has a guilt reaction. Every time she has suffering, she determines that God is punishing her for this abortion from a long time ago. Certain people associate every problem in their life with some thing which they have done.

Daniel had a strong frame of reference. He was very strong in application. God’s man waits for God’s promotion. When God’s man is promoted, then he is promoted. He does not get pushy. He is described in v. 11 as having wisdom: chakmah. This is the same is ἑπίγνωσις. You must have ἑπίγνωσις before you can build up a frame of reference.

There is a contrast set up. Belshazzar was making himself miserable, as the most powerful man in the country; and Daniel, left aside, was happy, and there is an hithpael used for both. Under gap, he is at a great point of happiness. Bible doctrine is the ultimate preparation for the crisis.

Daniel 5:11 There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the Spirit of the holy God In the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the God were found in him, and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father--your father the king--made him chief of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and astrologers,

Daniel has an excellent spirit, he has knowledge and he knows enough to interpret dreams. With that Bible doctrine in the human spirit, he exhales toward man. Daniel can understand and explain dreams. Pshar, which means he could give a detailed explanation of any dream. He could solve them. He had Biblical answers. He is prepared for the crisis from the study of the Word of God.

Daniel 5:12 because an excellent spirit, knowledge, and understanding to interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation."

He knew Isa. 47

Isa. 47:1–10: Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate. Take the millstones and grind flour, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers. This all has to do with rape; when the norms and standards of a nationi break down, women are abused. Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your disgrace shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one. Our Redeemer--the LORD of hosts is his name-- is the Holy One of Israel. This is the gospel. Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms. I was angry with my people; I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand; you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy. You said, "I shall be mistress forever," so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end. Norms and standards lobes are destroyed. Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children": These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments. You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, "No one sees me"; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me." The norms and standard lobe is replaced by pride.

Daniel knew this passage and he will be able to explain the 4 words on the wall.

Jer. 51–37, 57–58, 63 Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai, and I will send to Babylon winnowers, and they shall winnow her, and they shall empty her land, when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble. Let not the archer bend his bow, and let him not stand up in his armor. Spare not her young men; devote to destruction all her army. Both had soldiers, but the Persians have better soldiers. The Chaldean soldiers will the slaughtered in the streets. They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and wounded in her streets. For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the LORD of hosts, but the land of the Chaldeans is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel. "Flee from the midst of Babylon; let every one save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance, the repayment he is rendering her. Babylon did not have to be destroyed. They destroyed themselves. Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine; therefore the nations went mad. Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed. We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country, for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies. The LORD has brought about our vindication; come, let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God. "Sharpen the arrows! Take up the shields! The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance for his temple. "Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; set up watchmen; prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both planned and done what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. O you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut. The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself: Surely I will fill you with men, as many as locusts, and they shall raise the shout of victory over you. "It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens. When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses. Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish. Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the LORD of hosts is his name. "You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms; with you I break in pieces the horse and his rider; with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer; with you I break in pieces man and woman; with you I break in pieces the old man and the youth; with you I break in pieces the young man and the young woman; with you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; with you I break in pieces the farmer and his team; with you I break in pieces governors and commanders. "I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the LORD. "Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, declares the LORD, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain. No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, declares the LORD. "Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts. Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion. The land trembles and writhes in pain, for the LORD's purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant. The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken. They became like women; they were cowards. One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side; the fords have been seized, the marshes are burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic. For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come." "Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his stomach with my delicacies; he has rinsed me out. The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon," let the inhabitant of Zion say. "My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," let Jerusalem say. Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry, and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant. I will make drunk her officials and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. "Thus says the LORD of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples labor for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire." When you finish reading this book, tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates,...

Bob will explain that tonight.

Daniel 5:19                   1970 4^th of July Conference The Doctrine of War                    Lesson #3

Daniel 5:13–17: Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king answered and said to Daniel, "You are that Daniel, one of the exiles of Judah, whom the king my father brought from Judah. I have heard of you that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you. Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, but they could not show the interpretation of the matter. But I have heard that you can give interpretations and solve problems. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around your neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom." Then Daniel answered and said before the king, "Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king and make known to him the interpretation.

The king is Belshazzar. Daniel is ready to declare the meaning of 4 words. God gave Nebuchadnezzar. In order to understand the fall of Chaldea and the death of Belshazzar, we go back to his grandfather, Nebuchadnezzar, who God gave great grace. This kingdom had majesty, authority, glory and majesty.

Daniel 5:18 O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father kingship and greatness and glory and majesty.

The majesty refers to the leadership authority over many peoples. Nations are geographical groupings. Nebuchadnezzar’s power was absolute.

Daniel 5:19 And because of the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whom he would, he killed, and whom he would, he kept alive; whom he would, he raised up, and whom he would, he humbled.

Nebuchadnezzar had a genius IQ and he began as a person of great character. However, gradually, pride and other mental attitude sins began to degenerate. Pride has a cluster of sins, which includes anger, bitterness, jealousy, vindictiveness, all traveled with pride. His mind was also hardened.

Hophal perfect, which is the passive causative stem of nathan; he was cause to be given destruction. The conspirators, revolutionaries, took his kingdom from him.

Communist revolutioni and the French revolutions are both horrid revolutions. We have seen people looting and hauling out stolen goods. They should be shot on the spot. We need to stop vacillating and we need to kill looters and to shoot down mobs. Those burning the flag need to be thrown out of the country.

Without weapons, we become the victims of criminals and mobs. Mobs do not like being shot. When Nebuchadnezzar lost his norms and standard lobe, he became an animal.

Daniel 5:20 But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him.

He learned something in 7 years. Everything had been taken from him. There are two ways to remove mental attitude sins. It took 7 years for this guy’s pride to be broken. God can promote and God can demote. No matter how pushy and ambitious we are, God promotes on the basis of the function of gap.

Piel of sava. Once Nebuchadnezzar learns this, things change. Nebuchadnezzar was restored.

Daniel 5:21 He was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will.

There was a lack of humility; Belshazzar knew things from his grandfather. He did this to himself. Reflexive. Pride cluster, negative volition, destruction of the right lobe. He revolted against the Lord of heaven and he ordered the vessels from the Temple.

Daniel 5:22 And you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,

He did not respect God. An unbeliever ruler can respect and honor God, but he did not.

Daniel 5:23–24: but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored. "Then from his presence the hand was sent, and this writing was inscribed.

Here are the 4 words.

Dan 5:25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, and PARSIN.

Hophal perfect, and God caused his kingdom to be finished. He has caused it to go down at this point.

Dan 5:26 This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;

This has to do with Belshazzar as an individual. The weights cannot balance; the only way they can balance out; there needs to be +R on both sides. Belshazzar has been weighed in the balance and has been found wanting, so that he will go to hell when he dies.

Dan 5:27 TEKEL, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;

Daniel changes the verb form from the Piel active to the Piel passive. The Euphrates River was dammed up and it was going around the city. At this moment, the Persians were in the city. The word for being divided is also a word for Persian, but you just change the vowel points. Parse is the word for Persians.

Dan 5:28 PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

Dan 5:29 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

Dan 5:30 That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.

Dan 5:31 And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

About 55 years before Daniel, Jeremiah gave this prophecy about what would happen. He wrote down these chapters and gave them to Seriah. He is speaking of Jeremiah 50–51. Seriah read this to the king, and then tied a stone to this and threw it in the Euphrates. The Persians walked right over the place where he threw this stone.

Jer 51:63–64: When you finish reading this book, tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates, and say, 'Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, and they shall become exhausted.'" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

A spiritual heritage is destroyed and a nation with it. Mental attitude sins destroy the right lobe, and this ends up destroying the nation of its occupants.

Now we move on to the Doctrine of Warfare, which is the 2^nd increment.

We have groups of people who have turned into animals. They have wiped out their right lobes and these animals are about to destroy us. These animals are not all Blacks; also poor white trash, a part of the neo-gypsy movement. Any person calling themselves a flower child or a hippie is an animal. Those who use drugs are animals. Drug addiction ruins the right lobe. We have so many people on pot, speed and acid, and they have neutralized their right lobes.

Bob is going to read something that Bobby wrote in camp. No one can recognize Bobby now because his hair is cut short. Bob is delighted to have him as a son. He is delighted with his attitude, which is based upon Bible doctrine. He never showed any interest in a young people’s program or in young people’s parties at church. Bob will never again have a youth program. We are not here to entertain youth. If you want to know what are young people’s program, and we don’t have one. He’ll never have a Christian ed pastor or a youth pastor. Parents want us to divert their kids. What Bob thinks of Christian colleges is not printable. A young believer with doctrine can go to any college.

The attitude about Vietnam is really bad; these guys are really scared. It shows what strange quirks come over a generation. 9 or 10 generations before us have come along, and they did not complain or shirk their duty. Doctrine is the only answer. We all fear and hate war, but war is inevitable. Underlying is facing the inevitable. It is obvious that this generation cannot face war or life. In us as believers is the key to upholding a nation. Bible doctrine.

Num. 32:5                     1970 4^th of July Conference The Doctrine of War                    Lesson #4

Bob speaks disparagingly of evangelists, but Angel Martinez is an exception; a Colonel Mayes also stands up. Bobby is also asked to stand to show off his haircut.

Bob goes back and reviews the points. Annihilation of the enemy brings peace. Just warfare is from God. There comes a time when it is sinful not to go to war. However, war demands training. War demands a mental attitude of both moral and battle courage. It demands concentration. You cannot be thinking about something else during a war.

Psalm 27:3                   1970 4^th of July Conference The Doctrine of War                    Lesson #5

This is actually the 4^th of July, the am session, and Bob is going to ask those to stand up. It is wonderful to perpetuate forms of Christian leadership in every generation.

Bob is going to start with a poem. Dallas Seminary got him out of the mood to read poems because they suggested a 3 points, a poem, and a prayer. This was a prayer from Jan. 1, 1944 by George Patton. Another poem from him at June 6, 1944. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the best of them in a fight. All men are timid going into a fight. There are two types of soldiers, those who get on by being unobtrusive and others who are obtrusive; Patton is the latter. Weapons change, but men who use them do not. You must beat the souls of the enemy. Decide what will hurt the enemy the most and then do it. Take calculated risks. If you have a 50% chance, then do it. You cannot make war safe, but no dead general is criticized. Defeat is due not to losses, but the destruction of the souls of the leaders. Many people do not agree with me; they are wrong. No one is born with military reactions, and it is developed by hard work. Leaders show the qualities which they want their men to have. Officers are always on parade. Those officers who are lazy or want to be popular will also fail in battle.

God still controls history and the destiny of a national entity. It can take a nation which is down and out and restore it. At the conclusion of this study, we will look at the ultimate solutions for a national entity. A believer with an edification complex is in the plan of God to the maximum. The perpetuation of patriotism and of divine viewpoint and of the divine institutions; they are a part of the Christian way of life and of everyday life.

We, as believers, in the unseen warfare, can only face it with Bible doctrine. We have now arrived at point 8.

Daniel 5                        1970 4^th of July Conference The Doctrine of War                    Lesson #6

Second morning session of the 4^th of July. Tapes and Pubs is getting some new equipment; spending a lot of money. There will be no more records and no more scramble tapes. Too many of you have been dilettante. “Some of you are even asking what scar tissue is; the Catholic church is two blocks down the road.” A flyover today, and Bob is hoping the Major Udall will buzz the place tonight. Cadets buzzed Bob when he was teaching at a church on a substitute basis.

Chakmah is the same as the Greek ἑπίγνωσις. Through wisdom refers to the daily intake of Bible doctrine. You cannot take in doctrine once a week. It will take you 10 years to get a year’s worth of doctrine. You can’t get it through reading either. You need the Word of God cranked out to you daily exegetically, categorically and isagogically. It is tough today; pastor-teachers teach once a week for only a half hour; they spend their time asking for money. You need true wisdom, and this passage is all about military leadership. There is no such thing as a layman in the Christian life. There is no such thing as clergy. No one is a 2^nd class Christian. We are born again into full-time Christian service. By wisdom, a house is constructed [in the soul]. This is the construction of the house in the soul. The soul is saved at salvation, but the soul is deficient. It is done by understanding. Through wisdom, the edification complex is constructed and by frame of reference, one prepares himself... In this case for military leadership. There are enough believers in the auditorium to save the country. The human spirit is made up of storage spots. Receive fullness with something of value and something stimulating. Stonewall Jackson illustrates this. The time came when he put this into action so beautifully. He understood tactics thoroughly.

Your job your activity in life becomes something stimulating because you do it as unto the Lord. Two nouns are put together in the next verse: a hero of wisdom and skill... A military hero can make decisions under pressure and he can make decisions in combat. A man of knowledge increases strength. This is used for moral courage and bravery. He only advances in his profession. He increases in ability in his profession.

V. 6: For by the art of leadership, you will execute war. Tachbula is the art of military leadership. The Bible condones the military profession. The second line reads: victory is in the greatness of the one planning strategy and tactics. Counseling is not the word for counseling, but a word for strategy and tactics.

Prov. 24:3–6: By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious [something of value] and pleasant riches [something stimulating]. A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might, for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and victory is in the greatness of the one planning strategy and tactics [not, in abundance of counselors there is victory].

Bob names off a bunch of believers who were great generals and military men. Lee, Jackson, Patton, MacArthur. Patton thought that he might have a call to ministry.

Tonight will be the solution to the whole thing.

Col. 1                            1970 4^th of July Conference The Doctrine of War                    Lesson #7

Also July 4^th, the evening service. Major Udall of this church was part of the flyby. We move now to the spiritual solution.

Our fight in Vietnam is not immoral and those ladies who oppose this war is out of line. Telling your son that he is immoral, you are out of line. And if you don’t like this, find some liberal church to go to. How dare any female who has been in Berachah 3 times be stupid enough to rebuke her son.

Vietnam is like an eyedropper or an arrow pointing toward the Pacific, toward Asia. It is an extremely important country because of what it is located. Bob has not been there, but he has heard it is a sorry country. Defending southeast Asia is as important as defending southern California; on some days, Bob would be hard-pressed to choose one over the other.

8 corners of the ocean. MacArthur said don’t get into a land war in Asia, but he wanted to go over the Yalta River (Yalu?). Samuel Morrison “The Rising Sun on the Pacific” and he describes this particular plan. First country in the Japanese war plan was to invade Thailand. Destroy the US Pacific fleet, conquest of the Philippines, Sumatra, Singapore; Java, the Dutch Islands. Thailand was seen as a strategic necessity.

If Bob ever hears a mother at Berachah berate her son for fighting in Vietnam, Bob will throw her out. Vietnam is a good launching point for another attack on the Pacific, and is therefore quite strategic. Wherever we fight, we are defending our own country.

Δια+ the accusative of τουτο Epaphrus has come down from wherever to discuss with Paul some of his promises, and this was at a time when Paul was a prisoner of Nero. The salt of the earth principle, where salt in the ancient world was used as a preservative. Its preservation depends upon a spiritual factor. The only hope for Rome right now is a spiritual solution.

The key to the Roman empire are things like this quiet pastor of Colossee. Believers here would save the empire; they are the salt of the earth. As the result of this one church, Rome will have its greatest days ahead. The Antoinine Caesars would come to the throne in 96 a.d. until they went out in 192 a.d., Rome had world peace and the great prosperity. This was a great era in which to live.

Col. 1:5b–8: Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and growing--as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth, just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf and has made known to us your love in the Spirit.

In a future day, those in Jerusalem will go out and fight against Gog and Magog. It is time that we wake up; it is a thin line of military which is part of our preservation. We have a gallant and small group of men who have dedicated themselves to their country.

This is the kind of Bible teaching that you need; if you want to be entertained, go elsewhere. All the cowards of Gideon’s army had to be eliminated. God took one of the sorriest individuals and used grace and other spiritual factors and turned him around and had him deliver Israel.

Bob has no problems asking cowards to leave; he is going to teach Bible doctrine and lay it on the line.

There is one church where a pastor is teaching day by day and they are growing.

Col. 1:9–14: And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

This Colossian church is a small church; one church, one group of people. They are about to have a spiritual breakthrough which will preserve the Roman empire.

Paul failed a few times when it comes to grace in the book of Acts. Here is a pastor, Epaphrus, who we barely know, but he is one of the greatest men of the Apostolic age, because he never slips with regards to grace. He has the greatest, most dynamic congregation of that time, without outward stimulants; no one wrote them up. No choirs from Christian schools giving them concerts. No pats on the head; no bubble gum at the door. They will deliver the Roman empire.

Αιτεω means to keep on asking. There is a result clause. That you might be filled with the knowledge of His will. Gap functions apart from human ability or human IQ. Gap is potential and it depends upon us as believers and our attitude toward Bible doctrine. If we are indifferent, we have had it and if we are positive, we will make it.

ἑπίγνωσις = full knowledge. This is Bible doctrine in the human spirit. Tomorrow am, we will study the human spirit and to see how Bible doctrine gets there. ἑπίγνωσις is the foundation for the edification complex. Not only does the edification complex preserve the country, but the edification complex of the soul fills up a deficiency. That is the only basis for our growing up. Doctrine in the human spirit must fully possess every portion of the spiritual life.

A guy who got involved in going to SF. Communal living breaks down people. Crime is terrible in these areas. This character could not wait to get out of this, and he got enough information from one tape to straighten him out and he joined the army after graduating from high school. He was picked as one of the 12 honor students in the US to go and investigate. What he saw caused him to enlist. His captain turned out to be some guy on our prayer list (Captain Tom Pickering). The kid eventually got appointed to West Point. This is the kind of attitude which we need among Americans.

Bob is made sick by seeing afro haircuts in football games. He thinks that football ought to throw these people out. A frame of reference means a discernment. Doctrine in the human spirit means the production of divine good.

Bible doctrine fills up the deficiency of the soul. Doctrine must possess every facet of life. Doctrine must be cycled back to fully influence the believer.

Break

Col. 1:10 Isa. 31 37    1970 4^th of July Conference The Doctrine of War                    Lesson #8

Thieme makes a lights on announcement. “Hustle and find your place.

ICE: isagogics, which is interpreting the Bible in the time in which it was written; categorical teaching is comparing Scripture with Scripture; exegesis to determine the exact meaning of each verse.

Γνσις is Bible doctrine in the staging area, the perceptive lobe, the left lobe of the believer. If he believes it, he transfers that doctrine to the right lobe, the norms and standard lobe. Stage 5 is exhale, which begins to remove scar tissue, and it provides capacity for category #1 love, it provides fellowship with God. Exhale off the right bank removes scar tissue from the right bank, like mental attitude sins and adultery; it provides expression for category 2 and 3 love; and it produces divine good.

There are 3 sources of divine good. The filling of the Holy Spirit. The adolescent form of divine good is exhaling doctrine.

Stage 6 is the erection of the edification complex of the soul. Grace orientation, capacity for live, mastery of the details of life.

You must know the will of God. To do the will of God requires knowing it; and doing the will of God is the function of GAP. In all wisdom and spiritual understanding. Wisdom is the first one; wisdom is sophia.

Spiritual is the basis by which this wisdom is acquired. Sunêsis means technical understanding of a subject, and it refers to frame of reference.

Col. 1:9–14: And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Increasing is the present passive of alzono, which means constantly receiving growth, which is the construction of the edification complex. Passive, you receive it. You receive this from God. That you might walk worth of the Lord with a view toward every pleasing of God, constantly producing in the sphere of every good work...from the source of God.

Isa. 33:5–6: There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure. Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

The key to the survival of our marriage depends upon us. Fear of the Lord is occupation with Christ.

Isa. 37:31–36: And the remnant that escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward; for out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and those who escape out of Mount Zion. The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts shall do this. Therefore thus says Jehovah to the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a mound against it. By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and shall not come into this city, says Jehovah. For I will defend this city to save it, for My own sake and for My servant David's sake. Then the angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

What we heard about Stonewall Jackson was written by his wife. Another when Jackson was shot at Chancellorsville, he was told he was going to die when he was shot. He gazed upward for a few minutes. He said, “Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.” This one man with an edification complex kept the south from being taken. One edification complex means preservation. Either Bible doctrine is more important to us than doctrine. It is our spiritual life and the life of our nation.

The human spirit will be take up tomorrow (which is off the grid for this special).

Q&A period: not recorded.

Importance of Doctrine In a National Crisis

Philip. 2:1                             1971 4^th of July Conference Series 834                            Lesson #1

Apparently, Bob has been teaching a lot of Jeremiah. Double sessions beginning at 7:30.

We can determine exactly what the Word of God is teaching. Once or twice you would hear 2 or 3 or 4 ways to understand a passage from the Bible (from Dallas Theological Seminary). The verse we are going to examine is Philip. 2:1–2: Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

If you think the idea that we are looking here to be nice to everyone we know, you have it wrong. Bible doctrine turns families against one another; Bible doctrine does not bring unity; it brings strong differences. The unity that we have is positional truth.

4 times in the first verse, we find if as a 1^st class condition. The first is the assumption of reality. This introduces the first part of a clause, with an apodosis and a protasis. Here, it is ει + the indicative, which makes it a 1^st class condition. This is a passage for believers who are growing or believers who are interested in Bible doctrine. This actually expands what is found in v. 27.

Παρακλησις which means the act of comfort, the act of consolation. There are at least 4 suffixes. Μα is the resultant suffix; τες is the state of being suffix. We have such things in the English. We have -ly which means in the manner of. The state of something, ends in -ment. -sion or -tion; -less means to be without. -ish means resembling something. Suffixes help us to understand the true meanings of a noun. The act of being comforted is the function of Bible doctrine in the right lobe. Γνσις goes into the left lobe, which is the staging area. When this information is transferred into the right lobe, it builds up the edification complex.

Philip. 2:1: If there is any act of comfort [or consolation] in [union with] Christ which is the only true unity in the Christian life.

Παραμυθιον = encouragement, alleviation, strong encouragement. Genitive of source, which means from the source of love. If there is any consolation from the source of love; ...if there is any alleviation from the source of love [if there is any encouragement from the source of love; if there is any solace from the source of love];... are the 4 ways this can be rendered.

4^th if clause ...if there be any bowels or mercies...

Gen. 43 Joseph sees his brother Benjamin, and he has an emotional response to seeing him for the first time in years. His bowels did yearn on his brother. He had to go to a private room to cry. 1Kings 3:26 another illustration of emotion which uses the word bowels. The king has to make a decision; he is the supreme court; King Solomon, two women who have a male son, each of which claims this child. How can Solomon determine who the baby belongs to. He asks for a sword, which he will use to cut the child in half and give one to one mother and one to the other. The true mother responds and says, give the child to the other mother. Her bowels years upon her son.

Jer. 4:19 should be quoted at prayer meetings. Bob’s been to a dozen prayer meetings where certain verses are to be quoted. My bowels, my bowels [which is good for openers at a prayer meeting]. this is the response to a great national adversity. This time, it is the great tragedy when Ephraim was overrun.

Lam. 1:20: See, O Jehovah, for distress is to me, My bowels have been troubled, Turned has been my heart in my midst, For I have greatly provoked, From without bereaved has the sword, In the house it is as death.

God is my record, my witness; how I long after you all my bowels in Jesus Christ. Not sure what verse that is from.

There is reins, bowels and one other word.

...if there be any emotional response or mercies...

If any comfort or consolation in Christ, if source of comfort in love, if any partnership with the Holy Spirit, if any emotional response [to doctrine];...

Aorist active Keep on following a principle. Active voice, believer fills up a deficiency through the intake of doctrine. Imperative mood means that the believers is commanded to be happy. Πληροω means to fill up a deficiency, to fully possess; to fully influence; to fill up with a certain quality.

Philip. 2:2:

Paul had +H and he did not even have a gf. He had very little of anything but doctrine.

Ladies, the monster you married is your Lord.

“Coffee break, restrooms are over the place; there is a parking lot outside; you’re dismissed.”

Philip. 2:2 1971 4^th of July Conference Importance of Doctrine In a National Crisis Lesson #2

Present active subjunctive of phreneo, which is thinking. It is potential. You cannot think doctrine unless you have doctrine. To auto means the same things, which are doctrinal things. You fill up your deficiency with doctrine.

Philip. 2:2: Fill up the deficiency with My inner happiness that you be like-minded [that you keep on thinking the same thing] which is doctrine

agape type love.

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, any bowels in mercies, being of one accord in one mind. What does this really mean? If any comfort and consolation in Christ, if any encouragement from the source of divine love; if any partnership from the source of the Spirit; if any emotional response from doctrine and resultant mercies, then fill up the deficiency with my +H that you keep on thinking the same thing, having the same love, soul rapport in thinking.

2Cor.  8:1  1971 4^th of July Conference Importance of Doctrine In a National Crisis Lesson #3

There are certain things which we have which are bonafide functions. Proskuneô means kissing face to face, which is a description of our worship of God. The primary form of worship in this dispensation is Bible teaching. This is in public assembly; no one on one. The pastor is called didaskolos; it means to communicate to a group; never to one person. Any teaching one on one is wrong and contrary to the Word of God. It must be accomplished by one who has the gift and the moxie.

In a local assembly, no one has the right to talk to you, to turn around and ask for your name and number; no local church has the right to pin badges on you, to pass out cards, to go through the motions of Madison Ave. You can have friends, but this excludes operation cornball—stand up and tell the person behind you, you love them. No official should ever call upon you—not the pastor, assistant pastor or some volunteer. Bob is a pastor and his responsibility is the communicate the Word of God privately; and not to determine how well we do with it.

Bob never blesses home with good luck or with prayer. It is not good luck to have him out for dinner. We have a lot of rights as priests and no one has the right to put their nose into our business; we live our lives as to the Lord.

There are 7 parts to the priesthood; but one of them is giving. You think tha giving is dumping money into a offering place or sending in a check. Some of you probably get dunned. Bob has found a passage to liberate us, which shows us our rights.

Paul is taking up a collection for the saints in Jerusalem because they are being persecuted at this time. Giving here is in the perfect tense, which means it has permanent repercussions. Collecting an offering for the destitute believers (Acts 24:17 Rom. 1Cor. 2Cor. 8–9) in Jerusalem. The money was going to Jerusalem, but grace remained as a part of the chacter of the believers in Macedonia. They are minus a certain amount of money, but the grace remains. They have not lost; they have gained.

Most of you are from out of town. If your pastor gave a series like this, you would think there was some hook to it. Bob has nothing to gain from this. There will be no offerings taken up, no registration fee. Bob is not there to take your money; he is there to give you something.

To prepare, this took Bob 1 hour per verse; 24 hours to dig the exegesis out of this chapter and 15 hours on chapter 9.

2Cor. 8:1: We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia,

Testing here; every time that we give, there is a test.

2Cor. 8:2: for in a severe test of affliction, their [super] abundance of joy [+H] and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth [because of their riches] of generosity [of mental attitude] on their part.

They superabound because of the riches of their liberality. A woman may not have any money at all, but she is generous with all that she haves.

Giving is a mental attitude rather than the amount donated. Anywhere you put a good giver, they do well wherever they are. The Macedonians give on the basis of their mental attitude.

V. 3 has the 2^nd principle of giving. Atheirêtos means one who chooses his own course of action based on a strong mental attitude.

2Cor. 8:3: For they gave according to their means [the standard of their ability], as I can testify, and beyond their means [ability], of their own free will,

Δεομαι = to beg. They are begging Paul, not praying. To them, Paul was doing them a favor by taking up an offering in their midst. Partnership or fellowship = κονονια. Administration or priestly function = διακονια.

2Cor. 8:4: begging us earnestly [begging with much imploring] for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints--

3^rd Principal: Christian giving is associated with grace. It is also associated with privilege.

Hope refers to confidence, expectation. They gave of themselves first, which means their mental attitudes. Ηηαυτου is a reflexive pronoun used here, referring to the soul and it is a proleptic pronoun. Giving is a soul activity, not an amount of money which is contributed.

2Cor. 8:5: and this, not even as we expected [or, anticipated], but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will [designn] of God to us.

The last person who said, “We pay the preacher around here” Bob threw him out. One said, “I’ve given enough to have some say around here” and Bob threw him out as well.

The widow with 2 tenths of a cent, which means two meals maybe. When the widow gave her last coins, her Lord was her living and she still had the Lord. The Lord is her life; not money. Money is a detail.

Εις τώ Titus went down to deal with the Corinthian believers. Timothy could not handle them. Timothy was a real fine person, but he could not get tough; he was a weak sister and the Corinthians ran over him. Timothy ruins it for preachers who are timid. Some people in a congregation expect people to take their orders and to cater to them.

You may or may not like your preacher. No minister ought to take any guff off anyone else. How to pat people on the head and make them feel wanted; how to make clucking noises; Bob will not put up with this. The pastor-teacher is in authority. The Corinthians kicked Timothy all over the place, and they got a surprise with Titus.

Paul send Titus back with this letter.

2Cor. 8:6: Accordingly, we urged [requested] Titus that as he had started, so he should complete among you this act of grace.

Titus would finish up the grace which he started.

Philip. 2:2 1971 4^th of July Conference Importance of Doctrine In a National Crisis Lesson #4

T&P will be open this afternoon, so this must be a morning session.

Part of the motivation in v. 7 is gap; Moreover, just in everything, you superabound.

2Cor. 8:7: But as you excel [super-abound] in everything—in faith, in speech [doctrine], in knowledge, in all earnestness [application], and in our love for you--see that you excel [super-abound] in this act of grace also.

I am not speaking according to the commandment. This leads to a 6^th principle of giving; giving should never be forced; giving is the follow through of doctrine. You cannot tense up or tie up, or you have no follow through. You need relaxation and follow through. Giving must result from grace orientation. It must follow the priesthood and gap. But to the diligent application of others.

The Corinthians are wealthy and living in prosperity; no persecution or pressure. Macedonians are under pressure. They follow through and give. Sincerity is the enemy of the Christian life.

2Cor. 8:8: I say this not as a command, but to prove [test] by the diligent application [earnestness] of others [of a different kind] that your love also is genuine.

Christian giving is grace giving, now law giving. It is love giving. It proves that doctrine is there; it is the follow through. We have the example of Jesus Christ.

Believer gets to know grace through daily study. Grace orientation comes from Bible doctrine in the right lobe, from building the 1^st floor of the edification complex.

2Cor. 8:9: For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.

Jesus became totally poverty stricken, so to speak, in order to save us. Our Lord is the Creator of all things, meaning that He is absolute wealth.

Aorist active subjenctive of pluteo.

2Cor. 8:9: For you know [from Bible study] the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was wealthy, yet for your sake [because of you] He became poor [abject poverty], so that you by his poverty might become rich.

This is an exhortation to the Corinthians to complete the collection for the saints.

We need to undertand the doctrine of money now. The Corinthians had money.

A demonstrative pronoun which is used for a principle: “In this principle of giving, I give you my advice...” Present active indicative of διδμι. Γνομη means an opinion based upon doctrine.

What Paul gives them will be profitable for them, which could be a play on words here. Titus began a collection there a year ago and they were not very far along with it. So also complete what you are supposed to give.

2Cor. 8:10: And in this matter I give my judgment: [opinion based upon doctrine] this benefits you, who a year ago started not only to do this work but also to desire to do it.

If you have a willingness to give, that is acceptable, whether you have anything or not. Some of you are broke and you are wondering how can you give if you have nothing to give. Come back tomorrow.

2Chron. 36:11    1971 July 4^th Conf. Importance of Doctrine in a National Crisis          Lesson #5

Apparently, it is a full house at Berachah. Zedekiah was a believer in Jesus Christ and he believed at a very early age. Like so many, he was distracted from Bible doctrine and disinterested in doctrine and he was caught up in a stream of a mad rush for pleasure, with a social life and a sexual life and in the phallic cult and hedonism. Bible doctrine was the last thing in the world that he was interested in. He went to the Temple now and again. Zedekiah was like hundreds of people today. Some of us use God as a genie, to improve our business, to get some material thing or a bf or a gf or some sort of social life. A lot of people are not at Berachah for doctrine. It is God’s desire for us to have His happiness and it is as hard for God to share His happiness as it is to save us. Bible doctrine is the one thing where many believers give lip service, but no one is actually interested.

We are entering a time in this country where the only thing to keep us from becoming unglued is becoming fanatical about Bible doctrine. Bible doctrine will divide your family, your friends and everything else.

King Zedekiah is the person of this crisis. 547–536 b.c.; he ruled for 11 years and the country was on the skids. Right now, our country is on the skids. Everything which caused the fall of the nation of Judah is found active and predominate in the US right now. Drug addiction, operation of the phallic cult, apostasy, peaceniks and anti-military and they even had their McNamara in the squirrel cage. They had hippies; men with the souls of women. Women who were horsey and bossy. Their women were not obedient, they led men around by the nose. Some women may enjoy bossing some men around, but you ought to be looking over your shoulder. If you can push your men around, then you have no protection. Zedekiah is a perfect illustration of what happens in a national entity going down. All of these things can be lost in 1 or 2 generations. He became a ruler of a still great nation and when he reached the end of his reign, he lost everything. He did have his RW. He married her, and Bob does not know how it happened. He was very happy, at times, and he had 2 fine sons and at least 2 daughters. He had a palace to live in.

A Scotsman invented golf; they all carried sticks and one knocked something down a rabbit hole and started golf. “No matter how you slice it, Zedekiah had everything.” He went to his equivalent of a church twice a year. Zedekiah would never have come to Bible class.

He was the youngest son of Josiah and everything was going his way. Zedekiah lived in the day of one of the 3 greatest Bible teachers of all time. 3 men stand out: Moses, Jeremiah and Paul. Moses was a great public speaker, one of the greatest. God has a marvelous sense of humor, which is one reason that Bob is here. Moses was concerned about speaking, so God sent Aaron along with him. Aaron talked for Moses for a while and finally, Moses brushed his brother aside and laid things on the line and kept on talking.

Saul of Tarsus, the Apostle Paul, a great communicator of doctrine, described in extra-Biblical books as being short, fat, bald with a high squeaky voice. He was one of the great communicators of doctrine of all time.

At the half-way point between these two men is Jeremiah. He was handsome, personable, gregarious; you would have liked Jeremiah before he began preaching. He was great to have at a party. He was pleasant and personable. God gave him the most hard-nosed message to give to Israel. Berachah probably lost 40 people because of teaching Jeremiah.

Zedekiah did not stay out of Bible class all of his life but he did understood the daily teaching. Zedekiah was always throwing Jeremiah in jail. He was under the influence of the national counsel of prophets and priests. They were against military training, they were against free enterprise, they wanted to help the downtrodden, and they had great influence in the land. One of the signs of mediocrity in leadership is a person being influenced by the national counsel of churches or the counsel of prophets and priests in Judah. One of the greatest woes to our country is the National Counsel of Churches; it is anti-American to the core and it gives aid and comfort to our enemies in China, Russia and North Vietnam. Over 50,000 Americans have died in South Vietnam because of them.

If we had a president with one shred of courage, North Vietnam would be a giant hole in the ground by American bombs. We do not have any president with any balls; we ought to kill as many of our enemy as possible. We are alive today because Japs and Germans were killed all over the place.

Zedekiah was 21, which is young. Bob has never seen an old 21 year old. 21 is youth. Man commented in Bob’s office that youth is wasted on youth. He ruled a country with a great spiritual heritage, but in 11 years, he blew it, and ended up with nothing, except eternal salvation.

Malak means that Zedekiah ruled with absolute authority. He could have destroyed apostasy; he had the authority to save the country. He was hamstrung by mediocrity. He was a person who lacked the ingredients from Bible doctrine called moral courage. Nerve and moral courage come from Bible doctrine. It required a king to come to the throne and rule with moral courage.

With Jeremiah there, he could have been the greatest ruler since David, but he lacked the norms and standards which come from Bible doctrine in the right lobe.

2Chron. 36:11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

V. 12 describes his failure. He had a left lobe, the mind; the right lobe, the heart. He had emotions, norms and standards, a frame of reference, a conscience, and an old sin nature. Inside of his soul are the ingredients for greatness or the ingredients for failure. He was consistently negative toward doctrine, and this gave him instability of decision. His emotion dominated his soul. He manufactured evil in his soul. He manufactured the evil in the eyes of the Lord.

Niphal perfect of kana, which is passive or reflexive. In the Kal stem, this mens to bend the knee; here, with a negative, he would not submit himself to the authority of Jeremiah the prophet. He rejected the authority of Jeremiah, the Bible teacher.

2Chron. 36:12 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the LORD.

He also rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar put him on the throne and he was to recognize Nebuchadnezzar’s authority. There is direct blessing and indirect blessing. Indirect blessing are the divine laws called establishment. The Chaldean nation is the pattern of establishment.

The Qal perfect of maradh, which means to reject authority. He took a solemn oath to obey Nebuchadnezzar. However, he stiffened his neck. This is scar tissue on the soul. He stiffened his neck. This refers to negative volition toward doctrine.

He hardens his heat; Piel stem, which is intensive; he did everything in the world to go in the wrong direction from God. This describes people who are in Berachah tonite. There are bound to be those negative toward doctrine. People come for a myriad of reasons. If God takes us from disaster to disaster, and if you have to lose everything and you still say no to doctrine, then what comes next, it maximum divine discipline. What does it take to turn you to Bible doctrine? What will it take for you to wake up? Some of you are sitting there fat, dumb and happy. Some of you are half asleep or waiting to get out of here. Some of you have very bad manners, ladies who want to jabber. Rudeness is about 9 to 1 for women; they are lawless and indifferent. You start looking for that event which is going to destroy your life. When it hits, you had better ask yourself, what will it take for you to get with doctrine. When will doctrine become your life. Jesus Christ had a crewcut and he was a man. Bob would not have the song, “Oh, how I love Jesus” in this church. You do not love Jesus without a lot of Bible doctrine. You must know a person to love a person. You only love Jesus Christ by Bible doctrine.

Wait until you see Zedekiah in a national crisis and when the Chaldean soldiers put his sons to death, and then, a swordmans too the tip of his blade and flicked out one eye, and then flicked out the other eye. He would never see anything again after seeing his children killed.

Kids today have no inner strength; and parents trying to protect their hophead kids instead of turning them over to the law. You take the beat, which is what happened to Africa. The Africans had the beat. The sat around and chewed a root or some hashish so that other Africans and Arabs could come in and make slaves out of them. Just listen to the music of today and the music of WW2. Look at the officers today who have sold their souls for an extra star.

We have one president after another with a mouthful of teeth and no guts. FDR gave away huge chunks of the world to Communism. Several particular generals from WW2 are mentioned, including one who carried an umbrella into war.

God in every age sets up a national entity and uses that national entity to preserve nationalism. The US was like that until FDR, who betrayed this country to the Communists at Yalta, and others just followed him wagging their tail at Potsdam. Good or bad whiskey, throw it in their faces (the Communists). Some of you have been asleep in a pew.

2Chron. 36:13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.

2Chron. 36:14–18 All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that he had made holy in Jerusalem. The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against his people, until there was no remedy. Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand. And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.

God warned the people through Jeremiah, but they did not listen.

2Chron. 36:19–21 And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels. He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

Time for a break.

Jer. 39:1–  1971 4^th of July Conference Importance of Doctrine In a National Crisis Lesson #6

Zedekiah had everything going for him, and he blew it. The siege came in the 9^th year of his reign. 10Jan 588 b.c. is the actual date here. Nebuchadnezzar comes and besieges the city. Nebuchadnezzar actually had two army groups. One would move against Tyre and Sidon (the Phoenicians). It took them 13 years to neutralize these cities. The second army went south to Jerusalem and southern Judah. The Chaldean army besieged Jerusalem. Nebuchadnezzar is at Riblah on a highway from the Euphrates. 5 large Chaldean forces in the middle east at this time, but only one of them is found in this passage.

Jer. 39:1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it.

18 month-long siege. 9July 586 b.c. The entire city was not taken. Freedom is protected by the military. This was a tragic day for the Jews, as their military forces ceased to resist. The city is divided into two parts; a northern and a southern part, set up in a figure 8. There was a double-walled system. On this day, the northern part of the city was taken. All of the remaining Jewish forces moved into the southern city, but they had no leadership, so that night, they got out.

On 9August 586 b.c., the army group was paid off by allowing them to go into the southern part of the city and rape and torture for 24 hours as a reward. Once the military is destroyed, the civilian population is helpless. Freedom is purchased on battlefields and never on papers written by politicians.

100's of battles and skirmishes have been fought in America and these need to be in our history books. FDR should get about 3 sentences, he came, he messed it up and he left. Our nistroy should be filled with chapters of what American soldiers did.

We don’t need busing in education; we need to put all of the men into military training. We need to get back to American math and American English.

Jer. 39:2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.

This is a large gate like the Brandenburg gate, except with a meeting room here, with a set of stairs going p this wall. A guy mentioned by Greek historians and by the Word of God. He is called here the Rab Mag, and he is the commanding general. He is the highest ranking general of the siege. Nergal Shalgezer. He will marry one of Nebuchadnezzar’s daughters. When Evilmerodock comes to the throne, he turned out to be wrothless. He will reign from 560–556 b.c. and he will be the last good king of the Chaldeans.

Nebo and the problem is, how do you supply a large beseiging army. Another officer not mentioned yet has just arrived there from Riblah. He has arrived just in time for the final assault against the military. Nebuzaradan will be mentioned several times, and he has become a believer and became a believer by reading intelligence reports. There were tons of quotations from Jeremiah. He taught doctrine and establishment. Already, military groups had escaped to Edom, Moab and Ammon. It was apparent that Jerusalem would fall and the country was about finished. There was the possibility of setting up a buffer state. Nebuchadnezzar said, who would occupy a buffer state? Jeremiah is mentioned and how he and his people have been dispossessed and wiped out. A new set of orders to be communicated and to give the provo marshall general permission. This is the captain of the guard. The new capital would be Mizpah, the HQ for the new state and the provo marshall general will set up a new state there.

Jer. 39:3 Then all the officials of the king of Babylon came and sat in the middle gate: Nergal-sar-ezer, Samgar-nebu, Sar-sekim the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, with all the rest of the officers of the king of Babylon.

While this staff meeting was going on, we will go back to Zedekiah. His military neglected him. We don’t find the women and children running out of the city; we have the soldiers, their protection running out. The king’s garden is the one place where these soldiers escape, because there is some provision there. This same night, many women were raped, many children killed, and many teens put on the death march.

It is the military which stands between us and the Communists. They would systematically rape and destroy us; the Chinese Communists are our enemies; the national counsel of churches doesn’t think so, howeve.r

Zedekiah has his palace protected; his wife and daughters are not raped. The proper thinking is to make as many of the Chaldeans die in war so that they cannot rape the women, even if they do defeat the Jews. Or open the armory and even women and children would fight to the end. That would be honorable. We have not had a draft law for a week. Every male, 18 and over, ought to be in military service. We can find something for everyone to do, even those missing limbs. We had a whole generation of parents who are raising monstrous children under Deweyism. Then our education system is breaking down. It continues to this very moment with the result that only the military can help these kids to understand authority.

How many of these ladies came down to the king’s garden and enjoyed the flowers. When did flowers do anything to gain your freedom? Some people get so wacky about flowers... The king met his RW there and he used to woo her there. Many talked about how charming and wonderful they are, but did either one of them think about the people? It is fitting that all of the cowards trampled the flowers as they got the hell out of Jerusalem. “I saw that one elderly lady look at her watch and age won’t get you out of her any more than youth.”

the shrubs were probably destroyed as well. The generals probably had horses and they destroyed the pansy beds. Barah. They were to anchor a flank, what was left of them there. Part of the battalion of the second regiment was there.

Hebrew yatsa, which means they all tried to get through the gate at the same time. Bob gave the illustration of the cobra in the bar in the ship with two small exits and they all went through the two exits simultaneously.

The queen decided to protect some of her favorite flowers. Every jot and tittle is important. In Sunday school, you might have quite a time trying to explain the gate between the two walls. On the other side of the wall were the flowers and the fountains and the ducks and the swans. Lovely pleasant social life and wonderful environment. Those who live to gratify themselves never have anything.

What is this gate between two walls? What preparation have you made for the disaster? Your life had better be doctrine when you leave this conference. Aristocracy means responsibility. But when it degenerates into emotional revolt and people live to gratify themselves, then they are always on the other side of the wall.

Our motto today, better to be Red than dead. It is better to die killing Reds and it is better to have their red blood flowing.

Did you ever take a look at a newscast? A Whitehouse wedding, living among the pansies. Or doing something more for the Africans. Bob does not need a color tv, it is all black and white. It is tragic to see what they dig up for news these days. And then top secret information fed to the papers. Some of us still live in the pansy gardens. There is only one thing to stem the tide and that one thing is Bible doctrine. Men with doctrine would stand and die.

Jer. 39:4 When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled, going out of the city at night by way of the king's garden through the gate between the two walls; and they went toward the Arabah.

Tomorrow morning, we go back to the sweetness of giving.

Titus 1:9             1971 July 4^th Conf. Importance of Doctrine in a National Crisis          Lesson #7

One of the things on the list is a flyby tomorrow. Major Udall will explain. Last year, we just barely missed taking off the steeple. It has 5 sections, representing the edification complex. Tell your friends, don’t bother to report it; it is all official, this year.

Bob is apparently still developing the giving passage.

Back to the Jeremiah series this evening? Titus this morning. There is an Alamo flagpole in front of T&P.

Αντεκομαι = to cling to someone, to hold someone in a lover’s embrace, to neck [today]. present tense, middle, do this yourself, do no have someone else do your loving for you. Don’t say, “There’s the girl I love, Herman, go over and embrace her.” You want to do your own embracing of the one that you love. That is how it should be with your intake of the Word of God. As a believer in Jesus Christ, now Bible doctrine is your life. It is addressed to Titus, the great troubleshooter, as he went to Crete, who were a bunch of confused, mixed up and troublesome believers. They lived on a large island and they recognized their own authority only, and they loved to fight and argue and they despised human authority. Who is going to straighten them out? Titus. They are so independent, you could not get two of them together for a prayer meeting. Some of you mothers have a son named Timothy, because he was sweet. Titus could march into a place and straighten people out. He is the most underrated of the early church personalities. Here, the Apostle Paul is giving him some instructions. Going to Crete was more difficult than most other places. Many a pastor-teacher had gone on the rocks, going into Crete. There is no Christian leader—one with the gift of pastor-teacher—who can go into a trouble spot and straighten out anyone unless Bible doctrine is his life. He has to be saturated with Bible doctrine. He has to be dogmatic with regards to Bible doctrine. There should be no other thought and no other concept.

A parallel between the fall of Judah and the rapid decline of the United States. When the balloon goes up, many of us will discover that we are still alive. Whether it is WWIII, which we need because, otherwise, we will go down as a nation. Disaster after disaster is moving in like the waves of the sea. Some of you will wake up and pinch yourselves and tell that you are still alive. The test, have you lived daily with Bible doctrine? If you have, you will have a wonderful and magnificent purpose. Being alive today means that God has a purpose for you today. When people take a vacation, it generally includes a person that they love and they generally make love. This vacation should be about Bible doctrine, something you love more than life itself. 4 today and 4 tomorrow and getting it daily in life will make the difference, no matter where you have come from. Bible doctrine must be your life. There is no other life. You live in a time of great apostasy, in a time of great disaster.

Πιστις = faithful, dependable, faithful, inspiring faithfulness. A woman who never leaves you in her thoughts or in her soul; she is separated from you, but she is always there with you. She is always faithful. Bible doctrine has yet to let you down. Bible doctrine does not nag. Word is λογος.

Then we have κατα = according to the norm or standard. Διδικη = Bible doctrine taught, Bible doctrine communicated.

present active subjunctive of ειμι. This is potential. Δυνατος = capable, able, have the power to. And we have the 3^rd word for doctrine in this sentence. Εν + Instrument υγιαινω = to have good health, to be uncorrupted, to be pure. Followed by the instrumental of the noun διδασκολια = occupation with what you have been taught. Λογος is a word formed in the mind. Διδικη διδασκαλια are the 3 words used for doctrine, the latter meaning occupation with doctrine. You begin with occupation with doctrinal teaching.

every believer represents Jesus Christ as an ambassador. Everyone uses doctrine in a different way and how they express their full-time Christian service. We utilize doctrine in various ways as teachers, as a military type, as a housewife, etc. Since this is addressed to Titus, he is told what what to do about these rebellious Creatians. Παρακαλεω can mean to brace in a mild way, to comfort. These are both present active infinitives. There are some who cannot be taught in the ordinary way. You can rebuke some people from the Word of God. Some can hear a doctrine and accept it and go with it. There is another group of hard-headed people who need a 2x4 beating them in the head. God will have to take some of us like He did Zedekiah and He will have to put a large knot in our heads in order to get our attention. Bible doctrine is greater than all of us. Some you can teach and some you get a big board and hit them right between the eyes. The 3^rd verb deals with the Cretans in general. Αντιλεγω = to oppose, to contradict, to oppose the pastor-teacher. Bob has only been at Berachah for 21 years. 3 times it happened, when he came, when they moved, and once this year. At some point, some people have their fur rubbed the wrong way. At some point, you have to crack down on them, and they don’t like it. They might show up to Bible class to invite others to a party in order to bend your ear. Getting rid of these hard-headed, powermad gainsayers is the best thing. You get rid of them for great blessing, clear them out periodically. They may later gather and group up. It was about 20 people who left, who started a conspiracy, and they were out on their ear. They were gainsayers, they were Cretans. They would never come to Bible class, but they are holding a Bible conference this weekend.

Titus 1:9: He must constantly cling to the dependable [trustworthy] doctrine [word] according to the standard of doctrine taught, so that he may be able to give instruction [to exhort and comfort] in sound doctrine and also to rebuke [or, refute] those who contradict it.

There is a reason why there must be strong doctrinal teaching. Writing nice letters to those who serve. Setting up a program to put those to work. The worst thing in Dallas Seminary is Christian education. Bob helped him out in seminary. Young people do not need program stuff. No young people’s program or young people’s director. That is all Mickey Mouse stuff. It is Bible doctrine which counts. Only made one mistake in building Berachah, putting in the choir loft. Sunday school is because parents have failed to teach their kids at school. This destroys the privilege of the parents to communicate doctrine to their own kids. Bob did not let someone else teach this to Bobby. He sweated Bobby’s shadow into the wall since age 4 to make sure he understood the gospel. Bobby went to a young life conference once and he came back and said it was phoney. He got doctrine and led a normal life. My wife is no one’s doormat. The job of a pastor’s wife is the please the pastor and that is all. Books have been written about how to be a pastor’s wife. She only needs to be all woman and all slave.

Bob got a letter from Bobby which was great. He misses his home more than anyone else there because he had a better home than anyone else there. The more he saw the more he realizes how good his life was.

Too many pastors are yellow and they won’t teach their congregation line by line. Bob would love to take these women who want to run a pastor and are horsey and Bob wants to straighten them out. When women get feisty about it, you streamroller them right into the ground, so they learn that all men are not mice. Teaching the Word of God is under the conditions of authority. A coach who would have an enjoyable life as a coach is the authority. Very difficult to coach in high school today because there is no discipline in high school kids. The parents do not teach their kids authority. “Momma’s little boy fainted; momma’s little boy was called some very nasty things.” Sometimes, you have to put momma in her place.

Why is the pastor-teacher the policy maker and the authority; why is he the one elder? Here is the answer: There are man unruly. Ανυποτακτος = insubordinate, undisciplined, rebellious. Authority is absolutely necessary. Responsibility must deal with the insubordinate. There is a clear rejection of authority. If you generally reject authority, then you will reject Bible doctrine. Bible doctrine is authoritative and it is dogmatic. Bible doctrine does not say it might be one of five things. Bible doctrine is authority, and you ladies if you have your RM and he exercises his authority, you love it, because he exercises it tenderly.

A passage might sweat Bob’s shadow into the wall, but, by the time he teaches it, he is back into one piece and it is our turn to get it. Men who are great in making love to their wives are men who have authority and self-discipline. Women never lose by being under an authority; and congregations do not lose by being under the authority of a pastor-teacher.

Ματειω λογος go negative toward doctrine and you open up scar tissue on the left bank. When people are antagonistic to the teaching of the Word of God, then they become rebellious and are vain talkers. They accept false doctrine. They deceive themselves; they think they have a justified cause. They reject true doctrine and they accept empty doctrine, and mataiotes opens up and they suck in false doctrine. They are mind-deceivers; they deceive themselves. They think they have some legitimate complaint.

Titus 1:10: For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers [vacuous words] and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.

Επιστομιζω = to apply to curb bit [to a pony]; to muzzle. Bob explains how to train a horse. Some people can be handled graciously and kindly. They are not really trying to buck the tiger; they are just a little confused. There are some who cause trouble and you need to crack down on those. Those who run down Bible class. These have to be muzzled. A new problem group need to be gagged. Their insubordination was of a conspiracy nation, and they needed to be taken care of. All of the back-biting politics has all disappeared. It is much more pleasant now.

Churches then met in houses. These insubordinate types teach things because of power lust and approbation lust. They want to do their thing in the local church.

Titus 1:11: They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole houses [churches] by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.

2Chron. 36:11    1971 July 4^th Conf. Importance of Doctrine in a National Crisis          Lesson #8

this sort of passage requires concentration from a famous poet from the ancient world known as Epimaniades, quotes in the Hymn to Zeus. Hexameter poet. 6 meters. Poetry greater than we have had in the English language. One hexameter line quoted and God the Holy Spirit has quoted it for a reason. Kρητης ει ψυστι κακα θηρια γαστερες αργι a dpipdi is a metric foot. Dactyl and a trophe. Each dipidi is formed by syllables. Cretans always (which is a dactyl, which is one long and two short); 2^nd dipidi is a spondi (which is two long); liars; 3^rd dipidi is also a spondi; evil 4^th dipidi is also a spondi. And the final is a dactyl. They then end on a high note, a trochi, one long and one short. Euripides was a genius, who wrote entire tragedies in hexameter and pentameter verse. Bob would write 4.5–5 hours in a blue book to explain these guys. After studying 1000's of lines of Greek, the New Testament is easy.

Prophet is also a poet; he was quite famous, Cicero and Appalias.

Κακα θηριον = . They have lost the function of their right lobes; they has lost their norms and standards. They have no conscience. Such a people disintegrate. They fornicate; they go in for drugs. They become a people gone mad. They become animals. They grow long hair like animals. Men have female souls. There is no respect for law and order; opposition to military and law, to everything which stand for norms and standards. Hippies look like animals and small like animals; communal living is living like animals. Every hippy group in our country is a cancer destroying the people of this country. A man who grows his hair long is saying, “I am a woman.” The man has short hair because he has authority over the woman. Jesus Christ had short hair. Lack of authority; they are animals.

Γαστερις αργει the vocabulary form is γαστερ, and it means gluttons, one who serves his stomach. Αργος refers to someone who is idle, no stability, lives for pleasure and lilves by instinct, no norms and standards, lack of self-discipline. Self-discipline is the capacity for life and is the key for happiness.

Up until now, Paul is quoting one of the heroes of Crete. Epimaniades is a national hero and he is criticizing his own people.

Titus 1:12: One of the Cretans, a prophet [poet] of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy [idle] gluttons."

What Epimaniades said about his own people is true. Paul is writing 64–67 a.d. Epimanadies wrote these words 600 years before. A Cretan nation is always a degenerate nation. Δια + the accusative means because of this. Believers are involved here, and Titus is to rebuke them sharply; hit them with a board between the eyes. Αποτομας = severely, in a rude manner. Titus, as a pastor, is commanded to be rude to the crude. When you find people who are insubordinate and rebellious, they will not be nice by showing them Christian love. Some you can show Christian love, and they take that as weak. Some people need to be slugged. The Communists do not understand is to be slugged, and those in North Vietnam, and if there are 5 or 6 left and hundreds of thousands dead, they catch on. Bob learned as a small boy to strike back against bullies. These are all a bunch of Mongols and they are enemies. Kill 100,000 North Vietnamese, and that will get a peace treaty. Overnight we could bomb the North Vietnamese out of existance. There are some people who only understand force. There was a conspiracy at Berachah and Bob loved them and they cut his throat; so he got tough and ran them off. No mental attitude sins is loving the brothers. You cannot be nice to everyone. Some take being nice as a sign of weakness. Some gal came to Bob and complained about a guy making a pass at her. Next time he does that, you slap the hell out of him. That is good Christian advice from a pastor. It is amazing how stupid some people are. We have gone right off our rockers in this country, and we have a whole generation of people who cannot understand anything of this sort. Long haired cowards wedge her in and told her to remove here sticker, so she got in her car, put it in reverse and drove into them. They left. Bob as an American citizen can express his opinion. There are some people who must be handled differently.

Titus 1:13: This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply [discipline them in a rude manner], that they may be sound in the faith,

Keep on embracing Bible doctrine.

Jer. 40:1             1971 July 4^th Conf. Importance of Doctrine in a National Crisis          Lesson #9

We have studied in the night sessions, King Zedekiah, who had a weak start and a strong finish. Gedaliah has a strong start but a weak finish. All of these men (including Jeremiah) are believers and all of them, at some point in their lives, were positive toward Bible doctrine.

Bible doctrine is the most important thing in your life. Gedeliah is the worst of the 3. Jeremiah began positive and ended positive. He is one of the great believers of all time. There was never a time when he went negative toward Bible doctrine.

The new ruler of the buffer state was Gedeliah. 597–586 b.c., he was positive toward doctrine, and he was positive for 11 years. Then he got some prosperity, and he set up his HQ in Mizpah, where he began a reign of prosperity. The Jews were edification complex structure types who had been persecuted and dispossessed all of this time. The land was turned nover to these men, and great happiness and prosperity broke out. He was positive during adversity, but he fell apart under prosperity.

Jer 40:1 The Word which was to Jeremiah from Jehovah, after Nebuzaradan, the chief of the executioners, had sent him from Ramah, when he had taken him (and he was bound in chains, among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah being exiled to Babylon).

The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said, Nebuzaradan was a believer and understood the 5^th cycle of discipline, which was administered to the jews for the first time of the southern kingdom.

National disaster is manufactured out of religious apostasy. Religion is one of the contributing factors of the destruction of a national entity. Christianity is a relationship with God, and not a religion. The worst thing for a nation is to become a religion. We are loaded with cults. There are tongues crowds and cults meeting all over. Religious people are the worst to happen to our country. An American under the true concept is someone who is willing to fight and die for his country. Every religious and peacenik organization who opposes the military is evil.

Anti-establishment is anyone who is opposed to the military. The only reason that we are a free people today, is not due to any politician, but because of the military. Jesus said there will be wars and rumors of wars. No nation survives the destruction of its military. These are all laws of free enterprise. Socialism is a part of national degeneracy.

No nation survives dope addiction. The British opium wars (China). This is what we have today. A national entity cannot survive scar tissue of the soul. Sinning is to miss the mark.

Jer 40:2–3 And the chief of the executioners took Jeremiah and said to him, Jehovah your God has spoken this evil against this place. And Jehovah has brought it and has done according as He has spoken, because you have sinned and have not obeyed His voice, even this thing has come upon you.

This general understands human freedom. He allows them the freedom of choice. The Qal imperative of chadal, which means to decline [without penalty]. Here is a general offering complete blessing. It is amazing how rapidly Bible doctrine can produce the true concept of freedom. Jeremiah is given a freedom opton, to stay in the land with the Jews or to go back with the Chaldeans.

Jer 40:4 And now, behold! I loose you today from the chains on your hand. If it is good in your eyes to come with me into Babylon, come. And I will set my eye on you. But if it is evil in your eyes to come with me into Babylon, stay. Behold, all the land is before you, to go to the good and to the right in your eyes, go there.

Gedeliah will only be a governor and not a king. Jeremiah has been burned before.

Jeremiah goes with the people who are left in the land. This is the crowd who were positive toward Bible doctrine. There is the Riblah crowd, the Gedeliah crowd, many of whom will be executed. There is the Ramah crowd who will be on the death martch as in Psalm 119. The people left in the land are the edification complex structure crowd at this point. They are about to enter into a point of prosperity. They are believers positive toward doctrine. Will be pass the prosperity test in a buffer state?

Jer 40:5–6 Even while he had not yet returned, he said, Or go back to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and live with him among the people. Or to all that is right in your eyes to go, go. And the chief of the executioners gave him ration and a reward, and sent him away. And Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam at Mizpah, and he lived with him among the people remaining in the land.

Love the brethren; pseudo love, phoney love. They fail due to this. Pseudo love is a part of emotional revolt of the soul. The downtrodden are often a shiftless cancer. Economic downturns are designed to sweep out the trash. When you accumulate your trash and when you set up laws to stop economic depression or recession, you destroy your whole nation.

Loving the brothers is freedom from mental attitude sins. You can walk out of this service without having a guilt complex for not speaking to anyone. This church is not a cornwall operation. When there was a committee of men standing at the front of the church shaking hands, Bob went to the foyer and threw them out. You come to church for Bible doctrine, and you will make great friendships in a church. This brotherly love and this brotherhood concept is why the Gedeliah revolt collapse. He died because he went negative; he died due to neo-evangelicalism. Bob’s sister had a name and a nickname, and he used those names, and he called her by other names as well. Bob did not call her sister. It is phoney and corny. People have names. Call them by their names or you there. You don’t have to run around and punctuate everything with God willing. Get a normal vocabulary. Don’t brother or sister anyone around here. Skip the phoney stuff. It gives Bob the creeps.

All of the remnants of the military and the national counsel of prophets of priests ran away, and some are in Ammon and some in Edom, etc. They will all come back into the land and they will be welcomed.

After WWII, free enterprise produces prosperity and nothing else does.

Gedeliah has authority over these people. There are those who can step right in and keep working in the industries. These are born-again women who were protected by Nebuzaradon and they stayed under Bible doctrine for the 11 years. Women and children who were taken care of (some in the southern part of the city had been raped and beaten).

Two generals come before us, who will be generals in the revolutionary war. Ishmael is a conspirator. He has been living with the Ammonites, and Ballas, the king of the Ammorites has made a deal with him. The commanding generals of the two armies will be led by General Ishmael. The establishment army will be lead by Johanan, who is the protector of the people.

Jer 40:7–8 And when all the commanders of the army who were in the field, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, over the land, and had appointed with him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of those who were not exiled to Babylon, then they came to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, even Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan, the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai of Netopha, and Jezaniah the son of the Maachathite, they and their men.

The Chaldeans have authorize this nation. The policy: “Do not fear the Chaldeans.” The land is now prosperous. He invites the apostates back.

There is the edification complex structure group who follow divine laws and they have some prosperity. The apostates return and Gedeliah tells these apostates to come back in the land, and says, “We love having you back.”

Jer 40:9–10 And Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore to them and to their men, saying, Do not fear to serve the Chaldeans. Live in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. As for me, behold, I will live at Mizpah to stand before the Chaldeans who have come to us. But you, go gather wine, and the harvest, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and live in your cities that you have taken.

Jer 40:11–12 And when all the Jews in Moab, and among the sons of Ammon, and in Edom, and in all the lands, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, even all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits in great abundance.

Before we complete this first service, Gedeliah is warned about a conspiracy. Our country has been warned about a Communist conspiracy. They had a definite plan for the overthrow of the United States, which includes peaceniks, down with Bible doctrine, a promotion of international friendships. This was for a peaceful overthrow of the US. The Communists worked through various churches and seminaries. A special attack against the lawyers and against education. This succeeded, as our system is designed to acquiesce to Communists without firing a shot.

We still have some vestige of military organization. Bob has warned us for 21 years about the Communist conspiracy; and now there are 2 of them, from the Russians and Chinese. They are learning ways to torture and persecute us, and we are calling them brothers. Many of you have poo-pooed the idea of a Communist conspiracy, and that there are Communists in our government. You laught at these things, and so have a laught with Gedeliah.

Yadah is found twice here. Qal infinitive and Qal imperfect. Ballas sends his dupe Ishmael into the land. He is sent to assassinate Gedeliah, and Johanan warns that this is going on. He has come to assassinate your soul. This prosperity is build on the grace of God. It is based on the divine laws of free enterprise. Something has happened to Gedeliah. He was a strong doctrinal type. In prosperity, he is in emotional revolt of the soul. He is a do-goober and he is interested in international friendship. As a result, he starts strong and ends weak. Gedeliah did not believe them.

Jer 40:13–16 And Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the army that were in the field, came to Gedaliah, to Mizpah. And they said to him, Knowing you know that Baalis, the king of the sons of Ammon, has sent Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, to strike your soul. But Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, did not believe them. And Johanan, the son of Kareah, spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Please let me go, and I will strike Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and a man shall not know. Why should he strike your soul, and all the Jews who are gathered to you be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish? But Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, said to Johanan, the son of Kareah, You shall not do this thing. For you speak falsely concerning Ishmael.

V. 15, there is another meeting. There is an army there which has infiltrated and Ishmael would kill Gedeliah personally. Let me go and I will kill Ishmael. He offered to kill him. It takes violence to stop violence. This was a good proposal and it would have headed off the civil war and it would have saved thousands of lives. We should have used violence in Vietnam. We should have invaded North Vietnam and mined the Port of Haiphong. Russians are bringing in supplies to kill Americans. You cannot let the enemy have a perimeter to sit there and decide how to deal with us. We should make a big hole out of North Vietnam with necular weapons. This is why we have capital punishment. 50,000 dead Americans today because we have not killed the enemy. The only enemy left would be in Paris; give them a pen to sign the treaty and then kill them.

Johanan said, “Let me kill them first.” Preventative war. No civil war would have resulted, but he did not; Gedeliah said no, so Gedeliah died. Gedeliah says, “No.” That is brotherly love. “You should not so this thing; you are lying about Ishamail.” Gedeliah is practicing brotherly love toward his brother Ishmael, who will cut his throat. Gedeliah turns against his friend and embraces his enemy, which begins the civil war.

2Chron. 36:11    1971 July 4^th Conf. Importance of Doctrine in a National Crisis        Lesson #10

Last night, someone had the gumption, the unmitigated gall, and ask, “How do you get used to this kind of music?” Now, I’m the director of music at Berachah Church. The person to whom this was addressed was the mother of our organist. “Keep your mouth shut, and when in Rome, do what the Romans do. Some of the corniest, lousiest music I’ve heard is done by volunteer choirs. There are some people without much doctrine who strayed into this conference.”

Major Udall is going to tell us about the flyover. 1^st pass will be a diamond formation, 4–6 feet apart, at 400–500 mph. 2^nd pass is a fingertip formation and the 3^rd will be the missing man formation, as a tribute to those who fought and died in Vietnam.

Bob has discovered Yankee Bibles in the seats.

The Chaldeans finally broke into the northern part of the city. Wall around the northern and southern part of the city, a wall in between, and then walls all around. The Chaldeans made an assault and took the northern part of the city. There is a particular gate and over that gate is a castle, and there is a meeting there. The balance of the Jewish army is escaping. There was a patrol which caught a Jewish army retreating.

There is an alertness of the Chaldean army and they have a patrol which picks up the fleeing army with Zedekiah. By daylight, Zedekiah and his family were captured and put into a group and taken north from Jerusalem to Riblah. Nebuchadnezzar is directing two army groups. Zedekiah the king is put through a military court, and he gave judgments. There appears to be a very fair trial. Judgments were rendered against him. He renigged on his oath of allegiance; he had no sense of responsibility and proved to be a very unstable, weak king.

What will it take to get us interested in Bible doctrine. There is only one way to go and that is the doctrine way. Doctrine is the expression of God’s provision, God’s plan, etc. Doctrine is the very spiritual air that we breathe in our souls. There is no other way to have happiness and blessing on this earth. Many of you think you care for doctrine and that you go to church once a week. If you think you can nod to God once a week, you are kidding yourself. You need doctrine once a day. If you are not smart enough to go positive toward Bible doctrine, he will provide the tragedy, adversity, difficulty, sorrow to awaken us to our need.

At an early age, Zedekiah began early on with Bible doctrine. He had all the materialistic things of life and his RW and all of the glories of Solomon before him. Everything that was great and wonderful before him. There was blessing and prosperity and freedom; all these things from God. How can he ruin in life in 11 years? He managed with little trouble. As a king he was mediocre and he deserted his people, and he catered to the religious crowd and he did not provide for the security of his people; he put Jeremiah in jail on several occasions. He chopped up the manuscript of Jeremiah. How can all of these things do anything but cause him to die the sin unto death. He is a perfect candidate to die under maximum discipline. Why didn’t he die the sin unto death? What kept him alive? One final test came his way; into a person’s life, there will be a disaster or a tragedy to awaken us to Bible doctrine. If we do not turn back to the Word, first through rebound and then the hard road of GAP. This is what happened to King Saul, Annanias and Saphira, to Samson, etc. No matter how you fail, no matter what terrible sins you have committed, no matter if you have been all kinds of a Christian jackass, when the big disaster hits, when the warning signal comes your way, if you are still alive, then God has a purpose for your life. This demands immediate rebound and positive volition toward Bible doctrine.

Heb. 6:3: And this we will do if the Lord permits. We will rebound; we will function under daily gap, if God permits. This passage is the key to the life of Zedekiah. The judgment is correct and accurate. The law of Nebuchadnezzar was objective, and examining the evidence tells us that the sentence is fair, if not a little light. The Chaldean empire was the divine establishment.

Jer 39:5 But the Chaldean army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the Arabah of Jericho. And they took him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he spoke judgment on him.

Zedekiah had corrupted his sons and his aristocracy, and they would be executed before his eyes, and his sons too. The last thing he would see is his sons executed. He would take the pointed sword and flick out his eyes one at a time, where he would be blind for the rest of his life.

Nebuchadnezzar would allow him to live. With regard to your wife and daughters, they are women and responders. The Chaldean empire does not hold them accountable for your failures. They will be permitted safe conduct to Mizpah.

This killing means to cut into pieces, the sons that he loves, and he had to watch his own sons die for his failure. He recognized that these young men were victims of his infidelity and instability and cowardice. He began to recall what Jeremiah said, “Return...”

His sons and all the aristocracy of Judah are killed, and then he puts out Zedekiah’s eyes. He was bound in chains for the purpose of carrying him to Babylon. This is about as low as one person can get and still be alive. He is responsible for the disaster and horror which has occurred in his own kingdom.

In effect, Zedekiah has now crawled under his own dung heap. Things could not be worse. Sooner or later, you will find yourself under the same pile of disaster. What’s left for Zedekiah? He has shackles on his wrists and hands and is selling pencils. Are you sympathetic. The Bible says don’t be. The Bible does not want us to approach it with our maudlin sentimentality. We face Zedekiah as God sees him, and God the Holy Spirit does not permit us to feel sorry for him. Zedekiah has lost everything, his RW, his family; he watched his sons die before him.

Zedekiah has just one thing going for him; down at the bottom of that pile of dung there is one thing going for him—God’s grace and Zedekiah rebounded. I’m still alive. God has a purpose for my life. He was a weak and vacillating king, and his sons stood there and died for their father’s mistakes. The nobility hated him as they stood there and died. Like the French nobility in the French revolution. The aristocrats would step up to the guillotine with great dignity, and showed great courage. Those scum below later died crying out for mercy.

Bob can pick out 15 people who would go right off their rocker, and they would scream and weep and wail and try to find a patsy. They would scream and weep and wail and have a nervous breakdown.

After this occurred, Zedekiah was one of the great believers of his day.

Jer 39:6–7 And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes at Riblah. Also the king of Babylon slaughtered all the rulers of Judah. And he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in bronze fetters, to make him go to Babylon.

Jer 39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of the people with fire. And they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jer 39:9 Then the rest of the people who remained in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to him, even the rest of the people who remained, Nebuzaradan, the chief of the executioners, exiled to Babylon.

Jer 39:10 But Nebuzaradan, the chief of the executioners, left some of the poor people, who had not a thing to themselves, in the land of Judah. And he gave to them vineyards and fields on that day.

Jer 39:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon commanded concerning Jeremiah by the hand of Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners, saying:

Jer 39:12 Take him and set your eyes on him. But do not do anything evil to him. But do with him even as he shall say to you.

Jer 39:13 And Nebuzaradan, the chief of the executioners, and Nebushasban the chief of the eunuchs, and Nergal-sharezer, chief soothsayer, and all the rulers of the king of Babylon, sent,

Jer 39:14 even they sent and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guardhouse. And they gave him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to cause him to go out to the house. And he lived among the people.

Jer 39:15 And the Word of Jehovah was to Jeremiah while he was shut up in the court of the guardhouse, saying,

Jer 39:16 Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing My Words on this city for evil, and not for good. And they shall be before you in that day.

Jer 39:17 But I will deliver you in that day, states Jehovah, and you shall not be given into the hand of the men, of those whom you fear.

Jer 39:18 For delivering I will deliver you, and you shall not fall by the sword; but your life shall be a prize to you, because you have trusted in Me, states Jehovah.

Jesus is not called the Lord of Hosts because their army was destroyed. V. 2 is fulfilled in Jer. 39.

Jer 34:1–2 The Word which was to Jeremiah from Jehovah when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth (because his hand rules), and all the peoples fought against Jerusalem, and against all its cities, saying, So says Jehovah, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah, king of Judah, and tell him, So says Jehovah, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.

There are details of Zedekiah’s personal judgment missing. He goes to Babylon in chains. Vv. 4–5 has Zedekiah with a good end. He went positive toward doctrine. “You will die in peace.” Zedekiah would enjoy tranquility happiness at his end. Tranquility, happiness and prosperity.

The former kings which were before you. This is the highest honor afforded to a Jewish king. He was a complete and total failure, but after losing everything in life, he went from zero to 100 through God’s grace, through Bible doctrine. He got up and he moved. Sooner or later, you will face some failure.

Jer 34:3–5 And you shall not escape out of his hand, but capturing shall be captured and delivered into his hand. And your eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak, his mouth with your mouth; and you shall go to Babylon. Yet hear the Word of Jehovah, O Zedekiah, king of Judah: So says Jehovah concerning you, You shall not die by the sword. You shall die in peace. And as the burnings of spices for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they shall burn spices for you, saying, Ah, lord! They will wail for you. For I have spoken the Word, says Jehovah.

You have to be willing to slug it out verse by verse, whether it is Ruth or Esther or Jeremiah. When you say what your favorite book is, you are telling me you don’t get it. Your favorite book is the Bible. “My job is to teach you, and not to cater to you. I love getting you jammed into a place where you cannot get out and then I go over it and over it and over it again. You don’t know it until you can’t forget it.”

Some idiots think that David was not saved when he had sex with Bathsheba, but, at that time, he was more mature than most of us.

Zedekiah realized that he would receive great honors at his death, and he figured that he would need to get going. Zedekiah had to lose everything to realize the importance of Bible doctrine.

The burial honors of the former kings were the good kings who go these honors and they belong only to a great king. The Jewish people would lament Zedekiah. This means overt mourning.

He died with Chaldean shackles on him, but the Jews in captivity paid him the highest honor that they could pay a royal king. They got together the royal spices and the overtly mourned his death. Zedekiah, after his great disaster, after losing his loved ones, and losing the respect of his country.

What will it take for you to get with it, for you to drop all of this phoney programism, this rah-rah stuff; answer this while you go out for a cup of coffee.

Jer 34:6–7 And Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these Words to Zedekiah, king of Judah, in Jerusalem, when the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that remained; against Lachish, and against Azekah; for these fortified cities remained of the cities of Judah.

Jer. 40:1             1971 July 4^th Conf. Importance of Doctrine in a National Crisis        Lesson #11

Jeremiah seems to fall into the category where, from the very beginning, he gets positive toward doctrine and he stays positive.

Jeremiah hears a rumor that there would be a one-day furlough where a portion of the Chaldean army would be able to plunder the southern portion of Jerusalem. Russians did this in East Germany and the Japs did this as well. This is how the Chaldean army will be paid off. Jeremiah recalls his RW, the most wonderful woman in all the world, the woman for whom he had this deep love for 40 years. He knew that somewhere in the southern part of the city, his RW would be one of the victims of the Chaldean army. When he turned to doctrine, he had one of the greatest battles a believer had.

Jer. 15 deals with his personal battle. He was a gregarious person and he enjoyed good parties and they made a good couple. He began to realize that all of the social life was not worth it. Not in a prudish, self righteous way, but based on category #1 love.

Jer 15:16–17: Your Words were found and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and gladness of my heart. For I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, God of Hosts. I did not sit in the circle of merrymakers, nor exult. I sat alone because of Your hand; for You have filled me with indignation.

Jeremiah was filled with indignation of the superficialities of social life. His RW did not like this and she took an entirely different attitude. She did not share his love for doctrine. As he became more positive toward doctrine, she began to phrase him out with early and late-dating Jeremiah. Jeremiah figured out what was going on, and he said:

Jer 15:18–19: Why has my pain been without end and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You surely are to me like deceitful waters which cannot be trusted. So Jehovah says this: If you return, then I will bring you again; you shall stand before Me. And if you take the precious from the worthless, you shall be as My mouth. Let them turn back to you, but do not return to them.

This could have been the love of the century. Jeremiah was postive toward doctrine and she was negative. It hurt. It is described in v. 18 as only a man who sees his RW going from man to man, party to party, from bed to bed. While she was wasting her soul and body on frivolous and useless men, selling her heritage of category #2 love, Jeremiah stayed with doctrine.

Jeremiah had iron in his soul from Bible doctrine. While his RW was having a mad scramble for pleasure, Jeremiah in his soul was building up iron in order to have the double portion.

Jer 15:20: And I will make you a fortified wall of bronze to this people. And they shall fight against you, but they shall not overcome you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says Jehovah.

Back to Jer. 40. Riblah group enemies and tried and imprisoned; Zedekiah belonged to this group. Chaldean army group B was in Ramman. Then there is Mizpah, which would be the seat of the new government of Gedeliah, and this is the young people’s crowd who made the death march of Psalm 119. The last time we saw Jeremiah, he was in a palace.

Jeremiah goes to the southern part of the city to the home of his RW and he tries to save her. After all these years, Jeremiah still loved her. The Chaldean soldiers who broke into her home did not recognize Jeremiah. He fought to save her life.

Jer 15:8–9: Their widows are more numerous about Me than the sand of the seas. I have brought for them a ravager at noonday against the mother of a young man; I caused anguish and terror to fall on her suddenly. She who bore seven now languishes; she has breathed out her life; her sun has gone down while it was still day. She has been ashamed and humiliated, and I will give the rest of them to the sword before their enemies, says Jehovah.

When the sun was overhead, the entire Chaldean army was on furlough. Terrors upon the city, which include rape and torture. This is a woman who endured childbirth several times. She had mental attitude sins and she fornicated with anyone who came along; she was seeking happiness and pleasure. She walked away from Bible doctrine and she walked away from her RM. She has fornicated with hundreds of men. Why would a little rape bother her? As she was being raped, Jeremiah was there trying to rescue her. And she was hit with the most awful shame which could ever come to a woman. She had taken in the wolves of the city instead of this great man. Her soul shriveled up when she saw Jeremiah being overpowered, and she died of shame. She was ashamed and confounded.

Why was Jeremian at Ramah? He was in Ramah bound in chains for this is where the soldiers brought him. The soldiers threw her body down in disgust. Jeremiah was lying in a heap, knocked out, so they put him in chains and took him to Ramah.

Zedekiah had to lose everything to realize how important that Bible doctrine was. Jeremiah’s RW left him and he still had iron in his soul from Bible doctrine. They both ended up living in Babylon, living happy, tranquil lives.

There are two sides to every coin. What will it take for you to get with Bible doctrine? If you do, there will be many temptations to go back to something shoddy. Stick to doctrine. There will come a time in your life where there is no comfort, and the only thing that will carry you is the iron in your soul. Jeremiah faced his adversity with that iron in his soul. The greatest trophy of grace.

Jer. 41:10           1971 July 4^th Conf. Importance of Doctrine in a National Crisis        Lesson #12

At the very beginning, there is a lot of laughing, but unsure as to what it was about? Was this when Thieme’s dog was brought in?

A civil war has broken out. In v. 10, we find out that the people have been enslaved. There are two principles we will see—we will begin with a nation in slavery and end with a nation in freedom. The military will deliver them from slavery.

It is men around you who have been willing to fight and die who have given us our freedom. Women who marched on Washington with these signs we don’t want our sons to die. Those sloppy women probably gave sloppy ideas to their sons. Bob’s going to get on the horn and tell Bobby’s ranger leader to make his training tougher. It is always the freedom handed over by the military to the civilians. That is why every 20–40 years, it is necessary to fight a war. A young man in Berachah left the service, then realized how disorganized civilian life was, so he rejoined. If American troops had no killed the enemy in WW2 and defeated them, half of the population today would be half-Jap and half-American. You think it is tough around Berachah, you ought to see what it is like being under the Jap samari system.

Jer 41:10 And Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, the king's daughters, and all the people who stayed in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan, the chief of the executioners, had entrusted to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam. And Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, took captive and went to go over to the sons of Ammon.

Jackson’s army moved like calvary. They were fast. There were a lot of complaints. Some deserted. He found them and shot them and brought the rest of the armies by to see the dead bodies. Many study his campaigns and it was the greatest in all military history.

Johanan has a professional army, core strength.

Jer 41:11 But when Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the army heads with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, had done,

You have to scatter your force and concentrate them as well. Re-concentrating indicates good logistics and a good response to training. They did not park their butts in a perimeter, they got out and attacked. If you are going to kill the enemy, you must get there. Everyone of those professional men advanced to fight. You have to find the enemy. So patrols are sent out, a recon outfit to find the enemy. One patrol said, “We can follow hem all the way from Mizpah.” This was all done rapidly with good military training.

There is this lake mentioned in v. 12, and a patrol discovers him. Gibeon is 2 miles... The army probably dallied with all of these beautiful women captives.

Jer 41:12 then they took all the men and went to fight with Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah. And they found him by the many waters that are in Gibeon.

They were glad to see the military come. In a case like that, you would be so happy to see an American uniform. There is real happiness. There is the possibility of real deliverance. They saw an army coming to the rescue.

They had to wait until all the civilians got back there. It was a sloppy outfit and it cannot stand up against well-trained military men.

Jer 41:13 And it happened when all the people with Ishmael saw Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the army heads with him, then they were glad.

The day the United Nations came into our country, we have been going down. This destroys nationalism. They need to be kicked out in order to neutralize Communism. No American should never have to fight under a UN flag or take orders from a foreign national ever again. Even with the rapport that we had with the British in WWII, and we still need to be under American generals. This is how we keep our freedom. We take orders only from Americans.

No one gives orders to the Potsdam guard except for Frederick the Great.

Jer 41:14–16 And all the people that Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and came back, and went to Johanan, the son of Kareah. But Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the sons of Ammon. Then Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the army heads with him, took all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah (after he had killed Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam), mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon.

He freed them; the civilian population was given back their freedom.

Jer. 41:1             1971 July 4^th Conf. Importance of Doctrine in a National Crisis        Lesson #13

Fly-by to come this day. Front doors not large enough for the planes to come through.

The night sessions, we have been studying Zedekiah (weak start, strong finish) and Jeremiah (strong start, strong finish) and Gedeliah (strong start and a weak finish). As believers in Jesus Christ, we will fall into one of these categories. Since these people have shown up, that indicates that there is some strong positive volition. Jeremiah always rose to the occasion. Worst situation is the believer, who has a strong beginning, but then he falls off. Some peel off and go into the tongues movement. For one reason or another, they go negative. Civil unrest, violence, lawlessness, etc.

We find out what happened to Gedeliah.

As Ishmael approaches the palace, he is welcomed in. This conspirator waited until the meal was over.

Jer 41:1 And it happened in the seventh month, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed, and of the chief ones of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, to Mizpah. And they ate bread together there in Mizpah.

10 of his men are here, disguised as civilians. Gedeliah tried to act in between the people and the Babylonians. Normal agricultural life was resumed. New reconstruction after the destruction was foredoomed. There was unceasing intrigue. Some of this is from Durant’s history, I think. This fasting has continued as a part of the Jewish holidays.

It only takes a small group of revolutionaries to get inside the palace and to start a revolution.

In this passage, the conspiracy is hatched into a full-blown revolution. Massacre of Chaldean guard in their barracks. Civil war and battle at the end of the chapter. We go from murder to killing. Killing is authorized to protect a national entity. If you are a believer in Jesus Christ and a member of the armed forces and in combat, it is your Christian responsibility to be the best killer in your outfit. You do this as unto the Lord. If you are a good Christian and a spiritual Christian in battle, you will be the best killer. There were 3 people passed out last night. Let me tell you some, you squeamish women, is your are free and protected because enemies were killed in battle. Some were killed at a distance, some hand to hand combat. Dead enemies means freedom for us. If you believe in Jesus Christ and you have any other attitude than the only good Communist is a dead Communist. Our enemies are Communist and anti-Christian and anti-Christ and anti-God. If you have any Christian application of doctrine, you have only one choice, slaughter. If one is positive, God will see that they can accept Christ as Savior before dying. You just concentrate on killing the enemy.

If you have wandered in here and you think you are a conscientious objector, you are confused or a coward or apostate. These massacres begin the civil war.

Jer 41:2 And Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men with him rose up and struck Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword. And they killed him whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.

Jer 41:3 Ishmael also struck all the Jews who were with him, with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war.

The revolution has now begun. There was a small token guard and the military became sloppy. Two garrisons in Mizpah. A Chaldean barracks and a Jewish barracks and a military police system and a guard system. These men were massacred because they were not alert. They were under a peacenik policy; a disarmament policy. The military collapsed and they died.

The phase the Chaldeans who were found there. They removed anyone who could use weapons. Gedeliah had neutralized the effectiveness of his own military. He removed to good and professional officers and had yes-men for officers. Political types. He was completely taken by surprise and he lose his life.

Jer 41:4 And it happened, the second day after he had killed Gedaliah; and no one knew,

Jer 41:5 men from Shechem came from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men, having their beards shaved, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, and with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring to the house of Jehovah.

Tongues crowd were coming as an anti-war group, to offer anti-war sacrifices. They wander down the road making the peace sign and they come by Mizpah. Jerusalem is now in ruins. There is a patrol out there and there is a quick reconnaissance, and these hippies are in protest and they had shaved their beards and their clothes were in rags. They cut themselves. This is forbidden in the Bible. They were coming with bloodless offerings, called mincah’s. they have incense in their hands.

Jer 41:6 And Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, went out from Mizpah to meet them, walking as he walked and weeping. And it happened, as he met them, he said to them, Come to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam.

Ishmael stands out there weeping and wailing and crying, which appealed to them. They were under emotional revolt of the soul and they lacked common sense and doctrine. What appeals to them is emotion.

Not all of them died.

Jer 41:7 And it happened when they came into the middle of the city, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, killed them, he and the men with him, throwing them into the middle of the pit.

10 men escaped.

Jer 41:8 But ten men were found among them who said to Ishmael, Do not kill us, for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and barley, and oil, and honey. So he held back, not killing them with their brothers.

These treasuries were places where food could be set aside. This sets us up for the civil war this evening. The purpose was a power grab; a coup detau. This was an act of anti-semitism. Once their killer lust is up, they want to keep klling. Ishmael does not have a disciplined army, so he has to offer them something to arouse their interest: plunder, killing, lust. This is typical of revolution.

Organized military forces are all that can whip these people into shape.

These civilians are intimidated and they have lost their freedom. They departed from Bible doctrine. They allowed the infiltration of apostasy. Once they went negative, they invited apostates back into the land. They got into pseudo-brotherly love. Pacifism. They failed the prosperity test. They became negative toward doctrine and the formed scar tissue on the soul. They ignored the conspiracy in their midst. From prosperity to slavery in one generation because they forget their source of blessing; they have lost their desire for Bible doctrine.

A collective question to answer tonite. What will it take to preserve our freedom? What will it take to keep us out of slavery to the Communists?

The 1974 Hebrews 4^th of July Conference

Heb. 4:1              1974 July 4^th Conf. Importance of Doctrine in a National Crisis          Lesson #1

I will include this in with the Hebrew series...