In the Word #13 — Milton Green

Biblical Types of the Church and the People of God

Or at the church, sometimes the church is called Zion. The type of the church is the Bride. The church is called the Virgin. The church is called Mother. These are all the type for the church, isn't that right?

Shake your head. Okay. It's called Jerusalem. It's a type for the church. Jacob is a type for the people of God. Israel is a type for the people of God. Judah is a type for the people of God. The General Assembly, which we just saw.

The city, of course that's talking the city. Jerusalem. The fortified city or tower and palace. Now let me tell you something. A fortified city or tower is a place, let me give you an example of that today.

Trusting Buildings and Human Institutions Instead of Christ

That's, that's people who are in Babylon will go and walk in to a building and they'll find security in this building once they walk in. And this building is very reverent. You know right here is a temple, don't you?

And the building's just wood and stone. But when they walk in that thing, their heart goes and trusts buildings. Their heart trusts theology and different things like that. But they're deceived. They don't know the Lord.

And in this building right there, this, this, what is called, you know the building's not the church. The building's the meeting house. The church goes there, right? But see, in their heart, this has been perverted and made to be the church.

And then their hearts, this building, this situation is gonna be the vehicle that delivers them into heaven. They're deceiving their heart because people who are deceiving their heart, that is the doctrines of demons to get your heart to trust something besides the Lord Jesus Christ.

You can trust men. Your heart can trust men. Buildings, theology, intellect, denomination, masonry, a lot of things, okay? And that is the doctrine of demons. And so let's just continue right here. There are different types for the church.

Symbolic Types of the World, the Church, and Spiritual Powers

And you already know these things, but I'm just running by. Egypt is a type of the world, isn't that right? Assyria is a type of the world. Sometimes the world's just called nations, right? All right, there are different kinds of lands.

There's a world land, there's a church land, and here's a land. You see this? This is God's field. You know, in 1 Corinthians 3, 9. This is the land, folks, you possess. This is the land you possess. That's where the Canaanites are.

Amen? Canaanites are right there on that land. You get them off with a sword. You possess the land. Okay, you cross the Jordan and get them. Amen? Okay, now we have the different types for the demons.

We found out there is a devil, right? Sometimes they're called the adversary. Sometimes a type, when you see, they're called the serpents. Sometimes they're called lions or young lions. Sometimes a thief or just the wolves.

That's a type for them. Wild beast, beast of the field, scorpion, lions. They're sometimes strangers. Birds of the sky, beast of the field. See, not every time birds of the sky or beast of the field does that mean in any of these things.

And by no means is this totally complete. Amen? What I'm saying right here. Now, another thing I want you to know, the Holy Ghost is a fire and the spirit of the devil is a fire. They're both a fire. You have to see how the scripture's used.

You won't have any problem with that, all right? Now, when you see these words, I wouldn't care if he wants to write teeth down. When you see these words manifested, I mean, when you see these words used, I want you to know in most cases, they're a manifestation.

If you examine your scripture, you're gonna start seeing the powers of darkness, how the Lord's talking about the powers of darkness. When you see, first, start with the word flood, which you're familiar with, and I'm gonna have to go back and explain that to you.

You already see the flood, right? You see the flood, which is flood of words, and sometimes many waters, waves, and so forth like that. Waters and waves, the roar, uproar, what roars? Lions, then the uproar.

When you see these words, and I'll be showing you as we go along, I wish we had about another half a day, but it's gonna be all right to just stay here until nine or 10. But I already showed you distress.

You know, I started pointing out some things, distress, when you see the word distress. Now, see, you're not gonna get mad at me when I start down here, are you? If I say some things are in there, I told you I'm gonna call it what it is, and you receive it when you see it in words.

Is that what we agreed with? Now, you can't be mad. Amen? Now, be sweet. Okay, when you see the word terror. Now, one of the, terror is what? Now, one of the biggest words that's used for the powers of darkness is the word violence.

You know how they do violence to the law, or violence? That means pervert the Word of God, or you employ violence. In other words, instead of employing the Spirit of God, you employ the Spirit of the devil, you employ violence.

That's what he talked about. You bring the powers of darkness in and let them come in and pervert the Spirit of the devil. That's the word. Calamity is another word. Now, I never did, I need to just turn quickly, turn back to Luke.

The Parable of the Sower and the Birds of the Air

Turn back to Luke 8, and I never did get to this. You know, we looked at the parable of the Word in Mark 4, we looked at it in Matthew 13, but I never did look at it in Luke 8, and I just wanna quickly just show you, give you an example.

Let's just start with the birds of the sky, and I wanna give you a little example, and then I wanna just get on in this thing. Okay? Now, Luke 8. Luke 8, right now, first he's spoken a mystery, and then he took disciples and told them what he's talking about.

Is that right? Okay. Now, in verse 5, he's talking in a mystery. 8, Luke 8, verse 5. The sower went out to sow his seed, which is the Word of God. He sowed it some, fell beside the road. It was trampled, the Word is trampled underfoot.

See there? They're trampling the Word. Now, we're gonna watch a Word trampled underfoot directly. It's trampled underfoot, and who came and ate it up? The birds of the air. Now, we're gonna look, I think it's over in 12, and we'll get to see who these birds of the air and what this seed is that come and eat, what it is that the birds of the air is after.

And we see over in verse 12, those beside the road who have heard, then who comes? The devil comes, and he takes away the Word. Now, see, that's a seed, and so we know that the birds, what it's a type of, the birds of the sky is the devil right here.

Is that correct? So, there's a pretty fair example, and it's all over your Bible. But not in every case. Now, folks, I'm telling you one, you have to be careful that you don't read something into the Word that's not in the Word.

Don't never say anything about the Word of God that everybody can't see it. You know why? Because I'll tell you what I've learned. You can start, if you don't truly see it all, and you start reading something in it, then you can take, you can have 50 things there that you have people with you, and then you can get to the one thing where they can't see it.

And, brother, it'll hurt you on the other. And you can just sin about that. If God hasn't showed you something, don't share it. We don't have anything to prove. We just say what God said. He proves it.

Amen? Okay. Now, I want you to remember what I'm telling you. Okay. Okay. So we see the birds of the sky right here, and we see the birds of the sky want to come and take the Word from you. Is that right?

Spiritual Fruitfulness and the Loss of the Word

Now, if that Word's not working in you, you can't be fruitful. If you don't take fruitful, you're not overcoming the powers of darkness. You're no threat to them. They get their seed from you, and the seed don't grow, and you're not gonna have authority.

You can't have any power over them. Is that right? And we know how's the war. How do they come? They bring affliction. They bring persecution. A lot of people saying a lot of things. Then you get your mind on what they're saying, and then the first thing you know, the Word hasn't replaced.

You've got to please folks. See it? They steal the Word from you, and they do it with the worries of life. Get your mind full of that, the deceitfulness of riches, the desires for other things, and when you've got those things on your heart, I mean, the Word's gone.

They've got it. They replaced the Word with something else, and that's how they get the Word. Now, I already explained to you that Paul fought the wild beasts at Ephesus, didn't he? And we know he wasn't fighting foxes.

We know this was a type of something. This is a type for the powers of darkness that he was battling with there, and I think I might have mentioned to you that in Mark 1, 13, that Jesus was 40 days in the wilderness.

He was being tempted with Satan, and he was with the wild animals. That just got thrown out. The beasts are still there, just like the beast of Phil was with Satan when he was tempting the first Adam.

They're with him when he's tempting the last Adam. Are you seeing that? You know, we saw that in Genesis 3, didn't we? That the beast of Phil was with Satan. Now, he's more crafty than any other beast of Phil, which he is, and so now I think I should give you an example of how a city would be a church situation, a congregation of God and a people of God, and I want you to see what the beasts are doing.

Babylon as a Dwelling Place of Demons

You know Babylon was a dwelling place of demons? Babylon, the word tells you in symbolism here and time about this Babylon, and we learn a lot of things over here in the Old Covenant, then we come over and see how it's applied in the New Testament.

Amen? Okay, now if you'll turn to Zebaniah. He was probably reading there yesterday, and Zebaniah is right before Matthew. Hurry. Can you hurry? It's about four of the Z's are together, over Zechariah and Zebaniah, and about four books before Matthew, all right?

It's on page 1350, if you have a giant print Bible. You can visit a little bit when you turn to Zebaniah. Good to be free. The mission is over. Now let's look in verse 15, 215. Zebaniah 215. Zebaniah, what does exalt us mean?

That means lift it up, doesn't it? Huh? Shake your head. Are you through visiting? You haven't found Zebaniah? How do you like any Bible drill? Zebaniah, verse 215. This is the exalted what? Which is a type of what?

Of congregation of God, or you know, be like the church. This exalted city which dwells what? Oh, they just dwell so securely. Who says what? In the heart. That's how I love old Babylon over there. I'm the queen.

I can't be a widow. I'm no widow. I'm Jesus King. I'm queen, right? Oh, that kind of reminds me what Satan's saying over in some things in his heart, over in Isaiah 14. I, where he says in his heart, you've been cast down because you said in your heart, I will, I will.

I, me, my, right? I see you see Satan. You see who's talking to this city right here, this church. Who dwells, they dwell securely because they have said in their heart, I am. There's no one besides me.

In other words, you got to come over. Why? You're going to get what? My ticket's already punched. I'm rich. I'm increased in good. And now she has become a what? Is there going to be abomination? Look at me.

Is there going to be abomination in the last days that comes into the holy place to make desolate? And it makes desolate no word, no water, no fruit. There they are. She is a resting peace for who? That's just exactly what you see of those.

That's the whore harlot church, what you did exactly what you read Revelation 18 yesterday. Everyone who places fire will hiss and wave his hands in contempt. You see a little of that? Go try to witness somebody got a Budweiser in her hand and say, you saved?

Sure, I'm saved. He's been watching television. He's got some head. Sure, I know Jesus. All right, chapter three. Here's a problem. Woe to her. She is what? Rebellious to the word of God. We saw what I get you when you were over in Psalms 107 and she is defiled, defiled.

You defile the holy temple, right? What did Jesus do? What was the type of Jesus? He went and he drove the thieves out of the temple, right? Amen. All right, now. Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled.

The tyrannical city. Now here's a problem. Here's why she is exalted and she's secure in her heart and she's like the devil and she's a resting place for demons. Here's a problem. She heeds no voice. She doesn't heed the word of God.

She accepts no instructions. She is rebellious. She won't obey the word of God. She does not trust in the world, probably goes to the world, get everything she needs. That's Babylon. And she does not draw near to her God.

She won't praise the God. Now here in verse three, her leaders, her princes within her are what? They're just exactly like the demons. The demons are running the people so they run the church. That's kind of like the Gentiles have got it.

All right, now. Her judges are wolves. Now see, are you seeing the beast? There's your roaring lion. There's your wolves. The judges are wolves at evening. They leave nothing for the morning. Her prophet preachers are reckless, treacherous men.

Her preachers have profaned the sanctuary. They've done what? Violence to what? The word, the law, the word. They have another word. It's been perverted. And now I'm not going to turn back to Deuteronomy 28 to go through the blessings and the curses.

And I think you pretty well understand that. You have the blessings and the hedge and have God working with you. And whatever you ask, he'll give to you when you're bearing fruit and walking in company.

Isn't that right? Then we see when you start living after this part that you have the wrong motives and he doesn't answer your prayers. Is that correct? We saw in James 4. Now let's go to, let's begin.

Taking Heed to the Prophetic Warning

And now look at me here just a minute. I'm going to start down here and this is going to smack against your box, your petitions when I first start. Now are you ready for it? You got to stand against it.

Because if you get up here, you can't start up here and come down. You got to start down here and go up. Okay? All right? Don't be mad. You love me? Okay. All right. If you have your Bibles, Acts 13. Acts 13.

And we're going to start tying some of these loose ends together. All right? It's good to tie loose ends together, isn't it? Praise you, Lord Jesus, for your grace, liberty, freedom, revelation, understanding, and your word.

Praise the Lord. Now, do you believe when God says, take heed, do you think it might be good to take heed? All right, he said it here. Verse 40. And if God says, take heed, he's got a reason to say, take heed, right?

Okay. Take heed. Will you please do something with take heed? God wants you to take heed. I'm ready to take heed now. I believe a lot of people are ready to take heed, aren't you? Okay. How's your fear of God?

You coming on all right? All right. Take heed. Therefore, so that the what? I can't hear you again. The thing, the circle thing. I heard that thing again. The thing spoken of the prophets may not what?

Oh, that thing's gonna come on. So we're gonna have to take heed so that the thing don't get on us, right? You want me to tell you what that thing is? Are you ready? Here it comes. Bim. Okay. That's mockers.

Look here. That's carpenters. Scoppers are carpenters. That's carpenters. A scopper, you'll be able to follow their own ungodly lusts and they scoff against it. Now I'll show you about a scopper. Are you ready?

Hope you can take this. If there's a scopper in here, you're gonna get mad. Okay. Behold, you scoppers. And marvel, and what? Might draw you a little line around scoppers. Draw you a little line around parish and kind of connect them together a little bit right there.

Scoppers, parish. He says, for I'm accomplishing a work in whose days? Oh, your days, Mr. Scopper. A work, mark that work, which you're gonna never believe, Mr. Scopper. Mr. Scopper, you can't see it.

Mr. Scopper, as a matter of fact, you have a problem with being wise and intelligent. And you're not gonna see it, Mr. Scopper. It's a work which you're gonna never believe. You're gonna never believe it, though someone should describe it to you.

That sounds like Luke Penn, doesn't it? Huh? Mr. Scopper, though someone describes it to you. Because it comes by revelation. You better open up your heart. You better get ready. If you're a scopper, so you can see this.

Scoppers don't see this. Repent. Here it comes. Now, this thing is the same thing that the baby disciples saw when they dealt with the power of the doctrines. And now, this was taken right here, Habakkuk 1.

And if you will, please, please turn with me now back to Habakkuk 1. That's back there near the Z's, before Matthew back there, close by. I think it's close to Nahum. And you can find it easy now. Right before Zephaniah, Zechariah.

Zephaniah, I mean. I'm sorry. Right after Nahum. Okay. Now, everybody has it. Almost. I'll tell you what. You're gonna like the minor prophets after this seminar today. They just been waiting there all the time for someone to read them.

Boy, this would make a good church. I bet you're good tithers. You got a lot of money? You got Jesus as your brother. Amen. All right. What did we just read over in Acts 13 that this was taken out of Habakkuk that he say, he warned you, you take heed.

You take heed to me that this thing doesn't come upon you, but scoffers are gonna perish. And they're not gonna hear it or see it. They're not gonna believe it if you even describe it to them. Now, let me ask you something.

Chaldeans as Instruments of Judgment

Let me just share something with you right here. Who was it that Babylon used to bring against the people of God over and over and over again? Chaldeans, wasn't it? Isn't that right? The Chaldeans. And they were the people that come to, when Israel was disobedient, what did the Lord do?

He turned the Chaldeans from Babylon upon the people of God because they wouldn't walk in company. Is that right? Well, isn't that kind of true about the Canaanite nations and so forth like that? He would just let the Philistines come and just beat them up all the business and so forth like that.

They were on the land because when he wouldn't walk in the company of God, right? Now, may I go ahead and tell you again that the Canaanite nations are the people on the land. I want you to know them and the Chaldeans is a type of the instruments that God's used.

They're a type of the enemy that comes against you today, the powers of darkness. Now, let me just tell you, I don't believe any Chaldeans are gonna get you today, but you're reaching to read about it.

God over in Acts 13, somewhere or another, but those Chaldeans are a type of something. Now, you're gonna see them. And if this is from God, it's gonna jump all over you like it does at me and everybody else.

All right, here you go. Here they are. Verse two, Habakkuk one. How long, O Lord, will I call for help? Glory. And thou will not hear. I cry out to thee. What's his problem right there? Violence. All right, he's crying out.

He needs help from who? The powers of darkness. Now, this is what this is a type of, okay? Here you go. Thou dost not save. Why dost thou make me see iniquity? And just see it said. Why? And cause me to look on wickedness.

Now, look here, here it is. Yes, destruction. And here it is. Violence are before me. Now, watch this. Strife exists. Boy, isn't that a familiar song? Contention arises. See, that's why he's saying that.

Where do you think all that comes from? Them? Okay, we're gonna see them in a minute. Strife and contention arises. Therefore, when there's strife and contention there, the word of God is what? It's ignored.

And justice is never upheld. It's not helped. There's no discipline or anything. You just love a bunch of folks into something and make them, you know, look good out of the flesh and appearance. And justice is never upheld.

And the wicked, that's them, surround the who? So, white righteous. Therefore, justice comes out what? And that's why we've been seeing things that justice has been coming out a little perverted. It looks good in somebody else's eyes instead of what God's eyes look like.

All right, now, he says, look among the nations. Observe. Here's what the Lord said. Be astonished and wonder. And here we go, what we saw over in Acts 13. He said, because I'm doing something in your days and your days right now, you wouldn't believe if you, Mr. Flesh, Scottford, behold, I'm raising up the who?

Which is a type of what? The powers and darkness of demons? Just plain old, that's what it is. All right, here they are. I'm raising up that fierce and impetuous people who mark throughout the earth to seize what?

Oh, they seize in these dwelling places which are not theirs. They doing that? A bunch. Verse seven, they are what? Oh, dreaded in what? Oh, are they dreaded in fear? Are the demons dreaded in fear? Listen, let's stop right here.

Do you remember what I told you? Wasn't you told over in Acts 13 to be, take heed that this thing would not come upon you? Is that right? May I remind you again, Acts 13 wasn't telling you to take heed that the Galileans gonna get you.

Acts 13, your new covenant over here was telling you that them was gonna get you, it didn't come upon you. And we've already seen that Scottford, the wise and intelligent will never, never, never, never, never, ever see it.

Amen? He already said you wouldn't believe if somebody described it to you. Okay, so they sealed right. Now look at me. We're down here. I told you, you're gonna have to use that spirit of self, that fruit of self-control here.

You're gonna have to just maintain yourself a little while. It's all of your Bible. Everything we're reading over here, we're gonna find that over where we've been called something, something else. Okay, you with me?

You love me? Okay. They're dreaded and feared. Their justice and authority originate with themselves. The horses are swifter, they're watchers to beasts. The leopards, keener than the wolves in Eden. The horsemen come galloping.

The horsemen come from afar. They fly like a what? Well, there's your bird, and they're swooping down to what? The vower. All of them come for what? Violence. There it is, mark violence. Their horde of faces move forward.

They collect what? They collect captives like sand. They moult at kings. The rulers are a laughing matter to them. They laugh at every fortress. They heap up rubble to capture it. Then they will sweep through like the wind and pass on.

They'll be held guilty. They whose strength, it's their strength who is their God. And then Habakkuk asks right here, starting in verse 12, and now you're gonna see the Lord Jesus Christ right in the middle of this.

You ready? Here we go. Art thou not from everlasting? O Lord, my God, my Holy One. We will not die. Thou, O Lord, has appointed them, has appointed them, that them is them, to what? Judge. Now you saw that, I'm gonna turn back real good.

You saw this back over in, when I was looking at Babel, that the powers that are not with us said, we're not gonna be held guilty because they judged sin. When they see sin, they can move in, and that's what they see.

And they're not gonna be held guilty in as much as the powers that are with us said, they have sinned against the Lord. You remember that? We saw it over in Jeremiah 15. You wanna mark and make a little note there.

All right, thou has appointed them to judge, and thou, O who? Who's that? Jesus. Jesus has established them to what? Correct, or I'm thinking King James calls it chastise. But anyway, they are to chastise, they are correct.

Thou has appointed them correct. Well, he goes on and say, well, how did these things get on us? They're worse than we are. Well, do you see it? That's a good question. So he put verse 13 in there, and he said, Thine eyes are too pure to approve evil.

That's the evil in us, and evil is in all the people that God's ever had. And thou cannot look on wickedness with favor. Why does thou look with favor on those who deal treacherously? That's on the demons.

Why is thou silent with the wicked? That's the powers of darkness swallow up those who are more righteous than they are. Why? Why then? Well, we're gonna see why. Why has thou made men like what? Now, you've got to mark that good in your Bible.

Make men like fish in the sea, like creeping things without a ruler over them, and the who? And a cow lives atop of who? The demons. The demons bring all them up with wine. Now, look at it. God has, Jesus has some fishermen, doesn't he?

I believe Satan has him some. He fishes for men too. You see that? You see, men are like fish in the sea, and the Chaldeans, the demons, all bring them all up with a hook. And now you see something that's been accursed all through the Old Testament, being drug away.

See it right there? Drag, they bring them up with a hook, and they drag them away with their wine. Now, that's what the curse, and one of the curses you see all the way through the Old Testament. Now you know what that is.

The powers of darkness drag away. Now, and they gather them together in their fishing net, and therefore, now, when it talks about the Lord throwing a net on you, you'll find out that he lowers a hedge.

He says, sickle. Now, I'm telling you now, and this is what you're gonna see all over the Bible. Now, therefore, they rejoice and are glad. Now, verse 17, will they therefore continually, therefore empty their net, and continually slay nations without sparing, and that's exactly what they're doing, slaying nations without sparing right now.

Covenant Faithfulness and the Consequences of Rebellion

Now, I want you to turn to Hosea 4, please. And we're going to, that's where we had to start at, didn't we? You have to start somewhere, don't you? It's all right to start somewhere, isn't it? Good. Hosea 4, where you say, well, I haven't been taught to study a Bible like that.

Well, I hadn't either until God showed me to do this. Oh, Dudley, you know the answer to your question last time? Oh, Dudley, one of the best Bible teachers there are in this world. And I remember the first time I began showing up, going through this thing with a bunch of pastors down in Oakland, Alabama, and old Dudley.

And that's kind of encouraged, because old Dudley went after his office and said, I've got a new Bible. It's gonna be amazing. You know, when you see this thing, you know what's gonna happen. You're gonna see how this flows and everything.

I want to tell you, brother and sister, you're gonna have, I know, but no means you're gonna have time to cover this, but it's gonna change the reading of your Bible. When you put this in fact, when a word like this is gonna change, it's so exciting, really is.

You're gonna want to reread it. Make a tremendous difference. All right, now, by the way, just for your notes, right, turn Amos 4 to it. You know, it's talking about the last day. It says, God, I'm gonna take the last of you with fishhooks.

And if we had any time, I'd run over there. But anyway, in Hosea 4, which is the top, well, back up there to 2. Hosea 2, I just want to look at one verse while we're close by. 2 .19, I will betroth you to me, what?

Forever, think this might be Jesus speaking, huh? Yes, I will betroth you to me in what? Righteousness and justice, in loving kindness, that's covenant love, that's a God kind of love, 2 .19. Hosea 2 .19, in loving kindness and in compassion.

And I will what? Betroth, you'll be married to me in what? Faithfulness, then you're gonna know the Lord. Amen, isn't that good? Well, the Lord's everywhere, all over this Bible, isn't he? Now, let's go back to chapter four.

We're gonna start looking at a congregation, okay? Now, we're gonna see that this congregation had a few problems. I mean, it's kind of like a palace. And then when we come to something, we're talking about Israel, we're talking about Judah or Jacob, or we switch around like that, you're still talking about the congregation, and it'll switch it over, you're still talking about a people that's supposed to be a people of God, that's supposed to be walking in the covenant of God.

Now, I want you to watch what the Spirit of God is saying to you. Now, began in Hosea 4. Listen to the word of the Lord, O sons of Israel. Now, are we sons of Israel? For the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land.

Well, he has a case against Israel, because there is what? Today, there's no faithfulness and kindness, you can see it in the church, it's not the faithfulness and kindness, or what? The knowledge of God in the word, in the land, rather.

But here's what's going on in the hearts of people. There is swearing, there is deception, murder is in their heart, stealing is in their heart, adultery is in their heart, and watch what you do. They employ what?

They employ violence, so that what? Bloodshed follows bloodshed. All right, now, when you employ the powers of darkness, when you employ perversion, now, I'm just telling you what this is right now, and you're gonna see it clearly.

What happens? Bloodshed, that you employ pervert in the word, bloodshed follows bloodshed, because there's no hedge or protection. You see that? That's how you spill the blood of the righteous. Now, therefore, the what?

Verse three, look here. The land, look here, mourns. This land mourns. I always, where did we see that over in Jeremiah? You know, when he's talking about this? The land mourns because of the curse. And this land, I'm telling you, there's some people on this land, they cause this land to mourn, and they're not blessings, okay?

That's them. The violence there, he's talking about. Therefore, the land mourns, and everyone who lives in it languishes. Now, underlying language, that means they lack force and are weakened. Now, look who's on the land with him, along with the who?

Beats the field and the who? Now, you see who's on the land? Who's on this land? You see it? Okay. And also the what? When they get on the land, the fish of the sea, who are they? Men. They disappear because they're the fishermen when they come and break them up the head of the fish up and drag them away.

Is that right? Now, if you kind of get some surprised look on your face, you might as well get adjusted to this because your Bible's fixing to change. Okay. All right, here's the kind of congregation this is.

There's no faithfulness or kindness. There's a congregation of compromise. Here they are. Verse four, let no one find fault. Let none offer reproof. Let's just love them into it. For your people are like those who contend with the priest.

So here's what you're going to do. You're going to stumble by day. Now look at me. In daytime, you're supposed to see where you're going, but you're stumbling in the daytime. You can't find the way, the way of the Lord, right?

Okay. For you will stumble by day and the prophet also is going to stumble you at night. And I'm going to destroy what? I'll destroy your mother, which is your what? I'm going to destroy your church. You absolutely are right.

Now, my people are destroyed for this reason, for lack of knowledge. You know what Paul said about, I pray for Israel for their what? Salvation. They salvage. They'll forget that it's not according to the word.

Amen? Okay. You are destroyed because you have rejected what? You've rejected the word. So I'm going to reject you from being what? I'm going to reject you from, when you reject the word, I reject you from being my priest.

Since you've forgotten the word of your God, I will also forget your what? I'm going to forget your children. Now let's just look in chapter five. And we see Ephraim, we see Judah, we see Jerusalem, we see Israel.

These are all supposed to be a type of God, a type of the congregation of God. Okay? And you'll see a change from one to the other and you'll get used to it in a little bit. Hosea five. Let's start in verse 11.

Here it is. It's a type of the congregation or church of God. Verse 11. Ephraim is oppressed. They are crushed in what? The judgment is the reason they're oppressed because here's their problem. He is determined to follow what?

He's determined to follow man's command. So when you follow man's command, the anger of God and the wrath of God comes and they come right behind him. So therefore he says in verse 12, the Lord says, therefore I'm like a what?

A mob. Now, listen. The curse of God, the curses of God is explained like being rottenness or a mob. Now we've already run that once more. We're gonna see it all over. Now these are some terms you're kind of getting used to.