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book of Isaiah part 8

FHMI-0618Pastor Shane Vaughn2023-01-01sermon

Book of Isaiah

  • (primary) Isaiah 9:8–16
  • (secondary) Amos 1:1
  • (secondary) Ezekiel 9:4–6
  • (secondary) Isaiah 10:20–23
  • (secondary) Romans 11:1–2
  • (secondary) Matthew 22:14
  • (secondary) Romans 11:7

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Part 8 - The Book of Isaiah ''America First'' mp4 And she breaks six children in a car that seats four. I just appreciate this church. I want to tell all of you something. Don't ever let me hear you run nobody in this church down. We've got the best people in the world in this church right here. The best people in the world go to church here. Just like Sister Susan back there. She had surgery today. Had a surgery. And she's in church tonight. No excuses. Hallelujah. Amen. God love you tonight. I love my church. I love my little congregation that Yahweh has sent me. Y'all are the best. Y'all are the best. Appreciate every one of you. If I didn't call your name, please don't be offended. I appreciate every one of you. If I'm as good of a pastor as you are a congregation, then we'll have it made and ashamed. Because you're a good congregation. Amen. You know, Brother Nash, this church never gives me one ripple on the water. We never have one ripple on the water. Never. Never. Never. You know why? Why? Because we're built on a strong foundation of the Word of God. We're not built on emotions. We're not built on emotions. We're built on the Word. And tonight, I want to reveal some more of that Word to you. From the book of Isaiah. Chapter 9. I believe we left off last week. And I'm most thankful for my dear, precious, darling wife that's so thankful to this church. Amen. Amen. Thank God for my little wife. Praise God. Everybody needs a little wife. Hallelujah. Everybody needs a good little wife. Much better. Thank you, Brother. Praise God. That's good. We're going to pick up at verse number 8. I believe it's where we left off last time, if I'm not mistaken. Remember, last time we preached on fuel for the fire from this chapter. That video has been watched already almost 2,000 times. Just that fuel for the fire. 2,000 people have viewed that video. It's really getting out there. Thank Yahweh. So we'll start at verse number 8. Yahweh sent a message. The Law and the Prophets unto Judah. And it has gone to Israel. And all the people will know it, even Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in their pride and arrogance of heart, the bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with better stones. The sycamores are cut down, but we will replant them with cedars. God bless you. You may be seated tonight. We're going to start with those three verses, and then we'll preach. Say it again. Oh, I know. Amen. I'm trying to get there. If you all let me preach it, that's where I'm headed. Hallelujah. The reason I chose to preach out of the book of Israel, I mean the book of Isaiah, and to take it verse by verse, brother Trost, is because, Trost, sorry, I'm getting it, is because most people do not understand, brother EJ, that in time Israel is the United States of America. Now most people don't grasp that. So let me try to explain it to all of you real quickly. Jacob was dying. What was Jacob's name? Israel. He was on his deathbed, sister Justina, and he calls all of his sons, his 12 sons in, to receive their blessing from their father. Now Jacob blessed every one of them with some type of a blessing. But when it got down to Joseph, Joseph had two sons by the name of Ephraim and Manasseh. Now Ephraim and Manasseh, there was something about these two that was very special to Jacob. And Jacob said, bring me those two boys. They really should not have been in the blessing line. This was only for the 12 sons of Jacob. But he said, those two boys of yours, Joseph, bring them to me, and let me tell them what's going to be in the end of days. I need everybody to wake up. I'm going to tell those two boys, I'm going to bless them with a blessing, but not for this day. I'm going to bless them with an end time blessing. Now what I'm teaching you right now, is most people when they would hear this, they would be through the roof, because it's revelation of who America and Great Britain and the commonwealth nations of the world are. So when he called Ephraim and Manasseh, he told one of them that you will be a fruitful bough, and you will run over the wall. Your fruit will run over the wall. In other words, you'll go beyond your border. And you will increase into what's called an empire. You will be a nation of nations. Now to the other son, he said, you are going to be a great nation. And he tells how blessed this nation is going to become. But notice what he tells them. This is what will come upon you at the end of days. There's a reason the United States of America is only 300 years old. Because the prophecy given to these boys started with Great Britain. You may not understand it, and I'm not going to teach it in detail tonight. But when the lost tribes of Israel came across the Caucus Mountains, they went to the islands of the sea, the Bible said. Now the island of the sea is Great Britain. And it was there that the Israelite people settled into the land of Great Britain. But then if you remember the vision that Daniel had and John had, of the four animals, he saw a bear and all these animals, but then he said he saw a lion. And the lion had wings on it like a what? An eagle. They were one. Oh, come on now. This lion and this eagle were one. But then he said, as I beheld the lion, it stood, the wings separated from the lion and stood up like a man. That was the United States of America, the great eagle. Now why is it so important that you understand that they were not going to name America, America. When our Plymouth brethren and when the brothers landed at Plymouth, the name of this nation was not America. It was New Israel. Hallelujah. That's what's in the Magna Carta. That is what when they landed and planted their flag, this was to be the New Israel. And so when you understand why America is first, it's not because America is best, but rather America has been called for the end of days to fulfill the purposes and the plans of God for the end times. Who was it that gave Israel her nation back? It was Great Britain, the brother of the Jews. You ever heard of the Balfour Treaty? It was Great Britain that gave the land back to Judah, their brothers. And then it was the other brother that now protects the land of Israel, the United States of America. This was all in the plan of God. And this is why if you don't get excited about America, you don't get excited about God. Because this is His land. He chose it for this moment in time. But so many believers think that we're just another nation. But I want you to understand tonight that America is in time Israel. Anytime you see the word Ephraim mentioned in the Word of God, it is referring to those lost tribes that came over and established the United States of America. Now, in the book of Isaiah, he is prophesying to Israel of his day. But how many understand that what has been will be again? How many understand that the natural nation of Israel, the Bible said was an example, that they were just an example of what was going to happen again. Therefore, when you understand what I'm teaching tonight, you will become involved in your nation. Listen to me. It is a cop out to say you're not involved in politics. Let me tell you something. You better hear me now. You're the problem with America. God's called you to stand up for Israel. God, you love Israel. Who do you think we are? If you don't get involved with politics, politics will get involved with you. Do you hear me? If you don't stand up for America, you don't even know the Word of God. We are not just another nation. We are in time Israel. When God called me two years ago to fight for America, I had no idea who America was. I thought she was just another nation. But when I come to understand, He's calling us to fight for His heritage. It is His. We are called to stand for this nation. You've got to get involved. If not, you're going to be the one complaining. You just sit at home and complain. This nation's going to hell. You know why? It's not the world's fault. It's the church's fault. For every preacher saying we don't get involved with politics. You better get involved with politics. We're running out of time. God's trying to save America from His final judgment. He always pronounces judgment. And then what does He do? Looks for a man to stop the judgment. God always sends a judgment. And then He goes and looks for somebody to stop Him. He always pronounces judgment. And then looks for one man that will come stand in the gap and make up the hedge and say, Not yet, Lord. Not yet. Wait a little longer. This is the moment He's called you to stand in the gap for this nation. Because I promise you, no matter the judgment that's coming to America, you have the power to hold it off a little while longer while God brings your loved ones in. While God brings revival to the people that He's calling in this hour. Don't care? Then what's God supposed to do? When you don't care about politics, then who will? I'll tell you who will care about it. The world. And they'll invade your schools. They'll take over your children while you scream, We're not going to get involved. You are a cop out. You are a noodle backer. You are no count. You are not a soldier in the army of the Lord. If you don't fight for America, we must become soldiers in the army of the Lord. Isaiah is prophesying about the end time Israel. The nation that you and I live in. And here's what he said. He said to end time Israel, in verse number 8, Yahweh sent a message. Yahweh sent a message. And what does the next part say? What does it say? The law and the prophet. Yahweh sent a message to you, America. To you, Israel. Yahweh sent you a message. It was a great earthquake in that day. As a matter of fact, the archeologists have found the rubble from that earthquake. And it was 8.0 on the Richter scale in the land of Israel. Matter of fact, the prophet Amos chapter 1 in verse 1, when Yahweh sent him to Israel, the Bible said it was two years before the earthquake. I want you to hear me. If you go read the book of Amos chapter 1 in verse 1, it says that Yahweh sent Amos to Israel two years before the earthquake. And what did Amos come and do? He brought a message, and Israel did not listen. Yahweh planned the earthquake, but before he planned the earthquake, he looked for Amos to try to stop it. Amos 1 in 1. And Yahweh sent me two years before the earthquake. And now Isaiah is picking up there, saying Yahweh sent you a message, Israel. He sent you a message. It was the earthquake. He sent you a message. But the people refused to repent. Isaiah is here reminding Israel in verse 8 and verse 9, all the people are going to know it, this message. But Israel, America, instead of letting the earthquake turn them around, it simply made them more rebellious. And what did they say after that earthquake in verse number 10? Oh yes, we know the bricks have fallen down, but we're going to build back better. I came to preach to America tonight. We know the bricks have fallen. We know that God sent a message to us on 9-11. We felt the earthquake. We know that God sent that message to America. But they said, we know the bricks have fallen, but don't worry about it. We're going to build back with better stones. We know Yahweh sent a message, but let Him know we're not frazzled at all. We know the bricks have fallen. We understand that in my own personal life, I've lost everything, but I'm not going to repent yet. I'm just going to rebuild my life. I know that God's trying to get my attention, but He's not there yet. He tore it down. I'll build it back. I'll keep building it back. It is rebellion in the hearts of men. Israel said, as they continued in verse 10, the sycamores, yeah, we know that those beautiful sycamores are cut down from the earthquake, but don't worry, we're going to replant them with cedars. Oh, we know that I went through a divorce and lost everything, and God was sending me a message. I know that He sent me to prison. He was sending me a message. I know that my marriage was falling apart. He was sending me a message. I know my finances were falling apart, and He was sending me a message. I know I got so sick in my body. He was sending me a message. But rather than returning to the truth, I turned to myself and said, I'll rebuild my life. I'll go to college. I'll do this, and I'll do that. That arrogance and that pride is going to destroy your life. I know that God's trying to get my attention, but you know I'm not there yet. I'm not ready. I'm playing church. So therefore, I'll just rebuild. Oh, that marriage didn't work. I'll find another man. Instead of saying, Oh God, what's in my heart? What's wrong with me? God, what am I... I mean, I have one husband, two, maybe, but three and four and five, it ain't your fault yet. It ain't your fault yet. Instead of being broken and allowing God to reveal to you what's inside of you, you just promise. You get with your little modern friends that tell you you got this. Just rebuild. And there's old Amos, the man of God, saying, No, don't worry about rebuilding. Repent. Return. Return. Don't worry about rebuilding. Repent. Isaiah said that in the end time America, that God would send us warnings. No, He would send us warnings. And ours came on September the 11th, 2001, after the twin towers. Isn't it something that it was the twins that fell? I've taught you about those twins. And right after those fell, Congressman Tom Daschle, he came to the microphone. He never one time said, America, let's pray. America, let's turn back to what we know is right. No, he said these words. He said, Nothing can replace the losses that we have suffered. I know there is only the smallest measure of inspiration that can be taken at this time. But he said there is a passage in the Bible from Isaiah that I think speaks to all of us at times like this. And he quotes what I just read. The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild. The sycamores have fallen, but America, don't worry about repent. Let's rebuild. Nobody calling and saying, What just happened here? Yahweh said in that birth, I sent a message. But you didn't want to repent. You wanted to rebuild. I want to tell you something. When you ignore the messages of Yahweh, you will spend your life rebuilding a broken house. It will be broken every time you rebuild it until you start walking in truth and holiness. Everything you touch will be cursed. Everything you try will fall apart because you play in church. You come, but you don't come. You walk in, but you don't walk in. God sends you message after message. You've been left alone. Some of you forgot your bottom, didn't you? I remember some of your bottoms, but some of you have forgotten your bottoms. I remember how you came here, Rick Connolly. I remember how you came here, Tasha LeBlanc. I remember how many of you came here. Some of you are forgetting it. You've forgotten your bottom. And the church is becoming the last part of your life. Your build is going to fall again. Mark it down. Rebuilding your life. And the church has become the last thing on your mind now because you have forgotten the earthquake. Your path is the last thing on your mind. You know why? You've forgotten the earthquake that brought you here. You've forgotten the earthquake that brought you to God. But mark my words. You need to quit rebuilding your life and refocus and repent and return to what you came here for. Courtney Holmes, when you marry this man, you hear me and you hear me. Don't you ever forget what I'm fixing to tell you because this ain't me talking now. When you marry this man, if you ever forget what brought you here, it'll fall apart. Mark it down. God told me what to preach tonight. You better not forget your earthquakes. Don't you forget your bottoms. Don't you try to rebuild a broken life when God's calling you to refocus. Repent. I remember when God shook your earth and you came coming in with nowhere to go. But the minute he starts to bless you, I'm prophesying and you better hear me. The minute he starts to bless you and your house is being rebuilt, you get pride and arrogant. If there's a God in heaven, you better hear me now. When you forget where God brought you from, when you forget the people that were there for you when you hit your bottom, when you forget those that loved you, when you had nothing, you will never rebuild when you lose your character. It never fails. It is the people that I give the most money to and help the most that leaves the first. You know why that is? No character. When a church has been good to you, you be good to the church. Isaiah, he said the sycamores have fallen. And do you want to know something, Brother Rick Connolly? When those twin towers fell, do you know what it fell on top of? A sycamore tree. And do you know what they replanted in the place of that sycamore tree? A cedar. That cedar died two years later and they've never replanted anything there. Let me tell you what they did at 9-11. Rather than this nation returning, they wanted to rebuild. When President Trump said America first and Biden said build back better, what Trump was saying, let's go back, let's return, let's go back, let's return. Don't build yet, let's go back. We don't need to build nothing that's got a transgender in my schoolhouse. We don't need to rebuild nothing that's got a homosexual leading my school. It's not time to rebuild, it's time to repent. You know what they built when the twin towers fell? They rebuilt a freedom tower. A freedom, freedom tower. Here's what that says, freedom from the law of God. Freedom, freedom. Everybody wants freedom. Let me tell you something, the only thing you better never get free from is the yoke of the word of God. Wrap it around your neck. I want to tell you all something, I want you to hear me. There's one safe place left on the earth today and you're sitting in it tonight. If you don't support this church and love the work of God, it's the last thing left. It's the last place left that's got any hope whatsoever. The church, it ought to be when we call a work day, you're here before we get here. Why? You love the church. We all want God to do for us, but oh how little we want to do for God. We're too busy building our businesses. While you're building your business and robbing your tithe, let me tell you what you're doing. You're building a facade. You ever been to a theme park and you see these buildings on Main Street, USA? There's nothing behind those buildings. It's a facade. It looks like they built something. They dressed it up. But when the storm comes, that facade is going to fall. Until you repent, until you return to the church and the work of God, you cannot rebuild anything, children. Y'all didn't know me back when I was young. I had a very successful ministry as a young boy. By the time I was 17, I preached for Merle Ewing and in our world, that was about as good as it got. I could go down the list. I was George Guy's personal driver for many years. The Lord was raising me up back then. But what happened was arrogance and pride. Arrogance. That's why the Bible said, don't let a young man preach. Because Satan will lift him up in pride. Let him prove his life. Let him sit down and take up the offering. Why? Because if not, pride and arrogance will get in your heart. And let me tell you something. When God sent my earthquake back in 2009, when He sent an earthquake to me, it wasn't time for me to think about rebuilding a ministry. It wasn't time for me to think about rebuilding anything. There was one thing that had to happen. I had to get alone in a cell and cry when nobody knew I was crying. I had to lay on a cot with crazy people while I poured my heart out to God saying, I'm sorry. If you will deliver me, I will repent. I will return to the God of my childhood. And it's because of that repentance that now we're rebuilding. See? God rebuilds your life when you refocus your life. When you repent and return. Hallelujah to Yahweh. I want to read a few more scriptures. Oh, I feel like I've delivered a prophetic word tonight for somebody in this building. Oh, hallelujah. Let's read verse 11. Therefore, Yahweh will set up the adversaries against Him and join His enemies together. The Armenians in the front, the Philistines behind. They will devour Israel with open mouths. Yet for all of this, His anger is not turned away. But His hand is stretched out still. Do you hear me? He's still got an outstretched hand looking for somebody to turn His wrath away. Sister Katrina, it's not that God is angry. It's not that. But the law is the law. And it demands payment. You see? It demands payment. And it must be satisfied by a Savior. Whether that Savior was Gideon or Moses or Jesus Christ. Whatever Savior it was, He looked for somebody to turn away the payment that was due. When you don't rebuild your life right, He said in verse 11, you'll start seeing your enemies come up on you. And He will send them. Sometimes your enemies are not sent by the devil. Sometimes they're sent by God. Yahweh. Yeah. Verse 13, But the people still would not turn to Him who struck them, nor do they seek Yahweh of hosts. The people would not turn to Him that struck them, that sent those enemies, that sent their trouble in their life. Verse number 14, Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush in one day. Now I'm fixing to give you a prophetic word for the Lord concerning America. Because this is a prophecy to end time America. Because America has not turned to me. In one day, I'm going to cut off her head and her tail. Ladies and gentlemen, He also called it what? The branch or the palm branch and the rush. In one day I'm going to cut down the palm branch and the rush. Now hold on. The palm branch is a biblical symbol of authority. What did they wave when Yeshua rode the donkey? King of the Jews. The palm branch is always the leader. But what about the rush? I'm going to cut off the leader and the rush. Where does the rush grow? In a swamp. I'm going to cut off the anointed leader and I'm going to cut off the swamp in one day, January the 6th. Because you don't deserve my leader, America. I'm going to cut it off. And then I'm going to cut off the rush. The word rush means grows in a swampy marsh. I'm going to deal with the head and the tail. I'm going to deal with the butt of this thing. Where the stake is. I wish somebody would hear what I'm talking about. He said, America, I'm going to remove your anointed leader and then I'm going to deal with that swamp, that rush, that backside of America that's so filthy. I'm going to do it in one day. I'm going to give you the leader you deserve for a little while, while I cut off the rush. He said, because you've not repented, I'm cutting the palm, that beautiful palm that I gave you. That beautiful palm tree that I gave you. I cut it down. I'm going to expose and reveal the rush. I'm going to expose it all. I'm going to cut it all down. Until you turn back to me. And you receive what you deserve. If you want to know why Yahweh has raised men up in the last two years to preach like this. A message I've never preached before. It's because right after he cut off the head and the rush, he started looking for a man that would preach to America to get her back in the battle. Back in the fight. Back in the word of the Lord. Hallelujah. He said here, in verse number 15, the elders and the honorable and the head, and I'm going to cut off the prophet that's teaching lies to my church. Because the tale is lies. What is the swamp? How about this? How about the new word of the day? Espionage. They unsealed the indictment against President Trump today. Or the warrant. They unsealed it today. Do you know why they raided him? Because he's being charged with espionage. Like the Russia collusion. All the same lies of the Russia. I can't cuss and I'm not going to. But there's another word for tale that I could say. God's fixing to clean up the you-know-what of America. Just sit there and look at me, okay? If I was to say this at any rally in the world, you couldn't get people... You say it here... I'm going to tell you God's going to remove it if you don't... I'm telling you. I'm delivering the message for America. God is going to clean up the behind of America before he puts the palm tree back. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! There will be a butt cleaning in God's church and in America. He said, I'm going to clean up the church. I'm going to expose the lies of the church. And I'm going to expose them in America. I'm going to expose the lies. Why? Because that's the tale. If you want to know what happened on January the 6th, I just read it to you. That was an end time prophecy about the palm tree and the rush. He said, the prophet that teaches lies. But brother Vaughn, do you watch prophets so and so? The prophet that teaches lies? No, thank you, I don't. How many dates you going to give, darling, that don't come to pass? Before... I mean, what is our cut off line of a false prophet? Where is it anymore? Honey, if you missed it, you missed it. I mean, my God, at first it was going to be re-inaugurated March the 9th, and do you watch prophet Bullock? Well, all I know is God's about to reveal the prophets that teach lies. He's not just exposing the flop, He's exposing the false prophets that teach lies to my people. This army of believing patriots is not discouraged because of the left, we're discouraged because of those lying to us on the right. I ain't never told a lie on my show to nobody. From day one, I've told you the truth. Because God will honor the truth. See, these guys, they have to lie, they have to lie to keep their financial thing they've got going, going. But the reason I don't have to lie is because my financial blessings come from heaven. And I don't have to lie to keep them. God sends them every day, people that I don't even know. Why? Because if you'll do the right thing, if you'll stand for truth, Yahweh will stand for you. Yahweh will bless you in the city and in the field. He'll bless you when you go out and when you come in. And it'll be a cold day and you know what? Before I ever attack any of these men as they've done me, because I understand one thing, that if God is pleased with me, there is nothing no one can do to turn that blessing away. Only I can turn it away. Stand for truth. Listen to verse 16. For the leaders of the people cause them to err. I'm going to expose the butt of the church and the butt of the nation because they're all full of lies. Let me tell you something. If you love a lie, the Bible said they love a lie. I go to a Christian funeral and I can't hardly sit through it because of the lies about somebody on streets of gold and somebody just crossed over and somebody... Listen, I sit there and I think, why do you do this to God's people? Have a backbone and tell them the truth that they sleep in and kill the resurrection. Tell the truth for a change. And Christians just sit there eating those lies up, they love it and I preach the truth and they hate me. If you don't get a love for truth, you're going to be left out of this end time work of God. He's revealing the truth in this day. Listen, listen, listen now. I want to show you something. The leaders of the people cause them to err and they who are guided by them are destroyed. But brother Vaughn, all I do is tune in to their channel every once in a while. Let me read it to you again. Those that are guided by them are destroyed. You better be careful whose demon chair you're sitting in. You better be careful whose meetings you're going to. You better be careful whose YouTube channel you're watching. You better be careful cause those that follow them will be destroyed. If you can't deliver people to these commandments, you need to quit delivering. Therefore Yahweh will have no joy in their young men nor will he have mercy on their fatherless and their widows for everyone is a hypocrite. Every mouth speaks foolishness, deceitfulness and evil. But yet for all of this his anger is not turned away but his hand is still stretched out saying surely I'll find somebody that'll stop me. That's what he's called you to do. For America. Listen to me. If we don't have a miracle in the midterms, if we don't have a miracle in 24, I dare tell you it is over. There is no more stopping the judgment of God on this nation. God is depending on you to get involved, to get concerned, to give a care about his nation. Well, Brother Vaughn, according to this, if this is talking about America, it sounds to me like the whole nation is coming under judgment. It sounds to me, Brother Vaughn, like we're all in trouble. Well, let me read to you another little scripture, shall I? Ezekiel chapter 9. The brother prophet of Isaiah. Go with me to Ezekiel chapter 9. Lord, help me to preach this tonight. So much to say, but I just thank you, Father. You know what? I don't get to speak to you very often. I'm going to take my time. I don't care. Praise God. If you've got to go, you're free to go. Ezekiel, somebody read it for me. Ezekiel chapter 9, verse 4 through verse 6. And let's find out what's going to happen when Yahweh sends judgment on America. Let's read it. Yes, I'm fixing to destroy. And yes, judgment is coming. But before it comes, I want you to go through America. And I want you to find those that are still ashamed of sin. That still cries over abominations. And when you find them, you put a mark on their forehead. Sign my name on their forehead. Every time you hit the altar, He signs His name on your forehead. Every time you hate sin, He signs His name to protect you from the judgment that is coming on the whole world, especially America. Read. If you're in that third temple, my sanctuary, if you're inside that ark of safety called the third temple, don't you let no harm come near them. Why? Because while sin was going on, they was commenting about it. They was praying about it. They was hurt over sin. They felt my pain. They felt my heart. And when I send judgment, I'm sending judgment on mama and daddy. I'm killing every child. I'm killing every widow. I'm sending America a final judgment. But if there's anybody in the third temple, you tell them I will allow no harm to come to them. Does anybody want to mark? Does anybody want to mark? Those people are called the remnant. Judgment is coming to America. But there is a group of people that never has to worry about inflation. Their bread don't come from the grocery store. It comes from heaven. Their gas don't come from a pump. It comes from heaven. There's some of us, inflation can't touch us. Why? Because we mark. Now let's go back to Isaiah chapter 9. I tell you what I want to do since I'm running out of time. Would you move forward with me to chapter 10 verse 20. Now all this destruction that's coming at the end of days on America and the nations of the world. But let's pick up in chapter 10 and go down to verse 20. And it will come to pass in that day. What day? This day that we're living in now. The end of days. It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel. Not all of Israel. Not all of the church. But a remnant of the church. A wheel in the middle of a wheel. Those people in that day that we're living in. Who have escaped the house of Jacob. They've escaped from Babylon. They've escaped from the church at large. They will no longer depend on him who struck them down. Truth, listen to what he said. There's coming a day that you're going to live in. Where somebody is going to quit depending on the world. But they're going to learn to trust in Yahweh with all of their heart. With all of their soul. And with all of their mind. He said, I'm going to burn up Israel. The church, I'm going to burn it up. Babylon has fallen. Did you not hear what he said? Come out from Israel, my people. Get out of Israel. Now when he's talking about Israel there he's not talking about the overcoming Israel. He's talking about Israel at large. Those that claim to be Jews but they're not. But they're the synagogue of Satan. Yes. Listen. He said, I'm going to reveal that synagogue of Satan. But I've got a people in that synagogue that once they escape once I call them out and that's what's happening right now. See, I don't care if you're from the tribe of Judah or the tribe of Huda. It don't matter. That doesn't make you the remnant. That makes you national Israel or maybe a national Jew. But it don't make you the remnant. The remnant is a group of people that's coming out of Israel. Coming out of those so-called Jews. Coming out and being separate unto God. I love that. He said, Brother Morgan, the people that's coming out will never again rely on the one that struck them down, Satan. They'll never rely on Babylon. They'll never rely on the world. But they will return to Yahweh with everything they've got. There was no reason that should have done that because this mic is strong and so is the battery. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. First, I thought it was a gunshot. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. I started looking for my Packers. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Now listen to what's going to happen in that day. Let's go to verse 21. The remnant will return. They won't rebuild. They'll return. The remnant will return. When? In that day. The remnant. A wheel in the middle of the wheel is going to come running out of Israel. Running out of the church. Running out of Babylon. She's going to return back to the faith of her father Abraham. She's going to return. The remnant of Jacob. Not all of Jacob. But the remnant of Jacob. Now, all of Jacob is coming. But not in that day. In this day that we're in, only the remnant of Israel Someone said, Brother Vaughn, if the lost tribes is who he's after, then why aren't they all coming? Because it's not all of Israel that's coming. It's a remnant of Israel. It's a little portion of the church that's going to return in this day. And brothers and sisters, some of you have moved here from as far as Oklahoma. You are returning. You are returning away. From Babylon. From the religion of your mother. The religion of your father. You're chasing after the remnant call of Yahweh. That's exactly what it is. The blue light early bird special. I like it. Now listen to what he said. Verse 22 But though your people, O Israel, will be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. And then he says, then after they return, there will be the consumption or the destruction will come forth. We're on the precipice of the destruction of the world. But before it can happen, this remnant's got to come home. She's got to come home from her Catholic church and her Baptist church. She's got to come home from her whatever church. She's got to come back to the law and the prophets. She's got to come back to the Torah and the living Torah. She's got to come back to truth. She's got to come back to the faith of her father Abraham. For Yahweh, verse 23, will make a consumption, a destruction, a determined end in the midst of the earth. I've got a question for all of you. If that was for Isaiah's day, there was never an end in all the earth. This is a prophecy about America, the leader of the world. We're the leader of the known world. And he said, there's going to be a determined end in the midst of all the earth. A destruction is determined. The divine plan was to destroy the nation of Israel, but to give grace to a remnant that he had chosen by his sovereign will. I don't think you know who you are tonight. There was a day when this meant nothing to you, but you have returned. There was a day you didn't know who you were, but you have returned to the faith of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The spirit of Elijah has come to turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Somebody's returning. Before this determined end comes, the return has to happen first. And notice what he's marking us for. I know the hour's late, but I don't even care. Listen to me carefully. These are the words of eternal life. Listen to me carefully. He said, I'm going to mark you, but he didn't say, I'm going to mark you for a rapture. I'm going to mark you for protection. Oh yeah. Honey, if you don't quit believing these lies, you've learned all your life. Let me tell you something. You've never been promised a rapture, not one time, but yet you believed it all your life. But you're returning to the truth that God's marking you for protection when His divine judgment comes upon the earth very soon. How much worse can it get? I just want to ask you. How much worse? Your children are all drugged out of their minds. They don't know if they're men or women. Homosexuals and lesbians don't want to have children. How much worse? And I want to tell you something. If you're not weeping over that sin, you're not going to be marked. What's the opposite of weeping over sin? Accepting it. Closing your mouth against it. Being intimidated because it's your children. It's your family. The Bible said, I came to separate the mothers from their daughters and the fathers from their sons. If you're not willing to give up husband or wife or brother or sister or mother or father for the truth of God's Word, the Bible said, you're not fit for the kingdom of God. It's an abomination to Yahweh. And the minute you don't open your mouth is the minute you agree with it. It's the minute you're no longer mourning over it. It's the minute... I'm going to tell you, if you get to the point where it don't even affect you no more, you're not going to be marked. But let me bring it further home. Might as well since y'all are all here. When it don't bother you missing the Sabbath day convocation anymore, that's an abomination to God. When it don't bother you to break the commandments of God, you're not going to be marked. I don't know about you, but I want the mark. I want the mark. Because the remnant is returning. What are we returning to? What the world calls hateful. They call us homophobes. They call us every name in the book because we just won't fall in love with their sin. What did they tell Ezekiel? Go through the city and tell me if you hear anybody crying over sin. Are you crying in your house when you miss Yahweh's Sabbath? He said, Go listen, is anybody crying over sin? Are you crying over sin? If you're not crying over sin, then you don't have the heart of God because He cries over sin. Oh yeah, we love the sinner, I get it. I get it and I love every sinner. But I love the truth. And if you truly love somebody, you can never accept their lifestyle. You can never accept their sin. You can hug them around the neck and say, I'm praying for you baby that God will deliver you. I love you. I love you with all my heart. God's got a better life for you. It's not right. God wants more for your life. You gotta cry over sin. The remnant is returning. We're returning from religion. And we're going back to the Father. As I close tonight, I want to talk to you about the remnant real quickly. The remnant first appeared in the days of Elijah when Yahweh told Elijah, I have 7,000 people. I've numbered them. I know who my remnant is. Oh, and all of Israel, and I thought all of Israel was His people. Were they not standing in Israel? Oh no, that's not the way it goes. Israel was called, but they were not chosen. He told Elijah, Elijah said, am I the only one that's in the remnant? Am I the only one that everybody thinks is hateful? Am I the only one that wishes I could preach sweeter? Am I the only one that has to preach like this? Yahweh said, don't get puffed up son. I've got 7,000. Exactly, I know them by name. I know my remnant. 7,000 that have not bowed their knee to the pagan gods of this world. 7,000 that have stayed faithful to the law and the prophets and the commandments of God. That is the remnant. Every one of them were Israelites, but not all of them were remnant. That was the first time we saw the remnant. But Paul understood that the nation of Judah had been cast away by the God of Israel and that they were soon to be destroyed. But someone turned to Romans 11, 1 and 2 and let's see what Paul says. See, all the Jews, all of Israel, God did away with them for a while. But listen to what Paul said, Romans 11, 1 and 2. Well, yes, brother Paul, God cast them away. He divorced them. Read. Well, how can you say Yahweh forbid, brother Paul, when Yahweh said He cast them away. Is anybody following me now? Stay with me. I'm going to let you go home and do whatever you do at home that's more important. Listen. Listen. Read it. He said, I'm an Israelite. I'm born of the seed of Abraham. I'm a Benjamin. But God has not cast us away. Well, Paul, yes, He has. Read. Did you hear now? Did you hear? He's referring back to Elijah now. Did you hear? He said, I'm telling you, God may have cast away the nation, but at this time, there is a remnant of grace. God has not cast us away because of the remnant. The reason God would not cast away the earth and destroy it, it's because of you. I thought Paul said, he didn't cast away Israel because Israel still got a remnant. Yes, He cast away the nation, but there is a nation within a nation. There is a people within a people. There is a church within a church. There is a wheel within a wheel. There is a bride within a church. And as long as there's a remnant, God will never cast Israel away if there's somebody that's crying over sin. And he said, in this hour, the remnant's starting to return. It's because of you. Little children, that feel like you're insignificant. You're living in your little campers. You don't feel like you're all that. You don't have what your neighbor has. But I will tell you, if it wasn't for you, there would be no neighbors. You are the remnant of God. You are holy and separated. You are not of this world. You are the remnant. Matthew 22 and 14, many are called. The nation of Israel had been called, but only the remnant had been chosen. Matter of fact, read Romans 11 and 7 for me. I know I'm going to close when I get ready. Romans 11 and 7. What then? Israel has not obtained what she could have obtained. But read. But be let. That's another word for remnant children. Read. Hath obtained what the church at large never obtained. The remnant found it. She returned and got it. What the church never got. Say it again. And what did he do with the rest of the church? He let them stay blind. You know why he let them stay blind? Because he loves them. If he were to open their eyes, he'd have to condemn them. So he finds his 7,000 and he opens their eyes and he says to them, little is much when God is in it. He says, I don't need whenever that preacher stood there and made fun of me for the size of my congregation compared to his. I knew who was talking because the remnant always comes in small packages. But what God can do with a remnant, he will turn the world upside down. I'd rather have the remnant than the rest. I'd rather have 22 commandment-keeping Holy Ghost filled obedient believers than 20,000 that was playing chess. God's calling a remnant. That's why you better be real careful when you refer to the land of Israel as God's chosen people. Oh, brother Vaughn, that's God's chosen people. No. That's God's called people. I'm looking at God's chosen in this building tonight. The word return is the Hebrew word shub, which means to turn back. God's calling a people to turn back. Isaiah gives hope to Israel because even though the nation was being destroyed, the remnant were going to return and fulfill the promises that God made to the whole nation. Listen, what he wanted to do with everybody, he could only do with a few. But ladies and gentlemen, it was because of that remnant that returned and rebuilt the walls that one day all of Israel came back to the rebuilt city of Jerusalem. You listen to me. You're nothing but the builders, don't you get it? The work of God is being done through the remnant so that the rest, so that the rest can come to the city of God, the new Jerusalem, the holy city. To start it out, it takes a remnant to get the rest. The divine plan has always been take a few to get them all. And you're that few tonight. You can come to the piano, honey. I fear that as we sit in this congregation, if we're not careful, we will lose our understanding of what God is calling us to. I can tell by the way we worship, by the way we come in church, by the way we deal with our brothers and sisters, if you believe that this is the remnant of God, then these should be your favorite people on earth. More than your own family. As a matter of fact, Sister Pat, they came to Yahshua, and they said, Hey, your mama's outside, wants to see you. Your cousin's come to see you. Yahshua said, Who really is my mother? Who is my brother? Those that obey my father's commandments. Do you know why He did that? Because in another verse, they knocked on the door and said, Hey, Yahshua, your cousins are outside, your brothers, and they want to take you to the madhouse. They say you're crazy. Did y'all not know that Jesus' family thought He was a knight? People don't realize that's in your Bible, that they thought He was mad. He knew that His family didn't understand His calling. And even though He loved them, He had to focus on the family. The real family of God. I watch some of you. You're way too distant from the family. God didn't call you here to be a loner and to do your own thing. He called you here to connect with this family. To help us build the work. To help us do the work. To put your hand to the plow. But you've forgotten your mother. But you'll remember it again very soon. Get pride out of your heart. Get arrogance out of your heart. And say, Father, I don't want to rebuild. I just want to return. Take me back. Okay, the moment. Whoa. Let's all stand and say. Let's return. Does anybody here tonight want to return? Does anybody here tonight just want to return? Whoa.

Summary

Pastor Shane Vaughn teaches Isaiah 9 as a prophetic message to end-time Israel, which he identifies with America, Great Britain, and the Commonwealth nations. The sermon warns that national tragedy should produce repentance and return rather than prideful rebuilding, and it applies this pattern to September 11, political leadership, false prophets, and corruption within the church. Isaiah 10 and Ezekiel 9 are used to describe a protected remnant that mourns over sin, leaves Babylon, returns to Torah and covenant faithfulness, and helps prepare the way for the restoration of the rest of Israel.

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