Dardanelle Missionary Baptist Church — Dardanelle, Arkansas
Bro. Ken — Wednesday evening service, October 28, 2026 Joel 3 · Amos 1 · Revelation 14 · Isaiah 2 · Micah 4
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Bro. Ken brought the lesson this Wednesday evening. What follows is his lesson written up from the recording — his order, his words, and the places where he offered a thing as his own reading are marked as his.
What the Lesson Was About
Bro. Ken spent the evening on the day of the LORD and the reign that follows it — the judgment of the nations in the valley of decision, and then the mountain of the LORD’s house lifted above every other government on earth. The thread running through all of it is one he comes back to often: God has not replaced the nation of Israel with the New Testament church. When the age of the Gentiles is finished, God takes the Jews up again and deals with the world through them. He moved the way he usually does, a verse in one place sending him to a verse in another — Joel to Amos, Amos to Revelation, and back to Isaiah and Micah — but every stop was pointed at the same two things: a coming judgment no one escapes, and a coming kingdom with Jerusalem, not any church in America, at its center.
A Word First — and a Saint Gone Home
He thanked the church for its prayers for Pop, and he spoke about the joy a believer can have even at a death. The nurses, he said, could not understand why the family was happy when Pop got relief and passed away. His answer was that it is a blessed sight in the eyes of God when one of His children comes home: nothing can hurt him anymore, he is in the hands of Jesus, and those who have lost loved ones in the Lord do not have to worry about them any longer.
A Warning About Mixing the Old and the New
Before he turned to the prophets, Ken held up an article he had printed off and warned about a movement — he gave it the name Yeshua Ben David, “Jesus the son of David” — that combines messianic theology with Jewish traditions and wants to bring back temple worship, a Sanhedrin, and the Knesset renamed as a Sanhedrin, all in the guise of the local New Testament church. He said it will not work and that God will not accept it. God, through Jesus Christ, did away with the old so that He might establish the new: you cannot sew a new patch on an old garment, and you cannot put new wine in an old bottle. The man behind it, he said, is mixing what ought not to be mixed.
His larger point was doctrinal, and he made it plainly: the church is not bringing in the kingdom, and the church has not replaced the Jews. “He’s not replaced the Jews with the local New Testament church. Never will replace them.” When the age of the Gentiles is over, God will deal with the world through Israel again.
The Valley of Jehoshaphat — Where the Nations Are Judged
He turned to Joel 3.
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land (Joel 3:1-2).
The valley of Jehoshaphat, he said, is just east of the Golden Gate — the eastern gate — running over toward the Mount of Olives, and modern maps tie it to the Kidron Valley. That is where God gathers the nations. To “plead” with them, he explained, does not mean they beg Him; the word is the same one used over in Ezekiel, and it means to administer judgment.
Then he read the call to war, and pointed out that it is the exact opposite of the millennial order — here God tells the nations to beat their plowshares into swords; in the kingdom the swords are beaten back into plows.
Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel (Joel 3:9-16).
“Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision,” and the sun and moon darkened — which, he said, is the very thing Revelation talks about. He placed the winepress on the map too: the Jordan River Valley filled, running down to the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba, about 186 miles — the same winepress John saw.
The LORD Will Roar from Zion
Backing up to where Amos opens:
The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither (Amos 1:1-2).
He set it in its history: Amos prophesied in the days of Uzziah, when the northern ten tribes were being carried off by Assyria — Tiglath-pileser, Shalmaneser, Sargon, and later Sennacherib, who came against Jerusalem in Isaiah’s day, when Isaiah said not to worry and God took care of it. “The top of Carmel shall wither” sent him to Mount Carmel — down past Caesarea and north up the coast — whose valley runs over toward the valley of Armageddon. He believes Mount Carmel will be brought down in that day.
Two Harvests — “On” the Earth and “Into” the Earth
This was the heart of the lesson. Ken said there are two harvests of the earth, and the Bible keeps them apart with a single preposition.
And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped (Revelation 14:14-16).
The sickle, he pointed out, is thrust “on the earth” — the grain harvest — and that first harvest is Christ coming for His people: He comes in the cloud, the world does not see Him, and He calls out His own.
Then the second:
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs (Revelation 14:17-20).
This time the sickle goes “into the earth” — not the grain but the vine of the earth, gathered into the great winepress of the wrath of God, trodden outside the city, the blood to the horse bridles. That, he said, is the second harvest: the whole world sees Him as a great blinding light, the Jews who crucified Him look on the One they pierced and accept Him, and Christ comes out of heaven on a white horse to make war. “On” the earth and “into” the earth — the prepositions make the difference.
The Mountain of the Lord’s House
Against all that judgment he set the other side — Isaiah 2 and Micah 4, almost word for word.
The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more (Isaiah 2:1-4).
“In the last days,” he said, is not the days of Christ’s first coming but the very last days — the toes of Daniel’s image, the ones we are living in. The mountain of the LORD’s house is established above the hills, the land lifted (he figured it as a plateau from Geba to Rimmon, with Ezekiel’s stream showing where the temple belongs), and all nations flowing up to it. And the word going out “out of Zion… from Jerusalem” — “not out of the local best church in America,” he said. In the kingdom the Jews deliver the word of God from Jerusalem.
He read Micah 4 right alongside it:
But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it. For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever (Micah 4:1-5).
He drew out the peace of it: swords into plowshares, nation not lifting a sword against nation, the learning of war over, every man under his own vine and fig tree with none to make him afraid. He pictured a world without computers, without cars, without oil refineries — people back to raising their own food, with nothing on their minds but serving God and their daily bread, the curse lifted and the lion lying down with the lamb.
The Toes of the Image
Daniel’s statue tied it together. The government of man runs from Egypt and Assyria all the way down to the toes — and we are in the toes, “the toenails,” he said, with the Lord about to cut them off. The stone cut out of the mountain without hands falls on the toes and crushes the whole governmental and religious system. Christ sets His feet on the Mount of Olives, the temple is built, the glory of God enters it, and He rules with a rod of iron from Israel.
Why Not Bow Now?
He closed with the appeal he always comes back to. Every knee will bow — Satan will bow, the lost will bow, every one who ever slapped God and Jesus Christ in the face will bow. So why wait for the other side, when it is too late, and bow then in hell? Why not bow now, be saved, and live? Submit to the Lord and to His Holy Spirit, he said, and you will be a far happier person — and he counted himself a hard-headed man who had learned it the hard way. And a last word on Israel: “I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee.” Do not be found on the cursing side of the Jews. When Jesus comes, the age of the Gentile is over, and God deals with the world through them.
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