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788. Bible Study: Jeremiah 30 (The Milennium Reign of Jesus Christ foretold? David resurrected? Jacob's Trouble?) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 30 of Jeremiah and it's titled in my study Bible the
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Restoration of Israel. And I'm going to point out some
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things because I don't believe this has happened yet.
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I think this is coming up in in the future and as a reminder of
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why we read the scripture. As Second Timothy chapter 3
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states, all scripture is God breathed and is useful for
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teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness so
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that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every
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good work. And in Romans chapter 10 verse
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17. Consequently, faith comes from
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hearing the message, and the message is heard through the
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word about Christ. Now, even though Jesus is not
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specifically named here in this chapter and the next chapter, I
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see it pointing to Jesus, pointing us towards Jesus.
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So I will comment on that when I get to those parts.
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So let's get started. Dear Lord, please be with us and
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let the Holy Spirit open our eyes and ears so that we can
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understand this word that you gave Jeremiah.
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We ask this in Jesus name, Amen. This is the word that came to
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Jeremiah from the Lord. This is what the Lord the God of
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Israel says. Write in a book all the words I
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have spoken to you. So God wants everyone to know
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this because this is important. He's saying write this down,
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this is something so that another hint maybe that this is
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for the future and it wasn't for Jeremiah's immediate future, but
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long term future. Because either it could be like
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history that he wanted to be documented or it could be
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beneficial for future generations.
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And that's what I think it tends to be.
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So it says the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will
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bring my people, Israel and Judah back from captivity and
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restore them to the land I gave their ancestors to possess, says
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the Lord. Now a lot of people might say
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that was in what, 1948? Is it 1948 or 1967 when Israel,
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I think it's 1948 when Israel became a nation.
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I should have looked that up. But a lot of people might say
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that. But when we get into some of the
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specifics that are talked about here, I don't believe that this
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has been fulfilled yet. This is still future to come and
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I'll point those out. So these are the words the Lord
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spoke concerning Israel and Judah.
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This is what the Lord says. Cries of fear are heard, terror,
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not peace. So because of all of these words
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that Jeremiah received from the Lord, this particular one
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doesn't say what year this word came to him.
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We know that Jeremiah stayed back in the land of in
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Jerusalem. He did not go.
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He chose to stay even though he knew that he would either die of
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sword, famine, or plague from staying there because that's
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what God said would happen to anyone who stayed there.
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So we're not really sure when these words came according to
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what's written here. Like I don't have that
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information, but sometime during his life and his life, let's
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see, let's go back to I have to go back to the beginning of my
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study Bible chapter because it gives me ranges of when things
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happened. So Jeremiah's ministry in Judah
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was from 5 or 626 to 585 BC. So we know that that and it says
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the fall of Jerusalem was in 586 BC.
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So a year after Jerusalem fell, Jeremiah's ministry ended and
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the book of Jeremiah was written around that year.
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And it says or, you know, as far back as 5 or 585 to 580 BC is
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when this was all, I guess compilated.
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And OK, let's go back to. So Jeremiah is saying cries of
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fear are heard, terror, not peace.
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Of course, that could be when the Babylonians are capturing
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the people. That could be it.
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But I really think this is more so because remember also God
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said if you go in captivity, your life will be spared.
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So to me, you know, there might be fear in that, but also God
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already said that they were going to keep their lives and
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they could go marry and have children and, you know, make the
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city prosper and all of this. Like God is saying, you know, go
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live in the land. I'm sending you there because of
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your sin, but go live in that land and do all the normal
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things that you would do. So that to me doesn't sound like
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this. Cries of fear, terror, not
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peace. This sounds like another event,
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which I think is a future thing. And he says, can a mayor, can a
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man bear children? Then why do I see every strong
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man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor,
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every face turned deathly pale. Now that's pretty severe.
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And this, you know, woman in labor very often, you know, it
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does, it does talk about pains like the woman of Labor.
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And that's often used to describe the last days, the last
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days of this age. Life continues on afterwards.
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But there's this age, there's this period, if you want to call
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it, that's probably a better terminology, is a period of time
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where the end of this segment of time where that's how it's going
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to end is going to be these horrible pains that come upon
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people who are present at the time of this, this final period.
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And but there's a restoration that follows it.
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So that's the that's the hope and the promise.
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The promise that God made is that this is what is going to
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happen. But there's a restoration behind
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it. So beyond it.
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So just get through it. Even if you lose your life, you
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will gain it. So it's not anything to truly
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fear, but just know that this is coming up.
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So the study Bible says, why compare these troubles to
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childbearing? Childbearing is a common
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metaphor for the anguish of judgment in the book of Jeremiah
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and in other prophetic literature as well.
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The pain of a woman in childbirth is one of the extreme
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is 1 of extreme distress and anxiety.
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However, in this analogy, the extreme nature of the judgement
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is captured with the unexpected image of men being doubled over
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with the kind of distress experienced in childbearing.
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And men just don't have that benefit of No, I don't.
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I don't know if it's a benefit, but they don't have that.
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They have never been there before.
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They have not experienced childbirth.
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And speaking from someone who has had childbirth, I can tell
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you that it is the most severe pain and I have a very high pain
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tolerance that anyone would ever have.
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I know before I had the epidural, it was so intense.
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I I just can't even, I couldn't even imagine it continuing long
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like I really wanted. And I know there are people who
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do natural childbirth and boy, I commend them.
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I don't know if it gets any better or if then the epidural
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actually makes it worse, but numbs the.
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I don't know. I don't know.
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But I can just tell you that it's just an unexpected, like
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tightening. And it is the most pain that
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I've ever experienced from any anything.
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It's like, yeah, it's I can't even, I mean, I've had surgery
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before. It doesn't even like match up to
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that. It's it's worse than that.
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And and so people who have not experienced that don't really
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comprehend this severe pain that comes along with it.
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But God is so kind and merciful and how he created us that once
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we get past that, we completely forget that pain.
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And that is almost like the what the Kingdom of God's going to be
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like. That when we finally transition
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between this terrible pain that's going to be coming on to
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the world and we get into the Kingdom of God, we're going to
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forget about all of it. It even says it in Scripture
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that you will not remember these things.
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And that's what happens when a woman goes through childbirth.
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It's it's really painful, but then when that baby comes, you
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forget all about it. You just like you have so much
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joy from the baby that it doesn't, you know, it just you
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forget about it. And then like even now me trying
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to remember the pain, I really can't.
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I remember it was painful, but I can't remember the actual pain
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of it, if that makes sense. Anyway, going back to scripture,
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how awful that day will be. No other will be like like it.
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It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out
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of it. Now this is really insightful.
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How awful that day. No other will be like it.
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Now this is the this is how the coming of the Lord, the return
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of Jesus is described. And it talks about, well, it
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talks about the time of tribulation, the great
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tribulation that will come upon the whole earth and it will be
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worse. This is what Jesus said in
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Matthew chapter 24. It'll be worse than anything
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we've ever experienced before. The earth, the world has ever
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experienced, and it will never, ever be experienced like it
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again. So this lines up with the great
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tribulation. How awful that day will be.
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No other will be like it. So all the war, world wars that
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have happened in this world, there's still going to be
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nothing like this one that's coming.
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Talk about like the preparation, like mentally to prepare your
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mind for this. Transitioned into God's Kingdom
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is something that I think we need to know.
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So we don't. If if we are the ones who are
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present at this time, then we need to remember the restoration
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that comes following it and remember that our souls are
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eternal and the only thing that matters is where our eternal
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soul will reside. And our soul will not be
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separated from our bodies forever because when Jesus
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returns, we will be changed in an instant and we will be given
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immortal bodies. Those who believe in Jesus will
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so we will have bodies, we will be doing things, we're going to
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experience what we experienced. Now let's see, Let me clarify
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that we it's we will be different.
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We don't really know fully how different we will be says we
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will be like Jesus. So Jesus is an example.
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If we read about what he was like when he returned, well,
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let's see, not returned When he resurrected, resurrected from
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the dead, he was able to appear in a room that had all the doors
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locked so you could kind of transport.
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And if we're going to be like Jesus, that means we probably
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will be able to do that. He also ate with people.
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So he had a physical body and he ate food, and that happened with
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people after his resurrection. So we will be eating.
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He walked, He did all the things that he did before, but there
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was something a little bit different about him.
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And that something a little bit different is what we really
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don't comprehend. Only those maybe who saw Jesus
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can comprehend it, but we only know what's in the Bible.
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And the Bible gives us a little bit of information, but not a
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lot about it. So what we do know is that we
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will be changed because we, you know, it's our sinfulness that
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will go away. Those who have prepared
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themselves, when Jesus returns, it says those who are dead, who
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were believers, they will rise to receive their immortal
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bodies. And then those who are alive on
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earth at that time will also be gathered to Jesus.
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So this is really important. It has to do with salvation of
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being prepared. And Jesus said, first of all,
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you know, we have to believe in Jesus.
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We have to believe in his resurrection from the dead
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because that was, that's the only way.
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And we'll get into this in this chapter.
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That is the only way that we, that it was became possible for
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us to be in God's Kingdom, because God is holy and sin
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cannot be in the presence of God or it will be, AI guess,
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exterminated, destroyed. And so therefore we have to be
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made holy and we only get made holy when we receive the Holy
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Spirit and we only received the Holy Spirit from Jesus.
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He said he receives the Spirit from the Father and gives it to
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us. If we so Jesus is the way, the
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truth of the law and the life, and no one comes to the Father
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except through him. So in multiple ways, his death
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on the cross gives us that permanent.
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Let's see that forever, that everlasting atonement, that was
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the only sacrifice that that remained.
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I mean, that's the only that remains forever for our
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atonement, for our forgiveness. So he made it possible.
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Every one of us has the means to access the Kingdom of God
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because of Jesus. But Jesus said we must be born
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of the Spirit also. So we need the Holy Spirit from
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the Father who Jesus gives to us.
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He gave it to his disciples. He promised this to his
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disciples. And the Spirit of God is what
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changes us and what enables us to do the supernatural thing of
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actually connecting with Jesus when he returns and having our
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bodies changed. It's the Spirit of God that does
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it. It's the same Spirit that rose
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Jesus from the dead that will raise us living and dead.
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And so that's why Jesus said you must be born again.
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You must be a new creation, you born of the Spirit.
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So it's so important for us to know that having the Holy Spirit
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is critical for us to be in eternity with God.
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And if we wonder if we have the Holy Spirit, there's usually a
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not usually they're always is a changed life in some manner.
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People don't instantly change and all of a sudden become 100%
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good. That doesn't happen.
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But there is this process that people go through where they
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start becoming more like Jesus, more followed.
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It's when a life is surrendered to Jesus and, and you want God
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to guide you and you are submitted, submitted to the Holy
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Spirit. So you want the Holy Spirit's
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guidance in your life and you can see evidence of it by
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change. And I always refer to Galatians
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chapter 5 because it gives examples of when you live like
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the world. This is how you act when you
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live by the Spirit. These are the, the character,
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the, the way that people act who have the Holy Spirit.
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So to me, that's a way that you can look at yourself and say
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read chapter 5. How do how is my life?
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My life is the evidence of do I have the Holy Spirit or do I not
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have the Holy Spirit? And if there's no evidence of
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the Holy Spirit, then the next step would be repent, turn to
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God and ask God for the Holy Spirit, ask Jesus for the Holy
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Spirit, ask for forgiveness. Because anyone who is truly
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repentant, who truly wants to be changed and to become like Jesus
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and to be in eternity with God, God is merciful, forgiving,
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loving, kind, all those things. So he will, He promises the Holy
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Spirit to people, those who submit to him who are decide
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that I'm going to be obedient to you, God.
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I don't want to be rebellious to you forever.
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I want to change. I want to be in obedience to
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you. That's basically that's how we
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show God love is by our obedience to Him.
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That's how God knows that we love Him is from our obedience.
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If we stay in rebellion, we're considered an enemy of God, and
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that's not a good place to be because an enemy of God is
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subject to His wrath. So we give choices in our life.
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God's not going to force us to follow Him.
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God's not going to force us to love him.
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It's a personal choice. We just have to make that
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decision and the time is now to make the decision because every
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day that slips away that you don't make that decision.
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What if Jesus decided to return and you weren't prepared and
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then you had to go through God's wrath and live through that?
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It's just something to really get serious about in your life.
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If you as soon as you get prepared in that way, like
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having the Holy Spirit, there's nothing else to fear because
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you're good, you're good with God.
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Just stay with God, you know, never, never turn from him.
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And staying in the word of God helps us stay close to God.
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OK, so let's get back to the we're only on verse 7.
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So it will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved
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out of it. Now Jacob is Israel and this is
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where I've heard Jacob's trouble.
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And it says the study Bible says when was when was this time of
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trouble for Jacob? This trouble, according to some
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suggests Israel's defeat and exile.
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Others say it is still a future event, sometimes called the Day
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of the Lord, a time when Israel will undergo severe discipline
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before final and complete restoration.
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That's exactly what we were just talking about.
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Such deliverance can occur only when history has run its course.
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So the next line, which is verse 8 says in that day, so the day
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of the Lord. If you look at any prophecy that
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talks about when God's, when God's judgment comes, it is that
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final day, the day when Jesus returns.
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There's a lot of that would be a good study to search in an
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electronic digital version of a Bible.
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Search the day of the Lord and see everything it describes
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because this is about the return of Jesus and it says in that day
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declares the Lord Almighty, I will break the yoke off their
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necks and will tear off their bonds.
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No longer will foreigners enslave them.
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Instead they will serve the Lord their God and David their King
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whom I will raise up for them. Now this is really interesting
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and a point to ponder because, you know, in this, in studying
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the Bible, we can see that he uses the name Jacob for Israel.
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And there are, you know, analogies or because Jacob's
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name was changed to Israel. And so there, it's almost like,
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I don't know, it's not symbolism, but we have to know
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that Jacob's name. So we know he's not talking
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about a specific person, but he's talking about Israel in
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this to Jeremiah. The Lord is talking to Jeremiah
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about Israel now. So in that day I will break the
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yoke. Jesus's return, He will, he's,
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you know, at all the nations, according to other prophecy, all
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the nations are going to surround Israel, and that's when
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Jesus will return to defend Israel.
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And this, that's what's written in prophecy.
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So this supports that. In that day He will break off
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the yoke off their necks and no longer will foreigners enslave
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them. There's not going to be any more
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October 7th, 2020 threes after Jesus returns.
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Instead they will serve the Lord their God and David their King,
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whom I will raise up for them. Now this is really interesting.
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Think about this and David their king.
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So we don't. Israel doesn't have any kings
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right now and he's saying that David their king, whom I will
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raise up for them. Now is this a literal meaning?
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And because when Jesus returns, the dead in Christ will rise
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first, then all who remain will come after that will will be
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changed and will also ascend to meet him in the clouds.
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So this is something to think about because David, he was a
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king a long, long, long time ago before this, because all these
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kings came after David. So he was, he was the second
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king. Basically it was first it was
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Saul, then David and then Solomon and then after Solomon
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died are I guess it was when he died.
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Then there were there was a division between the northern
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and the southern part of Israel and they had parallel kings
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happening and the northern tribe of Israel, it was the 10 tribes.
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They rebelled worse, I guess than the southern ones and they
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were taken over by Assyria, I believe.
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And that happened first the fall of of Jerusalem, I think it was
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that happened first. Then the the next one to be to
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fall was Judah and they were obviously taken but into
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Babylon. But they their, their Kingdom
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lasted longer than the northern Kingdom.
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And there my study Bible has a really nice timeline that shows
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those. I'll have to see how many kinks
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there were. There were a total of 18 kings
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and they were all evil. In the northern, the 10 tribes,
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there was a disagreement about who was going to be king after
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Solomon's death, and that's what caused the separation of the
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tribes or the division of the tribes.
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And then there were 19 total kings for the southern tribe.
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Now this is like I said, there were all of them were comment in
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the IT was commented about every king in the northern 10 tribes
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of Israel, the kings that reigned over them, they were all
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evil, every single one of them except for one.
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He was mixed because he actually did what God wanted him to do
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and he destroyed Ahab's family. So Ahab was a very evil ruler, a
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king. He was Ahab and Jezebel, which
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you may have heard of and and so he was the servant of God in
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that way where he destroyed Ahab and that his family and that was
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like also to fulfill prophecy that was given.
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Now the southern tribe had 19 and almost half of them were
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good and then the other half were evil.
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So they were there were eight that were called good in that
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time and Jeremiah was prophesying during Josiah.
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He was one of the good. He was kind of the last good
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king. He had found the all of what was
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written down the book of law, I believe, and realized that they
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had not been following it. And there was this like, I guess
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a revival in, in his time where people turn to the Lord and they
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said, oh, we're going to follow, We're going to do all these
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things. But that didn't last long
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because after him there were 1234 different kings, some for
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just a few months, and they were all evil.
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And so God, he appoints kings and he takes them away.
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And so he, he ended it because of their sinfulness.
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We see throughout the Scripture that it's their sinfulness that
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caused all this destruction. So getting back again to
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Scripture, instead they will serve the Lord their God and
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David their King, whom I will raise up for them.
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So I kind of think it might be a literal resurrection because
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that's the resurrection when Jesus returns and comes on the
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clouds, that is the resurrection.
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All people we'll see and David their king, whom I will raise up
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for them. So is David going to be king
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again? I kind of think he might be in
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the I think it's Ezekiel in the latter chapters and I can't
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remember which ones, but like from maybe you know, the ending
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38 through out of 40 something or the end chapters.
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But when it talks about the temple, the future temple, it
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talks about the Prince. And I think it's probably it
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might be David because of other scripture.
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And I wrote it in my study Bible where I found that Scripture.
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But the Prince meets with the Messiah apparently in there, and
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the Prince does sacrifices. And for the atonement, I don't.
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Yeah, it's kind of, I don't. It's not really for the
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atonement because Jesus's atonement was what was, you
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know, that's all that was needed.
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But I don't really know what these sacrifices are for.
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But there is someone. And I do wonder if it is this is
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speculation on my part. However, I do think there is
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scripture that also does make it seem like it's, it's David
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because it talks about this Prince who offers us up for his
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sins. So maybe these are just like the
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way the history of how the Jewish people had this, this
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seems to be like it's going to happen during the millennial
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time period. And I just, you know, some of
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these timing things are really confusing because and I the
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purpose, the purpose of this millennial, the 1000 years where
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Jesus reigns on earth. It says in other parts of
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prophecy that we will go there to Jerusalem so that we will be
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the he will teach us his ways. So it sounds like it's a
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teaching process, a learning process after the recognition of
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Jesus because Jesus has been rejected prior to.
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So maybe this is like a culmination of all of the Old
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Testament history that they had and relating it to like tying it
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to the to Jesus. I'm not sure, but we will just
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have to wait and see how this all ends up.
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But this is what Jeremiah heard from the Lord said.
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Do not be afraid Jacob, my servant, do not be dismayed.
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Israel declares the Lord. So God claimed Israel.
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They were a they were in slavery.
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He took them out of bondage. He claimed them a long time ago.
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He chose the people of Israel. He chose Abraham and he decided
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who it was Abraham and then Isaac and then Jacob.
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This the the promise, the covenant processed.
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And you can find that when you study the Old Testament, you
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will see how it transferred. First it was with Abraham, then
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it went to his son Isaac, then it went to his his son Jacob.
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And there were, you know, other people that were in the mix, but
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this was how it transitioned. And God affirmed, reaffirmed the
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covenant, the promise with those people.
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And it's all documented in the Bible.
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I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants
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from the land of their exile. Jacob will again have peace and
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security, and no one will make him afraid.
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Now this has not happened yet and I think this is where some
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confusions going to come in because of this Abraham Accords
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that is in process right now. People are all in peace and
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security and the worldly nations who don't know God believe that
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we will have this peace and security, but they don't know
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Bible prophecy. So they don't know that what
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Bible prophecy says when everyone thinks it's peace and
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security, then will come sudden destruction.
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So people are going to be surprised.
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Jesus said there's going to be wars and rumors of war, wars all
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the way until the end. So we will not have peace and
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security, not until Jesus returns.
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Then it will be. But Jesus has not returned yet,
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and so we have to wait for that. But until then we just need to
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endure and remain in Him spiritually.
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I am with you and will save you, declares the Lord, though I
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completely destroy all nations, among which I scatter you.
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So again, this is just not about Babylon.
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This is about all nations among which I scatter you and people
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are scattered because they were disobedient to the Lord.
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So he sends them into other nations.
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I will and he says I will not completely just completely
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destroy you. I will discipline you, but only
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in due measure. I will not let you go entirely
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unpunished. So there's there are
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consequences for actions and he's like he's saying, I'm not
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going to completely destroy you, but I'm not going to let you go
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without the consequences of what you've done.
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They worshipped other gods and this was the one thing the the
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first commandment, you know, to love the Lord your God and have
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no other gods before you. And they broke that and when God
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was promising them everything, but yet they chose to be
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influenced by the world around them and follow what the world
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around them was doing. So why does God discipline His
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people? The idea of discipline in due
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measure can be found throughout Scripture.
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God's discipline of His people brings about restoration,
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character, and godliness. God's discipline of unbelievers
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results in destruction, banishment and suffering for
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God's people. Mercy ultimately triumphs over
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judgement because God's justice has been satisfied through the
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one time sacrifice of Jesus Christ the Son of God.
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Hebrews chapter 10 verse 10. Now here's something interesting
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statement. Your wound is incurable, your
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injury beyond healing. So your wound is incurable, You
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can't do anything about it. Your injury is beyond healing.
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They can't be healed, but God restores.
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How is that? Well, my opinion about that is
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because they don't know Jesus. They don't believe in Jesus as
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the Son of God. So at this time, I mean, when
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Jeremiah is talking about it, Jesus hadn't even been there
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yet. But again, I'm believing that
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this is actually about the future.
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So Jesus has been here, Jesus resurrected.
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I think this is a message to the the people of Israel today that
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your wound is incurable and your injury beyond healing.
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There's nothing they can't do sacrifices to get right with
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God. They it's beyond healing, like
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there's nothing they can do. And anyone who comes to Christ
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realizes there's nothing that we can do to make ourselves holy.
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We are naturally drawn to sin. The only way that we can become
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holy in the likeness of God, in the likeness of Jesus is through
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the Holy Spirit actually guiding us in our life.
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When we actually let the Lord be Lord over our life and become
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obedient to Him. When we surrender our free will
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to let Him guide us and have our mind set on doing what God would
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want us to do. So the wound is incurable, your
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injury beyond healing. Because they don't know Jesus
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and Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
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No one comes to the Father except through Him.
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There is no one to plead your cause.
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Like Jesus is the mediator for us.
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If they don't believe in Jesus, this is the future again that
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we're talking about. If they're not relying on Jesus
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to plead their case, they don't have anybody supporting them.
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So therefore they could be. They are bound to destruction,
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however, So there there is no one to plead your cause, no
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remedy for your sword, no healing for you.
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All your allies have forgotten you.
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They care nothing for you. So all of us Abraham Accords,
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where it's going to be peace with Israel doesn't matter
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because nobody's going to support Israel.
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That's what God is saying here through Jeremiah.
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You're not going to have anybody.
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In fact, that's when Jesus returns.
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All the nations are against Israel.
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Israel has no one left except God.
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And that's who I want to have is the the only one.
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Don't trust in man, but trust in God.
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I have struck you as an enemy would and punished you as would
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the cruel. Because he's giving a reason
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again. He always gives a reason.
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Because your guilt is so great and your sins so many.
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Why do you cry out over your wound, your pain that has no
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cure? Because of your great guilt and
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many sins. He said it again, your great
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guilt and many sins. I have done these things to you
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because God is a God of justice and he's warned them over and
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over again, but they would not listen to him.
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They kept ignoring him. They only wanted to hear good
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things. They didn't want to hear
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anything that caused them to change.
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And we are a lot like that too. We don't like it when somebody
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tells us you need to change this.
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Or when we read in the Bible that the things that we do are
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rebellion to God, we don't necessarily want to think of
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ourselves as bad people. We don't want to think about
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ourselves as sinners. But there's freedom in
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acknowledging that we are acknowledging that, yes, we've
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done some rebellious things, but there is also power through God
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to change those things, to get the, you know, to have those
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things eliminated from our lives because the power of God is
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greater than the power of any kind of stronghold that might be
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on us, on our lives. There is freedom, freedom from
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slavery, slavery to sin through the Holy Spirit.
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But here's where God also brings about justice.
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And he's telling his people that, you know, all this stuff
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is going to happen to you because of your sins.
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And you don't have anybody to plead your case because they
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deny Jesus. So they don't have, what do they
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have? They're just going to have to
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suffer. But here's where God shows his
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justice. He can sometimes, and has
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sometimes in history used Pagan people, ungodly people, as his
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resource to bring about judgement on his people and on
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other people. So God does use people that
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don't even believe in Him for his own purposes, and that's how
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God is sovereign. He can use those individuals
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choices like they don't like Israel.
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So God can use their hatred towards Israel to bring about
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punishment. So it's not that he's causing
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them to do these things. They already have it inside
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them. They've already made the
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decision that they don't like Israel, and God uses that to
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bring about punishment. But here's where the justice
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comes in. All who devour you will be
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devoured. All your enemies will go into
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exile. Those who plunder you will be
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plundered. All who make spoil of you I will
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despoil. But I will restore you to health
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and heal your wounds. So again, God alone is the one
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who's going to restore. How does that happen?
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Through Jesus? How are we healed through Jesus?
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They just don't have their eyes open to this yet.
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But they will. And it's going to be, you know,
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when Jesus returns, when they finally do.
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And you know, God is God is just, and he had to make it this
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way because of the resistance to him.
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So he had to let them go through this.
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And this is future stuff too. This is what the Lord says.
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I will restore the fortunes of Jacob's tents and have camp
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compassion on his dwellings. The city will be rebuilt on her
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runes and the palace will stand in its proper place.
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So there's going to be like a king again.
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David is talked about and where he's going to be.
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And Jesus will be king for the 1000 years.
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That's why I think David's called a Prince because he's not
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the king. Jesus will be the king.
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But it's, it's kind of interesting.
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I mean, I wonder where where's Jesus will live with the people?
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I don't know. There's a lot to look forward to
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and a lot to explore with us. OK?
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From them will come songs of Thanksgiving and the sound of
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rejoicing. I will add to their numbers.
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They will not be decreased. So again, we know this did not
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happen yet because Israel's numbers have been decreased.
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In fact, in 2023, when there was the great slaughter from October
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7th, they were, their numbers were decreased.
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So this promise is for the future.
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After Jesus returns, I will bring them honor and they will
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not be disdained. Their children will be as in
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days of old. Now what does that mean?
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The children will be as in days of old.
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Here's what I think, and this is a speculation.
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I think during the Millennium, it tells us, I think it's in
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Isaiah, that people who live to be 100 years old, old will be
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considered. But a child and anyone who
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doesn't reach 100 will be considered.
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You know, there's, there's something wrong there.
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There's something, I guess, evil within that person because
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otherwise they would live past 100.
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And so in the beginning, in Genesis, people lived 305
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hundred, 900 years. And so I am speculating that
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their children will be as in the days of old.
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I'm thinking they're going to have long years of life and
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their community will be established before me.
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I will punish all who oppress them.
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Their leader will be one of their own.
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Their ruler will arise from among them.
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So there are two thoughts that I have about this leader, and it
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could be both Jesus and David. So their leader will be one of
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their own. Jesus came from the tribe of
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Judah. The ruler will arise from among
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them. So is the ruler maybe David
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resurrected or it could be some other person.
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You know, I'm not saying that it has to be David, but during this
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restoration period, Jesus returns and David, you know, is,
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is he was the man after God's own heart like he was.
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He was one who was noted for that.
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I will bring him near, and he will come close to me.
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For who is he who will devote himself to be close to me?
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It David was the man after God's own heart.
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So history tells us David is the one.
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Now there might be someone who comes after him, perhaps, but it
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could be David declares the Lord.
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So you will be my people and I will be your God.
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That's kind of an everlasting promise that God has given to
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people. See, the storm of the Lord will
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burst out in wrath, a driving wind swirling down on the heads
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of the wicked. So here again is God's justice.
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Wicked wickedness will be punished.
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The fierce anger of the Lord will not turn back until He
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fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart.
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So God wants to rid the world of evil, and there will be wrath
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that will come on those who reject Jesus in the days to
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come. You will understand this.
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So you know, is that time now like we understand this.
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I feel like I believe that I understand this and that it's,
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you know, from reading the Bible.
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That's the only way that I understand this is from reading
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all the chapters that I've done up to this point.
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And, and I think God does reveal to us the knowledge and wisdom
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the Holy Spirit will give us when we stay in God's Word.
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And I've been staying in God's Word fairly regularly since I
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started all this. But, and I plan to continue to
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do it too, because I think it's really important.
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That's how we stay connected to God.
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So the study Bible says how were they incurable and beyond
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healing? This is a word picture of an
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individual with a fatal wound. There is no hope for recovery or
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cure. This is an accurate portrayal of
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our spiritual condition. Apart from the from God's mercy
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and grace, we are in a hopeless and fatal condition.
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Again. It still points us to Jesus
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because Jesus is that cure. And if somebody rejects Jesus as
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the people of Israel currently do, not all, not all people, but
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you know that many people do, the ones who stay in their
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Jewish faith and you know, are still looking for the first
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coming. They didn't recognize Jesus as
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the Messiah when he came the first time.
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They don't look for a second coming.
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They're looking for the Messiah to come for the first time.
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Those people. So was the dramatic turn around
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fulfilled when the Jews returned from Babylon?
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When Old Testament prophets directed Israel's attention
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toward future blessing, the exact time of fulfillment was
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often unclear. That is the case in these
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verses. Jeremiah expected there would be
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a complete restoration when the nation returned to their land
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because of the promises of the Lord.
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Though this prophecy is clearly Messianic, the prophets did not
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envision, quote, the Church age and the Gospel going to the
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nation's. Even Jesus's disciples fully
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expected Jesus to inaugurate the Kingdom at the height of his
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ministry, not offer his life as a ransom for many, and then
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return to heaven as a result. Although there have been taste
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of restoration, this dramatic turn around is still future.
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And for all the I pointed out all the things that I saw that
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it, this is future as well. So why couldn't God's love have
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overcome his wrath? Because God's character demands
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that justice be satisfied. God does not vent His anger as a
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tantrum. His wrath is necessary to
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preserve the integrity of His Holiness.
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God's wrath towards sin was ultimately satisfied by the
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death of Christ on the cross. And that's so important for us
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to understand. And that was actually the last
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question for this chapter. And I thought it would be a lot
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shorter, but it wasn't. So I do hope that this was
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beneficial to you if it was. And if you think it would be
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beneficial to others, please share it.
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And I do invite you to subscribe to this if you want to stay in
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the Word. I try to read every day and some
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are shorter than others, but I can tend to talk a lot
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unfortunately. But hopefully this helps
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understand scripture when I speak about this.
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That's my intention anyway. And so I hope you join for
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chapter 31 because there's more about Jesus there.