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746. Bible Study: Isaiah 60 (Jesus and the Milennium, All Nations, 3rd Temple) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 60 from the book of Isaiah.
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First let's pray. Dear Lord, please let us
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understand what we are about to read and let your Holy Spirit
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give us wisdom and insight in Jesus name, Amen.
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Chapter 60 Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the
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glory of the Lord rises upon you.
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See, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the
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peoples, but the Lord rises upon you, and his glory appears over
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you. This I think refers to Jesus
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again, and I'm seeing it in every chapter of Isaiah almost.
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But Jesus will. It says that when he returns, he
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will be coming on the clouds and as lightning is seen, so it will
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be when the Son of man, Jesus comes on the clouds that
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everyone will see it. So I, I see this as, but the
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Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you.
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There could be some symbolism as well, but I think there's, I
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think it's both. I think it's symbolic, but yet
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it's also Speaking of the day that Jesus returns.
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Now, This is why because the next sentence, three nations
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will come to your light and kings to the brightness of your
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dawn. That is, remember this is Isaiah
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talking to Israel and I guess specifically Judah.
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And nations will come to your light and kings to the
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brightness of your dawn. That's certainly not now.
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And of course, you know that that was in a time frame that
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did happen historically, but not completely.
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So this is when Isaiah was speaking to the people of Judah.
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He was warning them about the future.
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I think it was the Babylonian captivity that would happen.
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And I think this really is talking about the Millennium,
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though, because nations will come.
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As we read further, it becomes clearer.
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Nations will come to your light and kings to the brightness of
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your dawn. Lift up your eyes and look about
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you. All assemble and come to you.
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Your sons come from afar and your daughters are carried on
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the hip. Now that's talking about people
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being dispersed into all these different places which we know
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did happen to the 10 tribes of Israel.
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Then you will look and be radiant.
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Your heart will throb and swell with joy.
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The wealth on the seas will be brought to you.
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To you the riches of the nations will come.
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Herds of camels will cover your land.
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Young camels of Midian and IFA and all from Sheba will come
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bearing gold and incense and proclaiming the praise of the
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Lord. I don't know that this has ever
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happened, that all nations are coming to Israel with gifts and
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praising the Lord. This I mean, especially when you
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when the study Bible clears up who this is we're talking about,
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all Keter's flocks will be gathered to you.
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The Rams of Nibiot will serve you.
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They will be accepted as offerings on my altar, and I
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will adorn my glorious temple. I don't believe this happened
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for the Second Temple. I do think it may be talking
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about the Third Temple and during the Millennium reign.
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Now look at who these these groups of people are who were
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Midian, IFA, Sheba, Kidar and Nebayoth.
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They were people who lived in Arabia, modern Jordan, Saudi
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Arabia and Yemen. Think about that.
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Yemen coming with gifts to Israel.
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Not right now for sure. The people of Midian IFA and
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Sheba were known as wealthy traders.
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The people of Kedar and Nebiot were famous for their sheep.
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Since Midian IFA, Kedar, and Nebiot are all named in Genesis
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as descendants of Abraham, there may be some intention of
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specifying that it is. All of Abraham's children will
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be united in the pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
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So that's that's really interesting about the temple
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being there. So this is also, you know, the
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third. I just see this as the third
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temple and do see this as a Millennium thing.
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And boy, it's really getting set up in, I mean, getting ready in
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2025. Just all the things that have
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happened, you know, from the the red heifers that hadn't been
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found for 2000 years but then were found there was a practice
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sacrifice. Like why would they do that?
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Unless that was either a legitimate sacrifice of a red
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heifer that happened in Israel or it was practice for something
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that would be coming up soon. Because why would you practice
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something if it wasn't going to come up soon?
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If it was going to be another thousands of years, you wouldn't
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need to practice. So it's either it either was the
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real thing and was just being concealed so it didn't cause
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political turmoil. Because last time that there was
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indication of this happening on the, you know, the Temple Mount
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and those kinds of things, October 7th, 2023 happened.
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So of course there's a reason to not be really public about this,
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but there's been anointing of the appropriate priests that are
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required for temple service. There has been a cleansing, A
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preparation. All of the items that go into
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the temple are already ready. They're ready to go into as soon
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as the temple gets built. So everything in preparation is,
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is ready. It's all ready.
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And apparently there's even signs that are being posted
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throughout Israel right now about the Third Temple and
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about, you know, some like Railway Express that it will get
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people to the temple. And there's a lot of activity
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going on. And what people say is basically
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it's the government that is holding it up.
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Like they can't go forward until the government says, OK.
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So this month is going to be an interesting month of September
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2025 because there are lots of meetings.
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There are meetings that will be occurring I think September 22nd
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where there's going to be the talk of the two state solution
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between Palestine and Israel and we don't know how this is all
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going out. A lot of nations are in
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agreement on that, but then there are a few nations who are
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not on board with that. And this is just going to be a
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very interesting month to see what happens.
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And there's just a lot of signs that are happening now that are
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talked about in Bible prophecy. So it's an important time to be
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awake as it relates to biblical prophecy and what's happening in
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the Middle East because this is this month and the next month
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are probably going to be very important months to pay
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attention to what's going on. Let's see.
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I want to read before I get to the very next line 8.
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I will read the questions and answers for the what we just
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read. How would Israel give light to
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the nations? Isaiah painted a picture of the
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sun shining brightly on the temple high atop Mount Zion
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while the surrounding valleys remain in darkness.
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This represents the way God would come in glory to His
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people. Those in spiritual darkness will
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look to the light shining through God's people, light
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characterized by lives of integrity, compassion, and
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peace. Why would Israel's sons come
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from afar? The near future prophecy was of
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how Jerusalem would fall to the Babylonians and the people would
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be taken into exile. The distant future prophecy
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looked through that tragic period of Israel's history to
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what would come later. There would be immense joy when
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their sons and daughters returned to Jerusalem out of
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exile. I still don't think that's
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happened. Maybe there's been partial, you
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know, there's been a lot of people moving back to Israel and
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a gathering in that way. I think that it's a gradual
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thing that's happened. But this massive amount of
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people coming into Jerusalem, I believe, takes place when Jesus
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returns. So how and when would riches of
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nations be brought to Jerusalem? The valuable gifts the Jews
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received as they returned to Jerusalem and the contribution
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of King Darius of Persia to Zerubbabel's temple may be a
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partial fulfillment of this prophecy, though it surely looks
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beyond that. Some see this as a reference to
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the influx of Gentiles into the church.
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Others see it being fulfilled during the future prophetic
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during the, let's see the future phase of the Messianic Kingdom,
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such as the New Jerusalem in Revelation 2126.
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Perhaps all three situations are in view.
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And there are other areas of this, this chapter where I did
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go to Revelation 21. So I'm going to read that as
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well because you'll see that there's multiple times where it
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references something like that. OK, now this was interesting.
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And when I first read it, I put question marks by this verse 8
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in Isaiah. Who are these that fly along
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like clouds, like doves to their nest?
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I thought about that and I was like, is this something
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celestial? Like what is what is this being?
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What is this talking about? Who are these that fly?
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You know, it could be like poetic, like people are coming
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near to Jerusalem. But then I thought, what if he's
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really seeing a vision or something and describing planes?
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Like, obviously they didn't have planes, but who are these that
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fly along the clouds like doves to their nests?
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So I'm wondering if these are planes coming into Jerusalem.
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It makes sense for the future, right?
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Surely the islands look to me. In the lead are the ships of
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Tarshish, bringing your children from afar with their silver and
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gold to honor, to the honor of the Lord your God, the Holy One
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of Israel, for He has endowed you with splendor.
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And I would say again that this is not yet.
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This is a future prophecy. Here foreigners will rebuild
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your walls and their kings will serve you.
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So I don't think that has happened.
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Israel has not been where in in a leadership position until
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Jesus returns and he is named king over everything.
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When he returns, that's that will be what he does and then
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all kings will be under Jesus but not until then though in
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anger I struck you in favor I will show you compassion.
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Your gates will always stand open.
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They will never be shut day or night so that people may bring
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you the wealth of the nations their kings LED in triumphal
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procession. Now that is another thing that
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are there other nations right now bringing all these gifts to
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Israel And I I just, you know, this is not not current and I
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think it is future. It is when Jesus, because it's
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going to be, it's going to be a different time than what we
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experience right now. But it says like your gates will
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always stand open. They will never be shut day or
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night. Now in Revelation chapter 21,
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verse 25, it says on no day will its gates ever be shut, for
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there will be no night there. The glory and honor of the
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nations will be brought into it. Nothing impure will ever enter
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it, nor nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful,
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but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of
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life. That's Jesus.
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You know this Jesus. You know those who believe in
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Jesus, who have the book of life.
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So that's in chapter 21 of Revelation and this is actually
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talking about the New Jerusalem. And so I think again, this is
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talking about something future for the nation or Kingdom that
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will not serve, you will perish, it will be utterly ruined.
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I think that is probably in the Millennium when that happens,
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the thousand year reign of Christ, the glory of Lebanon
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will come to you, the juniper, the fur and the Cypress together
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to adorn my sanctuary and I will glorify the place for my feet.
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So then I thought, well, I mean he there's references to God
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making everything a footstool and that's in Genesis and I
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think in other places. But then there's also that part
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where Jesus returns and his feet land on a mountain.
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So I looked that up and that is the Mount of Olives because it
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talks about the day of the Lord coming and when he returns to
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rain, so it says in Zechariah chapter 14, verse 4, on that day
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his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem.
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And the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to West,
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forming a great valley with half of the mountain moving north and
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half moving moving South. So that's kind of an interesting
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thing it says. So I will glorify the place for
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my feet. I mean, it doesn't necessarily
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mean that's the exact place because Jerusalem is the place
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where God has chosen, where He will be, where He will be ruling
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from that place. And Zechariah 14, this is
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talking about when the Lord comes and reigns.
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So starting at the beginning of Zechariah chapter 14, a day of
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the Lord is coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions will be
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plundered and divided up within your very walls.
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I will gather all nations to Jerusalem to fight against it.
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The city will be captured, the houses ransacked and the women
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raped. Half of the city will go into
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exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from
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the city. Then the Lord will go out and
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fight against those nations as he fights on a day of battle.
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And on that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives
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east of Jerusalem. And the Mount of Olives will be
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split in two from east to West, forming a great valley with half
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of the mountain moving north and half moving South.
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Now that hasn't happened yet. So when I read this, I see that
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there is going to be something that happens in Jerusalem and
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it, I wasn't thinking that would happen.
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I'm, I do know that that has happened with the Assyrians and
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the Babylonians where they have captured.
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So I don't know if that part of it was fulfilled or if yet
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there's another one. Because in these prophecies
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there's pieces and parts that get fulfilled at different
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times, but there's not always a, a change in the way it's stated.
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But I, I was thinking about, when I read that about, I think
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this is like there's a song that that comes, there's a song that
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only certain that only the Jewish people know and see.
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I think it's in revelation. I'm trying to find it saying I
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don't I'll have to find I want to find it because let's see.
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Oh, I can't find it. OK, there's 144,000 I think.
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OK, so these are the the people, the people of that are sealed.
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And OK, so this is this is the other part.
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This is what I was looking for Revelation chapter 14.
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And so this is another place where it's not the Mount of
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Olives, but it says on Mount Zion.
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So that's the heavenly Jerusalem and they sang the song.
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So listen to this part, the Lamb and the 144,000.
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So the lamb is Jesus. Then I looked and there before
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me was the Lamb or Jesus standing on Mount Zion and with
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him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on
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their foreheads. So this is eye opening because
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the 144,000 or 12,000 from each of the tribes of Israel.
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And so not only will they have God, but they will have His Son.
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They will also accept His Son, so it says, who had his name and
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his father's name written on their foreheads.
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And I heard a sound from heaven, like the roar of rushing waters,
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and like a loud peal of Thunder. The sound I heard was like that
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of harpist playing their harps. And they sang a new song before
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the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders.
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No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been
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redeemed from the earth. These are those who did not
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defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins.
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They follow the Lamb wherever He goes.
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They were purchased from among mankind and offered as first
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fruits to God and the Lamb. No lie was found in their
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mouths. They are blameless.
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So I'm curious now as I look this.
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So yeah, it yeah, it's kind of it's a very unique group of
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people and a lot of people talk about this 144,000 and they
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apply it to lots of different things.
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But I think Scripture is pretty clear about who this is.
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It says these are those who did not defile themselves with women
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for they remained virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he
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goes. That's Jesus.
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They were purchased from among mankind and offered as first
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fruits to God and the lamb. So I don't I don't know if this
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is a literal or spiritual thing, but no lie was found in their
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mouths. They are blameless.
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So we know that it's 12,000 from each tribe of Judah, but we, you
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know, this is this revelation 14 four.
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I don't know if that's literal or symbolic in a spiritual way
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that they because it does say women.
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They didn't defile themselves with women where it could have
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said with other gods for they remained virgins because God
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often talks about idolatry. But then I looked in the
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original Greek word and it was Guying for women.
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And so I, I don't know if it's a literal thing, but again, this
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is just, we have to take scripture for what it is and we
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can't read into it or change anything of what it says.
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So I just believe that it's probably 12,000 people that
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probably men from Jerusalem. I'm thinking that's what it
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sounds like. I don't know.
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And we will only know anyone who says that they know can't know
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because Scripture doesn't say that unless somebody finds
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something in Scripture that explains this.
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But I don't see it. And anything else would just be
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interpretation. So whatever it is, we will find
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out in the end. But after it's all over.
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But anyway, there's a group of people.
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And so his this is the one thing that the verse that made me
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think about his feet standing on Mount Zion, this is in
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Jerusalem. So anyway, let's go back to
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Isaiah chapter 60, verse 14. The children of your oppressors
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will come bowing before you. All who despise you will bow
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down at your feet and we'll call you the city of the Lord Zion of
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the Holy One of Israel. Well, that's certainly not
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today, but today there is a despising of Israel.
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All the anti-Semitism that you see throughout the world, it
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seems to be growing over, you know, greater and greater.
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So this again just seems like there's so many things that are
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that could easily tie into this prophecy that is being talked
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about. Although you have been forsaken
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and hated with no one traveling through now, people are still
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traveling through Jerusalem. There was maybe a period of time
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where it wasn't maybe during 2020.
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But other than that, I don't, I don't know.
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I mean, maybe there's something future that will happen and
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maybe this is again something that has already been fulfilled.
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I will make you the everlasting pride and the joy of all
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generations. You will drink the milk of
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nations and be nursed at royal breast.
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Then you will know that I the Lord am your Savior, your
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Redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob.
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Again, this is this is Jesus because Jesus is the Son of God.
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And died on the cross. So he is the Savior.
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That's how he redeemed people. That's how he bought.
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He paid the price on the cross because the wages of sin is
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death. He was the substitute sacrifice.
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That's why he's called the Lamb. Because the Lamb used to be the
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way that people would sacrifice and make atonement, but they
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never received atonement because it needed to be a life for a
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life and a human for a human. And that's what Jesus said.
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That's why he became man but was sinless.
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That's why he is God, and that's why he died on the cross.
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That's not why he is God, but he was God.
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That's why he's was sinless. And he died on the cross, and he
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resurrected through the Holy Spirit and is living.
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So this is like a huge concept that is really stated in Isaiah
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60 verse 16. So how else was that
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implemented? OK, instead of bronze I will
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bring you gold and silver in place of iron.
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Instead of wood, I will bring you bronze and iron In place of
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stones. I will make peace your governor
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and well-being your ruler. No longer will violence be heard
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in your land, nor rune or destruction within your borders,
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but you will call your walls salvation and your gates praise.
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That is certainly not now. That has not been in history.
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But I believe again, this is when Jesus returns and during
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the Millennium, the thousand year reign of Christ.
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And let's see, I should probably, since I keep
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referencing this Millennium that's found in the Book of
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Revelation, and I can't remember what chapter it is, but it's the
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thousand years, years. So I'm going to look that up.
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I should have looked this up ahead of time.
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All right, that's in Revelation 20, the 1000 years, so I'm going
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to read that just because I talk about it a lot.
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Revelation 20 verses one through 6 at least.
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Then I saw an Angel coming down from heaven with the key to the
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bottomless pit and a heavy chain in his hand.
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He sees the dragon, that old serpent who is the devil Satan,
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and bound him in chains for 1000 years.
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OK, so the Book of Revelation everybody says is really hard to
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understand, but when it's stated like this, it's very clear.
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He sees the dragon, that old serpent.
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So that serpent that was in the book of Genesis who is the devil
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and names them Satan. So it's all saying the dragon.
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So when you read slowly through the Book of Revelation, you get
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the understanding because it actually tells you the dragon is
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Satan. So this Angel comes down from
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heaven with the key to the bottomless pit and a chain in
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his hand, and he binds Satan for 1000 years.
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The Angel threw him into the bottomless pit, which he then
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shut the door and locked so Satan could not deceive the
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nations anymore until the 1000 years were finished.
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Afterward he must be released for a little while.
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Then I saw Thrones and the people sitting on them had been
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given the authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who
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had been beheaded for their testimony about Jesus and for
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proclaiming the word of God. They had not worshipped the
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beast or his statue, nor accepted His mark on their
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forehead or their hands. They all came to life again, and
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they reigned with Christ for 1000 years.
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This is the first resurrection. The rest of the dead did not
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come back to life until the 1000 years had ended.
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Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection.
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For them the second death holds no power.
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But they will be priests of God and Christ will reign with them,
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with him and, and will reign with him. 1000 years.
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So that's I don't know. I just thought it would be good
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to read that. OK, now it says back in Isaiah
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chapter 60 verse 19, the sun will be no more.
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The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the
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brightness of the moon shine on you.
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For the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God
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will be your glory. Your sun will never set again,
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and your moon will wane no more. The Lord will be your
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everlasting light, and your days of sorrow will end.
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Then all your people will be righteous and they will possess
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the land forever. OK, so that is certainly not
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right now, that's in the future. Then all your people will be
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righteous and they will possess the land forever.
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That's future. They are the shoot.
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I have planted the work of my hands.
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So God's done this for the splint, for the display of my
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splendor. The least of you will become
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1000, the smallest, a mighty nation.
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I am the Lord in its time. I will do this swiftly.
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So when we start seeing signs of that, that's why everybody looks
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at this. It's like God says, when it
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happens, it's going to happen quickly.
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It certainly has felt like an acceleration or just maybe I'm
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paying attention to things since 2020 when there was a global
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shutdown. And, and then just seeing all
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these different things of like wars, rumors of wars, famine in
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various places, earthquakes. Those are all things that Jesus
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said. And they have been happening
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ever since the beginning of, I mean, just as long as history
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knows that we know of in history.
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But it seems like they are increasing with frequency and a
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lot of other things that, you know, signs in those in the sky
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and the the blood moons, which do happen every year.
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But it's interesting that in 2025 the blood moon was on the
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feast day of Purim, Purim. And then in 2026 it's going to
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be another blood moon on the feast of Purim.
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And those are significant in the book of Esther.
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It's a very significant reflection on what happened with
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Esther and Mordecai and the the king of, of Persia.
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And it there's even like some symbolism and maybe it's just a
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cultural significance. It must be because it you know,
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King Xerxes wasn't, you know, a a righteous man or anything, but
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he hosted A banquet that lasted 7 days in the enclosed garden of
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the King's palace for all the people from the least to the
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greatest who were in the citadel of Sousa.
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This is almost like that talks about like how evil sometimes
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copies, which is, you know, what God does and but also this is at
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the same time could be a very cultural thing.
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And maybe culturally, This is why there is that repetition
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because there is this, you know, whole period of seven days
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talked about in Daniel the week and or the week of years or
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something like that where there's this seven years, seven
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days, the creation. I mean, everything has this
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pattern that people have really talked a lot about recently.
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But it's very interesting when you read through the Bible.
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Let's see if there was. I don't know if there's another
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part that I wanted to read about.
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Oh, yeah. So the least of you will become
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like 1000 and the smallest, a mighty nation.
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God's always into doing the least to the greatest.
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And so this is just a few things that I saw in Scripture that God
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takes the least and makes them great.
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So in Luke Chapter 9 verse 46, an argument started among the
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disciples as to which of them would be the greatest.
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Jesus knowing their thoughts. So think about this.
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Jesus knew what everybody was thinking about while he was
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still in human form. Anyway, Jesus knowing their
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thoughts, took a little child and had him stand beside him.
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Then he said to them, whoever welcomes this little child in my
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name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who
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sent me for it is the one who is least among you, among you all,
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who is the greatest. So this is again like what Jesus
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talks about. And then in Hebrews chapter 8
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verse 11, it talks about in the Millennium time period, it says
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that no longer will they teach their neighbor or say to
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another, say to one another, know the Lord, because they will
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all know me from the least of them to the greatest, for I will
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forgive their wickedness and remember their sins no more.
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By calling this covenant new, He has made the first one obsolete.
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And whatever is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.
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So this is talking about the the Law of Moses or the covenant
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that God originally created that was broken by the Israelites.
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And so then he had to make a new covenant, which was the covenant
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that Jesus made by his death on the cross to atone for sins and
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to make it possible for people to be in God's Kingdom.
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But it's saying no longer will they teach their neighbor or say
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to another one another know the Lord, because they will all know
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me from the least of them to the greatest.
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So everybody is going to know Jesus when he is ruling and
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reigning on the earth. In Jeremiah, that's what
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Jeremiah talked about, and he says the exact same thing.
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So in Hebrews it's probably quoting Jeremiah, but in
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Jeremiah 3134 it says no longer will they teach their neighbor
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or say to one another know the Lord, because they will all know
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me from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord.
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For I will forgive their wickedness and remember their
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sins no more. This sentence prior says this is
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the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that
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time, declares the Lord, I will put my law in their minds and
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write it on their hearts. I will be their God and they
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will be my people. So there's, there's a whole lot
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there. But we will get into the book of
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Jeremiah at a future time. So I will not go through all of
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that. But then I think that's all that
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I had to cover, so I'm going to read the rest of the questions
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and answers and then wrap up this chapter.
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So when will Israel rule the world?
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Some think this is a description of the coming millennial age,
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when Christ will rule from Jerusalem.
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Others see this in a more figurative sense, that Jesus,
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the son of David, representing the people of Israel, rules over
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all those who acknowledge him as Lord.
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Those who did not acknowledge him will perish.
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Wouldn't this glory lead to arrogance on the part of God's
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people? It had in the past.
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The book of Judges shows a cycle of the Lord's victory and
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blessings being followed by sin and defeat, then repentance and
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God's deliverance. The Apostle Paul warned the
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Christians in Corinth that though they thought they were
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standing firm, they should be careful not to fall.
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Fervent prayer, devoted study of God's Word, and thoughtful love
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can help to fortify US against arrogance and pride.
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How would Zion drink the milk of nations to be nursed at royal
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breast? Jerusalem would receive the very
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best nourishment, the riches of the nations.
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The metaphor of being nursed at the royal breast is more
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literally to suck the breast of kings.
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The picture is strange only if we assume a straightforward
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correspondence between an analogy and what it illustrates.
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Foreigners and their monarchs would love and cherish Zion,
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delighting to supply her needs. Is this a prophecy about Israel
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or eternity? It could be both.
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The figure of speech indicate the salvation of Israel on
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earth. God's light would protect the
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nation from darkness, foreign threats, and internal justice.
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Whether or not this prophecy applies to physical Israel, it
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certainly applies to God's people in eternity.
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John used it to describe the heavenly city in Revelation
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chapter 21, verse 23. So those are all things that we
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kind of went through. So anyway, that wraps up chapter
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60. Hope you come back for chapter
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61 next time.