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Admonition Podcast - Revelation 21 (Lesson 2) - Aaron Cozort - October 11, 2026 · Collierville Radio Network

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Good to see everyone this morning.
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take your Bibles, if you will,
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and open them to Revelation chapter twenty one.
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We're going to be continuing our study of chapter 21
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and chapter 22 as John presents
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us a picture of the bride of the lamb.
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And as we get into these passages.
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You'll read things and go, Well,
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that sounds like heaven. That sounds like eternity.
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That doesn't sound like here and now.
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And we're gonna do we're gonna discuss a little bit of that ~ as
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we go through and help us hopefully to to be able to frame in context
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why John is talking this way. But let's begin with a word of prayer.
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Our gracious Father in heaven,
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we bow before your throne grateful for the revelation that
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you have given us through your holy prophets,
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through your apostles, through your Son,
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that we might have knowledge of things that without the word of Scripture
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we would not know.
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And that guides our actions, guides our life,
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teaches us concerning you and what you would have us to do.
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And may we always have a heart willing to hear that word of yours,
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willing to install it into our memory,
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into our heart, into our lives,
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into our actions, and into our words.
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That we might be a shining light to the world around us.
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That we might reflect your glory,
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that through us they might see you.
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Lord, we pray that you help us to grasp what you're
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teaching us about the church in these passages,
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that we might learn
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to apply the appropriate glory and respect to the body of Christ,
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to the bride of you the of the Lamb.
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Lord, we pray that you be with us as we go through this day.
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We pray that you be with those who are mourning from the loss of loved ones,
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those who are struggling with health issues,
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those who are anticipating upcoming procedures,
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and those who are seeking to recover from long term difficulties.
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Lord, we pray that you be with each and every one of them,
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and help us to be a support and a comfort to them in all of their needs.
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We ask that you forgive us when we sin and fall short of your glory.
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All this we pray in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Chapter 21 opens. And John says,
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I saw a new heaven and a new earth.
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For the first heaven and the first earth had passed away,
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and there was no more sea. Then I,
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John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem,
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coming down out of heaven from God,
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prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
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And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying,
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Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men,
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and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people.
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God himself shall will be with them and be their God.
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And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
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There shall be no more death, nor sorrow,
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nor crying, there shall be no more pain.
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for the former things have passed away.
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John
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Is writing to them to tell them all of the tribulation,
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all of the difficulty, all of the things that I'm telling you
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you are going to go through.
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They all have an end.
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They have an end in which they'll be finished and they'll
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be swallowed up in victory.
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If you go over to First Corinthians chapter 15,
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Paul, as he is writing about life,
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and as he is writing about the resurrection,
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he is going to tell the Christians in Corinth
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in this passage concerning our final victory.
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In First Corinthians chapter 15,
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verse 50, he says, Now this I say,
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brethren.
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That flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God,
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nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
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Is the kingdom of God made
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up of fleshly, earthly things?
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Is it made up of fleshly,
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earthly people? No.
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Do you know why John has been differentiating from the beginning
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of Revelation to the end of Revelation?
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Those who dwell on the earth as those who are sinners and reject the Word of God,
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and those who dwell in heaven as those who are alive in Christ.
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The reason he separates the two is because he knows the same thing Paul
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knows. Kingdom of God isn't made up of fleshly.
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Things. Now the people who are alive on the earth whose dwelling place
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is in heaven are alive on the earth.
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They interact in fleshly ways.
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They walk around in fleshly bodies.
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But Paul says that's not the part of you that is
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in the kingdom of God. Because you can't inherit the kingdom of
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God in the flesh.
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You can't take part in the kingdom of God in the flesh.
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And that's completely consistent with what Jesus said to Pilate,
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isn't it? Jesus said, if my kingdom were of this world,
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then would my what? My servants fight.
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If I was coming to build a fleshly,
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earthly kingdom.
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You'd have a host of people out here starting a riot and taking this city apart till
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they got to me.
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He also would warn Pilate that if he were to sow order,
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he could have ten thousand legions of angels show up.
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But Paul's point, John's point,
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Jesus' point is the kingdom of heaven that Daniel
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interpreted a dream about in Daniel chapter 2,
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and that Daniel saw a vision about in Daniel chapter 7 is not a kingdom
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on this earth.
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And so Paul will go on to say,
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Behold, I tell you a mystery we shall not all sleep,
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but we shall all be changed. In a moment,
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in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet,
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for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible,
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and we shall be changed.
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For this corruptible must put on incorruption,
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and this mortal must put on immortality.
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Notice that Paul says,
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you cannot inherit eternity with
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God in a fleshly existence.
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He says it's impossible.
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You must be changed into an immortal existence.
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An undying, unending existence.
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Now what part of our existence is undying and unending?
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Spirit and the soul. The soul and the spirit.
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James tells us very clearly what is death.
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Separation of the soul and the body.
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Now I I appreciate there are difficult passages in the New Testament,
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but the ones that aren't difficult we need to not abuse.
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Paul tells us that our eternal existence with the Father
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at the resurrection involves
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no zero fleshly existence.
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None.
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So
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How could we get to a new heaven and a new earth that are physical
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and a new Jerusalem that is physical and an existence being written about
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and interpreted out of Revelation twenty one that is physical?
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What makes these two passages contradict one another?
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Rather, Paul is talking about the last and final day.
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And John is talking about the existence of the church coming
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out of a period of persecution.
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And they're using similar language.
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They're not talking about the same thing.
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Verse fifty four, so when the corruptible has put on incorruption and
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the mortal has put on immortality,
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then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written Death is swallowed
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up in victory. And then he quotes the Old Testament minor prophets and says,
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O death, where is your sting, Hosea chapter thirteen?
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O Hades, where is your victory?
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The sting of death is sin,
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and the strength of sin is the law.
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The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law,
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but thanks be to God who gives us the what?
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Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Question there in verse fifty seven,
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is that present tense or future tense?
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Does he say will give us
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the victory or gives us the victory?
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Already gay.
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Absolutely. It is an active present description.
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The resurrection that Paul is writing about is a future event.
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The victory that he's writing about
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happens in the present tense. We have it,
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we live it, it is continual,
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and it is ever present with us.
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You say, Aaron, how can that be?
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We're still going to die. Yeah.
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It's true.
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Well what does that death mean to us?
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The director of the school of preaching where Eddie and I attended,
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Brother Wesley Simons, had a habit of reminding us that for a Christian,
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death is not a sad thing.
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It's a graduation. It's a graduation from this life
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to the next one. It is simply a transition from a lower point to a greater point.
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And Paul is writing to Christians who are giving up on the concept
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of the graduation and saying this is all there is.
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Well, Anyone who holds to a position of the new heaven and the new earth being
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a physical existence, even an eternal physical existence like was had
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in the garden has missed it.
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Paul says, flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God,
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and corruptible cannot inherit incorruption.
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And We already have the victory.
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And so John will write, God's going to wipe away every tear from their eye.
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There will be no more death.
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Why? Death's already defeated.
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There will be no more sorrow. There will be no more crying.
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There will be no more pain. For the former things,
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the tribulation, the anguish, the persecution from Rome,
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the use of Rome by the devil, it's over.
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When Christ defeated Satan in the use of Rome,
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he defeated him completely.
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Unlike the United States of America for the last eight eighty years,
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when Christ starts a war, he finishes it.
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And wins every time.
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Now notice we read verse five:
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Then he who sat on the throne said,
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Behold, I make all things new.
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And he said to me, Write, for the words are true and faithful.
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And he said to me, It is done.
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Where where have you?
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Where have you read a a phrase like it is done?
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When Jesus Christ spoke from the cross.
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And says it is finished.
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And we read, It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega,
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the beginning and the end, I will give of the fountain of the water
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of life freely to him who thirsts.
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He who overcomes shall inherit all things,
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and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
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But the cowardly, unbelieving,
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abominable, murderers, sexually immoral,
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sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns
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with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.
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And you say, see, this is the judgment.
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He's talking about the punishment of all the wicked for all time.
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No, he's not.
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He's talking about Verse 17 of chapter 19.
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Then I saw an angel standing in the sun and cried with a loud voice,
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saying to the birds that fly in the midst of heaven,
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Come and gather together for the supper of the great God,
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that you may eat of the flesh of the kings,
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the cap the flesh of captains,
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the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses,
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and those who sit on them, the flesh of all people,
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free and slave, both small and great.
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And I saw the great kings, ~ I saw the beasts,
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the kings of the earth.
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And their armies gathered together to make war against him who sat on
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the horse and against his army,
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then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs
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in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of
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the beast and who worshipped his image,
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and those two were cast into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.
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He's talking about the end of the war.
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The war with who? The war with the beast,
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the war with the sea beast, the war with the dragon,
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the war with Satan, the war with Rome.
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He's talking about all those who put the mark of the beast on their head,
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who said, I will pledge my allegiance to Rome,
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God says, and you'll get the same judgment they get.
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What did God in the Old Testament prophets tell the children of Israel?
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He said, if you go after the idols that this land went after,
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I'm sending you into a land and I am displacing and bringing
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to judgment all these nations.
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And if you go into the land and then you begin to follow after the idols that they
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followed after, and you begin to sacrifice your children.
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to their gods the way they did,
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and you begin to participate in the fornication and the adultery that they
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participated in, then I'm gonna do to you what I did to them.
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And when the leadership of Israel began to do exactly what God said not to do,
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and the kings of Israel began to participate in the things that God said not to do,
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God is going to tell the people,
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if you follow after them,
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to do the same things that I told you not to do,
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then I'm going to do to you, the people,
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the same thing that I'm going to do to them.
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That's what this passage is about.
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Now, is it true in the world today,
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and at the day of judgment,
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that all unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral
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and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in
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the lake which burns with fire and brimstone,
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which is the second death? Is that a true statement about an eternal judgment
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of God? Yes.
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So now you get the picture. They've taken a statement about judgment and said,
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God's doing it right now to these people who are your enemies.
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You asked Romans or Revelation chapter six,
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how long, O Lord, faithful and true,
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until you judge the people who are persecuting us?
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And God says, Let me tell you,
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I'm not gonna miss.
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One of them.
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Do you notice the emphasis here?
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As he gives this list
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In the word all
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The word all liars.
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Sometimes we appropriately teach children,
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using this passage, that lying is wrong.
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Revelation twenty one eight.
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That's not the lie that's being talked about.
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What is the lie that these people believed
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and repeated?
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There's there's part of it. But what was
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the message of Satan? What was the message of the dragon?
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What was the message of the sea beast?
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What was the message of the land beast about who God is?
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They said, Caesar is God.
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They said if you want to participate in this economy,
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you have to say Caesar is God.
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You go back to Exodus chapter twenty.
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And what does the Lord say?
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You shall have no other gods before
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me.
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The
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Is there is someone who's God other than the Lord?
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There is allegiance to someone other than the Lord.
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John doesn't say all the cowardly,
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all the unbelieving, all the abominable,
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all the murders. I mean, it's in it's it it's implied in there.
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But why is the word all attached to liars?
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Is it because lying is the worst sin of all sins?
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You got a guy out here murdering people,
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and you got a guy over here lying.
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Which one do you think we're gonna put in jail first?
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The point isn't about the sins,
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the point is about the lying was the culmination of them saying there
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is a God other than Jehovah.
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Pharaoh's question to Moses.
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was who is the Lord that
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I should obey him?
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Revelation twenty one, God says
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I'm going to show you who he is.
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He's the one who can take every single person
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who allies themselves with Satan,
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with his minions, with his puppet governments,
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with his rulers that he claims to be God,
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and declares them to be equal with me,
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and judges every single one.
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Now the language in Revelation 21 is Isaiah language.
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There's been times in the in the book of Revelation we've been
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in is Exodus language. We've been in coming out of Egypt language.
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But Isaiah 21 is Isaiah, or sorry,
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Revelation 21 is Isaiah language.
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New heaven and new earth is Isaiah language.
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New Jerusalem is Isaiah language.
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This description here.
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Is all about Isaiah. Because Isaiah was the prophet
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who continued to say to Israel,
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Go ahead, get your idols to speak.
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Get them to do anything.
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Get them to judge someone.
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Get them to punish someone. Get them to give you a blessing.
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Get them to do anything.
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God says they can't do it.
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And this passage is a reiteration of that to the church.
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You serve a God who speaks,
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you serve a God who creates, you serve a God who blesses,
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and you serve a God who judges.
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Eddie, did you have a comment?
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Okay.
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Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled the seven last plagues
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came to me and talked with me,
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saying, Now, let me jump ahead here in some slides.
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~ he says,
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Come, I will show you the bride,
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the lamb's wife. We talked about this briefly.
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There's an abundance of passages that tell you exactly who the bride is,
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who is the bride of Christ.
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Church. End of discussion.
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So when the angel who had one of the bowls says,
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Let me show you the bride, who is he showing John?
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The church. Any other interpretation?
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is incorrect.
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Okay. Now bear in mind that we have then
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to discuss the church when, and the church in what state,
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and the church from what point of view.
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But what we cannot argue about is it is the church.
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So notice what he says. And he carried me away
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in the spirit to a great and high mountain.
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And showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem,
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descending out of heaven from God.
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Where did where did Satan take Jesus during the temptations?
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First, they were in the wilderness.
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And Satan says to Jesus, Take the stones and and turn them to bread,
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so you can have some nourishment.
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And then now Luke and Matthew they flip flop the second and the third one,
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as to which order they were in.
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Doesn't matter. Then they go to the pinnacle of the temple.
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And at the highest peak of the temple,
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Satan says to Jesus, cast yourself off because the scripture has said that
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the angels will not allow you to dash your foot upon a stone.
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Test the Lord. See if he's true.
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He made a promise to you, see if he'll fulfill it.
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What did Jesus say in response?
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Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
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Then he takes him where?
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To a very high mountain. And what does he show Jesus?
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All the nations of the earth, name one mountain you can go stand on
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and see every nation on the planet from there.
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You can't.
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Not physically.
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But the point is not that they did all
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of these things and used only physical resources to do them.
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We're not reading about a nice long journey that Satan and the Lord hopped
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on the boat together, we're gonna go climb the Himalayas,
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we're gonna get to the highest peak,
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and then we're going to use an eyeglass that happened to be installed up there
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to go look at every nation. No.
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How long did it take Satan and the Lord to get there?
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Satan shows him all the nations of the earth,
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and what was it that Satan said I'll give you?
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Everything you see. If you'll simply do what?
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Sound familiar to the message of a beast?
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Sound familiar to the message of a dragon?
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So now John gets escorted to a very high mountain.
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And John sees descending out of heaven
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The bride adorned for her husband.
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But as he sees it, he says,
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it is the new Jerusalem.
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Notice the text He carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain
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and showed me the great city.
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The new, sorry, the holy Jerusalem,
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descending out of heaven from God.
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So ~ when we come back here earlier on in the chapter,
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and we read verse chapter twenty one,
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verse one, and I saw the new heaven and a new earth,
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for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away,
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and there was no more sea, then I,
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John, saw the holy city,
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New Jerusalem. What is it?
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It's the bride.
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When John sees the new Jerusalem in the new heaven and the new earth,
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he sees
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We know that because we're told that.
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He says, I saw the holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God.
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He's over here on the mountain and he's watching.
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And out of heaven comes the bride.
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And it's the holy Jerusalem.
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And he sees it descending from heaven.
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out of heaven from God. Whatever we have in this passage,
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it is not heaven.
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Because it is descending out of heaven.
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Now put two things together. Satan took Jesus to a high mountain and said,
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I'll give you all the nations.
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And John gets taken to a high mountain.
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And John sees the new Jerusalem descending out
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of heaven from God. Now connect that
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and that back to Daniel chapter two.
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Head of gold, nation of Babylon,
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arms and chest of silver,
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nation of Medo Persia, belly and thighs of brass,
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nation of Greece, the legs of iron and feet of iron mixed with clay,
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the nation of Rome.
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And God tells Nebuchadnezzar, I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna do.
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And Daniel tells Nebuchadnezzar,
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the Lord has seen fit to show you as the greatest of
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all of these kings.
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What I'm gonna do.
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In the days of these kings, the kings of Rome,
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the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never
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be destroyed.
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And it is going to break in pieces and crush all of these kingdoms.
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It's gonna grind them into powder.
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You see, Satan came along and said,
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If you don't set up your kingdom,
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I'll give you all these.
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And Jesus in essence says, I I'm I'm gonna worship the Lord God.
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He's already got all of these.
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You just don't know it yet.
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And he did what Isaiah always says the Lord does.
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He told you how it's going to end before it ever began.
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John sees the holy city, the new Jerusalem coming up.
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So, so ~ good question. All right.
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So is John seeing something that's going to happen?
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Is John seeing something that has already happened?
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Is John seeing something that is happening?
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And the answer to that is John's seeing the fulfillment
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of Daniel's prophecy. Daniel's prophecy didn't
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big didn't end with the coming and the establishment of the kingdom,
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did it?
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It ended with the crushing of the earthly kingdoms and doing away with them.
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This is it. Absolutely. This is God saying,
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I'm going to show you that we win.
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I'm going to show you that I set up a kingdom and it is going to
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do exactly what I promised it would do.
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And it's going to do to these kingdoms and these four nations and these four beasts
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exactly what I said they were going to do.
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And when you look at it, you're gonna go,
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that kingdom's never gonna be destroyed.
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Now, Watch how he pictures the kingdom.
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Watch how he pictures the bride.
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Watch the picture,
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if you were to think about it from earthly terms,
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that John now sees as he's there on the high mountain and he's watching this happen,
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and he sees the bride descending out of the very presence of God.
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And notice how John is getting that described.
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He says, having the glory of God.
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Her light was like a most precious stone.
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And we're going to talk about that light again later here at the
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end of this chapter. But her light was like the most precious stone,
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like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.
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Also, she had a great and high wall with twelve gates
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and twelve angels at the gates.
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And the names written on them,
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which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
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You look at the gate as John sees the city descending out of heaven,
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and he sees it descending from the presence of God,
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and he sees it with God's glory and the light of God,
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and it's so beautiful. And he sees a gate and a gate and a gate and a gate
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and a gate and a gate and a gate and a gate and a gate and a gate.
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Three entrances on every side because by the way,
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it's City Four Square.
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And he sees all of these gates.
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And they're adorned with all of these precious stones.
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And written
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on the gates are the names of what?
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twelve tribes of Israel.
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Here's one more Exodus reference.
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In the tabernacle.
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Which by the way we just read about in chap earlier on in this chapter,
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right? The tabernacle, God being with his people,
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and they'll I will be their God and they will be my people.
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We already read about the tabernacle.
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How was the camp of Israel set up when they were there at Mount Sinai
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and when they traveled and everywhere they went in the wilderness for 40 years?
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Tabernacle was in the center,
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and the tribes were arrayed around the tabernacle,
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by tribes.
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Just another picture. John sees the city,
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and he sees the gates, and on the gate,
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every gate, one tribe of Israel.
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And notice he says,
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Now on the wall of the city had twelve foundations,
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and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
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Someone comes along and says, ~ see,
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this is this is just inaccurate.
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~ there were thirteen tribes.
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True. Because Levi's not among the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Levi's the thirteenth tribe of Israel.
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Because Joshua, or Joseph's rather,
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has two tribes, Ephraim, Manasseh.
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So are there thirteen tribes? Yes.
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Well, guess what? There's 14 apostles.
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But what does the number twelve represent?
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God's people. It's not about exact numbers,
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it's about what the number represents.
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God's people
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And so he says, I I looked at this city.
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Now he hasn't told you what the city looks like in size yet,
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so you don't really know just exactly how big this foundation really is.
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But he looks at the foundation and written on the foundation,
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of which there are twelve.
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Are the names of the apostles.
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You think Judas' name was on one of them?
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I don't think so.
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I think if John had had his way,
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the only name left off would have been John's.
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But he sees the names of the apostles of the Lamb.
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On the foundations of the city.
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He sees the names of the tribes of Israel on the gates of the city.
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How many thrones were there that were elders were sitting upon
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in Revelation chapter four as John looks into the throne room of God?
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twenty four twelve apostles twelve tribes.
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Twenty-four thrones. It's a picture of God's people.
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So notice, he says.
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Now the wall of the city had twelve foundations,
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and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb,
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and he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city,
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its gates and its wall. Now this is Ezekiel language,
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right? Ezekiel's given a rod and he's told to go measure the city of Jerusalem.
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So he takes this gold reed and he's gonna measure the city and the gates
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and its walls, and the city is laid out as a square,
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and its length is as great as its breadth.
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Okay, well that means it's a what?
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Square. John's not done.
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And he measured the city with the reed twelve thousand furlongs,
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its length and its breadth and its height are equal.
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Fifteen hundred miles.
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One thousand five hundred miles.
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Hmm.
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I don't know about you, but if God's planning on making this on a new heaven
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and a new earth and it happens to be physical,
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we're gonna have to have some restructuring of the laws of gravity.
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And also Elon Musk's satellites are gonna be running into this thing a lot.
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Fifteen hundred miles tall.
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And think about the days of John.
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You think about a city that was impenetrable.
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What did ~ for all those who enjoy the Lord of the Rings series,
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what do you have to do to take a fortress?
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You gotta get over the wall or you gotta get inside the gate.
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But at every gate there's an angel.
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What did one angel do in the days of Hezekiah again to the Assyrian army?
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Hundred and eighty five thousand in one night.
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Good luck with the gates.
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But that's okay. Can't get through the gate.
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We'll get over the wall. Good luck.
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One thousand five hundred miles tall.
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That'll be fun.
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Dad. Yeah. It's quite a ladder.
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What's God saying?
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You only get in if I let you in and there's no nation under heaven defeating this.
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See the pictures of the church.
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And you say, Aaron, I just need to know what floor I'm on.
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~ And where's Michael?
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Michael, you need to work on that elevator.
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Because those steps are really long.
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All right. Thank you for your attention.
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We'll be dismissed. We'll pick up here.