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Prophecy Fulfilled | The Jewish Exiles and their Miraculous Return (Oct 12) · 1 Year Audio Bible Podcast

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  How do you know if the Bible is really true? One of the
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  most powerful things about the Bible is the fact that it is full of
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  hundreds and hundreds of prophecies, some of which have been fulfilled
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  in every detail and others that have not yet been fulfilled.
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  Today we're going to unpack one of the major prophecies that
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  we find in the Bible, and that prophecy is about
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  the scattering of the Jews, the exile of the Jews who would be scattered
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  first to Babylon in 586 BC,
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  and then again another scattering, another exile in 70
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  AD. And then from all of the
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  scattering of all the nations in the world where they've been,
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  and then from all the nations where they've been scattered, they would
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  return to the land and soil of Israel.
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  After being away for hundreds and hundreds of years. This is a
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  major, major prophecy, and it's spoken of in multiple
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  places throughout the Bible. We're going to unpack that today.
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  Yes, the Bible is true. You can count on it.
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  It is absolutely stellar, this prophecy.
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  Listen in. Welcome to the Daily Audio Torah.
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  Today is October 12th. Now let's continue our journey
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  reading through the entire Bible in in one year. This week
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  we are reading from the New Living Translation for the Old Testament and for the
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  New Testament. Exodus 34:1-9.
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  Then the Lord told Moses, Chisel out 2 stone tablets
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  like the first ones. I will write on them the same words that were
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  on the tablets you smashed. Be ready in the morning
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  to climb up Mount Sinai and present yourself to me on the top of the
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  mountain. No one else may come with you. In fact, no one is to
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  appear anywhere on the mountain. Do not even let the flocks or
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  herds graze near the mountain. So Moses chiseled
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  out 2 tablets of stone like the first ones. Early in
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  the morning he climbed Mount Sinai as the Lord had commanded him, and he
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  carried the 2 stone tablets in his hands. Then the Lord
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  came down in a cloud and stood there with him, and He called out His
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  own name. Yahweh. The Lord passed
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  in front of Moses calling out, Yahweh, the Lord,
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  the compassion— the God of compassion and mercy. I am
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  slow to anger and filled with unfailing love and
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  faithfulness. I lavish unfailing love to a thousand
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  generations. I forgive iniquity,
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  rebellion, and sin, but I do not excuse the
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  guilty. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children and
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  grandchildren. The entire family is affected,
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  even children in the 3rd and 4th generations.
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  Moses immediately threw himself to the ground and worshiped.
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  And he said, O Lord, if it is true that I have found favor with
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  you, then please travel with us. Yes,
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  this is a stubborn and rebellious people, But please forgive
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  our iniquity and our sins. Claim us as Your own special
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  possession. The Lord replied,
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  Listen, I am making a covenant with you in the presence of all
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  your people. I will perform miracles that have never been
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  performed anywhere in all the earth or in any nation.
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  And all the people around you will see the power of the Lord,
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  the awesome power I will display Jeremiah
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  19:1-21, 14.
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  The Lord said to me, Jeremiah, go and buy a clay jar.
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  Then ask some of the leaders of the people and of the priests to follow
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  you. Go out into the Valley of the Son of Hinnom
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  by the entrance to the Potsherd Gate and repeat
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  to them the words that I give you. Say to them, Listen to this message
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  from the Lord, you kings of Judah and citizens of Jerusalem.
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  This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I will bring
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  such a terrible disaster on this place that the ears
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  of those who hear about it will ring. For Israel has forsaken
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  me and turned this valley into a place of wickedness.
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  The people burn incense to foreign gods,
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  idols never before worshiped by this generation.
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  By their ancestors or by the kings of Judah,
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  and they have filled this place with the blood of innocent children.
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  They have built pagan shrines to Baal, and there they
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  burn their sons as sacrifices to Baal. I have never commanded
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  such a horrible deed. It never even crossed my mind
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  to command such a thing. So beware, for the time is coming,
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  says the Lord, when this place will no longer be called Topheth
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  or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom. But the Valley of Slaughter.
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  For I will upset the battle plans of Judah and Jerusalem and
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  let invading armies slaughter them. The enemy will leave
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  the dead bodies as food for the vultures and wild animals.
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  I will wipe Jerusalem from the face of the earth, making it a monument
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  to their stupidity. All who pass by will be appalled and will
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  gasp at the destruction they see there. I will see
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  to it that your enemies lay siege to the city until all the
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  food is gone. Then those trapped inside will have to eat their
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  own sons and daughters and friends. They will be driven to utter despair.
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  As these men watch, Jeremiah, smash the jar you brought
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  with you. Then say to them, this is what the Lord Almighty says:
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  As this jar lies shattered, so I will shatter the people of Judah and
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  Jerusalem beyond all hope of repair.
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  They will bury the bodies in Topheth until there is no more room.
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  This is what I will do to this place and its people, says the Lord.
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  I will cause this city to become defiled like Topheth.
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  Yes, all the houses in Jerusalem, including the palace of Judah's
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  kings, will become like Topheth. All the houses where you burned
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  incense on the rooftops to your star gods and where drink offerings
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  were Then Jeremiah
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  returned from Topheth, where he had delivered this message,
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  and he stopped in front of the Temple of the Lord. He said
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  to the people there, This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel,
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  says: I will bring disaster upon this city and
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  its surrounding towns, just as I have promised. You have
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  stubbornly refused to listen to me. Now Pashhur
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  son of Immer, the priest in charge of the Temple of the Lord, heard what
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  Jeremiah was saying. So he arrested Jeremiah the prophet and
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  had him whipped and put in stocks at the Benjamin Gate
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  of the Lord's Temple. The next day, when Pashhur finally released
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  him, Jeremiah said, Pashhur, the Lord has changed your name.
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  From now on, you are to be called the man who lives in terror.
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  For this is what the Lord says: I will send terror upon
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  you and all your friends, and you will watch as they are slaughtered.
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  By the swords of the enemy. I will hand the people of Judah over
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  to the king of Babylon. He will take them captive to Babylon or
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  run them through with the sword. And I will let your enemies plunder Jerusalem.
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  All the famed treasures of the city, the precious jewels and gold
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  and silver of your kings, will be carried off to
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  Babylon. As for you, Pashhur, you and all your
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  household will go as captives to Babylon.
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  There you will die and be buried, you and all your friends to
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  whom you promised that everything would be all right. O Lord,
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  you persuaded me, and I allowed myself to be persuaded.
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  You are stronger than I am, and you overpowered me.
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  Now I am mocked by everyone in the city.
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  Whenever I speak, the words come out in a violent outburst.
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  Violence and destruction! I shout. So these messages
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  from the Lord have made me a household joke, and I can't stop.
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  If I say I'll never mention the Lord or speak in His name, His Word
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  burns in my heart like a fire. It's like a fire in my bones.
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  I am weary of holding it in. I have heard
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  the many rumors about me. They call me the man who lives in terror,
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  and they say, if you say anything, we will report it.
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  Even my old friends are watching me, waiting for a fatal slip.
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  He will trap himself, they say, and then we will get our
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  revenge on him. But the Lord stands beside me like a great
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  warrior. Before him they will stumble. They cannot defeat
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  me. They will be shamed and thoroughly humiliated. Their dishonor
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  will never be forgotten. O Lord Almighty, you know those
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  who are righteous, and you examine the deepest thoughts of hearts and minds.
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  Let me see your vengeance against them, for I have committed my cause
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  to you. Now I will sing out my thanks to the Lord.
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  Praise the Lord! For though I was poor and needy, He delivered
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  me from my oppressors. Yet I
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  curse the day I was born. May the day of my birth not be
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  blessed! I curse the messenger who told my father,
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  Good news! You have a son! Let him be destroyed like the cities of
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  old that the Lord overthrew without mercy. Terrify him all
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  day long with battle shouts, for he did not kill me at birth.
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  Oh, that I had died in my mother's womb, that her body had
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  been my grave! Why was I ever born? My entire life
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  has been filled with trouble, sorrow, and shame.
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  The Lord spoke through Jeremiah when King Zedekiah sent Pashhur son
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  of Malkijah and Zephaniah son of Maaseiah,
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  the priest, to speak with him. They begged Jeremiah,
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  Please ask the Lord to help us. King Nebuchadnezzar
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  of Babylon has begun his attack on Judah.
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  Perhaps the Lord will be gracious and do a mighty miracle, as He
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  has done in the past. Perhaps He will force Nebuchadnezzar to withdraw
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  his armies. Jeremiah replied, Go back to King Zedekiah
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  and tell him, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I
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  will make your weapons useless against the king of
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  Babylon and the Babylonians who are attacking you.
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  Yes, I will bring your enemies right into the heart
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  of this city. I myself will fight against you with great power,
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  for I am very angry. You have made me
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  furious. I will send a terrible plague upon this city, and both
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  animals and people will die. And then the Lord says,
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  even after King Zedekiah, his officials, and everyone else
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  in the city have survived war, famine, and disease,
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  I will hand them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. He will
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  slaughter them all without mercy, pity, or compassion.
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  Tell all the people, this is what the Lord says: Take
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  your choice of life or death. Everyone who stays in Jerusalem will die
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  from war, famine, or disease. But those who go out
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  and surrender to the Babylonians will live. For I have decided
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  to bring disaster and not good upon this city, says the Lord.
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  It will be captured by the king of Babylon, and he will reduce it
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  to ashes. Say to the royal family of Judah,
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  Listen to this message from the Lord. This is what the Lord says
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  to the dynasty of David: Give justice to the people you
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  judge. Help those who have been robbed. Rescue them from
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  their oppressors. Do what is right, or my anger
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  will burn like an unquenchable fire Because of all your sins.
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  I will fight against the city of Jerusalem that boasts,
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  we are safe on our mountain. No one can touch us here. And I Myself
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  will punish you for your sinfulness, says the Lord. I will light a fire
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  in your forests that will burn up everything around you.
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  1 Thessalonians 5:4-28.
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  But you aren't in the dark about these things, dear brothers and sisters,
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  and you won't be surprised when the day of the Lord comes like a thief.
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  For you are all children of the light and of the day.
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  We don't belong to darkness and night. So be on your guard,
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  not asleep like the others. Stay alert and
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  be sober. Night is the time for sleep and the time when people
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  get drunk. But let us who live in the light think clearly,
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  protected by the body armor of faith and love, and wearing
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  as our helmet the confidence of our salvation. For God decided
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  to save us through our Lord Jesus Christ, not to
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  pour out His anger on us. He died for us so
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  that we can live with Him forever, whether we are dead or
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  alive at the time of His return. So encourage
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  each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing.
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  Dear brothers and sisters, honor those who are your leaders in the Lord's
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  work. They work hard among you and warn you against all
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  that is wrong. Think highly of them and give them your
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  wholehearted love because of their work. And remember to
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  live peaceably with each other. Brothers and
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  sisters, we urge you to warn those who are lazy,
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  encourage those who are timid, take tender care of those
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  who are weak, Be patient with everyone.
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  See that no one pays back evil for evil, but always
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  try to do good to each other and to everyone else.
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  Always be joyful. Keep on praying. No matter what
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  happens, always be thankful. For this
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  is God's will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
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  Do not stifle the Holy Spirit. Do not scoff
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  at prophecies. But test everything that is said. Hold on to what
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  is good. Keep away from every kind of evil.
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  Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way,
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  and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless
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  until that day when our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.
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  God who calls you is faithful. He will
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  do this. Dear brothers and sisters,
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  pray for us. Greet all the brothers and sisters in Christian
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  love. I command you in the name of the Lord to read this letter
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  to all the brothers and sisters. And may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
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  be with you all.
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  Psalm 82:1-8.
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  God presides over heaven's court; he pronounces judgment
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  on the judges. How long will you judges hand down unjust
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  decisions? How long will you shower special favors
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  on the wicked? Give fair judgments to the poor and the
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  orphan. Uphold the rights of the oppressed and
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  the destitute. Rescue the poor and helpless.
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  Deliver them from the grasp of evil people. But these
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  oppressors know nothing. They are so ignorant, and because
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  they are in darkness, the whole world is shaken to the core.
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  I say, you are gods and children of the Most High,
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  but in death you are mere men. You will fall as
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  any prince, for all must die. Rise up,
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  O God, and judge the earth, for all the nations belong
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  to you.
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  Proverbs 25:9-10.
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  So discuss the matter with them, your neighbors, privately,
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  Don't tell anyone else, or others may accuse you of gossip.
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  Then you will never regain your good reputation.
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  I want to speak to you today from our reading from Jeremiah chapter
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  20. And what's really always
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  stunning and amazing and awesome
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  to look at in the Word is how God brings forth prophecies and
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  speaks them out through His prophets. And then hundreds
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  of years later, the very specific prophecy is
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  fulfilled and comes to pass. So I
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  want to zoom in on a prophecy that Jeremiah gives to the
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  nation of Israel in Jeremiah chapter
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  20, starting in verse 4, and how this prophecy was fulfilled
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  in every detail. In verse 4, he says, for this is
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  what the Lord says, I will send terror upon you and all your
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  friends, and you will watch as they are slaughtered by the swords of the
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  enemy. I will hand the people of Judah over to the
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  king of Babylon. He will take them captive to Babylon
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  or rend them through with the sword. And I will let
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  your enemies plunder Jerusalem. All the
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  famed treasures of the city, the precious jewels
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  and gold and silver of your kings, will be carried off to
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  Babylon. So he's prophesying and he's warning, he's telling the
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  people of Israel that unless they repent and turn away from their wicked ways
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  and from their idolatry, that they're going to go into captivity
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  to Babylon. And so now I want to add
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  another scripture in there that gives us a timeline of how long will
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  their exile to Babylon be. So in
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  Jeremiah chapter 25, verses 11 and 12,
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  it is written, and this whole land shall be a desolation
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  and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve
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  the king of Babylon for 70 years.
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  So there's a timeline. There's a clock, a prophetic time clock,
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  and God has said that they would go into captivity and into exile for
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  exactly 70 years. Verse 12. And it shall come to
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  pass, when 70 years are accomplished,
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  that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,
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  says the Lord, for their iniquity and the land of the Chaldeans,
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  and will make it perpetual desolations.
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  And then He promises at the end of 70 years that
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  they would return, that they would be able
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  to go back to the land of Israel. So now follow
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  me with this. In Daniel chapter 9,
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  Daniel is in prayer for his people. He is in
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  Babylon. He's one of the exiles that's been taken away to Babylon,
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  and they've been gone for many, many, many years.
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  So in Daniel chapter 9, verse 2, in the first year of his reign— that
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  is King Darius— I Daniel understood by the books of the
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  numbers of the years specified by the word of the Lord through Jeremiah
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  the prophet, that he would accomplish 70 years in
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  the desolations of Jerusalem.
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  And then I set my face toward the Lord God to make requests by
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  prayer and supplications with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
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  So Daniel has an aha, and he realizes Oh,
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  we're only supposed to be in exile for 70 years, and the 70 years are
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  nearly up. He read the scripture that you and I just read
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  in Jeremiah chapter 23,
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  verses 7 and 8. Or actually,
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  it was Jeremiah chapter 25,
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  verses 10 and 11.
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  So now, um, he begins to pray and intercede
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  and ask that the Lord would bring it to pass that the time
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  of exile would come to an end. But now there's another scripture
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  I want to look at because even after they returned back to
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  Jerusalem, then the Jewish people were expelled
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  in 70 AD when the Roman General
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  Titus came in and destroyed Jerusalem, burst through
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  the walls, set the temple on fire, and either killed all of
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  them or took them off into captivity to Rome.
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  And the Jews were not allowed to return to Jerusalem
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  on pain of death. And then began a second
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  exile that lasted for hundreds and hundreds
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  of years. They were exiled to all the nations of the earth.
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  Many of them went up into Rome, up into Europe,
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  across the ocean over to America, over into North
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  Africa, All over the place they went,
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  and they were exiled to all the nations.
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  But in Exodus chapter—
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  or in Deuteronomy chapter 30, there's another promise of another
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  ingathering. There was the first exile to
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  Babylon for 70 years and the second exile that happened in 70 AD
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  with the Romans coming in. And they were exiled for hundreds
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  and hundreds of years, and the Jews had no homeland.
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  They lived in Europe, they lived in America, they lived all over the world.
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  They had no homeland, and there was a lot of persecution
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  and antisemitism and pogroms, crusades, all kinds
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  of horrible things coming against the
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  Jews. Now, in Deuteronomy 30:1-6
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  is a tremendous promise that has been fulfilled in our lifetime.
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  In Deuteronomy chapter 30, verse 1, now it shall come to pass
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  when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse
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  which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all
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  the nations where the Lord your God drives you. Now that's a
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  very interesting verse. This is Moses speaking to the people at the
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  end of their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, and now they're about to
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  go cross the Jordan River and go into the Promised Land.
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  And he says, in that moment, as he's speaking
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  to them, when you remember the blessing and
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  the curse, blessings for obedience, curses and judgments for disobedience,
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  and you call them to mind among all the nations where
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  the Lord your God has driven you. So Moses
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  is looking down the corridor of time, and he sees this
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  future time of Exodus where all the Jews are scattered to the nations
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  of the earth. He's looking beyond the
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  70-year exile in Babylon. He's looking further down the timeline
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  to the second exile when Rome came in. Verse 2,
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  and you return to the Lord your God and obey his voice
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  according to all that I command you today, you and your children,
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  with all your heart and with all your soul. He's saying there's going to come
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  a day when you return to the Lord your God. Verse 3,
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  that the Lord your God will bring you back from
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  captivity and have compassion on you and gather
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  you again from all the nations where
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  the Lord your God has scattered you. So he's talking about
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  the second time of being exiled, not the
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  first time, because the first time they went to one place,
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  Babylon. The second time that Jerusalem
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  and Israel was invaded and conquered, They went to all the nations
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  of the earth, and that's the exile that he's talking about, that he's
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  speaking to and prophesying to. He says, you're going to be gathered again from
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  all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you.
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  Verse 4, if any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven,
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  from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will bring
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  you. Then the Lord your God will
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  bring you to the land which your fathers possessed,
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  and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply
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  you more than your fathers.
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  How has that been fulfilled? On May 14th,
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  1948, the nation of Israel was reborn out
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  of the ashes of the Holocaust. The nation
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  was reborn. And in Ezekiel,
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  Um, this is another, uh, slant or
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  perspective on how this prophecy of the ingathering of the
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  Jews from all the nations of the earth would one
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  day be accomplished, that they would be ingathered and they would return
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  to the land. It says in Ezekiel chapter
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  37— remember now, this is when Ezekiel is looking at a big valley
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  filled with dry dead bones and they're all scattered throughout
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  the valley. And then God tells him to prophesy to these bones that they would
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  assemble, that they would be put together,
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  that they would have flesh and sinew and muscle and skin.
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  And in verse 12, it says, therefore prophesy and say to them,
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  that is the bones, thus says the Lord God, behold, O my people,
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  I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves
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  and bring you into into the land of Israel.
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  And this literally has been fulfilled. The Jews were scattered
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  to all the nations of the earth, and then the Holocaust occurred back
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  in the 1940s. 6 million Jews were murdered,
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  were slaughtered in the German ovens.
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  But out of that, on May 14th,
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  1948, the nation of Israel was reborn, and the
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  Jews could now make Aliyah and go to their homeland.
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  And be safe and protected, that it's a Jewish state,
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  the one and only Jewish state. This is a miracle.
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  Normally, when a nation and a people are scattered to all the nations
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  of the earth, they forget their identity, they forget their language,
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  they forget everything about who they are as a people, and they usually get
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  assimilated into the culture where they're living.
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  And yet God was able to protect and preserve the Jewish
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  people, their identity, and their culture, He revived the dead
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  language of Hebrew and brought it back to life again, and their
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  identity was protected. So that's
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  yet another prophecy about the Jews returning to the land of Israel,
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  and we've seen it here in our lifetime, May 14th,
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  1948. Here's another prophecy about the miraculous
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  rebirth of the nation of Israel. In Isaiah chapter 66,
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  starting in verse 7, Before she was in labor, she gave
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  birth. Before her pain came, she delivered a male
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  child. I believe that's referring to Jesus,
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  that he was born. Now verse 8,
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  who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things?
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  Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day,
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  or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon
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  as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children. Now I
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  think this is, um, sometimes prophecies are fulfilled
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  in part, partially, and then they're fulfilled again.
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  It's called a double fulfillment. And I believe
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  this has been partially fulfilled, but not in all of the fullness.
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  The fullness of this prophecy has not yet happened. So shall
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  a nation be born at once in one day? Yes,
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  the nation of Israel was born in one day on May 14th,
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  1948. It was a miracle. And within 24 hours,
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  she was at war with all of the Arab hostile Arab nations around
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  her who attacked her immediately. So we have seen the partial
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  fulfillment of this prophecy, but it has not
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  been fulfilled in all of its fullness. So Israel is still a
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  secular nation. It's not Zion, Zion being the biblical
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  Zion. So there's more of that to be
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  unfolded. And finally, one more
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  prophecy I'll share about the ingathering of the Jews and bringing
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  them back to the land, that it was prophesied and then God has fulfilled
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  it. Jeremiah 23:7-8,
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  Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that they
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  shall no longer say, As the Lord lives, who brought up the children of Israel
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  from the land of Egypt. That's referring back to the first
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  Exodus when the Jews left Egypt,
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  the very first Passover. But verse 8,
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  as the Lord lives, who brought up and led the descendants of
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  the house of Israel from the north country and from all the countries where I
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  have driven them, and they shall dwell in their own
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  land. So God scattered them,
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  exiled them, but He also promised that
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  He would ingather them and bring them back to the land of Israel.
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  And so He's kept His word. It's amazing
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  to see how this prophecy has been fulfilled.
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  All right, that's all I have for today. Have a blessed day, and we will
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  see you tomorrow. Shalom.
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  Yevrekka Adonai,
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  v'ishmerekka
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  Yahweh Adonai.
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  And now we look up,
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  we connect.
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  Yes, I don't know.
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  Now here we come,
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  we say, look up.
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  The Aaronic Blessing from Numbers chapter 6,
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  24 to 26.
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  Adonai bless you and keep you.
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  Adonai make his face to shine upon you and be gracious
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  to you. Adonai lift up his countenance upon
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  you and give you peace.