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From Exile to Rebirth | The Miracle of Israel! (Oct 17) · 1 Year Audio Bible Podcast

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  The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said,
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  this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Write
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  down for the record everything I have to say to you, Jeremiah,
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  for the time is coming when I will restore the fortunes
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  of my people of Israel and Judah. I will bring them home
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  to this land that I gave to their ancestors,
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  and they will possess it and live here again. I, the Lord,
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  have spoken. This prophecy was given hundreds
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  and hundreds of years ago, and in May of
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  1948, this prophecy came to
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  be fulfilled, and the nation of Israel was reborn.
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  It began— the nation was desolate,
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  arid, stripped, no infrastructure, no plumbing,
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  no electricity, no roads, but in just a
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  few decades, the nation has blossomed and bloomed
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  and become green and become a major regional agricultural
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  producer. It's a startup nation.
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  It's high-tech, and the Lord's favor
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  and blessing has been greatly upon this nation.
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  Listen in as we unpack today Jeremiah 31 and 32,
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  the many promises that though the Lord scattered
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  the Jewish people, He promises to gather them
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  and to put them back in the land of their origin.
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  Welcome to the One Year Audio Bible Podcast.
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  Today is October 17th.
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  Now let's continue our journey reading through the entire Bible in
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  one year. This week we are reading from the New Living Translation for
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  the Old Testament and for the New Testament.
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  Leviticus 23:1-44.
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  The Lord said to Moses, give the following instructions to the
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  people of Israel. These are the Lord's appointed festivals,
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  which you are to proclaim as official days for holy assembly.
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  You have 6 days each week for your ordinary work, but the
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  7th day is a Sabbath day of complete rest. An official
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  day for holy assembly. It is the Lord's Sabbath day,
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  and it must be observed wherever you live.
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  In addition to the Sabbath, these are the Lord's appointed festivals,
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  the official days for holy assembly, that are
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  to be celebrated at their proper times each year.
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  The Lord's Passover begins at sundown on the 14th day
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  of the first month. On the next day, the 15th day of
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  the month, you must begin celebrating the Festival of Unleavened Bread.
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  This festival to the Lord continues for 7 days,
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  and during that time the bread you eat must be made without yeast.
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  On the first day of the festival, all the children must stop their
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  ordinary work and observe an official day for holy assembly.
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  For 7 days you must present special gifts to the Lord.
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  On the 7th day, the people must again stop all their ordinary
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  work to observe an official day for holy assembly.
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  Then the Lord said to Moses, Give the following instructions
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  to the people of Israel. When you enter the land I am
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  giving you and you harvest its first crops,
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  bring the priest a bundle of grain from the first cutting of your grain harvest.
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  On the day after the Sabbath, the priest will lift it up before the Lord
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  so it may be accepted on your behalf. On that
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  same day you must sacrifice a 1-year-old male lamb with no defects
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  as a burnt offering to the Lord. With it you must present a grain offering
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  consisting of 4 quarts of choice flour moistened with
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  olive oil. It will be a special gift, a pleasing
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  aroma to the Lord. You must also offer
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  1 quart of wine as a liquid offering.
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  Do not eat any bread or roasted grain or fresh kernels
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  on that day until you bring this offering to your God. This is a
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  permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation
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  wherever you live. From the
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  day after the Sabbath, the day you bring the bundle of grain to be
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  lifted up as a special offering,
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  count off 7 full weeks. Keep counting
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  until the day after the 7th Sabbath, 50 days later.
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  Then present an offering of new grain to the Lord.
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  From wherever you live, bring 2 loaves of bread to be lifted up
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  before the Lord as a special offering. Make these loaves from
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  4 quarts of choice flour and bake them with
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  yeast. They will be an offering to the Lord from the first of your
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  crops. Along with the bread, present 7
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  1-year-old male lambs with no defects, 1 young bull,
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  and 2 rams as burnt offerings to the Lord.
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  These burnt offerings, together with the grain offerings and liquid offerings,
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  will be a special gift a pleasing aroma
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  to the Lord. Then you must offer 1 male goat
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  as a sin offering and 2 1-year-old male lambs as
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  a peace offering. The priests will lift up the 2 lambs as
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  a special offering to the Lord, together with the loaves representing
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  the first of your crops. These offerings,
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  which are holy to the Lord, belong to the priests. That same
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  day will be proclaimed an official day for holy assembly a
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  day on which you do no ordinary work.
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  This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation
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  to generation wherever you live. When you harvest the crops
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  of your land, do not harvest the grain along the edges of
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  your fields, and do not pick up what the harvesters drop. Leave it
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  for the poor and the foreigners living among you. I am the Lord your God.
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  The Lord said to Moses, Give the following instructions to the
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  people of Israel. On the first day of the appointed month in early
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  autumn you are to observe a day of complete rest.
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  It will be an official day for holy assembly, a day
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  commemorated with loud blasts of a trumpet. You must
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  do no ordinary work on that day; instead, you are to present
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  special gifts to the Lord. Then the Lord said to
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  Moses, Be careful to celebrate the Day of Atonement on the
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  10th day of that same month, 9 days after the Festival
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  of Trumpets. You must observe it as an official day
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  for holy assembly, a day to deny yourselves and present special
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  gifts to the Lord. Do no work
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  during that entire day because it is the Day of Atonement,
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  when offerings of purification are made for you,
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  making you right with the Lord your God.
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  All who do not deny themselves that day will be cut off from God's
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  people. And I will destroy anyone among you who does any
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  work on that day. You must not do
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  any work at all. This is a permanent law for you, and it must
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  be observed from generation to generation wherever you live.
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  This will be a Sabbath day of complete rest for you, and on that
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  day you must deny yourselves. This day of rest will begin at
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  sundown on the 9th day of the month and extend until
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  sundown on the 10th day.
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  And the Lord said to Moses, Give the following instructions to the
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  people of Israel. Begin celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles on
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  the 15th day of the appointed month, 5 days
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  after the Day of Atonement. This festival to the Lord
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  will last for 7 days. On the first day of the festival
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  you must proclaim an official day for holy assembly when you
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  do no ordinary work. For 7 days
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  you must present special gifts to the Lord. The 8th
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  day is another holy day on which you present your special
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  gifts to the Lord. This will be a solemn assembly,
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  and no ordinary work may be done on that day.
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  These are the Lord's appointed festivals. Celebrate them each
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  year as official days for holy assembly by
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  presenting special gifts to the Lord— burnt offerings,
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  grain offerings, sacrifices, and liquid offerings— each on
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  its proper day. These festivals must be observed in
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  addition to the Lord's regular Sabbath days, and the offerings
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  are in addition to your personal gifts, the offerings you give
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  to fulfill your vows, and the voluntary offerings you present to
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  the Lord. Remember, the that this 7-day festival
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  to the Lord, the Feast of Tabernacles, begins on the 15th day
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  of the appointed month, after you have harvested all the produce of
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  the land. The 1st day and the 8th day of the festival
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  will be days of complete rest.
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  On the 1st day gather branches from magnificent trees,
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  palm fronds, boughs from leafy trees and willows that
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  grow by the streams. Then celebrate with joy before the Lord
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  your God for 7 days. You must observe
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  this festival to the Lord for 7 days every year. This is
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  a permanent law for you, and it must be observed in the appointed month
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  from generation to generation. For 7 days
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  you must live outside in little shelters.
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  All native-born Israelites must live in shelters.
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  This will remind each new generation of Israelites
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  that I made their ancestors live in shelters when I rescued
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  them from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your
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  God. So Moses gave the Israelites
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  these instructions regarding the annual festivals of
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  the Lord. Jeremiah 30:1-31:26.
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  The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, this is
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  what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Write down for
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  the record everything I have said to you, Jeremiah. For the time is
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  coming when I will restore the fortunes of my people of
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  Israel and Judah. I will bring them home to this land
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  that I gave to their ancestors, and they will possess it and live here
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  again. I, the Lord, have spoken.
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  This is the message the Lord gave concerning Israel and Judah.
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  This is what the Lord says: I have heard the people crying.
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  There is only fear and trembling. Now let me ask you a question.
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  Do men give birth to babies? Then why do they stand there
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  ashen-faced, hands pressed against their sides like women
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  about to give birth? In all history, there has never been such
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  a time of terror. It will be a time of trouble for My
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  people Israel. Yet, in the end,
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  they will be saved. For in that day,
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  says the Lord Almighty, I will break the yoke from
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  their necks and snap their chains. Foreigners will no longer be their
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  masters. For My people will serve the Lord their God and
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  David their king, whom I will raise up for them. So do not
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  be afraid, Jacob, My servant. Do not be dismayed,
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  Israel, says the Lord. For I will bring you home
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  again from distant lands, and your children
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  will return from their exile. Israel will
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  return and will have peace and quiet in their own land,
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  and no one will make them afraid. For I am with you
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  and will save you, says the Lord. I will completely destroy the
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  nations where I have scattered you. But I will not destroy you.
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  But I must discipline you. I cannot let you go unpunished.
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  This is what the Lord says: Yours is an incurable bruise,
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  a terrible wound. There is no one to help you or bind up
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  your injury. You are beyond the help of any medicine.
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  All your allies have left you and do not care about you anymore.
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  I have wounded you cruelly, as though I were your enemy.
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  For your sins are many and your guilt is great.
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  Why do you protest your punishment, this wound
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  that has no cure? I have had to punish you because your sins
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  are many and your guilt is great.
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  But in that coming day, all who destroy you will
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  be destroyed, and all your enemies will be sent into exile.
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  Those who plunder you will be plundered,
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  and those who attack you will be attacked. I will
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  give you back your health and heal your wounds, says the Lord.
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  Now you are called an outcast,
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  Jerusalem, for whom nobody cares. But the
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  Lord says this: When I bring you home again from your captivity and
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  restore your fortunes, Jerusalem will be rebuilt
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  on her ruins. The palace will be reconstructed
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  as it was before. There will be joy and songs of thanksgiving,
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  and I will multiply my people and make of them a great and
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  honored nation. Their children will prosper
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  as they did long ago. I will establish them
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  as a nation before Me, and I will punish anyone who hurts
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  them. They will have their own ruler again,
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  and he will not be a foreigner. I will invite him to approach
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  Me, says the Lord, for who would dare to come unless invited?
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  You will be My people, and I will be your God.
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  Look, the Lord's anger bursts out like a storm, a driving
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  wind that swirls down on the heads of the wicked.
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  The fierce anger of the Lord will not diminish until it has
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  finished all His plans. In the days to come you
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  will understand all this.
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  In that day, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families
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  of Israel, and they will be My people.
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  I will care for the survivors as they travel through the wilderness.
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  I will again come to give rest to the people
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  of Israel. Long ago the Lord said to Israel,
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  I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love.
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  With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.
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  I will rebuild you, my virgin Israel.
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  You will again be happy. And dance merrily with tambourines.
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  Again, you will plant your vineyards on the mountains
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  of Samaria and eat from your own gardens there.
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  The day will come when watchmen will shout from the hill country of Ephraim,
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  Come, let us go up to Jerusalem to worship
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  the Lord our God! Now this is what the Lord says: Sing
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  with joy for Israel! Shout for the greatest of nations!
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  Shout out with praise and joy! Save Your people,
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  O Lord, the remnant of Israel! For I will
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  bring them from the north and from the distant corners of the earth.
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  I will not forget the blind and the lame, expectant mothers
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  and women about to give birth. A great company will
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  return. Tears of joy will stream down their faces,
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  and I will lead them home with great care. They will walk beside
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  quiet streams and not stumble, for I am Israel's
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  Father and Ephraim is My oldest child.
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  Listen to this message from the Lord, you nations of the world; proclaim
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  it in distant coastlands: The Lord who scattered
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  His people will gather them together and watch over them as
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  a shepherd does his flock. For the Lord has redeemed
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  Israel from those too strong for them. They will come home and sing
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  songs of joy on the heights of Jerusalem. They will be
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  radiant because of the many gifts the Lord has
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  given them— the good crops of wheat and wine and
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  oil, and the healthy flocks and herds. Their life will be
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  like a watered garden, and all their sorrows will be gone.
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  The young women will dance for joy, and the men, old and
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  young, will join in the celebration.
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  I will turn their mourning into joy. I will comfort them
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  and exchange their sorrow for rejoicing. I will supply the
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  priests with an abundance of offerings. I will satisfy
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  My people with My bounty. I, the Lord, have spoken.
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  This is what the Lord says: A cry of anguish is heard in
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  Ramah, mourning and weeping unrestrained.
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  Rachel weeps for her children, refusing to be comforted,
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  for her children are dead. But now the Lord says,
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  Do not weep any longer, for I will reward you.
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  Your children will come back to you from the distant land of
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  the enemy. There is hope for your future, says the Lord.
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  Your children will come again to their own land.
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  I have heard Israel saying, You disciplined me severely,
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  but I deserved it. I was like a calf that needed to be trained for
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  the yoke and plow. Turn me again to You and restore me,
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  for You alone are the Lord my God.
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  I turned away from God, but then I was sorry.
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  I kicked myself for my stupidity. I was thoroughly
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  ashamed of all I did in my younger days. Is not
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  Israel still My son, My darling child?
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  asks the Lord. I had to punish him, but I still
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  love him. I long for him and surely
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  will have mercy on him.
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  Set up road signs, put up guideposts,
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  mark well the path by which you came. Come back again,
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  my virgin Israel, return to your cities here.
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  How long will you wander, my wayward daughter? For the Lord will
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  cause something new and different to happen.
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  Israel will embrace her God. This is what
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  the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: When I bring them back again,
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  the people of Judah and its cities will again say,
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  The Lord bless you, O righteous home, O holy mountain!
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  And city dwellers and farmers and shepherds alike will live together
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  in peace and happiness, for I have given rest to the weary
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  and joy to the sorrowing. At this I woke up and
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  looked around. My sleep had been very sweet.
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  1 Timothy 2:1-15.
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  I, Paul, urge you, Timothy, first of all to pray for all
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  people. As you make your own requests,
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  plead for God's mercy upon them and give thanks.
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  Pray this way for kings and all others who are in authority, so that we
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  can live in peace and quietness, in godliness and dignity.
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  This is good and pleases God our Savior, for he wants everyone
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  to be saved and to understand the truth. For there
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  is only one God and one mediator who can reconcile God
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  and people. He is the man Christ Jesus.
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  He gave his life to purchase freedom for everyone.
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  This is the message that God gave to the world at the proper time.
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  And I have been chosen— this is the absolute truth— as a
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  preacher and apostle to teach the Gentiles about faith and
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  truth. So wherever you assemble,
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  I want men to pray with holy hands lifted up to God,
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  free from anger and controversy. And I want
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  women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent
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  and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by
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  the way they fix their hair, or by wearing gold or pearls
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  or expensive clothes. For women who claim to be
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  devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good
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  things they do. Women should listen and learn quietly
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  and submissively. I do not let women teach men or
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  have authority over them. Let them listen quietly.
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  For God made Adam first, and afterward he made Eve.
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  And it was the woman Not Adam, who was deceived by
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  Satan and sin was the result. But women will be saved
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  through childbearing and by continuing to live in faith,
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  love, holiness, and modesty.
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  Psalm 87:1-7.
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  On the holy mountain stands the city founded by the Lord. He loves
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  the city of Jerusalem more than any other city in
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  Israel. O city of God, what glorious things
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  are said of you! I will record Egypt and Babylon
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  among those who know me, also Philistia and Tyre
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  and even distant Ethiopia. They have all become
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  citizens of Jerusalem. And it will be said of Jerusalem,
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  everyone has become a citizen here. And the Most High
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  will personally bless this city. When the Lord registers
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  the nations, he will say, this one has become a citizen of Jerusalem.
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  At all the festivals the people will sing, The source of my
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  life is in Jerusalem.
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  Proverbs 25:18-19. Telling lies
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  about others is as harmful as hitting them with an ax,
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  wounding them with a sword, or shooting them with a sharp
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  arrow. Putting confidence in an unreliable
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  person is like chewing with a toothache. Or walking
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  on a broken foot.
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  I'd like to speak to you today from our reading from Jeremiah chapter 30
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  and 31. And Jeremiah
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  talks about a beautiful promise, a prophetic
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  word coming from the Lord. He's given a lot of warning about
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  coming judgment, about the nation of Israel, the people being
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  scattered and going into exile and going to Babylon. For a specific
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  amount of time, for 70 years. But then there
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  are some words of hope. And in Jeremiah
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  chapter 30, starting in verse 1, it says, the Lord gave another message to
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  Jeremiah and he said, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says,
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  write down for the record everything I have said to you,
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  Jeremiah, for the time is coming when I will
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  restore the fortunes of my people Israel and Judah.
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  I will bring them home to this land that I gave
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  to their ancestors, and they will possess it and
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  live here again. I, the Lord,
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  have spoken. This is an incredible miracle.
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  So what happened was they were put into exile to Babylon,
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  and then in— after 70 years, they returned.
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  But then again, in 70 AD,
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  Rome came in and conquered. And the Roman general
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  Titus punched through the outer wall, the inner
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  wall, and set fire
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  to the palace and to the temple. And then they,
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  they conquered Jerusalem. When the
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  Romans took over, they changed the name of Jerusalem to Palestina.
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  And they said no Jews could live there on pain of death.
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  And thus began an exile of
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  the scattering of the people for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of
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  years. And so the Jewish people were scattered up
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  into Europe, into Africa,
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  into Asia, and on into North America.
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  They were scattered to all the nations of the earth.
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  And then a miracle happened in May of 1948.
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  In the ashes of the Holocaust, after World War II
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  was over and more than 6 million Jews had been slaughtered
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  by the Nazis, the nation of Israel
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  was reborn on May 14th,
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  1948. And when they first
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  were reborn, the nation was desolate.
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  The land had been salted. It was a barren,
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  desolate place. There was no infrastructure, no roads,
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  no plumbing, no electricity. And the
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  very promises that God has made about how he would take his scattered people
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  and bring them back to the land have truly come to pass.
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  He says in verse 10, for I will bring you
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  home again from distant lands, and your children will will return
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  from their exile. Israel will return and will have peace
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  and quiet in their own land, and no one will make them afraid.
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  And He goes on to say in verse 20, I will establish them as a
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  nation before Me, and I will punish anyone who hurts
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  them. So this has become truly
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  an amazing prophecy has come true.
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  Israel has become one of the most top
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  international producers of agriculture, and they use
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  drip irrigation. So they have palm trees and olive groves
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  and pomegranate groves and avocado groves,
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  and they export flowers, and they are an exporter
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  of all kinds of food. They are very well-developed
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  now, and they're also producing— they're high in technology.
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  So they're a startup nation, and many startup companies
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  thrive in Israel. So it goes on
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  to say in Jeremiah chapter 31, verse 3,
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  long ago the Lord said to Israel, I have loved you,
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  my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing
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  love I have drawn you to myself.
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  And he goes on and he just repeats the promise over and over
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  and over again. In verse 10, it says,
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  listen to this message from the Lord, you nations of the world. Proclaim it in
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  distant coastlands. The Lord who scattered his people
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  will gather them together and watch over them as a
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  shepherd does his flock. For the Lord has redeemed
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  Israel from those too strong for them.
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  They will come home and sing songs of joy on the heights of
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  Jerusalem. They will be radiant because of the
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  many gifts the Lord has given them: the good crops,
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  the wine, the oil, and the healthy flocks and herds.
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  And so the last verse I want to bring in here
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  is verse 20. Is not Israel still My son,
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  My darling child? asks the Lord. I had to punish
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  him, but I still love him. I long
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  for him and surely will have mercy on him.
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  Now, if any of you have a
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  grown child that has wandered away
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  from the faith, wandered away from the Lord,
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  and they are a prodigal, and your heart aches
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  and longs to see them return to the family of God,
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  return to Jesus Christ. The Lord Himself,
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  God the Father, has that heart,
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  the same heart that you have. He sees
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  the nation of Israel like His son,
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  and the nation was punished The people
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  were sent off into exile and they wandered and really had
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  no home. The Jewish people, when they settled in Europe,
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  there were pogroms where they were expelled, expelled from Spain,
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  expelled from England, expelled from Germany,
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  expelled from Russia, and they had to just keep moving
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  on, going to the next place. They've never— and today,
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  the incredible huge spike
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  in antisemitism and Jew hatred ever since
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  October 7th, 2023. Jews are being attacked,
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  they're being assaulted, they're being barred from being able to get
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  to class on college campuses. Really, the safest
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  place on the planet for a Jewish person anymore is to be in
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  Israel. So The Jewish
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  people as a nation, it's a miracle. It's a huge sign of
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  the nearness of the return of the Lord because a nation
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  that was scattered somehow was able to maintain their own
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  identity as a nation and as a people,
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  that they have a common language, a common culture, that they keep
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  the Sabbath, they read the Torah, and they wear
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  tzitzit. And so they were able to maintain themselves
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  as a separate, distinct people group.
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  And so this is a miracle that we've seen in our time, the rebirth
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  of the nation of Israel. And God is not finished with Israel.
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  God has a plan for the nation and the people of Israel.
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  And so He
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  loves the nation of Israel, and there's a time coming where He's going
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  to It says in Romans, so shall all
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  Israel be saved. Okay, that's all
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  I have for today. Have a blessed day and we'll see you tomorrow.