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804. Bible Study: Jeremiah 51 (Babylon Past and Future Prophecy, see also the Book of Revelation, Daniel and Isaiah, and more prophets). · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 51 of Jeremiah. This one's another interesting
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  one because there is a definite prophecy about Nebuchadnezzar
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  and Babylon being destroyed at that time.
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  But this is also another one of those prophecies that appears to
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  have some similarities to future prophecy, and maybe in our
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  future too. And as we've noticed in the
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  Bible, history repeats itself. So let's get started with a
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  prayer first. Dear God, please be with us as
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  we read through this chapter and give us wisdom and insight from
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  the Holy Spirit. Answer questions we may have and
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  let us know the what you want us to take away from this.
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  We ask this in Jesus name, Amen. So this is what the Lord says.
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  See, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon
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  and the people of Leb Kemi. I'm going to pause right there.
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  The very first sentence that this has a lot of we have to go
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  back again and I I repeat this so often, but I think it's so
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  important that Ephesians 612 how we are not wrestling against
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  people, but there is a spirit behind these things and this is
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  what God is saying. See, I will stir up the spirit
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  of a destroyer. So we are mind body in spirit
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  and so our spirit is influenced in the spiritual realm just like
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  with God and worshipping God. It says those who truly worship
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  me will worship me in spirit. I hadn't looked that up but I
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  was just that just came to me right now as I'm starting to
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  read this. So The Who we worship is is a
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  spiritual thing. And because a spirit is
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  something unseen, we can't always recognize it.
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  So. But I want to give some other
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  examples in future. In the future.
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  It says in Revelation Chapter 9 verse 11, they had as king over
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  them the Angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon
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  and in Greek is Apollyon. That is destroyer.
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  So there's an Angel of the abyss and the name is ultimately
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  Destroyer. That's what this name is.
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  And so it says God is saying, see, I will stir up the spirit
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  of a destroyer. So this again, it's showing how
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  the spiritual realm like God stirs up the spirit and the
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  spirit influences people. Now when we go to a another
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  verse and about when God has done this before in Exodus he
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  did this so in second Kings chapter 19 verse 35, it says
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  that night the Angel of the Lord, an Angel is sometimes
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  called messenger. The Angel of the Lord went out
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  and to death. 100 And oh I'm sorry, this is not this is not
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  the the Exodus, but there is an Angel of death in Exodus.
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  So I take that back. This is about during a battle
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  and it was written twice 1st and 2nd Kings 1935 and secondly in
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  Isaiah 3736 where God used an Angel and he put to death
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  185,000 in the Assyrian camp when the people got up the next
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  morning there were all these dead bodies.
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  So this is where God supernaturally defended Israel
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  and took care of it that way. I had meant and I I didn't look
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  at it this in Egypt during the Exodus when the first born were
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  killed that was the Angel of death as well.
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  So I want to look that up to get those actual verses for that.
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  Gosh, I can't find it first born.
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  All right, I am not finding it, but the let's see, I'll look at
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  Passover because that's when it was, was Passover, Passover,
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  Exodus 12. Oh no, that's this.
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  It is the Passover sacrifice that OK, so Passover is
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  reminiscent of it where it's when the Angel of death passed
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  over the homes of the Israelites, so that not, you
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  know, the ones who had been marked by the blood of the lamb,
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  which was again symbolic of Jesus.
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  And it protected them. The blood of the lamb on their
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  doorpost protected the people who were in Egypt from the Angel
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  of death. And I, I wanted to find that
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  actual verse here, but I just am not finding it, which is OK.
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  So it's OK. It is in Exodus chapter 12.
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  And he gave them warning. Well, it talks about it's that's
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  talking about Passover, the actual festival and remembering
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  it, the actual event. I'm not, I should have looked it
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  up because this is not working well in a live podcast.
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  So anyway, just it is in the Bible that there was this, this
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  Angel of death that went throughout Egypt and killed the
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  first born. But anyone who had their door,
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  their doorways marked with the blood of the lamb, as God had
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  told them to do, they were all spared.
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  And so this is, you know, another time what I was trying
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  to get to was another time when God sent a destroyer and two to
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  take care of business for him. And then there is another one in
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  first Kings chapter 22, verse 22, where God does this again
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  and actually will start at at verse 20.
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  And the Lord said who will entice Ahab?
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  Ahab was a king into attacking Rhemoth Gilead and going to his
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  death there. One suggested this and another
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  that. Finally a spirit came forward,
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  stood before the Lord and said, I will entice him.
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  By what means, The Lord asked. I will go out and be a deceiving
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  spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.
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  He said. You will succeed in enticing
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  him, said the Lord. Go and do it.
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  So now the Lord is deceiving spirit in the mouths of all
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  these prophets of yours. The Lord has declared, declared
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  decreed disaster for you. So this shows again how this is
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  in the presence of the Lord. So it was Mike, Micaiah
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  continued. Therefore hear the word of the
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  Lord. I saw the Lord sitting on his
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  throne with all the multitudes of heaven standing around around
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  him on his right and on his left.
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  So this prophet had a, a vision where he saw the Lord and he
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  was, you know, asking like who's going to entice him?
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  So these are things that this prophet saw and God actually did
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  this like God is in control. So God gave this spirit the
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  authority to go and do this. So again we see that God is
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  doing it again. He's saying, see, I will stir up
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  the spirit of a destroyer. So God uses people, spirits who
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  have desires of their own to accomplish his purpose, like he
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  needed this to happen to accomplish his purpose.
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  And so he allows the free will of something other.
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  But it doesn't mean that they go without harm.
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  Like they can do what they want to do, but that doesn't mean
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  that they won't be punished. We'll see this later for if it
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  something, you know, evil. So anyway, this is, let's see,
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  it says what is what? OK, Why say Leb Kamae instead of
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  Babylon? We don't know.
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  The phrase can be literally translated.
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  The heart of those who rise against me.
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  Other cryptograms, OK, it talks about it's a cryptogram, so it
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  gives a special name, but it means a heart of those who rise
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  against me. So so God is going against the
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  people whose hearts are turned against him and it says I will
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  send foreigners to Babylon. Now we have to also remember
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  that ancient Babylon is modern day Iraq.
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  We talked about that in the last chapter 2 So I will send
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  foreigners to Babylon to winnow her and devastate her land.
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  They will oppose her on every side.
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  So again, think about this. They're opposing on every side.
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  And when we, you know, it talks about an alliance coming against
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  Babylon and, and we'll see that a little bit later as well.
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  So it's going to be kind of surrounding her on every side.
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  In the day of her disaster. Let not the Archer string his
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  bow nor let him put on his armor.
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  Do not spare her young men, completely destroy her army.
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  They will fall down. Slain in Babylon, fatally
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  wounded in her streets. For Israel and Judah have not
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  been forsaken by the Lord, their the, the by their God, the Lord
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  Almighty, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy
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  One of Israel. So right here God is saying that
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  even though Israel is guilty, they have not been forsaken.
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  They have not been forgotten. God is still standing up for
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  them even though even through their guilt because God stands
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  by his word, people may not, but God does so then continuing it
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  says flee from from Babylon, run for your lives.
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  Do not destroy, be destroyed because of her sins.
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  So here is another place where it has somewhat of a repetition
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  because it talks about the sins like idolatry, a false God.
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  Again, this is very repetitious throughout the history of the
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  Bible is seeking other things, going to other entities instead
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  of going to God. And that's how people get
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  destroyed when they worship something else.
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  And in this case, we're going to see kind of like we talked about
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  in the last chapter, how there are spiritual entities that
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  people worship, maybe knowingly or unknowingly, or they're
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  influenced by them. And this is a warning to all
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  people that we all need to turn to God and, and to be when we
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  turn to God, we're protected in that way.
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  Like God is in control of everything that goes on.
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  And he will be the one that can keep us from harm, can protect
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  us, but we have to stay close to him.
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  We can't be half in, half out and be worshipping other
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  entities like we were talking about before.
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  There's all these different names that these other gods, you
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  know, like Baal, Baal, Marduk, Kemesh, Molek, Ishtar, Inana,
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  Ashtarath, all those things. Those are all like other
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  entities, I think spiritual entities that made themselves
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  known to others and presented themselves like gods to people.
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  And people worship them because as we learned in the prior
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  chapter, they were making cakes and praying to the queen of
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  Heaven. And then they they stopped it
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  for a bit. But when they stopped it, things
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  didn't work out well for them. So then they went back to this
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  and God was just so frustrated with them.
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  They were thinking that and they were thinking they were being
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  punished because they stopped worshipping basically, or the
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  Queen of Heaven. But in reality they were being
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  punished because they were doing that.
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  And so they had no discernment. They didn't know what was going
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  on. But again, God repeatedly allows
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  for destruction of people who are worshipping something else
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  other than God. So it's a word of warning to all
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  of us that we need to be very careful that we don't put
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  something as a greater priority than God.
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  So it says here, it is the time for the Lord's vengeance.
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  He will repay her what she deserves.
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  Again, we have to remember that God is just and it's very much
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  like we see that I I this verse came to mind about what Jesus
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  said and a little bit later. Like do unto others as you would
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  have them do unto you. And I think there is much more
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  to that. I mean, it's like, OK, everybody
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  be kind because you want other people to be kind to you.
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  Well, that's one way of looking at it.
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  But the other way is that God is just.
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  And if we are doing evil things to other people, then the way
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  the Bible shows us, it looks like that stuff will be done to
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  us. The stuff we do to others is
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  going to come upon us, whether it's in this life or at
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  judgement time. God will have justice happen.
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  So, you know, it says like it is time.
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  So there's a specific time that God waits for these things to
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  happen. It is time for the Lord's
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  vengeance. He will repay her for what she
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  deserves. Now as far as judgment goes, it
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  does seem that, you know, God doesn't usually do a well, He
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  does have a final judgement at some point, but he often gives
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  us many warnings before his final judgement.
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  And we don't know when that's going to be for each of us, like
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  when our own life ends, because that's when judgement will occur
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  for us. But along the way, God will give
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  us opportunities and sometimes we ignore them, but we, if we
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  were wise, we would listen when we get that feeling of I should
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  be doing this and it's something that God says is good.
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  You know, when we get that feeling, we need to follow
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  through with doing what we, what we get the feeling about when
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  it's in accordance with God's word, because that's probably
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  the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God trying to influence us,
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  trying to get us to wake up, but we don't always respond to it.
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  And that's like these people of Israel.
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  If we quit, if we stop responding to God, it's only
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  going to be destruction that occurs.
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  And that's historically repeated throughout the Bible.
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  So it says, you know, God, God repays for what is deserved.
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  Now he also, what I was going to say is that when he forgives us,
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  it says he remembers our sins no more.
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  So I don't believe that after we've been forgiven, we will be
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  punished for what we've done there.
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  But there may be some natural consequences as a result of what
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  we did, like the the natural consequences of what we did
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  don't just disappear. They they've, you know, happen
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  and we just have to live with that.
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  But as far as once somebody is repentant God, when they turn to
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  God, the way I understand scripture is that it says like,
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  I will remember their sins no more.
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  So if he's forgotten our sins and because of what Jesus did on
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  the cross for us, it seems like he's not going to punish us for
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  that. And if we are in Christ, we are
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  covered by the blood of Christ. Christ's sacrifice covers our
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  you know, just like the the Israelites were protected by the
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  blood of the lamb during the Passover in Egypt when all the
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  first born were killed, we also will be protected by the blood
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  of Jesus Christ when it comes to destruction.
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  So there are, that's a great reward that we don't suffer the
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  wrath of God from the things that we've done.
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  Like we don't get what we deserve.
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  We don't get the vengeance of God because we've trusted in
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  Jesus and he took the wrath of God for us on the cross.
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  That's what he did there. So continuing on in verse 7,
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  Babylon was a Gold Cup in the Lord's hand.
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  She made the whole earth drunk. The nation strank her wine.
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  Therefore they have now gone mad battle Babylon will suddenly
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  fall and be broken. So I'm going to pause there
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  because there are some things that we should make a note of.
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  So in Revelation chapter 17, this is when Babylon is talked
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  about, and it's very similar. Again, this is the future.
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  When I talk about Revelation, this was a vision that occurred
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  to one of Jesus's disciples, John, and it was while he was on
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  the island of Patmos. He had this vision.
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  He had these appearance from Jesus and these things were told
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  to him. So this is much later.
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  So what in Jeremiah's time, this is BC the Book of Revelation was
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  written around 90 AD. So there are, you know, this is
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  like Jeremiah was like in the five hundreds BC and then
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  Revelation. So that's what fight like almost
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  600 years apart, these two visions, but they really tie
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  together not yeah, I guess it is 2 visions because Jeremiah had
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  this, you know, he was told, I don't know if it was a vision,
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  but he was told what God was saying about what he was going
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  to do with Babylon. And then John has a vision where
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  he actually sees things and Babylon is referenced again.
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  So if you want to read about Babylon in the in the New
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  Testament, what John saw from the island on Patmos, it's in
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  found in Revelation chapter 17. And when it describes her, it's
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  very similar to what's described here.
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  So 1st I'm going to read Jeremiah 51 again.
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  Babylon was a Gold Cup in the Lord's hand.
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  She made the whole earth drunk. So when it says, here's what it
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  says. The Revelation 17 verse 4, the
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  woman which is Babylon was dressed in purple and scarlet
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  and and was glittering with gold, just stones and pearls.
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  She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with the abominable
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  thing, abominable things, and the filth of her adulteries, the
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  name written on her forehead. It's a Mystery Babylon, the
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  great mother of prostitutes and of the abominations of the
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  earth. I saw the woman was drunk with
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  the blood of God's holy people, the blood of those who bore
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  testimony to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly
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  astonished. So then it continues and it it
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  tells it's then it says like the then the Angel said to me, why
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  are you astonished? I will explain to you the
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  mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the
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  seven heads and 10 horns. So this is very complex
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  spiritual part of things. And just like we were talking
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  before, I'm drawing this conclusion with Babylon being
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  Ishtar, R Inana or the queen of R Astarte, or I think it might
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  be Astra 2, which is Ishtar, all of those names and the queen of
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  heaven. Like it really does seem like
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  there is this like somewhat feminine, but it was almost like
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  androgynous. And again, when God calls
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  certain things certain kinds of sexual sin abominations, it
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  seems like this entity very much represents that.
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  And it says like she's the mother of prostitutes and of
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  abominations of the earth. The things that God said is a is
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  an abomination. So, and it's like sexual type
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  sin and, and also it's tied with wealth and riches, you know, the
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  way that she's dressed with gold and purchase stones and pearls
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  and, and she's, you know, I guess has a vengeance on God's
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  holy people because she's drunk on the blood of them.
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  Like it was, you know, it's kind of like, almost like that
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  Jezebel kind of spirit. Jezebel was the wife of Ahab,
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  the king of Israel, the northern 10 tribes of Israel.
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  So she, he Ahab was evil. He listened to his wife who had
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  a very bad, but she was probably influenced by this spirit as
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  well. And so it seems like this
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  Babylonian spirit is something that God is warning us about and
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  it's connected to evil. You know, at one point I was
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  thinking, you know, it was Satan, but it seems so, you
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  know, maybe it is Satan appearing as an Angel of light,
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  and not that this is appearing as an Angel of light, but he can
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  masquerade as something else. But then it also, it could be
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  another entity besides Satan, which when you read in
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  Revelation, it does seem like there are different entities.
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  So there's this woman, which is Babylon, or I think like Ishtar,
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  Inana, all those things, some like goddess of, you know,
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  whoever who she is, I have no idea.
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  But she's been named throughout the Bible and, and she's somehow
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  connected with Babylon, you know, and, and if they give
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  land, if God does divide up the land into principalities in the
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  heavenly realms and certain entities have control over the
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  land, which it seems like that's how God operates from what's
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  written in the Bible, then she could very well have her place
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  in her venue is probably Babylon or Iraq.
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  And that's where she, that's like her headquarters or where
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  she is. And she's, she's ruling from for
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  a certain amount of time that God's allowing and, and in fact,
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  it says it even shows God's mercy here because it says we
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  would have healed Babylon, but she cannot be healed.
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  You know, maybe she can't be healed because she just
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  completely rejects God and wants to be God, just like Satan.
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  You know, he, he's had, I mean, it's not the end of the earth
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  yet, but God has written the prophecy that, you know, he's
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  going to end up in the burning lake of sulfur because God
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  already knows his heart. He knows what choices he's going
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  to make. And Satan, I guess, believes
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  he's going to be able to battle God, which is foolish.
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  Like it's kind of like when God said, you know, can the clay
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  tell the Potter what to do? It's the Potter that tells, you
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  know, that forms the clay. So Satan was created.
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  He's he's not, he's not God. And so I don't know why he
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  thinks he can overcome it, but he's going to attempt.
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  And that's what Bible prophecy tells us.
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  So we know the like God's God knew the end from the beginning,
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  and he knew what choices, what he could foresee, what would
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  happen, and whether people would change or not.
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  And so again, Babylon is like one of those people who just
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  won't change. And there are people who are
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  also like this that reject God and they just won't change.
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  There won't be a greater convincing argument that anyone
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  can give that's going to sway somebody's minds, some people's
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  minds. They're just not going to
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  change. It's, you know, God wants us all
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  to talk to people about that. So hopefully they can come to
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  the truth and make their own decision.
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  But no one can force somebody to believe something that they
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  don't believe. And so some people will believe
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  this and other people won't. But this is kind of the secret
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  of what's going to happen. Not really a secret because it's
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  published, but it's a secret because many people don't read
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  the Bible, so they don't know what's coming up.
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  But again, this is like a spiritual thing.
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  And Babylon is talked about in Revelation 17, and it's very
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  similar to what Jeremiah saw. That's the point I'm trying to
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  get across now. There's something else that says
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  Babylon will suddenly fall and be broken.
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  And so I had looked up to find out like how Babylon was
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  conquered and it wasn't a sudden thing.
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  The Medes started it. Then the Persians came along
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  too. Now the Medes and the Persians
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  were part of modern day Iran. So just, you know, they're very,
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  they're close, I guess, in proximity to the land territory.
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  But it, you know, in the Bible, it'll say maybe, you know, the
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  Medes did this or the Medes and the Persians, which I think it
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  does say. So it wasn't necessarily the
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  solely the Medes according to history that conquered.
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  And that's why I also think that this is a foreshadowing of a
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  future fulfillment, just because Babylon's talked about, again,
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  you know, 600 years later as a future thing that will happen.
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  And there are many similarities between what Jeremiah prophecies
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  about Babylon and what John saw in his vision about Babylon.
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  But they were at two different times.
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  So this is definitely about Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,
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  being conquered by certain people.
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  But I think there's also something future that's woven
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  into it. And that's why prophecy can be
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  so complex in understanding because it like it says Babylon
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  will fall suddenly. Apparently Babylon didn't fall
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  suddenly. It was the Medes, then the
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  Persians, then it kind of like just disappeared and it just
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  kind of fell away. But in Revelation chapter 18
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  verse 10, it talks about destruction being suddenly like
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  in one hour. So that is a different kind of a
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  a disappearance of Babylon. And so I think that again, for
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  that reason, that perhaps it is something that is yet yet to
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  happen. So in Revelation 18, verse 10,
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  what it says, terrified at her torment.
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  This is talking about Babylon's fall.
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  They will stand. This is talking about people
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  standing far off and crying. Woe, woe to you great city, you
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  mighty city of Babylon. In one hour your doom has come.
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  The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because
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  no one buys their cargoes anymore.
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  And then it goes on to describe a lot of things and it says they
• 29:48
  let's see the verse in in verse 9, it says how the kings of the
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  earth shared with her luxury, but they will see the smoke of
• 29:58
  her burning. They will weep and mourn over
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  her. So this is something that people
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  of the earth will see. There's going to be this fiery
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  destruction, which this does, this prophecy from Jeremiah does
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  talk about a fire that's going to happen.
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  And anyway, so again, God's mercy, it says we would have
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  healed Babylon, but she cannot be healed.
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  Let us leave her and each go to our own land for her judgement
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  reaches to the skies. It reaches as high as the
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  heavens. Is that like also symbolic of
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  the tower of Babylon? You know, they wanted to reach
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  to the heavens. So verse 10, the Lord has
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  vindicated us. Come, let us tell in Zion what
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  the Lord our God has done. Sharpen the arrows, take up the
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  Shields. The Lord has stirred up the king
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  of Medes. So that's northwestern Iran.
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  That's the modern day land of the territory of Medes because
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  his the Lord's purpose is to destroy Babylon, which is modern
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  day Iraq. The Lord will take vengeance,
• 31:15
  vengeance for his temple. Now the temple was destroyed by
• 31:21
  King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. He took a lot of things out of
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  the the first temple and took it to the Babylonians, to Babylon.
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  He took those things there. So lift up the banner against
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  the walls of Babylon, reinforce the guard station, the watchman,
• 31:43
  prepare and ambush. The Lord will carry out his
• 31:47
  purpose, his decree against the people of Babylon.
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  You who live by many waters and are rich in treasures.
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  Your end has come the time for you to be destroyed.
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  Now you who live by many waters. That also reminded me of
• 32:04
  Revelation 17, because it says in there, I'll have to find that
• 32:11
  one again. I have all these different tabs
• 32:14
  open. So it again like it it just
• 32:18
  references so many different parts of the Bible that makes it
• 32:25
  challenging to get to the text that I want to get to.
• 32:28
  So you who live by many waters. So when it describes her, it
• 32:34
  says let's see, I want to find the part where it talks about
• 32:41
  that when it maybe it's like the.
• 32:51
  OK, it says then in verse in Revelation 17, verse 15.
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  Then the Angel said to me, the waters you saw where the
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  prostitute sits, that's Babylon, are peoples, multitudes, nations
• 33:08
  and languages. So this is, you know, in the
• 33:12
  Tower of Babel. That kind of makes sense too,
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  because remember God confused their language and that's where
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  all the different languages came about.
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  But the waters you saw. So this is like a a symbol of
• 33:23
  where the prostitute sits are people, multitudes, nations and
• 33:31
  languages. So it's like this, this
• 33:33
  prostitutes in the middle of a whole bunch of people,
• 33:36
  multitudes, nations. So again, if this is a spirit of
• 33:40
  like Ishtar or Inana, and it is just everybody who focuses on
• 33:46
  wealth and on sexuality against what God defines as appropriate,
• 33:53
  any kind of like sex stuff, sexual sins and those kinds of
• 33:56
  things, anything like that. And Even so far as abortion,
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  just because of Molech and everything that God is, all of
• 34:07
  these like little G gods that are opposing God, it's a
• 34:11
  spiritual influence. And it's still the way I see the
• 34:15
  world today. It it seems very active and
• 34:18
  alive. The spiritual influence is still
• 34:20
  happening in our world. And it it does say, like I said
• 34:25
  in Revelation 17, this is what John saw and was documented
• 34:29
  around 90AD. So he saw that this entity was
• 34:35
  something, this Babylon was something surrounded by all
• 34:38
  kinds of people's nations and everything.
• 34:40
  Like it went everywhere, this spirit.
• 34:42
  And again, the idolatry seems to be the thing that God gets most
• 34:47
  upset about because of who he is.
• 34:51
  So you who live by many waters, so the waters are referring to
• 34:55
  people's multitudes and nations. And so I see that also in here,
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  another commonality the Lord Almighty has sworn by himself, I
• 35:05
  will surely fill you with troops as with a swarm of locust, and
• 35:09
  they will shout in triumph over you.
• 35:11
  And that's kind of interesting too.
• 35:13
  I didn't look that up, but in the Book of Revelation it does
• 35:17
  talk about these warriors that look like locusts.
• 35:22
  And I think often armies of people are described as locusts
• 35:27
  throughout the Bible. Though he made, going back to
• 35:30
  verse 15, he made the earth by his power.
• 35:33
  He founded the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the
• 35:37
  heavens by his understanding. When he thunders, the waters in
• 35:41
  heaven roar. He makes clouds rise from the
• 35:44
  ends of the earth. He sends lightning with rain and
• 35:47
  brings out the wind from his storehouses.
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  Everyone is senseless and without knowledge.
• 35:53
  Every Goldsmith is shamed by his idols.
• 35:56
  The images he makes are a fraud. They have no breath in them.
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  Now I want to pause on this one too, because this is a number
• 36:06
  another similarity in the found in the Book of Revelation and
• 36:12
  what happens in the future. So these images back in the day
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  of Jeremiah, they had no breath in them.
• 36:19
  They were they were a fraud. But what is coming to the world
• 36:25
  is written about in Revelation chapter 13, and I'm trying to
• 36:31
  find that. OK, so the second beast, this is
• 36:34
  the beast that comes out of the earth and it's it's the false
• 36:38
  prophet was given power to give breath to the image of the first
• 36:46
  beast so that the image could speak and 'cause all who refused
• 36:53
  to worship the image to be killed.
• 36:56
  So isn't that kind of interesting that this thing is
• 36:59
  like going to appear to like come alive and it's going to an
• 37:04
  image is going to be able to speak.
• 37:07
  And the way that it does is from power that comes through this
• 37:16
  false prophet. This false prophet is given
• 37:18
  power. I believe the power is given to
• 37:22
  them by Satan. And so again, this is, you know,
• 37:29
  the the beast in Babylon, the Babylon the prostitute is
• 37:34
  writing is sitting on the beast, so it sound and it says that the
• 37:38
  beast hates her. The beast does not like Babylon,
• 37:42
  but Babylon is controlling the beast of some sort.
• 37:45
  If it's writing, if it's sitting on top of it, it's somehow over,
• 37:50
  you know, overpowering. Is it in control?
• 37:52
  Is it controlling the beast? The beast is actually made of of
• 37:55
  human beings. And so, but whatever it is, they
• 38:00
  don't like of Babylon who was in control.
• 38:04
  So the beast actually turns on Babylon.
• 38:08
  So that's another thing that I just that came to mind as I'm
• 38:12
  speaking. This was, you know, is this
• 38:15
  beast going to be made-up of Iran?
• 38:19
  That's just a question. I have no idea.
• 38:25
  But you know, the beast turns on Babylon.
• 38:27
  So does history repeat where ancient Babylon was conquered by
• 38:32
  the Medes and the Persians? Will the future Babylon, the
• 38:37
  beast, when it turns on it, is it going to be a beast entity
• 38:40
  that's made-up of Iran? Like I said, that just came to
• 38:44
  my mind as I was talking. So who knows?
• 38:47
  But it's just something to keep in the back of our minds as we
• 38:49
  see things play out in the world because some of these things
• 38:53
  really seem like they're forming right now.
• 38:56
  So verse 18, they are worthless, the objects of mockery.
• 39:00
  When their judgement comes, they will perish.
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  He who is the portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the
• 39:08
  maker of all things, including the people of his inheritance.
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  The Lord Almighty is his name. Now to me this is talking about
• 39:16
  Jesus verse 19, and Jeremiah is talking about Jesus says the
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  portion of Jacob. Now the way I see the portion of
• 39:24
  Jacob is I think about he's a part of Jacob and he's a
• 39:30
  descendant from the tribe of Judah.
• 39:32
  So he came from from Jacob and that's Jesus and it's, you know,
• 39:38
  then it says for he is the maker of all things.
• 39:40
  So he's the creator, including the people.
• 39:43
  He creates people. The Lord Almighty is his name.
• 39:46
  So this is God and he is a portion of Jacob.
• 39:50
  So that's the way I see it is he's a descendant from Judah,
• 39:53
  from the tribe of Judah. Now the study Bible has a
• 39:56
  different explanation. It says who is the portion of
• 39:59
  Jacob and it says God. Jacob was the key patriarch in
• 40:03
  the history of Israel and God was the inheritance, the
• 40:07
  possession or portion of Israel. The word portion has legal
• 40:11
  implications that relate to the special relationship between God
• 40:16
  and his chosen people. So.
• 40:21
  I don't know which is correct, but that's just what came to me
• 40:23
  as I'm reading this. So verse 20 you are this is like
• 40:28
  God. I mean, this is to me.
• 40:31
  This is like the Father talking to the Son in my understanding
• 40:36
  of this. So listen to the verse 20.
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  You are my war club, my weapon for battle.
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  With you I shatter nations. With you I destroy kingdoms.
• 40:47
  With you I shatter horse and rider.
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  With you I shatter chariot and chariot and driver.
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  With you I shatter man and woman.
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  With you I shatter old man and youth.
• 40:56
  With you I shatter young men and young woman.
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  With you I shatter shepherd and flock.
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  With you I shatter farmer and oxen.
• 41:03
  With you I shatter governors and officials.
• 41:08
  Well, this could be him talking to or about you know, I mean
• 41:15
  just because it came right after he who is the portion of Jacob
• 41:21
  is not like these. So he explains all of these
• 41:24
  things and then it says you are my war club.
• 41:27
  So I guess it, you know, it could mean the Medes and
• 41:34
  Persians, but it could also mean Jesus when he comes back with
• 41:39
  the wrath of God, you know, and it could again mean both.
• 41:43
  It could mean the Medes and the Persians initially, and then it
• 41:47
  could mean Jesus later when he comes back with God's wrath for
• 41:52
  all nations. Just something to keep about.
• 41:56
  Actually, here's what the study Bible says about this.
• 42:00
  Who was God's war club? Some think this refers to
• 42:03
  Israel, whom God used to defend His Holiness by engaging in the
• 42:08
  fight against sin and Satan. Others think it refers to Cyrus,
• 42:14
  whom God used to destroy Babylon.
• 42:17
  Still others think this refers to Babylon whom God had used as
• 42:22
  an instrument of judgement on Judah and so I had so look at
• 42:27
  you can see how many different opinions there are and I just
• 42:29
  threw out another one that maybe he's because it was just talking
• 42:33
  like I think it's Jesus that he was talking about in verse 19
• 42:37
  and then in verse 20. I feel like this is what's going
• 42:42
  to happen here. So before your eyes.
• 42:45
  I will repay Babylon and all who live in Babylonia for all the
• 42:50
  wrong they have done in Zion, declares the Lord.
• 42:54
  I am against you, you destroying mountain, you who destroy the
• 43:00
  whole earth. So that's another thing that
• 43:05
  Babylon does. She makes drunk the whole earth.
• 43:09
  She's like destroying the whole earth and and it's like she sits
• 43:13
  on hills on the seven hills or mountains where she dwells on
• 43:19
  the mountains and not in a literal sense, but mountains are
• 43:25
  sometimes like the strongholds and it there there's another
• 43:34
  verse that's really interesting. It's Revelation 18, verse four.
• 43:39
  I heard another voice from heaven saying, come out of her,
• 43:41
  my people, so that you do not share in her sins, so that you
• 43:45
  will not receive any of her plagues.
• 43:49
  For her sins are piled up to heaven and God has remembered
• 43:52
  her crimes. So again, remember that this is
• 43:56
  what it says about Babylon, literal Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar.
• 44:03
  It says, you know, it rises as high as the heavens and then the
• 44:07
  future Babylon, it says the same thing about her sins.
• 44:11
  It it just, to me, it sounds like we are talking about the
• 44:14
  same entity here and it's just repetitious.
• 44:18
  But the spiritual entity who influenced Nebuchadnezzar, who
• 44:23
  influences someone in the end times as well, and God's going
• 44:29
  to destroy it. Eventually I will stretch out my
• 44:33
  hand against you, roll you off the cliffs.
• 44:37
  So it this is where it talks about dwells on the mountains.
• 44:40
  In Revelation 17, it talks about Babylon doing that and make you
• 44:44
  a burned out mountain. No rock will be taken from you
• 44:49
  for a cornerstone nor any stone for a foundation for you will be
• 44:54
  desolate forever. So all throughout history,
• 44:57
  Babylon has been influencing people and causing people to go
• 45:02
  against God. But this is what I really took
• 45:05
  away from that was this word cornerstone, because that is how
• 45:10
  Jesus is described. He is the rock, He is the
• 45:14
  cornerstone, He is the foundation.
• 45:17
  And so it it brings about a lot of there's 12 verses that talk
• 45:22
  about the cornerstone. So in Psalm 118, verse 22, the
• 45:30
  stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
• 45:33
  We'll see later. This is talking about Jesus,
• 45:36
  Isaiah 28, verse 16. So this is what the sovereign
• 45:40
  Lord says. See, I lay a stone in Zion, a
• 45:44
  tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure
• 45:48
  foundation. The one who relies on it will
• 45:50
  never be stricken with panic. That's trusting in Jesus.
• 45:54
  Jeremiah 51, That's what we were reading.
• 45:57
  The next it's Zechariah 10, verse 4.
• 46:00
  From Judah will come the cornerstone, from him the tent
• 46:05
  peg, and from the battle bow. From him the battle bow, from
• 46:10
  him every ruler. So from Judah will come the
• 46:14
  cornerstone again. Jesus came from the tribe of
• 46:17
  Judah. That's written in Zechariah
• 46:19
  chapter 10 verse 4. Then Matthew chapter 21 verse
• 46:23
  42. Jesus said to them, have you
• 46:26
  never read in the Scriptures? The stone the builder rejected
• 46:29
  has become the cornerstone. The Lord has done this and it is
• 46:32
  marvelous in our eyes. And in Mark chapter 12 verse 10,
• 46:38
  haven't you read the passage of Scripture?
• 46:39
  The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
• 46:43
  Luke chapter 20, verse 17, Jesus looked at them and asked then
• 46:47
  what is the meaning of that which is written?
• 46:50
  The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
• 46:54
  It might be good to kind of go back to that.
• 46:58
  Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces.
• 47:00
  Anyone to whom it falls will be crushed.
• 47:03
  The teachers of the law and the chief priests looked for a way
• 47:06
  to arrest him immediately because they knew he had spoken
• 47:09
  this parable against them, but they were afraid of the people.
• 47:14
  So it doesn't really say that they understood what he meant,
• 47:19
  but they knew it was against him and is very interesting because
• 47:24
  everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces.
• 47:29
  That's almost like, you know, taking up your crucifix or
• 47:32
  taking up your own cross and, you know, dealing with that.
• 47:37
  And anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.
• 47:40
  It's like Jesus, you know, it also goes back to the book of
• 47:43
  Daniel where you know the stone comes out of this the statue
• 47:48
  dream that he has and it crushes the toes of this huge statue
• 47:52
  which you know is this about Babylon and about the other gods
• 47:57
  idolatry like Jesus is going to crush it.
• 48:03
  So in Acts chapter 4 verse 11, it says Jesus is the stone you
• 48:11
  builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.
• 48:16
  And Paul says in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 20 built on the
• 48:20
  foundation of the apostles and the prophets with Christ Jesus
• 48:24
  himself as the chief cornerstone.
• 48:28
  And first Peter chapter 2 in a couple verses 6 and seven it
• 48:32
  says this for in Scripture it says, see I lay a stone in Zion,
• 48:36
  a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who
• 48:40
  trusts in him will never be put to shame.
• 48:43
  Now to you who believe this stone is precious, but to those
• 48:48
  who do not believe the stone the builders rejected has become the
• 48:54
  cornerstone and and a stone that causes people to stumble and a
• 49:01
  rock that makes them fall. They stumble because they
• 49:05
  disobey the message, which is also what they were destined
• 49:10
  for. So that's what happens to people
• 49:15
  who refuse Christ is that they will not be in eternity with
• 49:22
  God. So let's see, going back to I'm
• 49:29
  finding where I was in here. So Babylon's not going to have a
• 49:33
  cornerstone. Then verse 27 from Jeremiah 51,
• 49:39
  lift up a banner in the land, blow the trumpet among the
• 49:43
  nations. Again, here's this trumpet
• 49:46
  reference and the trumpet is like a war cry calling out like
• 49:52
  a long time ago when God assembled the tribes, there were
• 49:55
  certain trumpet calls, 1 sound that would mean they were going
• 49:59
  out to war. Another sound was to gather
• 50:03
  people, and I think that has prophetic significance as well.
• 50:07
  So it says prepare the nations for battle against her, summoned
• 50:10
  against her, these kingdoms. Now wait, we're hearing who
• 50:14
  these kingdoms are that are coming against Babylon.
• 50:17
  And we know it was an alliance, and it says Ararat, Minnie and
• 50:24
  Ashkenazes. So I looked up where these were
• 50:28
  and let's see. Ararat is like in Turkey, and
• 50:34
  that's like where actually Noah's Ark has been discovered,
• 50:37
  so on the mountains there. So it's Turkey, modern day
• 50:41
  Turkey. And then Minnie was in
• 50:44
  northwestern Iran and then Ashkenaz is kind of western
• 50:52
  Germany. So it almost sounds like the
• 50:54
  alliance is Iran, Germany and Turkey.
• 51:00
  And that's kind of interesting. And Germany's not really
• 51:02
  factoring into what's happening today.
• 51:04
  But if Germany starts coming into play with what's happening
• 51:08
  today with alliances, boy, you know, we should reflect back on
• 51:13
  Jeremiah 51. But so it's, it talks about
• 51:17
  those three and Germany where Ashkenazi, Ashkenazi or
• 51:23
  Ashkenazi. That's, this is really
• 51:26
  interesting because it also says that Ashkenaz, his name is
• 51:31
  related to the Assyrian. And a lot of times it talks
• 51:36
  about the Assyrian out of the north and it talks about like in
• 51:40
  the last days. And so a lot of people have
• 51:44
  certain beliefs about the Assyrian.
• 51:46
  But when you read what it says about Ashkenaz in the Hebrew
• 51:50
  Bible, is one of the descendants of Noah.
• 51:53
  Ashkenaz is the first son of Gomer and a Gephetic patriarch
• 51:59
  in the table of nations in rabbinic literature, the
• 52:02
  descendants of Ashkenaz were first associated with the
• 52:05
  Scythia. And that was let's, let's see
• 52:12
  there's a little bit more Scythian cultures then later
• 52:15
  with the Slavic territories and from the 11th century onwards
• 52:21
  with Germany and Northern Europe or the Indo European people in a
• 52:28
  manner similar to Zarfat. It's in Lebanon are Serafod and
• 52:37
  that's the Iberian Peninsula referring to present day Spain
• 52:41
  and Portugal. So his name is related to the
• 52:46
  Assyrian? How?
• 52:49
  I don't really know the Scythians.
• 52:52
  They were. Let's see.
• 52:53
  The Scythians assists were also known as known as the Pontiac
• 52:56
  Scythians. They were an ancient, ancient
• 53:00
  Eastern ironic equestrian nomadic people who migrated
• 53:06
  during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the
• 53:11
  Pontiac Steep in modern day Ukraine and southern Russia,
• 53:17
  where they remained until the 3rd century and they expelled
• 53:21
  the Gemara and they were another nomadic people.
• 53:28
  So but it, it says from the Armenian highland of the upper
• 53:32
  Euphrates area. So it, it does get really
• 53:35
  interesting. So whether it's Germany, I mean,
• 53:37
  you can see it's a lot of Europeans that are.
• 53:42
  That may be why, you know, a lot of times people associate the
• 53:48
  Antichrist with someone of European descent.
• 53:51
  So I guess, you know, the Assyrian could be like in
• 53:55
  Turkey, it could be all of these different Slavic territories,
• 54:00
  European territories. There's lots of possibilities.
• 54:04
  And so the only one like this, Ashkenaz, I guess we could look
• 54:10
  into that a little bit more or just keep that kind of open.
• 54:13
  It could mean a lot of different things, but it looks like Iran
• 54:18
  and Turkey and somebody else or the alliance that go against
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  Babylon, go against Iraq. So maybe see what happens in the
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  future. Pay attention to it because it
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  just seems like that's that's a possibility.
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  Because I did look up to say was Ashkenaz involved in the
• 54:41
  destruction of ancient Babylon? And the answer that I got was in
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  the biblical book of Jeremiah, the ancient Kingdom of Ashkenaz
• 54:50
  is prophesied to be among the peoples who would attack
• 54:53
  Babylon. Historically, troops from the
• 54:56
  people identified with Ashkenaz, known as Ashkuza or Scythians in
• 55:02
  Assyrian records, were likely part of the larger Persian army
• 55:07
  that conquered Babylon, which occurred without significant
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  resistance or the city's widespread destruction.
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  So again, this is saying this is kind of lumping them in with
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  Iran. So it could just be Turkey and
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  Iran and with the ancient or there could be another third
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  party. But just I guess, something to
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  pay attention to. It's definitely Iran, There's no
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  question about that, because of Medes and Persia and stuff like
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  that. And Babylon, I mean, that's
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  historical and it's also like prophetic.
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  So the question is, what is Ashkenaz for the future?
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  And, you know, are we making too big of a deal of it?
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  Is it really ultimately a group of people who are part of, you
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  know, the Iranian area that did this back then and that's why
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  they're called out? I don't know.
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  So again, with prophecy, you just have to it doesn't it
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  surely doesn't seem like it's like very definite.
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  It seems like and it was an assumption that was made.
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  So again, just keep your eyes open on it.
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  So appointed commander against her, send up horses like a swarm
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  of locusts, prepare the nations for battle against her.
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  The king of Medes, their governors and all their
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  officials and all their countries.
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  They rule the land trembles and rise for the Lord's purpose
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  against Babylon, Against Babylon.
• 56:36
  Stand to lay waste the land of Babylon so that no one will live
• 56:40
  there. Babylon's warriors have stopped
• 56:43
  fighting. They remain in their
• 56:45
  strongholds. It almost sounds like a
• 56:47
  spiritual stronghold. Their strength is exhausted.
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  They have become weaklings. Her dwellings are set on fire.
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  The bars of her gates are broken.
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  So again, that brings me to Revelation 18-8, where it says
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  that Babylon is going to be put on.
• 57:07
  You know, it's going to be on fire, and it's going to be this
• 57:09
  alarming thing that people are going to stand and see and be
• 57:12
  like, whoa, look at what just happened.
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  And from history, it doesn't sound like that's how Babylon
• 57:19
  was conquered back then. It seemed like it was more of a
• 57:22
  gradual thing that occurred over time.
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  So that's again another reason why I think this is both, you
• 57:29
  know, Jeremiah's time and a future prophecy.
• 57:33
  Verse 31, one Courier follows another, the messenger and
• 57:36
  messenger follows messenger to announce to the king of Babylon
• 57:41
  that his entire city is captured, the river crossings
• 57:45
  seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers terrified.
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  This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel says.
• 57:53
  Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it
• 57:59
  is trampled. The time to harvest her will
• 58:03
  soon come. OK.
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  Does that refer to the end times?
• 58:08
  Does that refer to the grape harvest in Revelation chapter 14
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  where it's a wine press? Those are just things that I
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  wonder as I read this if this is a future event and that is the
• 58:24
  final time for Babylon to be ultimately destroyed because
• 58:30
  that's that's when it sounds like it finally happens is in
• 58:37
  the Book of Revelation is when it actually finally happens.
• 58:43
  So Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon has devoured us.
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  He has thrown us into confusion. He has made us an empty jar like
• 58:50
  a serpent. So again, we see that if you
• 58:54
  want to talk about what comes from a person that identifies
• 58:58
  the spirit behind it, it says like a serpent.
• 59:01
  So the serpent has always been tied to evil, tied to Satan, and
• 59:09
  so Satan is somehow connecting. Is it a spiritual thing, like a
• 59:13
  serpent? He has swallowed us and filled
• 59:15
  his stomach with our delicacies, and then he has spewed us out.
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  Well, there's an interesting verse in Revelation too, that
• 59:24
  talks about this, this, the beast and the woman Israel.
• 59:29
  And it talks about the dragon who is Satan, and it talks about
• 59:34
  him spewing against her. And let's see, this is OK.
• 59:42
  It says, OK, so this is more about the serpent and the whole
• 59:50
  spewing. There's a lot of interesting
• 59:54
  things about here. There's it occurs 16 times the
• 1:00:00
  serpent's talked about and it might just be worth talking
• 1:00:02
  reading through these things. So in Genesis chapter 3 verse
• 1:00:05
  one now the serpent was more crafty than any of the other
• 1:00:08
  wild animals the Lord had made. He said to the woman, did God
• 1:00:12
  really say you must not eat from any tree in the garden?
• 1:00:15
  So the serpent is Satan. We'll see later, but.
• 1:00:19
  In verse 2, the woman said to the serpent, we may eat fruit
• 1:00:23
  from the trees in the garden, and then there's more that comes
• 1:00:26
  and then the certain says you will not certainly die.
• 1:00:30
  The serpent said to the woman, you know, that's just like Satan
• 1:00:33
  saying to all of us, you know, you could sin, you're not going
• 1:00:36
  to die, you're not going to, you know, all this stuff.
• 1:00:39
  Then the Lord said to the woman, what is this you have done?
• 1:00:42
  The woman said the serpent deceived me and I ate, and
• 1:00:46
  that's what Satan does. So the Lord said to the serpent,
• 1:00:49
  because you have done this cursed are you above all
• 1:00:52
  livestock and all wild animals, you will crawl on your belly and
• 1:00:56
  you will eat dust of all the days of your life.
• 1:00:59
  So this serpent, I don't think it was a snake to begin with
• 1:01:05
  because this is what he said to this is going to be the
• 1:01:08
  punishment of the serpent, but it was probably something else.
• 1:01:13
  We could look into what it actually the actual word for the
• 1:01:18
  serpent is Nahas and it's like serpent.
• 1:01:22
  It is snake fleeing serpent. So there's a lot of description
• 1:01:28
  on that. And I I'm not going to even get
• 1:01:31
  into all that. But anyway, it's the Bible is
• 1:01:36
  true and we just have to maybe understand or take time to
• 1:01:40
  understand it when there's anything confusing in there.
• 1:01:45
  So it does talk about in Job, which is supposedly the oldest
• 1:01:50
  book in the Bible. By his breath, the skies became
• 1:01:53
  fair. His hand pierced the gliding
• 1:01:55
  serpent. So this is the that ancient
• 1:01:58
  thing. The serpent's also connected to
• 1:02:00
  Leviathan in the book of Job, and then it says that you will
• 1:02:07
  tread on the lion and the cobra. You will trample the great lion
• 1:02:11
  and the serpent. That's in Psalms 91.
• 1:02:15
  And then in Isaiah 14 it says do not rejoice, all you
• 1:02:20
  Philistines, that the rock that struck you is broken from the
• 1:02:25
  root of that snake will spring up a Viper.
• 1:02:29
  Its fruit will be a darting venomous serpent.
• 1:02:33
  So this is some serpent that, you know, is continuing in the
• 1:02:36
  land of the Philistines, which is where that historical land
• 1:02:40
  is, Gaza. So it seems like is this a
• 1:02:43
  spiritual, you know, the stuff that has happened in Gaza into
• 1:02:47
  Israel's certainly seems like there's some evil spiritual
• 1:02:51
  influence there. Okay, so in Isaiah, this is the
• 1:02:55
  one who makes the connection about Leviathan and the serpent.
• 1:02:59
  It says in that day the Lord will punish with his sword.
• 1:03:02
  This is chapter 27 of Isaiah verse one.
• 1:03:06
  In that day the Lord will punish with his sword, his fierce,
• 1:03:09
  great and powerful sword, Leviathan, the gliding serpent,
• 1:03:13
  Leviathan the coiling serpent. He will slay the monster of the
• 1:03:18
  sea. So is again, is that a metaphor?
• 1:03:24
  Is that really Satan? And he's the monster of the sea.
• 1:03:27
  The beast comes up out of the sea and so does the sea mean
• 1:03:33
  multiples of people and nations and things like that.
• 1:03:36
  Just something to think and reflect on and pray about.
• 1:03:41
  Jeremiah 46, it says Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent as
• 1:03:46
  as the enemy advances they will come against her with axes like
• 1:03:49
  men who cut down trees. So again, Egypt also has this
• 1:03:53
  this spiritual thing going on and that makes a lot of sense
• 1:03:56
  too, because of their religion and the the way that they
• 1:04:00
  worship. It's not the true God.
• 1:04:03
  So that makes a lot of sense. And then Jeremiah 51, which
• 1:04:07
  we're reading, and then Amos Chapter 9, verse three, though
• 1:04:16
  they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, there I will hunt
• 1:04:19
  them down and seize them. Though they hide from my eyes at
• 1:04:22
  the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite
• 1:04:26
  them. That's interesting too.
• 1:04:29
  And then in Revelation chapter 12, it says the great dragon was
• 1:04:34
  hurled down that ancient serpent called the devil or Satan, who
• 1:04:41
  leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth and
• 1:04:45
  his angels with him. So there's the fallen angels and
• 1:04:50
  the great dragon. We see that Satan's the dragon,
• 1:04:54
  he's a serpent, he's called the devil, there's all these
• 1:04:57
  different names, and he also has angels who side with him and
• 1:05:01
  work with him. Here's the part that I wanted to
• 1:05:04
  talk about, the spewing of the water that we were on.
• 1:05:07
  So Revelation 12/15. Then from his mouth, the serpent
• 1:05:12
  spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her
• 1:05:18
  away with the torrent. The woman is Israel.
• 1:05:22
  And it's just the, you know, the, the, the pressure that is
• 1:05:27
  put on by Satan against Israel. And he's spewing water like a
• 1:05:34
  river, but then it says the ground open up and protect it.
• 1:05:36
  So, you know, it's just giving this like picture of what's
• 1:05:42
  happening from a symbolic way. In Revelation 20, verse 2, it
• 1:05:46
  says he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil
• 1:05:52
  or Satan, and bound him for 1000 years.
• 1:05:56
  So when Christ begins to reign, Satan is going to be bound for
• 1:06:00
  1000 years and he's not going to have that opportunity to
• 1:06:05
  influence people like he has right now.
• 1:06:08
  Satan's also called the ruler of the air today.
• 1:06:11
  So there's there's just a lot to take in and a lot to absorb when
• 1:06:15
  you read the Bible and and we don't all get it correct, but
• 1:06:23
  it's certainly interesting and worth exploring more.
• 1:06:25
  So this is, you know, what triggered all this was the verse
• 1:06:29
  that says like a serpent, he has swallowed us and filled his
• 1:06:32
  stomach with our delicacies and then has spewed us out.
• 1:06:35
  May the violence done to our flesh be on Babylon, say the
• 1:06:40
  inhabitants of Zion. Zion is Jerusalem.
• 1:06:43
  It's kind of like the heavenly Jerusalem.
• 1:06:46
  So this again is, you know, do unto others as you would have
• 1:06:49
  them do unto you, because unrepentant people are going to
• 1:06:52
  have the things that they do to others happen to them in final
• 1:06:55
  judgment because God is just. So may our blood be on those who
• 1:07:00
  live in Babylonia, says Jerusalem.
• 1:07:03
  Therefore, this is what the Lord says, See, I will defend your
• 1:07:07
  cause and avenge you. I will dry up her sea and make
• 1:07:13
  her springs dry. So again, right now the
• 1:07:17
  Euphrates River runs through Babylon and it is drying up, and
• 1:07:21
  even the groundwater is decreasing as of 2025.
• 1:07:25
  So you can look that up. Babylon will be a hoop, a heap
• 1:07:30
  of runes, a haunt of jackals, an object of horror and scorn, a
• 1:07:34
  place where no one lives. Her people all roar like Young
• 1:07:38
  Lions. They growl.
• 1:07:41
  They growl like lion Cubs, but while they are aroused, I will
• 1:07:48
  set out a feast for them and make them drunk so that they
• 1:07:52
  will shout with laughter, then sleep forever and not awake.
• 1:07:59
  So God has a plan for all this. He's going to turn.
• 1:08:03
  You know, they, I don't know they, they certainly do that
• 1:08:06
  with their terror. When they invaded Israel in 2023
• 1:08:11
  on October 7th, they were they had taken, there was evidence
• 1:08:16
  apparently that came out later that they were on some kind of
• 1:08:20
  drug called Capticon, I think is if I'm saying it right.
• 1:08:23
  And it just caused them basically to be emotionless,
• 1:08:28
  like to feel nothing. But they went out and they raped
• 1:08:30
  people and they killed people and they did horrific things to
• 1:08:32
  people and, and they were like laughing and cheering and
• 1:08:38
  celebrating and calling their parents and saying look what
• 1:08:42
  I've done, mom. I mean, they had recordings of
• 1:08:44
  people who we did that. And so this kind of sounds like,
• 1:08:48
  you know, they, it says, I will set out a feast for them and
• 1:08:53
  make them drunk so that they shout with laughter, then sleep
• 1:08:57
  forever and not awake. So there's, you know, this is
• 1:09:02
  like this is death is what I see this as.
• 1:09:05
  And then there's this also the great supper, or I don't know
• 1:09:08
  what it's called. It's not.
• 1:09:11
  There's a supper of great kings that happens in the Book of
• 1:09:14
  Revelation, Revelation 19, verse 17, that God summons or the
• 1:09:20
  Angel summons these birds of prey to come and eat the great
• 1:09:24
  supper of all of these kings and officials, all these rebellious
• 1:09:28
  people against God. I mean, yeah, Revelation will
• 1:09:32
  show you a lot of things that are yet to come.
• 1:09:37
  Verse 40, I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
• 1:09:41
  like Rams and goats. And this was kind of interesting
• 1:09:44
  because then I draw a conclusion.
• 1:09:46
  Not a conclusion, but I draw a. It made me think about Daniel 8,
• 1:09:51
  where the ram versus the goat. And this is like Iran and Turkey
• 1:09:57
  going against each other. So I don't know if they were
• 1:10:01
  always Iran was always the ram was always symbolic of Iran, and
• 1:10:08
  the goat was always symbolic of Turkey.
• 1:10:11
  That's just something else to keep in mind.
• 1:10:13
  But it just made me think about that says how Shishak will be
• 1:10:17
  captured, the boast of the whole earth seized, how desolate
• 1:10:21
  Babylon will be among the nations, The sea will rise over
• 1:10:26
  Babylon. Again.
• 1:10:27
  I think this is symbolic of people, just like Revelation
• 1:10:30
  1715 says it really represents ungodly people.
• 1:10:34
  And also in Jude chapter one verse 13, it also says something
• 1:10:40
  similar to that about the sea being ungodly people.
• 1:10:44
  So her towns will become desolate, a dry and desert land,
• 1:10:48
  a land where no one lives, through which no one travels.
• 1:10:52
  I will punish Bell and Babylon. Remember, these are, this is the
• 1:10:56
  male God. I mean, this is the false God
• 1:11:00
  connected with Baal Marduk, fallen angels, you know, Satan.
• 1:11:04
  Is this the, is it Satan and another Angel or is it Satan
• 1:11:07
  appearing as two different things?
• 1:11:09
  I don't know. It doesn't really matter.
• 1:11:12
  But somehow they're connected because God is talking about
• 1:11:16
  Babylon and he's also talking about Bell in Babylon and make
• 1:11:21
  him spew out what he has swallowed, spewing, you know,
• 1:11:24
  this is what he swallowed. This is tied to the serpent,
• 1:11:27
  which is tied to the Satan. So it does seem like it's Satan
• 1:11:32
  and something else. The nations will no longer
• 1:11:35
  stream to him again. Idolatry and the wall of Babylon
• 1:11:39
  will fall. Come out of her my people.
• 1:11:42
  Run for your lives. Run from the fierce anger of the
• 1:11:44
  Lord multiple times in prophecy. Revelation 18, four says come
• 1:11:50
  out of her my people. Zechariah 2 verse 7 says that.
• 1:11:53
  Isaiah 4824 also says that. Then it says do not lose heart
• 1:11:59
  or be afraid when rumors are heard in the land.
• 1:12:01
  One rumor comes this year, another the next, rumors of
• 1:12:06
  violence in the land and ruler against ruler.
• 1:12:09
  This sounds so much like what Jesus said.
• 1:12:11
  There will be wars and rumors of wars in Matthew chapter 24 from
• 1:12:16
  the time. For the time will surely come
• 1:12:19
  when I will punish the idols of Babylon.
• 1:12:22
  Her whole land will be disgraced, and her slain will
• 1:12:26
  all lie fallen within her. Then heaven and earth and all
• 1:12:32
  that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon.
• 1:12:37
  For out of the north, destroyers will attack her, an alliance,
• 1:12:42
  you know, out of the north. And that's what it says in the
• 1:12:45
  future is going to happen. And in the Book of Revelation,
• 1:12:47
  it does talk about heaven and earth rejoicing, fallen.
• 1:12:51
  Fallen is Babylon. That's what it says in the Book
• 1:12:53
  of Revelation. Babylon must fall because of
• 1:13:00
  Israel's slain, so because of the people.
• 1:13:06
  This is saying why again God is providing justice.
• 1:13:09
  There was no repentance. Babylon could have been healed
• 1:13:12
  but never repented, but always kept going against Israel.
• 1:13:16
  So Babylon must fall because of the slaying it did with Israel,
• 1:13:22
  just as the slain in all the earth have fallen because of
• 1:13:27
  Babylon. So Babylon again, if it's the
• 1:13:30
  spiritual thing, like I think it is Ishtar or Inana, the names
• 1:13:34
  that were called that it was called a long time ago.
• 1:13:39
  If it it causes because it's the mother of prostitutes and of
• 1:13:44
  abominations, it causes people to do those kinds of thin
• 1:13:48
  things. It's a spiritual thing.
• 1:13:51
  You who have escaped the sword, leave and do not linger.
• 1:13:55
  Remember the Lord in a distant land and call to mind Jerusalem.
• 1:14:01
  We are disgraced, for we have been insulted and shame covers
• 1:14:05
  our faces because foreigners have entered the holy places of
• 1:14:09
  the Lord's house. Now, again, this could have a
• 1:14:12
  double fulfillment because King Nebuchadnezzar is the one who
• 1:14:17
  destroyed the first temple that Solomon built.
• 1:14:22
  And so this is, you know, and then I also think about, you
• 1:14:25
  know, could it also be a double fulfillment Where in the future,
• 1:14:30
  this House of prayer for all nations, we can see that the
• 1:14:35
  world is, you know, especially Israel has been pursuing this
• 1:14:39
  for quite a long time. The Third Temple, they have all
• 1:14:43
  the pieces that are going to go inside the third Temple.
• 1:14:46
  It's really just waiting for this temple to be built and
• 1:14:50
  there's just a lot of preparation happening.
• 1:14:53
  I guess there has been for a long time and lots of talk about
• 1:14:57
  it. There's actually signs that are
• 1:14:58
  going up in Israel and, and mass transits that are being prepared
• 1:15:03
  for this, for bringing people to the temple.
• 1:15:07
  And is this going to be some ungodly temple that gets built?
• 1:15:11
  And is it going to worship all gods, saying that they're all
• 1:15:16
  the same? We'll just have to wait and see
• 1:15:19
  how that unfolds. That's what people are thinking
• 1:15:21
  today. But again, does this prophecy in
• 1:15:24
  Jeremiah 51 have double fulfillment?
• 1:15:28
  Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty
• 1:15:32
  stronghold, I will send destroyers against her, declares
• 1:15:35
  the Lord. The sound of a cry comes from
• 1:15:38
  Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the
• 1:15:42
  Babylonians. The Lord will destroy Babylon,
• 1:15:45
  He will silence her noisy, dim waves of enemies.
• 1:15:49
  So again we see that this is like a personification of waves
• 1:15:52
  of the sea. But these are enemies.
• 1:15:54
  Waves of enemies will rage like great waters.
• 1:15:59
  So this, the water is the sea of the people is our people.
• 1:16:03
  The waves of enemies will rage like great waters.
• 1:16:06
  The roar of their voices will resound.
• 1:16:08
  A destroyer will come against Babylon.
• 1:16:11
  Her warriors will be captured, their bows will be broken.
• 1:16:15
  And again, is this alliance? Is that the beast alliance?
• 1:16:20
  Because there's going to be like 7 kings with 10 crowns, like
• 1:16:28
  three of them get uprooted and the one that replaces them is
• 1:16:32
  the Antichrist. So this is like an alliance of a
• 1:16:36
  lot of people that don't like Babylon that come against
• 1:16:41
  Babylon. So let's look at, let's think
• 1:16:44
  about this in our modern day. Just speculate if if this
• 1:16:50
  there's a a great alliance that comes against Babylon, but this
• 1:16:55
  great alliance is actually the beast.
• 1:16:58
  Just something to study more right now and really look at
• 1:17:02
  more detail about what it says of who the beasts are.
• 1:17:05
  Now the beast actually comes up out of the earth.
• 1:17:08
  So there is something that I think is spiritual involved with
• 1:17:11
  this because it I think it might have some spiritual or fallen
• 1:17:15
  Angel thing because because it comes out, there's that maybe
• 1:17:21
  that's what's influencing it because it's like something from
• 1:17:24
  the past that comes up and it's like at the midpoint of the
• 1:17:30
  final week of the tribulation or the final week of Daniel.
• 1:17:35
  I don't say it's the tribulation.
• 1:17:37
  I say it's like midway sounds like halfway in between this,
• 1:17:40
  this beast comes up out of the abyss, but it it has like these
• 1:17:46
  kings that are part of it and they give their authority over
• 1:17:49
  in the devil or Satan gives its power to this beast.
• 1:17:53
  And this is it's kind of that one world government that people
• 1:17:58
  have been talking about for years and years and years.
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  So again, we don't have all the answers, but there's like these
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  clues that you can look at and you can kind of see something's
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  kind of taking shape right now. So for the Lord is a God of
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  retribution. He will repay in full.
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  I will make her officials and wise men drunk, her governors,
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  officers and warriors as well. They will sleep forever and not
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  awake. It's like eternal death.
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  And you know, like going down to the pit declares the King, whose
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  name is the Lord Almighty. So there's think stuff about
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  going down to the pit, which is, you know, like what is gained if
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  I am silenced, if I go down to the pit, the dust, the dust,
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  will the dust praise you? Will it claim, proclaim your
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  faithfulness? That's from Psalm 30.
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  Let's see, Isaiah 3818 says, for the grave cannot praise you,
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  death cannot sing your praise, those who go down to the pit
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  cannot hope for your faithfulness.
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  Ezekiel says verse or chapter 26 Verse 20 Then I will bring you
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  down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of long
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  ago. I will make you dwell in the
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  earth below as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the
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  pit, and you will not return or take your place in the land of
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  the living. Ezekiel 31 verse 16 I made the
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  nations tremble at the sound of its fall, when I brought it down
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  to the realm of the dead to be with those who go down to the
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  pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the
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  choices in the best of Lebanon, the well watered trees were
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  consoled in the earth below. This is like in a picture of
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  hell. Ezekiel 32 says Son of man for
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  the hordes of Egypt, whale for the hordes of Egypt, and
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  consigned to the and consigned to the earth below, both her and
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  the daughters of mighty nations, along with those who go down to
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  the pit. Ezekiel 32 verse 24 says Elam,
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  which is Iran, is there with all her her hordes around her grave.
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  All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.
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  All who had spread terror in the land of the living went down
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  uncircumcised to the earth below.
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  They bear their shame with those who go down to the Ezekiel 32A
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  Bed is made for her among the slain, and with all her hordes
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  around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised,
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  killed by the sword, because their terror has spread in the
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  land of the living. They bear their shame with those
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  who go down to the pit. They're laid among the slain.
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  And it says there's two more verses.
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  Ezekiel 32 Edom, which is modern day Jordan is there, her kings
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  and all her Princess. Despite their power, they are
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  laid with those killed by the sword.
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  They lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the
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  pit. Ezekiel 32 verse 30 says all the
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  promises of the north and all the Sidonians are there.
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  They went down with the slain in disgrace, despite the terror
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  caused by their power. They lie uncircumcised with
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  those killed by the sword and bear their shame with those who
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  go down to the pit. So we there are terror groups
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  today that are in the world and are destroying people.
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  And it seems like all of these who produce terror in the day of
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  in the land of the living right now are going down to the pit.
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  That's what it says. So that's a word of warning.
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  All these, these people who do these terror things, they have
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  this imagination, a deception probably from Satan that tells
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  them they're going to get 72 virgins when they do this stuff.
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  They're completely wrong. They're going down to the pit.
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  The Bible was written first. Their book came about 600 years
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  later. So word of warning to so many
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  people about everybody needs to know what's in the Bible.
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  Verse 58, this from Jeremiah 51. This is what the Lord Almighty
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  says. Babylon's thick wall will be
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  leveled and her gates, her high gates set on fire.
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  The people's, the peoples exhaust themselves for nothing.
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  The nation's labor is only fuel for the flames.
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  This is the message Jeremiah the prophet gave to the staff
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  officer Soraya, son of Neriah, the son of Messiah.
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  Messiah when he was, when he went to Babylon with Zedekiah,
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  king of Judah. In the fourth year of his reign,
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  Jeremiah had written on a scroll about all the disasters that
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  would come upon Babylon, All that had been recorded
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  concerning Babylon. He said to Saraya, When you get
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  to Babylon, see that you read all these words loud.
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  Then say, Lord, you have said, you will destroy this place so
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  that neither people nor animals will live in it.
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  It will be desolate forever. When you finish reading the
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  scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates.
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  Then say, so will Babylon sink to rise no more because of the
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  disaster I will bring on her, and her people will fall.
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  The words of Jeremiah end here. So that's the end of chapter 51.
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  So there's quite a lot to to talk about, to talk about, to
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  study, to reflect on in this chapter.
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  And it, Jeremiah 51, ties into lots of the books of Revelation.
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  I could read more from the Book of Revelation, but I think it
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  might even be confusing. But it ties into the prophecies
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  in the books of Isaiah where it talks about the rock being cut
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  from the stone and that being the cornerstone.
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  Jesus talked about the wine press where Jesus is actually
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  trampling and he's going to come against.
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  That'll be the vengeance of God, the wrath of God.
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  Just about where this this serpent could you know, it is
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  Satan and who leads the whole world astray.
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  It kind of talks about that with Babylon too.
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  Is that you know, is, is the Babylon spirit the same as
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  Satan? Are they different spirits?
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  Is 1 like a female or an androgynous one?
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  Or if they both one and the same just a deception?
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  I don't know, but it, you know, it says that Satan's the one who
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  leads the whole world astray in chapter in Revelation chapter
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  12. And let's see, I'm just going
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  through all the tabs that I have opened.
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  And you know, Revelation 17 is another one just to really study
• 1:25:27
  and try to understand that, or at least commit it to memory so
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  that when you see things happening, you might all of a
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  sudden say that this really is something we should pay
• 1:25:39
  attention to. So the beast is something else.
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  That is, there's a lot of verses that talk about the beast.
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  It's in, let's see, 36 exact phrases in the New International
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  Version. And it starts in like Daniel
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  Chapter 7 that talks about the beast.
• 1:26:03
  Then it goes into Revelation Chapter 11, Revelation chapter
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  13, a lot in chapter 13, Revelation 14151617 and 19 and
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  20. So all of those chapters talk
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  about the beast and it gives us clues about that.
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  I think this podcast is really long, so I'm not going to read
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  through that. But if you just go to an
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  electronic Bible and search the beast, you will be able to see
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  all of these things and read them.
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  And then just to familiarize yourself with all the different
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  characteristics of the beast. And the fall of Babylon is
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  recorded in Revelation chapter 18.
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  Again, I think that ties to Jeremiah.
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  And let's see what other verses that I had here that were
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  important for us to go over. I think I probably covered them
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  all. So it's, it's long enough.
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  Again, these are hard to keep short, short when there are so
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  many different books that tie together.
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