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829. Bible Study: Ezekiel 7 ("Four Corners," "the Rod," the"Assyrian," Trumpet, Seals, Flee, "Peace", Wrath) · Faith by annm2705

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  Ezekiel Chapter 7. First let's pray.
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  Dear God, please be with us as we read through this chapter and
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  let our eyes be opened. Our eyes, our minds, let the
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  Holy Spirit reveal things. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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  So this is titled in my NIV version.
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  The end has come for this chapter, and after reading it, I
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  do believe this is one of those passages that has a double
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  fulfillment. It had a fulfillment, you know,
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  in the future of Ezekiel's time, but I think it also has a
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  fulfillment that is yet to come. And I will point out the reasons
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  why and the scripture that supports that.
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  So first, I think I'll just read through this, or maybe I'll just
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  read through and stop as I come to the points that I want to
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  make. So it's all together.
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  So let's get started. The word of the Lord came to me,
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  Son of Man, This is what the sovereign Lord says to the land
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  of Israel. So this is specifically to the
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  land of Israel. The end.
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  The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
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  The end is now upon you. And I will unleash my anger
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  against you. I will judge you according to
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  your conduct and repay you for all your detestable practices.
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  I will not look on you with pity.
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  I will not spare you. I will surely repay you for your
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  conduct and for the detestable practices among you.
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  So first stuff when I read this is the four corners part where
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  it says upon the four corners of the land.
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  So the study Bible addresses this.
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  What were the four corners of the land?
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  This was a colloquial expression not meant to be understood
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  literally. It was a way of saying the whole
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  land of Israel. So yes, I agree with that.
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  But also when we read that the Bible, all these books are
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  interrelated and I do recall the four corners being mentioned
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  before. And if you do a word search in
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  an electronic Bible likeblueletterbible.org and just
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  search for corners. Now I've searched it in the NIV
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  version. So there may be different
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  results based on which version you search in.
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  But in the NIV, it occurred 43 times in 17 verses in the NIV.
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  And I don't remember if I spoke of this in a prior podcast
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  because I had researched this some time ago, in the past three
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  days or so. And I was, but I was, I guess,
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  saving it to the chapter where it actually became relevant.
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  This is Chapter 7 and I thought I was going to cover multiple
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  chapters but they turned out being too long so I didn't get
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  to them. Anyway, if I repeated this I'm
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  sorry I can't remember, but it was something that I discovered
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  when you search the four corners.
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  Something that stood out to me was the design of the ark of or
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  the altar. The the table, the altar that
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  God gave back in Exodus. So in Exodus 2526 in the NIV
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  version this is the first time four corners are talked about
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  and and it says make 4 gold rings for the table and fasten
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  them to the four corners where the four legs are.
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  And then in Exodus 27 two it says make a horn at each of the
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  four corners so that the horns and the altar are of one piece
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  and overlay the altar with bronze.
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  Now when God does things, when he gives direction, we know that
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  it often is symbolic of something future.
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  Just like the Passover was symbolic of Jesus dying on the
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  cross and his blood protecting. And the Israelites had to put
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  the blood of the Lamb on their doorpost to be protected from
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  the Angel of death. In the story of the Passover, in
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  the same way the blood of Jesus protects US against the Angel of
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  death. It gives us eternal life in
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  God's Kingdom. So when we see the four corners,
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  this just came to me when I was searching, doing this word
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  search, four corners, I thought, wow, this is interesting because
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  the horn, if you look in Bible prophecy, the horn like in
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  Revelation and other places, the horn symbolizes power.
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  It symbolizes, you know, kind of like a yeah, like, OK, in the
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  Book of Revelation, it talks about the number of horns that
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  are on the beast, and those represent kingdoms.
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  The Book of Revelation defines that for us.
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  It tells us that the horns are specifically kings or kingdoms.
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  Their powers, if you want to just simplify it, whatever, they
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  are their powers. And I find it interesting that
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  God designed this altar with four corners and the
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  significance of this. I'm just going to read the
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  verses that reference four corners because maybe you'll
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  you'll pick up on this too. It says make a grading for it, a
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  bronze network, and make a bronze ring at each of the four
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  corners of the network. There's probably, I think
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  there's something more with this bronze, especially when you
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  start thinking about the dream that Nebuchadnezzar had of the
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  statue and all the different materials.
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  I do think that may play into this as well.
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  The materials that God chose probably represent things, but I
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  I'm not going to go that deep because I didn't research that
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  enough, but I'm just thinking that there might be some
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  significance in that. And then in Exodus 37, they cast
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  4 gold rings for the table and fastened them to the four
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  corners where the four legs were.
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  Exodus 38, they made a horn at each of the four corners so that
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  the horns and the altar were of one piece, and they overlaid the
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  altar with bronze. Exodus 38, five, it says they
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  cast bronze rings to hold the poles for the four corners of
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  the bronze grating. Then we get in to Deuteronomy.
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  Well, I, I, I want to talk a little bit more because I don't
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  know, I don't remember now if it talks about OK, it does.
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  We're getting there. So I guess I'm going to jump to
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  Ezekiel 43, verse 20. It says you are to take some of
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  its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar and on the
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  four corners of the upper ledge and all around the rim, and so
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  purify the altar and make atonement for it and then, OK,
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  so I guess I'll read this one too.
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  Ezekiel 45, verse 19 says the priest is to take some of the
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  blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorpost of the
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  temple, on the four corners of the upper ledge of the altar and
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  on the gate. The inner court, actually.
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  OK, I want to go back to Ezekiel 4320.
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  Read that again. You were to take some of the
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  blood and put it on the four horns of the altar and on the
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  four corners of the upper ledge and all around the rim, and so
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  purify the altar and make atonement for it.
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  This I think is symbolic again of Jesus.
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  So the four horns are the 4 powers and the blood of Christ
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  overcomes the four horns. And there's something I, I don't
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  know if this is relevant at all, but on the beast, the eventual
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  beast, there are these, there are essentially 4 horns that
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  come up. There are three of them, but
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  then one comes up after and pushes out the three.
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  It replaces the three. So essentially there are four
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  and it says the last one is the 8th 1.
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  He belongs to the beast and he is like the lawless one or the
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  one that people call the Antichrist or the, I don't know
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  what other label he has, but he's the he's the last one that
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  comes up and kind of in, in the end times.
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  And so I don't know if it's significant that, you know, by
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  the blood of the lamb. It says, you know, like the
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  followers of Jesus overcome him by the blood of the lamb.
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  Do those four corners, the four horns, represent for rulers who
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  are displaced by this one man? And yet Jesus overcomes them all
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  with the blood of the Lamb and to purify the altar.
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  So the that's what Jesus's blood does.
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  He purified mankind, those who trust in Him and to make
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  atonement for it. So atonement for the altar, you
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  know, this is a change of things.
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  This is in Ezekiel 43. So it's just something that I
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  read. And when I was reading it, I was
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  like, wait a second. This could have some symbolic
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  meaning. I don't know if it does or not,
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  but it just really stood out to me because there's so much when
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  you search for corners that it talks about the altar and and so
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  forth. And, and this is kind of
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  interesting too. I don't remember if it was Peter
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  or if it was Saul. I think it was Peter.
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  I have to click on it. Acts 10.
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  It was Peter when he was up on the rooftop and he had this
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  vision of this sheet coming down with all of these unclean foods
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  on it and what God essentially was telling him that none of
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  those things are to be considered unclean.
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  And he was really referring to the Gentiles because Peter was
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  going to have an interaction with a man and then people were
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  going to be saved at that point. And at the same time, God was
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  giving instructing A Gentile person to seek out Peter and to
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  find him like God speaks to people.
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  So he was making paths cross of these people so that his will
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  could be done, that someone would arrive in the Kingdom
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  there, you know, they would they would be saved.
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  And that's like God's ultimate purpose.
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  And, and so I don't know if the the four corners have
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  significance in that besides, you know, a sheet is typically a
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  square, a rectangle. And so that could just be a
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  literal and not significant, but you know, that it's mentioned
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  and it has to do with the, you know, in the context, it's about
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  Gentiles coming to faith and being saved, you know, beyond
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  the Jews or beyond Israel. It's expanding God's Kingdom to
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  that that may be significant and God's power to overcome.
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  And he just repeats four corners to kind of emphasize a point
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  that's in Acts 10 and Acts 11, if you want to read that.
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  And then we get to the Book of Revelation where there are four,
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  it's, I'll just read it. Revelation 7 verse one.
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  After this, I saw 4 angels standing at the four corners of
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  the earth holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent
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  any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or any tree.
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  And so they're standing at the four corners.
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  And that could, just like this study Bible says for the land of
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  Israel, that could just mean the whole extent of the earth, that
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  the four angels are standing at the four corners of the earth
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  holding back the four winds. I did look up winds to find out
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  if it was pneuma or something like that.
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  But it is not pneuma. It's not the same like the word
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  for spirit. It is something different than
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  that. And I'll go to what it says the
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  four winds are like. Here's what it says, or here's
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  the Greek word for it strongs G 417 animas animus, and animus
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  means like a wind, a violent agitation and stream of air, a
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  very strong temptuous wind. The four principal are cardinal
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  winds, hence the four corners of heaven.
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  So I guess that could be NE southwest like this is coming
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  from everywhere. This is what it's going to be
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  and that kind of seems to hold true when we see that, you know,
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  there is going to be a future devastation of the earth by God
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  in the transition to his Kingdom because he is riding the earth
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  of evil. And then the last time the four
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  corners in the NIV version is spoken of is in Revelation 20
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  verses 8. And it says, and we'll go out to
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  deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth, Gog and
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  Magog, and to gather them for battle in the number.
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  They are like the sand on the seashore.
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  We probably need to read the the part before that because it
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  doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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  So when the 1000 years are over, Satan will be released from his
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  prison. So after Jesus reigns for 1000
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  years, Satan will be released and will go out to deceive the
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  nations in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, and to
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  gather them for the battle in the number.
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  They are like the sand on the seashore, so there's a lot of
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  them. They marched across the breath
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  of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city
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  he loves. But fire came down from heaven
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  and devoured them, and the devil who deceived them was thrown
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  into the lake of burning sulphur where the beast and the false
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  prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and
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  night, forever and ever. So that is that is like the the
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  final battle. I mean, this is, you know, very
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  far into the future. And there's a bunch of stuff
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  that I looked up on Gog and Magog as well, and I will cover
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  that soon. But right now we're just talking
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  about the four corners. So the four corners could be and
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  the horns of the four corners could be symbolic of powers that
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  Jesus, it really has defeated with his death on the cross and
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  resurrection. But there will come a day where
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  there is where he comes to earth for that specific purpose to set
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  up his Kingdom. So let's continue on to Chapter
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  7 of Ezekiel and the next. It's part of verse 4 and I'll
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  start reading more so then you will know that I am the Lord.
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  This is what the sovereign Lord says.
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  Disaster, unheard of disaster. Now it says in my study Bible,
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  most Hebrew manuscripts say that, but some Hebrew
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  manuscripts and Syriac say disaster after disaster.
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  So this sounds a lot like what Jesus said in Matthew 24.
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  There will be wars and rumors of wars until the end.
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  And I'm going to read that later because there's more references
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  where it does sound like what Jesus said would happen.
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  So it says, see, it comes, the end has come, the end has come.
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  So this is another reason why the end has come.
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  I mean, I, I think this is really talking about like the
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  very end. However, I do believe it was
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  evidenced by history that some of this did come true, but I
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  don't think it was a full fulfillment of this prophecy.
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  So continuing, it says it has roused itself against you.
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  See, it comes. Doom has come upon you, upon you
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  who dwell in the land. The time has come, the day is
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  near. Now I think about the
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  abomination of desolation that Jesus spoke up of in Matthew 24
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  that was first referenced in the book of Daniel.
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  I think it's chapters 911 and 12 that cover this topic.
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  But just reading this, it's like that abomination of desolation
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  is basically God allowing this to happen because of the
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  idolatry that has occurred. It is the punishment that God
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  talked about that he said from the very beginning, he warned
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  them of, I think back in the book of Deuteronomy, he, he gave
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  them blessings and curses. If you, if you follow, here's
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  your blessings. If you don't, the this is your
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  curse. And and it'll, it will later
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  talk about, you know, fleeing to the mountains just like Jesus
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  talked about. So doom has come upon you, upon
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  you who dwell in the land. Now remember, this is talking
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  about the land of Israel. There is panic, not joy, on the
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  mountains. I am about to pour out my wrath
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  on you and spend my anger against you.
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  I will judge you according to your conduct and repay you for
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  all your detestable practices. I will not look on you with
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  pity. I will not spare you.
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  I will repay you for your conduct and for the detestable
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  practices among you. Then you will know that it is I,
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  the Lord, who strikes you. See the day, see it comes.
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  Doom has burst forth, The rod has budded.
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  Arrogance has blossomed. Violence has arisen.
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  A rod to punish the wicked. I'm going to pause there.
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  That's in the middle of the verse 11 from Chapter 7, because
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  this rod is kind of important too.
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  So I, if you search, you can do this too.
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  Search the rod in Scripture, just the word rod and we'll
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  learn things from it. There are in the NIV version,
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  there's 53 times in 49 verses. And the rod is discipline,
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  basically, and it's a lot of different contexts throughout
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  the Bible. Beginning in Exodus 21, verse 20
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  is where it starts. I'm not going to read all of
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  these things about the rod, but I am going to read about a few
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  things that are because Jesus has a rod coming out of his
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  mouth. And I was going to try and find
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  that verse that it talks about. This is like in the end.
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  But as I was doing this research about the rod, I found Isaiah
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  chapter 10, verse 5. It said, woe to the Assyrian,
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  the rod of my anger in whose hand is the club of my wrath.
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  That one really stood out to me. And there's a lot of times where
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  we talk about the Assyrian being the lawless 1.
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  And Assyria was the one who historically had, you know,
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  invaded the lands and, you know, is Assyria and Babylon.
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  And this is also tying into some beliefs that I have is that
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  there are spiritual entities that control certain areas of
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  land. And I believe that something
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  everlasting that was created by God to be to live forever is a
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  spiritual entity that covers this land.
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  Because you look at the alliances today and you can see
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  that these alliances kind of hold through from the Bible.
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  They're generally against Israel.
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  And you wonder why for thousands and thousands of years.
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  I mean, what we're seeing is a biblical is biblical chaos.
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  Actually, it's from the Bible. It's talked about in the Bible
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  and we are seeing it. People may think it's about all
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  these other things, but as Paul says in Ephesians chapter 6
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  verse 12, it's not flesh and blood that we're wrestling
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  against. It's a spiritual entity.
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  And I believe it's these principalities in the heavenly
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  realms, the dark forces of evil that influence these people.
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  And here in Isaiah chapter 10, verse 5, it says, woe to the
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  Assyrian, the rod of my anger. God can use evil.
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  God can use people who are not necessarily his chosen people to
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  fulfill what he's done or that, you know, disobedient people.
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  He can use disobedient people. And the way that I look at how
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  he does this is the disobedient people have this, maybe they
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  have this anger from the spiritual entity against the
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  people of Israel. And the people of Israel aren't
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  listening to God. So God's like, OK, you know,
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  here, this is going to be the rod of my wrath, this person,
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  and he lets everybody have free will.
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  So this Assyrian has free will and he has anger and hatred
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  towards Israel. So he's going to come against
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  Israel and God's going to let that happen because God's not
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  protecting them because of their idolatry, because they chose
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  another God. They are they, they they've
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  abandoned God. So he is not protecting them.
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  If they've abandoned him and his protection is gone and he allows
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  the Assyrian to do something, his purpose is really to turn
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  Israel back towards him. It's not to get rid of them,
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  it's really to turn them back to him.
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  But they don't listen. They're stubborn.
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  And, you know, we can be that same way.
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  So it's, it's not necessarily, you know, just Israel, but what
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  we're talking about right now is to the land of Israel.
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  And so there's this Assyrian, the rod of his anger, who is
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  going to do this. And just like the king of
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  Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, God used Nebuchadnezzar to
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  discipline Israel or the tribe of Judah, the southern tribe of
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  Judah. He used Babylon to do that.
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  He used Nebuchadnezzar to do that.
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  Nebuchadnezzar wanted to, He wanted to conquer and God
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  allowed that because it was time for Israel to wake up and God
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  was hoping they would wake up. And I'm sure some did and but
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  not all of them. And so again, there's this
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  Assyrian. So that kind of led me to like,
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  I, you know, about this rod of discipline, the Assyrian.
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  And let's see, I so I had a question about that and I just
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  thought for a quick reference I would look up like is Isaiah 10
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  past or future prophecy? Isaiah 10 contains prophecy with
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  dual applications, an immediate historical fulfillment
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  concerning Assyria's invasion of Judah during Hezekiah's reign
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  around 7 O1 BC, and a future broader fulfillment pointing
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  toward a final Assyrian figure and end times judgment, often
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  seen as a type of the Antichrist or a final global enemy.
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  The chapter describes God using Assyria as a rod for his anger,
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  but promises judgment for a serious pride, a pattern that
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  applies to historical events but also foreshadows future
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  conflicts culminating in Christ reign.
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  So this is just before the thousand year reign of Christ
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  that this will happen. It ties in with all the
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  scripture because the way Jesus outlines what's going to happen
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  there's when you see the abomination of desolation,
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  that's when all the people in Israel are supposed to flee to
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  the mountains to avoid it because there will be stress
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  distress greater than ever has ever been experienced before or
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  ever will again will come on Israel at that point and shortly
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  thereafter is when Jesus comes on the clouds.
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  We'll talk about that when we look at the seals of Revelation.
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  I think I probably covered this the seat Revelation chapter 6
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  before, but it's relevant to this this like timeline of
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  events that are happening that will happen, I guess.
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  And so then the land of Assyria. So I was curious about, you
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  know, all these ancient towns in the by not towns, but countries
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  in the Bible do relate to lands that are modern.
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  But if we don't know what they are, it it makes it hard to
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  understand. So Assyrian land refers to the
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  homeland of the Assyrian people in Upper Mesopotamia, modern day
• 27:58
  Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Iran. Now, are those four countries
• 28:08
  against Israel today? Were they in the past?
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  The answer to both of those is yes.
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  So there's Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Iran.
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  Are those countries in modern day news right now?
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  Absolutely, yes. In fact, today is the 9th of
• 28:27
  January 2026. And currently Iran has protests
• 28:34
  happening with the people and they've shut down the whole
• 28:36
  Internet. And there were, there was this
• 28:40
  rebellion from the people against the regime, but then
• 28:44
  everything went black. There's no information coming
• 28:49
  out after that. I'm sure they don't want the
• 28:52
  world to know what's coming right now, what's happening
• 28:55
  there. So there's internal chaos
• 28:58
  happening within Iran. There's also Iran is, you know,
• 29:03
  making their getting ready for nuclear battles.
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  I mean, they're trying to get everything set up again to
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  their, their enemies are basically the United States and
• 29:18
  Israel. the United States is often called big Satan and
• 29:21
  Israel is called little Satan. And it's just like, it's like a
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  narcissistic thing and that God hates pride.
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  And that's what is narcissism, right?
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  Love of self and pride. And, and so a narcissist would
• 29:35
  turn around, you know, good for evil and evil for good.
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  And and that's kind of what like Iran is doing right now.
• 29:45
  They're calling a God, I guess, a a God centered United States.
• 29:52
  Like we were created one nation under God.
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  OK, So our alliance was to God and the founders were had
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  Christian values. It was Christian,
• 30:05
  judeo-christian values. I mean our laws are written upon
• 30:09
  that and are based upon that. So there is a connection between
• 30:13
  Israel because of the Old Testament and the United States
• 30:17
  and the foundation of all of our laws.
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  But we also have Islam coming in one to replace all the laws with
• 30:26
  Sharia law. And that's completely different.
• 30:29
  That's like from the enemy and but then they see that as good.
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  I recently listened to a podcast with someone who was a jihadist
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  who has now turned away from that and is actually a follower
• 30:43
  of Christ. And so he was giving a lot of
• 30:45
  insight to his childhood and what he learned and what was
• 30:49
  taught to him. And it was very eye opening and
• 30:54
  very it supports a lot of what I was assuming where he said that
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  they really when they come into a land, they want to conquer the
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  land. Now a lot of the Muslim people
• 31:08
  are not necessarily don't really have that conquering goal.
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  A lot of times they just are seeking better places for their
• 31:15
  family. But the political element of
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  Islam, when they get into a governmental, they are
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  definitely trying to conquer and take over.
• 31:28
  That is their goal. That is the foundation of their
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  religion. They want everyone to adhere to
• 31:34
  their doctrine and they want to implement Sharia law wherever
• 31:38
  they can be. So Islam is a political
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  movement. And this is not my opinion.
• 31:44
  This is from the mouth of a former jihadist that said this
• 31:48
  and they are out to conquer, to take over.
• 31:52
  And because they think of us as big Satan in the United States,
• 31:56
  they want to conquer us because in their minds, which are
• 31:59
  distorted, they think that if they conquer us, it will be a
• 32:03
  good thing. But yet they are fleeing what
• 32:07
  they don't have. And, and the ironic thing is
• 32:09
  that this person said that they believe that Sharia law isn't
• 32:14
  been hasn't been implemented the way it should be.
• 32:17
  And that's why their countries that have Sharia law are in such
• 32:21
  disarray and chaos and they're completely blinded to could it
• 32:26
  perhaps be that they have an enemy, a spiritual enemy that is
• 32:31
  distorting right from wrong in their minds and that is why they
• 32:36
  are in chaos. But they aren't seeing that.
• 32:39
  So anyway, it's, it's the reality of today.
• 32:42
  And it's really interesting because I would say that these
• 32:46
  countries that were named as part of a Syria are generally
• 32:52
  Islamic countries. Iraq, Iraq is where Babylon
• 32:58
  started, so modern day Iraq. And then you have Syria, you
• 33:02
  have Turkey and Iran. So and there's these alliances.
• 33:07
  Look to see who is a lot allied today.
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  So I think this is something that we you know, we're we're
• 33:14
  seeing we're seeing the Bible play out right now.
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  I don't know how long it's going to take for all of this to
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  unfold, but it's certainly you can't not see it if you know
• 33:28
  what's in the Bible. I mean, it's just it's there's
• 33:32
  no way to look past it. So then I had another question.
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  Is the land of Assyria Magog? No, Assyria is generally not
• 33:43
  identified as Magog. While Assyria was a powerful
• 33:46
  ancient empire in Mesopotamia, modern day Iraq, Turkey, Syria.
• 33:51
  Forgot to add Iran to that. Magog is a land mentioned in the
• 33:56
  Bible, Genesis and Ezekiel whose location is debated, often
• 34:02
  linked by scholars to the Scythians, which would be modern
• 34:07
  Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, or Lydia which is modern Turkey
• 34:13
  with no clear connection to Assyria, though both interacted
• 34:17
  with ancient people. So I would pause right there and
• 34:20
  say well that doesn't really make sense because there's a
• 34:24
  couple different things. First of all, it names Lydia,
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  which is modern Turkey, so that is part of Assyria.
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  So it could or couldn't be, but it's just like it's a much
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  broader and that's why a lot of times Russia is thought of as
• 34:43
  Gog because of this, the Scythians, which Russia could
• 34:47
  be, but I don't know. We'll just have to wait and see.
• 34:51
  Or it could be something within, you know, Turkey or Iraq,
• 34:57
  Turkey, Syria, I don't know, just to keep our eyes open.
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  But generally, and those are the lands to the north.
• 35:03
  So Israel, the prophecies are always talking about out of the
• 35:06
  north is going to come this this final lawless 1.
• 35:11
  So it could be all those places and we just have to pay
• 35:16
  attention to. So Magog biblically was
• 35:20
  genealogically, he was the grandson of Noah, son of
• 35:25
  Japheth, whose descendants settled north of Israel.
• 35:29
  If you look at a map of it, you know it, it does encompass all
• 35:35
  of those territories where you have Iraq, Turkey, Syria, I.
• 35:41
  Guess you know into. Like the the the Greek areas
• 35:46
  there were, I don't know if it's if I had that on here, but just
• 35:53
  I guess search Jaipeth territory and then you can see where where
• 35:59
  it is. In fact, I did search that.
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  Which modern countries represent the land of Jaipeth?
• 36:05
  The land of Jaipeth, according to the biblical table of
• 36:08
  nations, represents regions in Europe, Anatolia, which is
• 36:13
  modern Turkey, the Aegean Sea and parts of Asia with his.
• 36:18
  Descendants. Linked to Indo European peoples
• 36:22
  like Greeks gave on medes and Persians.
• 36:26
  That's Irans area, Celts or Gomer and Scythians slash Slavs,
• 36:35
  which are Magog, tubal Meshech, Tiras.
• 36:39
  So Magog, Tubal Meshech, those are mentioned quite a bit in
• 36:44
  prophecy and so that's why the Scythians, I guess come up.
• 36:48
  Modern countries associated with these areas include.
• 36:52
  So here we go Now to make sense of it for us, Greece, Turkey,
• 36:57
  Iran, Russia, Germany, France, Britain and other European
• 37:05
  nations representing the broad spread of J PS lineage into
• 37:10
  Northern, Western and Eastern Europe and into Asia.
• 37:14
  So the the. Point of this like.
• 37:17
  I've, I've talked a whole lot about this, but this is Syrian.
• 37:22
  It it could be on it it it could.
• 37:26
  Be one of the same. It could be this, this land of
• 37:29
  Japheth, it could be from Turkey, it could be from Syria,
• 37:33
  it could be. I just think we have to keep our
• 37:35
  eyes open. But this Assyrian is going to be
• 37:39
  God's rod of wrath. So this person, you know, if
• 37:45
  people are looking for quote, the Antichrist or the lawless
• 37:49
  one, it's probably going to come from this area.
• 37:51
  It's kind of interesting if you look at this, that Germany was
• 37:55
  listed in this and you know how prophecy sometimes gets
• 37:58
  fulfilled multiple times. What about Hitler?
• 38:01
  Don't you think maybe Hitler was a partial fulfillment of this
• 38:05
  prophecy too? If he's in that area, he comes
• 38:08
  from the same area. This also talks about like the
• 38:11
  principalities that potentially the dark powers that have some
• 38:15
  sort of rulership over these areas.
• 38:18
  It's just something to pay attention to.
• 38:20
  If you're interested in this, you know, research it and look
• 38:24
  into it for yourself. But it's just something I became
• 38:27
  aware of, and I think it's important for people to open up
• 38:31
  their minds and just pay attention to this.
• 38:34
  Now, getting back to the rod that was talked about in verse
• 38:38
  11 from the book of Ezekiel, it's also talking about this rod
• 38:43
  budding and blooming. And that takes us back to
• 38:47
  Aaron's rod. And so I'll read what the study
• 38:51
  Bible says. How would a budding rod be a
• 38:54
  sign of judgement? The rod was a symbol of the
• 38:57
  pride of the Israelites, a picture of their presumed
• 39:01
  authority. A rod that had budded indicated
• 39:05
  that their arrogance had blossomed.
• 39:08
  It was a sign of judgement in the same way that Aaron's staff
• 39:13
  had been a sign to the rebellious.
• 39:16
  So going back to the story about Aaron, it's in Numbers chapter
• 39:22
  17 verse 10, the Lord said to Moses, put back Aaron's staff in
• 39:29
  front of the ark of the covenant law to be kept here.
• 39:33
  It is as a sign to the rebellious this.
• 39:39
  Will an. End to their grumbling against
• 39:42
  me so that they will not die so. That's that's kind of
• 39:48
  interesting. I.
• 39:48
  Can I'll read the the budding of Aaron's staff because if you
• 39:52
  aren't familiar with it I'll try to read it quickly.
• 39:55
  The Lord said to Moses, this is chapter 17 of Numbers.
• 39:59
  Chapter 17. The Lord said to Moses, speak to
• 40:01
  the Israelites and get 12 Staffs from them, one from the leader
• 40:05
  of each of their ancestral tribes.
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  Write the name of each man on his staff.
• 40:10
  On the staff of Levi write Aaron's name, for there must be
• 40:14
  one staff for the head of each. Ancestral tribe, place them in
• 40:19
  the tent of the meeting in front of the Ark of the Covenant,
• 40:21
  where I meet with you. The staff belonging to the man I
• 40:25
  choose will sprout, and I will rid myself of this constant
• 40:30
  grumbling against you by the Israelites.
• 40:34
  So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and their leaders
• 40:36
  gave him 12 Staffs, one for the leader of each of their
• 40:40
  ancestral tribes, and Aaron's staff was among them.
• 40:44
  Moses placed the Staffs before the Lord in the tent of the
• 40:48
  covenant law. The next day, Moses entered the
• 40:52
  tent and saw that Aaron's staff, which represented the tribe of
• 40:56
  Levi, had not only sprouted, but had budded, blossomed, and
• 41:01
  produced almonds then. Moses brought out.
• 41:05
  All the Staffs, from the Lord's presence to all the Israelites,
• 41:09
  they looked at them and each of the leaders took his own staff.
• 41:13
  The Lord said to Moses, put back Aaron's staff in front of the
• 41:17
  Ark of the Covenant to be kept as a sign to the rebellious.
• 41:20
  This will prevent their grumbling against me so that
• 41:23
  they will not die. Moses did just as the Lord
• 41:27
  commanded him. The Israelites said to Moses, we
• 41:30
  will die, we are lost, we are all lost.
• 41:33
  Anyone who even comes near the Tabernacle, Tabernacle of the
• 41:37
  Lord will die. Are we all going to die?
• 41:40
  And it goes on further. But the point was about the
• 41:44
  budding staff, so it says. So that's the first part of the
• 41:50
  of the rod has budded and then violence has arisen, a rod to
• 41:54
  punish the wicked. And it says none of the people
• 41:57
  will be left, none of the crowd, none of their wealth.
• 42:01
  I'm back in Ezekiel, nothing of value.
• 42:06
  The time has come, the day has arrived.
• 42:11
  Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller grieve, for my wrath
• 42:17
  is on the whole crowd. He's talking to the land of
• 42:20
  Israel. The seller will not recover the
• 42:23
  property, property that was sold, as long as both the buyer
• 42:28
  and seller live. I think there's probably more to
• 42:31
  that for the vision concerning the whole crowd will not be
• 42:36
  reversed. So that he's pretty much saying
• 42:38
  this will happen. It's it's not going to be
• 42:41
  reversed because of their sins. Not one of them will preserve
• 42:47
  their life. They have blown the trumpet.
• 42:53
  They have made all things ready, but no one will go into battle
• 42:58
  for my wrath is on the whole crowd.
• 43:01
  So this is, this is kind of interesting about the trumpet
• 43:05
  sounding. And you go back to the original
• 43:08
  tribes and they had trumpet sounds for different things.
• 43:12
  They there were two different kinds of trumpet sounds.
• 43:15
  One of them was going to war and another one was calling together
• 43:19
  for an assembly and they had, I guess, you know, just to
• 43:23
  assemble. And so there were two purposes,
• 43:26
  generally speaking, way back in the beginning.
• 43:30
  So I think it's interesting about this trumpet sounding.
• 43:33
  And in this context, it's saying, you know, they have made
• 43:36
  all things ready, but no one will go into battle.
• 43:38
  So this is like a battle, a trumpet sound.
• 43:40
  So Israel, the way I'm seeing this now, if you apply it to end
• 43:47
  times, Israel is going to be all ready to fight against this
• 43:51
  enemy, but this enemy is going to do something that devastates
• 43:57
  Israel. Because it's the wrath of God.
• 44:02
  And then it says verse 15 of Ezekiel 7, outside is the sword,
• 44:08
  inside our plague and famine. God uses the sword plague and
• 44:12
  famine historically over and over and over again repeatedly.
• 44:19
  If you look back about how he this was basically his judgement
• 44:24
  that came upon people and then we see this also reflected in
• 44:31
  the seals in the Book of Revelation chapter 6.
• 44:34
  We see. So let's compare these.
• 44:39
  Outside is the sword, and this is what.
• 44:44
  Revelation 64. Says then another horse came
• 44:48
  out, a fiery red one. It's rider was given power to
• 44:51
  take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other.
• 44:55
  To him was given a large sword. So there you go at so that is
• 45:00
  the second seal. Right before that verse 3 says
• 45:05
  when the Lamb opened the second seal.
• 45:08
  So the second seal is the sword is war.
• 45:13
  Then the third seal this it says when the lamb opened the third
• 45:17
  seal this is the lamb is also Jesus.
• 45:20
  So Jesus is opening these. I heard the third living
• 45:24
  creature say come. I looked and there before me was
• 45:29
  a Black Horse. It's rider was holding a pair of
• 45:32
  scales in his hand when I heard what sounded like a voice among
• 45:36
  the four creatures saying 2 lbs of wheat for a day's wages and 6
• 45:41
  lbs of barley for a day's wages and do not damage the oil and
• 45:46
  the wine. So this does sound like it cost
• 45:51
  a lot. It sounds like inflation,
• 45:53
  scarcity could, which would be famine.
• 45:58
  People won't be able to buy things, so there will be a
• 46:01
  famine. There's supply and demand.
• 46:03
  Things cost a lot more when there's less of it, when there's
• 46:06
  scarcity. So there would be a famine
• 46:10
  essentially for this one. And this is the third seal then
• 46:16
  the. 4th seal that. Comes I looked and there before
• 46:19
  me was a pale horse. It's rider was named Death, and
• 46:23
  Hades was following close behind him.
• 46:25
  They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by
• 46:32
  sword, famine and plague. That's exactly what three things
• 46:37
  God talks about. So this this is the fourth seal
• 46:41
  where I guess plague gets added to it and by the wild beasts of
• 46:46
  the earth. So at the 4th seal, there's
• 46:50
  sword, famine, plague and wild beasts that are happening.
• 46:55
  And this is This is why I think it's talking about the future.
• 46:59
  And then not only that, but it talks about the 1/4 of the earth
• 47:03
  being killed. And so I don't believe we are
• 47:06
  there. That's a massive war at the 4th
• 47:10
  seal. To.
• 47:15
  So then. Going back to Ezekiel.
• 47:17
  Because that's pretty much what it just talks about up to that
• 47:20
  point. Those in the country will die by
• 47:23
  the sword. Those in the city will be
• 47:25
  devoured by famine and plague. The fugitives who escape will
• 47:31
  flee to the mountains. So this is.
• 47:35
  What? Jesus says about fleeing to the
• 47:38
  mountains in Matthew 24 verse 16.
• 47:42
  It says then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
• 47:48
  So I think this is going to, I'm going to read chapter 24.
• 47:55
  I know I've read it before, but it's important to get everything
• 47:58
  in context. So at the top, Jesus left the
• 48:02
  temple and was walking away when the disciples came up to him to
• 48:06
  call his attention to its buildings.
• 48:08
  Do you see all these things? He asked.
• 48:10
  Truly, I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another.
• 48:16
  Everyone will be thrown down. As Jesus was sitting on the
• 48:20
  Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately.
• 48:24
  Tell us, they said, when will this happen and what will be the
• 48:27
  sign of your coming and of the end of the age?
• 48:33
  Jesus answered. Watch out that no one deceives
• 48:36
  you, for many will come in my name, claiming I am the Messiah
• 48:43
  and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors
• 48:47
  of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed.
• 48:51
  Such things must happened, but the end is still to come.
• 48:55
  Nation will rise against nation and Kingdom against Kingdom.
• 49:01
  There will be famines and earthquakes in various places
• 49:05
  that's happening right now, Nation against nation, Kingdom
• 49:08
  against Kingdom, famines, earthquakes in various places,
• 49:12
  Those are all happening. In fact, earthquakes are
• 49:14
  becoming more intense, more numerous and intense in it, in
• 49:20
  their significance. And in fact, I found an article
• 49:25
  when I was researching this years ago that they were taking
• 49:30
  off the graph that was showing the frequency of earthquakes
• 49:34
  because people were getting alarmed by it because it was
• 49:36
  showing this like exponential, this gradual hill on a graph,
• 49:41
  how things were increasing and, and supposedly they, they don't
• 49:47
  continue to do that. So you I don't know if you can
• 49:50
  still find it or not, but I can't.
• 49:54
  Remember the publication that I. Read that in but there is some
• 49:57
  if you look at the frequency and intensity of earthquakes are
• 50:02
  escalating. So all these are the beginning
• 50:06
  of the birth pains. So these are the signs that
• 50:09
  Jesus is giving us. They're the beginning of the
• 50:11
  birth pains. When we see all these things,
• 50:13
  then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death
• 50:18
  and you will be hate, hated by all nations because of me.
• 50:24
  At that time, many will. Turn away from the faith and
• 50:27
  will betray and hate each other and many false prophets will
• 50:31
  appear and deceive many people because the increase of
• 50:35
  wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.
• 50:39
  But the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
• 50:44
  And this gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole
• 50:49
  world as a testimony to all nations and then the end will
• 50:54
  come. So I think that's important that
• 50:57
  God is just he doesn't a lot of people say, well, what about
• 51:02
  these people in these remote islands who never heard about
• 51:05
  the gospel? Well, Jesus himself said, and
• 51:10
  this gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world
• 51:15
  as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
• 51:19
  God isn't unfair. He is a just God.
• 51:24
  So he gives everyone the opportunity.
• 51:27
  And we see, I forgot what chapter it was in Revelation,
• 51:31
  but it's during the wrath and it says that the Angel went out and
• 51:36
  proclaimed the gospel to all nations.
• 51:38
  Now whether that is a literal Angel or if it's simply a
• 51:43
  messenger of God, I don't know what it is.
• 51:47
  We will only know in hindsight if it's a literal Angel or if
• 51:52
  it's a messenger. But God assures that everyone
• 51:56
  will have the gospel given to them, and it's a matter of what
• 52:01
  people do after the gospel is given to them.
• 52:04
  So that's in Matthew 24, verse 14.
• 52:08
  Then it. Comes to.
• 52:11
  So when you see standing in the holy place, the abomination that
• 52:16
  causes desolation, spoken of through the prophet Daniel, let
• 52:20
  the reader understand. Then let those who are in Judea
• 52:25
  flee to the mountains. Let no one on the housetop go
• 52:30
  down to take anything out of the house.
• 52:33
  Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak.
• 52:36
  How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and
• 52:40
  nursing mothers. Pray that your flight will not
• 52:43
  take place in winter or on the Sabbath, for then there will be
• 52:49
  great distress, unequalled from the beginning of the world until
• 52:54
  now, and never to be equaled again.
• 52:58
  We have not been there yet. This is the future.
• 53:02
  If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but
• 53:07
  for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened at that
• 53:12
  time. If anyone says to you, look,
• 53:14
  here is the Messiah or there he is, do not believe it.
• 53:19
  For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform
• 53:23
  great signs and wonders to deceive if possible, even the
• 53:28
  elect. See I have told you ahead of
• 53:30
  time. So if anyone tells you there he
• 53:34
  is out in the wilderness, do not go out, or here he is in the
• 53:38
  inner rooms, do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from
• 53:44
  the east is visible even in the West, so will be the coming of
• 53:49
  the Son of Man. So this sounds like everybody's
• 53:53
  going to see it, like they see lightning in the sky.
• 53:56
  It's going to be seen by a bunch of people.
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  Don't let individual people tell you here he is.
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  He's here and you know, this is a secret thing.
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  Like he's over here. Like don't believe it.
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  And apparently there's going to be people who and they're going
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  to do signs and wonders too. So that's going to really
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  deceive people unless they know, you know, that Jesus, when he
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  resurrected, when he went up, when he ascended into the
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  heavens, the Angel that was present there said the same way
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  that he departed, he will return.
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  Jesus went up into the clouds. He is coming on the clouds so
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  people will see him. So verse 20. 8 Wherever there is
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  a carcass, there the vultures will gather.
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  Immediately after the distress of those days.
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  The sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.
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  The stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies
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  will be shaken. Then will appear the sign of the
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  Son of Man in heaven, and then all the peoples of the earth
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  will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of
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  heaven with power and great glory.
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  And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call.
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  There's that gathering, the trumpet gathering, and they will
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  gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the
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  heavens to the other, another. The gospel says from the heavens
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  and the earth. So it's not just a heavenly
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  gathering, but it's from the earth also.
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  I don't know which one is right, but I just want to point that
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  out. So you'd want to look at
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  probably Mark chapter 13 and Luke chapter 21 and compare what
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  they document as this portion because like I said it.
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  Says Heavens. And earth on one of them and one
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  and the other one just says heavens.
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  So who's right? I don't know.
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  So now learn this lesson from the fig tree.
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  As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you
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  know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these
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  things, you know that it is near right at the door.
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  Truly, I tell you, this generation will certainly not
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  pass away until all these things have happened.
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  Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass
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  away. And I'm going to continue.
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  But about that day or hour, no one knows, not even the angels
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  in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
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  So I guess that's something we need to remember, that the only
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  one who knows the day or the hour is the Father.
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  And if any Angel tells somebody something and it says even the
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  Son doesn't know, so it's only the father who knows that day
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  and hour. As it was in the days of Noah.
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  So it will be at the coming of the Son of Man, for in the days
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  before the flood people were eating and drinking, marrying
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  and giving, giving in marriage up to the day Noah entered the
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  ark, and they knew nothing about what would happen until the
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  flood came and took them all away.
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  That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
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  Two men will be in the field, one will be taken and the other
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  left. Two women will be grinding out
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  the hand mill, one will be taken and the other left.
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  Therefore keep watch, because you do not know what day your
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  Lord will come. But understand this, if the
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  owner of the house had known what time of night the thief was
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  coming, he would have kept watch, and would have not let
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  his house be broken into. So you also must be ready,
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  because the Son of Man will come in an hour when you do not
• 57:43
  expect him. Who then is?
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  The faithful and. Wise servant who the master has
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  put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their
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  food at the proper time. When I read.
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  This I think this is also kind of symbolic.
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  The proper food, the their food at the proper time.
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  It's I, I think it's kind of symbolic of Jesus being the
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  bread of life and that people need this food.
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  You know, the word of God also, it's the word.
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  Jesus is the word. The word is scripture at the
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  proper time. Like it's important to whoever
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  is the faithful servant of God to be sharing this with people.
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  So it will be good for that servant whose master finds him
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  doing so when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will put
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  him in charge of all his possessions.
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  But suppose that servant is wicked and says to itself, my
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  master is staying away a long time.
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  Think about this Jesus, it's been 2000 years.
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  He hasn't returned and people who are servants or you know,
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  they, they could get tired of waiting and they say like he
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  hasn't, you know, this has been proclaimed forever.
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  It's never going to happen. You know, it definitely will
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  happen. But you know, some people may
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  get, you know, just saying, gosh, this is forever.
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  And there's a warning here that suppose that servant is wicked
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  and says to himself, my master is staying away a long time.
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  Like we shouldn't be having that attitude towards this.
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  And then the servant, he begins to beat his fellow servants and
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  to eat and drink with drunkards. So he quits being a servant
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  basically. And he starts beating up his
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  fellow servants and eating and drinking with drunkards.
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  The master of that servant talking about the Lord will come
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  on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not
• 59:42
  aware of. He will cut him to pieces and
• 59:45
  assign him a place with the hypocrites.
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  So hypocrites, that's important to see.
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  Like with the hypocrites where there will be weeping and
• 59:54
  gnashing of the teeth. So it's important for us not to
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  be hypocrites. If we call ourselves a
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  Christian, we better be living it out, because right here,
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  Jesus's own words. Doesn't sound very promising for
• 1:00:08
  hypocrites. And I think this is a word of
• 1:00:11
  warning to us. Like Jesus foretold this so that
• 1:00:14
  we could all be warned, so that we could be prepared, so we know
• 1:00:18
  what's going to happen and so that we don't fall into that
• 1:00:21
  trap and turn into a hypocrite and beat up our fellow servants
• 1:00:26
  and go out and get drunk. I mean, this is what Jesus is
• 1:00:29
  warning of, and he's telling in advance thousands of years ago.
• 1:00:34
  Pay attention to this. So I'm going to go back to the
• 1:00:39
  book of Ezekiel and the Butt because we just talked about
• 1:00:44
  fleeing to the mountains. So that was the warning that
• 1:00:46
  Jesus gave in Matthew 24. Then it says like doves of the
• 1:00:50
  valleys, they will all moan, each for their own sins.
• 1:00:53
  Every hand will go limp, every leg will be wet with urine.
• 1:00:59
  So this one also had some verses that Isaiah 13 seven and
• 1:01:08
  Jeremiah 6. I I don't know where I'd left
• 1:01:13
  that. I missed that one but OK so I
• 1:01:22
  paid attention. I don't know.
• 1:01:23
  Go limp is occurs in six times and three verses in the NIV.
• 1:01:28
  Because of all this, all hands will go limp, every heart will
• 1:01:32
  melt with fear. This is Isaiah chapter 13 and
• 1:01:36
  this is about like Babylon. So Ezekiel 717 says, every hand
• 1:01:42
  will go limp, every leg will be wet with urine.
• 1:01:45
  And then Ezekiel 21 says, And when they ask you, why are you
• 1:01:49
  groaning, you shall say because of the news that is coming,
• 1:01:53
  every heart will melt with fear, every hand go limp, every spirit
• 1:01:59
  will become faint, and every leg will be wet with urine.
• 1:02:03
  It is coming, it will surely take place, declares the Lord.
• 1:02:09
  So like he said, this is going to be great distress that people
• 1:02:14
  have never seen before. But he's saying it is coming and
• 1:02:18
  he's giving people thousands of years to prepare for this.
• 1:02:24
  So in Jeremiah 6, I wanted to look that up.
• 1:02:28
  It's when Jerusalem is under siege and it Jeremiah chapter 6
• 1:02:38
  you Let's see I'm trying to figure out where I had seen that
• 1:02:42
  about like every hand grows limp, but I'm.
• 1:02:51
  I'm scanning through it, right? Now I've done, I had it saved at
• 1:02:54
  one point, but I guess I closed it in 6/22.
• 1:02:57
  He says this is what the Lord says, look, an army is coming
• 1:03:00
  from the land of the north. A great nation is being stirred
• 1:03:02
  up from the ends of the earth. That certainly sounds like.
• 1:03:09
  The End Times. And in Jeremiah 6, verse 24,
• 1:03:14
  here it is. This is what I was looking for.
• 1:03:16
  We have heard reports about them and our hands hang limp.
• 1:03:21
  Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.
• 1:03:27
  So Jesus talks about the end times being like birth pains.
• 1:03:31
  And I, I've noticed that this limp hand and the woman in labor
• 1:03:37
  is about the end times. And so just like Jeremiah 6 also
• 1:03:41
  says this and Isaiah 13, seven, which I had just read, I think
• 1:03:49
  Isaiah 13 seven, I'm losing my place with all of these tabs
• 1:03:53
  that I have opened. Yeah, that just says because of.
• 1:03:58
  All those hands will go limp, and every heart will.
• 1:04:04
  Melt with fear. And that was a.
• 1:04:05
  Prophecy against Babylon and it's talking about like in verse
• 1:04:10
  13 or verse 6 from chapter 13, wail for the day of the Lord is
• 1:04:17
  near. It will come like destruction
• 1:04:19
  from the Almighty. And then again it says because
• 1:04:23
  of the all this hands will go limp.
• 1:04:25
  Every heart will melt with fear, terror will seize them, pain and
• 1:04:28
  anguish will grip them, and they will writhe like a woman in
• 1:04:31
  labor. They will look aghast at each
• 1:04:33
  other. The day of the Lord.
• 1:04:36
  It's, you know, this is see, the day of the Lord is coming, a
• 1:04:39
  cruel day with wrath and fierce anger to make the land desolate
• 1:04:45
  and destroy the sinners within it.
• 1:04:47
  The stars of the heaven and their constellations will not
• 1:04:50
  show their light. The rising sun will be darkened,
• 1:04:53
  and the moon will not give its light.
• 1:04:55
  So Isaiah is saying the same thing as Jesus did.
• 1:04:59
  There's the lawless one, and then the stars grow dark.
• 1:05:03
  The moon doesn't give its shunt, you know, doesn't give its
• 1:05:05
  light, and the stars fall down. Isaiah 1310 says that
• 1:05:11
  revelation. This happens in the 6th seal, so
• 1:05:17
  I'll I. Read up to the 4th.
• 1:05:18
  Seal. I'll read the 5th and the 6th
• 1:05:20
  seal. So when he opened the 5th seal,
• 1:05:22
  I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain
• 1:05:26
  because of the word of God and the testimony they had
• 1:05:28
  maintained. They called out in a loud voice,
• 1:05:31
  How long sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the
• 1:05:35
  inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood.
• 1:05:38
  Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told
• 1:05:41
  to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow
• 1:05:44
  servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as
• 1:05:47
  they had been. Now comes the 6th seal.
• 1:05:50
  I watched as he opened the 6th seal.
• 1:05:52
  There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like
• 1:05:56
  sackcloth made of goat hair. The whole moon turned blood red
• 1:06:01
  and the stars in the sky fell to the earth as figs drop from a
• 1:06:07
  fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.
• 1:06:11
  I think the stars, they are symbolic of angels.
• 1:06:16
  I think this is when heaven is shaken because it says in
• 1:06:19
  scripture the heavens will be shaken at the next time.
• 1:06:23
  And that's when I think all of the the disobedient rebellious
• 1:06:27
  angels will be cast down to the earth.
• 1:06:30
  And I think this does happen at the 6th seal and, and I think
• 1:06:35
  that's when you know, this is just like this description is
• 1:06:39
  happening over and over again. And the, the interesting thing
• 1:06:43
  about this is probably within nine months, maybe I don't
• 1:06:49
  remember now, but I can look it up.
• 1:06:51
  And I didn't before this podcast, but when when I got
• 1:06:55
  baptized, I started having dreams the night of my baptism
• 1:06:58
  and they continued. And I wasn't like seeking these
• 1:07:02
  dreams from God or anything like that, but they just came and I
• 1:07:06
  didn't quite get. The connection at first it took
• 1:07:10
  me. A while to realize what was
• 1:07:11
  going on, but then afterwards I was like, wait a second, I think
• 1:07:14
  this is like a message from God about things and it was
• 1:07:18
  revealing things in Scripture to me.
• 1:07:19
  It was really mainly personal. It wasn't like a necessarily a
• 1:07:23
  warning to the world or anything like that.
• 1:07:25
  It was just things to me personally that were being
• 1:07:30
  revealed. And but here's the interesting
• 1:07:34
  thing I had, you know, maybe it was like 9 months later or so
• 1:07:40
  after my first dream, I had a rapture dream.
• 1:07:43
  It was in April of 22. I remember this now and, and it
• 1:07:48
  was like, it was fantastic. Like it was awesome.
• 1:07:51
  And I remember having that dream and in my dream I was actually
• 1:07:56
  saying, Oh my God, this is real. Like this is really true.
• 1:08:00
  Like I was rising up in the air and you rising up in the air.
• 1:08:06
  Everything went black. And so when I after I realized
• 1:08:12
  that these dreams had some biblical significance, I started
• 1:08:15
  looking up like, is, is that true in Scripture or is that
• 1:08:21
  just part of my dream? But I don't know if I looked it
• 1:08:24
  up initially or if I looked it up after my third rapture dream,
• 1:08:30
  because I've had three rapture dreams.
• 1:08:33
  Which is also interesting because I've noticed in the
• 1:08:36
  Bible that God often repeats things three times when he in
• 1:08:41
  Scripture, like when he wants us to pay attention to it.
• 1:08:44
  Well, I had three rapture dreams and they were one of them was, I
• 1:08:50
  mean they were different scenes, but in the scene there was a
• 1:08:54
  consistent thing that happened. Everything went pitch black 1st
• 1:09:01
  and then the rapture came. So in each one of the dreams, in
• 1:09:06
  each one of the dreams had a different setting, but every
• 1:09:10
  single one of the dreams that happened first in the second
• 1:09:14
  dream, I was just warning people that don't worry because, you
• 1:09:19
  know, Jesus comes next. In my dream, that was my second
• 1:09:22
  dream, The first one I had, I remembered my first dream in my
• 1:09:27
  second dream, and I warned a couple people that I was with.
• 1:09:31
  I was like, don't worry, you know, this is Jesus is coming.
• 1:09:33
  I know what happens next, We're fine.
• 1:09:36
  Then in my third dream, the same thing happened.
• 1:09:39
  The interesting thing about the third dream, when was that like
• 1:09:44
  the first dream was so joyous. I mean, like I would love to
• 1:09:48
  relive that dream all over again because it was so pleasant and
• 1:09:52
  wonderful and it was like there was mystery.
• 1:09:55
  It was like a very long dream. It was there were a lot of
• 1:09:58
  different scenes with it and it was it was a wonderful dream.
• 1:10:02
  And the second one was very brief.
• 1:10:04
  And like I said, I was just warning other people. 1/3 dream.
• 1:10:07
  I was like, I, it was, I was, you know, it was good.
• 1:10:13
  It wasn't a negative thing. But when the way that the dream
• 1:10:17
  occurred, I, I like saw myself like a third person seeing
• 1:10:22
  myself, but felt it and I actually felt a pulling in my
• 1:10:26
  chest and I saw myself raise from my body up in, in my
• 1:10:32
  kitchen and the kitchen looked identical to the kitchen I have
• 1:10:36
  today. It's nothing different.
• 1:10:38
  Like a lot of times in dreams, you'll know it's your house, but
• 1:10:41
  you, you know, it's, it doesn't look the same.
• 1:10:44
  Well, in this dream it looked the same.
• 1:10:47
  And here's the other detail of that dream right before this
• 1:10:51
  happened. The, you know, the sirens that
• 1:10:54
  go off that are early warning sirens, they the sirens went off
• 1:10:59
  like warning and then everything went black, like electronics and
• 1:11:04
  everything went out. And then I laid down on the
• 1:11:09
  ground because my house was dark and I couldn't see anything and
• 1:11:14
  I didn't want to like stumble into anything.
• 1:11:16
  And I just thought I'll just wait until this light comes
• 1:11:18
  back. And that's when I all of a
• 1:11:21
  sudden had this vision in my dream of me where I could see me
• 1:11:27
  laying on the floor and then I could see my body raise and at
• 1:11:31
  the same time I was feeling a chest and I was going up.
• 1:11:35
  And then I woke up and to me it was like, Oh my gosh, did I
• 1:11:39
  just, you know, 'cause like these people that have near
• 1:11:41
  death experiences that they see those kinds of things.
• 1:11:43
  I like, did I just see my death or was this the rapture or what?
• 1:11:47
  So I don't know. But that was my third dream and
• 1:11:50
  I call it like a rapture dream. And and it was, it was a good
• 1:11:55
  thing, but it was also like, what did I just see?
• 1:11:58
  So I, I've told those close to me, I was like, if anything
• 1:12:02
  happens to me and it doesn't happen to a lot of other people,
• 1:12:06
  or if I die in my kitchen, I saw that, you know, like that's,
• 1:12:08
  that's what is going to, you know, potentially happen.
• 1:12:12
  I don't know. But anyway, that's I just
• 1:12:16
  thought I would share that. I don't know why I didn't intend
• 1:12:18
  to, but I just did. OK so verse 18 in Ezekiel
• 1:12:24
  Chapter 7 they will put on sackcloth and be clothed with
• 1:12:28
  terror. Every face will be covered with
• 1:12:30
  shame and every head will be shaved.
• 1:12:32
  They will throw their silver into the streets and their gold
• 1:12:35
  will be treated as a thing unclean.
• 1:12:37
  You know money is not going to save us.
• 1:12:39
  Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them in the
• 1:12:43
  day of the Lords wrath. It will not satisfy their hunger
• 1:12:48
  or fill their stomachs for it has caused them to stumble into
• 1:12:52
  sin. They took pride in their
• 1:12:54
  beautiful jewelry and used it to make detestable idols.
• 1:12:58
  Like what do we use our resources for?
• 1:13:00
  Is it for God or is it something that is not of God?
• 1:13:08
  They made it into vile images, therefore I will make it a thing
• 1:13:12
  unclean for them. I will give their wealth as
• 1:13:15
  plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked of the earth
• 1:13:21
  who will defile it. I will turn my face away from
• 1:13:25
  the people, and robbers will desecrate the place I treasure.
• 1:13:33
  They will enter it and. Will defile it, prepare chains,
• 1:13:38
  for the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full
• 1:13:42
  of violence. I will bring the most wicked of
• 1:13:46
  nations to take possession of their houses.
• 1:13:51
  I will put an end to the pride of the mighty, and their
• 1:13:55
  sanctuaries will be desecrated. When terror comes, they will
• 1:14:00
  seek peace in vain. A couple things I want to say
• 1:14:04
  about this. When terror comes, they will
• 1:14:06
  seek peace in vain. I don't.
• 1:14:09
  Know if it's going to be. Something other than this.
• 1:14:12
  But think about what happened October 7th, 2023.
• 1:14:17
  That was certainly terror. What happened that day?
• 1:14:21
  And think about the Abrahamic Accords which this is seeking
• 1:14:27
  peace like that this kind of stuff will not happen again.
• 1:14:32
  And there is like the majority, not majority, but many are
• 1:14:39
  focusing on peace. They want peace, peace and
• 1:14:42
  security, peace and safety. But the Bible also says when
• 1:14:45
  they say peace, peace and security are peace and safety,
• 1:14:49
  then will come sudden destruction.
• 1:14:51
  So this peace that we are striving for in the world will
• 1:14:57
  only be for a short time according to Bible prophecy.
• 1:15:02
  So don't put your hope in that, but put your hope in Jesus and
• 1:15:06
  make sure that you're prepared, that when Jesus comes you are
• 1:15:09
  ready and that you have your faith in Him and that if you
• 1:15:14
  have your faith in Him, you don't have to worry about
• 1:15:16
  anything. So it says calamity upon
• 1:15:20
  calamity will come and rumor upon rumor, just like Matthew 24
• 1:15:25
  that Jesus said. They will go searching for a
• 1:15:28
  vision from a prophet. Priestly instruction in the law
• 1:15:32
  will cease. The counsel of the elders will
• 1:15:35
  come up, will come to an end. The king will mourn, the Prince
• 1:15:40
  will be clothed with despair, and the hands of of the people
• 1:15:44
  of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according
• 1:15:48
  to their conduct and by their own standards.
• 1:15:52
  I will judge them. Then they will know that I am
• 1:15:55
  the Lord. Again, God's judgement comes
• 1:16:01
  later and I just, I don't know, I, I see this may potentially
• 1:16:07
  have double fulfillment and let's see.
• 1:16:11
  There's a couple questions and answers for this chapter.
• 1:16:14
  So I will go through those and then end this.
• 1:16:20
  It's been a long one, but there's a lot of information in
• 1:16:23
  here. So why is Ezekiel called Son of
• 1:16:25
  Man Used some 90 times in the book of Ezekiel?
• 1:16:28
  This label underscores Ezekiel's humanity and the dependence on
• 1:16:32
  God's supernatural power. It may also have reminded
• 1:16:35
  Ezekiel that his job was to convey, not create the message.
• 1:16:40
  Why did he? Exclaim the.
• 1:16:41
  End. These words carry a sense of
• 1:16:44
  urgency. They were designed to shake the
• 1:16:47
  hearers out of their complacency.
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  It was time for Jerusalem to be judged and destroyed.
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  The end meant this was the culmination of centuries of
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  rebellion against God. The time of judgement had
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  finally arrived again. I think there's still a future
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  fulfillment of this. So now let's see, we read that
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  one When would a seller normally recover land he had sold?
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  The law mandated that every 50th year, all the land that had
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  changed hands be returned to the original owners.
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  This 50th year was called the Year of Jubilee and was intended
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  to be a way of maintaining equity among God's people.
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  But at this time, the Israelites were facing the commercial
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  collapse and destruction of their society, so the
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  restitution mandated by the Jubilee was impossible.
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  This is interesting because we I think right now or it starts in
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  2026. Well March of 2026, I'm not sure
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  if this is the Jubilee or starting March 1st is the
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  Jubilee year. But according to the Essenes
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  calendar, there are 50 years remaining or so and we are right
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  in that, in that point right now.
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  So it's interesting that if this happens during this last period,
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  I mean, and this is really interesting.
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  I mean Messiah 2030, I mean, there's a lot of people who are
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  looking at the times that we're in as being very significant
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  according to the end of the age. And so anyway this that could be
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  a whole. Long.
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  Subject and I, I'm not prepared to talk about it, but right now
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  we are in that in that time frame.
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  So it's probably going to be another 50 years.
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  So more than likely if. This is all.
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  Accurate in terms of time frames sometime in the next 50 years,
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  which I feel is sooner than later, but that's just my
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  feeling. But sometime in the next 50
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  years this is all going to happen.
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  And it would make sense that the jubilee hasn't arrived so that
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  they don't get their land back again because we're in the kind
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  of final jubilee. If the Essenes, who were the
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  ancient people, a sect of religious people who kept
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  records and they were found in the Dead Sea Scrolls that had a
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  calendar. If you want to explore that
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  further, search Bible facts by Ken Johnson and he has a
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  website, he has a YouTube channel.
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  He has a Dead Sea Scrolls calendar that you can actually
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  look up every date to see biblical holidays that were on
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  the dates at, at certain years. It's it's pretty phenomenal what
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  he's put together. But anyway, the whole point of
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  that is we are in that jubilee, in that final jubilee year.
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  Either it's completing in March or it's beginning in March, I
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  can't remember which, but we're right there.
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  So it's saying that Israel's, the people here, the buyers and
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  sellers are not going to be receiving their land.
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  So why would they put on sackcloth and shave their heads?
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  This was common practice for those in mourning.
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  Wearing rough, itchy clothing and shaving off hair, as well as
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  other customs were ways of heightening their misery.
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  It was considered inappropriate for those in mourning to indulge
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  their own comforts. Loss of hair also was considered
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  a great humiliation. Shaving their heads left nothing
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  with which to cover their shame. What was the place God treasured
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  the temple in Jerusalem? The strong emotional language
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  used here shows that when God judges people, he himself
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  suffers pain as well. Why were they ready?
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  Why were they to prepare chains? The people were so sinful and
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  their judgment so certain that they might as well make it easy
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  for invading armies to capture them by making their own chains.
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  On another level, the Israelites had already created their own
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  spiritual chains through unscrupulous behavior and idol
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  worship. Why would the council of the
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  Elders come to an end? Prompted by their suffering, the
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  people would seek help from their leaders, but it would be
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  too little, too late. Since God had already withdrawn
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  his presence, there would be no way to hear from him.
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  Elders, along with the prophets and priests, usually helped set
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  national policy. Prophets received.
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  OK, that's let's talk about that just for a quick second.
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  Elders along with prophets and priests usually helped set
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  national policy. When people talk about like
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  separation of of. You know, state and.
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  Church. That's not the way the Bible
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  was, but OK. Prophets received visions and
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  specific words from the Lord. Priest instructed in matters of
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  the law, and elders drew from their vast experience to advise
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  political leaders look how interconnected it was how would.
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  They be judged. By their own standards, the
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  people had failed to live up to their covenant with the Lord.
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  They had failed to upload their pledge of complete devotion and
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  allegiance to Him. God was saying, in effect, that
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  they were their own worst enemy. It was their own sinfulness that
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  had destroyed them. God for his part, is is always
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  faithful. And that's the end of Chapter 7.
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  someone if you found it beneficial and come back for
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  chapter 8.