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931. Bible Study: Psalm 17 (God hears us, God reveals things, God speaks today, Jesus is our Refuge, Protection and Salvation) · Faith by annm2705

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  Psalm 17 from the book of Psalms.
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  First, let's pray. Dear Lord, please let the Holy
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  Spirit give us insight, wisdom and understanding with what we
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  read. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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  Psalm 17A prayer of David. Here's what David says.
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  Hear me, Lord, my pleas. Just listen to my cry.
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  Hear my prayer. It does not rise up from
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  deceitful lips. Let my vindication come from
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  you. May your eyes see what is right.
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  Though you probe my heart, though you examine me at night
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  and test me, you will find that I have planned no evil.
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  My mouth has not transgressed, though people tried to bribe me.
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  I have kept myself from the ways of the violent through what your
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  lips have commanded. My steps have held to your
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  paths. My feet have not stumbled.
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  I call on you, my God, for you will answer me.
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  Turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.
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  Show me the wonders of your great love, You who save by your
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  right hand, those who take refuge, and you from their foes.
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  Keep me as the apple of your eye.
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  Hide me in the shadow of your wings from the wicked who are
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  out to destroy me from my mortal enemies who surround me.
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  They close up their calloused heart, their callous hearts and
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  their mouths speak with arrogance.
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  They have tracked me down. They now surround me with eyes
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  alert to throw me to the ground. They are like a lion hungry for
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  prey, like a fierce lion crouching in cover.
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  Rise up, Lord, Confront them. Bring them down with your sword.
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  Rescue me from the wicked by your hand.
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  Save me from such people, Lord, from those of this world whose
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  reward is in this life. May what you have stored up for
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  the wicked fill their bellies, may their children gorge
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  themselves on it, and may there be leftovers for their little
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  ones. As for me, I will be vindicated
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  and will see your face when I awake.
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  I will be satisfied with seeing Your likeness.
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  And that ends Psalm 18. I'll read what the study Bible
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  has to say about these. So how could David have claimed
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  not to not have transgressed? David was speaking poetically.
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  He considered himself innocent of wrongdoing, at least when he
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  compared his actions to the violence and wickedness of those
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  around him. Another possibility is that
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  David knew his motives and intentions were right.
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  On other occasions, however, when he saw himself in light of
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  God's holiness, he confessed his sins before God, like in Psalm
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  51. So also I will add to what the
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  study Bible said. We also don't know when David
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  wrote this. So David had a long life and
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  there were different times of his life, probably that where he
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  was closer to God or where he was not guilty of things.
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  But then there were certain times of his life also where he
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  was guilty of things and God rebuked him for it and they had
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  that relationship. So reading this Psalm, we really
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  from this Bible, we don't know when it was written at what
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  point in his life, but surely at this the point of his life, the
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  way David was expressing everything, he had not done
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  anything wrong. It seems like he was wrongly
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  accused. When you read the first ones,
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  he's you know, he says that that my plea is just and he's
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  listening to his listen, please listen to the cry and his
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  prayers. It doesn't come from deceitful
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  lips and vindication. Let my vindication come from
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  you. So it sounds like being wrongly
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  accused of something. And then he acknowledges that
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  God examines him and tests him. And then he proclaims that he is
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  guided by God's commands. Well, throughout most of his
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  life he he was, I guess not 100% because we know that he did
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  things that were against God's commands.
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  But we also know that God said that David was a man after his
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  own heart. So he did, and many of it he did
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  obey God and he did reflect on God's laws and he pursued.
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  They were delightful to him. I mean, like I mentioned in
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  another podcast, the way David talks about God's commands, it's
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  like he treasures them. And that was something that
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  stood out to me. One of the first times that I
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  read through the book of Psalms was just like, that seems so
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  unusual to me, but that is the way David was or that's the way
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  he became realizing that God's words are good, they are
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  righteous, they are filled with justice, All the things that he
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  proclaims about God. The other thing that he does say
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  in here is he's showing that he has confidence and trust in God
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  and then he places his request to God and he's requesting
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  refuge and protection. And then he's contrasting with
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  his enemies. He's saying they're unreceptive
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  to you. They're they're arrogant,
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  they're the enemy. And then he's pleading for God
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  to rescue and save him from them.
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  And then he also says, which I think is really interesting,
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  that this verse in 14 by your hand save me from such people,
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  Lord, from those of this world whose reward is in this life.
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  I want to talk a little bit more about that at the end, about, I
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  guess worldly rewards versus God's Kingdom rewards.
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  So that'll come a little bit later.
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  And then in the very end, he seems pretty certain about God's
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  Kingdom. And a lot of times the Bible
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  talks about when someone dies that they go to sleep.
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  And that seems to be what David's alluding to here because
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  he says, As for me, I will be vindicated and will see your
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  face when I awake. So that sounds like he
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  understands there is a resurrection.
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  I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.
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  So he has confidence that he is going to see God.
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  How did God reveal this to him? We're not told, but he seems
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  very confident in what he says. And I've I've looked at some
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  other scriptures that I want to talk about how God reveals
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  things to people and that'll come later at the end of this
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  podcast. So I'm going to go back now to
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  the study Bibles, questions and answers.
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  And it says what? OK, what is the apple of the
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  eye? This imagery suggests the pupil
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  of the eye. The psalmist use the metaphor to
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  describe something that is carefully protected and guarded.
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  So I looked a little bit deeper into this and the pupil like it,
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  it is carefully protected and guarded.
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  If the pupil of the eye is injured, it's it doesn't usually
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  recover from that. So it's to be guarded like our
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  eyes are to be guarded. But then when I looked up what
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  the apple of the eye meant in traditional like ancient
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  Israelites, what that meant to the ancient Israelites.
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  And the explanation was when you look into the apple, or not into
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  the apple, but in the pupil of someone's eye, you see a
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  reflection of yourself. And this has been mentioned
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  before about God seeing his reflection within people like he
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  in the book of Genesis, how he made mankind in the image of
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  himself. So it's like when he sees into
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  the eyes of the person, there is the reflection of God.
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  So that's another way of looking that at this, you know, it's
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  either extreme care and protection or something that you
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  are just so pleased with the apple of the eye.
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  So how does a shadow offer protection?
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  This is a conventional Hebrew metaphor, metaphor for God's
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  protection and care. As a shadow provides relief from
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  the merciless desert sun, and as a bird covers her young in the
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  nest, so God provides a place of refuge.
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  Jesus expressed his concern for the people of Jerusalem in a
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  similar manner, saying that he longed to gather them as a hen
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  gathers her chicks under her wings.
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  And that's from Matthew 2337. Then it says, when did David
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  hope to see the Lord? David was not writing a detailed
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  analysis of life after death, so we can't really draw much from
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  these words, but we do know that David saw a glimmer of eternity.
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  He expected to awaken from death's dark sleep so that he
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  could see God. That's pretty cool.
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  This is like in the BC time frame, like that long ago God
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  was revealed and God speaks to people.
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  And so there are some things now I'm going to go through my my
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  thoughts as I read through this and things that stood out.
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  I will start with going through the verses and when Lord or God
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  is expressed, then I wanted to, you know, differentiate between
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  those those words and in this everywhere where Lord is used is
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  it means like I said before, it's like, I mean the breath of
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  life, God's name, it's God's personal name, which we hear it
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  called Yahweh, we hear it called Yehovah.
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  So it's probably that's kind of how it's set, it's stated.
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  So anyway, it is Lord is expressed in that way.
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  So it's God's personal name that David is using.
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  But then there is one time where it's not and there's a singular
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  form referencing God. Ale is the word in Hebrew.
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  So I call on you ale for you will answer me.
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  So he's singularly talking to God the Father.
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  That's who I believe these words represent as far as I my
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  understanding right now. And let's see what else was
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  there. So that's about God and where
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  he's referenced. And unfortunately, I started
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  this podcast before I actually researched and pulled up verse.
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  Well, I researched it first, but I didn't have all the verses
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  pulled up. So it's going to take me a
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  second to call up a few verses that I wanted to reference in
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  here, so I just have the first one.
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  Something that came to mind was in verse 14 when I was reading
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  that. Here's the verse from Psalm 17.
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  By your hand. Save me from such people, Lord,
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  from those of this world whose reward is in this life.
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  When I read that, I thought about a parable that Jesus
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  talked about the rich man and Lazarus.
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  So I want to read that parable to you from it's found in Luke
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  chapter 16, verses 19 through 31.
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  I'll read it to you first and then just talk a little bit
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  about it. So there was a rich man who was
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  dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day.
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  At his gate was a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and
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  longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table.
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  Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
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  The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him
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  to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was
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  buried in Hades where he was in torment.
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  This is talking about the rich man in Hades where he was in
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  torment. He looked up and saw Abraham far
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  away with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, Father
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  Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of
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  his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in
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  this fire. But Abraham replied, Son,
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  remember that in your lifetime you received good things, while
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  Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here and
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  you are in agony. And besides all of this, between
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  US and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those
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  who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone crossover
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  from there to us, he answered. Then I beg you Father, send
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  Lazarus to my family, for I have 5 brothers.
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  Let him warn them so that they will not also come to this place
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  of torment, Abraham replied. They have Moses and the
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  prophets, let them listen to them.
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  No father Abraham, he said. But if someone from the dead
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  goes to them, they will repent. He said to him, if they do not
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  listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be
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  convinced. Even if someone rises from the
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  dead. There is so much in this
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  parable, a lot of biblical truths that come from it.
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  So I'm going to try to quickly talk about that.
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  So first thing, this rich man, he's living life.
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  He's got all of his rewards and and we and we see by this one
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  sentence where he says that no father Abraham, he said, but if
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  someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.
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  So that's how they, his family, the rich man's family might not
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  be in the same place as he is. He is in Hades and he's being
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  tormented. Hades is the word for you know
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  what a lot of people call hell. So he are in maybe it's not
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  hell, actually, it's it's this place that is for those who
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  probably, I guess those who eventually will be thrown into
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  the burning lake of sulfur, but it's a temporary place, just
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  like what they refer to some. This is also referred to as
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  Abraham's bosom. Like that's where he was.
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  I don't know. I don't remember what version of
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  the the Bible where it says that, but because this says that
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  Lazarus was by his side. So sometimes you'll hear that
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  called Abraham's bosom, but it's because he, Lazarus, the, the
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  poor man, he was a beggar and he was always longing to just get
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  like a little bit of what the rich man had.
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  And he had sores. There were all kinds of issues
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  with him. And he sat at the gate, he was
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  begging, he had to beg for everything he had.
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  He had nothing in this earth. And Jesus is telling, Jesus is
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  the one who told this parable. So that's really important.
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  So this is the Son of God telling people a, a story.
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  Maybe it even was true, I don't know.
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  But he was telling them this story and he was making some
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  points to them, to us. Because it's written in the
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  Bible and we can learn from it too.
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  So even if somebody has everything in the world and it
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  looks like they are successful beyond belief or just like that,
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  everything is going well for them.
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  And they, you know, sometimes that we see that with people
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  where they are kind of wicked people, they're evil people.
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  They are definitely not focused on the Lord and they are still
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  successful. And a lot of people say, well,
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  that's not fair. That's not just like, why do an
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  even Job complained about that? He was like, why does it seem
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  like some of these people, you know, just who are so far from
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  God have things so good? Well, part of it's probably
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  because of God's enemy helping them out in that way.
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  But that's being really short sighted when we think about what
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  we have here on earth. And it's also a reminder that we
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  shouldn't solely focus on what we have or what we achieve here
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  on earth because as Job and there's, I don't know, there's
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  another prophet who says it too. I can't remember which one now,
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  but naked I came into this earth and naked I will leave.
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  So we don't take anything with us.
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  And if we're living solely for what we have here on the earth,
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  it's going to be short lived because we were created to be
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  eternal beings. We will be eternal beings.
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  The question is, after our testing period here on earth,
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  where do we end up? Do we end up in God's Kingdom or
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  do we end up in the burning lake of sulfur?
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  We have control over that. We have control over that.
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  When we choose to believe in Jesus, repent of our sins, and
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  receive the Holy Spirit, then we can know know for a fact that we
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  will be in God's Kingdom because God tells us that God is
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  forgiving. There's nothing that we have
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  done that we could have ever done that God cannot forgive.
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  There is one blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
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  So if we just outright hate God and everything about him and his
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  Spirit and all of that, yeah, there's no forgiveness for that.
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  Also, if we take the mark of the beast, there is no forgiveness
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  for that. That's probably, it probably
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  equates with blasphemy of the Holy Spirit because you are
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  completely and utterly rejecting God and showing your allegiance
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  and worship to something else now that hasn't come out yet,
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  but that's prophesied to come in the future.
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  So the only way that you can, the only sin that cannot be
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  forgiven is the one where you just reject God in total.
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  Reject Jesus, reject the Father, reject the Holy Spirit.
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  That's the the only thing that is the way I understand the
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  blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. So other than that, anything
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  that anybody has done can be forgiven, but you have to be
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  sincere about it. It's not when you go to God and
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  ask for forgiveness. It's not OK, forgive me this
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  time so that I can do it again and then confess it because God
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  gives, you know, he's merciful and forgiving.
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  Don't put God to the test and then don't think that you know
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  there are times there. There are examples in the Bible
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  where God just says. OK, that's it.
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  I'm going to turn you over to the stuff that you keep going
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  to. You keep rejecting me and you
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  keep going to that. Fine, you can have that.
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  And I don't know when that point is, and I don't, you know, so I
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  wouldn't test God because eternity is forever.
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  Our life here on earth is what? Maybe no more than 120 years.
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  That's a very short period of time.
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  You know, our life is described as but a vapor.
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  I think it's James who says that, or maybe Jude, I'm not
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  sure which one. But we're just, our life is
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  described like a vapor, like it's here and gone pretty
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  quickly. And but eternity is not.
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  That's a different thing. So don't be short sighted on
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  this earth and get yourself so wrapped up in what you achieve
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  here on earth because ultimately it doesn't matter.
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  Your character will continue, your soul, what you choose, that
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  does matter, that matters to God.
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  And so when we're looking at this parable that Jesus told
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  about the rich man and Lazarus, the rich man had everything, but
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  apparently he didn't repent. And that's what he said.
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  You know, it's his words that said, hey, if you tell them,
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  then my family can repent and they cannot be like he actually
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  in this parable he was. Well, I don't even know if it's
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  a parable. It doesn't really.
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  I mean, it just it's a story that Jesus told.
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  In this story that he told, it doesn't really say that.
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  I don't know where I was going with that because my mind got
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  distracted to other things. But so I guess here's something
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  like if, if there's a lot of bad things happening in your life
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  and yet you know the Lord, don't worry because in the future in
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  God's Kingdom, it will not be that way.
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  And, and as we see in Bible history that God typically
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  restores or doubly blesses, often he doubly blesses someone
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  who is faithful to him and who has endured a lot.
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  And he kind of does the opposite.
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  He takes the very simple and makes them grand and He takes
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  the very humble and puts them in a high position.
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  It's all like God does the opposite of what we would see
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  here happening here on the earth.
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  And so we have to remember who God is and that He is our
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  Father, that he made us and He has certain plans for us.
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  And the way we respond to God is going to be the outcome of where
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  we end up. Just like here, the rich man, he
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  never repented. And it was his words that said
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  that they will repent like his family.
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  He's like, go to them. And it's really, it's kind of
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  it's sad when you think about it, because the rich man now
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  he's he's having that remorse, but it's too late.
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  That's the thing that I the other point that's really
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  important. So there is this false story
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  about purgatory that churches made-up, that there's this
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  temporary place. If you're not, you know,
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  prepared, I guess. No, that's, that's a lie.
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  This parable or story about the rich man of Lazarus tells us
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  once somebody dies, they go to the place where they're going to
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  be. So there's the good, let's just
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  say the good place to go and the bad place to go.
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  Hades was the bad place to go where he was in torment.
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  That's the bad place to go. The good place was where Abraham
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  was and the poor beggar. And and then what Abraham said
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  to him, he said basically he said we can't go there and you
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  can't go here. So there's a huge separation.
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  So after we die, there's not this like neutral position where
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  we could do anything to get in a different place.
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  No, as soon as we die, we're either in the bad place or the
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  good place. And that's what Jesus, Jesus
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  himself, who knows, he's the one who reveals the Kingdom of God,
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  reveals things about God to people.
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  He's the one telling us this, that after death you're either
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  here or there and you can't go back and forth and you can't go
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  to somebody who's in the other place.
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  It's complete separation. And the beggar who was suffering
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  while he was on earth, it says in verse 25, he is comforted
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  here, but then the rich man is in agony where he ended up.
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  And he said, you know, Abraham was telling him, remember, in
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  your lifetime you received your good things.
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  So his good things, his material things, his worldly things were
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  more important than God and he got them.
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  That's what he wanted. God gives us our desires and
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  when we stay resistant to God, you know, it, it does say like
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  there's, there's different points.
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  Like I said that it's kind of fearful to me is that, you know,
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  like you can be rebellious to God and keep on being
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  rebellious. And at a certain point God will
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  just say, OK, that's what you want.
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  You can have it, but that's not necessarily a good thing.
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  But sometimes people can be so stubborn with what they want and
• 25:47
  not reconcile themself with God. And if they happen to die during
• 25:53
  that time, they're going to be someplace they don't want to be.
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  And there's no way of going back and forth.
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  And I thought this was really interesting too, where the rich
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  man is saying, well, just go, you know, if somebody is
• 26:07
  somebody dead comes back to life and tells my family, then
• 26:12
  they'll repent. And and then he says, this is
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  verse 31. He said to him, if they didn't
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  listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be
• 26:23
  convinced even if someone rises from the dead.
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  Don't you think that's pretty interesting?
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  Because Jesus is probably referring to himself.
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  He's probably referring to this is what's going to happen after
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  I die and I rise. People are still not going to
• 26:39
  believe they had the Moses. They had not the Moses.
• 26:43
  They had the prophets. They had Moses and the prophets
• 26:47
  already. And then Jesus dies and rises
• 26:51
  from the dead and people still do not repent.
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  We're living in a world today where people still do not
• 27:00
  repent. They do not turn away from the
• 27:02
  things that God says don't do these things.
• 27:06
  They don't turn away from those when we become obedient to God,
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  that's showing God that we love him.
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  I'm not saying that our works get us into heaven because
• 27:16
  people get so their, their minds are so messed up with this works
• 27:21
  and obedience and all of this and people are so confused, but
• 27:26
  they are the only way that we get into God's Kingdom is
• 27:33
  through Jesus. Jesus is the way, the truth and
• 27:38
  the life. There's nothing that we can do
• 27:41
  because first of all, we are not good.
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  So if we're not good, that means we sin and the wages of sin is
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  death. So there's nothing we can do.
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  But the gift of life is by the Spirit.
• 27:58
  And Jesus said we must be born again.
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  So we have to put our past behind us.
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  We have to repent of our past because we're all sinners.
• 28:06
  We all sinned. But it's like, how do you
• 28:08
  respond to God? How do you respond to what Jesus
• 28:11
  did for you and for me on the cross?
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  How do you respond to that? Do you say, OK, you did a lot
• 28:19
  for me and I respect that and I love you for doing that.
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  I'm grateful, therefore I'm going to obey your commandments
• 28:31
  because Jesus said if you love me, obey my commands.
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  And the Father said the same thing.
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  So we can't get away from obedience.
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  It's not earning our way into heaven.
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  It's showing our gratitude for God, to God for what he did and
• 28:45
  that he gave us away, Jesus, that we could be in his Kingdom.
• 28:51
  So tying this back to Psalm 17, it says by your hand, save me
• 28:57
  from such people, Lord, from those of this world whose reward
• 29:03
  is in this life. So we don't really necessarily
• 29:08
  having a reward in this life isn't such a great thing.
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  It's more it's better to have the reward in eternity.
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  And David was definitely recognizing that.
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  So then the last verse. As for me, I will be vindicated
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  and will see your face when I wake.
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  I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.
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  So here is where I I didn't look it up.
• 29:38
  So I'm going to try and do a quick search and get to the
• 29:42
  verses that I wanted to reference.
• 29:45
  So in see about where it was Oh I know I looked at the wrong
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  one. Sorry.
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  This is why I didn't I just didn't realize that I had not
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  done this until I started the podcast and I usually just
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  record straight. I don't have any editing on
• 30:12
  this. This is just however it turns
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  out is how it is. OK, so I looked up reveal so you
• 30:18
  could do this too. And I looked up in the NIV
• 30:20
  version and there are several verses that I wanted to talk
• 30:24
  about. There's there's 8 verses in
• 30:25
  here, but I don't know that I'm going to cover every single one
• 30:28
  of them. But Numbers chapter 12, verse
• 30:32
  six, I'm here's where I went with us.
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  So somehow David knew that he was going to be vindicated.
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  He knew he was going to see God's face when he awakes.
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  So he knew there was going to be a resurrection and he would be
• 30:48
  satisfied with seeing your likeness.
• 30:52
  So that's interesting too, seeing your likeness.
• 30:54
  So it's not like seeing you, but it's seeing your likeness.
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  I wonder if that's Jesus like this, like he didn't really know
• 31:01
  who it was, but he was like, there's something, there's
• 31:04
  someone that's your in your likeness.
• 31:06
  How did David know these things? I don't know.
• 31:09
  It doesn't say how he knew. I was wondering that myself.
• 31:14
  And then I looked up reveal like how did God reveal this to him?
• 31:17
  And then I also looked up dream because I know God reveals
• 31:20
  things in dreams. And those are the two topics
• 31:22
  that I'm going to talk about as this podcast gets wrapped up.
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  So reveal in numbers 12/6. He said, listen to my words.
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  When there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord reveal myself
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  to them in visions. I speak to them in dreams.
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  So this is the first time when you look up reveal in the NIV
• 31:46
  version that it comes up. So this is back in Numbers and
• 31:49
  it's the Lord saying that he reveals himself in visions and
• 31:54
  dreams when there is a prophet among you.
• 31:59
  So I think that's really interesting.
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  David did a lot of his Psalms that he said were describing
• 32:09
  like Jesus's death on the cross. We'll get to that eventually.
• 32:12
  So in a sense, David did have prophetic things like or he saw
• 32:20
  future things. So, but it doesn't necessarily.
• 32:25
  I haven't seen somewhere where it talked about David actually
• 32:28
  having a dream, but I did see other people having a dream and
• 32:31
  I'll talk about those. But God reveals in visions and
• 32:35
  in dreams. Then in first Samuel 2 verse 27
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  it says now a man of God came to Eli and said to him, this is
• 32:46
  what the Lord says. Did I not clearly reveal myself
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  to your ancestors family when they were in Egypt under
• 32:55
  Pharaoh? So Eli was one of the priests
• 32:59
  that were there and God revealed himself at that time to your
• 33:05
  ancestors family. Well, I'm not, you know, I'd
• 33:08
  have to I didn't do this deep dive search, but I wonder if Eli
• 33:12
  was somehow related to Joseph, because Joseph definitely had a
• 33:17
  revelation from God that we will we will talk about.
• 33:20
  He was one that received dreams, but this there's a lot more to
• 33:25
  that. But God revealed himself like
• 33:27
  how does he reveal himself today?
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  He, God can reveal himself through the word of God.
• 33:33
  He can reveal to us through dreams and visions and some I,
• 33:38
  I, I think those are the safest. Actually the word of God is the
• 33:42
  safest way. And dreams we have to be careful
• 33:45
  of because we have to make sure that they are from God.
• 33:50
  Then let's see, I want to, let's see reveal.
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  OK, in Matthew Chapter 11 verse 27, all things have been
• 34:04
  committed to me. This is Jesus, Jesus talking.
• 34:08
  All things have been committed to me by my Father.
• 34:12
  No one knows the Son except the Father and no one knows the
• 34:18
  Father except the Son and to those to whom the Son chooses to
• 34:25
  reveal him. So there were times where one
• 34:29
  time that just comes to mind was Jesus asking Peter, who do you
• 34:34
  say I am? And Peter says he's the he goes,
• 34:39
  you are the Messiah. And Jesus says to him, you know,
• 34:43
  there's no way you could have known that except if the Father
• 34:46
  had revealed that to you and Jesus only did.
• 34:50
  You have to remember too, that Jesus, everything he said and
• 34:52
  did was not of his own. It was he was doing what he saw
• 34:57
  the Father do. So he also said that and then
• 35:00
  you there's another example of that too, where Jesus was with
• 35:03
  the woman at the well and he knew all things about her.
• 35:08
  And then actually, then he actually revealed himself to her
• 35:13
  that who he was, that he was going to give her the water of
• 35:17
  life, that or who he gives the water of life to.
• 35:22
  They would never be thirsty again.
• 35:25
  And so in Luke chapter 10 verse 22, it's the same thing that
• 35:33
  Matthew 1127 says all, so it says, all things have been
• 35:38
  committed to me by my father. No one knows who the Son is
• 35:43
  except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except
• 35:47
  the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
• 35:52
  Now here's another interesting one about Paul and his
• 35:56
  revelation. Now Paul had a vision.
• 35:58
  That's how he found Jesus when he was on the road to Damascus
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  and and Jesus, his name was Saul at the time.
• 36:06
  And Jesus said Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?
• 36:10
  And and Saul became blind. And then Jesus told him how he
• 36:14
  would become unblind, how he would get rid of that blindness
• 36:18
  and and Saul or Paul was obedient and he became known as
• 36:23
  Paul and then started preaching about Jesus.
• 36:26
  So he had a, a drastic life change, especially because
• 36:30
  before that he was zealous, a Jewish zealous, zealous person
• 36:34
  for his faith. And he didn't like Christians
• 36:37
  and he persecuted Christians. And I think he was even present
• 36:41
  when Stephen was stoned and he didn't do anything about that.
• 36:45
  So he was, he was forgiven, obviously he was forgiven and he
• 36:49
  became a messenger of God to the Gentiles.
• 36:54
  And and so anyway, what Paul says in Galatians 116, it says
• 37:03
  to reveal his son in me so that I might preach him among the
• 37:08
  Gentiles. My immediate response was not to
• 37:11
  consult any being. Now I need to read the sentence
• 37:17
  prior to that, so let's start over.
• 37:19
  But when God, who set me apart from my mother's womb and called
• 37:25
  me by His grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I
• 37:31
  might preach him among the Gentiles, my immediate response
• 37:35
  was not to consult any human being.
• 37:39
  I did not go to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I
• 37:43
  was, but I went into Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus.
• 37:50
  So Paul was. I also should have read probably
• 37:54
  verse 14 where it says this is Paul speaking.
• 37:57
  I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among
• 38:02
  my people, and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my
• 38:06
  father's. But when God, who set me apart
• 38:10
  from my mother's womb and called me by His grace, was pleased to
• 38:14
  reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the
• 38:18
  Gentiles, my immediate response was not to consult a human
• 38:21
  being. So Paul was, like I said,
• 38:28
  persecuting Christians, but God has a purpose for each of us
• 38:34
  when he makes us, when he creates us.
• 38:37
  And that revelation of who God has called us to be happens at
• 38:42
  different times in people's lives.
• 38:44
  So Paul is advancing in in age. I don't, I mean not I think he
• 38:52
  was. I don't know what age he was by
• 38:54
  this text, but he was very intelligent about the law, the
• 39:00
  Jewish law, and he was very zealous about it.
• 39:04
  And he was very zealous about the traditions and, and as we
• 39:08
  learned in Scripture, Paul was really prideful and because of
• 39:12
  everything he knew. And so he was standing firm on
• 39:20
  his belief and he was persecuting the Christians until
• 39:24
  Jesus said, what are you doing? And then I'm paraphrasing,
• 39:29
  obviously. And then Paul has this complete
• 39:33
  change of heart and then starts telling everybody about you,
• 39:37
  Jesus. Now, The thing is that God
• 39:40
  revealed his son like that. He acknowledges that God
• 39:42
  revealed that he was pleased, I guess, with what Paul was doing,
• 39:45
  but he needed to redirect Paul and he revealed his son and then
• 39:51
  his son in me. So there's that close
• 39:53
  relationship that Paul then had with Jesus so that he would
• 39:59
  preach about Jesus among the Gentiles.
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  And Paul didn't rush and say, oh, I got to go to the apostles,
• 40:06
  the disciples of Jesus to find out more.
• 40:09
  No, Paul had a direct revelation from God.
• 40:13
  It didn't contradict what's in the Bible.
• 40:16
  It supported what is in the Bible.
• 40:20
  And so it's, it's very interesting.
• 40:22
  So God revealed in a very unique way with, with Paul.
• 40:28
  So it was a vision. So it's really interesting how
• 40:33
  he did that. And like I said, I researched
• 40:38
  the way that God reveals other things in dreams.
• 40:42
  So I, I want to talk about those real quick.
• 40:44
  I'll try to make it quick because there are 18 different
• 40:47
  times where someone gets a dream, a message from God.
• 40:54
  So the first time that I found dream reference from God was in
• 41:00
  Genesis chapter 20 and it was Abimelech.
• 41:03
  I believe he was a king that Abraham and Sarah were traveling
• 41:08
  and he knew Sarah was really pretty and they were married and
• 41:13
  he was afraid that because she was pretty that they would take
• 41:19
  her and kill him so that they could have Sarah.
• 41:25
  Well, so then he told Sarah basically, let's lie and say
• 41:29
  you're my sister that way they won't kill me.
• 41:32
  They may still take you, but they won't kill me.
• 41:34
  So Abraham's acting out of fear and and he does that, they agree
• 41:40
  to do that. And I think it was like 1/2
• 41:42
  truth because I think it was, you know, they were not exactly
• 41:46
  like St. Well, they definitely were not
• 41:48
  the same mother and father, but they were they were related.
• 41:53
  And so it was 1/2 truth. But it was certainly done
• 41:57
  deceivingly because Abraham was acting out of fear and he was
• 42:00
  trying to protect his life. So we can see even a really a
• 42:04
  person who God used in a great way was a struggling human being
• 42:09
  just like all of us. So Abraham essentially kind of
• 42:13
  lies and tells, you know, that he's not, they're not married.
• 42:18
  And so Abimelech takes Sarah Soraya, I guess Soraya at that
• 42:23
  time, and he's going to sleep with her.
• 42:26
  He's going to take her as his wife.
• 42:28
  He's going to sleep with her. But he has a dream that warns
• 42:33
  him that he will be as good as dead if he touches her.
• 42:38
  And so he refuses it. But he's really angry with
• 42:41
  Abraham. Abraham, like, why did you do
• 42:44
  this to me? But God revealed to him before
• 42:47
  he did anything and and God knew that he had a clear conscience.
• 42:52
  He wasn't intentionally trying to sleep with another man's
• 42:56
  wife. He had no knowledge that Abraham
• 43:00
  and Sarah or Sarai were married. And so this is where God warned
• 43:05
  Abimelech. And I don't know, I have, I
• 43:08
  didn't do a full research on Abimelech, but I don't think he
• 43:13
  was a godly person. He was probably worshipping
• 43:17
  other gods and God came to him in a dream.
• 43:21
  So that I think that's important.
• 43:22
  So it doesn't mean that just godly people can have dreams
• 43:26
  from God. God changes people's hearts
• 43:29
  through dreams. We'll see that.
• 43:31
  So the next time I saw a dream reference was in Genesis chapter
• 43:35
  28, and it was Jacob. And Jacob had a dream of us a
• 43:40
  stairway where angels were coming up and down those
• 43:42
  stairways. And then he saw God or something
• 43:45
  like God. And God promised to, I guess
• 43:50
  affirmed the, the, the covenant of giving him the land, the land
• 43:56
  that he had promised to the ancestors, because we went from
• 44:00
  Abraham or yeah, Abraham at the time, Abraham to Isaac and then
• 44:04
  to Jacob his son. And so this was another dream
• 44:09
  affirmation from God that he was giving Jacob, who is renamed
• 44:14
  Israel, the land. And so this is God's promise.
• 44:18
  God did affirm something that was spoken to his ancestors in a
• 44:22
  dream to Jacob. Then in Genesis chapter 31,
• 44:26
  Jacob had another dream. He had gone to find a wife and
• 44:33
  he really liked Rachel. And Rachel had a sister named
• 44:37
  Leah. Leah was older than Rachel.
• 44:40
  So Jacob, I guess her father or Laban was the one who is.
• 44:45
  Yeah, I was just, I believe it was her father, father or uncle,
• 44:50
  I can't remember which. But somehow he was, he was like
• 44:54
  in, I think it was his daughter, like Leah and Rachel were his
• 44:57
  daughters. So Jacob went to Laban and
• 45:01
  wanted to, or he had to work for Rachel for seven years to get
• 45:07
  her as his wife. And so he does that.
• 45:11
  He works for her for seven years.
• 45:13
  And then on the night of his honeymoon, Laban slips his older
• 45:19
  daughter Leah in there because she's older.
• 45:21
  And so that's the first one he's going to give away.
• 45:23
  So that's a really strange story.
• 45:25
  But Jacob sleeps with Leah. I don't quite get that, but
• 45:30
  whatever, it works. So then he wasn't really happy
• 45:34
  about that. But then he had to work another
• 45:36
  seven years to for Rachel, the one he really wanted.
• 45:41
  And that was always his favorite wife.
• 45:43
  And he had to work for Laban for 14 years to get the two wives
• 45:50
  who happen to be sisters, which such a disaster.
• 45:54
  Anyway, that's another Side Story.
• 45:57
  But along that way, he was taking care of Laban's goats
• 46:04
  and, and they were dividing up livestock.
• 46:07
  And Laban made a deal with them that I guess if they were
• 46:13
  streaked or if they were spotted, or we know if they were
• 46:16
  speckled, you know, those would be yours and these would be
• 46:19
  mine. And so there was a division
• 46:21
  about what the goats look like, who would get what.
• 46:25
  But Laban was constantly like moving the bar, like always with
• 46:29
  Jacob, he was not treating him well.
• 46:32
  Just like Jacob wanted Rachel at first.
• 46:35
  So Laban gets another seven years out of him of work.
• 46:38
  And the same thing with like, the goats.
• 46:40
  He was, you know, trying to take advantage of Jacob.
• 46:44
  But Jacob had a dream about these speckled, spotted and
• 46:48
  streaked goats. And it turns out that whatever
• 46:54
  Laban chose, or whatever Jacob was supposed to get, even if
• 46:58
  they changed, Jacob got the better end of the deal.
• 47:02
  He got more goats than Laban, and that's because God was doing
• 47:06
  it. And Jacob, I don't think he
• 47:08
  realized because I think he did something like with their water
• 47:12
  and he was thinking that he had to do something to make it
• 47:14
  happen. But ultimately it was God's
• 47:16
  provision. God saw what Laban was doing and
• 47:20
  so he was like, no, you're not going to do this.
• 47:22
  And God stepped in AT and then made Jacob prosper.
• 47:28
  So that is another way that a dream revealed this to Jacob.
• 47:34
  It was God's Providence. Then in Genesis chapter 37,
• 47:38
  Joseph, he starts having dreams. First he dreamed of sheaves and
• 47:44
  you know, the grains and the sheaves and that they were
• 47:46
  bowing to him and he told his family about it and they
• 47:52
  probably thought he was extremely prideful and they
• 47:55
  hated him because it of it. Well, I don't know if it was for
• 47:58
  that first stream, but then he has a second dream kind of
• 48:01
  affirming what the first stream was saying.
• 48:03
  And it's about the sun, moon and 11 stars.
• 48:07
  So right here we see how this ties in to the Book of
• 48:11
  Revelation about the the 12 stars and the tribes of Judah
• 48:19
  that that represent are the tribes of Israel.
• 48:23
  I'm sorry, the tribes of Israel, Judah is one of the tribes, but
• 48:28
  how the 12 stars represent Israel, all the 12 tribes of
• 48:32
  Israel. So Joseph is one of those, but
• 48:34
  he sees 11 stars and they are bowing down to him like
• 48:38
  everything is bowing down to him.
• 48:40
  Well, again, his family just thinks, wow, this guy is really
• 48:43
  prideful and they don't like the stream.
• 48:45
  And they, his brothers are jealous of him and they want to
• 48:51
  kill him. They don't kill him.
• 48:52
  They put him in a pit. And then ironically, some
• 48:55
  Ishmael people come up and take Ishmaelites come and take him to
• 48:59
  Egypt. And that just changes
• 49:01
  everything, changes his desk. I mean, like, God was showing
• 49:05
  him in a dream that he was going to, you know, be someone that
• 49:11
  would be at a higher level. And that's really what happened
• 49:14
  that came to bear. Like, Joseph didn't know what
• 49:17
  this dream meant. But then after he gets to Egypt,
• 49:20
  all of a sudden the Pharaoh likes him and he puts him in a
• 49:23
  high position. He was #2 to the Pharaoh.
• 49:26
  And then his dreams didn't stop. In Genesis chapter 40, Joseph
• 49:31
  has dreams about the cup bearer and the Baker.
• 49:37
  And they weren't always Joseph didn't.
• 49:39
  Yeah. Joseph didn't have the dreams.
• 49:41
  They had the dreams and then they were asking Joseph to
• 49:45
  interpret them and so he to God and he gets the interpretation
• 49:49
  and one is restored and the other one is destroyed.
• 49:53
  And those are not really good words to both of them.
• 49:56
  There's good words to 1 and a bad word to the other.
• 50:00
  And so that comes true. So he sees that and then Pharaoh
• 50:09
  has a dream now. So he is not a godly one.
• 50:12
  He's worshipping all these other people are these other like fake
• 50:16
  gods, probably fallen angels. And he has a dream.
• 50:20
  He has several different dreams, but he has a dream that about
• 50:23
  fat cows and skinny cows and healthy grain and scorched or
• 50:28
  wind scorched grain. So, you know, a good harvest and
• 50:33
  a bad harvest and fat cows and skinny cows.
• 50:36
  And he doesn't know what to do it.
• 50:38
  What is this dream? But it was really troubling him.
• 50:40
  And Joseph interprets the dream and he realizes from God, God
• 50:45
  reveals to him and you know in probably prayer that this is
• 50:51
  going to be a famine. And so you have to stock up.
• 50:54
  Well, that's what Joseph advised Pharaoh to do.
• 50:57
  They did it. They had plenty.
• 50:59
  And that's how Joseph gets united with his family.
• 51:02
  They come to get the grain because the grain Egypt had the
• 51:06
  surplus that they had stored away.
• 51:08
  Everybody else was suffering. And so it's just you can see how
• 51:12
  God's Providence works and how He orchestrates all these
• 51:16
  things, but yet let's us all have our free will in doing what
• 51:19
  we choose to do. But God reveals things to
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  certain people. And what God says is when you
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  seek me, you will find me. And we know that Joseph was
• 51:30
  seeking God. Then we have in the book of
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  Judges Chapter 7, verse 13, there's this unnamed man who is
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  referenced. He's talking about Israel's
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  success over the Midianites and Gideon overhears him and
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  realizes that God is going to let Israel be successful over
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  the Midianites. And that does hold true again.
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  So this man, it's like he's not even significant in the Bible.
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  He's unnamed. No one even knows who he is, at
• 52:05
  least from the Bible, what I read.
• 52:06
  And but yet he was he saw God revealed to him something it was
• 52:15
  in a dream and it was about this bread or something that get
• 52:19
  tossed into this tent area. I don't remember the whole dream
• 52:22
  but you can read a judges Chapter 7 if you are interested.
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  But just showing like God can talk to insignificant people.
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  He can talk to bad people, he can talk to good people, but he
• 52:36
  can talk to people in dreams and give people information.
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  We have to make sure that it doesn't contradict the Bible
• 52:43
  though. So in first kings chapter 3
• 52:47
  verse 5 it talks about Solomon. I didn't even realize this.
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  I thought it was just Solomon praying.
• 52:52
  But it was Solomon having a dream where God said what do you
• 52:57
  want? And Solomon asked for wisdom or
• 53:01
  discernment and then God promised that in a dream and
• 53:04
  promised him even more than that and that all came true.
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  But this was in a dream and then it was went because Solomon was
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  young at the time and he didn't think he could do it.
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  And and God basically encouraged him and showed him that he could
• 53:22
  in a dream and and blessed him in a dream.
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  And then that came to they came to be reality.
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  I mean, that's how you know, if it really was God.
• 53:30
  Well, does it actually come true then in the book of Job, Job
• 53:37
  chapter 33, verse 14, God speaks through a dream and he may speak
• 53:44
  in their ears and he, he can also give them terror with
• 53:52
  warnings to preserve them. And Job describes a dream as a
• 53:57
  night vision. So it's a dream is a vision in
• 54:01
  the night a night vision. And so dreams and visions,
• 54:05
  they're very similar. I guess a vision is something
• 54:07
  somebody sees in the daytime, but the dream is something that
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  a vision that somebody sees at night.
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  And so Job was aware that God spoke through dreams and he may
• 54:18
  even speak into somebody's ear, or he could terrify them with
• 54:22
  warnings. But the purpose of that was not
• 54:25
  to create fear, but to preserve them so they could see what was
• 54:29
  coming and they could take action on it.
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  Then in Jeremiah chapter 23 verse 25, we see that there are
• 54:36
  lying prophets who have false dreams.
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  Now I don't know the source of those dreams or if people just
• 54:47
  make it up and they say they have dreams but they really
• 54:49
  didn't. Or if they actually have dreams
• 54:52
  from the enemy I guess is where it would come from.
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  So that's why we always have to see if the dreams match up with
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  Scripture and and there's you have to be careful of that
• 55:06
  because not all dreams, you can't trust people who just said
• 55:10
  they had a dream from God. That's the point.
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  OK, then in Daniel chapter 2 verse 3, Nebuchadnezzar, he's
• 55:18
  not a godly man at all, but he gets a warning and he's told
• 55:26
  about a statue and it's, it's kind of like pride and, and God
• 55:31
  basically gives, well God gives the revelation to Daniel because
• 55:36
  Daniel seeks God to understand the dream.
• 55:40
  I guess Daniel is aware that, OK, God does speak to people in
• 55:43
  dreams. Now here is an ungodly man, but
• 55:46
  the only way I'm going to know about this is if God tells me.
• 55:49
  And then God tells him about these 4 kingdoms that the statue
• 55:53
  represents and Daniel shares that with Nebuchadnezzar.
• 55:57
  Then in Daniel chapter 4 verse 5, Nebuchadnezzar has another
• 56:01
  dream. He dreams about this tree.
• 56:04
  And then Daniel does the same thing.
• 56:06
  He gets an interpretation from God about the dream.
• 56:10
  And basically, Nebuchadnezzar is going to go crazy and it's going
• 56:16
  to happen for seven years. And the purpose of it is to
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  humble him and for him to repent and get rid of his pride and
• 56:24
  then honor God. And that actually all happened.
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  So God used it to probably turn him away from eternal damnation
• 56:33
  and for him to become a believer, a believer in God, the
• 56:38
  true God. So then then Daniel starts
• 56:42
  having dreams. Well, he has a dream.
• 56:45
  He has a lot of things happen to him In Daniel Chapter 7, Daniel
• 56:50
  has a dream that terrifies them. It's about the four beasts and
• 56:53
  it's about the end times. And people talk about it and
• 56:57
  it's, you know, ties into the four different kingdoms that
• 57:00
  Nebuchadnezzar had a dream about.
• 57:02
  So it's like God is building dream upon dream and that I've
• 57:07
  actually experienced that before where 1 dream helps you
• 57:10
  understand the next dream. And, and it's very interesting.
• 57:14
  But that's what happened with Daniel is he has his dream about
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  the four beasts and very detailed about the different
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  kingdoms that would come. And then he has a in chapter 8,
• 57:25
  he has a vision about a ram and a goat.
• 57:29
  And those have some end time significance.
• 57:32
  And then in Chapter 9, he has an Angel visit visitation where he
• 57:39
  is told about the 70 sevens, like how long all of this will
• 57:43
  take to happen. And then in chapter 10 he has a
• 57:49
  revelation or a vision after he fasts and he then Chapter 11 he
• 57:56
  has a, I guess it's the visions of the kings of the North and
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  the South and you know, the future.
• 58:06
  I it's pretty much the Antichrist that people call the
• 58:10
  lawless 1. He gets a vision of who that one
• 58:13
  is. It's revealed to him in a very
• 58:16
  cryptic nature. And then in chapter 12, he has
• 58:20
  another dream about the end times that terrifies him about
• 58:23
  this beast. And it basically says seal up
• 58:27
  the vision for this is about, you know, the end time.
• 58:30
  So this is about the the future, like very far into the future,
• 58:34
  even our future. So Daniel's dreams were in the
• 58:37
  BC before Christ time frame. And here we are thousands of
• 58:42
  years later, and we know what's going to happen because we know
• 58:46
  that Daniel was able to interpret dreams for the for
• 58:51
  Nebuchadnezzar. So he was a tried and true
• 58:55
  prophet. And what he says or what he had,
• 58:58
  the visions that he had are going to come to fruition
• 59:02
  someday. So people are interested in in
• 59:05
  what Daniel had, what Daniel revealed from his dreams that's
• 59:10
  written in the Gospel or not in the Gospels in the Bible.
• 59:14
  Then Joel chapter 2, verse 28, he had a prophecy about future
• 59:20
  dreams, that people in the future were going to have
• 59:23
  dreams. And so that also happened.
• 59:26
  We know in Matthew chapter one verse 20 Joseph, he had a dream
• 59:33
  where an Angel told him about Mary where he didn't get
• 59:36
  divorced from her because she was pregnant with a child and
• 59:40
  the Angel revealed to him why that happened.
• 59:43
  Then in Matthew chapter 2 verse 12 Joseph had another dream
• 59:48
  where he was warned about Herod and changed his travel plans as
• 59:52
  a result of the dream. Again God warning in a dream and
• 59:55
  this was to protect Jesus. This is Joseph the father of
• 59:59
  Jesus, not Joseph from the Old Testament that we were talking
• 1:00:02
  about. Then we have another person who
• 1:00:06
  is again unnamed in Matthew 27 verse 19, who gets a warning
• 1:00:12
  dream. This is Pilot's wife.
• 1:00:14
  He's the one that was going to determine the ultimate fate of
• 1:00:18
  Jesus. And his wife had a dream and
• 1:00:22
  warned him and said, don't have anything to do with that
• 1:00:27
  innocent man referring to Jesus because she had some dream that
• 1:00:32
  tormented her. So she was warned.
• 1:00:36
  Don't you know, get yourself out of that?
• 1:00:38
  So she warns her husband. And I think, you know, they say
• 1:00:40
  that Pilate washed his hands of it and said, you know, I'm
• 1:00:42
  turning it over to you. I'm not having anything to do
• 1:00:44
  with it. He listened to his wife.
• 1:00:46
  Thank God I spared his eternity. You know, if he was, you know,
• 1:00:49
  going to follow through with whatever if he was worn from God
• 1:00:55
  and not obedient to him, then in Acts chapter 2 verse 17, they
• 1:01:02
  repeat, it's repeated the Joel prophecy that in the last days
• 1:01:07
  God will pour out his spirit on on so many.
• 1:01:12
  And you know, we are certainly seeing God's spirit being poured
• 1:01:17
  out on people. This is I'll read it's Acts.
• 1:01:21
  Let's see Acts 2 verse 17. So I wanted to read that.
• 1:01:30
  Now here it talks about this is what was spoken by the prophet
• 1:01:34
  Joel. That's verse 16.
• 1:01:36
  In the last days, God says I will pour out my spirit on all
• 1:01:43
  people. These are not just prophets.
• 1:01:48
  This is your sons and daughters will prophecy.
• 1:01:53
  Your young men will see visions, Your old men will dream dreams,
• 1:02:00
  even on my servants, both men and women.
• 1:02:06
  I will pour out my spirit in those days, and they will
• 1:02:11
  prophecy. I will show wonders in the
• 1:02:15
  heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and
• 1:02:20
  billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to
• 1:02:24
  darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great
• 1:02:30
  and glorious day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the
• 1:02:35
  name of the Lord will be saved. So this is this was talking
• 1:02:45
  about when Jesus returns and everyone who calls on the name
• 1:02:50
  of the Lord will be saved. So this is really important and
• 1:02:54
  I will, I'm going to talk about something a little bit personal,
• 1:02:57
  a lot personal, but I think important too, because as I
• 1:03:03
  researched dreams and as I saw why God gave people dreams and
• 1:03:06
  what he did, I've shared this a little bit here and there.
• 1:03:10
  And, and as I've said, God uses just normal people, regular
• 1:03:14
  people. He can use bad people, He can
• 1:03:16
  use good people and, and there's no one who's good, but God can
• 1:03:21
  speak to anybody. But the message that he gives to
• 1:03:25
  people, sometimes it is personal, sometimes it's
• 1:03:27
  encouragement. I'll just tell you what happened
• 1:03:29
  to me. I was, I always said I was a
• 1:03:34
  Christian. I grew up in a Christian
• 1:03:35
  household and I always believed in the Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
• 1:03:42
  I was taught that. So I believed it and I never
• 1:03:45
  doubted it. And, and so I had that faith my
• 1:03:50
  whole life. But at a certain point, what I
• 1:03:54
  realized actually, when a certain point, when I actually
• 1:03:56
  read the Bible for the first time in 2000, 19, I realized
• 1:04:02
  that I didn't know what was in the Bible and I was not living
• 1:04:10
  like a Christian, even though I was calling myself a Christian,
• 1:04:14
  I wasn't living like 1. And so I had a big challenge.
• 1:04:19
  How would I respond to it now that I knew that?
• 1:04:24
  And there was also some scripture too that just said,
• 1:04:27
  I'm going to paraphrase because I don't have it memorized, but
• 1:04:29
  it's basically says like, if you don't know about something,
• 1:04:33
  you're not judged by that. But once you know something and
• 1:04:35
  then you do it, you're judged by it.
• 1:04:37
  So unfortunately or fortunately so I still say fortunately that
• 1:04:41
  I read the Bible because I'm so glad that I found this out now
• 1:04:44
  before I died. But so I, I then knew that I
• 1:04:51
  wasn't living right and I knew that I should be living
• 1:04:54
  differently. So finally I kept struggling
• 1:04:59
  with like, does it really say this?
• 1:05:01
  Does it say that? And I was like researching and
• 1:05:03
  looking into it. That's, you know, my sinful self
• 1:05:06
  trying to say, well, trying to get a loophole in the law.
• 1:05:10
  Well, there wasn't a loophole in the law.
• 1:05:12
  So then once I discovered there wasn't a loophole in the law,
• 1:05:16
  then I was like, OK, So what do I do now?
• 1:05:19
  Well, I have to make a decision. And then I decided, all right,
• 1:05:23
  if I make this decision, I can't be a hypocrite.
• 1:05:25
  I'm going to have to live it out.
• 1:05:27
  I'm not going to just do it for a performance and say, hey, look
• 1:05:32
  what I did. Look, I'm a Christian, you know,
• 1:05:34
  I'm, I'm announcing my faith. I'm announcing that Jesus is my
• 1:05:38
  savior. Jesus was my savior all the
• 1:05:40
  time, but Jesus was not the Lord of my life.
• 1:05:44
  And so when I decided I, I struggled with should I get
• 1:05:47
  baptized because I was baptized as an infant and I thought,
• 1:05:51
  should I get baptized again because my parents did it for me
• 1:05:54
  when I was an infant, but now it means something different.
• 1:05:58
  It means that I'm basically committing that I committing to
• 1:06:02
  Christ, you know, that I want to live in obedience and I want to
• 1:06:07
  be reconciled with him. And and so I finally, after some
• 1:06:13
  debate and some postponement because of COVID time frame, I
• 1:06:18
  finally got baptized in 2021. And that was my decision to no
• 1:06:25
  longer be a hypocrite and to be obedient.
• 1:06:30
  That's really what I was the my statement to, to God and my
• 1:06:34
  gratitude. And so that very night I started
• 1:06:38
  having dreams and I've had over 110 dreams since then.
• 1:06:45
  I've had the name of Jesus, the power of Jesus, Bible verses,
• 1:06:51
  Scripture, promises, warnings, encouragement, all sorts of
• 1:06:59
  things. Most of them were personal to
• 1:07:02
  me. And, and I had, I mean, I was
• 1:07:06
  shown things in my life. And, and so you could say, OK,
• 1:07:09
  you were reading the Bible. That's what a lot of my family
• 1:07:11
  said was you were reading the Bible.
• 1:07:13
  So you're probably having all these dreams because you were
• 1:07:15
  reading the Bible. Well, I was reading the Bible
• 1:07:16
  for two years prior to my first dream.
• 1:07:19
  What a coincidence to have your first dream like this biblical
• 1:07:23
  dream on the night of your baptism.
• 1:07:26
  Well, that's what happened to me.
• 1:07:28
  And then they continued. And the things that were
• 1:07:31
  different about the dreams that I had was a scene from my dream
• 1:07:35
  would happen later in my life. And it would be so shocking as I
• 1:07:40
  would just be going along with the normal life, you know, not
• 1:07:42
  even expecting anything. And all of a sudden I would see
• 1:07:46
  something that I saw in a dream and it would stop me in my
• 1:07:49
  tracks just like, whoa, I saw that in my dream.
• 1:07:54
  And this started happening repeatedly.
• 1:07:57
  And then I started really wondering like, what is going
• 1:08:00
  on? Because I never had this happen
• 1:08:03
  my whole life until my my baptism.
• 1:08:07
  And so then I started trying to figure out like, what's causing
• 1:08:11
  me to have these dreams? Why am I having these dreams?
• 1:08:13
  Are other people having dreams like this?
• 1:08:15
  And then I started buying books. Like, how do you know it's God's
• 1:08:18
  voice? How do you know if it's the
• 1:08:19
  enemy? Where does it come from?
• 1:08:21
  Is it your voice? Is it your own imagination?
• 1:08:23
  And I started researching all of this and, and I found that there
• 1:08:28
  are many, many people who are having dreams today.
• 1:08:33
  And you can just search probably YouTube and talk about dreams or
• 1:08:38
  end time dreams and you'll probably come up with a lot.
• 1:08:42
  And so I started listening to some of these other people
• 1:08:44
  because I wondered, are they getting the same information
• 1:08:47
  that I am? Are we getting a same message?
• 1:08:49
  And some people have different, you know, dreams and things.
• 1:08:52
  But lately, more recently, it seems like everyone is saying
• 1:08:59
  kind of the same thing. And it's very much like the old
• 1:09:02
  time prophets that we're say repent.
• 1:09:08
  And that's what I'm hearing from people who are dreaming and, and
• 1:09:13
  it's does line up with scripture.
• 1:09:16
  And I, I noticed this morning when I was looking at dreams and
• 1:09:20
  it says something about Pharaoh having two dreams.
• 1:09:24
  He had the dream about the, the cows and then the dream about
• 1:09:27
  the grain and had to do with famine and the time frame.
• 1:09:31
  But he had two dreams that were similar and they had the same
• 1:09:33
  message. It was a warning message and
• 1:09:36
  when God wants to speak something of importance, well,
• 1:09:39
  here's what I I sent it to actually to my sister today
• 1:09:42
  because I never paid attention to this verse.
• 1:09:46
  But then when I read it today, I was like, oh gosh.
• 1:09:53
  So it was in Genesis 41 verse 32 it says the reason the dream was
• 1:09:59
  given to Pharaoh in two forms is that the matter has been firmly
• 1:10:05
  decided by God and God will do it soon.
• 1:10:11
  So then I thought about my dreams because I had one dream
• 1:10:16
  that was repeated 3 times and months.
• 1:10:20
  First it was like weeks apart, then it was months apart
• 1:10:25
  actually like almost a not quite a year maybe it was like 9
• 1:10:29
  months later, which is ironic too when you think about birth
• 1:10:32
  pains. Nine months.
• 1:10:35
  So the first dream, the first room that I had was on 4/4/22.
• 1:10:41
  Kind of interesting numbers also just that mathematically.
• 1:10:47
  But that was my very first dream.
• 1:10:49
  And it was what I'll say that I've come to know is the rapture
• 1:10:54
  or the resurrection, the resurrection, the rising to, to,
• 1:10:59
  to Christ. And I had my very first, that
• 1:11:03
  was my very first stream and what my, when I experienced it,
• 1:11:08
  I started going up into the sky. There's a lot more detail, but
• 1:11:12
  I'm not going to bore you with that.
• 1:11:13
  I started going up to the sky and it was like I could see like
• 1:11:17
  pictures like NASA has, where everything is like beautiful
• 1:11:20
  colors and, and sparkly. I called it like glitter or
• 1:11:23
  something, you know, it was just like this incredible awesome,
• 1:11:28
  like outer space kind of, you know, stuff in the atmosphere
• 1:11:34
  and and I was just like in awe, just like, wow.
• 1:11:38
  And I was like, this is real. And I, that was my reaction was
• 1:11:42
  just like, I was overwhelmed with awe and just how I was
• 1:11:47
  like, Oh my God, this is real. And I actually said, Oh my God.
• 1:11:50
  And then I kind of apologized to God.
• 1:11:51
  Like, I don't want to take your name in vain, but I was just
• 1:11:55
  really impressed by everything. So I wasn't using it in a
• 1:11:58
  negative way, but literally that came that loose thoughts came in
• 1:12:01
  my head when I was dreaming this.
• 1:12:04
  But anyway, I, I was just so impressed by that.
• 1:12:07
  But then all of a sudden, I remembered the books that I had
• 1:12:11
  delivered and the books that I had delivered that day.
• 1:12:14
  And they were sitting on my kitchen table in real life.
• 1:12:16
  This was in my dream. I was like, who's going to give
• 1:12:20
  those books out? And the books, the title of the
• 1:12:22
  books was The Resurrection and you.
• 1:12:27
  And so I woke up immediately after that.
• 1:12:30
  And, and so that was my first rapture dream.
• 1:12:36
  That was just like the end of the dream.
• 1:12:37
  But before I realized it was the rapture, everything went dark
• 1:12:41
  and I couldn't see my hand in front of my face.
• 1:12:44
  And then light came and then there were like clouds.
• 1:12:48
  And then I saw that something that was symbolic of the
• 1:12:51
  rapture. And I was like, Oh my gosh, it's
• 1:12:53
  the rapture. And then I put my arms up and I
• 1:12:55
  started ascending in the sky. I didn't leave all that detail.
• 1:12:58
  There's even more detail than that.
• 1:12:59
  But like I said, I don't want to get this too long.
• 1:13:01
  It's already long enough. So that was my very first dream.
• 1:13:05
  Then my second dream that I had was in a, in a, in a place.
• 1:13:11
  And there was this one of the people that was in my first
• 1:13:13
  dream was in my second dream. But then there was a different,
• 1:13:16
  a third person who is a different person in my dream.
• 1:13:19
  And we were at this place and we could see the sky in all
• 1:13:24
  different directions and, and there was like this watchtower
• 1:13:29
  that was there too. And then all of a sudden while
• 1:13:32
  we were there, everything went pitch black.
• 1:13:34
  So it repeated exactly like what happened in the dream maybe a
• 1:13:39
  week prior or something, I can't remember.
• 1:13:41
  I have to look up where I wrote down in my journal and I didn't
• 1:13:44
  do that before this podcast. But it was not.
• 1:13:46
  It was there's some space or some gap into the second dream.
• 1:13:50
  But in my second dream, I said to the people who were with me
• 1:13:54
  in my dream, I was like, don't, don't worry.
• 1:13:56
  Don't get concerned. I know it's pitch black, but the
• 1:13:59
  rapture is going to be next. And I learned that from my first
• 1:14:03
  dream. And I recalled my first dream in
• 1:14:07
  my second dream. And so I was basically saying,
• 1:14:10
  don't worry, don't be afraid. And then I woke up.
• 1:14:13
  It was a really, really short dream.
• 1:14:16
  And then like I said, about nine months later or so, I have this
• 1:14:20
  dream that is is so realistic. It looks exactly like where I
• 1:14:26
  Live Today. And I was going into the kitchen
• 1:14:30
  to get coffee in the morning. Everything looked exactly like.
• 1:14:34
  Sometimes you have dreams where you know, it's your house or
• 1:14:36
  whatever and but things look different.
• 1:14:39
  Well, this is 1 where it was my place and it looked exactly like
• 1:14:43
  it does. And I was going to do what I do,
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  you know, just to go get a cup of coffee and it was light
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  outside and then all of a sudden it went black.
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  And then the emergency warning system sirens went off and
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  everything because it was pitch black.
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  I was like, I didn't know what to do.
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  So I laid down and then when I laid down, I felt this was the
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  different part of the dream. I felt this pulling across my
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  shoulders, across my chest, like a magnet.
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  It wasn't like a hand grabbing or anything.
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  It was like a magnet. It was like a drawing.
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  Like I was laying on the ground and I felt this like pulling.
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  And then I was like in a third person viewpoint where I was
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  outside of my body and I was looking at my body and I could
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  see myself and I started rising. And as I started rising up to
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  about the level of the refrigerator, I woke up.
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  So that was like my third dream. And so I don't know, like I
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  after that dream, the first two dreams, they were the very
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  joyful feelings, this one. And I was, I think my expression
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  to God was it was in my dream. It was like, dear God set mercy
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  on me. That was what came out of my
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  mouth in my dream. And so I knew I was going to
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  God. And so there's I don't I don't
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  really know. I mean these were definitely,
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  there is no question in my mind that they were resurrection type
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  dreams and every single all three dreams had everything
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  going black before it happened. And listen to the Acts chapter
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  2, verse 20 and numerous times in the Bible and even in the
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  Book of Revelation chapter 6. And many of the other prophets,
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  like I don't remember if it was Jeremiah or Ezekiel, but it was
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  the other prophets too. They all talk about everything
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  going dark before the coming of the Lord.
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  So in Acts chapter 2 verse 20, it says the sun will be turned
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  to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the
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  great and glorious day of the Lord.
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  So I really don't doubt that this is the dreams that I've had
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  are about the day that Jesus returns and in the day that we
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  go to meet him in the air. Like I have no no doubt about
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  that. But when I, I guess, you know,
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  the question that we all have is how soon is this going to
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  happen? It, you know, like some of these
• 1:17:37
  prophets had dreams and things that like Daniel, we're still
• 1:17:42
  waiting for his vision of, you know, in chapters 89101112, all
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  those things to be fulfilled. So if he had these dreams or
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  visions and thought they were going to happen the next day,
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  they didn't. So there is another dream though
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  that I had and I'm not going to share the whole dream, but what
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  I'm going to say about this dream again, I, I have a feeling
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  about what it is. And it had actually, I had the
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  stream in 2021 and it featured the year 2026.
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  So I had that dream. We will see if anything happens
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  this year. And, and I know people will
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  criticize if anybody says, well, no man knows the date or the
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  hour. Well, I'm not saying the date.
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  I'm not saying the hour. I can't say any of that.
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  I wasn't given any of that. I was, I was given 12 blank 2026
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  in my dream and and it could mean other things.
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  It it doesn't necessarily have to mean that it's the return of
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  Jesus. It could mean something else.
• 1:18:58
  And I don't know whether the 12 was the day of a month or if it
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  was the month because date formats can be written
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  differently. And then I also don't know if it
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  was just something in my own creation, my own imagination
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  with all of the other dreams that I have.
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  I did take it seriously and I have taken it seriously.
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  And that is part of the reason why I started this podcast years
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  ago when I did, because if I don't say anything and this was
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  from God, it would be too late. Like I wouldn't have shared this
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  with people. But if I share this with people
• 1:19:41
  and it really does come to pass and it was from God, then
• 1:19:45
  whomever hears it and reflects on their life, the the message
• 1:19:50
  basically that I get from it is that we need to be prepared.
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  We need to be ready to meet God at all times.
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  And that is nothing different from what's in the Bible.
• 1:20:03
  And but it's here's what the significance of this is, is that
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  I think a lot of people are not taking their faith seriously.
• 1:20:13
  They're very careless with their faith.
• 1:20:17
  They don't think about God. God is not a priority in our
• 1:20:21
  lives. God was not a priority in my
• 1:20:23
  life either. And over these past few years,
• 1:20:27
  God has become my priority in my life.
• 1:20:31
  I struggled with that and I shared that with God.
• 1:20:34
  He knew I was struggling with it already, but I shared it with
• 1:20:37
  them. You know, like I, I was like, I
• 1:20:38
  know I should have you as priority, but I didn't.
• 1:20:41
  I had other things and, and I, I shared that with him.
• 1:20:46
  He did, He must have helped me because the only way we can
• 1:20:50
  overcome any of this is through the Holy Spirit.
• 1:20:53
  And I believe that I probably received the Holy Spirit when I
• 1:20:58
  was baptized because that was my complete surrender.
• 1:21:01
  That was me honestly saying, OK, I'm not going to be a hypocrite
• 1:21:04
  anymore. God knew my heart.
• 1:21:06
  He knew what I that I truly meant it.
• 1:21:08
  He knew it was hard for me to do that, but I chose to do that.
• 1:21:13
  And then, you know, it says if we seek him, you will find him
• 1:21:18
  and and we are promised the the spirit when we believe and was
• 1:21:22
  that the beginning of my true belief?
• 1:21:24
  It probably was it was my true like, you know, we're in a
• 1:21:27
  covenant relationship with God and and that's what Jesus prayed
• 1:21:32
  for. He says, you know, Father, you
• 1:21:34
  know, make them one as we are one.
• 1:21:39
  You know that I and you and you and me and and that's what what
• 1:21:43
  Jesus wanted for all of us to share that relationship with the
• 1:21:47
  Father that he had has and and him and just, you know, the Holy
• 1:21:53
  Spirit, everything, you know, becoming that one.
• 1:21:57
  And, and so I share this with other people because you know,
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  you, you may not believe anything I say or think I'm some
• 1:22:06
  kind of weirdo. And I, you know, can't blame you
• 1:22:10
  for that. You don't know me.
• 1:22:11
  So you may think that of me, but I'm just sharing it.
• 1:22:16
  Not anything about me, but about you and your relationship with
• 1:22:20
  God, like pursue God, get to know him, seek him, ask Jesus
• 1:22:27
  for the Holy Spirit, if you don't know already that you have
• 1:22:30
  the Holy Spirit because it is important for us.
• 1:22:36
  I mean, it's, it's, it's Jesus said no one can enter the
• 1:22:40
  Kingdom of God unless they are born of the spirit.
• 1:22:43
  We have to become a new creation.
• 1:22:45
  That's a changed life. And the only way that changed
• 1:22:48
  life happens is through the Holy Spirit.
• 1:22:51
  So don't try to do it on your own.
• 1:22:52
  Don't try to be like, well, I need to be better or I need to
• 1:22:55
  do this. No, just come to God the way you
• 1:22:58
  are and just say God help me and he will do it because he loves
• 1:23:02
  us and because he forgives. So don't let anything stand in
• 1:23:08
  your way of your relationship with God.
• 1:23:11
  Nothing. Make him the priority.
• 1:23:13
  That's really what I want to share with everybody.
• 1:23:16
  And just make sure that you're ready so that you're not a rich
• 1:23:20
  man talking about Lazarus and you're not, you know, the rich
• 1:23:25
  man in the story that Jesus told saying warn my family, warn my
• 1:23:29
  family so they don't end up here.
• 1:23:32
  The time is now and, and I don't know, we'll see.
• 1:23:37
  Like I will keep doing this podcast as long as God permits
• 1:23:40
  me to do it. And we'll see if anything
• 1:23:43
  happens in 2026. We'll find out if I was just,
• 1:23:48
  you know, had some imagination. So I, I'm fine.
• 1:23:52
  I, you know, like, I'm not trying to be anything more
• 1:23:55
  important or anything. I, I could care less and none of
• 1:23:58
  this matters to me. All I do care about is I, I
• 1:24:01
  knew, realized how far I was from God and I'm so grateful for
• 1:24:07
  what Jesus did. And I don't want other people to
• 1:24:10
  miss out on God. And I see a lot of people and
• 1:24:17
  missing out because they're not taking this serious and they're
• 1:24:21
  not turned to God. So this is a plea, turn to God,
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  repent and turn to God. And he's loving, merciful, and
• 1:24:31
  forgiving. And that's all I have to say.
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  If you found this beneficial, please share this with other
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  people. If you're not subscribed and
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  want to stay in the Word, please subscribe.
• 1:24:43
  Thank you.