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691. Bible Study: Micah 2 (Dividing Israel? Peace and Security/Safety? Prosperity? Micah prophecizes Jesus/Yeshua in 700 BC!!!) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 2 from the book of Micah.
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  Dear God, please be with us as we read through these words and
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  let the Holy Spirit give us, give us wisdom and understanding
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  and revelation in Jesus name, Amen.
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  Human plans and God's plans. That's what my study Bible has
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  titled this chapter. Woe to those who plan iniquity,
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  to those who plot evil on their beds at morning's light.
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  They carry it out because it is in their power to do it.
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  They covet fields and seize them and houses and take them.
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  They defraud people of their homes.
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  They robbed them of their inheritance.
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  Therefore, the Lord says I am planning disaster against this
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  people from which you cannot save yourselves.
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  So that's something that's, you know, substantial that these are
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  people who are by dishonest means trying to take things from
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  other people. And the Lord's saying I'm
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  planning a disaster against these people from which you
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  cannot save yourselves. So God is bringing judgement
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  against these people. You will no longer walk proudly,
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  for it will be a time of calamity.
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  In that day. People will ridicule you.
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  They will taunt you with this mournful song.
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  We are utterly ruined. My people's possession is
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  divided up. He takes it from me.
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  He assigns our fields to traitors.
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  So this is really interesting because I, you know, you think
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  about what is, has been recently discussed and has been for a
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  long time actually, but has really come into light lately is
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  the dividing of Israel. And I think that this is
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  something that we should pay attention to, that God does not
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  want this land divided. And there is this 2 state
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  solution that's being discussed. And when that happens, there's
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  going to be calamity that is brought on the people for this.
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  And who knows when that's actually going to be happened
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  because it's been talked about several times.
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  There were a couple meetings, I get think with the UN this year
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  and 25 that were supposed to discuss this, but they were
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  delayed or postponed or cancelled.
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  And so there will be a reconvening, you know, will it
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  happen later this summer? Will it happen in the fall?
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  We're not sure it'll happen when it happens.
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  But I do think this is applicable to us today because
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  of the division of the land and people trying to get something
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  that God doesn't necessarily have in His plans.
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  So again, it says we are utterly ruined.
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  My people's possession is divided up.
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  He takes it from me. He assigns our fields to
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  traitors. Therefore you will have no one
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  in the assembly of the Lord to divide the land by lot.
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  So there's no one in the assembly of the Lord to divide
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  the land by lot. Do not prophecy.
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  Their prophets say, do not prophecy about these things.
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  Disgrace will not overtake us. You know, that's another thing
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  that the land, it does say in Bible prophecy, the land will be
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  divided. So the Bible tells us it will
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  happen. But this is not something that
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  God wants to have happen. And there's, you know, do not
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  prophecy. Their prophets say do not
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  prophecy about these things. Disgrace will not overtake us.
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  Everybody's denying that this is really going to happen.
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  Your descendants of Jacob, should it be said?
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  Does the Lord become impatient? Does He do such things?
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  Do not my words do good to the one whose ways are upright?
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  OK, pay attention to that. Do not my words do good for the
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  one whose ways are upright? The people who are upright and
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  righteous and following the Lord, they don't have to worry
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  about this. But it's the people who are not
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  living by the commands God gave us that do need to worry because
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  they are not protected by God and they are subject to judgment
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  because of their rejection of God.
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  Jesus said, if you love me, you will obey my commands, you know,
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  or if you love God, obey his commands, you know.
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  And if we are not obedient, if we reject obeying God's
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  commands, we are subject to discipline of God.
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  The Bible's really clear about that.
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  Lately My people have risen up like an enemy.
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  You strip off the rich robe from those who pass by without a
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  care, like men returning from battle.
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  You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes.
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  You take away My blessing from their children forever.
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  Get up, go away, for this is not your resting place because it is
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  defiled, it is ruined beyond all remedy.
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  If a liar and deceiver comes and says, I will prophecy for you
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  plenty of wine and beer, that would be just the profit for
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  these people. I will surely gather all of you,
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  Jacob. I will surely bring together the
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  remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like
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  sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture.
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  The place will throng with people.
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  The one who breaks open the way will go up before them.
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  They will breakthrough the gate and go out.
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  Their king will pass through before them, the Lord at their
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  head. This is very interesting because
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  the one who breaks will open the way.
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  Why did Jesus say I am the way, the truth and the life and no
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  one comes to the Father except through me?
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  Do you think that was a clue for this?
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  The one who breaks open the way will go up before them.
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  Jesus went up before them. He died on the cross and was and
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  rose to and it resurrected. He is living, he is living in
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  God's, in the Kingdom of God in the heavenly realms and he has
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  gone up before them, says they will breakthrough the gate and
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  go out their King, which is Jesus Yeshua the Messiah, Jesus
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  Christ, their King will pass through before them, the Lord at
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  their head. So there are people that are
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  coming before this. I mean, this is a future
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  prophecy. The way that I read this is that
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  it has, you know, this, this is probably like a dual
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  fulfillment. Well, foreshadowing where it
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  happened with the Assyrians who conquered Israel, Samaria, the
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  northern Kingdom, and then it will again happen later.
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  Because this is, you know, I will surely gather all of you,
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  Jacob, I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel.
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  If we think about the remnant, there is in Revelation, I forgot
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  what chapter it is, but there's the 144,000 that are mentioned
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  in Revelation and there are 12,000 from each tribe.
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  But it's very interesting because each tribe is there
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  isn't each tribe. There are two P2 tribes that are
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  not mentioned. One of them is Dan.
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  The tribe of Dan is not mentioned and Ephraim.
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  Now we know Ephraim from the last few chapters that Ephraim
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  was the one who is very heavily into idolatry.
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  Now it's really interesting too, because Joseph has listed,
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  because a lot of people, you know, will point out with the 12
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  tribes that the inheritance went to Manasseh and Ephraim.
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  But the from the remnant that's talked about in Revelation,
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  Joseph is in there and Manasseh is in there, but Ephraim is not.
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  So it's, it's very interesting. You know, what is the
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  significance? I mean, the Bible's very
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  specific. This is a vision that John had
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  speaking with Jesus about what was going to happen.
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  In the end there will be a remnant of people and they're
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  represented from most of the tribes but not all the tribes so
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  and God is the one who will gather the people and again they
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  are like sheep in a pen. Who is the Good Shepherd?
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  Jesus is known as the Good Shepherd, like a flock in its
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  pasture. Sheep are believers, goats are
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  the non believers, goats are the evil ones, and sheep are the the
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  followers of Christ, so the followers of the Messiah.
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  So there is a lot of significance in this and there
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  are things that so there's people who are plotting to take
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  over part of the land that God gave to Israel.
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  That's very obvious. We can see that it talks about
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  dividing of the land. That's being discussed and has
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  been discussed for a long time. We'll see when this actually
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  happens. When it happens is when God
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  allows it to happen. But it will happen.
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  And even the Book of Revelation says this is going to happen for
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  about 42 months. The the Gentiles will trample
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  the land for 42 months. I mean, it says it multiple
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  times, 3 1/2 years, it's going to be divided.
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  So this is future prophecy that we can look for.
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  And then there's false prophets who are going to say, you know,
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  oh, no, don't say any of this. You know, none of this is going
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  to happen to us. You know, we're protected.
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  Especially the people in Israel think, you know, they're
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  protected by God, but they're not.
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  They're blinded, first of all, by idolatry.
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  And they, their eyes are not opened.
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  And this is somewhat like God teaching them a lesson, to be
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  honest. It's kind of like the discipline
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  of God's children. This is what's happening.
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  But God does promise a restoration and it's people who
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  will turn to him at some point that you know, if someone will
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  turn to God and ask for forgiveness and repent of their
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  ways, change their ways and become a true follower of God,
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  then they will not be subject to God's wrath.
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  So this is really I, I don't know what portion of the, if
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  you, it would be considered, it's probably considered the
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  great tribulation period when this happens.
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  So anyway, let's go through the questions and answers for this
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  chapter and we'll see how far we get in here.
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  So were the Were the powerful and elite the cause behind the
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  nation's problems? Yes, although they were not the
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  sole 'cause their injustice roused the Lord's anger and
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  prompted his judgement. Many in Judah's upper class,
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  some of whom were apparently government administrators,
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  disregarded God's law. They used deception and fraud to
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  acquire land belonging to others.
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  Why would God reward traitors? The traitors, The Assyrians,
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  took the property of the rich when they invaded the land.
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  God wasn't rewarding the Assyrians as much as He was
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  punishing the wealthy Israelites, the original traders
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  who had robbed their fellow countrymen of their fields and
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  houses. The rich would find out how it
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  felt to be mistreated and plundered by someone more
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  powerful than they were. That's again, you know, this is
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  we need to have God as our priority.
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  And I can relate to that because I didn't always have God as my
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  priority. I knew of God.
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  I knew a lot about it, but I didn't apply it.
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  So I had knowledge but not wisdom.
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  And that's the way people are today.
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  A lot of people have knowledge, but wisdom is the application of
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  that knowledge, applying it to your life and living it out, not
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  just knowing about it. So if you're not applying the
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  knowledge you have, you're being foolish and you are subject to
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  judgement, to God's discipline or to God's wrath.
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  And God will decide accordingly which thing he will do.
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  Anytime he brings about discipline, it's because he
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  wants people to turn back to him.
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  But when people are repeatedly rebellious at a certain point,
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  which is very, which I think is to me, the fear of God, at a
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  certain point, when you keep rejecting God, he, he allows you
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  to have what you want, he turns you over to it.
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  Now I got to a point in life where I'm like, I realized God
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  had been, you know, trying to get my attention and I was
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  ignoring it or I was putting it off.
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  And then I thought, how many more times will God let me do
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  this? Is my time coming to an end
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  where he's like, OK, fine, that's what you want.
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  Go ahead. You can have that and then no
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  longer be in God's Kingdom. Well, that was the fear of God
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  that hit me and I decided that I did not want that path and that
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  I would, I would, I would choose God over this.
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  So I think this is where a lot of people are today.
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  It's, it's a tough decision because you do have to be
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  willing to change. But God does give us help
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  through the Holy Spirit when we sincerely want that change in
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  our life. He knows it's not humanly
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  possible, and he gives us the Holy Spirit to strengthen us, to
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  give us encouragement, to help us overcome the sinful ways that
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  we had done before in our past. The Holy Spirit is that
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  strength. But we have to yield to the Holy
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  Spirit. So the decision, it starts with
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  the decision. We just, we have to see it
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  coming and then we have to, instead of doing what we
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  naturally want to do, we have to pause and then say, God help me
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  with this and God will give the strength.
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  We don't have to have the strength.
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  We just have to rely on God. But we have to pay attention and
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  not fall into the same habit, the same sins that we've done in
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  the past. We need to cut it off, get rid
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  of it. Don't agree with it anymore
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  because every time you agree with it, you're giving evil
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  access to your life and access to cause more harm because the
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  enemy doesn't want to reward you.
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  Ultimately they will lure you in.
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  The enemy will lure people in with nice things or desires of
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  the person's heart. That's the lure of the
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  manipulation. But ultimately what it's seeking
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  is to destroy. And that's why it's so deceptive
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  because we don't see that. We just see like the good
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  things. We just see the the what we what
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  we like coming in front of us. But ultimately, it's going to
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  either eliminate us from God's Kingdom, or it could physically
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  destroy us. There's so many different ways
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  that it could happen, but it's because of us coming into
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  agreement with that. Like we are rejecting God's
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  will, God's way when we choose that.
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  And that gives evil some legal authority in our lives.
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  And so anyway, we just have to really pay attention to this
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  because now is not a time to be lukewarm with your, with your
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  faith, with your relationship with God.
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  It's it, there's too much going on in the world that, you know,
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  this stuff could be foreshadowing.
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  We could have another 50 years. Maybe we will, maybe we won't.
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  But you know, in the next 5 years, we should know pretty
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  well if, if we are, we are not having, you know, another 50
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  years or so. We'll see how it goes.
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  Because this is, happens to be a Jubilee year, 2025.
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  Right now we are in a Jubilee year.
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  And you know, there's a lot of people who are talking about the
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  rapture occurring in September and, you know, at the Feast of
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  Trumpets and a lot of people. And for some reason I, I don't
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  know, I mean, like I'm, I'm not really so sure about that.
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  Like I just don't really feel like that's going to happen.
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  But I've also had dreams and things where of raptures and
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  gathering with, with Jesus, with God.
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  And it's, it's always taken me by surprise.
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  I was always surprised by when it happened.
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  So anyway, it's something to watch for.
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  But there's, you know, there's kind of like evidence,
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  scriptural evidence that would support, you know, a longer
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  period of time. But it also says in the Bible
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  that if God had not cut those days short, no one would
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  survive. So could it be that we have 50
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  years, but God's going to cut that short because if he didn't,
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  no one would survive. The moral decay that we have
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  been headed towards in the past several years would continue and
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  grow for some reason in accordance with Dead Sea Scrolls
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  that were found. There were a lot of prophetic
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  events that happened during Jubilee years.
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  And we can see this if the land gets divided up, if Israel gets
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  divided up, we will, you know, that's something that's
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  prophesized that that will happen.
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  That gives us another 3 1/2 years, which isn't a lot of time
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  once that happens. So that'll just, you know,
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  something to watch for. There's a lot like I like I
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  said, it's with these things that are happening in the world,
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  real world that are talked about in the Bible.
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  It's not a time to just let it, you know, be lukewarm about
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  stuff. You really need to be serious
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  about your relationship with God and ask God what things in your
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  life need to be changed so that you can be in the Kingdom of
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  God. We know that Jesus made the way
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  he is, just like this says in Micah.
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  So this was what written in like 722 BC or something like that in
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  the seven hundreds and here it is.
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  Micah doesn't even realize it when he's talking as a prophet,
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  he's getting this word from the Holy Spirit.
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  The one who breaks open the way will go up before them.
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  They will breakthrough the gate and go out.
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  Their king will pass through before them, the Lord at their
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  head. I also think this might be the
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  Millennium because it says like the king will pass through
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  before them, the Lord at their head.
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  Now either that king reference means the Lord or it may be
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  talking about the Millennium because I kind of think that
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  David is actually going to be in the Millennium.
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  And the reason why is that the dead in Christ will rise 1st and
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  it talks about in this third temple, it talks about this.
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  Leader, I forgot the the actual word that's used if it's called,
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  if it's called Prince or I'm not sure.
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  I think it might say the Prince, but he does sacrifices and he
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  does a sacrifice for himself and for the people in this
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  Millennium time frame. So I, you know, that's not Jesus
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  that they're talking about because Jesus wouldn't need to
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  do a sacrifice for himself. And then there's other prophecy
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  that alludes to David and I found found it somewhere when I
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  was studying in the Bible. And I don't recall where it is,
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  but I do wonder if you know, of course, this is an
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  interpretation, but I did find it in Scripture that David will
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  be present. And you know, David will be like
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  with Jesus Messiah and in the third temple.
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  When that happens during the millennial reign, because I
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  believe there will be a third temple in the millennial reign.
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  And I this is a personal opinion.
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  I just think that this thousand year reign is specifically and
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  most importantly for the Israelites that they will, it's,
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  it's a time of restoration, a time where they got they get to
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  have a real life relationship with Jesus the Messiah.
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  And this goes on for 1000 years before eternity begins.
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  So people will still die during this time frame, but there's
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  going to be mortal and immortal people living at the same time,
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  which and then there's going to be this peace that that's when
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  the peace will happen after Jesus returns.
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  There will be peace between animals, you know, predatory
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  type animals will not do that anymore.
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  They lie down together. There is just like this unknown
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  peace that we've never seen before.
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  So it's this wonderful time that's ahead, but there's going
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  to be some very troubling times that happen before we get to
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  that point. OK, now how could people take
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  away God's blessing? Each family in Israel had a
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  blessing from God on inheritance of land.
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  OK, so when we talk about dividing the land, the land
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  we're talking about dividing in 2025 is the land that God
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  promised the Israelites. Now, will the Israelites ever
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  agree to divide up the land? Will they do it in exchange for
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  peace? That's probably a good
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  probability, but I can't imagine if they know their word, they
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  would never let go of that land. And so we'll just have to see
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  how this unfolds. But the rich had stolen the
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  blessing of many families by evicting them from their land
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  through a combination of exorbitant interest rates, debt
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  slavery, excessive taxation, oppressive economic regulation,
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  and unfair judicial decisions sometimes secured by bribery.
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  OK, so maybe the Israelites don't agree to this because they
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  know the word of God, and maybe they say no, but then maybe
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  somebody comes in and does the same things that happened when
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  the Assyrians conquered the northern Kingdom of Israel.
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  Where there's exorbitant interest rates, there's debt,
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  there's excessive taxation, oppressive economic regulations,
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  and unfair judicial decisions. All those things could take
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  place today where it's not really something that they say
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  were agreed to, but it just happens due to external
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  circumstances. Widows and orphans were
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  especially vulnerable to such injustice because they lacked
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  clout in the economic and legal systems.
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  So why would a liar be just the profit for this people?
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  This was a sarcastic statement. Most of the people resented
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  being called sinners, and we're not interested in Michael's
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  warning of judgement. Instead, they preferred to think
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  that God was going to bless them with good crops.
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  False prophets told the people what they wanted to hear and
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  gave them a false sense of security.
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  Well, Bible prophecy tells us that will happen again.
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  When they say peace and safety or peace and security, then
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  sudden destruction will come upon them.
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  So the same things people want to hear things.
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  Nobody likes to think of themselves as a Sinner.
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  That's why God is looking for like the humble will be exalted
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  because those who humble, all the people who have accepted God
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  and have turned to God acknowledge our sin.
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  We acknowledge, yes, we were sin, we were sinners, we were
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  against God, we were in rebellion.
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  Nobody likes to say that they were that.
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  And that's a prideful thing. If someone doesn't, you know,
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  it's because of their pride. They're like, well, I'm good.
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  I do all these good deeds and things like that.
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  But it the Bible tells us very clearly that every single
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  person, there is no one good but God.
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  So if you are not God, which we aren't, then we are a Sinner by
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  default. We all are.
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  So when we humble ourselves and can say, yes, we're a Sinner,
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  yes, we've sinned, But also, you know, I, I see so many people
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  just say, you know, again, thank, thank God for grace
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  because I'm a Sinner. It doesn't mean unrepentant sin.
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  It doesn't mean you can keep on going in your sin and think that
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  grace saves you. Grace, as I've looked deeper
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  into it, is actually like the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  It is a gift from God. The Holy Spirit is a gift from
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  God. The Holy Spirit brings power.
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  Grace is power to overcome sin, not to remain in sin.
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  So a lot of people are, you know, again, their, their ears,
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  they want to hear that they can keep on doing what they do and
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  they keep, they want to hear that God is love because God is
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  love. But they just say, OK, God is
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  love. He's just going to love me.
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  He loves the sinners, He does love the sinners, but he doesn't
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  love the sin. You got to get rid.
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  You got to circumcise yourself of sin.
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  And the Holy Spirit helped us do that.
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  So there's like a step that people are just missing and they
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  are unsaved people thinking they are saved.
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  And it is very concerning to me. And I feel like I feel like a
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  mica today, like talking about things that people don't want to
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  hear. They want to reject this
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  message. They don't want to think about
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  judgment. They don't want to think that
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  they are unsaved. They don't want to.
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  And so they're going to keep on sinning, keep on going against
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  God's will. And if they don't repent and
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  stop, they're going to find out the hard way by discipline or
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  judgement. And God doesn't show favoritism.
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  You can think that you're in a great relationship with God, but
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  if you are in rebellion with God, you are subject to
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  discipline. And when it happens, don't blame
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  God because I've, I've had discipline myself, but I brought
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  it on myself. I can say that now, you know, I
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  can say like, yeah, I was rebellious to God and God
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  disciplined me. And thankfully I made the choice
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  to get closer to God rather than get angry with God because
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  that's the, you know, that's what people can do.
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  Sometimes people, when they have discipline or judgement, they
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  get angry with God and then they reject God.
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  And that's really unfortunate because by doing so, they're
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  going to, if they don't, if they don't change their mind about
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  that, they are going to be outside of God's Kingdom and
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  they will not inherit the Kingdom of God with other
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  people. And they will not experience all
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  the blessings of God and all the peace and all the love that God
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  has in store for all the people who will turn to him.
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  And we are in a season where people seem to be turning to
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  him. And I hope they are.
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  No one can know. Just like Jesus said in the
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  parable of the wheat and the tares, the wheat are the people
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  who have really turned to God and the tares are the ones who
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  might appear like they have turned to God.
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  Like they do some of the things that, you know, maybe they show
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  up in a church thing or they do good deeds.
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  They look like the other ones, but they haven't repented of
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  their sin. They haven't had a changed life.
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  They haven't been born again. And we won't know who those
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  people are because on their outward appearance, appearance,
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  they look pretty good. They look like they're doing the
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  right thing, but they are far from God in in reality.
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  And when Jesus comes, that's when it will be exposed who is
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  really the wheat, who is really turned towards God and who is a
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  fake, a fake Christian, I guess really is because you know,
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  there's there's evil. They haven't turned.
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  They're just like visibly on the outside looking like 1 because
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  there's a lot of people who can speak the word of God but don't
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  live it. And if you're not living what
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  God says, then you're doing a disservice to God because first
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  of all, you're an example. Like people would look to you as
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  an example. And if you're not living it,
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  you're possibly preventing somebody from becoming Christian
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  because they see how you're acting, but they hear what's
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  coming out of your mouth, and those two things don't line up.
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  So anyone who calls themselves a Christian really needs to look
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  at the way that they live life and make, you know, pray to God
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  to give more of the Holy Spirit, more guidance, more help, more
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  strength when we are faced with things that would not make us
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  look like Jesus, would not look like love when we are there,
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  because we're all going to have those things in our life where
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  we need help. And and so it, it takes like a
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  daily request of God like help me with this because I can see
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  my tendency, I can see I'm going towards this and it's not a good
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  thing. I don't want to do that, but
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  that's how I'm feeling. Like we don't trust our
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  feelings. So our feelings about because we
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  know that we're sinful by nature, that's when we have to
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  call on God and God, you know, give me your way of life like
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  not my plans, but your plans, not my will, but your will and,
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  and God will. God is, is so loving and
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  forgiving and merciful. And when we turn to him and ask
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  him for that, he that just like lights him up.
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  It says the angels in heaven rejoice at a Sinner who's
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  repented. So God is so happy when that
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  happens. He's not going to punish you for
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  your past. He will lovingly welcome you
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  into his Kingdom. But that sincerity has to be
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  inside. I think guilt is actually a good
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  thing because guilt means that we still we're not completely
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  disconnected from God. When we no longer have guilt for
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  sinful actions, that's when we should be concerned because we
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  may not be in God's Kingdom if if that doesn't ever change.
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  Guilt about something means that we know we're not doing right
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  and we're struggling with it and there's still hope that God can
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  restore, but he's going to let it up to us.
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  He's not going to force us. I mean, he's a, he's a gentleman
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  in that way that he doesn't force anybody.
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  You can't force somebody to love you.
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  Either they love you or they don't.
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  And that's what God is looking at us.
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  Either we love him or we don't love him.
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  So anyway, if, if we don't know him, we get to know him through
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  the word of God. So that's why I'm doing these
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  podcasts. I mean, it keeps me accountable
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  to read a chapter, try to read a chapter every day and talk about
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  it and hopefully have insight from the Holy Spirit as my
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  thoughts are guided because I don't have any of this prepared
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  in advance. It's just what comes to mind
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  that I speak about. So if you want to stay in the
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  word, please follow. And again, I'm trying to do this
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  every day and I do try to make it around 20 minutes.
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  So I'm going over it again, but sometimes there's a little bit
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  more discussion than other times.
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  So hope you have a wonderful day and that you come back and join
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  us daily whenever you can.