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923. Bible Study: Psalm 9 (Know the name of Yehova [the Father], He is Just, Protects, Hears Prayers, Rescues- Praise Him!) · Faith by annm2705

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  Psalm 9 from the book of Psalms. Dear Lord, please be with us as
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  we read through this chapter and open our hearts and our minds to
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  what you have to say. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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  Psalm #9 I'll read through it first and then take it from
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  there. I will give thanks.
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  To you, Lord, with all my heart I will tell of all your
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  wonderful deeds. I will be glad and rejoice in
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  you. I will sing the praises of your
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  name. O Most High, My enemies turn
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  back, they stumble and perish before You.
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  For You have upheld my right and My cause.
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  Sitting enthroned as the righteous judge, You have
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  rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked.
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  You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
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  Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies.
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  You have uprooted their cities. Even the memory of them has
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  perished. The Lord reigns forever.
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  He has established His front throne for judgment.
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  He rules the world in righteousness, and He judges the
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  peoples with equity. The Lord is a refuge for the
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  oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
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  Those who know your name, trust in you, for you, Lord, have
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  never forsaken those who seek you.
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  Sing the praises of the Lord enthroned in Zion.
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  Proclaim the nations what He has done.
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  Proclaim among the nations what He has done.
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  For he who Avengers blood remembers.
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  He does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.
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  Lord, see how my enemies persecute me.
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  Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death, that I may
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  declare your praises in the gates of daughter Zion, and
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  there rejoice in your salvation. The nations have fallen into the
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  pit they have dug. Their feet are caught in the net
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  they have hidden. The Lord is known by His acts of
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  justice. The wicked are ensnared by the
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  work of their hands. The wicked go down to the realm
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  of the dead. All the nations that forget God,
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  but God will never forget the needy.
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  The hope of the afflicted will never perish.
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  Arise, Lord, do not let mortals triumph.
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  Let the nations be judged in your presence.
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  Strike them with terror. Lord, let the nations know they
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  are only mortal. That's the end of Psalm 9 and
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  there is so much in here. So this is going to be another
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  longer podcast probably. I'll read through the questions
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  and answers from the Study Bible 1st and then I'll get into the
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  things that I saw. Have the wicked been completely
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  erased from history? No, this is figurative language
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  that refers to redemptive history, not actual history.
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  The Bible speaks of the names of the wicked being blotted out of
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  the book of Life. How is the Lord a refuge for the
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  oppressed? The oppressed are abused, are
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  abused by those with more power. The imbalance of power puts the
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  oppressed at the mercy of their oppressors.
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  God, however, has much more power than the oppressors.
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  Thus, God can deliver the exploited from those who would
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  do to them harm. The Exodus, when God delivered
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  his helpless people from the Chariots of Pharaoh, was a
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  powerful demonstration of the Lord as a refuge.
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  What does it mean that God Avengers blood?
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  The psalmist was comforting the oppressed by reminding them that
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  God will not let injustice go unanswered.
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  The afflicted have no human resources to resist those who
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  abuse them, but they can call on God to intervene.
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  This reminder not only comforts comforts the afflicted, but
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  warns those who would take advantage of them that God can
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  and will eventually punish them, as Cain found out after he
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  murdered his brother Abel. What are the gates of death?
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  This is a poetic term for the edge of the grave, that is, for
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  being near death. Why did they dig a pit and hide
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  A net? Ancient hunters trapped animals
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  by camouflaging holes dug in the ground or by hanging Nets from
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  trees. David used these terms to
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  describe how the efforts of his enemies had backfired on them.
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  So that's the end of the study, Bibles.
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  So I'll go back. To the top to pick up on just
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  kind of the outline, the first thing, just the outline of Psalm
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  9 and what David is saying. I did forget to read this.
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  It says for the director of music to the tune of the death
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  of the son, a Psalm of David and son is spelled SON.
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  So I don't really know that in context.
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  Let's see, it says. Psalm 9 and 10 May originally
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  have been a single acrostic poem in which alternating lines began
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  with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
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  In the Septuagint they constitute 1 Psalm.
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  In Hebrews text, 9 verses one through 20 is numbered 9 two
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  through 21. The Hebrew has higian and Selah,
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  the words of uncertain meaning. Here Selah occurs at the end of
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  the verse 20. So we see that a lot.
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  In different psalms, Sela is kind of the end ending of those
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  psalms, but those were the footnotes for Psalm actually.
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  I guess 9 and 10. So we're just reading 9 today
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  though. So the outline of 9 is basically
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  thanks and praise is how he starts it.
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  Then he said, you are the you provide justice, you're the
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  protector. And then he's the king and he's
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  refuge and he's also the protector and those who trust in
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  him, those who seek him are those who seek him can trust him
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  and know that he does this and he hears the prayers.
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  And then one of this 13 through 14, I kind of wonder if it is
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  maybe future. There's a way you can read this
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  that it seems like it could be future.
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  And that's pretty much, you know, there's eventually
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  judgment and David is waiting for that to happen for the
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  mortals. And that will happen in the very
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  end. So that's.
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  Kind of the outline, but to go back to verse.
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  One again, if you were listening to the prior psalms that I
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  talked about, actually verse, not verse, but Psalm.
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  Eight, we talked about the different names for God, and
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  this is really interesting because.
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  In here it says. In verse 10 from Psalm 9 it
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  says. Those who know your name, trust
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  in you, for you Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you and
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  I. After doing the study that I did
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  on Psalm 8, now every time I see God, Lord, you know, I don't
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  know what other words are used in the Bible for God.
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  And there are many others. I want to look up and see what
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  is the actual Hebrew word for it.
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  Because in Psalm 8 we learned that Jehovah is the the official
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  name of God the Father. And so that makes a difference
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  because sometimes in the Bible when we look up Lord or we look
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  up God, it is, it could be Jehovah, are ye ye Hova?
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  That's how I, I'm pronouncing it incorrectly.
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  But when I heard it on blueletterbible.org, it's ye ye
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  Hova is how you say it. And Yehova, Yehova.
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  I think that's how it is Yehova. Anyway, that is they're like
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  interchangeable in the English versions.
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  They're you don't know what is saying Lord 'cause there could
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  be Adonai in Hebrew which means Lord or it could be Yehovah
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  which means God the Father and it could mean other things like
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  Yahweh is actually the the deity God.
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  So and then it could be Elohim. Which is the plural God, which
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  is? The Trinity, they are one in
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  Spirit. Father, Son and Holy Spirit are
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  one in Spirit. And you'll see Elohim and you'll
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  notice that is the plural version of God.
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  And so that's what but there is one Father, the Son and the Holy
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  Spirit, and that's part of the Trinity.
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  And you'll see that from the very beginning, beginning in the
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  book of Genesis, the Spirit of God was hovering over the
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  waters. And it also says in in the Bible
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  how Jesus was present from the day of creation.
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  So we know that all three in one, all three were present and
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  they share a spirit because when Jesus prays before he goes on
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  the cross, he says that he wants to pray for all of us so that we
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  may be one, just as he and the Father are one.
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  And then he sends his Holy Spirit.
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  And that's how it happens. That's how we become one.
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  And. The through the.
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  The way the church uses the word sanctification or the
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  purification of us that happens through the Holy Spirit, that's
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  how we will be. We will return to God the
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  Father. In that way, and we'll return to
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  Jesus. Jesus will be the one who comes
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  on the clouds and gathers his people, and in order to be
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  gathered you have to have the Holy Spirit.
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  And you have to believe, you have to trust Jesus and put all
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  your faith in Jesus. He's the only way to salvation.
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  And if you truly believe that, if you truly believe in Him,
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  then and he knows your heart is right, that you have good
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  intentions for it. Not that you just want to use it
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  for your own selfish ambition. Because then he won't give you
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  the Holy. Spirit because there were
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  accounts of people in the New Testament who were baptized and
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  they did not receive the Holy Spirit at that point, but some
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  also received the Holy Spirit before they were even baptized.
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  And then some received it after they were baptized, and some
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  received it. The Holy Spirit him received him
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  at at baptism and that's how when Jesus was on the.
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  Cross, he said, Father, I commit my spirit to you.
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  So the Spirit returned to the Father, had the physical body,
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  died, and then he resurrected. And it was.
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  By the power of the Holy Spirit that Jesus was resurrected.
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  So that's the same thing that we need.
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  We need the Holy Spirit in order to be in God's Kingdom.
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  Just like Jesus said in John chapter 3, no one can enter the
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  Kingdom of God unless they are born again, born of the water
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  and born of the Spirit. And so anyway.
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  There's a lot there to say that, but but that really ultimately
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  is the summary of the good news is thank God that he loved us
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  and that he sent his Son. There's no greater love than to
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  lay one's life down for another. And that's what Jesus did for
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  us. He wanted us so badly to be with
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  Him that he gave us a way. Jesus is the way.
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  But. We have to.
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  Just because Jesus died on the cross doesn't mean that every
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  single person is going to be in the Kingdom of God.
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  It is those who believe in Jesus, those who put their faith
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  in what has been told and, and the and, and receive the Holy
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  Spirit. Because if you can't get into
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  the Kingdom, that's really what salvation is, is God opening the
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  doors to his Kingdom, to us. And Jesus said we can't have
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  that unless we have the Holy Spirit.
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  So just very important things to know.
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  Anyway, I kind of got off the path, but that's very important
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  information to know. And going back to that first
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  part about like who was David speaking to?
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  Who was David giving thanks to? And it was.
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  Yehova or Yehova Y. Oh gosh, I don't know how I say
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  it now, Yehova. It's YE lowercase like a very
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  when it's phonetically spelled out Hova.
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  So yeah, I think it's Yehova and that's.
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  God the Father. So he's all throughout here
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  everyone where every reference to Lord is really referencing
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  the name of God and in verse 10 where it says those who know
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  your name trust in you. So if you're listening to these
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  podcasts and you really believe and you know the name now.
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  Yehovah or make sure Yehovah. Make sure you find out, go to
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  Blue Letter Bible and try and learn to say it if you don't
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  know because I keep messing up obviously, but that is his name.
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  That is God the Father's name and it says those who know your
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  name trust in you. So I trust in God, and for you,
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  Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
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  It also says in Scripture. If you seek.
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  Me, you will find me. And honestly, I did not know the
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  name of God until just yesterday.
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  And so that's kind of interesting.
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  But now every Psalm that I'm reading now or where I see a
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  reference to anything that relates to God.
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  Then I'm going to look up the Hebrew in the Old Testament and
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  see what actually was that word. Was it Elohim?
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  Was it Adonai? Was it Yehovah?
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  So it makes a difference. OK, so now that we know that
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  David is speaking to the Father, then he's.
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  Let's see, he says in verse 5. This is a.
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  Very interesting thing too. In verse 5, he said, you have
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  rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked.
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  You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
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  Well, blotting out the name is really interesting because this
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  refers to the Book of Life. And there I'll read you.
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  There's 8 verses in the NIV version that talk about the Book
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  of Life. And there has been some question
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  which I didn't really know the answer to, but now I think I
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  understand it better. Like when is your name written
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  in the Book of Life? So that's something that people
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  debate and there probably will be multiple answers.
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  And I will give you the reasons why I believe what I believe.
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  I believe from Scripture that everyone's name, everyone who
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  God created, I'm going to clarify that everyone who God
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  created is written in the books of life.
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  Now, why would I say, didn't you know?
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  Like didn't God create everything?
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  Yes and no, because what happened in the very first, not
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  the first book, but it well, the first book, Genesis, what
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  happened in the book of Genesis in chapter 3, verse 15 is
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  something that gives an indication that there may be
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  other offspring besides human offspring.
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  Just I'll, I'll read Genesis 1314 and Genesis 15 and then
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  we'll also go to Genesis 6. So this is going to be things
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  that the the churches don't often talk about because it's
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  probably, I don't, it's a little bit, it's in the Bible.
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  So research it and go word for word and look at different
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  versions so you can get the understanding of this.
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  So this is when God kind of rebukes Eve, Adam and Eve and
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  the serpent or Satan in the Garden of Eden after sin
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  happened when the woman was deceived by the serpent and then
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  she gave it to her husband and then he was also deceived.
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  So that's when sin entered the world.
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  So at this rebuking of all of them, God is, you know, very he.
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  Let's see, I want to also look the Lord God because it says the
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  Lord Yehovah Elohim, the Lord God, so the Father, but Elohim
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  is the plurality. So here it's not, it's not
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  Adonai God, it's Jehovah Yehovah Elohim, which I like I said is
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  plural for God. So this is like God the Father,
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  but in plurality. So he's one in one with because
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  he's called Elohim also. So the Lord God said to the
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  serpent, and it's probably because they're all in union,
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  like the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are all in union, but
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  it's Jehovah the Father said to the serpent, because you have
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  done this cursed are you above all livestock and all wild
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  animals. You will crawl on your belly and
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  you will eat dust all the days of your life.
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  And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between
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  your offspring and hers. He will crush your head and you
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  will strike his heel. So you have to read that slowly
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  between your offspring. And it's like it's also said
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  seed, which is really interesting between your seed.
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  So then you have to look up, well, what is your seed?
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  And that's zero. I think that's how you say it.
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  I want to see if it's pronounced that way 20. 2:30. 3 Zara Zara.
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  OK, I don't get that right. But anyway, it's between your
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  seed Zara and if you look that up, the outline of the biblical
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  usage is seed sowing or offspring and a sowing a seed or
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  semen virile. So it has to do with semen,
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  offspring, descendants, posterity children.
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  So that really makes it a lot more interesting because the
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  first time I was reading this slowly and then said and read
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  this about between you, he's talking to the serpent and the
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  woman and between your offspring and hers.
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  So that means that he, the serpent has offspring who are
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  those offspring? So that's what's really
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  interesting. So here's why I think the Book
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  of Life is written in the very beginning.
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  Because if we go back to the very first book of Genesis where
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  He with the creation happened in Genesis chapter one, we know
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  that He created man and He created all the creatures, He
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  created everything in the earth and He rested on the 7th day,
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  but on the 6th day. Verse 31 of Genesis, the very
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  first book of the Bible, chapter one, verse 31, it says God saw
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  all that he made and it was very good.
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  And there was evening and there was morning the 6th day.
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  So something else we have to keep in context with is when God
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  made everything. This is before sin entered into
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  the world, everything was good. God did not create this
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  wickedness. But here's how wickedness came
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  about. Even Satan wasn't created to be
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  wicked. We'll find, we'll talk about
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  that too. So God created everything that
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  was good. But here's where wickedness came
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  in. God gave us free will, and he
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  gave the angels free will also. So that's how wickedness
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  entered. It entered because of free will,
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  essentially, like I, and I believe that's one of those
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  things where God is not a slave driver.
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  He has the door open and He welcomes all of us into His
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  Kingdom. But he gives us a choice and
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  some people reject Him. Some people want nothing to do
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  with them. Some people like evil things.
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  Some people like rebelling against God, and then there's
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  also the evil ones that are supernatural that I think
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  influence people to do things. They corrupt people just like in
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  the very beginning with the story of Adam and Eve where it
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  was the serpent who made them question God and made them
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  think, is God holding back good things from us?
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  They they didn't trust in God. Then they started questioning at
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  it and say, did he really say that?
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  Did he say I wasn't supposed to eat from this?
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  They knew the got the rules God gave them, but they chose to do
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  what God said not to do. And that's where free will comes
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  in. And and you know, there's the
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  best way, if you think about it, if you think about love is that
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  you can't force someone to love you.
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  You can love someone, but they may not love you back.
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  And that's the same for God. God loves all of us, but some of
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  us might not love God back. And Jesus said, if you love me,
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  you will obey my commands. So that's the way we show God
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  that we love him is by being obedient to him.
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  That's where Adam and Eve did not they they started this whole
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  sin thing. And then because when sin
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  enters, there's something that perpetuates that really.
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  And that's the whole reason why sacrifices had to start because
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  of God's laws and a life for a life.
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  So that's why God, you know, he, he loved mankind and so he
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  allowed as a substitute sacrifice animals to be
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  sacrificed. And but that's not what he
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  liked. And there's a part that's in the
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  Bible that says, you know, I detest your sacrifices.
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  I would rather have you show mercy.
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  That was only a way to keep people from probably eternal
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  death. And God allowed that.
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  It was like, we don't know all the laws.
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  We only know the laws that God has revealed to us through
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  Scripture. But for some reason, well, it
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  says the wages of sin is death. So we know that from the New
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  Testament. Paul wrote that.
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  And so if what we get paid for sin is death, then there needed
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  to be something to make atonement.
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  And God allowed animals to be used for atonement until Jesus
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  came. And then since Jesus came, Jesus
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  made atonement for all of us. Because remember, the animals,
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  if you know about what's in Leviticus, the animals had to be
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  without blemish. They had to be pure.
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  There were all of these qualifications that the animal
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  that was sacrificed had to be. He was the animal was, you know,
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  kind of a foreshadowing of what Jesus would be, the lamb.
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  And that's why he's referred to as the lamb because it ties it
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  to the sacrifices that were required.
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  And Jesus sacrificed his life, lay down his life.
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  No greater love than to lay one's life down for another.
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  Well, that's what Jesus did for us.
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  So all along God is trying to get mankind into his Kingdom,
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  and he has an enemy who is against him that's trying to
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  separate us from the very beginning.
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  I think. I think this is just
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  speculation. It's not written into the Bible.
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  But I think the enemy, Satan wants the earth.
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  He wants to rule the earth. He wants to be king.
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  And humans stand in his way of doing that.
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  Like he could have this. He thinks he could have this
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  whole earth and it could be his. He was given some sort of
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  authority over it. But, you know, just God is he
• 25:41
  can give authority and he can take it away.
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  It talks about in Ephesians how we wrestle not against flesh and
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  blood, but against the powers, against the authorities, against
• 25:54
  the principalities in the heavenly realms.
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  So it clearly sounds like God kind of gave some other
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  supernatural entity power to have authority over certain
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  parts of the earth. And we know that Satan roams the
• 26:13
  earth and he goes back and visits God because we find that
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  in Job where he's standing in the presence of God and he's
• 26:19
  accusing people because he doesn't like people.
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  And he's also manipulate, manipulative, and will put
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  thoughts into people's head and influence them.
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  And also, anger is another way. It's easy to get angry when
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  somebody does something insensitive or wrong to us.
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  And that's where it says like basically don't go to bed in
• 26:44
  anger because anger is the foothold of the devil.
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  So that's, and then what happens with anger, if you don't address
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  it right, right away, it builds up over time and it can lead to
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  something as horrible as actually killing somebody.
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  So that's something that that's how again, that accomplishes.
• 27:05
  Satan seeks to steal, kill and destroy.
• 27:09
  So if he can get that anger riled up in somebody and that
• 27:13
  anger grows to where they will want to destroy another person
• 27:18
  or they will want to kill another person.
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  And he's stealing from God. He's stealing people from God.
• 27:24
  Like God created everything that was good.
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  So all people were good when God created them, but he gave them
• 27:30
  free will. And there was that influence of
• 27:34
  Satan which started it all that lured mankind into questioning
• 27:40
  God, doubting God. And then there was consequences
• 27:44
  after that. And that's how sin got into this
• 27:48
  world was from evil. It was from Satan.
• 27:52
  And in Ezekiel we, we learn a little bit.
• 27:55
  It's kind of interesting because it's, it's, is it part of it
• 27:58
  about the king of Tyre? But part of it is probably about
• 28:00
  Satan because the king of Tyre, you know, thousands of years
• 28:06
  probably or hundreds of years after creation, this couldn't be
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  a king. That's described here in Ezekiel
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  chapter 28, verse 11 through I don't know how far I'll go, but
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  I'll read this to you. And this is about Satan and
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  probably Tyre. Maybe Satan has possessed the
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  king of Tyre. That's a possibility because
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  they can do that or they can influence.
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  So I don't know which. But anyway, this is what Ezekiel
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  saw. The word of the Lord came to me,
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  Son of man, lament for the king of Tyre and say to him, this is
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  what the Lord God says. You were the seal of perfection,
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  full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
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  You were in Eden, the garden of God.
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  Every kind of precious stone covered you.
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  Carnelian, Topaz, diamond, Beryl, Onyx, Jasper, lapis
• 29:08
  lazuli, turquoise, and emerald. Now those stones were the stones
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  that were on like a high priest. Then it says your mountings and
• 29:17
  settings were crafted in gold. They were prepared on the day
• 29:21
  you were created. Satan was a created being.
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  Then it says you were anointed guardian cherub, for I had
• 29:31
  appointed you. So God put him in.
• 29:34
  This is probably where his ruling started.
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  You were on the holy mountain of God.
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  You walked among the fiery stones from the day you were
• 29:44
  created. You were blameless in your ways.
• 29:47
  So this is, you know, good like you were good when you were
• 29:50
  created until wickedness was found in you through the
• 29:57
  abundance of your trade. You were filled with violence
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  and you sinned. So I expelled you in disgrace
• 30:06
  from the mountain of God and banished you garden cherub from
• 30:10
  among the fiery stones. So this could be when Jesus
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  said, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
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  So this is, this is also, you know, maybe that's when he was
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  expelled from the mountain of God.
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  Your heart became proud because of your beauty.
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  For the sake of your splendor, you corrupted your wisdom.
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  So he was wise and and splendid and beautiful.
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  So I threw you down to the ground.
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  I made you a spectacle before kings.
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  You profaned your sanctuaries by the magnitude of your iniquities
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  in your dishonest trade. So I made fire come from within
• 30:52
  you. That just brought to mind
• 30:55
  something that was talked about in Job Leviathan.
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  I think it was Leviathan that actually breathed fire and and
• 31:06
  it also talks about, you know, the the Lord overcoming him and
• 31:11
  and Leviathan, I think is also called Rahab, the monster of the
• 31:14
  sea. There's lots of different names.
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  And then it's interesting too in the Book of Revelation, how the
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  beast comes out of the sea and is empowered by the dragon and a
• 31:24
  dragon. You know, even in like
• 31:28
  storybooks, the dragon breathed fire.
• 31:31
  So, but it does say in the book of Job about how this, this
• 31:35
  animal or this being that God created, whether it was
• 31:39
  symbolic, you know, like a serpent or a dragon or something
• 31:42
  like that. If it was just symbolic, but
• 31:44
  Leviathan and or maybe it's a different entity and it's not
• 31:48
  Satan specifically, but it was something and it said in the
• 31:52
  Book of Job how fire came from its mouth.
• 31:56
  So that's kind of interesting. So I made fire come from within
• 32:02
  you and it consumed you. So it also says like, like the
• 32:07
  two witnesses, fire will come from the mouth from their
• 32:10
  mouths. And that's how those who I don't
• 32:13
  know are wicked or something will be will be consumed.
• 32:19
  And I don't know that it's going to be a literal file fire in the
• 32:24
  Book of Revelation by the two witnesses, but I think that's
• 32:28
  probably the fire is the word of God.
• 32:31
  And that's how people will be destroyed when the books are
• 32:34
  opened. And then according to the word
• 32:37
  of God, some will be placed into the eternal fire.
• 32:41
  And so I think that's really maybe what it refers to.
• 32:45
  So it says, I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the sight
• 32:49
  of everyone watching you. All those who knew you among the
• 32:53
  peoples are appalled at you. You have become an object of
• 32:57
  horror and will never exist again.
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  So this is it could be prophetic.
• 33:05
  Ezekiel was a a prophet and he said the word of the Lord came.
• 33:09
  And so this could be something that is going to happen in the
• 33:12
  future. And maybe the king of Tyre is
• 33:16
  actually, like I said, influencing the actual king.
• 33:20
  So maybe it could mean both? Take up your lamentation over
• 33:25
  the king of. Tyre yeah.
• 33:28
  So that's, you know, a mystery. Some of these prophecies we
• 33:33
  really don't know. We won't know for sure any of
• 33:35
  our interpretations, if they're correct, until after they've
• 33:39
  happened. And then we'll see.
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  But we do know that Satan is cast down from heaven and he's
• 33:46
  given a period of 3 1/2 years to to reign on earth.
• 33:50
  And then when Jesus takes back the Kingdom, then Satan will be
• 33:57
  locked up for 1000 years. But then he will be released
• 34:01
  after that thousand years and he will get together a bunch of
• 34:06
  people to rebel against God again.
• 34:08
  But then by the power of God's, I think just the power of his
• 34:11
  word or something to that effect, he will be instantly
• 34:14
  destroyed. Like there's no, there's no,
• 34:20
  there's no point in even there's not even a war.
• 34:22
  It's just like almost instantaneously.
• 34:23
  That's the way it sounds like the Bible and says then he's
• 34:26
  thrown into the lake of fire. So that's where he goes
• 34:29
  probably, you know, into there. So long story about all of that,
• 34:34
  but this is let's see, how did I get there?
• 34:39
  I think you had blotted out their name forever and ever, or
• 34:42
  I think maybe that's what we were talking about.
• 34:46
  I kind of got a. Little bit off track.
• 34:47
  But again, these things are important to know and we're
• 34:50
  covering like the whole entire Bible, but the Lamb's Book of
• 34:55
  Life, this is something that touches on another subject, like
• 34:59
  predestination in the book of life, like who was written in
• 35:03
  the book of life. Oh, that's how I got there
• 35:06
  because I believe that all people, all human beings who God
• 35:11
  created, so not who Satan created.
• 35:14
  Because here's the other part that I talked about getting into
• 35:20
  or talking about chapter 6 in the book of Genesis.
• 35:25
  Now, this is another thing that is not often spoken of, but it's
• 35:30
  important to know it and I'll just read this to you and then
• 35:33
  talk about it. So Genesis 6 chapter 6 verse
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  one. Then the people began to
• 35:40
  multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them.
• 35:43
  The sons of God saw the beautiful women and took any
• 35:48
  they wanted as wives. The sons of God here are
• 35:51
  referring to angels. OK, that's like the
• 35:56
  interpretation that biblical scholars use.
• 35:59
  The sons of God. Those are a reference to angels.
• 36:02
  I don't know why they say sons of God instead of the angels,
• 36:05
  but it's how it's been understood is that the sons of
• 36:09
  God were angels, saw beautiful women and took any they wanted
• 36:13
  as their wives. Then the Lord said my spirit
• 36:18
  will not put up with humans for such a long time for they are
• 36:23
  only mortal flesh. In the future, their normal
• 36:28
  lifespan will be no more than 120 years.
• 36:33
  In those days and for some time after, giant Nepholites lived on
• 36:40
  the earth. For whenever the sons of God had
• 36:44
  intercourse with women, they gave birth to children who
• 36:50
  became the heroes and the famous warriors of the ancient times.
• 36:56
  The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth,
• 37:00
  and He saw that everything they thought or imagined was
• 37:04
  consistently and totally evil. So the Lord was sorry He ever
• 37:09
  made them and them on earth. It broke his heart and the Lord
• 37:15
  said I will wipe this human race I have created from the face of
• 37:19
  the earth. Yes, I will destroy every living
• 37:22
  thing, all the people, the large animals, the small animals that
• 37:25
  scurry on the ground, and even the birds of the sky.
• 37:28
  I am sorry I ever made them. But Noah found favor with the
• 37:33
  Lord. Then it goes into Noah's Noah.
• 37:37
  It says this is the account of Noah and his family.
• 37:39
  Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on
• 37:44
  the earth at that time. And he walked in close
• 37:46
  fellowship with God. He was the father of three sons.
• 37:51
  So anyway, this is This is why God decided to.
• 37:55
  You can finish reading chapter 6.
• 37:57
  This is why God decided to send the flood, and the flood is
• 38:01
  actually archaeologically. There's a something in Turkey,
• 38:10
  up on a mountain in Ararat that is believed to be the Ark of
• 38:15
  Noah that has been found. I don't know within the 19th
• 38:19
  century, I believe is when they first found it, but there's a
• 38:22
  renewed interest in that. There's also some studies that
• 38:26
  were done in the Grand Canyon, and it was interesting because
• 38:31
  the government wouldn't approve these archaeologists to go in
• 38:34
  there for some reason. But they wanted, they wanted to
• 38:38
  see if there was evidence for Noah's flood in the Grand
• 38:42
  Canyon, which they did prove that there was evidence for it.
• 38:45
  But they had such a resistance from the government, you kind of
• 38:49
  wonder if there's this like battle between good and evil, if
• 38:52
  it was just that they didn't want anybody to get that
• 38:57
  knowledge because they didn't want people to know that God is
• 39:00
  real and the Bible is true. So science, not all science,
• 39:05
  because a lot of scientists are says that more or less the
• 39:11
  humble will confound the wise because sometimes the people get
• 39:14
  so wise of their own understanding that they don't
• 39:19
  believe in God. But I'm seeing some scientific
• 39:23
  people who never really acknowledge God, who are coming
• 39:26
  to God now, which is awesome. And there is proof.
• 39:30
  It's just a matter of your heart really.
• 39:32
  Do you want to accept it or not? Because there is proof.
• 39:35
  There is archaeological evidence of what the Bible says, which is
• 39:40
  so awesome. You can find it here and there,
• 39:43
  but it doesn't get broadcast as as grand as a lot of other
• 39:48
  things in the world do. But the point going back to this
• 39:53
  is that we're talking about our thinking about the seed of
• 39:58
  Satan. So if if these offspring.
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  It says from Satan. Now, would it also be like
• 40:07
  these? That's what we call the fallen
• 40:09
  angels, the sons of God who interacted with, who had
• 40:15
  intercourse with women and created the Nephilim who were
• 40:18
  giants. So giants.
• 40:20
  I mean, you think about all these fairy tales that we grew
• 40:22
  up with as kids with giants and Dragons and all these things and
• 40:26
  everybody stole their myths. I don't know if they are myths.
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  I mean, because I think they were originated back in time and
• 40:32
  these things probably did happen, which I instead they
• 40:37
  actually found it. It's documented in Scripture.
• 40:41
  I think that it's like the kings of Ogg and Sihan.
• 40:45
  I believe they might have been Nephilim, but their bed was like
• 40:48
  9 feet tall or something, even 9 feet in length, so really large,
• 40:53
  you know, and it, you know, David and Goliath, that was the
• 40:56
  story that a lot of the Philistines were Nephilim, the
• 41:00
  Canaanites in that land. When Joshua went to through the
• 41:04
  land of Canaan, the promised land that God was giving to
• 41:07
  them, they saw these giants there and they got fearful.
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  And the only people that reported anything positive were
• 41:14
  Joshua and Caleb. And God rewarded them because he
• 41:18
  didn't let the others enter into the promised land, but Joshua
• 41:22
  and Caleb took the descendants of those and they did enter into
• 41:28
  the promised land. So all of this stuff ties
• 41:30
  together. It's a very fascinating story
• 41:32
  about how the world started and what happened in the history and
• 41:37
  so forth. But so there's, there's
• 41:40
  certainly seed or offspring according to the Bible that is
• 41:45
  not of God. Like God didn't tell the angels
• 41:51
  go have sex with humans and populate the earth.
• 41:55
  He did say that to Adam. He did say, you know, like
• 41:59
  increase and multiply. He said that to the human being
• 42:02
  he created and he created Eve for Adam and, and so, but then
• 42:08
  he did not tell the angels. There's nowhere in the Bible
• 42:10
  that he said go have intercourse with women and populate the
• 42:15
  earth. No, these are wicked ones who
• 42:17
  rebelled against God. And maybe this was their plan to
• 42:21
  just probably just to destroy humans, the ones who were not
• 42:25
  Nephilim, to destroy the human beings.
• 42:28
  Again, Satan seeks to steal, kill and destroy, so he creates
• 42:32
  these giant beings that are are vicious and mean and would
• 42:38
  attack human beings to kill them.
• 42:41
  So it's all about like Satan's takeover of the earth, which he
• 42:45
  doesn't get. We know that from the Bible, but
• 42:48
  this is this all kind of makes sense the more you get into it.
• 42:52
  So when David's saying you have blotted out their name forever
• 42:57
  and ever, this is the wicked, the wicked.
• 43:03
  Well, we, I guess I need to back up and talk about the book of
• 43:06
  life because there is there's another verse in here in Psalm
• 43:12
  69, verse 28 that says may they be blotted out of the book of
• 43:18
  life and not be listed with the righteous.
• 43:21
  So who is he talking about? He is talking about, I'm
• 43:28
  scrolling up to the top about he's talking about the people.
• 43:35
  Those who hate me without reason outnumber the hairs of my head
• 43:38
  as my enemies. He's talking about all the
• 43:40
  enemies that he has. This is David talking to God in
• 43:43
  Psalm 69 and he's asking God, may they be blotted out of the
• 43:48
  book of life and not be listed with the righteous.
• 43:51
  So wouldn't this indicate that they were at one time written in
• 43:57
  the book of life? Because now they are being
• 44:01
  blotted out of the book of life. You can't be blotted out of the
• 44:05
  book of life and unless you were already in the book of life, so
• 44:10
  it says, and not be listed with the righteous.
• 44:13
  So we know the righteous are in the book of life.
• 44:16
  So the wicked therefore are probably blotted out of the book
• 44:21
  of life. But Satan's descendants are not
• 44:26
  even entered into the Book of Life like they never were
• 44:30
  because that wasn't something God created.
• 44:33
  They God created both of them, but he didn't create angels and
• 44:37
  humans to commingle. There are things that God, you
• 44:40
  know, joins together and things that he doesn't join together.
• 44:43
  In fact, he did. He caused the flood to get rid
• 44:48
  of what was happening in the earth and give humanity a start
• 44:53
  again. And he started them out with
• 44:54
  Noah and his family. There were only eight people on
• 44:58
  the ark, and all of us are descendants from Noah, from one
• 45:02
  part of his family. Unless there's more of this like
• 45:06
  stuff that happened in the past with fallen angels and human
• 45:09
  beings. I don't know.
• 45:10
  But we certainly don't see giants today, so that that
• 45:16
  wouldn't be the case. But are there other people who
• 45:19
  are not giants? I don't know, but I guess we
• 45:24
  will find out in the end. It's not really all that
• 45:26
  important, but the thing that's important is that if God created
• 45:30
  us and humans are who God created, God created us out of
• 45:35
  love. He has purpose for every single
• 45:38
  person that he created. It says in the book of Jeremiah
• 45:41
  that he knows like every single hair is numbered on our head.
• 45:44
  And I think David even talks about that, and I think other
• 45:48
  people do too, just like the hairs on the head, Like God
• 45:51
  knows us so intimately, every single person and everything
• 45:55
  that he creates. God isn't creating wicked
• 45:59
  things, but he does give us free will and we can choose between
• 46:05
  good and evil. And God wants those.
• 46:08
  He wants all of us to turn to him to be sanctified by the Holy
• 46:13
  Spirit. And he says be holy because I'm
• 46:16
  holy, because if we are children of God, we will be holy.
• 46:20
  And so the Holy Spirit is who helps us become holy because we
• 46:25
  aren't really good at it on our own.
• 46:28
  And until we actually surrender our will to the Father's will,
• 46:32
  just like Jesus did on the cross, surrendered his will to
• 46:37
  that of the not on the cross. Before he went on the cross, he
• 46:40
  asked if there is, you know, a way to do this basically that
• 46:43
  doesn't involve what he knew was coming up, let it be done.
• 46:46
  But if not, he said your will be done.
• 46:48
  So Jesus in his human form surrendered to the Father in
• 46:53
  that. And that's the same thing that
• 46:55
  if we are going to be brothers and sisters with Jesus, God
• 46:59
  wants us to do the same thing, to surrender our will, our
• 47:02
  desires to his will and to become holy like he is holy.
• 47:10
  And so that his that's his plan. So we are all, from my
• 47:15
  understanding and from searching the Bible, we are all written
• 47:18
  into the book of life, as long as we were not a seed from Satan
• 47:22
  or the fallen angels, we are written in the book of life.
• 47:25
  But how we respond to God is going to determine where we end
• 47:29
  up in eternity. Do we believe in Jesus?
• 47:32
  Do we trust in him? Do we do we just sit, You know,
• 47:35
  we don't look to ourselves. It's it's a humbling of
• 47:37
  ourselves knowing that we cannot do it alone, knowing that we
• 47:41
  will fail on our own, that we need the power of God to
• 47:45
  overcome ourselves essentially, and and that we don't overcome
• 47:51
  unless it's with God or through God.
• 47:54
  So that's how that's how it all happens.
• 47:57
  So hopefully this is. Clear what I'm saying.
• 48:00
  It's taken me a long time to understand this.
• 48:02
  But it's it's makes so much sense now.
• 48:07
  So anyway, getting back to the book of life and blotting out of
• 48:11
  the book of life. And then in Philippians it says
• 48:14
  yes. And I ask you my true companion,
• 48:17
  help these women since they have contended at my side in the
• 48:21
  cause of the gospel or the good news, the good news about Jesus
• 48:25
  along with Clement and the rest of my Co workers whose names are
• 48:29
  in the book of life. So those who are spreading the
• 48:34
  gospel, the good news of Jesus, their names are written in the
• 48:38
  book of life. I mean, the, the ones that Paul
• 48:40
  was talking about, like all these people who are his
• 48:43
  coworkers who are, you know, speaking about Jesus and
• 48:47
  salvation, they those names are in the book of life.
• 48:54
  Then in Revelation, Oh gosh, there's multiple chapters in
• 48:58
  Revelation that address the book of life.
• 49:01
  And this is Jesus talking, the one who is OK.
• 49:06
  This is Revelation chapter 3, verse 5.
• 49:08
  The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white.
• 49:14
  I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of
• 49:19
  life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his
• 49:24
  angels. So again, this is how Jesus is
• 49:29
  the Savior of us. And the interesting thing is
• 49:33
  that he says I will never blot out the name of that person.
• 49:36
  And that person is talking about the one who's victorious.
• 49:39
  Victorious over what? Here's what it I'll just read.
• 49:44
  It's a short, it's Revelation 3, one through 36.
• 49:48
  So it says to the Angel of the Church of Sardis, right?
• 49:51
  These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God
• 49:55
  and the seven stars. I know your deeds.
• 49:58
  You have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
• 50:03
  Wake up. So you are dead.
• 50:05
  That probably means they're sinning.
• 50:07
  Wake up, strengthen what remains and is about to die.
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  For I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my
• 50:16
  God. Remember, therefore, what you
• 50:20
  have received and heard. Hold it fast and repent.
• 50:25
  You know, turn back to God, turn your life around, get sin out of
• 50:29
  your life. But if you do not wake up, I
• 50:32
  will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I
• 50:36
  will come to you. Yet you have a few people in
• 50:40
  Sardis who have not soiled their clothes.
• 50:44
  So that basically means not sinned if you're clothed in
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  white linen. Those are like whole garments of
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  holiness. OK, they will walk with me
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  dressed in white, for they are worthy.
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  The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white.
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  I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of
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  Life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his
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  angels. Whoever has ears, let them hear
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  what the Spirit says to the churches.
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  So this is written to Christians, not to unbelievers.
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  This is written to Christians, and it's the one who is
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  victorious, the one who overcomes, the one who repents,
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  the one who turns to God. He will not blot out the name.
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  But those who do keep sinning, sounds like their names could be
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  blotted out because why would he ever say that if God put our
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  names in at the beginning, if he even like, why would he even say
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  blot out if it wasn't something that happened?
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  So then in Revelation 13 verse 8, it says all inhabitants of
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  the earth will worship the beast, all whose names have not
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  been written in the Lamb's book of life, the Lamb who was slain
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  from the creation of the world. This is a little bit confusing
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  in the NIV how it says it. So I'm going to read the NASB,
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  which is a little bit better. All who dwell on the earth will
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  worship him. That's like the beast.
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  The symbolic beast will worship the the evil one that rises up
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  everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of
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  the of the world in the book of life, in the book of life of the
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  lamb who has been slain. So that's a clearer
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  interpretation of this, this sentence.
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  So it's saying that everybody who's on earth that, yeah, those
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  all who dwell on earth will worship him.
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  This is the evil one whose name has not or It's OU is the Hebrew
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  word, but it it just means is not or not has not or is not
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  written from the creation of the world.
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  So that could be like all of the the Satan's offspring that were
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  not written from the foundation of the world.
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  That's why, you know, if the IT talks about the book of the life
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  from the foundation of the world, it sounds like that was
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  in existence. And so maybe when God creates
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  us, that's when our name is, when he gives us his Spirit,
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  that's when our name is put into the book of life, when he gives
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  life to us. But then what happens to us
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  afterwards is, oh, actually when I said Hebrew, I meant Greek.
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  But then after, because we're in the New Testament, so then and
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  then how we respond to God, eventually there's a time where
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  God, you know, takes action. He gives us opportunity after
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  opportunity to respond to him. But if we keep on refusing him,
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  God has a limit. We don't know what that limit
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  is. But like, I didn't like me
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  personally, I realized that I probably had multiple choice
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  chances from God to do the right thing and I wasn't doing the
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  right thing and I didn't want to test it anymore.
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  Because the only time that we have to get this right to get
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  right with God is while we're living.
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  Once we die, there is no purgatory.
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  That's a myth. There is no purgatory.
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  It's whatever we are, whatever our relationship with God is.
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  Like when we die, if we are believers in Jesus and we trust
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  in Him and we've received the Holy Spirit, we're saved if we
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  keep rebelling and against God and keep on sinning.
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  It says those who keep on sinning have basically do not
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  know God and all they can expect is judgment.
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  So it's not good for people to keep on sinning.
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  Let's see then Revelation 17/8 says The beast which you saw
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  once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the abyss
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  and go to its destruction. The inhabitants of the earth
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  whose names have not been written in the Book of Life from
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  the creation of the world will not will be astonished when they
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  see the beast, because it once was, now is not and yet will
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  come. So the names who have not been
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  written in the book of life from the creation of the world.
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  So from the beginning of the world, I I don't know that God
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  makes everything good. So I again, there's different
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  interpretations of this verse. Some believe that God only
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  selects some people to be in his Kingdom.
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  I believe that God is more loving than that.
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  And I believe that God wanted everyone he created.
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  But the question is, what did he create?
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  And if we rebelled, do we then become a child of Satan if we're
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  doing evil things? And then is that the point where
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  God blots him out of the book when they just make that choice
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  very clear that they choose evil over God?
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  I don't know the answers and I and no one does, honestly,
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  because it's debated on how to interpret the Scripture.
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  But I think there's evidence that God created everything good
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  and it's our choice that and puts us where we end up
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  essentially like we can't blame anybody.
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  We have to be accountable for our own actions.
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  So in Revelation 20, verse 12, it says, and I saw dead, great
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  and small standing before the throne, and the books were open.
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  Another book was opened, which is the Book of Life.
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  The dead were judged according to what they had done as
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  recorded in the books. In verse 15, it says anyone
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  whose name was not found written in the Book of Life was thrown
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  into the lake of fire. So if your name is not in the
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  book of life, you are thrown into the lake of fire.
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  So there's a book of life. Those are The Who who are given
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  life. And I guess there's another
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  interpretation of the Book of Life.
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  And when somebody's name goes in there is when they were given
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  the Holy Spirit. And I don't that one I have a
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  little bit harder time with because not everyone is given
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  the Holy Spirit early on in their life.
• 57:46
  Like I believe John the Baptist was given the Holy Spirit early
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  on in life. Then there was a Samson who was
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  given the Holy Spirit early on in his life.
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  And I think, well, those are the ones that I can think of.
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  There may be others too. But not everybody.
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  And so I don't know. I mean when it says it was
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  written from the foundation of the earth, from the beginning of
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  the earth. I just.
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  And it's, you know, it's debatable, but it's definitely
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  talks about people being blotted.
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  Out of the Book of. Life So if God in the beginning
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  said these are going to be good, these are going to be bad, then
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  none of the bad would be written in the book of life.
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  So for something to be blotted out of the book of Life, there
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  has to be something that. Causes that to happen.
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  And we know the ones who were not written in the book of life
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  were probably the offspring of Satan.
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  And so they just don't have an opportunity like the Nephilim
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  are not going to be in God's Kingdom.
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  They don't have an opportunity to repent, as I understand,
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  because they they're not written in the book of life.
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  I mean, maybe there's another judgment for them that's
• 59:06
  different from humans judgment. So I don't know that for sure
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  because that's not written in the Bible.
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  So I better just take that one back.
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  I don't, I don't know, but just interesting to think about.
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  Revelation 21 verse 27. Nothing impure will ever enter
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  it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful,
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  but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of
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  life. This is about the Kingdom of God
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  and who actually enters the Kingdom of God.
• 59:38
  So oh, there was something that I missed.
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  OK, this verse, Revelation 13, verse 8, it says all the
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  inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast, all whose
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  names who've not been written in the Lamb's book of life, the
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  Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.
• 59:55
  Now this was really interesting. From the foundation of the
• 1:00:01
  world, there was a reason that I.
• 1:00:05
  I had saved that one, or I was looking at that one, all the
• 1:00:09
  inhabitants. OK, so it says all who dwell.
• 1:00:14
  On the earth will worship him. Everyone whose name has not been
• 1:00:21
  written from the found. Oh, I think it was probably from
• 1:00:24
  the foundation. So that's like the foundation of
• 1:00:27
  the world. So when the world was just
• 1:00:31
  beginning, all who have not been written into the book of life
• 1:00:38
  and let's see, oh, the foundation.
• 1:00:43
  OK, this is where it is. Oh gosh, I did.
• 1:00:46
  There was a reason, a different reason.
• 1:00:48
  So it says. Let me read that again.
• 1:00:53
  See, these were all the new things for me.
• 1:00:55
  So I'm learning this today too. All who dwell on the.
• 1:00:59
  Earth. Will worship him.
• 1:01:02
  It's referring to the evil one, everyone whose name has not been
• 1:01:07
  written from the foundation. The foundation is the critical
• 1:01:12
  word that we're going to look into of the world from the
• 1:01:15
  foundation of the world. When we look at what the what
• 1:01:18
  does the foundation mean? It is.
• 1:01:23
  I'm going to just play this for you.
• 1:01:28
  Strong's G26-O2 kata Ballet Kata Ballet.
• 1:01:34
  So it's kata ballet. And it's it the definition, the
• 1:01:39
  outline of the biblical usage is a throwing or laying down.
• 1:01:44
  It says the injection or depositing of the virile semen
• 1:01:50
  in the womb. Isn't that interesting?
• 1:01:52
  The foundation, the beginning and those who are not written in
• 1:01:56
  the Lamb's book of life are those the offspring of Satan.
• 1:02:02
  And then it says of the seeds of the plants and animals, a
• 1:02:05
  founding or laying down of a foundation.
• 1:02:08
  And it says the strong's definition says it's a, a
• 1:02:11
  deposition, IE founding figuratively, conception,
• 1:02:17
  conceive foundation. So foundation, I mean, I was
• 1:02:21
  thinking about like when the earth was made, but here's a
• 1:02:26
  different, a little bit different.
• 1:02:28
  It's like from the semen that entered.
• 1:02:33
  So is that the difference between going back to Genesis
• 1:02:37
  chapter 3 where God says I will put enmity between your
• 1:02:42
  offspring speaking to the serpent and Eve's the woman's
• 1:02:47
  offspring, that there is a difference.
• 1:02:50
  There's some of Satan's offspring and then there's God's
• 1:02:55
  humans offspring and, and those are the ones who did not have
• 1:02:59
  their names written into the beginning of the world.
• 1:03:05
  That's what just something. To look at, you can check it
• 1:03:07
  out. Let's see it.
• 1:03:11
  Yeah, Go to blueletterbible.org, check on the tools bar, and then
• 1:03:16
  look at word for word. And then look under Strong's
• 1:03:19
  definition. It'll be AG with a number behind
• 1:03:23
  it. The number for that definition
• 1:03:25
  of foundation is G26-O2. So you could also search G26-O2
• 1:03:32
  and get that definition. But that's.
• 1:03:34
  Just kind of a. Different, you know,
• 1:03:36
  interpretation of the foundation of the world.
• 1:03:39
  Is it from the? Conception from the injection or
• 1:03:43
  depositing of the viral semen in the womb, that's another part of
• 1:03:47
  the biblical usage. So very interesting that, you
• 1:03:53
  know, ties into the book of Genesis.
• 1:03:54
  And again, just trying to read all of this in context of the
• 1:03:58
  entire Bible, so the Book of Life.
• 1:04:03
  Is really interesting, like when our names written and when are
• 1:04:08
  they removed? It certainly says they are
• 1:04:10
  removed sometimes and then some are not even written into it.
• 1:04:14
  And I don't think that refers to predestination.
• 1:04:18
  I think that refers to Satan's offspring.
• 1:04:21
  So that's the point I was trying to make.
• 1:04:24
  And let's see, I think that might be all that I have to say.
• 1:04:32
  I think I've talked about everything else, but basically,
• 1:04:36
  you know, this is thanks and praise to God.
• 1:04:38
  He gives justice. He's our protector.
• 1:04:41
  And let's see, he, he's our king.
• 1:04:46
  We can seek refuge in him. He's our protector.
• 1:04:49
  We can trust in him if we seek Him, if we know his name,
• 1:04:53
  Yehovah or Yehovah. He hears our prayers.
• 1:04:57
  He's a rescuer. And the resurrection I was this
• 1:05:02
  is the one I was thinking of verses 13 and 14 that David
• 1:05:05
  said, Lord, see how I my enemies pursue me, have mercy and lift
• 1:05:10
  me up from the gates of death that I may declare your praises
• 1:05:14
  in the gates of the of daughter Zion.
• 1:05:17
  That's usually the future Jerusalem where Jesus reigns
• 1:05:20
  from and and there rejoice in your salvation.
• 1:05:25
  So did David maybe not didn't even know what he was saying,
• 1:05:30
  but he was inspired and he just put these words together like in
• 1:05:33
  in your salvation. Well, Jesus is our salvation.
• 1:05:37
  So is he really talking about the resurrection and being with
• 1:05:42
  Christ and then be praising his name?
• 1:05:44
  I mean, David was a huge praiser of worshipper of God and he was
• 1:05:49
  filled with music. He always like rejoice of music
• 1:05:52
  and dancing. And I imagine we're going to see
• 1:05:56
  David in God's Kingdom when Jesus reigns on this earth.
• 1:06:00
  In fact, I think David's probably going to be the Prince
• 1:06:03
  that's referred to in the Temple of Ezekiel, which is a whole
• 1:06:08
  nother thing, but. And then it says the wicked go
• 1:06:12
  down to the realm of the dead, all the nations that forget God.
• 1:06:16
  But God will never forget the needy.
• 1:06:18
  The hope of the afflicted will never.
• 1:06:20
  Perish so just a great I don't know.
• 1:06:25
  I hope this was beneficial for you.
• 1:06:28
  I hope that it opened your eyes like an open mind again, just
• 1:06:31
  studying this. I learned more today and things
• 1:06:35
  that I learned in the past came into play.
• 1:06:37
  So if you found this beneficial, share it with other people.
• 1:06:41
  And if you want to stay in the word, I never know what we're
• 1:06:44
  going to discover until that day.
• 1:06:46
  And but it's fun when we discover new things.
• 1:06:49
  So I'm sharing what I discovered with you and hopefully you come
• 1:06:53
  back again. I know these are really long
• 1:06:55
  podcasts, but there's just so much to talk about in the word
• 1:06:58
  of God, so hope you have a blessed day.
• 1:07:01
  Thank you.