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729. Bible Study: Isaiah 41 (Is this talking about Cyrus, Jesus/Messiah, Turkey, Iran, Rome?) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 41 from the book of Isaiah dear God, please be with
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  us as we read through this chapter and try to understand
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  this. Please give us the Holy Spirit
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  to give us wisdom as we read in Jesus name Amen.
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  So in this chapter, when I read this earlier, there's quite a
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  number of references that I'm going to have it throughout the
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  Bible to get to the point that I see here while I'm reading this.
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  And I prayed to God before when I was reading this as well.
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  But the study Bible, I definitely agree with the study
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  Bible, but I also see that there's another way of looking
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  at this and it doesn't contradict, but it's another one
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  of those prophecies where maybe it had a partial fulfillment,
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  but there's an ultimate fulfillment, and that ultimate
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  fulfillment is in Jesus. So once again, I'm seeing Jesus
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  present in chapter 41. So let's start with this.
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  Sometimes the Bibles can be hard to understand simply because of
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  the translation, because there are various translations.
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  And so I recommend any time. This is what I do and I find it
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  very helpful. So I'm recommending it if you
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  use blueletterbible.org. And when there's something
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  confusing and it doesn't quite make sense, go there.
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  And the reason why is the toolbars that they give you for
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  each line, every sentence is separated.
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  So it helps to read it that way. And then when you click on the
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  tools, it will give you the Masoretic text.
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  It will give you the English translation and you'll see
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  sometimes what you're reading has a different arrangement of
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  words on the left hand side. It will also give you Strong's
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  definition, so you can see how many times and where it is in
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  the Bible. Sometimes in context, when you
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  see multiple sentences with the same word, you can understand it
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  better. It'll give you pronunciations as
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  well. And since we are in the Old
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  Testament, it gives you the original Hebrew words, so you
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  can look up what those words mean.
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  And all of that helps to understand a sentence that can
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  be confusing. So starting right away, First of
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  all, I guess we have this, the very first sentence.
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  Be silent before me, you islands.
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  Let the nations renew their strength.
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  Let them come forward and speak. Let us meet together at the
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  place of judgement. So when I read this, I thought
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  about, I guess it's the it's Matthew.
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  No, it's not not Matthew. What I thought.
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  Oh, Revelation. I have a lot of search bars on
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  here and are where I've looked up a bunch of different things
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  and I know it is in Revelation, but I'm trying to find out where
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  I saved that because I have so many different tabs opened.
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  OK, well, let's try this one. OK, be silent before me you
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  islands. So in the Book of Revelation
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  chapter 16, it says every island fled away and the mountains
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  could not be found. Now this was this is at the time
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  that Jesus returns. And when you, when you have the
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  island fled away, like islands don't run, but people are, we
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  know that people are scared because they see Jesus
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  returning. And so anyway, I want to read
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  that this is actually during the wrath, and it says the great
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  city split into three parts and the cities of the nations
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  collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great
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  and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his
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  wrath. Every island fled away and the
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  mountains could not be found. Now that actually could be
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  something literal, but when he talks about to the islands, it's
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  basically about to the people of the islands.
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  And then let the nations renew their strength.
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  Let them come forward and speak. Let us meet at the place of
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  judgment. So this sounds like the time of
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  judgment, which the time that Jesus arrives is the time of
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  judgment. So also in Isaiah 42, verse 4.
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  Let's see if I can find out, OK? He will not, he will not falter
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  or be discouraged till He establishes justice on earth.
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  In His teaching. The islands will put their hope.
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  So a teaching that islands can put in their hope.
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  To me this is talking and establishing justice on earth.
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  To me, this is no one other than Jesus.
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  So when Jesus first came, he taught everyone and his word is
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  what's documented in the New Testament.
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  And he taught everyone about about God's Kingdom and how to
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  be there and about the salvation like he that he was bringing to
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  the earth. And so that's the hope that
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  everyone has, like all the islands have the hope in Jesus.
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  And he will be it says he will not falter or be discouraged
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  till he establishes justice on earth.
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  So again, that's that's use Isaiah chapter 42, verse 4.
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  So, but I don't know how to do this without getting it
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  confusing. So maybe I'll read, I'll read
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  what I'll read through this whole thing, and then I'll read
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  what the study Bible says, and then I'll go back to the things
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  that I noticed when I was doing this.
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  OK, So be silent before me, you islands.
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  Let the nations renew their strength.
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  Let them come forward and speak. Let us meet together at the
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  place of judgment. Who has stirred up one from the
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  East, calling him in righteousness to his service?
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  He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him.
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  He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with
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  his bow. He pursues them and moves on
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  unscathed by a path his feet have not travelled before.
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  Who has done this and carried it through, calling forth the
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  generations from the beginning? I, the Lord with the first of
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  them, and with the last. I am He.
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  The islands have seen it and fear the ends of the earth
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  tremble. They approach and come forward.
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  They help each other. They say to their companions.
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  Be strong. The metal worker encourages the
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  Goldsmith, and the one who smooths with hammer spurs on the
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  one who strikes the anvil. One says of the wielding it is
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  good, The other nails down the idol so it will not topple.
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  But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I've have have
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  chosen you, descendants of Abraham, my friend, I took you
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  from the ends of the earth, from its farthest corners.
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  I called you, I said you are my servant.
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  I have chosen you and have not rejected you.
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  So do not fear, for I am with you.
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  Do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
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  I will strengthen you and help you.
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  I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
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  All who Rage Against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced.
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  Those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish.
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  Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them.
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  Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all.
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  For I am the Lord your God, who takes hold of your right hand
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  and says to you, Do not fear, I will help you.
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  Do not be afraid, you warm Jacob, little Israel.
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  Do not fear, for I myself will help you declare.
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  There's the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
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  See, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp,
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  with many teeth. You will thrush the mountains
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  and crush them and reduce the hills to chaff.
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  You will winnow them. The wind will pick up.
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  Pick them up and a Gale will be blown.
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  A Gale will blow them away, but you will rejoice in the Lord and
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  glory in the Holy One of Israel. The poor and needy search for
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  water, but there is none. Their tongues are parched with
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  thirst, but I, the Lord, will answer them.
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  I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
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  I will make rivers flow on barren heights and springs
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  within valleys. I will turn the desert into
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  pools of water and the parched ground into springs.
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  I will put in the desert the cedar, the Acacia, the Myrtle,
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  and the olive. I will set junipers in the
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  wasteland, the fir and Cypress together, so that people may see
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  and know, may consider and understand that the hand of the
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  Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created
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  it. Present your case, says the
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  Lord, Set forth your arguments, says Jacob's king.
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  Tell us, you idols, what is going to happen.
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  Tell us what the former things were so that we may consider
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  them and know their final outcome, or declare to us the
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  things to come. Tell us what the future holds,
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  so that we may know. So we may know that you are
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  gods. Do something, whether good or
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  bad, so that we may be dismayed and filled with fear.
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  But you are less than nothing, and your works are utterly
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  worthless. Whatever whoever chooses you is
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  detestable. I have stirred up one from the
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  north, and he comes one from Rise, the rising sun who calls
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  on my name. He treads on rulers as if they
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  were mortar, as if he were a Potter treading the clay.
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  Who told of this from the beginning, so we could know, or
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  beforehand so we could say he was right?
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  No one told us of this. No one foretold, no one heard
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  any words from you. I was the 1st to tell Zion.
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  Look here, here they are. I gave to Jerusalem a messenger
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  of good news. I look, but there is no one, no
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  one among the gods to give counsel, so no one to give
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  answer when I ask them. See, they are all false.
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  Their deeds amount to nothing. Their images are but wind and
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  confusion. So that's the end of chapter 41.
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  So I will read what the study Bible says.
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  So who was the one from the east?
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  This is what the study Bible says.
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  He he was Cyrus the great ruler of Persia, located in an area of
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  present day Iran. This was not only east of Israel
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  but even further east of Babylon where the Jews languished in
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  exile before Cyrus came to power.
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  The Persians conquered the Babylonians in 539 BC, and soon
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  thereafter Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to their
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  homeland. So that gives the explanation
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  for who was the one from the East from the study Bible.
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  And So what I was looking at when I read this was that the
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  one from the east could also be Jesus because Jesus comes from
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  the east. And let's see where can I start
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  with that one? So first I talked about the
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  islands being people, being people personified.
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  And then let us meet together at the place of judgment.
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  So it sounds like judgment is, you know, this this statement,
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  be silent before me, you islands.
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  This is talking to other people besides Israel.
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  Let the nations renew their strengths.
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  So this is talking about on a broader base, a broader group of
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  people. And that's why I, you know,
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  Cyrus could have fulfilled some of it, but it's not like a great
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  perfect match for Cyrus. So maybe, you know, maybe it was
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  a foreshadowing. But again, the ultimate
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  satisfaction of this prophecy is, is Jesus.
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  So Jesus is going, there's a valley, it's called a valley of
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  decision. It's in the in the end, that's
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  where the they they meet in the valley where the final battle is
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  with Jesus. And so that's why I also think
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  about about this being Jesus and Jesus also comes from the East
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  when it when the Bible talks about that.
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  Here's the other thing about he, he brings righteousness who is
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  stirred up one one from the East calling him in righteousness to
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  his service. I started to say that it was a
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  translation thing that kind of gets us mixed up.
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  So I want to read about who is stirred up.
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  One from the East, calling him in righteousness to his service.
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  So another, and when you look it up in the blue letter Bible, it
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  says who has aroused one from the east whom he calls and
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  righteousness to his feet. He delivers up nations before
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  him and subdues kings. He makes them like dust with his
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  sword as the wind driven chaff with his bow.
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  Now this could be on opposite an opposing force.
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  However, in the end times it does talk about the someone
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  coming from the north, not necessarily the east.
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  So maybe that's why this made sense to say this was Cyrus.
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  But then when I look at it, Jesus comes from the east.
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  It says like as as it's seen from the east when lightning
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  comes that all will see him. And I'm trying to find the
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  verses that talk about Jesus coming from the east.
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  And again, I have too many to oh here it is.
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  OK in Ezekiel chapter 43. I will need to write that in
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  here so I don't lose that next time.
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  Ezekiel 43 verse 2, so it says, and I saw this is in a vision
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  Ezekiel had and I saw the glory of the Lord, the glory of the
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  God of Israel coming from the east.
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  His voice was like the roar of rushing waters and the land was
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  radiant with his glory. Well, that is none other than
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  Jesus obviously, and we get confirmation in Scripture about
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  that as well. If we go to the the and the Book
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  of Revelation, because in Revelation, I think it's maybe
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  Revelation one, it talks about Jesus's voice and being like the
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  rushing waters. So I need to find out where that
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  is. I'm kind of looking through this
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  right now. OK, Revelation 115 His feet were
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  like bronze glowing in a furnace and his voice was like the sound
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  of rushing waters. So again, I think this could
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  possibly be Jesus that is being referred to that and it's again
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  another translation issue because it it says who has
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  aroused. Well, the word aroused is
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  actually or, and it means to awaken, waken up, rising up,
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  arising, a master to rouse oneself, awaken insight.
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  So this could potentially be referring to Jesus, you know,
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  he's finally had enough of the people coming against Israel and
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  he's coming in righteousness. And so if you if I'm not making
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  sense with this explanation, you might want to look this up on
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  your own and read it too. So and then remember that God
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  turns over all authority to Jesus.
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  So also in that's another thing I'm going to read through
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  Matthew 1218. So God also refers to Jesus as
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  his servant. And I'll just read this section
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  of Matthew chapter 12, verses 15 through 21 because it kind of
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  also mirrors what is stated in Isaiah.
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  OK, It says aware of this, Jesus with Jesus withdrew from that
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  place. This is Matthew chapter 12,
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  verse 15. A large crowd followed him and
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  he healed all who were I'll. He warned them not to tell
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  others about him. This was to fulfill what was
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  spoken through the prophet Isaiah.
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  Here is my servant, whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom
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  I delight. I will put my spirit on him, and
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  he will proclaim justice to the nation's.
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  He will not quarrel or cry out. No one will hear his voice in
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  the streets. A bruised Reed he will not
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  break, and a smoldering Wick he will not snuff out till he has
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  brought justice through to victory in his name.
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  The nations will put their hope. That's actually going to be in
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  the next chapter. 42 But at the same time this is, you know, he
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  God calls Jesus is the servant whom God loves.
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  The Spirit of God is on him and he the nation's put their hope
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  in him. So again, like the end of this
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  chapter I think is when it talked about the nation's
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  putting their hope in him. So again, this just really seems
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  like Jesus. So who is stirred up one from
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  the east calling him and righteousness to his service.
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  God gives all authority to Jesus.
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  So I do want to read about that too, because I'm going to close
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  up these, the ones that I've already reviewed, so I don't
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  reread them and find where they are.
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  Let's see I'm trying to find the one about OK, another verse that
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  is Matthew 24, verse 27 for as lightning that comes from the
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  east is visible even in the West, so will be the coming of
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  the Son of Man. So again, the Son of man comes
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  from the east. This the enemy is coming from
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  the north. So I want to that comes up later
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  and so again. You know, maybe this meant Cyrus
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  back then or a double fulfillment where it actually
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  means Jesus. And here's another thing, in the
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  Book of Revelation chapter 16 verse 12, this is during wrath.
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  The 6th Angel poured out his bowl on the great river
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  Euphrates and it's water was dried up to prepare the way for
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  the kings from the east. And so this is another event
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  where there will be other people in the future outside of Cyrus
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  coming from the east by at the Euphrates River.
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  So that's another. This one is definitely about end
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  times in Revelation 16. If you want to read from that,
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  read more about it. And then there is.
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  I still, let's see, I'm not finding what I was trying to OK
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  given authority. So in Daniel Chapter 7 verse 14,
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  it says he was given authority, glory, and sovereign power.
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  All nations and peoples of every language worshipped Him.
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  His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass
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  away, and His Kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
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  So then we think, OK, well who is he talking about?
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  If we go to the prior verse, it says In my vision at night I
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  looked, and there before me was one like a son of man coming
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  with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of
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  Days and was led to his presence.
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  Then, it says he was given authority, glory and sovereign
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  power. All nations and people of every
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  language worshipped him. His dominion is an everlasting
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  dominion that will not pass away, and His Kingdom is one
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  that will never be destroyed. Well, that's talking about Jesus
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  and about all authority being given to Jesus.
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  So that's where it seems like he hands like God hands all the
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  nations over to him. God gives all of the authority
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  to Jesus and subdues kings before him.
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  He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with
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  his bow. He pursues them and moves on,
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  unscathed by a path his feet have never traveled before.
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  Now there is no one. Several times in the scripture
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  it says that there was no one to help him.
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  It was God alone, his arm protecting Israel in the very
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  last days. So that is the.
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  Beginning part of this chapter 41 So then this other verse that
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  says who has done this and carried it through calling forth
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  the generations from the beginning?
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  Well, obviously that's God. And it says I the Lord with the
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  first of them and with the last I am he.
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  So this is the eternal God. And so is this again saying, you
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  know, this is God doing this, this is the Son of God doing
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  this, that just like Jesus said in Revelation, I am the alpha
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  and the Omega. And is this where it says I the
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  Lord with the first of them. So Jesus was the first fruit and
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  with the last. So he's also ushering in the
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  very last, you know, the at the the last days, at the end of
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  time when Jesus brings, you know, saves people.
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  There's the 144,000 from Israel, the remnant, and then there's
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  also the resurrection of those who are dead and in Christ,
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  those who have the Holy Spirit. So and then this is another the
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  next verse makes me think about Revelation about the islands
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  fleeing again that what the Book of Revelation said and it says
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  the islands have seen it and fear the ends of the earth
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  tremble when Jesus returns. There is a fear that comes over
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  people because they realize who who it is that's coming.
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  And that's like in Revelation 16.
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  It says every island fled away in the mountains could not be
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  found. So there's something.
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  Disastrous in the in that wrath that happens to the earth and.
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  So in. The study Bible it says where
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  are the ends of the earth. Here the ends of the earth refer
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  to the boundaries of lands captured by Cyrus of Persia.
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  They included areas from present day Afghanistan in the east to
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  Egypt in the southwest and Turkey in the northwest.
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  So that is an interpretation. I also see this chapter as
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  something greater than that, that it's talking about all
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  nations, so that it's talking about something like Isaiah
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  didn't even know what he was speaking probably at that time.
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  He didn't comprehend what the world would be today.
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  And so I think this applies to today just because there's a, if
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  you look at just really what is being stated in this chapter,
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  first of all, it talks about if that is Jesus that returns.
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  It's talking about fear, but then there's encouragement.
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  And then it's talking about Israel being a friend of God's.
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  And then he's coming against many enemies.
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  He's saving Israel, but he's like turning around Israel so
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  that Israel then defeats the enemy.
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  So this didn't happen with Cyrus.
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  And so that wouldn't that be like more of a last time?
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  And then it talks about a complete restoration of the
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  land. I don't think Israel has ever
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  had restorations like rivers flowing from barren heights or
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  springs coming up in the valleys or deserts turning into pools of
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  water. Those things are more like the
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  restoration that's described in the Millennium reign of Christ,
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  the thousand year period that Jesus reigns.
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  And then it talks about set forth your arguments, says
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  Jacob's king. Well, who is Jacob's king?
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  Actually, You know, when all of this happened, when Isaiah was
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  talking about this, both of the kingdoms were being destroyed,
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  the northern tribe of Judah as well as the southern tribe of
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  Judah. And after that there were no
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  more kings. So now he's talking about a
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  future king. So this is definitely Jesus and
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  set forth your arguments that's putting your case in front of
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  this is judgment. You know, this is this is like a
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  court of law, a judgment. And then there was something
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  that stood out to me too, was that it says so we may know that
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  you are gods, it says are declared to us.
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  I mean, it's coming through an argument.
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  It's talking about these things that people are calling odds
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  gods. And if it's when Jesus returns,
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  there's something that someone mentioned and it's so true about
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  where we are today with AIAI is just coming into being and it's
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  going to only increase. And it's 'cause it learns from
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  itself and it, and it's going to, at some point, theoretically
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  what people are saying, it will become smarter than everybody
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  because it learns from itself and it learns from the smartest.
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  So someday it's going to be this really, it'll be better than the
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  way it is starting out right now.
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  And already today I know people who are asking AI questions and
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  who are getting answers from AI or seeking AI.
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  And so I think about that and not only I but others who are
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  Christians are thinking about that.
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  Are are we making AI into a mini God where it has all the
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  answers? There's a lot of people that are
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  sourcing it for a lot of different things and to rely
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  upon that. But what happens if AI gets
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  hijacked by something evil and then it gives answers that are
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  contrary to what's in the Bible And then people believe that
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  because they've they've become so attached to it and it always
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  has the right answers. Or maybe, you know, when you
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  start out, it can you can verify these answers and you're like,
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  OK, it's right on this. Like this is true.
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  This is good. You know, I can use this.
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  But then there's going to give me a point where you don't even
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  know. And if you go to AI for the
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  answer and you're not sure, especially like if somebody
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  hasn't read the Bible and they go to AI for it at some point,
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  if someone who programs these is not a follower of God, which is
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  probably the way it is, then do you think they're going to want
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  people to find the one true God? And are they going to have AI
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  programmed to give glory to God? So that's just something that we
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  are at the very beginning of, something that could be kind of
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  scary when you think about it. And is this the image that is,
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  that is spoken of in the last times?
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  Is AI the image that has a mouth to speak where it's given life?
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  Could it be like any of these robots, these AI robots that
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  are, you know, an image, a thought of a creation of man
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  that is given words to speak They're.
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  Already. Introducing like, you know, fake
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  robot people like for relationships with people.
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  OK. So I mean, it's really getting
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  bizarre, like all the things that AI is providing solutions
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  to, which are really ultimately they're very troublesome
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  solutions because it takes away from humanity and it takes away
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  from God's creation. And it's mankind creating
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  something of their own. And if we don't think that is a
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  problem, mankind is sinful. Mankind is not perfect.
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  Mankind makes mistakes. So if you use mankind to create
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  these things, it's only going to lead to a disaster.
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  And is that what happens eventually when Jesus returns is
• 31:15
  that AI gets to this level and it's going to accelerate really
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  quickly. It's just like anything else
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  that if you've lived through different times, like before
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  there were, there were, you know, I mean, just think about
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  like vehicles. I mean, when there were like, of
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  course, and buggies are, you know, happening and then there
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  was the automobiles and then there were the first computers
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  and then there were laptops. And then there were phones and
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  there were landlines and then there were mobile phones and and
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  then you can do everything from your phone.
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  And just the evolution of technology and how quickly it
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  all changed and how quickly we are seeing things happen right
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  now. So it's it's really something to
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  be aware of and make sure that you don't rely on it too much
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  because in verse 24, it says, but you are less than nothing
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  and your works are utterly worthless.
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  Whoever chooses you is detestable.
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  So, and he's talking about an idol.
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  So it like if somebody chooses AI, like that's detestable,
• 32:31
  something to think of, you know, could that be the mark of the
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  beast? Because people are not going to
• 32:38
  be not going to be allowed to buy or sell without it.
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  So there's going to be something, you know, whether
• 32:44
  it's a chip or something people, you know, they're speculating
• 32:47
  right now about what that can be, but it's, it's going to be,
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  well, I can't buy anything unless I have this.
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  So I need this. And if you choose that and you
• 32:58
  get whatever this future mark is going to be, there is no
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  forgiveness for that. It tells, it tells you very
• 33:08
  clearly in the Bible that you can't repent of that.
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  Once you do that, you knowingly make that you are separating
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  yourself from God. You're choosing something else.
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  I guess you're choosing this idol and if this idol is AI and
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  this idol requires you to take a chip and you choose that, you
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  can't undo that once you choose that.
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  So this is a very a warning for all people that we're going to
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  know when that comes about. And I think that's really a
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  ultimately what God hates the most is idolatry is worshipping
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  something else, like something else is more important than God
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  that's turning to something else.
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  And I definitely can see how we would be turning to AI where it
• 33:53
  would be more than what we view God as because people, a lot of
• 33:58
  people don't even have a relationship with God.
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  So then it also talks about, I've stirred up one from the
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  north and it seems like there's always in the Bible.
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  It seems like areas or geographical areas always have
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  the same spiritual influence. It's very weird.
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  I mean, it's something that I just paid attention to as I was
• 34:20
  studying, but these territories, these actual land territories
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  have historically always been enemies of Israel.
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  Like maybe there's momentary peace, but they always later
• 34:35
  came after them again. So it's very, very, very
• 34:39
  repetitious. And so just like Assyria was
• 34:43
  came from the north. So here Isaiah is talking about
• 34:48
  I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes one from the
• 34:53
  rising sun who calls on my name, and it says, who was this one
• 34:58
  from the north? This was Cyrus.
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  North and east the rising sun are combined.
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  Cyrus originated in the east but conquered a number of kingdoms
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  north of Babylon early in his reign, and from the perspective
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  of those living in Jerusalem, invasions came primarily from
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  the north. Cyrus appeared appears in the
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  Bible as a deliverer of God's people, and here he is described
• 35:23
  as a ruler who called on God's name.
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  Historical sources show that Cyrus honored the gods of all
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  nations he conquered so. That could be.
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  Could be a double fulfillment or does it mean like?
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  God stirs up. Somebody from the north, this,
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  this one coming from the north, and then one from the rising
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  sun, who calls on my name or who proclaims my name or calls out
• 35:51
  to proclaim. That's another way that this is
• 35:55
  stated. And.
• 35:59
  Let's see. I don't know, I I don't have
• 36:05
  that verse. Called up here, but it's that's
• 36:07
  another one to look up in the blue letter Bible is that verse
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  because you'll see that there is like a different meaning where
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  one who rises up and it says he treads on rulers as if they were
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  mortar as if he were a Potter treading the clay.
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  Now here where the where that translation, it is the way it is
• 36:31
  read like this. It seems like, OK, that can't be
• 36:35
  Jesus because it says as if he was a Potter.
• 36:40
  And we we know that that is often referred to God as being
• 36:46
  the Potter. But then, you know, so it could
• 36:51
  refer to someone else. But then I'm trying to find that
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  verse that I want to find. So it is verse 25.
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  I'm just going to blue letter Bible because this will help me
• 37:05
  when I read this. So it says.
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  I have. I have.
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  Aroused is 1 translation, but that's really or which means to
• 37:15
  awaken or aroused. So this is like I was saying was
• 37:17
  Jesus want to awaken or aroused? Not necessarily Jesus, but to
• 37:23
  awaken one one from the north. So that's just a direction that
• 37:27
  it comes and he has come. Now this, this one from the NASB
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  says he has come from the rising of the sun.
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  So that's talking about from the east.
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  So it does seem like that one might be Cyrus.
• 37:47
  And that he's like. He's conquering all these
• 37:50
  places. Who told of this from the
• 37:54
  beginning so we could know or beforehand so we could say He
• 37:58
  was right. No one told of this.
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  No one foretold it. No one heard any words from you.
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  I was the 1st to tell Zion. Look, here they are.
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  I gave to Jerusalem a messenger of good news.
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  Now this made me think about Jesus.
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  Jesus was the messenger of good news.
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  He was the one proclaiming about God, salvation, his Kingdom.
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  So I gave to Jerusalem a messenger of good news.
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  I look, but there is no no one, no one among the gods to give
• 38:37
  counsel, no one to give answer when I asked them.
• 38:42
  See, they are all false. Their deeds amount to nothing.
• 38:45
  Their images are but wind and confusion and we know that, you
• 38:50
  know, like Satan is the author of confusion.
• 38:53
  So it's just confusing people, these things that are in their
• 38:59
  lives, the idols, and also, you know, maybe it's the AI of
• 39:03
  today. So let's go.
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  Back to what the study. Bible says why talk about those
• 39:09
  who make idols? In a world where people
• 39:12
  worshipped many different deities, the Lord regularly
• 39:15
  asked his people to compare Him, the one true God, with false
• 39:19
  gods. Here we see the whole world
• 39:22
  trembling in response to the Lord's mighty actions.
• 39:26
  But instead of turning to the true God, the idol makers try to
• 39:30
  console each other and even try to anchor their idols so that
• 39:34
  they will not be shaken by God's shock by God's shock waves.
• 39:39
  Now again, the earth is supposed to have this earthquake when
• 39:43
  Jesus returns and it talks about everything shaking at that time.
• 39:49
  And so I I do think that again, this.
• 39:54
  Seems to be. More about Jesus and more about
• 39:58
  the end times than it is that immediate future that Isaiah was
• 40:04
  preaching about. So the next question was, why
• 40:13
  did God comfort the Jews? After all they had done, God
• 40:17
  called the Israelites to be his people from the time of Abraham
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  to the time of their captivity. His love for them was based on
• 40:24
  his own redeeming character and was not lessened by the sinful
• 40:28
  acts of his wayward children. Whether in judgment or comfort,
• 40:32
  he sought their good. And that's something that, you
• 40:36
  know, God is just that's you can't get away from punishment
• 40:44
  when someone is just because if someone never punished
• 40:51
  wrongdoers, then they wouldn't necessarily be just, would they?
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  So it's something that a lot of people don't like to think about
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  and they, a lot of people will say, well, the, the God that's
• 41:05
  talked about in the Old Testament was very judgmental
• 41:08
  and all, you know, more of a negative thing.
• 41:10
  But the thing about it is Jesus, when he returns, God's the same.
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  He hasn't changed. He's just delayed his judgment
• 41:22
  and he sent Jesus to be our Savior so that we don't have to
• 41:27
  go through the wrath if we turn and recognize, turn to God,
• 41:33
  repent of our sins. That means turn our minds away
• 41:36
  from thinking the sin is good and turn to God.
• 41:41
  Seek him and be protected by Jesus the Son who his death on
• 41:47
  the cross will protect us. The blood that he shed, the
• 41:51
  blood that came when he died on the cross, is what makes
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  atonement for our sins. It's the law that God
• 41:58
  established back in the Old Old Testament for a substitute
• 42:02
  sacrifice. And that's what Jesus was, a
• 42:05
  substitute sacrifice that that fulfilled the law that was
• 42:12
  required for sin. So instead of us dying, Jesus
• 42:16
  did so that we could have eternal life.
• 42:21
  So let's see. Why did God call his people a
• 42:26
  worm? It's obvious from the context
• 42:28
  that God was not scolding His people while they were in exile.
• 42:33
  They would consider themselves insignificant as worms.
• 42:36
  The Lord was comforting them and offering New Hope.
• 42:39
  Israel may have been little and insignificant compared to the
• 42:43
  great nations battling for power, but God would still use
• 42:47
  her in mighty ways. What was a threshing sledge?
• 42:52
  After grain was harvested harvested, it was usually dried
• 42:56
  and taken to a threshing floor to be crushed in order to
• 42:59
  separate the stalks and husk from the edible kernels.
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  This was done with sledges, sleds, or sledges drawn by
• 43:07
  animals. Not only would the weight of the
• 43:10
  sledges crush the grain, but some sledges were also fitted
• 43:15
  with sharp teeth to RIP the kernels of grain from the husk.
• 43:19
  This was an image of great power.
• 43:22
  Little Israel would become a large sledge threshing the
• 43:27
  mountains, probably symbolic of the nations.
• 43:31
  So again, when did this happen? I mean, I think this is like
• 43:36
  maybe maybe this is happening right now.
• 43:39
  Like part of it because Israel's been having some success against
• 43:44
  first they were. Destroyed a.
• 43:49
  Significant about 1000 people on October 7th, but after that
• 43:54
  they've been they've been praising God and they've been
• 44:01
  giving glory to God and they've made some moves against their
• 44:06
  enemies where they've been successful.
• 44:08
  So I don't know if this I don't know where we are in all of
• 44:13
  this, but a lot of what's happening today does seem like
• 44:17
  what is written in the Bible prophecy.
• 44:19
  So it's a time definitely to be watching and a time for us to be
• 44:24
  prepared and make sure that our relationship is good with God
• 44:29
  and that we seek him if we haven't already, but seek him
• 44:33
  now because we don't know when when this is when Jesus will
• 44:38
  return and or when we will die. You know, as a result,
• 44:42
  especially when war's going on, that makes it even more risky
• 44:46
  about knowing when your death you could be in great health,
• 44:48
  but your life could be taken because of something with war
• 44:51
  related. So when did God turn the desert
• 44:55
  into pools of water? We must look at these prophecies
• 44:58
  as as they relate to spiritual, historical and future Kingdom
• 45:02
  realities. Spiritually, God turns a dry
• 45:05
  heart into a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
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  Historically, it may refer to the return of the Jews in their
• 45:13
  homeland after Babylonian captivity or in the 20th
• 45:17
  century. But God also uses these kinds of
• 45:20
  imageries to describe a future time when the earth itself would
• 45:25
  be transformed and a future Kingdom will be established.
• 45:29
  And that's in Revelation chapter 21, verse one.
• 45:36
  Who was this one? We read that already.
• 45:38
  And then why did Potters tread the clay?
• 45:40
  To remove air bubbles? Potters found clay in the
• 45:44
  ground, added water and some fine sand to get the right
• 45:48
  consistency, then removed the water.
• 45:50
  They then stomped over it to release any air pockets that
• 45:54
  would weaken the final product. Builders used a similar process
• 45:58
  in making mortar for construction with stones or
• 46:01
  brink or bricks and that's found in the book of Naham after three
• 46:06
  verse 14. So a lot of these things, I
• 46:11
  think they it did refer to Cyrus, but then I don't know
• 46:16
  that I still have a very clear understanding.
• 46:19
  I think there's still some parts what I would need to study it
• 46:22
  longer and really meditate on the word and ask God for clarity
• 46:26
  on these, because it does seem like a lot of it does point to a
• 46:30
  future time, a time when Jesus returns from a lot of the words
• 46:35
  that are used in here. So anyway, take a look and see
• 46:38
  what you think and use the blue letter Bible to dig deeper into
• 46:43
  the word 01 thing I forgot to mention was I was going to wrap
• 46:47
  this up and this it's not that short anyway, but if you search
• 46:52
  from the north, it, it often talks about I I think even in
• 46:57
  the future it's going to be from the north.
• 47:00
  There will be these enemies. That come.
• 47:04
  Against Israel and like I was saying before, it's kind of like
• 47:08
  the same land. And there was something that I
• 47:11
  discovered that was kind of interesting.
• 47:14
  First of all, Oh gosh, I don't even know if I can find it now
• 47:19
  because I I had so many and and it this will be a really long
• 47:25
  podcast if I read through all of this, because this is something
• 47:29
  you might want to do is just search from the north because I
• 47:32
  don't know that I'm going to necessarily find what I was
• 47:36
  wanted to talk about. Well, here's there.
• 47:42
  Is a little bit more that I want to talk about.
• 47:44
  So back later on in Isaiah, in chapter 49 verse 8, I have this
• 47:52
  highlighted. This is what the Lord says, in
• 47:54
  the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of
• 47:57
  salvation I will help you, I will keep you, and I will make
• 48:03
  you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and
• 48:08
  to reassign its desolate inheritance.
• 48:12
  Say to the captives, come out and to those in darkness be
• 48:15
  free. They will feed beside the
• 48:17
  roadsides and find pasture on the barren hill.
• 48:20
  Now this is the restoration of Israel.
• 48:22
  It's being talked about and is in the day of salvation.
• 48:26
  That is when Jesus returns, and Israel will be a covenant for
• 48:32
  the people. I will keep you and will make
• 48:36
  you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and
• 48:41
  to reassign its desolate inheritances.
• 48:47
  So we ultimately become a part of Israel.
• 48:51
  So the ones who are against Israel right now, you might want
• 48:54
  to rethink that because if you are going to be in God's
• 48:58
  Kingdom, then we are all going to become a part of Israel and
• 49:02
  we're actually going to settle in land of the Israelites.
• 49:06
  So it's it's something that probably is a good time to read
• 49:15
  the Bible and to find out. But anyway, search on if you
• 49:22
  want to get more into this. OK, so it relates.
• 49:27
  This is this was what was interesting to me and I can't
• 49:30
  find the I can't find it right now.
• 49:32
  But when it talks about coming from the north, it talks about
• 49:37
  iron and bronze. And what that did is it made me
• 49:42
  think about the book of Daniel. And in the book of Daniel, when
• 49:48
  he has this vision, he talks about the.
• 49:55
  Let's see, I want to read this. OK.
• 50:00
  Your Majesty looked. And before you stood a large
• 50:04
  statue, an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance.
• 50:08
  The head was made of gold, its chest and arms of silver, its
• 50:13
  belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, and its feet iron
• 50:18
  and partly baked clay. And so he interprets it, and he
• 50:25
  says that the first Kingdom, so the head is Nebuchadnezzar, he
• 50:31
  was the king of Babylon. And then a third Kingdom 1 of
• 50:34
  bronze will rule over the whole earth.
• 50:39
  And so then there was a fourth Kingdom that will be as strong
• 50:44
  as iron. So when he talked about the
• 50:48
  nations coming from the north like they are, there's a piece
• 50:52
  part of scripture that talks about them being bronze and iron
• 50:58
  again, I was, I was thinking that reminded me of that statue
• 51:02
  and those kingdoms and those kingdoms and what they
• 51:05
  represent, which I no, I can't even find the drawing that I'm
• 51:10
  looking for in here. This is I should have that page
• 51:14
  marked, but I will maybe find it in a minute and the about the
• 51:21
  dream because I think it's significant and what chapter it
• 51:24
  was, it was in chapter actually Chapter 7.
• 51:27
  So the head of gold was Babylon, the chest and arms and silver
• 51:36
  that was like Persia, the belly and thighs of bronze that was,
• 51:41
  it says Grecian. But it it's really Yevon and
• 51:46
  it's the Ionians. So I had to look up who are the
• 51:48
  Ionians? And the Ionians are where Turkey
• 51:53
  is today. So we had like the Babylonians,
• 51:56
  that's where Iraq is today. The Medes and the Persians are
• 52:01
  where Iran is today, like the, I guess the modern day for that
• 52:07
  land. So modern day Babylonia is Iraq,
• 52:11
  modern day Persia or Medes is Iran.
• 52:16
  And then modern day Greek or it's not Greece, it's actually
• 52:21
  Turkey. So I find it kind of
• 52:24
  interesting. And then the other one it says
• 52:28
  Roman. So it's all like the Roman
• 52:31
  entity was the iron. So I I think.
• 52:36
  It might. Be repetitive, it might be a
• 52:41
  clue of the alliances that are going to happen in the end times
• 52:47
  and because it seems like the lands still come up, they still
• 52:57
  are allies. There's like a there's another
• 53:00
  verse too that made me think about this.
• 53:04
  In Jeremiah chapter 49 verse 35, it says this is what the Lord
• 53:08
  Almighty says. See, I will break the bow of
• 53:12
  Elam, the mainstay of their might.
• 53:16
  So Elam is another name for modern day Iran, and this is
• 53:24
  what it says I will bring against.
• 53:29
  I'm going to just use the. Modern day.
• 53:31
  Iran, the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, I will
• 53:35
  scatter them to the four winds, and there will not be a nation
• 53:39
  where Elams exiles do not go. I will shatter Elam before their
• 53:46
  foes, before those who want to kill them.
• 53:50
  I will bring disaster on them, even my fierce anger, declares
• 53:54
  the Lord. I will pursue them with the
• 53:56
  sword until I have made an end of them.
• 54:01
  I will set my throne in Elam and destroy her king and officials,
• 54:06
  declares the Lord. Yet, I will restore the fortunes
• 54:11
  of Elam in days to come. So right now, Elam is not in
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  fortunes right now. I mean, there's some that have
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  money, but the poor people who are living there right now, they
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  are not having water. There's reports of that.
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  They're losing their electricity.
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  There's a lot of things that are happening right now in August
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  14th, 2025, where these people are suffering greatly right now.
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  So God does have a restoration plan.
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  Anyone from any nation who turns to God can be saved so and
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  acknowledges Jesus as the Son of God.
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  There is forgiveness for sins, and there is a place in God's
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  Kingdom and. Then it.
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  Says in Zechariah Chapter 9, verse 13, I will bend Judah as I
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  bend my bow and fill it with Ephraim.
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  So God's using his people. Judah and Ephraim are part of
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  the tribes. I will rouse your son's Zion
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  against your son's Greece. But it's really Yevon, which is
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  really Ionia, which is really Turkey.
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  So he's going to bring against, this is basically what it's I'm
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  seeing is Israel against Turkey and make you like a warrior's
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  sword. So Israel's going to come
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  against Turkey at some point in Zechariah Chapter 9 verse 13.
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  Now listen to this. What happens in verse 14 of
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  Zechariah? Then the Lord will appear over
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  them. His arrow will flash like
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  lightning. Remember how it says He appears
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  in the East just like lightning does from the east?
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  OK, then the Sovereign Lord will sound the trumpet.
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  He will March in the storms of the South and the Lord Almighty
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  will shield them. They will destroy and overcome
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  with sling stones. They will drink and and roar as
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  with wine. They will be like a full, like
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  full, like a bowl used for sprinkling the corners of the
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  altar. The Lord their God will save his
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  people on that day as a shepherd saves his flock.
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  They will sparkle in his hand like jewels in a crown.
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  How attractive and beautiful they will be.
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  Grain will make the young men thrive and new wine the young
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  women. So that's Zechariah Chapter 9
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  and let's see what else was there.
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  I somehow I was in the book of. Hosea as well, reading things
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  that it led me to. So I, I need to try to get a
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  little bit better organized for this because I start searching
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  things and then I have all these tabs open and I can't find them
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  in the sequence when I want to talk about them.
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  Like where my mind went. But I went all over the Bible
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  just finding, doing. Searches.
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  On this, and I think a lot of it that led me on onto these other
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  chapters were searching things and reading them in context when
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  you search from the North. So there's, you know, definitely
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  sounds like there's going to be an alliance of north.
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  It's kind of interesting. In Jeremiah, can a man break
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  iron, iron from the north or bronze?
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  We were just talking about bronze and iron.
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  There's another verse in Scripture somewhere where it
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  talks about bronze and iron. And that's where I got to.
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  You know, all of a sudden I had that thought in my mind about
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  that image that was in the dream where the bronze and the iron.
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  That's basically Turkey and a Roman Empire.
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  Well, there's a lot of people that I don't know.
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  Let's let's you know that could be Turkey would be the Assyrian.
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  Who knows if that's going to be the end and if it's a Roman, if
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  that's what that you know, the iron is.
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  There's also talk about a a false prophet too.
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  So as being a part of it, the different beasts that are coming
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  against that will rule the whole earth.
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  So it's just interesting to search more, but Scripture is,
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  it leaves a lot to interpretation.
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  So not saying that anything that I've noticed here is, is
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  relevant. Well, some of it is if it's
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  backed up by Scripture, but some of it is just you can't
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  absolutely say this is what it means.
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  You can see that there are multiple interpretations of
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  these things. So that's what makes it
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  interesting is because we don't really have the full
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  understanding, but we can pray about it and maybe as we read
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  more, God will reveal more to us.
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  So hope you come back for Chapter 42 and we'll do that
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  next time.