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711. Bible Study: Isaiah 18 (Endtime? prophecy against Cush/Sudan)? · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 18 from the book of Isaiah.
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  Dear God please help us as we read through this chapter and
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  give us wisdom and insight to understand what is written here.
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  We ask for this in Jesus name. Chapter 18.
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  Woe to the land of warring wings along the rivers of Cush, which
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  sends envoys by sea and papyrus boats over the water.
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  Go swift messengers to a people tall and smooth skinned, to a
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  people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange
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  speech whose land is divided by rivers.
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  All you people of the world, you who live on the earth, when a
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  banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it, and
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  when a trumpet sounds, you will hear it.
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  This is what the Lord says to me.
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  I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place
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  like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a dew, like a
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  cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
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  For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower
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  becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with
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  pruning knives and cut down and take away the spreading
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  branches. They they will all be left to
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  the mountain birds of prey and to the wild animals.
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  The birds will feed on them all summer, the wild animals all
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  winter. At that time gifts will be
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  brought to the Lord Almighty from a people tall and smooth
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  skinned, from a people feared far and wide, an aggressive
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  nation of strange speech whose land is divided by rivers.
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  The gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the
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  name of the Lord Almighty. And this is the end of chapter
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  18. So I think this has a lot of
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  future implications. First I will read what the Study
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  Bible has to say and then I will get into things that I noticed
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  when I read this. So what was the land of
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  worrying? Wearing wings along with the
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  rivers of Cush? Cush was a region just outside
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  or just South of Egypt, now Sudan.
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  It was also known as in ancient times as Nubia or Ethiopia, but
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  not to be confused with modern Ethiopia which is which is
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  located farther to the southeast.
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  Worrying Wings is either a reference to insects for which
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  the Nile Valley was renowned, or a figurative description of the
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  armies of Cush. Chapters 18 through 20 deal with
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  Egypt and Cush, which were at one at this time.
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  Who were these tall and smooth skinned people?
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  The people of Cush. Unlike the Israelites and
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  Canaanites, the men of Cush in Egypt were normally smooth
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  shaved. Even Greeks like Herodotus
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  shared the general admiration felt in antiquity for the tall,
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  handsome, clean shaven Nubians of Cush.
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  Why would God remain quiet and look on from this his dwelling
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  place? Isaiah often urged his
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  contemporaries to adopt an attitude of quiet faith in their
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  God instead of trusting in alliances with other powers.
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  Here God himself was quiet, contemplating the frenzied scene
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  of diplomatic and military activity.
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  When Isaiah commended quiet trust, therefore, he was really
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  calling his hearers to view things from a divine viewpoint.
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  When will these gifts be brought to the Lord Almighty?
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  Verse 7 looks beyond the impending defeat of the armies
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  of Cush and Egypt by the Assyrians.
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  Ultimately, Isaiah was reminding his readers that God intended
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  for even an aggressive nation like Cush to worship the Lord
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  Almighty, bringing their offerings to Jesus, bringing
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  their offerings to Jerusalem. The very people who from their
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  position of strength had sent word to Judah to secure her
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  cooperation in a military venture would come again with
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  gifts for the true God. God's final purposes in history
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  involve people from all nations. So I will go through now what
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  the things that I noticed when I read this.
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  So first of all, it in verse 2 it says ghost swift messengers.
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  And I was curious about who are these messengers that are going
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  to these people and it turns out that it's the word MALAK malak,
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  which are angels. So ghost swift angels to these
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  people who are feared far and wide.
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  And then I really believe again, this does talk about future
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  because it says in here, all you people of the world, you who
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  live on earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you
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  will see it. And when a trumpet sounds, you
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  will hear it. Well, what does that really
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  sound like? That sounds like when Jesus
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  returns, every eye will see and there's a trumpet that'll be
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  sounded. So this definitely sounds like
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  the return of Jesus, that everyone will hear this.
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  And I thought I had looked up the trumpets, but trumpets,
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  that's an interesting thing. I think that I did look up
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  trumpets, but it was there were so many verses that talked about
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  trumpets that it would probably be too much to read on this
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  podcast. But if you want to do a word
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  search in like blueletterbible.org, search
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  trumpet and see how many references come up because the
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  trumpets were used for an assembly, also a warning.
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  So those were the 2 common ways that this was used.
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  And so when Jesus returns, we know that he comes on the clouds
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  and the sound of a trumpet will be heard.
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  And so this really sounds like the return of Jesus.
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  And it says, all you people of the world, you who live on the
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  earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see
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  it. When a trumpet sounds, you will
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  hear it. So then it says I will remain
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  quiet and look on for my dwelling place.
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  This is the Lord saying like shimmering heat in the sunshine,
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  like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
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  Well, a lot of times when I mean the harvest is related to the
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  return of Jesus. So it says for before the
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  harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a
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  ripening grate, he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives
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  and cut down and take away the spreading branches.
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  So this brought to mind Revelation chapter 14, verse 14.
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  And so it's this is the verse I looked and there before me was a
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  white cloud. And seated on the cloud was one
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  like the Son of man with a gold, with a crown of gold on his head
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  and a sharp sickle in his hand. Now I'll continue reading.
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  So then another Angel came out of the temple and called in a
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  loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, Take your
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  sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the
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  harvest of the earth is ripe. So Jesus is sitting on a cloud.
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  He has a crown, and he's got a sickle in his hand.
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  And another Angel came out of the temple in a loud voice
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  called and says, take your sickle and reap because it's
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  time. So he who was seated on the
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  cloud swung his sickle over the earth and the earth was
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  harvested. So Jesus harvest, he swings his
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  sickle over the earth and the earth was harvested.
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  Now then there's another Angel. Another Angel came out of the
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  temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle, and still
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  another Angel. So this is the third Angel who
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  had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a
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  loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle.
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  Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes
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  from the earth's vine, from the earth's spine, because its
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  grapes are ripe. Now, this is the second time
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  that it was harvested. So it was harvested by one who
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  was sitting on the cloud. The earth was harvested, but
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  then there's this other one, this secondary harvest.
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  And then listen to what happens to these.
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  The Angel swung his The Angel swung his sickle on the earth,
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  gathered its grapes, and threw them into the great winepress of
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  God's wrath. They were trampled in the wine
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  press outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press,
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  rising as high as the horse's bridles for a distance of 1600
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  stadia. So he who was seated on the
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  cloud, seated on the cloud, swung a circle over the earth,
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  and the earth was harvested. That's Jesus.
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  Remember, he comes on a cloud with the sound of the trumpet.
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  But then there's an Angel who comes and gathers the grapes and
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  throws them into the great wine press.
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  So to me this is what it says. For before the harvest, when the
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  blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he
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  will cut off the shoots with pruning knives and cut down and
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  take away the spreading branches.
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  Then it says they will, they will all be left to the mountain
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  birds of prey and to the wild animals.
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  The birds will feed on them all summer, the wild animals all
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  winter. So this reminded me of
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  Revelation chapter 19, verse 17, it says.
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  And I saw an Angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud
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  voice to all the birds flying in mid air.
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  Come, gather together for the great supper of God, so that you
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  may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty of
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  horses, and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free
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  and slave, great and small. Then I saw the beast in the
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  kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to wage
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  war against the rider on the horse in his army.
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  But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who
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  had performed the signs on its Behan behalf.
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  With the signs he had deluded those who had received the mark
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  of the beast and worshipped its image.
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  The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of
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  burning sulfur. The rest were killed with the
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  sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse and all
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  the birds gorged themselves on his flesh.
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  So this is, you know, because a lot of times these prophecies,
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  they go, they, there's a whole lot of time that passes in
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  between these. So these are not like
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  simultaneous things that happen, but rather different events that
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  will happen because then right after that it talks about people
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  bringing gifts. At that time, gifts will be
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  brought to the Lord Almighty. So how do you go from, you know,
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  a harvesting and treading on the wine press to all of a sudden
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  now gifts are being brought to the Lord?
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  So there's these, these stages, they aren't just like all
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  happening at one time. So at the at the time gifts will
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  be brought to the Lord from my people, tall and smooth skin
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  from my people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of
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  strange speech whose land is divided by rivers.
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  The gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the
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  name of the Lord Almighty. So when are people going to be
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  bringing gifts to the Lord Almighty?
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  I believe it's probably going to be the Feast of Tabernacles
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  because in Bible prophecy and other prophetic books, it says
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  that people will continue to come to Zion or Jerusalem to
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  celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
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  So in the new King James Version, it talks about, let's
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  see the first, there's several different verses to read here,
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  but Deuteronomy 13 or 16, verse 13, you shall observe the Feast
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  of Tabernacles, 7 days when you have gathered from your
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  threshing floor and from your wine press.
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  So a lot of these things, these original traditions were
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  symbolic of future events. So then it says in Deuteronomy
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  1616, three times a year all your males shall appear before
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  the Lord your God in the place which He chooses at the Feast of
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  Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of
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  Tabernacles. And they shall not appear before
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  the Lord empty handed. So they are bringing gifts at
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  that time. So then also in Second
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  Chronicles 813, according to this daily rate offering,
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  according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbath, the new
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  moons, and three appointed yearly feast, the Feast of
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  Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of
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  Tabernacles. And then in Zechariah chapter
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  14, verse 16. And it shall come to pass that
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  everyone who is left of all the nations which came against
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  Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the king, the
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  Lord of hosts, and to keep the feasts of Tabernacles.
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  That one I think definitely is about the future time.
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  So because they're going up to worship the king, the Lord of
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  hosts, and then it says additionally from Zechariah
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  chapter 14, if the family of Egypt will not come up and enter
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  in, they shall have no rain. They shall receive the plague
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  with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to
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  keep the Feast of Tabernacles. This shall be the punishment of
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  Egypt and the punishment of all nations that do not come up to
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  keep the Feast of Tabernacles. I believe that's referring to
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  rain though on well yeah, they shall have no reign.
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  So those are all the things and because of those I believe that
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  this is actually a future prophecy against Sudan today are
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  Kush is called in the Bible.