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894. Bible Study: Malachi 3 & 4 ("Prepare the Way," "suddenly" "the Day of the Lord"- Return of Jesus!) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapters 3 and 4 from the prophet Malachi.
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  Let's get started first with a prayer.
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  Dear Lord, please be with us as we read through these chapters
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  and open our hearts, our minds and knowledge to receive what
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  you have given to Malachi and to apply to our own lives.
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  We ask this in Jesus name Amen. Oi will read through chaters 3
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  and 4, then I will go through the study Bible questions and
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  answers, and then I will get into the things that came to
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  mind as I read through this. O it starts out I will send my
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  messenger who will prepare the way before me.
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  Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple.
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  The messenger of the covenant whom you desire will come, says
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  the Lord Almighty. But who can endure the day of
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  his coming? Who can stand when he appears?
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  For he will be like a refiner's fire or a launderer's soap.
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  He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.
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  He will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and
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  silver. Then the Lord will have men who
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  will bring offerings in righteousness, and the offerings
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  of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the Lord as in
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  days gone by, as in former years.
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  So I will come to put you on trial.
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  I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers,
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  perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages,
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  who oppose the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the
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  foreigners among you of justice. But do not fear me, says the
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  Lord. I, the Lord, do not change, so
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  you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.
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  Ever since the time of your ancestors, you have turned away
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  from my decrees and have not kept them.
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  Return to me and I will return to you, says the Lord Almighty.
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  But you ask, how are we to return?
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  Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me.
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  But you ask, how are we robbing you in tithes and offerings?
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  You are under a curse, your whole nation, because you are
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  robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the
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  storehouse, that there may be food in my house.
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  Test me in this, says the Lord Almighty, and see if I will not
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  throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much
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  blessing that there will not be enough room to store it.
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  I will prevent pest from devouring your crops, and the
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  vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it's
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  ripe, says the Lord Almighty. Then all the nations will call
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  you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land, says the Lord
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  Almighty. You have spoken arrogantly
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  against me, says the Lord. Yet you ask, what have we said
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  against you? You have said it is futile to
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  serve God. What?
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  What do we gain by carrying out His requirements of going about
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  like the mourners before the Lord Almighty?
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  But now we call the arrogant blessed certain.
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  Certainly evil. Evil doers prosper, and even
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  when they put God to the test, they get away with it.
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  Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the
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  Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was
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  written in his presence concerning those who feared the
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  Lord and honored His name on that day.
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  When I act, says the Lord Almighty, they will be my
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  treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a
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  father has compassion and spares his Son who serves him.
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  And you will again see the distinction between the
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  righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and
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  those who do not. Chapter 4.
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  Surely the day is coming, it will burn like a furnace.
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  All the arrogant and every evil doer will be stubble.
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  And the day that is coming will set them on fire, says the Lord
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  Almighty. Not a root or a branch will be
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  left in them, but for you who Revere my name.
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  The Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in its rays,
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  and you will go out and frolic like well fed calves.
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  Then you will trample on the wicked.
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  They will be ashes under the soles of your feet.
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  On the day when I act, says the Lord Almighty, remember the law
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  of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for
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  all of Israel. See, I will send the prophet
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  Elijah to you before the great and dreadful day of the Lord
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  comes. He will turn the hearts of the
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  parents to their children and hearts of the children to their
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  parents, or else I will come and strike the land with total
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  destruction. And that's the end of chapter 3
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  and 4. So I'll read what the study
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  Bible questions and answers are. And actually, I think I forgot a
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  couple from chapter 2, so I'm going to read that one.
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  So when do our words push God too far?
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  Other places in the Bible, especially the book of Job, show
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  that the living God welcomes our words, even words of doubt,
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  frustration, and need when we emerge from our attempts to be
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  faithful and obedient to Him. But some words come out of cold
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  indifference to the will and glory of God when people try to
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  justify themselves by saying everyone does it, so my sin
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  can't be that serious of a problem.
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  Their rationalization provokes God's wrath.
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  Whom does this promised messenger refer to?
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  This refers to John the Baptist, the one sent to prepare the way
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  for the Messiah. What is the refiner's fire?
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  This is the process by which precious metals are shaped.
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  The Goldsmith Stokes up the fire until it's hot enough to burn
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  away all the impurities. Similarly, when the living God
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  comes, he burns away everything in us that displeases Him.
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  What is launderer's soap? The alkaline Lye used to bleach
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  dirty garments white Only because God comes as fire and
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  soap Can we offer pure offerings and worship to the Holy One,
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  which provides the promise in 111.
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  How does fearing God lead to social justice?
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  Israel's fear of God, or lack of it, influence the way she
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  structured her society, laws, and commerce.
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  Those who fear God also fear offending God by committing
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  injustice. Those who love God reach out to
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  the poor, the vulnerable, and the needy, doing what they can
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  to alleviate hardship. Do we have to tithe?
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  The word tithe simply means 10th to 10th means to offer to God
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  the 1st, 10th of whatever God gives.
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  Abraham offered it, and the Mosaic Law required it as an act
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  of gratitude and allegiance. The New Testament does not
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  directly teach the tithe, possibly because it may be
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  assumed not as the goal but as the starting place.
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  The New Testament teaches us to use all we are and do for all we
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  are and do for the glory of God. Should we give in order to get?
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  God is saying that if we choose to be generous, He will keep
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  giving to us so that we can continue our lifestyle of
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  giving. Giving the the tithe does not
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  require God to make us rich. Giving the tithe is our way of
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  telling God, I trust you to give me all I need to follow you in a
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  life of generosity. Was God offended by their
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  doubts? Their expression of doubt was
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  not the problem. Many of God's people have
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  forcefully expressed doubt, including David, Job, Jeremiah,
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  Habakkuk. The problem was that the people
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  weren't serious about serving God.
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  What was a scroll of remembrance?
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  God remembers those who honor Him.
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  Even if faithful people feel forgotten, acts of loyalty to
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  God will be rewarded in due time.
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  How can we tell good people from bad?
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  We can't always tell, though. In the previous verses of this
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  chapter, God does provide insight into what pleases Him.
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  However, this verse speaks of a coming judgment when God will
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  reveal the righteous and unrighteous.
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  Will evil doers literally burn? The picture here is of the good
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  grain having been harvested and the remaining stubble being set
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  on fire so that the field can be used.
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  Again, this may be a figurative, not necessarily literal,
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  description of judgement. However, the Bible does
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  frequently refer to the burning of the wicked.
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  What is the Sun of Righteousness?
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  After the firestorm sweeps through, a new day will dawn.
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  The sunrise Malachi had in mind was the coming of God's Messiah,
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  Jesus Christ. How do rays heal?
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  Just as the sun rises and spreads its rays in every
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  direction, bringing light and warmth, so Jesus Christ, when He
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  brings salvation, brings light, warmth and healing.
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  Do these verses suggest that Elijah will be reincarnated?
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  These verses are a commentary on chapter 3, verse one, which
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  predicts the coming of a messenger who will prepare the
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  way for the coming Messiah. Though many people thought this
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  meant that Elijah would return from the dead before the great
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  and terrible day of the Lord, Jesus redirected that thinking
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  by saying that Elijah had already come in the person of
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  John the Baptist. How could God strike the land?
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  This was a figurative way of describing the negative
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  consequences of sin in the land. When people rebel against God,
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  the fallout effects many others besides those who have sinned.
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  In this case, Malachi was alluding to the curse of
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  breakdowns in family relationships.
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  If parents and children did not turn to God, they would be
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  unable to turn to each other. And that concludes all of what's
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  in the study Bible. But there were so many things
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  that I noticed when I was reading through this.
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  And so I will continue on with those those things.
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  And one of them was preparing the way.
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  And it's interesting because this is the very first verse I
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  will send my messenger who will prepare the way before me.
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  And as the study Bible said, this is referring to John the
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  Baptist. A lot of the times it goes back
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  to Isaiah, who was a much earlier prophet and he had in
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  Isaiah 40, verse three, it said a voice of one calling in the
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  wilderness. Prepare the way for the Lord
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  mate, straight in the desert, a highway for our God.
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  In Isaiah 6210 it says pass through, pass through the gates.
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  Prepare the way for the people, build up, build up the highway,
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  remove the stones, raise a banner for the nations.
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  And then in Malachi there was a couple times in chapter 3 when
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  it talked about preparing the way.
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  I will send my messenger who will prepare the way before me.
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  Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple.
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  The messenger of the covenant whom you desire will come, says
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  the Lord Almighty. This is talking about Jesus.
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  Then in first in Matthew verse 3 or Matthew chapter 3 verse 3,
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  this is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah, a
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  voice of one calling in the wilderness for the way for the
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  Lord make straight paths for him.
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  So that was Isaiah chapter 40, verse 3 in in Matthew, it's
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  written about and it's referring to John the Baptist In Matthew
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  chapter 3, verse one, it says in those days John the Baptist came
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  preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying repent for the
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  Kingdom of heaven has come near. This is he who was spoken of
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  through the prophet Isaiah, a voice of one calling in the
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  wilderness, prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths
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  for him. And then it talks a little bit
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  more about a John the Baptist, but I'm going to go back to
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  oops, I did the wrong thing. I oh shoot, I got lost on my OK,
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  I had these all these tabs opened up for different parts in
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  the Bible. So it in Mark, it also says the
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  same thing. Mark chapter one, verse 3, a
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  voice of one calling in the wilderness.
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  Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.
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  And then in Luke chapter one, verse 76, this is and you, my
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  child will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will
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  go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him.
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  Now this is again who was being spoken to.
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  This was Zechariah who is being spoken to, and this is a John
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  the Baptist dad. So it says, let's see, it talks
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  about the birth of John the Baptist in Luke chapter 1.
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  And then there's this part in the Study Bible that says
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  Zechariah's song. And it says his father Zechariah
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  was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, praise be to the
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  Lord the God of Israel, because he has come to his people and
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  redeemed them. He has raised up a horn of
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  salvation for us in the House of His servant David, as He said
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  through His holy prophets long ago.
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  Salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate
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  us. To show mercy to our ancestors
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  and to remember His holy covenant, the oath He swore to
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  our Father Abraham to rescue us from the hands of our enemies
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  and to enable us to serve Him without fear, in holiness and
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  righteousness before Him all our days.
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  And you, my child, will be called a prophet, the Most High,
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  for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him,
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  to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the
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  forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of
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  our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven to
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  shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of
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  death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.
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  And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he lived
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  in the wilderness until he appeared publicly to Israel.
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  So this was Zechariah talking to his son John the Baptist.
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  And that's again repeated in Luke chapter 3 as it is written
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  in the book of the words of the Isaiah, the prophet, a voice of
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  one calling in the wilderness, Prepare the way for the Lord,
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  make straight paths for him. Then what's really interesting
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  is it's almost like the opposite when I just search, prepare the
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  way. And what's interesting is this
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  is when the trumpets start blowing in the Book of
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  Revelation or not the trumpets, I'm sorry, it's the bowl.
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  But the 6th Angel, this is Revelation 16 chapter 16, verse
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  12. The 6th Angel poured out his
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  bowl on the great river Euphrates and it's water was
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  dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east.
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  Now these are not good kings if you get into that.
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  It's they talk about like demons and also impure spirits that
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  come out of the mouths. And so there's and this is about
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  they, they gathered the kings together to the place that in
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  Hebrew is called Armageddon. So this is that that great
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  battle of the evil ones that are, that are coming through.
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  So that is interesting because even though, you know, John the
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  Baptist was preparing for Jesus, it's almost like there's a
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  prepared way for the evil one. It's like a copy.
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  A lot of people have said this about just like in the end
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  times, how there's going to be a false Messiah.
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  There's going to be like the opposite.
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  There's going to be good and evil.
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  It's it's ultimately like a battle between good and evil and
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  less of deception too. But there's going to be a false
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  prophet, There's going to be the Antichrist, There's going to be
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  the beast, which is really an alliance of nations that come
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  together and they're just they're on the enemy's team.
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  They're not on God's team. So just this prepare the way
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  theme is kind of interesting. Let's see, there was something
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  else, oh that I was reading. So verse one I will send my
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  messenger who will prepare the way before me.
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  So obviously that is John the Baptist multiple times in
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  Scripture. Here's what's interesting.
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  The next thing then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come
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  to his temple. And what's interesting is
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  because when I read that I thought, oh, I wonder if that
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  means that a temple will be built when Jesus comes.
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  Maybe, maybe not. So I did look up the word and
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  it's Heckel and I'm probably not pronouncing it correctly, but it
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  is. Let's see it's I don't know if I
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  have the strong's word, but it it says probably it's a large
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  public building such as a palace or temple.
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  So it could be something there's, there's some, I guess
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  the place where God wants to reside on the definitions or the
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  outline of the biblical usage talks about palace, temple,
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  nave, sanctuary, hall. So there's a lot of different
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  ways, but some place of, of presence.
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  But it says then suddenly, and that word suddenly kind of stood
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  out to me because of the way that it describes the day of the
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  Lord. And and so I did look up the day
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  of the Lord because it says, but who can endure the day of his
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  coming? This is the coming of Jesus.
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  So who can stand when he appears?
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  And this is I, I thought there's so many times where many of the
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  prophets talk about the day of the Lord.
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  So I went ahead and searched the day of the Lord and there's 19
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  exact phrases. And so I will kind of read
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  through those because a lot of them are from the prophets.
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  And then there's also some New Testament references as well.
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  So starting with Isaiah chapter 13 verse 6, wail for the day of
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  the Lord is near. It will come like destruction
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  from the Almighty. In Isaiah 13 verse 9, see the
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  day of the Lord is coming, a cruel day with wrath and fierce
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  anger to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within
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  it. And then Ezekiel talks about it
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  in chapter 13 and chapter 30. So in chapter 13 he says you
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  have not gone to the gone up to the breeches in the wall to
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  repair it for the people of Israel so that it will stand
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  firm in the battle on the day of the Lord.
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  In chapter 30, he talks about for the day is near, the day of
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  the Lord is near, a day of clouds, a time of doom for the
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  nations. And then Joel, another prophet,
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  talks about this day, alas for that day, For the day of the
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  Lord is near. It will come like destruction
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  from the Almighty. That's exactly like what Isaiah
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  said. Joel and Isaiah said the exact
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  same thing pretty much. Isaiah's was whale For the day
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  of the Lord is near. It will come like destruction
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  from the Almighty. And then Joel said, Alas for the
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  day, for the day of the Lord is near, it will come like
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  destruction from the Almighty. Then in chapter 2, Joel says,
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  Blow the trumpet in Zion, sound the alarm on my holy hill, let
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  all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the Lord
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  is coming. It is close at hand.
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  A little bit later in the chapter 2, it says the Lord
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  thunders at the head of his army.
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  His forces are beyond number, and mighty is the army that
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  obeys his command. The day of the Lord is great, it
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  is dreadful. Who can endure it?
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  That's exactly like what Malachi said.
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  Who can stand when he appears? So this is the same thing Joel
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  chapter 3 says multitudes, multitudes in the valley of
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  decision for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of
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  decision. Amos, another prophet said, woe
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  to you who long for the day of the Lord.
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  Why do you long for the day of the Lord?
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  That day will be darkness, not light.
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  And then a little bit later he says, will you will not the day
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  of the Lord be darkness, not light, pitch dark without a ray
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  of brightness. When I had, I had, I started
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  having dreams and I have I've had three rapture dreams and
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  each one of the rapture dreams were like different scenes, but
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  in every single one of them, everything went black.
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  And so when, and this was before, like very early on, my
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  first rapture dream was in 2022 and then my next one I think was
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  just shortly after that, I had a second one.
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  And then about nine months later I had a third one.
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  So I think that was like in 23 when I had that in like January
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  of 23. So it's very interesting.
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  They all kind of, but they all had that same detail that it
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  just went pitch black 1st and then light came.
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  And that's what I found in scripture.
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  And I, I had read the Bible, but I hadn't studied it like I had.
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  I just read the Bible for the first time in 2019.
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  And over the, the years I've been studying it more.
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  But it was very interesting that my dreams, I would start to look
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  up, does it really say this in the Bible?
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  And then I would find that it does a lot of the things that I
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  was shown in my dream. So it's very interesting.
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  So then Obadiah is another prophet and he said the day of
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  the Lord is near for all nations.
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  As you have done, it will be done to you.
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  Your deeds will return upon your head.
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  Well, Obadiah is saying something that we've heard quite
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  a lot recently. It's about reaping and sowing
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  that what you sow you will reap. So if it's good or if it's bad,
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  what you sow is what you will reap.
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  And Obadiah says that now the day of the Lord is near for all
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  the nations. As you have done, it will be
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  done to you. Your deeds will return upon your
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  own head. Zephaniah, another one.
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  Be silent before the sovereign Lord, for the day of the Lord is
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  near. The Lord has prepared a
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  sacrifice. He has consecrated those he has
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  invited. A little bit later he says the
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  great day of the Lord is near, near and coming quickly.
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  The cry on the day of the Lord is bitter.
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  The mighty warrior shouts his battle cry, and that's the end.
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  Those are all prophets, and they were all talking about the day
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  of the Lord. And obviously the day of the
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  Lord has not come yet, and we're still talking about the future
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  day of the Lord, the day that Jesus returns and he was
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  returning for a battle. As Zephaniah said, the mighty
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  warrior shouts his battle cry. So Paul talks about it too in
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  First Corinthian, First Corinthians 5 verse 5, and he's
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  talking about a man who was in a church and he was sexually
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  immoral and nobody was saying anything to him about, but I
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  guess he was in like leadership or something.
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  And So what he said to them, this is what Paul said, hand
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  this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh so that
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  his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.
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  And that gives us a lot of insight.
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  Like he was like, just, I guess, let him continue what he's
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  doing. Because, you know, just as we've
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  talked about in podcasts on the in the past, is that Satan is
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  very manipulative. He will put something really
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  appealing in front of people, especially when it gets into
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  like sexual immorality and stuff like that because our world is
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  so full of that and, and it's appealing to people so they go
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  after it. I mean the same thing that we
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  talked about before with Balaam and how Balaam and Balak and
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  that's how the Israelites fell away from God through sexual
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  immorality. It's like 2 things that are like
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  the, the strongest things that Satan has power over people.
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  It's sex and idolatry. So when we're putting something
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  else more important than God, and when we're just pleasing our
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  physical self but not righteously, like God designed
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  us a certain way, but there's a way that's appropriate and a way
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  that's inappropriate. And our world pretty much
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  operates on the inappropriate non-stop.
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  And people don't seem to think there's anything wrong with it
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  anymore because people are not close to God and they're not
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  reading their Bibles because it's very clear that this is
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  something that God does not tolerate.
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  Anyway. Just like Paul's saying, turn
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  this man over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh so that
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  his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.
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  A lot of times God will, you know, he gives us free will.
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  We choose something that we know is bad for us.
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  And God just says, OK, you can do it.
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  That's your choice. I'm not going to force you, but
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  you're going to have consequences of that.
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  And eventually, because of who Satan is, he is just seeking to
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  kill and destroy. So he's going to start out, it's
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  going to be real good for a little bit, but then he's going
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  to do something. He's going to influence some way
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  so that it becomes awful that it doesn't turn into something
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  good. And you can like look back in
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  the past and probably see examples of this in your own
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  life where you've you've done something that wasn't right and
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  you continue doing it. And then what you found out was
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  that eventually it became something very destructive.
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  And that's exactly what Satan does, because he's not looking
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  at, he's not looking to give you joy and give you happiness.
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  He wants to destroy you. He's seeking like who can I
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  influence who is weak in their relationship with God where I
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  can come in and deceive them and manipulate them so they serve
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  him, so they serve Satan and in disobedience to God.
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  Because then he gets at God and then eventually he'll just
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  destroy the person. And that's what his plan is.
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  And people are suckers for it. They just fall for it.
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  And until somebody wakes up and their eyes are opened and then
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  they don't fall for it anymore. But it's, it's the evil one
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  that's just trying to destroy people, trying to keep people
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  from receiving the inheritance that God has planned for them
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  because they've rejected God. And if you reject, if you reject
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  Jesus the Son of God, you're not going to be in God's Kingdom.
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  If you don't have the Holy Spirit, you're not going to be
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  in God's Kingdom because Jesus said that.
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  So that's where the enemy is deceiving people like do you do
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  you have the Holy Spirit? Do you know if you have the Holy
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  Spirit? If you have the Holy Spirit,
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  there's what they call the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
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  You can find that in Galatians chapter 5 verse 22.
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  I think through, I don't know how far it goes, but talks about
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  like people who live worldly and the characteristics of them and
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  also people who live by the Spirit of God and what they are
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  like. And so that's a good chapter to
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  review and say, what do I live like?
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  Because if God's Spirit is in you, your life is going to
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  change. It's not going to stay the same.
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  You don't have to clean up your life before you come to Christ.
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  But when when Jesus gives you the Holy Spirit, when you're
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  truly repentant and you want to have that relationship with God,
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  then you will change because you want to please God.
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  I mean, Jesus basically said, if you love me, obey my commands.
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  So you're going to have that desire.
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  The Holy Spirit is going to change that in you where you
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  actually have the desire to do the things that God likes, that
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  God approves of. And that's, that's the change
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  that happens through the Holy Spirit.
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  It's not something anybody does. It's the Holy Spirit that works
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  in us. Anyway, Paul talks about let's
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  see, I don't I don't really he well in Thessalonians SO1
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  Thessalonians 5 verse 2 for you know very well that the day of
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  the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
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  People are going to be surprised.
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  So I'm going to read a little bit about this, the day of the
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  Lord, because he dedicates 1st Thessalonians 5, talks about the
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  day of the Lord. Now brothers and sisters, about
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  times and dates, we do not need to write you, for you know very
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  well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the
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  night. While people are saying peace
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  and safety, destruction will come on them suddenly, just like
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  we were reading in Malachi, then suddenly the Lord you are
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  seeking will come to his temple, going back to Thessalonians,
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  then destruction will come on them suddenly.
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  This is also concerning because everybody is talking about peace
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  and safety right now. That's the goal of the world
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  right now, and there is war going on, but the goal is peace
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  and safety. So whenever people start
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  emphasizing peace and safety, it makes me think about this verse.
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  I'm like, oh gosh, I don't know if that's such a great thing
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  because it says destruction will come on them suddenly as labor
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  pains on a pregnant woman and they will not escape.
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  And the day of the Lord is also equated to like a pregnancy and,
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  and about the birth pains. And we, I believe we're clearly
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  in the birth pains right now. And there's so many other people
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  that are saying this. I started thinking, wondering
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  this in 2020 and how here we are like 6 years later and it's only
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  intensified. I kept thinking, you know, maybe
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  it would not continue, but all it's done is like escalated and
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  all these strange things. It's just almost shocking.
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  Like I really can't believe this is all happening right now.
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  And there's a lot of other people who are seeing this too.
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  Like it just seems like we are so close we're, we won't know
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  until hindsight. So The thing is, you need to
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  prepare now and get right with God.
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  That's all I can say. Because if you're right with
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  God, if you've repented and you've asked and you believe in,
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  well, you believe in Jesus. You know about Jesus, you know
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  he died on the cross. You know that he was he was dead
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  and then raised back to life and he is living today.
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  If you believe that, you can find all that in the Gospel.
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  I'd read the Gospel of John if you hadn't heard it before.
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  And but if you believe that and then you want to have a good
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  relationship with Him, then you need to repent and say, I don't
• 34:29
  want the sin in my life that I've been living and ask for
• 34:34
  forgiveness and ask for the Holy Spirit because Jesus said we
• 34:38
  needed to be born again and the Holy Spirit then will change us.
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  So going back to First Thessalonians 5 verse 4.
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  But you brothers and sisters, are not in darkness that this
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  day should surprise you like a thief.
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  You are all children of the light and children of the day.
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  We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
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  So then, let us not be like others who are asleep, but let
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  us be awake and sober, for those who sleep, sleep at night, and
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  those who get drunk get drunk at night.
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  But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on
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  faith and love as a breastplate and the hope of salvation as a
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  helmet. For God did not appoint us to
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  suffer wrath, but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus
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  Christ. He died for us so that whether
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  we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.
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  Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as
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  in fact you were doing. So that was the word of from
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  Paul about the day of the Lord. And then he also talks about it
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  again. Oh, this was somebody saying
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  that it had already come, which it still hasn't come yet.
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  And then in second Peter chapter 3, verse 10.
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  But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, The heavens
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  will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by
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  fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be
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  laid bare. So there's a few verses prior to
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  that one. I just read that.
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  I want to read to you because this comes up quite often.
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  It says so. Second Peter chapter 3.
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  Start with verse 7. By the same word, the present
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  heavens and earth are reserved for fire.
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  Now remember we read that in Malachi 2 where it says that He
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  was, He's coming as a refiner and a purifier, and He will
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  refine them like gold and silver, which goes through the
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  fire. So the heavens and earth are
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  reserved for fire being kept for the day of judgement and
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  destruction of the ungodly. But do not forget this one
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  thing, dear friends, with the Lord, A day is like 1000 years,
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  and 1000 years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping
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  His promise as some understand slowlyness.
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  Instead He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish,
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  but everyone to come to repentance.
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  That's that word that doesn't get talked a lot, talked about a
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  lot in churches. People don't, they don't like to
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  do that. They like to talk about love,
• 37:48
  but not about repentance. But all over the Bible when I
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  read it, I see repentance everywhere.
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  And and that's what it says here, that the Lord wants
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  everyone to come to repentance. That means rejects and turn away
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  from it and turn to God instead says, but the day of the Lord
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  will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with
• 38:08
  a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire and the earth
• 38:11
  and everything done in it will be laid bare.
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  Everything's going to be exposed.
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  So to God, 1000 years is just like a day.
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  So now we've been, you know, there's been thousands of years
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  that have gone by and we're getting close to, if you, if
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  you've heard any of my podcasts before, I talk about Dead Sea
• 38:35
  Scrolls and I talk about the calendar that theocenes had.
• 38:38
  And you can go to that an interactive calendar.
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  It's DSS calendar.org. And you can see where we are.
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  And I believe we are now in 5951 or something.
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  I can't remember which way it's going.
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  Yeah, it's 5951. So it's Nissan 105951.
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  The Gregorian date is March 27th, 2026 and the Pharisee date
• 39:10
  is 5786. You'll see a few 100 years
• 39:13
  difference there. But when you go back to what the
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  Essenes believed, what they had documented, I guess that was
• 39:21
  found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, like in 1948 ish, somewhere
• 39:26
  around there, they found these scrolls in the caves of Qumran.
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  And they were saying that Jesus would return in the year 6000.
• 39:35
  And according to their date, it's 5951.
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  So that means there's maybe 49 more years or less because we
• 39:46
  don't know. But it's really getting close
• 39:49
  and and I think God is showing us all these things that are
• 39:53
  lining up with Bible prophecy right now so that people wake
• 39:57
  up. And just like Peter says there,
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  I don't know if it was Peter or Paul that said, but you know,
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  it's not going to surprise you because you're awake with us.
• 40:09
  But there's a lot of people who are asleep who don't don't get
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  this. So anyway.
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  I also was thinking about in Malachi, going back to Malachi
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  and another scripture that pops into my head as I'm reading
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  these things. It says, so I will come and put
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  you on trial. And so that made me think about
• 40:32
  how God was. Oh, it says how you you won't be
• 40:41
  the hour of trial. I thought I looked that up.
• 40:45
  I don't know if I did look that up or not, but I'm going to do
• 40:48
  that right now. But I think it was like
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  something at the hour of trial maybe.
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  I'm not sure if that's what it was called.
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  Yeah, it is Revelation in Revelation chapter 3, verse 10.
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  Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also
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  keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the
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  whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.
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  So this was written by John in the Book of Revelation, chapter
• 41:23
  3, verse 10. And it sounds very much like
• 41:26
  what Malachi wrote, probably thousands of years or hundreds
• 41:31
  of years before John. And because he wrote that so I
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  will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify
• 41:43
  against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers, against those who
• 41:49
  defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the
• 41:54
  fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice.
• 41:58
  But do not fear me, says the Lord Almighty, like they have no
• 42:03
  respect for God. So anyway, but the Book of
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  Revelation says, since you have kept my command to endure
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  patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is
• 42:15
  going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the
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  earth. And this is what was written to
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  Jesus said to John to to the Angel in the church in
• 42:29
  Philadelphia. Now these Philadelphia was the
• 42:33
  place in Turkey. Actually all of these were
• 42:36
  churches there. And at the time, it's kind of
• 42:41
  there were like 7 churches that messages were given to.
• 42:44
  And there's a lot of discussion or theories about what this, you
• 42:50
  know, the symbology in this, but I'll just read to you what it
• 42:54
  says in total to the church in Philadelphia.
• 42:58
  So I'm sure this message was directly to a specific church,
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  but I think because God doesn't change that, it could also apply
• 43:06
  to us when we read through this. So to the Angel in of the church
• 43:11
  in Philadelphia, right? These are the words of him who
• 43:14
  is holy and true, who holds the keys of David.
• 43:19
  What he opens, no one can shut, and what he shuts, no one can
• 43:23
  open. Now this is talking about Jesus.
• 43:26
  I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an
• 43:29
  open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little
• 43:34
  strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my
• 43:39
  name. So this is really important not
• 43:43
  to deny Jesus. Then verse 9, I will make those
• 43:49
  who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews,
• 43:54
  though they are not, but are liars.
• 43:56
  I will make them come and fall down at your feet and and
• 44:01
  acknowledge that I have loved you.
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  So this is, you know, there's these fake Jews, there's fake
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  Christians too. There's fake all sorts of
• 44:13
  different religious people, people who look like they are of
• 44:15
  a religion, but their hearts aren't really in it.
• 44:19
  So verse 10, since you have kept my command to endure patiently,
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  I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to
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  come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.
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  I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have so that
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  no one will take your crown. The one who is victorious I will
• 44:41
  make a pillar in the temple of my God.
• 44:45
  Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of
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  my God and the name of the city of my God and the new Jerusalem
• 44:54
  which is coming down out of heaven from my God.
• 44:58
  And I will also write on them my new name.
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  Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the
• 45:08
  churches. So wait, there's wisdom in that
• 45:12
  wisdom to pay attention to that. See the about.
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  I don't know why I had that one there.
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  OK, there was suddenly I had something about discipline.
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  Oh, I know why because Paul when he talked about this is this is
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  something recently that I learned I guess was that there's
• 45:38
  a difference between discipline and punishment.
• 45:42
  So discipline is a correct, a correction to make the person
• 45:53
  improved or better. I guess I don't know if I'm
• 45:56
  giving a really good definition, but it's something that a loving
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  parent would do with their children.
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  Like they will discipline them because they don't want them to
• 46:07
  hurt themselves. And if the child then obeys,
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  they're not going to hurt themselves.
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  Well, that's the way God does with us.
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  Punishment is something different that's like a
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  consequence of something that is done, but discipline is made
• 46:23
  more like a corrective measure. So anyway, there was discipline
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  is something that gets talked about quite a bit, and I don't
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  know if I was going to read all of these because I forgot how
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  many there were. 36 verses. Oh boy, let's see Deuteronomy 4
• 46:43
  verse 36. That's where it first comes up
• 46:45
  from heaven. He made you to hear His voice to
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  discipline you on earth. He showed you His great fire,
• 46:51
  and you heard His words from out of the fire in Deuteronomy 11/2.
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  Remember today that your children were not the ones who
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  saw and experienced the discipline of the Lord your God,
• 47:05
  His Majesty, His mighty hand, His outstretched arm in
• 47:10
  Deuteronomy 21. If someone has a stubborn and
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  rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will
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  not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and
• 47:23
  mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at
• 47:26
  the gate of the town. They shall say to the elders,
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  The son of ours is stubborn and rebellious.
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  He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.
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  Listen to this is bad. Then all the men of his town are
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  to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from
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  among you all. Israel will hear of it and be
• 47:48
  afraid. So that's pretty harsh
• 47:51
  discipline. But there's other parts in
• 47:56
  Scripture where it just, it just is emphasizing how important it
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  is to turn away from the rebellious ways because that's
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  what they were talking about here.
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  This rebel because ultimately God is going to destroy those
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  who don't turn away and repent and turn to God.
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  In Job, blessed is the one whom God corrects.
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  So do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
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  And then David says in Psalm 6, Lord, do not rebuke me in your
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  anger, or discipline me in your wrath.
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  And then in Psalm 38, David says, Lord, do not rebuke me in
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  your anger, or discipline me in your wrath.
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  And then in Psalm 39, when you rebuke and discipline anyone for
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  their sin, you consume their wealth like a moth.
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  Surely everyone is but a breath. So when God's discipline, that
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  will really shake us up. Psalm 94, it says, blessed is
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  the one you discipline, Lord, the one you teach from your law.
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  Then Solomon had some words in Proverbs 3.
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  My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline and do not
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  resent his rebuke Proverbs. All of these are proverbs.
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  So these are these are all like the wisest man wrote these.
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  So listen to what it says. You will say how I hated
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  discipline, how my heart spurned correction.
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  And it says at the end, it says at the end of your life, you
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  will groan when your flesh and body are spent.
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  You will say how I hated discipline, how my heart spurned
• 49:46
  correction. I would not obey my teachers or
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  turn my ears to my instructors, and I was soon in serious
• 49:53
  trouble in the The assembly of God's people in Proverbs also
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  says for lack of discipline they will die LED astray by their own
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  great Foley. Another one says whoever heeds
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  discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores
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  correction leads others astray. Whoever loves discipline loves
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  knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid.
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  Whoever disregards that actually says that in the Bible, in the
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  NIV version at least. Proverbs 12, verse one, Proverbs
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  13, verse 18. Whoever disregards discipline
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  comes to poverty and shame, but whoever heeds correction is
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  honored. Whoever spares the rod hates
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  their children, but the one who loves their children is careful
• 50:53
  to discipline them. This is not talking about
• 50:56
  beating children. This is talking about correcting
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  them but not beating them or abusing them or anything like
• 51:04
  that. Proverbs 155A fool spurns a
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  parent's discipline, but whoever he's correction shows prudence.
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  Stern discipline awaits. Anyone who leaves the path, the
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  one who hates correction will die.
• 51:21
  So would you rather have some discipline, or would you rather
• 51:23
  die eternally? It's like Proverbs 1510 Those
• 51:31
  then those who disregard discipline despise themselves,
• 51:35
  but the one who heeds correction gains understanding.
• 51:39
  Discipline your children, for in that there is hope.
• 51:43
  Do not be a willing party to their death.
• 51:47
  That's Proverbs 19 verse 18. That's kind of so important is
• 51:52
  something that's lost today because today it seems like what
• 51:57
  the world is saying is let children think whatever they
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  want to think and be whoever they want to be and do whatever
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  they want to do. And basically no rules except
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  everybody. And that's the message that we
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  get today. But it says here in Proverbs
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  1918, discipline your children, for in that there is hope.
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  Do not be a willing party to their death.
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  If you don't discipline somebody, your children, then
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  you are helping them to their death.
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  And that's not a good thing. And that's why it's not love
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  when you do that. And the Bible clearly tells us
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  that. Listen to advice and accept
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  discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise.
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  So here there's a connection between discipline and being
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  wise. Foley is bound up in the heart
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  of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far
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  away. Do not withhold discipline from
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  a child. If you punish them with the rod,
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  they will not die. This is not talking about abuse.
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  This is talking about something to get their attention so they
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  don't die. Discipline your children and
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  they will give you peace. They will bring you the delights
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  you desire. And then in Jeremiah it says
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  discipline me Lord, but only in due measure, not in your anger
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  or you will reduce me to nothing.
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  I think I've thought that before I was like, God, if you need to
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  discipline me, do it, but please not, not strong like you know,
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  just let me know lightly. So discipline me Lord, but only
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  in due measure, not in your anger, or you will reduce me to
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  nothing. Yet they did not listen or pay
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  attention when they were stiff necked and would not listen or
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  respond to discipline. A lot of people don't respond to
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  discipline. Jeremiah 3011 I am with you and
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  will save you, declares the Lord.
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  Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I
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  scatter you, I will not completely destroy you.
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  I will discipline you, but only in due measure.
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  I will not let you go entirely unpunished.
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  They turned their backs to me and not their faces.
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  Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or
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  respond to discipline. Do not be afraid, Jacob, my
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  servant, for I am with you, declares the Lord.
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  Though I completely destroy all nations among which I scatter
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  you, I will not completely destroy you.
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  I will discipline you, but only in due measure.
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  I will not let you go entirely unpunished, Hosea.
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  The rebels are knee deep in slaughter.
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  I will discipline all of them. That doesn't really relate in
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  First Corinthians chapter 4. What do you prefer?
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  Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline or shall I come in
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  love and with a gentle spirit? Kind of interesting.
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  Second Timothy verse one or Second Timothy chapter one verse
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  7 for the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but
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  gives us power, love and self-discipline.
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  So we're we become accountable for ourselves in Hebrews it
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  says, and you, and have you completely forgotten the word of
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  encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son?
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  It says, my son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline
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  and do not lose heart when he rebukes you because the Lord
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  disciplines the one he loves and he chastens everyone.
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  He accepts as his son says, endure hardship as as
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  discipline. God is treating you as his
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  children for what children are not disciplined by their father.
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  If you are not disciplined and everyone undergoes discipline,
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  then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.
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  So there's there's some importance to.
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  I guess there's something that, you know, discipline is, is good
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  if we're disciplined by God because that means we are
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  legitimate children of his. If you are not disciplined ever
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  and everyone undergoes discipline, then you are not
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  legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.
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  So it's moreover, we had, we have all had human fathers who
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  disciplined us and we respected them for it.
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  How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and
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  live? They disciplined us for a little
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  while as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good
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  in order that we may share in His Holiness.
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  No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful later on.
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  However, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for
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  those who have been trained by it.
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  And He let's see, that was all in chapter 12.
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  I read a lot of that. And then in also in Revelation
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  chapter 3, verse 19, it says those whom I love, I rebuke and
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  discipline. So be earnest and repent.
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  Repentance. Again, it's like the theme that
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  goes throughout here. So this talks about, it's
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  interesting because I also searched the word suddenly and
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  Luke has something that he says be careful or your hearts will
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  be weighed down with carousing drunkenness and the anxieties of
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  life and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.
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  So he's talking about the day of the Lord when Christ returns.
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  Just be careful that you're not getting off track, says, for it
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  will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth.
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  Be always on the watch and pray that you may be able to escape
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  all that is about to happen and that you may able to stand
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  before the Son of man. And again, that's what Malachi
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  was saying. Who can stand when he appears?
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  So again, these are these are things that suddenly that's the
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  way God often arrives. I mean, there's like this
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  suddenness, like suddenly an Angel of the Lord appeared in a
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  light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and
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  woke him up. Quick, get up, he said, and the
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  chains fell off Peter's wrist. That's when he was escaped from
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  the prison that he was in. But there's a lot of, if you
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  just search the word, suddenly you'll see that there is.
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  It's just one of those things that I guess happens with people
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  and that we should just be careful about being prepared, I
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  guess so that no matter when it comes, when it does come
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  suddenly that we are prepared. Like First Thessalonians 5 verse
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  2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come
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  like a thief in the night. These are all the things.
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  And then like a thief. There's about 9 verses that
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  talks about like a thief and it's let's see I will read.
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  Some, not all of them. First Thessalonians 5 For you
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  know that very well. The day of the Lord will come
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  like a thief in the night, and then, but you, brothers and
• 1:00:20
  sisters, are not in darkness, that this day should surprise
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  you like a thief. Second Peter 3 says, But the day
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  of the Lord will come like a thief.
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  The heavens will disappear with the roar, the elements will be
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  destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will
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  be laid bare. And Revelation chapter 3, verse
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  3. Remember, therefore, what you've
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  received and heard. Hold it fast and repent.
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  But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you
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  will not know at what time I will come to you.
• 1:00:53
  Revelation 1615. Look, I come like a thief.
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  Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed so as
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  not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.
• 1:01:08
  Clothed with righteousness is what it's referring to.
• 1:01:14
  And then there's about refining. So Malachi talks about refining
• 1:01:19
  and two other prophets also talk about refining, Jeremiah and
• 1:01:23
  Zechariah. Jeremiah said therefore this is
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  what the Lord Almighty says, See, I will refine and test
• 1:01:30
  them, for what else can I do? Because of the sin of my people
• 1:01:37
  unrepentance. Zechariah 13 verse 9 says this
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  third I will put into the fire. I will refine them like silver
• 1:01:46
  and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I
• 1:01:50
  will answer them. I will say these are my people
• 1:01:53
  and they will say the Lord is our God.
• 1:01:57
  Malachi 3/3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.
• 1:02:01
  He will purify the Levites and refine them like silver and
• 1:02:05
  gold, like gold and silver. Then the Lord will have men who
• 1:02:10
  will bring offerings in righteousness.
• 1:02:17
  There was there were a lot of other things that I did look up
• 1:02:21
  here, but I have a feeling that this podcast is really long
• 1:02:27
  already. So I don't know if I yeah, it's
• 1:02:29
  already an hour. So this went way longer that I
• 1:02:31
  want and I still have so many other tabs just about the Great
• 1:02:37
  Commission and see all these different things.
• 1:02:41
  I looked up and I don't even know why, but it was like one of
• 1:02:44
  those that things just kept coming to my mind as I was going
• 1:02:48
  through this. So anyway, it's already been a
• 1:02:50
  really long podcast, so I'm just going to end here and I'm sure
• 1:02:54
  he'll cover some of this other stuff in another podcast.
• 1:02:58
  I'm not sure what book I'm going to do next because now we've
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  completed all of the profits. So that was the goal to get all
• 1:03:05
  the profits done. We've done that.
• 1:03:08
  I may go back to the book of Job, and that's a long one
• 1:03:12
  because I, I want to make a podcast for every book of the
• 1:03:16
  Bible and I've done all the way up to Job.
• 1:03:20
  And then I kind of got started with all the prophets.
• 1:03:23
  I skipped over Psalms and Proverbs, Ecclesi Ecclesiastes
• 1:03:28
  and Song of Songs, and then I started with Isaiah.
• 1:03:31
  So there was a chunk in the middle where I didn't cover.
• 1:03:34
  So I'm going to go back to the Book of Job.
• 1:03:36
  That's going to be the next book that we come to.
• 1:03:39
  And that was actually the first book that I actually read from
• 1:03:43
  the Bible because of some things that happened in my life.
• 1:03:47
  So it's a very interesting book to me.
• 1:03:50
  And I had to, I think I read it all in one night because
• 1:03:53
  wherever I opened it up, I had to figure out like how did it
• 1:03:57
  and because it was so terrible everything that I was reading,
• 1:04:01
  but good book to read. So anyway, we will cover that
• 1:04:05
  next time. And if this was beneficial to
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  you, please share with others. If you are not subscribed,
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  please do so. And if you want to stay in the
• 1:04:14
  word, I try to do this every day and at least read a chapter a
• 1:04:18
  day. Some are longer than others.
• 1:04:20
  When I kind of get into all of these, like my mind just goes
• 1:04:23
  when I start reading these things.
• 1:04:25
  So anyway, hope something was good in here.
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  Thank you. Bye.