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710. Bible Study: Isaiah 17 (Prophecy against Damascus - no longer a city?) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 17 from the book of Isaiah.
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Dear God, please help us as we read through this chapter and
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give us wisdom and insight to understand what you've inspired
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Isaiah to document for us. We ask for this in Jesus name,
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Amen. So I will read through this
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chapter first and then go through the questions and
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answers because I have a little bit of different information,
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not different, but additional information, insight that just
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came to mind when I was reading this.
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So I will share that at the very, very end.
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So let's start a prophecy against Damascus.
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See, Damascus will no longer be a city.
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So right when I read that, I think this is future because
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Damascus exists today. So it says, see, Damascus will
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no longer be a city, but will become a heap of ruins.
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The cities of Aror will be deserted.
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That's in Jordan and left two flocks which will lie down with
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no one to make them afraid. The fortified city will
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disappear from Ephraim. Now Ephraim is the northern
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tribe of Judah, not of Judah, I'm sorry, of Israel.
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And it's the 10 tribes. It's Ephraim is often referred
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to that. But Ephraim was one of the
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tribes that did team with modern day Syria at the time and they
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went against Judah. So it says.
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The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim and royal
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power from Damascus. The remnant of Aram or Syria
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will be like the glory of the Israelites in that day.
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The glory of Jacob will fade. The fat of his body will waste
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away. It will be as when reapers
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harvest the standing grain, gathering the grain in their
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arms, as when someone gleans the heads of grain in the valley of
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Raphaim. Yet some gleanings will remain,
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as when an olive tree is beaten, leaving two or three olives on
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the top most branches, four or five on the fruitful bows,
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declares the Lord the God of Israel.
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In that day people will look to their Maker and turn their eyes
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to the Holy One of Israel. They will not look to altars,
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the work of their hands, and they will have no regard for the
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Ashara poles and the incense alters their fingers have made
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in that day. Their strong cities, which they
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left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to
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thickets and undergrowth, and all will be desolation.
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You have forgotten God, your Savior.
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Savior, you have not remembered the rock, your fortress.
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Therefore, though you set out the finest plants and plant
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imported vines, though on the day you set them out you will
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make them grow, and on the and on the morning when you plant
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them you will bring them to bud, yet the harvest will be as
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nothing in the day of disease and incurable pain.
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Woe to the many nations that rage.
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They rage like the raging sea. Woe to the peoples who roar.
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They roar like the roaring of great waters, although the
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peoples roar like the roar of surging waters.
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When he rebukes them, they flee far away, driven before the
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wind, like chaffs on the hills, like tumbleweed before a Gale in
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the evening, sudden terror before the morning.
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They are gone. This is the portion of those who
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loot us, the lot of those who plunder us.
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And that's the end of chapter 17.
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I will read what the study Bible says 4/17.
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What kind of prophecy is this? The Hebrew word for prophecy
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here is related to a verb meaning to lift up, carry, and
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is possibly to be understood as either lifting up one's voice or
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carrying a burden. Such a prophecy often brings
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unwelcome news or judgment. How was Damascus reduced to
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runes in 732 BC? Assyrian The Assyrian king
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Tiglath Pillazer, the third, responding to pleas from Judas
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king Ahaz for military support, raised Damascus, and that's
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found in Chapter 7 verse 16 and 2nd Kings chapter 16 verses 7
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through 9. Where were the cities of Aror?
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Aror was a city east of the Dead Sea on the Arnan River.
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Though located in Moab, it marked the farthest southern
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extent of Aram, or Syria's control.
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Why was Ephraim included in this prophecy concerning Damascus?
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Ephraim was another name for the northern Kingdom of Israel.
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The nation of Aram or Syria was represented by its capital,
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Damascus. Ephraim, or Israel, had joined
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in military alliance with Aram. As a result, this prophecy was
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given against both kingdoms. In fact, beginning in verse 4,
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the focus of this section shifts to Ephraim.
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How would the remnant of Arum be like the glory of the
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Israelites? Isaiah was being sarcastic.
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He went on to describe what he really meant, which was exactly
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the opposite. Glory described any power or
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splendor that gave social weight, respect and esteem.
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The remnant of Aram are Syria, those surviving Assyria's
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destruction of Damascus, and their nation would have no glory
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whatsoever. So that's the study Bibles.
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I kind of took it a different way and I'll explain that later.
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So why were the Ashira poles or what were the Ashira poles?
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These were large wooden idols that bore the image of Ashira, A
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Pagan fertility goddess believed by the Canaanites and sadly,
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many Israelites, to be the wife of El Chief God of the Canaanite
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pantheon. Fortunately, verses 7 through 8
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indicate that judgment on Ephraim would bring a spirit of
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repentance to at least some of the survivors whose strong
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cities was Isaiah referring to. After offering of ray of hope in
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verses 7 through 8, Isaiah returned to the theme of
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judgement. When the Israelites came into
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the land of Canaan many years before, the strong cities of the
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land were abandoned as as they were, as they, for example, the
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Canaanites left. The Lord was at work for His
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people, giving them the land of promise.
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However, the situation had changed and the same cities
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would be abandoned by the Israelites themselves as they
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were under the judging hand of God.
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And that those are all the explanations.
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So I saw some different things in here.
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And again, this is just a theory, this is my own theory,
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just things that came to mind when I was reading this and
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studying this. So they may or may not be
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accurate, but I will share those.
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So in this chapter, when it, you know, it says it's a prophecy
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against Damascus. So when I read it, that's what
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I, I read it as, that's what it is.
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It's against Damascus and it's not relating necessarily to
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Israel. It's spoken against Damascus.
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So that's how I am interpreting this.
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So it says Damascus will no longer be a city.
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Well, it's a city today. So to me, this means in the
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future it will no longer be a city but will become a heap of
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ruins. And perhaps this is a
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foreshadowing or a double fulfillment.
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It's, you know, if it just is meaning that it's just going to
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be destroyed, then that's one thing.
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But Damascus will no longer be a city, seems to be a little bit
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more than that. And right now there is some
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warring continuing on and and again I I see some future end
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times hints here which I could be mistaken by this, but this is
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what I see here. So it says then it refers to the
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cities of Aurora which are in Jordan will be deserted and left
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to the flocks which will lie down with no one to make them
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afraid. Flocks are often talked about
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with the sheep are God's people and they will lie down and no
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one will make them afraid. There's psalms that talk about
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that. So I see this as after the day
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of destruction, there's going to be this peace when Jesus reigns.
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So I'm looking at this as the Millennium after the the second
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coming of Jesus. And so that's when the flocks
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will lie down with no one to make them afraid because
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everything will be destroyed. So the fortified city will
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disappear from Ephraim and royal power from Damascus.
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Royal power I think about is in a spiritual sense because there
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is something other than the one true God that has power over
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Damascus at this point and that will be taken away.
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And so it says the remnant of Syria or Aram will be like the
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glory of the Israelites. Well, I read that as you know,
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the, the study Bible says it's, it's a it's sarcasm, but I read
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it as, you know, God has mercy to to many people and to he, you
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know that he will. There's going to be a remnant of
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several different nations. The temple will be a house to
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all nations. There are going to be survivors
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from many different nations, but not a lot.
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And that's what I read this as saying, that there will be some
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survivors from Syria and they're going to be like the glory of
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the Israelites. So there there will be a remnant
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from Syria that God saves. I don't see this as complete
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destruction. So in that day, the glory of
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Jacob will fade. So that's not going to be, as
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you know, it says the fat of his body will waste away.
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So like would would you consider fat as something unwanted, like
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the the stuff that doesn't make it good, like that's going to go
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away. The glory of Jacob will fade,
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the fat of his body will waste away, so the unwanted things
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will disappear. Now here's a really interesting
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comparison, a poetic comparison. It will be as when reapers
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harvest the standing grain, gathering the grain in their
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arms. OK, so this makes me think about
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the gathering, or what some people call the Rapture.
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And it says as when someone gleans the heads of grain in the
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valley of Raphaem. Well, the valley of Raphaim is
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is in Jerusalem. So the placement of this is kind
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of unusual in this prophecy against Damascus.
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But it was named after the race of giants, this valley.
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And it's often referred to as like the spirit of the dead.
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So it's like there are some that will not be among the spirit of
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the dead is the way I'm reading this.
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And it says, yet some gleanings will remain.
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So this is what I think. Again, this is a remnant as when
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an olive tree is beaten, leaving two or three olives on the top
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most branches, four or five on the fruitful bows or bows.
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So it's like there's just a few that are going to remain, but
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most of it will be destroyed. And that's the way I read this.
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So when it talks about reapers harvesting standing grain and
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gathering the grain in their arms, it reminds me of other
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scripture where this is talked about South.
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Jesus told a parable and he said that it's called the parable of
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the weeds or in the New International Version, or it's
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called the parable of the wheat and tares.
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So Jesus told them another parable.
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The Kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his
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field. But while everyone was sleeping,
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the enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.
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When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, the weeds also
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appeared. The owner's servant came to him
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and said, Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field?
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Where did these weeds come from? An enemy did this, he replied.
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The servants asked him, Do you want us to go and pull them up?
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No, he answered, Because while you're pulling the weeds, you
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may uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the
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harvest. At that time, I will tell the
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harvesters first collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to
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be burned, then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.
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So then he explains later on in Matthew chapter 13 verse 36 he
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explains this. Then he left the crowd and went
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into the house. His disciples came to him and
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said, explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.
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He answered, the one who sowed the good seed is the son of man,
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Jesus. The field is the world and the
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good seed stands for people of the Kingdom.
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The weeds are the people of the evil 1 and the enemy who sows
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them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the
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age, and the harvesters are angels.
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As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will
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be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send out his
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angels and they will weed out his Kingdom, everything that
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causes sin, and all who do evil, they will throw them into the
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blazing furnace where there will be weeping and gnashing of
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teeth. Teeth.
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Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of
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their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.
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So again, the the reapers, the angels, remember the, the, the
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there are the gatherers, they go out to harvest the standing
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grain. So then in Matthew 3, it talks
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about this is what John talks about when he sees Jesus before
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he's going to baptize him and he says his winnowing fork is in
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his hand and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his
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wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable
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fire. So again, that's the another
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thing of symbolism. The wheat is the good the the
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God's people and the the chaff are the weeds are the extra
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stuff that is unwanted. The evil part is destroyed,
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burned in fire. And Luke says the same thing in
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chapter 3, verse 17. His winnowing fark fork is in
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his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat
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into his barn. But he will burn up the chaff.
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So those are a lot of different verses that to me talk about
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this about, you know, the, the angels going out.
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So I guess in Matthew 24, there's also some discussion
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about this. So I'm going to go to Matthew 24
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and find that section. I meant to do this before, but I
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forgot to look for this verse. But so it says that let's see.
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But about that day or hour, no one, not even the angels in
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heaven, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the
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Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah,
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so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
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For in the days before the flood people were eating and drinking,
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marrying and giving in marriage up to the day Noah entered the
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ark, and they knew nothing about what would happen until the
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flood came and took them all away.
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That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
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Two men will be in a field, one will be taken and the other
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left. Two women will be grinding with
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a hand mill, one will be taken and the other left.
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Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your
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Lord will come. But understand this, if the
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owner of the house had known what time of night the thief was
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coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house
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be broken into. So you must be ready, because
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the Son of Man will come in an hour when you do not expect him.
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Who then is the faithful and wives wise servant, whom the
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master has put in charge of the servants in his household to
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give them their food at the proper time?
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It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so
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when he returns. Truly, I tell you, he will put
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him in charge of all his possessions.
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But suppose that servant is wicked, and says to himself, My
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master is staying away a long time, and then he begins to beat
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his fellow servants, and eat and drink with drunkards.
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The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not
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expect him, and in an hour when he is not aware of, he will cut
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him to pieces and assign him in a place with the hypocrites
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there, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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So there's also other verses about what happens on when in in
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that time at the coming of the Son of man, the return of Jesus.
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So this is in Matthew 24, verse 31.
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And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they
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will gather his elect from the four winds from one end of the
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heavens to the other. And it says.
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For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a loud
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command, with the voice of the Archangel, and with a trumpet
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call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
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So there is. Let's see, I'm not finding where
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I wanted to. Angels gather.
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Yeah, so it was in Matthew 24, verse 31.
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And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they
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will gather his elect from the four winds, one from the from
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one end of the heavens to the other.
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And he will send his Angel angels and gather his elect from
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the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the
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heavens. And that's in Mark chapter 13
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and Matthew chapter 24. So these are, you know, it says
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coming on the clouds. That's another verse that coming
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in the clouds is another one that talks about these, this
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event that is to happen. So back in the book of Daniel,
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Chapter 7, in my vision at night, I looked and there before
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me was one like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of
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heaven. He approached the Ancient of
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Days and was led into his presence.
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So that's Jesus and then again Matthew 24 verse 30, then will
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appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and then all the
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peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man
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coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
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And then mark chapter 13. At that time, people will see
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the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.
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So there's there's several things that make me think about
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the end of time here. Just that the harvesting,
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because there are, you know, the wheat and tears, but then
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there's another harvest of grapes, which is about the time
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of wrath. And that's in the Book of
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Revelation. And then it also compares this,
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you know, this remnant it it's talking about when an olive tree
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is beaten, is beaten. Now an olive tree symbolizes
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God's people. And if you think about it,
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olives are what when they're crushed, they make olive oil.
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Oil is used to anoint people. So there are some of you know
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God's people are those who turn to him that remain anointed
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ones. In that day the people will look
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to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
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So sometimes God uses disasters to turn people towards him.
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When people don't get the the quieter hints along the way or
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the the gentle whisper from God when they're not paying
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attention to God, he will send calamities or allow calamities
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to happen. And that causes some people to
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turn to God. It's when they hit rock bottom
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that they finally turned to God. So God will use whatever he
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needs to use to get the attention of people.
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And it says in that day they will look to their maker and
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turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
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So that could be that they have disaster.
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So then they turn to God. It could also be that they see
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Jesus coming on the clouds. They turn their eyes to the holy
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one of Israel, and then they realize they're not going to be
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looking at their altars, the work of their hands.
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They're not going to be going to their false gods.
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So it, you know, it talks about the wife of El was who they
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worshipped. And then we talked about in the
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prior chapter like Kimosh and all these different gods, which
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I believe are evil spirits that present themselves as God.
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You know, whether this is Satan or it's another evil spirit that
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was a fallen Angel basically from heaven.
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The ones who rebelled against God, that's who I believe, like
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all these religions who don't believe in Jesus or who deny
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Jesus as the Son of God, they, they deny salvation basically.
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And when someone denies Jesus, they are eliminating their
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potential for salvation because Jesus is the one who made
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salvation possible. Jesus made it possible for us to
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be in God's Kingdom. So of course the enemy is going
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to create all these different religions to get people to not
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focus on Jesus. Let's create all these
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distractions, you know, like all the things that are were, I
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guess, originally intended to recognize Jesus, even like
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Christmas, you know, the enemy takes and distorts that.
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Now it becomes all about gifts and Jesus's birth doesn't even
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seem like it's forefront in in that event.
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It's kind of like hidden away. Sure, people go to church on
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that day. They may go and do that.
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But then the other fact is that in a lot of a lot of scholars
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say that Jesus wasn't even born in December.
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I think there's some, I guess there's a couple different
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opinions. One of them is that he was
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possibly born in September and another ones that he was
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possibly born in April are somewhere, you know, the in the
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springtime. And so but nobody says that
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Jesus was born in December, yet we had we celebrate his birthday
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in December. So, you know, it just shows how
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the world has just trying to take away everything that
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recognizes Jesus. Then the most significant event
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that Jesus did was when he defeated death and he rose from
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the dead and was seen by hundreds groups of like 500 or
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or more people at one time and showed up to various different
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people, think for 40 or 50 days and and you know, interacted
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with people and ate and drank with them.
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Like there are so many eyewitnesses to the fact that
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Jesus did resurrect from the dead.
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And so this gets downplayed too. Now the resurrection of Jesus is
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celebrated on a holiday that we call Easter and somehow all of a
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sudden Easter eggs start becoming and the Easter Bunny
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and these other things start taking away our focus on Jesus
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and start making it into something that it was never
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intended to be. But those are the ways that the
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Evil 1 gets into our lives and tries to distract us from the
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real message, the message of salvation, the recognition of
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who Jesus is as the Son of God. He came here to for the sinners.
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He came here to tell people about the Kingdom of God and to
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tell people what they needed to do, because we do have to do
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something. We have to repent.
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We have to reject sin and then have God send His Holy Spirit to
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begin to change our life, to give us the power over sin by
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the Holy Spirit. Jesus took care of the thing
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that none of us could do to make it into into God's Kingdom by
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dying on the cross. He was the one sacrifice that
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was required. He was the substitute life, the
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perfect life who was given up for us because there is a law
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that a life can be given up for another life.
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And so that's what Jesus did for us.
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He died for us. He gave up his life for us so
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that we could be his brothers and sisters in God's Kingdom.
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And so he came to earth to make that known to everyone.
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So of course he's the one that everybody's going to try and
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cover up and not let anybody hear about it, mock him, you
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know, make him into something lesser just so that we are
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destroyed because the enemy hates us.
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The enemy hates humans because humans are going to get what the
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enemy cannot have any more. Because the enemy of God was
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interested in being worshipped himself.
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That's why I believe he and the people that he can, the not
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people, the spiritual beings he convinced to rebel against God,
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they will all wanted to be worshipped.
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So they became all these different gods of different
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religions that deny Jesus. And so people who worship other
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in other religions and they don't recognize Jesus as the Son
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of God and the one who made it possible for us to be in the
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Kingdom of God. They are being deceived by evil
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spiritual forces who want people to be destroyed and for the only
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reason is just hatred of people because it's just like a
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jealousy that God is letting us into the Kingdom.
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And the enemy lost his privilege to be in the Kingdom of God
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because he was selfish. And so that's, that's the thing
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that's happening in this world. And that's, I don't know how
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much clearer I can make it, but the Bible really brings us out.
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The more that you study it, you realize what it is.
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I mean, we definitely are in a battle, an unseen battle, a
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spiritual battle for God's Kingdom.
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And, and the enemy seeks to kill and destroy and deceive and
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manipulate and he's really good at it.
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So lots of people, probably their their pride will not want
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them to admit this because they don't want to look like they
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were deceived. They were manipulated.
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They were not, you know, they just didn't understand it.
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But The thing is, the enemy is so good that it'll happen.
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It says even to the elect it can happen.
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So we have to, you know, don't. I mean, we've all been deceived
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to some degree by thinking some things are unimportant,
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unimportant in this world and thinking it doesn't matter when
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it really does. And how we are in our
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relationship with God is so important.
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And it's just the influence of of the world can make you get so
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busy that you don't think about it, that you don't focus on God.
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And that is all from the enemy. Invisible, evil spiritual forces
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can influence us today. They influence people in the
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Bible. They still influence us today.
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The more you get into the Word of God and your eyes are opened
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to the spiritual aspect of it, you will begin to have
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discernment and to be to recognize what spirit is
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influencing a person. Because just like the evil
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spirits can influence a person, God's Holy Spirit can influence
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a person. And that's when you see someone
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who what as I call it, Jesus said in John chapter 3 being
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born again, that's when a person becomes like a new person.
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They change, they're a different person.
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They have, they have, they reflect God, they start to
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change. There's a, there's a drastic
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change between a sinful worldly person and one who the Holy
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Spirit is changing. And the only way that a person
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can change is by getting rid of their pride, humbling
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themselves, and allowing God to do work within us.
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Because it says that our flesh is weak and but the Spirit is
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strong. So the spirit can do the things
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that we can't do on our own. But it requires us to not think
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that I can do it on my own. I don't need any help.
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Don't think like that. Recognize limitations.
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Recognize that we are only humans.
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We aren't spiritual from the heavenly realms and that we need
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the help of God's Holy Spirit which He gives to us.
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Jesus will give us the Holy Spirit when we're sincere about
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wanting to rid sin out of our life, but knowing that we're
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probably not strong to do it on our own.
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We aren't, I mean not probably we are not strong enough to do
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it. So when we ask God, He will give
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us the Holy Spirit to help us do that.
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So it's relying on God for all things, pursuing God, seeking
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God, and staying in the Word. And the more we stay in the
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Word, the more these things become clear and the more our
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life can change and the more peace in our life as we stay in
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the word. So I invite you, if you're not
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already following this podcast, to follow it.
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I try to do a chapter every single day and talk about how it
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affects our life. And especially like when we're
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in the book of Isaiah, it's talking about a lot of future
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things that will be happening. So this will give us things that
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we can look for. Like right now, Damascus still
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exist, but it says that the city will be destroyed.
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Will we see this? Will this just happen when Jesus
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returns? Maybe it's going to be at the
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very end that it'll be destroyed.
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We don't know. There's a lot of things, there's
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a lot of speculation, a lot of theories, and we can only learn
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more by having things revealed to us by the Holy Spirit and
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staying in God's Word. Because Scripture often
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interprets Scripture and gives us insight where we didn't have
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it before. And people who studied the Bible
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for over 40 years say they still learn from the Bible.
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So there, it's like a hidden treasure that the more you get
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into it, the more things that you find.
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So I invite you to join this podcast, sign up for it, and
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listen when you can. I know these podcasts can be
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long at times, but hopefully these things will bless you and
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bring goodness into your life and help you help others to
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enter into the Kingdom of God, to give them the knowledge of
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what's in the Scripture. And hopefully everybody just
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opens up their own Bible and begins to read and seek God
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because it's a relationship with God.
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We don't do it through another person.
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It's something that we need to have that relationship with God.
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So hopefully you will do that and join me next time.