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For Unto Us a Child is Born · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi Jay Fallon here. Thanks for listening to The
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  Slippery Slope. Thanks also for tuning in
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  throughout this whole year. If you have indeed tuned in
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  throughout the whole year, and if you haven't, you've just
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  joined us recently. Thanks very much for listening
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  to The Slippery Slope. Yesterday I did an episode and
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  it was regarding Queensland government Queensland, well, the
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  crime, corrupt corruption Commission, some issues that the
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  government has with, with corruption and how there's been
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  reports of corruption and how it's really not being stamped
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  out. So it's allowed to realistically
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  it's allowed to flourish. Anyway, I, I did this episode
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  yesterday. I released it on YouTube.
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  I'll, I'll place a link in the description below and you'll be
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  able to listen to it. If you don't go to YouTube and
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  listen to my stuff there. But it just made me think about
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  a Bible verse or actually primarily about a song because
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  being Christmas time. So song we used to sing, we
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  still do sing is sung in church, but it's based on the verses
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  from Isaiah, Isaiah 96. So I'm doing this episode
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  yesterday. Like I said, it's about
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  government corruption, specifically corruption here in
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  Queensland. And later on the day I'm
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  thinking, well, this, this song kept going through my mind and
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  it's Isaiah 9/6 And it says for unto us a child is born unto us
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  a son is given and the government will be upon his
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  shoulders and his name will be called wonderful councillor,
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  mighty God, everlasting Prince of Peace.
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  So that's the the song words is basically verbatim of the song
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  that that is sung. The from verse 7 it goes on and
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  says of the increase of his government and peace.
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  There will be no end upon the throne of David and over his
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  Kingdom to order it and establish it with judgement
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  injustice from that time forward, even forever, the zeal
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  of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
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  So I'm thinking I was contemplating about the episode
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  yesterday about government corruption.
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  This verse, the song, the verse comes in keeps going through my
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  mind. And you know, as I had written
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  this, I believe it was maybe 700.
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  I'm not, you know, I'm no theologian.
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  I think it was somewhere around 5 to 700 years.
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  I think it's 700 years before the birth of Christ.
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  He's prophesying the birth of Christ.
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  So I was looking up what does it mean that the government will be
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  upon his shoulders like it says in Isaiah 96IN in Got Questions
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  it says in prophesying an extremely dark period of
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  punishment in Isaiah's history, Isaiah sees even further forward
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  to a future time of hope and deliverance.
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  The prophet announces that the Lord will send a Redeemer, the
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  promised Messiah, to usher in a new day.
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  The prophecy reveals that the Messiah will be a human born
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  male child upon whose shoulders the government will rest.
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  The Hebrew word translated as government means dominion power
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  or sovereignty. This is from Zion on 6.
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  That means dominion, power of sovereignty through legal
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  authority. Israel's Saviour was to be a
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  sovereign king who would rule on David's throne.
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  The prophecy continues to disclose that the Messiah's
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  government and its peace will never end.
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  He will rule with fairness and justice from the throne of His
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  ancestor David for all eternity. And then we saw 7 centuries
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  later, the Angel Gabriel announces Messiah's birth to his
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  mother Mary. He will be great.
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  It will be called the Son of the Most High.
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  And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father
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  David, and he will reign over the House of Jacob Forever and
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  his Kingdom. And of His Kingdom there will be
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  no end. As Christians thinking about
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  this time coming up to December 25th, even though it's not the
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  actual birth of Christ, it is the day that we celebrate or we
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  remember the birth of Christ. We remember that His birth was
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  actually prophesied, spoken about hundreds of years before
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  its fulfilment. We speak about it still 2000
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  years later, and we are still awaiting further prophecies
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  about his second return, about his second, the second coming of
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  Christ. And one day we will see that
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  Christ will rule from Zion and the world will see the
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  government placed on his shoulders.
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  The Kingdom of the world will become the Kingdom of our Lord
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  and of his Messiah, and he will reign forever and ever.
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  And I was thinking about this, you know, I, I, I tend to get
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  very worked up, very frustrated when you're reading reports
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  about issues in the government here in Queensland where I am,
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  issues with the Queensland government, corruption,
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  failures, where there's just so much waste going on.
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  And it seems like politicians, they're only interested in their
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  own, their own selfish desires in what they want.
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  And they, they have a pretence of working nobly for the people.
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  But I think, and I think it's, it's played it constantly within
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  the media as we see their moral standards constantly lacking.
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  But I was reminded, as I said yesterday when I was thinking
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  about this later on. For unto us it's a son is born,
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  a child is born. For unto us a son is given, and
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  the government will be upon his shoulders.
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  As we think about Christmas, and then we think about the the
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  birth of Christ which happened 2000 plus years ago, we can
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  remember. We can rest in the hope that
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  Christ will come again, that the government will rest upon his
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  shoulders, and that that is when we will see true government.
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  A Kingdom where there will be no scandals, where there will be no
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  corruption, where mankind will not be in charge.
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  And I'm for one look forward to that time and I'm awaiting his
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  return. So just remember, no matter how
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  how frustrating it might be reading about government
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  scandals, government corruption, the way government fails us
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  constantly, our faith, our trust, our hope rests in the
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  Lord Jesus Christ because one day the government will rest
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  upon his shoulders. Anyway, that's just my thoughts
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  at this moment. Have a great Christmas once
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  again. Thank you for joining me in the
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  year 2024. Look forward to talking to
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  people doing more podcasts in 2025.
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  Be blessed over this Christmas period.
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  I'm Jay Fallon. Thanks for listening to The
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  Slippery Slope.