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916. Bible Study: Psalm 2 (Prophecy about Jesus reigning as King; the Son of God!) · Faith by annm2705

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Psalm 2 from the book of Psalms. First, let's pray dear Lord,
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please be with us as we read through this chapter and let the
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Holy Spirit open our eyes, our hearts and our minds to what you
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have to say. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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So when I first looked at the Psalm, it's very, very short and
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I thought this is going to be a really quick one until I started
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reading and getting into a deeper and I found so much that
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needed to be explained or answers or questions.
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So this is something else that I noticed.
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Some of the Psalms are prophetic.
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For example, the one where David says some words that were
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actually the words that Jesus said when he was on the cross
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and he was actually repeating the the a quote are quoting
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Psalms and he was explaining what was being done to him at
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the cross. I talked about that I think in
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the last chapter. Well, Psalm 2 is actually
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prophetic and I didn't even know and in my Bible it doesn't say
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who wrote it. However, when I was searching, I
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found in the book of Acts that it was David who wrote this
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Psalm. So let's go to Acts chapter 4,
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verse 20. Well, we'll start at verse verse
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24 and and then read a little bit.
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So it says when they heard this, they raised their voices
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together in prayer to God, sovereign Lord.
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They said you made the heavens and the earth and everything in
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them. You spoke by the Holy Spirit
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through the mouth of your servant, our Father David, in
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quotations. Why do the nation's rage and the
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people's plot in vain? The kings of the earth rise up,
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and the rulers band together against the Lord and against His
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anointed one. This is a reference to Psalm 2.
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So in the book of Acts, we find out that the Holy Spirit, well,
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God was speaking through the Holy Spirit that was given to
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David and they quoted exactly what David said.
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And then they explain a little bit more about this as well.
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So maybe I should read that too from just to kind of get the
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setting. So Acts chapter 4, verse 27, it
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says indeed, Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the
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Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire
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against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.
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So it's, it's actually clarifying who this Psalm is
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about because there's some confusion when you first read
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it. You're like, who is this about?
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Is this about David or is this about Jesus?
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And it's clarified in Acts chapter 4, because it's telling
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us there that Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the
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Gentiles and the people of Israel to conspire against your
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holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.
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So now we know that they, the the kings of the earth, rise up,
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and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his
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anointed one. Now this Psalm is even further
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complicated in that it is like a double fulfilled prophecy
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because it also talks about the end times.
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And only by studying this did I did this come to me as I was
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searching up all of these things.
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So it's really interesting, such a short Psalm, but it's
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prophetic and it has this foreshadowing with Jesus, but
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then this prophecy continues to the end times.
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So anyway, it says they did. They did what your power and
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will had decided beforehand should happen.
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So Pontius Pilot and Herod did exactly what God intended.
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He decided before what it would happen, says now, Lord, consider
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their threats and enable Your servants to speak Your word with
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great boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal
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and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy
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servant, Jesus. After they prayed, the place
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where they were meeting was shaken and they were all filled
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with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
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So that's a pretty cool event that happened there.
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So let's go back to Psalm 2 and I'm going to just read through
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it so you can hear it and you kind of know a little bit of
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background information before we even start.
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But then I want to actually, I think I might want to read it in
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another version because it's it's actually clearer.
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So I'm going to I will read it because it it's clear about who
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the anointed 1 is being Jesus. So why are the nations in an
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uproar and the peoples devising A vain thing?
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The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take
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counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed,
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saying, let us tear their fetters apart and castaway their
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cords from us. He who sits in the heavens
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laughs. The Lord Lord scoffs at them.
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Then he will speak to them in his anger and terrify them in
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his fury, saying, But As for me, I have installed my king upon
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Zion, my holy mountain. I will surely tell of the decree
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of the Lord. He said to me, You are my Son
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today I have begotten you. Ask of me, and I will surely
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give the nations as your inheritance, and the very ends
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of the earth as your possession. You shall break them with a rod
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of iron. You shall shatter them like
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earthenware. Now therefore, O kings, show
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discernment. Take warning, O judges of the
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earth. Worship the Lord with reverence,
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and rejoice with trembling. Do homage to the Son, that he
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will not become angry, and you perish in the way, for His wrath
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may soon be kindled. How blessed are all who take
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refuge in Him? So it first of all, it's asking
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like why are these people conspiring when they're going up
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against God? It's the kings of the earth are
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coming together, they're banding together and they're against the
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Lord and against his anointed. 1 Anointed is in Hebrew is the
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same word for Messiah who is Jesus.
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And then in some translations it says let us break their chains
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and throw off their shackles. And those don't even look like a
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really good interpretation because when you look up the
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Hebrew words for chains and shackles, it can also mean bond
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and cord. And so if we're because chains
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and shackles, that sounds like you're imprisoned.
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And when they say these are the enemies of God saying let's
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break off their chains and their shackles, well, we aren't
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imprisoned. We aren't like in slavery to
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God. God gives free will to anyone
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who chooses to follow him. And so it's more like a bond and
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accord. And so I think that seems more
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relevant to the context and as one of the Hebrew definitions of
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that word, so it would read if it was translated that way.
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Let us break their bond and throw off their cord.
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So it you also think about like the a cord is used quite often,
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you know, being tied to God or God being a part of a cord, a
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connection with God. And this is what the enemy is
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trying to do to overthrow and to separate the people from the
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Lord. But then then from verse 4, it
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says, you know, God's in heaven laughing at him like, you know,
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like I'm going to just rebuke you and I'm installing Jesus, my
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king Jesus. And we know that it's Jesus and
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not necessarily David because of several different things that
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apply to Jesus throughout Scripture.
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So first of all, we know that God is going to reign from Zion,
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my holy mountain. So we know that's Jesus.
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We know that Jesus is the king of kings.
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Then we see that he says to me, and so this was where I really
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started questioning it because it said he said to me, you are
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my son today. I have become your father.
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And and so that really that confused me because I was like,
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OK, God said to me, you are my son today and I've become your
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father. And so then I was thinking,
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well, is that it wasn't like this was written thousands of
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years ago, and it was way before Jesus, you know, was born when
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this was written. So that I was like, OK, you are
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my son today. I have become your father.
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So that confused me. And it's apparently David who
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wrote this, but he was inspired by the Holy Spirit when he wrote
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this. And this was probably some, you
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know, Jesus obviously was a descendant of David.
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And there's probably more to this as far as the translation
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goes. But in another translation it
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says, I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord.
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He said to me, quote, you are my son today.
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I have begotten you. So this is, I think, just a
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prophetic statement that David said about Jesus.
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Now here's where we can see this more clearly.
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It says and I will make the nation's your inheritance, the
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nation's your inheritance. That means people are the
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inheritance, Well, the only ones who the only inheritance that is
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people is God's inheritance. So if it's God's inheritance
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that that would mean Jesus, wouldn't it, rather than David.
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Does David inherit people? And it says the ends of the
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earth, your possession. We know that Jesus is going to
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rule from the ends of the earth, from one end to the other.
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But David was to rule a portion of of the ends of the earth.
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He didn't have the whole ends of the earth under his rule.
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So again, this is like way too broad to mean to to be
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applicable to David. And then it says you will break
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them with a rod of iron or maybe like an iron scepter.
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Well, that's related to Jesus often in Scripture.
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So that is another place where it references Jesus and it says
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you will dash them to pieces like pottery.
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Well, that kind of references Daniel's vision in chapter 2,
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verses 34 and 30 and and 45 in Daniel 234.
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It says this was a dream and that I think, oh I think it was
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Nebuchadnezzar had the dream and Daniel interpreted it.
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But it says while you were watching a rock was cut out but
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not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet
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of iron and clay and smashed them.
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Now all of this is symbolic. So a rock was cut out but not by
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humans hands. It was by God and like Jesus is
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known as the rock. And so and then it struck the
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statue. The statue was symbolism of
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multiple kingdoms and within that dream it's explained how
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each Kingdom comes forth. It starts at the head and it
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works down to the feet. Well then it says here in Daniel
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2 verse 34, it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and
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smashed them. That's the very last Kingdom
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that'll be on the the earth. It's iron and clay and it
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doesn't mix well and Jesus is going to crush that last
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Kingdom. So it there again it references
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Jesus in Daniel chapter 2 verse 45.
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It says this is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out
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of the mountain, but not by human hands.
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A rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and
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the gold to pieces. The great God has shown the king
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what will take place in the future.
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The dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.
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So Daniel was also written like right after the Babylon or the
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Babylonians captured Judah, the southern Kingdom of Judah.
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And and so that was a long time ago in the BC time frame, so
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thousands of years again before Jesus was ever there.
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But all of these books, it's so interesting how in the Old
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Testament we see so much where Jesus is referenced and, and
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it's not, you know, it's just this one and this one and that,
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you know, each statement references Jesus.
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And so then it says, therefore you kings, be wise, be warned,
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you rulers of the earth, serve the Lord with fear and celebrate
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his rule. So now it's saying the Lord's
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rule with trembling. And you know, the fear of the
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Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but the fear is really reverence
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of God. It's it's having respect for
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God. So serve the Lord with respect
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and celebrate his rule with trembling.
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Kiss his son. So Jesus is the Son of God the
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Father or he will be angry. So there's a lot of people that
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think there's lots of different ways to God's Kingdom, but Jesus
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told us that he is the only way. And that's something that this
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is also saying. It's like kiss his son, like
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respect his Son or he will be angry and your way will lead you
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to your destruction. So the only way that you are
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going to be that we are going to be in the Kingdom of God is
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through Jesus. And so even back in this time
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frame, when this was written thousands of years ago, Jesus
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was the way and God had already planned this ahead of time.
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He knew all of this was going to happen, which is another
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interesting thing. And it says for his wrath can
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flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge
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in him. Now where does the Bible tell us
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that we are supposed to take refuge and kings or Queens or
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rulers or anything like that? It I will read so many verses
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that say how we are to take refuge in God, God alone and not
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and specifically in Psalm 118 and Psalm 119.
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It specifically says not to take refuge in leadership.
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And I might just read those last two verses if I had them.
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OK, Psalm 118 verses 8 through 9, it says it is better to take
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refuge in the Lord than to trust in humans.
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It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in
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Princess. So then it says, let's see, in
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Psalm 119, you are my refuge and my shield, and I have put my
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hope in your word. That wasn't the verse that I was
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actually looking for though. So that always happens when I'm
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trying to find something. But let me see if I can look up
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the one that I had written down, because I thought there were two
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of them that were right. Like it was Psalm 119 verse 9.
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Nope, that's not it. I must have written down
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something wrong. OK, I wrote something down
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wrong. Anyway, the bottom line is we're
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not supposed to take refuge. Israel got in trouble all the
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time with God because they would go to Egypt for help and God
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kept reminding them, I got you out of slavery and now you're
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going back to get help from Egypt once again.
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And so we know that God does not want them to be seeking anywhere
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else. So also when I read the
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beginning of Why do the Nations conspire in the People's Plot in
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vain? We know from the Book of Acts
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that that was about at the time when Jesus was, you know, before
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he was crucified, that people were turning against him.
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And so that is the first prophecy.
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But then, you know, if we get to the very end prophecy where
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Jesus returns that we were reading, you know, talking about
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just a few moments ago, where he's the rock that crushes all
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the pieces that like pottery. That's at the very end when
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Jesus returns, when he is installed as king in Jerusalem,
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which is called Zion for the future.
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My holy mountain, it's not holy right now.
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God's going to make it holy. But that's the place that God
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chose for his throne. That's where Jesus will rule
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from. And so we know from that that
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all of this is about, it's about the long, long time into the
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future from when this was first talked about.
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And we know also that the nations are going to surround
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Israel and they are going to the kings of the earth are going to
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rise up again and the rulers are going to band again, a gather
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band together again against God and against his anointed.
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The there's going to be enemies that surround that surround
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Israel. And it's, you know, it's
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interesting, like let us break their bond and throw off their
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shackles, their cord. That's always been what Satan
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has been trying to do with with God's people.
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And as I was preparing for this podcast, I noticed something
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that we know that Satan, like God, was disappointed with Satan
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because Satan became prideful and he wasn't happy with all
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that God had given him and all that God had blessed him with.
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He wanted people to worship him and and that's the thing that,
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you know, God's not going to share his worship with any.
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You know, he shared all he he created Satan and he gave Satan
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all of these things. And he said, you know, you were
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like a treasure until until iniquity was found in you and he
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was in the Garden of Eden. And you know, it says all of
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these things about Satan. And he was decorated like almost
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like in a priestly way. And he, you know, there were all
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these his beauty, he had wisdom, all these things that God gave
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him, all of these wonderful characteristics.
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But he wasn't happy with it. He wanted more and it was his
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pride that is causing all of the suffering that we are
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experiencing. Because Satan wants to, he has
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some kind of authority, probably because sin we like open the
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door to the enemy, not we. But Adam and Eve, when they
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sinned, when they rebelled against God, they gave that
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opening to Satan and somehow gave him some authority over
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this earth. Because we know when Jesus was,
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you know, after he was baptized and he, the Holy Spirit came up
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down upon him and then he led him into the wilderness where
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Satan tempted him. And Satan at one point said,
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look at this Kingdom, I can give you everything.
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And then he just said, basically just bow down to me and then
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I'll give you all this Kingdom. And Jesus said, you know, it's
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like worship the Lord your God and him alone.
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And that was his response. Jesus was responding to Satan
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with Scripture. But the thing was, Jesus didn't
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say, Satan, you don't, you can't have any of that.
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That's not yours. That's he didn't say that's not
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yours, that's that's mine. I mean, like in the future.
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Yeah. But at the time it, Satan does
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have some sort of control. It says that Satan roams, he's
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the ruler of the air and he roams the earth and he goes into
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the heavenly realms and back. So he has some access.
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So it, it seems like, I mean, Satan is a created being.
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He wants to be worshipped. It seems like Satan in some
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manner are the enemy. Whatever else is evil, whatever
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else he corrupted in the heavenly realms that agrees with
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him or thinks they're going to overthrow God's Kingdom, they
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want to be worshipped. And I, I almost believe that all
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of the religions that are not the true, the true, the way, the
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way, the truth and the life that says Jesus is our Messiah, that
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it's really been the manipulative, deceptive work of
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Satan and other enemies, spiritual enemies that have
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convinced people to believe in other religions.
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I think all other religions have been started by and through him
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over the thousands of years that he's been around.
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And, and it, the purpose is to take away from God.
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It's, it's, it's he wants to be worshipped and that's how he
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gets to be worshipped by religions that are not true.
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And no, and people don't realize they're actually worshipping
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Satan, But every other religion that denies the deity of Jesus,
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that denies Jesus as the son of God, those are all deceived
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religions. And and it yeah, that sounds
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probably like, you know, a lot of people don't like to hear
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that. But if you look at time frames
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of when these different religions came about and what
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was stated in the Bible and how many witnesses there were to
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Jesus and how his disciples would give up their own lives
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rather than say none of what we were telling you true, they died
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for the truth. And the only way a person would
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do that is because they know of something that's been promised
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to them by the Son of God. They believed, they truly
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believed, and that's why they were willing to die.
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And it says in Scripture that if anyone, an Angel or anyone else
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comes and tells you of a gospel, that's different from what is
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talked about in the Bible, meaning Jesus is our Savior, He
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is our rescuer. He's what makes it possible for
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us to inherit eternity. If anyone says something
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different than that, than that, they are of the Antichrist.
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They are against Christ, they are against the Messiah and let
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them be accursed. So it's something evil if anyone
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says anything that there is any other way besides Jesus besides
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exalting Jesus because he died for us.
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He laid down his life for us. So if any religionist is denying
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Jesus. So there's a lot of people, a
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lot of religions that will say he's a good person, but they
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don't say he's the Son of God and they don't say that he died
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for us. And that I'm going to talk a
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little bit about, you know, Jesus being the way, the truth
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and the life. I mean, just there's so much
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evidence and witnesses that support that that is who Jesus
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is. And that's what he did for us.
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So if any, if anybody's following any other like way and
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think they can get to eternity or God's Kingdom by any other
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way, they're being deceived by the enemy of God.
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So the enemy, I think wants to inherit the people and the land.
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And so I came across this before with a parable that Jesus told.
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But then today preparing for Psalm 2, I came across Numbers,
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the book, the book of Numbers, chapter 27, verses 8 through 11.
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And it really made sense to me because it says, say to the
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Israelites, if a man dies and leaves no son, give his
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inheritance to his daughter. If he has no daughter, give his
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inheritance to his brothers. If he has no brothers, give his
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inheritance to his father's brothers.
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If his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the
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nearest relative in his clan that he may possess it.
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This is to have the force of law for the Israelites as the Lord
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commanded Moses. And what's interesting is God is
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all God makes, all the laws. And so God established
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inheritance laws. And why do you think other
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religions say God has no son? They want to deny that there's
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somebody who's going to inherit the Kingdom, and that person who
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is going to inherit the Kingdom is Jesus.
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And so they want to deny he even exists.
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And now doesn't that even make all the sense in the world?
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How and why Jesus? They, they killed him on the
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cross. They thought that the enemy of
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God thought we got him now because we killed his son.
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He came and took a human form and now we killed him.
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God no longer has a son because he died on the cross.
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So they thought they won and they would get the inheritance,
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but little did they know that he didn't die.
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He died. Well, he died, but he rose from
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the dead. So he is living.
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The Spirit that he had, the Spirit of God that was within
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him brought him to life and he lives and he is returning.
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So the big plan to wipe out the Son who's going to inherit
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everything didn't work. And that's why Jesus had to kind
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of keep it hush about what he was doing.
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He knew what he was doing. He was willingly giving up his
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life. The other fact was that people
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sinned, and it says in Hebrews that that atonement comes
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through the shedding of blood, and that's the only way.
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That's why God had the sacrifices.
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He wasn't happy about the sacrifices, but he did that just
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to so that the whole human race wouldn't be wiped out, which the
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enemy wants. So doesn't it make sense now why
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Satan seeks to steal, kill and destroy?
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He wants to steal the land. He wants to kill and destroy all
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people because people are God's inheritance.
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So this is another interesting thing about, but it came from
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another study that I had that I never even like you.
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Sometimes you speed read through things and you don't read it
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slow enough. And this is something that I
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never even paid attention to, but people are God's claimed
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inheritance. Think about that.
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He gives people land as inheritance and that's all over
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the Bible, what he's done with that.
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But God's own inheritance are the people that he chooses.
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So think about that for a minute, because it, it's, so it,
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it's so in fact, I might just read that now about the
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inheritance. So this is searching through the
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Bible. You can do this on your own too,
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just to get an electronic version of the study of a Bible
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and then just search inheritance.
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And then you'll have to go through lots of things.
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But to get to God's inheritance. So it starts in Deuteronomy 4,
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verse 20. I'm not going to maybe read the
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references. I'm just going to read the
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verses. And then you can look it up for
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yourself to see. But so here's what it says.
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But As for you, the Lord took you and brought you out of the
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iron smelting furnace out of Egypt to be the people of his
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inheritance, as you are now the people of his inheritance.
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So this is talking about Israel. And then Deuteronomy also said,
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I prayed to the Lord and said, sovereign Lord, do not destroy
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your people, your own inheritance that you redeemed by
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your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
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Another verse says, but they are your people.
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Comma your inheritance that you brought out by your great power
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and your outstretched arm. Another verse says, for the
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Lord's portion is his people, Jacob, his allotted inheritance.
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So Jacob is another word for Israel or the people of Israel
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and it's another verse says for they are your people and your
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inheritance whom you brought out of Egypt out of that iron
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smelting furnace that's in First Kings chapter 8 verse 51.
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So this is again talking about Israel, because that's who God
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brought out of Egypt out of the slavery.
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Then it says I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance and
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give them into the hands of the enemies.
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They will be looted and plundered by all their enemies.
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So people wonder, you know, why do, why does Israel always get
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attacked? Or why do they, you know, people
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come against them, nations come against them.
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You think year after year after year, you know, back in the in
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the days of the Bible, somebody was coming against them back,
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you know, and Hitler people were coming against them.
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Today we're seeing a rise in anti-Semitism.
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Well, it's all the evil one. It's all the enemy who wants to
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like God chose Israel. God chose them not because they
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were better than anyone, but just because God said, I'm going
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to pick this one. I'm going to pick this group of
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people and these are going to be my people.
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And and that's what he did. And it wouldn't, it probably
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wouldn't have mattered who he chose because we're all kind of
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similar and we all rebel against God or have at some point in our
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life. So God just happened to choose
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Israel, but they are the people who inherit the land, inherit
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Jerusalem, and that's where Jesus is going to reign from.
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So of course the enemy wants to wipe out that population because
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if he can wipe that out, does he think he gets the inheritance?
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And he probably thinks he can wipe it out, but he's going
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against God. I mean, I don't know if that's
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so foolish. If anybody thinks they have
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wisdom and then they think they're going to go against God,
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it just doesn't really make sense to me.
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But I guess I'm, I don't know. Anyway, there's another one that
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says I will forsake the remnant. Oh, I think I read that one.
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And then it says blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
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the people he chose for his inheritance.
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Then another verse says, remember the nation you
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purchased long ago, the people of your inheritance whom you
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redeemed, Mount Zion where you're dwelt.
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That's another interesting thing that God is purchasing back his
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people. And it talks about like Jesus
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redeeming us on the cross, like he's buying us back a life for a
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life. And that's something, you know,
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that goes back to the Old Testament law, and that's what
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Jesus had to lay down his life so that we could be purchased
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back to God. Everything is legal, OK?
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He gave his people over to the sword.
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He was furious with his inheritance.
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So you're not furious with land. You're furious.
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He gave his people over to the sword because they were, you
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know, doing all these things against him and basically, you
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know, showing like he they hated him, like they didn't respect
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him at all. And so they he kind of gave them
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over to what they were asking for or what they wanted.
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And, and of course they were evil people.
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And then they turned on them and attacked them because he was
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furious. He's like, OK, he always gives,
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not always, but he does sometimes when you keep on going
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after something, he'll say, OK, you can have it.
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Not that it's good for you, but he lets everybody have free
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will. And then you, I realize that
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it's really bad. And then you go back to him.
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If you're smart, if you're, if you're wise, I guess, let's see.
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It says rise up, O God, judge the earth for all the nations
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are your inheritance. So that seems like all people
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are God's inheritance. Then it says they crush your
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people, Lord, they oppress your inheritance.
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And then another verse says, for the Lord will not reject his
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people, He will never forsake his inheritance.
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Another verse says that I may enjoy the prosperity of your
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chosen ones, that I may share in the joy of your nation, talking
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about God's nation and join your inheritance in giving praise.
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Another verse says the Lord Almighty will bless them,
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saying, blessed be Egypt my people.
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Now there's going to be people in Egypt that are his Assyria my
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handiwork and Israel my inheritance.
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So here the people of Israel are called his inheritance.
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I was angry with another verse says that's Isaiah 19 verse 25
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If you want to find that Isaiah 47 I was angry with my people
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and desecrated my inheritance. I gave them into your hand, and
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you showed them no mercy. Even on the aged.
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You laid a very heavy yoke again, desecrated my
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inheritance, that those the people of Israel, Jeremiah 2 I
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brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich
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produce, but you came and defiled my land and made my
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inheritance detestable. So the people, they became
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detestable. That's Jeremiah 10.
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He who is the portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the
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maker of all things, including Israel.
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The people of his inheritance, the Lord Almighty is his name.
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Jeremiah 12 I will forsake my house, abandoned my inheritance
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I will give the one I love. So see, God still loves Israel
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into the hands of her enemies, Jerusalem.
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I'm well, Jerusalem or Israel's referred to as her, but
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Jerusalem is often referred to as her.
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My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest.
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She roars at me, therefore I hate her.
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Has not my inheritance become to me like a speckled bird of prey?
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That other birds of prey surround an attack?
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Go and gather the wild beasts, bring them to devour.
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So this is showing that Israel is not perfect, but Israel is
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still God's inheritance. God gets aggravated with Israel
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when they turn their backs on Him, but he he still loves them.
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Like he said, I will abandoned my inheritance, I will give the
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one I love into the hands of her enemies.
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So he's giving. There are times and that's the
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scary thing. That's kind of the fear of the
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Lord when you don't want God to turn you over to the enemy
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because of the decisions that you make.
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And there's, there's several different accounts of that
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within the Bible. Jeremiah 16.
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I will repay them double for their wickedness and their sin,
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because they defiled my land with the lifeless forms of their
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vile images and have filled my inheritance with their
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detestable idols. So filling the people with these
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detestable idols, the Pagan nations around Israel have
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corrupted God's chosen people. Jeremiah 50 Because you rejoice
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and are glad, you who pillage my inheritance, because you frolic
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like a heifer, threshing grain, and nay, like stallions.
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There's a lot of like immorality that his inheritance gets
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pillaged by. That's another reason why God
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said he didn't want people to marry outside of the tribes.
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They were supposed to marry within their own tribe.
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And there were, you weren't supposed to marry any foreign
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people. And that was because of
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idolatry, because the people who were not of Israel were
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worshipping lots of different deities, false gods.
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And that's what God and, and then when you get married to
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somebody, your souls are not your souls, but your spirits
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unite and you become one. And often the, for some reason,
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it doesn't turn godly. The union doesn't go godly.
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It goes away from God most often.
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And that's what happened with Solomon, with his wives.
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He, he was, so, you know, he started out great with God, but
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then he started taking on these wives that were, had worshipping
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other gods and was even building temples for them.
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And, and he really like, I think later at maybe on his deathbed,
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he came back to God, but he was far from God.
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God was not obedient to God. Let's see, I will, let's see.
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He who is the portion of Jacob does not like these, for he is
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the maker of all things, including the people of his
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inheritance. The Lord Almighty is his name.
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Joel Three. I will gather all nations and
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bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
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There I will put them on trial for what they did to my
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inheritance, my comma, my people Israel, because they scattered
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my people among the nations and divided up my land.
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So this whole thing about the division of land that sometimes
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gets brought up about Israel, that's not a good thing because
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that's going to in, you know, bring out some wrath of God on
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that. But again, it's my inheritance,
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my people, Israel. But that's, that's God's.
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Those are God's inheritance, the people that God chose.
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Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your
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inheritance. So people are the inheritance
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again, who is God? Who is a God like you who
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pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of
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His inheritance? You do not stay angry forever,
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but delight to show mercy. Yes, thank God for His mercy
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because often people do get destroyed, but there is always a
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remnant. He doesn't completely wipe out
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His people because He made this promise way back to Abraham and
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then to Isaac and then to Jake Jacob, and so that he would make
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them prosperous and they would have the land.
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And that goes way back to the beginning of the Bible anyway,
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Ephesians one, it says, I pray that the eyes of your heart may
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be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he
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has called you the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy
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people. So that I think concludes all of
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the times where the Bible talks about the inheritance that God
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has is people. He gives people land, but his
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inheritance is people. And that shows like how much
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value God has in the people that he's chosen, that he's called,
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the people that are grafted in to Israel, because we have to
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remember that that it started out with Israel because of
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Israel's sins, it kind of got opened up to the Gentiles, to
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all nations and all people. And those can be those branches,
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you know, in some symbolic sense can be grafted in to the
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original vine and which was, you know, with Jesus and the he was
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from the Brant. I mean, it's Israel.
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And so we are grafted believers are grafted in is ultimately
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what I'm trying to say. So then you know that when you
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talk about wrath, you talk about the people surrounding Israel.
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I actually came across this because what was it?
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The verse that there was a verse that I guess why did the nations
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conspire and the people's plot in vain, and the kings of the
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earth rise up, and the rulers band together against the Lord
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and against his anointed. So in Joel chapter 2 it talks
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about blow the trumpet in Zion, sound the alarm on my holy hill.
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Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the Lord
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is coming. It is close in hand.
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A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
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like dawn spreading across the mountains.
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A large and mighty army comes. Now listen to this such as never
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was in ancient times, nor ever will be in ages to come.
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So this is this is really significant in at the day of the
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Lord there is going to be a large and mighty army, bigger
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than anything that has ever been in ancient times, nor ever will
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be in ages. Plural to come.
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It says. Before them fire devours, behind
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them flame blazes. Before them the land is like the
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Garden of Eden, behind them a desert waste.
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Nothing escapes them. They have the appearance of
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horses. They gallop along like Calvary
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with noise like that of Chariots.
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They leap over mountain tops like a crackling fire, consuming
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consuming stubble like a mighty army drawn up for battle.
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At the sight of them, nations are in anguish.
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Every face turns pale. They charge like warriors.
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They scale walls like soldiers. They all March in line, not
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swerving from their course. They do not jostle each other.
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Each marches straight ahead. They plunge through defenses
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without breaking ranks. They rush upon the city.
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They run along the wall. They climb into the houses like
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thieves. They enter through the windows
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before them. The earth shakes, the heavens
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tremble, the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars no
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longer shine. The Lord thunders at the head of
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His army. His forces are beyond number,
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and mighty is the army that obeys his command.
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The day of the Lord is great. It is dreadful.
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Who can endure it? So this gives you a lot of
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mixed. I mean, this is like it says
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before them, the earth shakes, the heavens tremble, the sun and
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moon and dark and are darkened and the stars no longer shine.
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That is basically check out Revelation chapter 6 and read
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about the 6th seal. That's about that's, you know,
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ties into those details. And then Jesus describes that
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also. And it's it, this one verse that
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really stood out, Matthew chapter 2424, verse 21.
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For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the
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beginning of the world until now, and never to be equaled
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again. Then it says, if those days had
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not been cut short, no one would survive.
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But for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.
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So it talks about all of this. This stuff is going to happen.
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But then that's then there's like, then they see the Son of
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Man coming on the clouds. So there's going to be something
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that was described in Joel 2 and also in Matthew 24, something
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that happens. And then it gives all of this
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description about what happens. And then it says in Matthew 24,
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verse 29, immediately after the distress of those days, the sun
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will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars
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will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
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Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven.
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And then all the people leave the earth will mourn when they
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see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and
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great glory. And he will send his angels with
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a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the
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four winds from one end of the heavens to the other.
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So there's going to be like a lot of people are like not, you
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know, questioning the timing. I think scripture is really
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clear when you get into it that there is going to be something,
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that something absolutely terrible that happens that has
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never happened all the way back in ancient times.
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So think back World War One, World War 2.
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No, it's going to be more than that.
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And it's never going to be the same as it, you know, it'll
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never happen again either. But there's going to be a
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significant devastation. But the Lord is coming
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immediately after the distress of those days, and it says the
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sun will be darkened. So that's a clue.
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Everything goes dark and then this is right before he comes on
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the clouds to gather his elect. So the Lord is our is our
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shepherd. He is our shelter, he is our
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refuge. And that's, it's so important
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now to know that ahead of time so that when these things
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happen, that's what Jesus said, he goes, why do I, you know, why
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do I tell you these things? So that when they happen, you
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know, and that you don't lose hope because it was written down
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many, many, many years, thousands of years ago for our
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benefit. So that when those things
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happen, we understand what's going on.
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And we know when Jesus said he would come and not exactly the
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day or the hour, but it's like that stuff that hasn't happened
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yet. So Jesus is not coming on the
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clouds yet. So let's see what else was that?
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The way of the Lord. That's something else that you
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know, there's no other way. Jesus said that, you know, I'm
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the way, the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father
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except through me. So I don't let's see there like
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Jesus is the only way. I don't know where I think I I
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don't know if I had that one called up, but the other thing
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that I think is really important is this verse here in Psalm 2
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that says kiss his son or you will be angry and your way will
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lead to your destruction. So I respect Jesus kiss his son,
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the study Bible says. Why direct other kings to kiss
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his son? A kiss in ancient times was a
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sign of giving honor and homage to someone with greater power or
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authority. Such honor was especially due
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God's chosen king. So that makes sense.
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And if Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, and no one
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comes to the Father except through him, it makes sense that
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your way will lead to your destruction.
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Jesus also said this like in Matthew Chapter 7 verses 13 and
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14. He was telling his disciples,
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enter through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad
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is the road that leads to destruction and many enter
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through it, but small is the gate and narrow the road that
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leads to life, and only a few find it.
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That's something I don't know that a whole lot of churches are
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talking about. Like there is a way and there's
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there's a wide way. Like why is it?
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Why does it say that only a few find it?
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I mean, that's really sobering to think about it.
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And and it's sobering to think like you really have to make God
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your priority. You really need to know what
51:38
that means and why are why is there like a big wide gate and a
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big wide Rd. that leads to destruction?
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Because people aren't taking their faith seriously.
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They're not in the word and they're not, you know, they're
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relying on other people to interpret the word for them.
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The most important thing that any of us can do is get into the
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word and the Holy Spirit will give revelation.
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And thankfully we have electronic Bibles because you
52:06
can just search phrases or words and then you can find all this
52:10
other information that clarifies like Scripture interprets
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scripture. So you when you search something
52:17
that sounds confusing, you often and find the answer within other
52:20
verses of scripture. But it's really important
52:23
because you want to be prepared and you don't want to be the one
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on the wide path that goes to destruction.
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And that's you know what it says like, you know, give honor to
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his Son, give honor to Jesus. Think about all the religions
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who don't who deny that Jesus is the son of God.
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And if if they're not respecting Him, then their way is going to
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lead them on the wide path to destruction.
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That's just the truth. And people may not like to hear
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it, but that's what the truth is.
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And isn't it better to find out the truth now than to find out
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when Jesus returns and there's not time to change anything, to
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look into it more? Do this today.
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Seriously. So it was John in the in the
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book of John chapter 14 verse 6 where Jesus Jesus answered I am
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the way and the truth and the life.
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No one comes to the Father except through me.
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And then Peter warns people in second Peter 2 verse two, he
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says many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring
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the way of truth into disrepute another way.
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It says in a a different version, it says many will
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follow their sensuality and because of them the way of truth
53:50
will be maligned. So they you know, they don't it
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maligned with that word. When you look it up, it's like
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blasphemo. Blasphemio is what it is in in
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Greek and so it's kind of like blasphemy.
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It's blasphemous, it's not the truth and and so don't let the
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worldly ways and it says many will follow their sensuality,
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their lustfulness, and because of them the way of truth will be
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aligned. This is about false prophets,
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false teachers who you know, follow that wide path and then
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they're leading all these other people.
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That's what happens if you if you're deceived because you
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don't get into the word yourself and read and seek God because
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God says if we seek Him, he will be found.
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Be careful when you're only getting your information from a
54:47
church. Make sure you're getting it from
54:49
the Bible or you're checking everything that they say.
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And there are uncomfortable truths in the Bible, but it's
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better to know the truth than to be separated from God for
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eternity. At least that's the way I look
55:03
at it. So I think I've I think I've
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covered all of the different books and chapters.
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And again, this got to be a long podcast, but hopefully there was
55:14
something good that you took away from it.
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