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864. Bible Study: Who are the Milennium Reigning Kings and Queens found in Isaiah 49:23? · Faith by annm2705

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  This is a slight departure from the Bible studies, but it does
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  relate to the material that was covered recently.
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  We were reading in the book of Ezekiel about the restoration of
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  Israel. And as I was doing that, I
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  searched the Bible for additional books that reference
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  this. And there during this
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  restoration of Israel, it is the at that period called the
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  Millennium. And I believe the next chapter
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  that we read in Ezekiel, the new temple, the third temple that is
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  going to be built or I don't know if it gets built before the
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  Millennium begins or if it is built during the Millennium, but
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  it will be standing during the Millennium.
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  And I will point that out as we read through that scripture.
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  Anyway, this Millennium period, I was actually talking with
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  someone yesterday about the Millennium, just like what I
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  read about it, because it's a very interesting time.
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  So the Millennium period is when Jesus returns and he returns to
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  earth and he's here on earth for 1000 years and he reigns as king
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  from Jerusalem. And there's a reference in the
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  Book of Revelation that people who are beheaded as a result,
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  this is prior to Jesus returning, people who are
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  beheaded because of their faith, because they will not deny him,
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  which has already happened in our world.
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  But those people, when Jesus returns, they will be
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  resurrected and will rule with Jesus from Jerusalem.
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  And this is just this matches up with the what we learn about God
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  and we learn from Jesus that Jesus often takes the lowly, the
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  unexpected people and does something very special with
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  them. He he has this like inverted
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  value that our world has, like our world values, not maybe not
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  values, but he sees people differently.
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  Like in our world, people strive for their own selfish purposes
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  of power, of wealth, of all of these things.
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  But that causes pride and self-reliance and God doesn't
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  like that. It says in Scripture that pride
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  comes before the fall. So God will discipline his
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  children if they become pride. If we become powerful, He will
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  knock us down and get us straightened out because pride
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  is what happened. If you go back, this is going to
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  be a little stretch for some people, but in Scripture you
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  will see that that's what it's referenced about Lucifer, he had
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  pride. Satan, he had pride.
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  He wanted to be God. He wasn't satisfied with all of
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  the splendor that God gave him when God created him.
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  And so he wanted to be equal to God.
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  But there is no equal. There is only one God, so he
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  rebelled against that. And that's the spiritual battle
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  that we're in on the earth. But not to get too far into
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  that, because I want to talk about the Millennium period and
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  these, this understanding that came to me last night in the
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  middle of the night. And I don't know, like I'm, I'm
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  going to give you what I found in Scripture, but it was really
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  weird. I woke up in the middle of the
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  night and all of a sudden this thought came to my mind.
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  Now I'm just telling you that's what it was.
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  It was just a thought that came to my mind.
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  Where the thought came from, don't know.
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  I mean, it was my thought, but could it be something that
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  sometimes God does speak in the night and there's scripture that
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  backs that up? I didn't search that before I
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  made this podcast, so I'd have to find it.
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  But He does speak to people in the night.
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  But we have to be careful about that too.
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  And I will again, just read the scripture.
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  You can draw your own conclusion and pray about it too.
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  Do not take my word for it, but I thought this was very
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  encouraging for people, especially people who are
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  committed to getting to know God better and who are reading their
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  Bible everyday and are truly seeking God.
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  I remember when I started out reading the Bible I didn't have
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  the same feeling towards it as I do now.
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  Now I, I look with excitement almost about like, what am I
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  going to discover today? And not every, I don't discover
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  something new that's in the text every day, but sometimes I do.
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  And when I do, it's just like, you know, it's like that light
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  bulb goes on and you're like, wow, I didn't, I didn't
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  understand this before and now I understand it.
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  It's, you know, Jesus even says, you know, heaven is like a
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  treasure that somebody finds. And that's like the word of God.
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  It, it's expressing, it's, it's telling us about, about God's
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  Kingdom. And it is like a treasure chest.
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  And when you open up the Bible and you start reading, you know,
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  the Bible is the living word of God.
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  And so God is communicating with those who read it.
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  In fact, the entire Book of Revelation tells us that those
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  who read it will be blessed. That is the one book of the
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  Bible that says that if you read it, you will be blessed.
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  So there is something supernatural about the words and
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  about the Bible. I mean, it just defies every
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  kind of coincidence there is. I mean, there is just the
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  probabilities of some of the things that come out in the
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  Bible when you study it. It's just like an unheard of
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  probability, like there's just no way that could happen, or it
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  is so rare that that could happen, but it happens
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  repeatedly in the Bible. Like the Bible is so amazing.
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  Anyway, I'm going to get into what I heard last night 'cause
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  I'm rambling, but OK. So during the Millennium,
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  there's going to be mortal and immortal people.
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  There will be those who when Jesus just to explain that when
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  Jesus returns, those who are living, who are in Christ, who
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  have the Holy Spirit will be changed in an instant into
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  incorruptible bodies. That's what Paul tells us.
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  And so at that time and also before that even happens, the
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  dead in Christ will rise and will be given their immortal
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  bodies. So there's there's still human
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  beings on earth who haven't surrendered to God, who haven't
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  accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior, who don't have the Holy
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  Spirit yet. And they're still on earth.
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  So they're going to see this happening.
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  They're going to see this change, this thing happening in
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  the world. And that's when it says like in
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  the, I think it's in Revelation 6, where it says when they see
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  the Son of Man coming on the clouds, then they cry on the
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  rocks and the earth and say fall on us and cover us from the
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  wrath of him who sits on the throne and from the Lamb.
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  Because that is, those are symbolic references to the
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  Father and the Son. And that's the wrath that's
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  coming when Jesus returns because he's separating good
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  from evil and God is a God of justice.
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  So that has to happen. Anyway, this period of the
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  Millennium, Jesus is going to be reigning as king, but it sounds
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  like he's going to have other people who are responsible for
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  certain areas that are ruling. I mean, I mentioned that about
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  those who are beheaded. Like I said, that was in the
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  Book of Revelation and I didn't look up to give you the
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  reference of where it is, but it's when it talks about the
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  1000 years of Christ. And I'll find that, I guess, and
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  just tell you where you can find it in the Bible, because I
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  always want to support everything I say with with the
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  Bible. I so I have to search 1000 years
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  and see. Oh, I don't know.
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  OK, that didn't come up because it just said like second Peter.
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  So will I guess will reign. I'm going to look that up
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  because I think that's how I can find that verse.
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  Just a moment. Sorry I didn't have this.
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  Well Revelation 510, I don't know if this is where I was
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  actually thinking of, but it says that you have made them to
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  be a Kingdom and priest to serve our God and they will reign on
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  earth. That wasn't the actual verse
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  that I was thinking of, but this is talking about the people that
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  God has purchased. Well here it says that these are
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  the angels singing and they sang a new song saying you are worthy
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  to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were
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  slain. This is about Jesus.
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  And with your blood you purchased for God persons from
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  every tribe and language and people and nation.
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  You have made them to be a Kingdom and priest to serve our
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  God and they will reign on the earth.
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  So these are people who are reigning with Christ and they
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  when he returns And the the place that I was, I'm scrolling
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  through right now to find the chapter that I was talking about
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  the thousand years of Christ. I don't have every chapter
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  memorized in the Bible and it does kind of go through a
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  description. It kind of it isn't all of it's
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  not sequential. Some of it's more detail about a
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  certain aspect. So anyway, it's Revelation 20 is
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  where it is. Now here is the part that I'm
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  going to refer to in Revelation 20, verse 4.
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  It says I saw Thrones on which were seated those who had been
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  given authority to judge, and I saw the souls of those who had
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  been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and
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  because of the word of God. They had not worshipped the
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  beast or its image and had not received its mark on their
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  foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned
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  with Christ 1000 years. The rest of the dead did not
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  come to life until the thousand years were ended.
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  This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy are those who
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  share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power
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  over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and
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  will reign with him for 1000 years.
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  So this is talking about loyal people to God who have placed
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  Jesus as their their Lord and their Savior.
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  And they don't deny him. And they may have, I mean, it
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  says they were beheaded. So these are the, I don't know
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  if it's exclusively the ones who have, who are beheaded that
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  actually become heads, which, you know, heads of areas.
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  I mean, this is just the way God takes bad and turns it to good.
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  And this is an eternity. Like these people will be, well,
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  at least for the 1000 years, they will be reigning with
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  Christ. So they're going to like Christ
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  is still ahead. God is very orderly, and then He
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  will have leaders under him that are going to reign with him.
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  So that's the scenario that I'm referring to about the
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  Millennium period, this period of time where Christ is
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  reigning. So going back to the Old
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  Testament, it talks about this in Isaiah and it it's very, it's
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  about the restoration of Israel. And I think it might be helpful
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  if I just read what it what it says here and I'll add a little
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  bit of commentary. But if you want to follow along,
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  it's Isaiah chapter 49. And I'm going to start with
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  verse 8. This is what the Lord says, In
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  the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of
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  salvation I will help you. I will keep you and will make
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  you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and
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  to reassign its desolate inheritances, to say to the
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  captives, come out and those in darkness be free.
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  They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren
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  hill. So this is when Jesus returns,
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  and this is like the day of the Lord when God begins to restore
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  Israel. This is probably when the wrath
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  has already occurred. And then God is in the
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  restoration. That's what he was talking
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  about, to reassign its desolate inheritance.
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  The inheritance was is the land of Israel that God spoke about.
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  Oh, gosh, I don't know. Back in Genesis, I think where
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  he gave the parameters of the land, that's supposed to be
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  Israel right now, today, believe it or not, Israel is smaller
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  than those parameters. Israel is supposed to be bigger,
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  not a whole lot bigger, but a little bit bigger than what it
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  is today. And that's what God promised to
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  the Israelites. And God is a God of his word.
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  He's not going to go back on it. So when when Jesus returns, he's
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  going to do something that the Israelites never accomplished
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  because they were not obedient to him.
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  God would say, go wipe out these evil people who are in this land
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  and take it over. But they always did a little bit
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  of it, but not the full thing. And then they had consequences
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  from it because those people then turned against them and
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  history just repeated over and over again.
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  And it's still repeating. Israel still has its neighbors
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  coming against them and battling them for the land.
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  This is an ancient reoccurrence of history.
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  And it's all because when God first told them, wipe out these
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  evil ones who were present in the land, and Israel didn't do
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  it completely. So when Jesus comes back, he's
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  going to make the country of Israel bigger than what it is
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  today. Going to Isaiah 49 verse 10
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  talking about the Israelites, they will neither hunger nor
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  thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them.
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  He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them
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  behind beside springs of water. I want to pause there because
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  that's the Good Shepherd. It's in the Psalms and I didn't
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  look that up. But the Good Shepherd leads me
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  besides water, the calm waters, and lets me rest.
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  I don't. I'm paraphrasing what it says,
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  but that's referring to Jesus. Jesus is known as the Good
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  Shepherd, and the sheep that follow him, he will give them
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  rest. So this is he who has
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  compassion, that's Jesus. He who has compassion on them
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  will guide them like a Good Shepherd and lead them beside
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  springs of water. This is, you know, God the Lord.
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  Saying this, I will turn all my mountains into roads and my
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  highways will be raised up. See, they will come from afar,
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  some from the north, some from the West, some from the region
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  of Aswan. And it says Dead Sea Scrolls,
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  Masoretic Text is cinem. I didn't look up where that
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  region is, but it's from someplace.
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  I don't know that that's important to the context of what
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  I'm trying to talk about right now.
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  But there's going to be people that are going to come to
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  Israel, like he said, from the north, from the West, and from
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  this other region that I need to look up.
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  So from three different directions, they're going to be
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  coming. And then it says, shout for joy,
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  you heavens, rejoice, you earth burst into song, you mountains.
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  For the Lord comforts his people and will have compassion on his
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  afflicted ones. But Zion said that's another
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  word for the city of Jerusalem. The Lord has forsaken me.
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  The Lord has forgotten me. Now here's what so the
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  Israelites are at this point because they've they've been
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  attacked from their enemies. They think God has forgotten
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  them. And then the Lord says in verse
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  15, can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no
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  compassion on the child she has born, though she may forget.
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  I will not forget. You see, we're talking about
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  God. We're talking about God doesn't
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  forget his people. He remembers Israel.
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  He remembers His promise. Verse 16 See, I have engraved
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  you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are ever before me.
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  God's always seeing what Israel is doing and what everyone else
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  is doing. Verse 17 Your children hasten
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  back, and those who laid waste depart from you.
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  So when he talks about the children, this is when I also
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  think that you know Jesus. And actually, when he was
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  writing into Jerusalem, before he was put on the cross, He was
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  saying Jerusalem, Jerusalem, oh, how I would love to gather you
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  like chicks, but you would not have it.
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  Like there is this gathering in Israel that Jesus brings about.
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  And yes, there have been a lot of people, a lot of Jewish
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  people from other areas making Aaliyah to Israel and coming
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  back to Israel. But I don't think the full
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  fulfillment of Bible prophecy has happened yet.
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  I think that actual fulfillment is going to be when Jesus
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  returns. Then all the people are, all the
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  Israelites are going to come back to their land.
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  But here's something else that is, again, this is my
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  speculation, my understanding. So you can pray about this, but
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  Paul says that when he talks about the olive tree, that is
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  representative of Israel and he talks about grafting in
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  Gentiles. So the olive tree, it has, it
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  has roots and it started with the Jewish people and branches
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  were broken off because of disobedience, because they
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  didn't follow the law. They rejected God, they turned
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  away from God. There was idolatry.
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  And so those branches were broken off.
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  But then God went to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.
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  That's what it does say in Scripture.
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  And he grafted the Gentiles into the tree.
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  So now the Gentiles who are not Jewish by DNA are grafted into
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  the tree that represents Israel. So Israel is made-up of Jewish
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  and non Jewish people, believers, people that have the
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  Holy Spirit. They are grafted in and then
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  another point in scripture, and I can't remember where this is,
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  but God says that are, you know, I guess Paul says about God.
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  If God broke off tree, you know, branches that weren't fruitful
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  and then grafted in the Gentiles, essentially, how much
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  more will he take the natural branch and grafted back in?
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  Like if God was merciful to the Gentiles, who you know, weren't
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  the chosen ones to have the inheritance, but God had mercy
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  and allowed us. Like I'm not, I don't know, I
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  don't believe I'm Jewish at all, but brought us into this tree.
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  And if we think God had mercy on us and God is giving us this
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  inheritance which we don't even deserve, it's a gift, how much
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  more so will he do that to the people that he actually chose,
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  the people of Israel, the Jewish people, if he broke that off
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  that branch because it was unfruitful, because they turned
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  away from him. But then if they repent and turn
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  to him, he grafts them back in like God is.
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  God is so loving, forgiving and merciful, he's going to put
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  those people back into the tree which represents Israel.
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  So ultimately the Kingdom of God, Israel is going to be
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  made-up of Jews and non Jews. And it's those who are
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  believers, those who are guided by God, those who have the Holy
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  Spirit. So OK, now I'm going to read
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  from verse 18. So this is where I'm coming up
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  with what Paul was saying. This is this made me think about
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  what I just explained about what Paul says about these branches
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  being grafted into the tree. So in verse 18, it says this is
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  talking to Israel and the Lord saying this, lift up your eyes
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  and look around. All your children gather and
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  come to you as surely as I live, declares the Lord.
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  You will wear them all as ornaments.
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  You will put them on like a bride.
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  Now Jerusalem is always, not always, but is referred to as
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  the bride of Christ. This is where everything is
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  going to happen. This is like when Christ
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  returns, that's going to be the the OR the union, I guess, of
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  the bride in, in Christ. And so the natural Jewish people
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  are going to look around and they're going to see like
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  probably other Jewish people who become believers, but they're
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  also going to see some Gentiles. I think this is my opinion.
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  I think this is also referring to the Gentiles who get grafted
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  in and he's they're going to he's saying look at, look
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  around. You will wear them all as
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  ornaments, like they will be like a beautiful addition to
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  Jerusalem. These ornaments, these non
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  Jewish people, Gentiles are going to be like ornaments.
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  They're going to be, you know, a blood, I don't know, something
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  good that's added to the beauty that is will be found in
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  Jerusalem. Verse 19.
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  It says though you were ruined and made desolate and your land
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  laid waste. Now you will be too small for
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  your people and those who devoured you will be far away.
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  So there's going to be a lot of people in Israel because of this
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  grafting in there are a lot more people than just the original
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  natural born Jewish people. Now here's what it says verse
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  20. The children born during your
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  bereavement will yet say in your hearing, this place is too small
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  for us. Give us more space to live in.
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  Now I think we're going to get into some of this when we start
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  talking about the temple that's being built and then the land,
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  how it gets divided because it says like there are basically
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  non Jewish people who are in there and wherever they land, I
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  I believe it says that they are supposed to have an inheritance
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  of the land wherever they settle.
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  So there is this like gathering of people and it's I, you know,
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  it, it needs to be larger and and so the children born during
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  your bereavement. So this is the time that Israel
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  was turned away from God. They didn't accept Jesus as
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  Savior and and and then during that time there were children
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  born that they didn't realize those children who were born.
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  This is again my understanding those children who were born are
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  the non Jewish people and also children of the Lord through the
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  Holy Spirit like we are grafted in.
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  Then you will say, verse 21 says, then you will say, this is
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  Israel in your heart. Who bore me these?
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  I was bereaved and barren. I was exiled and rejected.
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  Who brought these up? I was left all alone.
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  But these, where have they come from?
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  It's kind of like all of a sudden they see these Gentiles
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  who are in their land. That's what I think.
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  And, you know, perhaps some other Jewish people who become
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  believers too. And and they're like, how?
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  Where did all these people come from?
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  It reminds me of the Book of Revelation where they see these
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  people in white robes. And John asks, who are all of
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  these? And the response is, those are
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  they who came out of the tribulation and made their
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  garments clean. What that means symbolically,
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  making your garments clean is repentance, turning away from
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  sinful life and turning towards God.
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  So there's going to be a lot of people who turn away from their
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  sinful life and turn towards God.
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  So verse 22, this is what the sovereign Lord says.
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  See, I will beckon to the nation's.
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  Now listen to this. I will lift up my banner to the
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  peoples. They will bring your sons in
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  their arms and carry your daughters on their hips.
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  So this is a pouring in of all of these nations that the Lord
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  signals to. He lifts up his banner.
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  I mean, is this saying, OK, now this the Kingdom is mine and
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  bring all you people come back to Jerusalem and they're
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  bringing your sons and daughters on, you know, sons in their arms
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  and carry your daughters on their hips.
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  Like there's these, there's this these children, these new
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  children, these unexpected children that are coming into
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  the city of Jerusalem. Now here's the verse that I was,
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  you know, really getting towards verse 23.
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  Kings will be your foster fathers and their Queens, your
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  nursing mothers. Isn't that interesting?
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  So this is the Lord talking to Israel and he's telling Israel
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  kings will be your foster fathers and their Queens, your
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  nursing mothers. So could these be the people
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  that will be reigning with Christ?
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  Does Christ make them kings of certain smaller areas under his
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  authority? Because God is very structured
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  and Jesus, you know, reminds us like Jesus is the head, but then
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  there's all the body, the body of Christ who has all these
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  different functions. And they would have different
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  territories perhaps that they oversee as kings.
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  So it says kings will be your foster fathers and their Queens
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  your nursing mothers. So the Queens have a different
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  purpose. They are like providing
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  nourishment. Maybe that's teaching, maybe I
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  don't, I don't know. You know, it's a symbolic
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  nursing mothers, you know, like a motherly care or a love.
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  You know, maybe it's the the women who are being the
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  nurturers or the carers or, you know, the the caretakers of the
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  people who had been through this terrible battle and are now
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  coming back into this Kingdom that God is restoring.
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  And, and, and again, these kings and Queens are more of not, not
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  justic in a sense, but more like a servant king and queen.
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  Because this very next statement says it.
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  They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground.
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  They will lick the dust at your feet.
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  Then you will know that I am the Lord.
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  Those who hope in me will not be disappointed.
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  So isn't this a little bit different than the way we see
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  kings do Kings come and bow down before somebody else with their
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  faces to the ground and they will lick the dust at your feet.
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  That's like, I guess I don't exactly know what that means,
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  but that's almost like, you know, honoring somebody, I
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  think, or respecting someone that you know, there's a song
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  actually that they sung in church just this past weekend.
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  That's even if I only reach your feet, I've you know, I've
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  reached it all, you know, like if the Lord, but this is God
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  talking to Israel. So we really have to think about
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  this with the anti-Semitism in the world right now, because
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  this is what God says, that kings and Queens are going to be
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  bowing down before Israel with their faces to the ground.
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  And then you will know that I am the Lord.
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  And they're saying kings and Queens are going to be your
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  foster fathers and your nursing mothers.
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  Basically the kings and Queens are going to be serving Israel.
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  Because there's a lot of questions.
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  This is my interpretation, so pray about it.
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  But there's a lot of questions like what are we going to be
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  doing in the Millennium when we're there with Christ?
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  You know, we, you know, is everybody going to rule with
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  him? I mean, there's going to be
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  certain, you know, God gives certain gifts to certain people
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  and different people will be doing different things, but all
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  connected to Christ. They have different skills,
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  different personalities, different ways of interacting
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  with other people and serving other people.
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  That's ultimately what it is serving other people.
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  So then it continues and it, you know, it says more about it.
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  But the point I got to and what's going to tie in, I know
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  I'm going about this in a long way, but you have to kind of get
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  the background first. So when I read kings will be
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  your foster fathers and their Queens, your nursing mothers.
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  Then I thought about in Matthew Chapter 7 verse 13 and 14, it
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  says this is Jesus talking to people enter through the narrow
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  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 is the road that
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  leads to life, and only a few find it.
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  So God is like foretold that there's going to be a lot of
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  people going down the wrong path that leads to destruction, but
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  there's going to be a few that find this narrow road.
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  And here's what I, I wonder, because just as in my
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  observation, we have a lot of people in the world who call
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  themselves Christians, but there are fewer people who read their
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  Bible daily and seek the Lord daily and want the Lord to guide
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  them every day and submit to the Holy Spirit of God to say, you
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  tell me what to do. Like I want you to guide me.
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  I don't want to be my boss. I want you to, you know, give me
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  direction in my life. That's a smaller number of
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  people. And I believe that the people
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  who seek God like that and it it says like our faith grows by
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  hearing the message, the message about the Kingdom of God.
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  We get that message about the Kingdom of God through the
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  Bible. And Jesus says I am the vine and
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  you are the branches. And apart from me, you know you
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  can bear no fruit. And if this Bible is the living
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  word of God, how do we stay connected to God?
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  We stay connected to him through the Bible and through our
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  prayers to God. That's how we stay connected.
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  All of the information about God is in the Bible, but our prayers
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  are our communication with God and God can communicate with us
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  too. But not everybody finds that.
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  Like you can see Christians who maybe they go to church a couple
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  times a year and they don't ever read their Bible.
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  That's what I was like. I was like that.
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  So I'm not being it's just once, once you surrender to God and
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  once you let the Holy Spirit into your life, you, you know,
• 35:55
  if you're closed off to the Holy Spirit and you resist him and
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  you say, no, I don't want your impact in my life, you're not
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  going to get there. But I didn't desire to read the
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  Bible. I when I buy books, I read them
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  one time and then I don't want to go back to them.
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  Typically, the Bible is totally different and I learned
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  something every time or a lot of times when I go into it, there's
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  something that I didn't see before that becomes evident or
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  apparent to me. And like I said before, it was
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  like a treasure that opens up. So then there's another I was
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  trying to find this verse, this particular verse.
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  So I searched meditate because I thought meditate on my laws is
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  what I was trying to find because I remembered here's what
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  I'm getting to When Israel was originally a nation, God was
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  their king. They didn't have a king, but
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  then they started seeing all these surrounding nations that
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  had kings and they they said to their leader, they were like,
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  you know, we want a king too. We want to be like these other
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  nations. They did this when other nations
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  were coming against them, and instead of relying on the power
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  of God, you know, who parted the sea and let them cross on dry
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  ground? I mean, it's so hard to imagine
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  after seeing these miraculous things from God that they
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  actually doubted that this same God who parted the Red Sea for
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  them to cross and come out of Egypt, that this same God would
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  not be able to defeat any battle that comes against them.
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  It's just, you know, the faith. It's just, it shows how, you
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  know, faith has to grow. We don't immediately start out
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  trusting God that God is good and that God is going to do good
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  things with our life if we just let him guide us and we just
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  trust in him. And whatever comes about that we
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  know that God will will make things happen for our our good
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  and to lead us in the right path if we consult with God.
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  And we don't rely on our own selves, but we rely on God.
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  We pray about big decisions in our life and we, we, we ask God
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  to make it known to us in some way.
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  And God communicates individually with people in
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  different ways. So when we seek God, he says
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  when we seek him, we will find him.
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  So anyway, I was looking for this verse that talked about
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  some of the things that were that God gave as commands of
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  what the king should do because God wasn't happy about Israel
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  asking for a king. He was like, that's me, you
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  know, I'm the king. Why do you want another king?
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  Why do you want an earthly king? It's not going to go well for
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  you if you have an earthly king and he tells them, here's all
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  the stuff that's going to happen if you have an earthly king.
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  But they wanted an earthly king. So God gave them an earthly
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  king. And that earthly king was Saul.
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  Now Saul was, he looked perfect. He was like the epitome of what
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  a king should be. And the people were really happy
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  about this new king they were going to have.
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  But God warned him and and Saul, he wasn't a whole, he wasn't
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  completely turned to God. He still wanted to do things his
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  way. Like God would send him on a
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  mission to do something and he would do part of it.
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  He actually had Samuel leading him who was anointed by God.
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  And so Samuel would tell him, go do this.
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  And you know, he would give him instruction and Saul would do
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  some of it. But then he'd be like, I don't
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  think I need to do all that, you know, I'm just going to do this
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  part. And what happened was then, you
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  know, bad things happened because he was disobedient, not
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  doing everything that, you know, God wants you to do.
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  That's the way Saul was. He was, he was had his own mind
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  about what should be done and what didn't need to be done.
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  And he justified things in his own mind, but he wasn't fully
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  obedient to God. And that caused problems anyway.
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  I was looking for the rules that God gave kings and this is going
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  to tie back. So I would just want to read
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  this about meditate. There's only 14 verses but this
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  is kind of interesting. So this is about Isaac when he
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  was when Rebecca was chosen to be his wife.
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  So Isaac, he went out to the field 1 evening to meditate and
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  as he looked up he saw camels approaching.
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  And this is his wife coming, you know, after God.
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  God used a servant of Isaac's to find his wife and then he
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  brought her to him. So it was really interesting.
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  But this word, it's Sarah. I guess I, I don't pronounce it
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  like the way the Jewish people do, but it's only used one time
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  in the Bible and the meaning of it is unknown, but it's
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  translated in the NIV version as meditate.
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  So one evening he went out to a field to, I don't know,
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  something. And he looked up and he saw the
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  camels approaching. And this is his wife coming.
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  And anyway, I'm not going to get on that whole story.
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  But then in Joshua verse one or chapter one, verse 8, keep this
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  book of law always on your lips. Meditate on it day and night so
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  that you may be careful to do everything written in it.
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  Then you will become prosperous and successful.
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  Now Joshua understood this, but not every king understood, even
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  though Moses commanded this from God, that they are supposed to
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  basically do this. Meditate on the book of law.
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  So I'm going to read that again. Keep this book of law always on
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  your lips. Meditate on it day and night so
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  that you may be careful to do everything written in it.
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  And here's the promise. Then you will be prosperous and
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  successful. This is good advice for all of
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  us. If we look, if we familiarize
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  ourself with what's in the Bible and we live by it, we put it
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  into action, things will. I mean, the promise here says
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  you will be prosperous and successful if God is behind it,
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  if God is the foundation. It will be successful if we are
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  moving in God's will. It will be successful.
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  Now the rest of these are Psalms, which are more or less
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  songs, but it talks about meditating.
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  And I remember when I first read the Bible and a lot of the
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  Psalms were written by David and I, when I read these things, I
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  honestly thought, gosh, how can you feel this way about God's
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  laws? Like, I really thought that.
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  And now many years later, I look at these things and I'm like the
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  laws of God. And I realized like, yeah, I was
• 43:25
  resistant to some of them. And yet at the same time, there
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  are blessings associated with them.
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  And then I look at my life when it it, you know, had problems in
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  it. And it's because I wasn't doing
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  the things that God said to do. And so these are, I can see why
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  David said, you know, I meditate on your laws.
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  And they're, they're, they are blessings.
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  Like I love your laws because they create good.
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  If you follow them, good things come from it.
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  So I'm going to read these Psalms within your temple.
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  Oh God, we meditate on your unfailing love.
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  So thinking about God's unfailing love, I will.
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  And then the next verse in Psalms I'm not going to read,
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  say which one. If you want to go to Digital
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  Bible, I'm on blueletterbible.org.
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  I'm using the NIV version and you can search the word meditate
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  and you can find all these. If you want to reference or go
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  back to any of them, I'll just read these sentences that come
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  from various Psalms so they're not all in one.
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  But it says I will consider all your works and meditate on all
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  your mighty deeds. Like how often do we take a
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  break and think about the mightiness of God and meditate
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  on it? But these are what like David
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  and others did who wrote these psalms.
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  I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways.
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  The rulers sit together and slander me.
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  Your servant will meditate on your decrees.
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  So no matter what else other people are doing, and if they're
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  slanderous against us, meditate on the word of God that brings
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  peace. Then it says, cause me to
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  understand the way of your precepts, that I may meditate on
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  your wonderful deeds. You know, only God is good and
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  it says that God is a good father and he gives good gifts
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  to his children and something we should consider and think about
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  and we can read about it in the Bible and see that God does
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  these things. Then it says, I reach out for
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  your commands, which I love, that I may meditate on your
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  decrees. I think that might have been the
• 45:53
  verse that I first read that I thought, what?
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  But I see it now. I reach out for your commands
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  like I want you to guide me, God, which I love, that I may
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  meditate on your decrees. Like when you say something,
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  then I think about like, what does that mean?
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  You know, how can I do this? How can I live this out?
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  Then he says, may the arrogant be put to shame for wrongdoing
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  me without cause, but I will meditate on your precepts.
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  I mean, this is kind of good advice too, that arrogant ones
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  put to shame for wronging me without cause.
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  And Jesus says, you know, people will hate people who love Jesus
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  in the world. And so at that point when that
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  happens, the Bible kind of directs us here, I think, to
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  meditate on his precepts. Meditate on what God says, like
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  don't be disturbed by those who are arrogant or those who wrong.
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  A person who is a follower lives out the way Christ tells us to
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  live out. Just meditate on his word and
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  don't be concerned about how the world reacts.
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  Then it says mem. Oh how I love your law.
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  I meditate on it all day long. Again, this is all in Psalm 119
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  and I think this is David talking about this and just
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  saying I love your law. I meditated on it all day long
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  and I thought, wow, David is something else.
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  But David was known as the man after God's heart.
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  Like David was seeking God and he was seeking what does God say
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  and and how do I put it in my life and thinking about
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  meditating on it all day long. Then it says I have more insight
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  than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.
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  My eyes stay open through the watches of the night, that I may
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  meditate on your promises. I remember the days of long ago.
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  I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have
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  done. They speak of the glorious
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  splendor of your majesty and I will meditate on your wonderful
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  works. So when I searched meditate, I
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  didn't find about meditating on the law, but I knew it was in
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  there. So I finally, I did finally find
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  where it is and and it's found in First Samuel chapter 12,
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  verse 13. I will read this to you now.
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  Here is the king you have chosen, the one you asked for.
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  See, the Lord has set a king over you.
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  So this is the presentation of Saul to the people of Israel
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  because they wanted a king. They weren't happy with God, you
• 49:10
  know, being in the heavenly realm, being their king.
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  They wanted a physical earthly king and so they asked for it
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  and God said, OK, here you go verse 14.
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  If you fear the Lord and serve and obey him and do not rebel
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  against his commands, and if both you Israel and the King who
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  reigns over you follow the follow the Lord your God, good.
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  So look at all of these things that God is telling them.
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  Like if you fear the Lord, you know, you know his, his
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  awesomeness, you know who he is, his greatness, his mightiness,
• 49:57
  and you serve him, you obey him. You don't rebel against his
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  commands and it has to do with both Israel and their king.
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  Then it's good. Now here's the the warning verse
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  15 but if you do not obey the Lord and if you rebel against
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  his commands, his hand will be against you as it was against
• 50:23
  your ancestors. Now something that comes to mind
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  here is God doesn't change and he he's still the same.
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  Now his hand against those who are disobedient.
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  The purpose of that is so that they repent and turn to him.
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  It's God doesn't like punishment, but He does want
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  obedient children. He does want people who love His
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  law like David. Did you know that eventually the
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  Holy Spirit is the one who does that.
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  We don't naturally start out loving God's law, but when the
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  Holy Spirit starts working on our heart, then we start
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  appreciating the things that God says.
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  So let's see now, then stand still and see this great thing
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  the Lord is about to do before your eyes.
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  Is it not wheat harvest? Now I will call on the Lord to
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  send Thunder and rain, and you will realize what an evil thing
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  you did in the eyes of the Lord when you asked for a king.
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  Then Samuel called on the Lord, and the same day the Lord sent
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  Thunder and rain. So all the people stood in awe
• 51:32
  of the Lord and Samuel. The people said to Samuel, Pray
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  to the Lord your God for your servants, so that we will not
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  die, for we have added to all our other sins the evil of
• 51:42
  asking for a king. Than Samuel said, do not be
• 51:46
  afraid. Samuel replied, You have done
• 51:49
  all this evil, yet do not turn away from the Lord, but serve
• 51:54
  the Lord with all your heart. Do not turn away after useless
• 51:59
  idols. They can do you no good, nor can
• 52:03
  they rescue you because they are useless.
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  For the sake of His great name, the Lord will not reject his
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  people, because the Lord was pleased to make you his own.
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  And for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the
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  Lord by failing to pray for you. And I will teach you the way
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  that is good and right. So Samuel is still a leader and
• 52:29
  he's praying for the people of Israel and he commits to
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  teaching them the right way. And he says be sure to fear the
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  Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart.
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  Consider what great things he has done for you.
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  So this also reflects salvation. We don't earn God's Kingdom.
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  God gave us a gift by sending his Son Jesus to die for us on
• 52:59
  the cross. Hebrews says without the
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  shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins.
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  So Jesus coming on the cross and dying for us made it possible
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  for our sins to be forgiven. And so when we understand that,
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  and then we ask God for the Holy Spirit, Jesus is the one who
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  gives us the Holy Spirit. When we consider what great
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  things he has done for us, that's when we start to serve
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  Him faithfully with our heart. When we think about if he didn't
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  die on the cross for us, we would not be able to get into
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  God's Kingdom on our own works because we are broken, we are
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  fallen, we are sinful beings. It's only through God that God
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  starts to change us through the Holy Spirit.
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  That's the only way that God perfects us.
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  Because even Jesus, I mean, I guess a Pharisee called him and
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  said called him good. And Jesus said to the Pharisee,
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  why you call me good? Only God is good.
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  Because they were denying Jesus was the Son of God, but Jesus
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  was pointing out to some to them, you know, only God's good.
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  So if you're calling me good, are you calling me God, You
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  know, But anyway, we're everything else is sinful, has
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  sin within them, but God does not.
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  God is holy and as children of God, we are to reflect the image
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  of God. And God wants to make us holy
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  like like he is holy. In fact, scripture says be holy
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  because I am holy. That process happens when the
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  Holy Spirit, when we let the Holy Spirit into our life and
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  the Holy Spirit starts to change us.
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  So the final thing in this chapter of First Samuel 12, it
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  says, yet if you persist in doing evil, both you and your
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  king will perish. There's the warning.
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  So I'm still getting to the point here now when the people
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  asked God for a king, God gave them certain commands for the
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  king. And he gave this through Moses,
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  I believe is who he he gave it. And it's found in Deuteronomy
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  chapter 17 about the king. Now I'm getting there.
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  You're going to like the outcome of where my mind went.
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  And I and again, pray about it too.
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  So here's what Moses said to the people.
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  I think it was Moses. When you enter the land the Lord
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  your God is giving you, and you have taken possession of it and
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  settle in it, and you say, let us set a king over us, like all
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  the nations around us. So that's what Israel did.
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  Be sure to appoint over you a king, the Lord, the Lord your
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  God chooses. So it has to be somebody that
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  God chooses. We see later on when the Kingdom
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  becomes divided that the people took it upon themselves to
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  choose a king and both kingdoms were destroyed.
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  There was a northern Kingdom called Israel and a southern
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  Kingdom called Judah, and eventually both of those
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  kingdoms fell because they were disobedient to God.
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  And also Jesus said a Kingdom divided cannot stand.
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  So at once, one time they were all Israel.
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  Then they broke apart. So a Kingdom divided cannot
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  stand. And that proved true over town
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  over time, you know, hundreds and hundreds of years later.
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  But in the very beginning they are told, be sure to appoint a
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  king, the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your
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  fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over
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  you, one who is not an Israelite.
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  So that's really important. And it may be important in
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  future prophecy to know this from Deuteronomy 1715.
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  Then it says the king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers
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  of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to
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  get more of them. For the Lord has told you, you
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  are no, not to go back that way again.
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  So God had delivered them from slavery out of Egypt.
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  So he doesn't want the his people, the Israelites to go
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  back to Egypt again. And he also says don't have a
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  great number of horses. This is is significant when we
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  get to the story about Solomon, who was king David's son, who
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  became king of Israel. He did these things that God,
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  that you know, God gave his commands that he was should not
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  do. He had it.
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  I don't remember how many horses, but if you look up, you
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  know, when Solomon was reigning in the Kingdom of Israel, he had
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  all these stables, like a massive amount of horses in the
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  barns and Chariots and all these things.
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  So he was disregarding God's command.
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  The other thing that Solomon did is verse 17.
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  This is the command. He says he must not take many
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  wives or his heart will be LED astray.
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  He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.
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  Well, Solomon took many wives. I think he had 300 concubines
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  and 700 wives. It was like almost 1000 women
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  that were a part that were either a concubine or his wife.
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  And and then he also built altars and temples for foreign
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  gods that were not God for his wife because it that's his wife
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  came from other beliefs, Pagan worship.
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  And instead of Solomon, you know, only staying within the
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  Israelites, he had these outside women who believed different
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  things and they didn't change. They stayed believing in their
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  other gods, these Pagan religions.
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  And Solomon didn't do anything about it, but rather he built
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  temples for their gods. I mean, how do you think God
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  felt about that? Here's the king of Israel that
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  got anointed and he's building temples to other gods.
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  Don't you think God probably felt a little bit of jealousy
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  there? So Solomon didn't listen to
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  these things. And then there's this queen of
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  Sheba who visits Solomon and was impressed by his wisdom and then
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  starts paying him 666 talents of, I don't know if it was gold
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  or silver, but it was something like that.
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  And so this is, these are like tons.
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  The conversion in a study Bible will tell you it's like tons.
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  That's what she was giving him. Why I don't really understand.
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  The Bible only gives us a little.
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  I thought that was kind of weird when the number happened to be
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  666 because we see that number repeated in the the Book of
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  Revelation. And is there something symbolic
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  about that? But it was like silver and gold
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  or it was something it's, I think it was talents of silver.
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  I don't remember. I'd have to look that up.
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  But whatever it was, it was something of value that this
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  Queen of Sheba, which is modern day Yemen, was giving to
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  Solomon. So verse 18 says when he takes
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  the throne of his Kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll
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  a copy of this law taken from that of the Levitical priest.
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  Now, so the command to him is you take a scroll and you write
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  down this law. Now, when people write down
• 1:01:05
  something they're learning, it tends to stay in their mind
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  longer when they personally write it down.
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  And this is the command that was given to them.
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  And it's 9 verse 19 says it is to be with him.
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  And he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may
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  learn to Revere the Lord his God and follow carefully all the
• 1:01:32
  words of this law and these decrees and not consider himself
• 1:01:39
  better than his fellow Israelites and turn from the law
• 1:01:44
  to the right or to the left. Then he and his descendants will
• 1:01:48
  reign a long time over his Kingdom in Israel.
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  So that's the last part. That was ultimately what I was
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  wanting to get to. This is the the the part of
• 1:02:01
  Scripture that came into my mind last night, because here's the
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  connection. This was a command to kings that
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  they're supposed to take the law, write it down.
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  They're supposed to. I was saying like meditate it.
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  How does it say it's supposed to be with him and he is supposed
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  to read it all the days of his life.
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  So that's why I couldn't find the word meditate.
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  But essentially he's supposed to meditate, and a king is supposed
• 1:02:29
  to meditate on the words of the law, God's law, so that he may
• 1:02:33
  learn to Revere the Lord. This is like seeking the Lord
• 1:02:38
  and follow carefully all the words of this law and these
• 1:02:42
  decrees. And then he's not supposed to be
• 1:02:45
  prideful about his fellow Israelites or turn, you know,
• 1:02:51
  turn away from the law, like, oh, I'm going to go this way or
• 1:02:54
  that way, but I'm not going to go straight down the path, the
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  narrow path, and abide in what God says.
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  So I don't know if you're coming up with the same conclusion, but
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  where we started back in Isaiah 49, where it says kings will be
• 1:03:12
  your foster fathers and their Queens, your nursing mothers,
• 1:03:16
  They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground.
• 1:03:19
  They will lick the dust at your feet.
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  Then you will know that I am the Lord.
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  Those who hope in me will not be disappointed.
• 1:03:27
  So could God be preparing men today who are drawn
• 1:03:36
  supernaturally by the works of the Holy Spirit to reading the
• 1:03:41
  Bible and really like meditating on it, like really seeking the
• 1:03:46
  Lord, truly wanting to be guided by the Word of God?
• 1:03:51
  Is God training people today? He gives us free choice.
• 1:03:56
  We can choose to do this, or we can choose not to do this.
• 1:04:00
  But those who meditate on God's word day and night and seek the
• 1:04:05
  Lord, is God preparing those men to be kings in his Kingdom?
• 1:04:12
  That's the thought that came to my mind last night about the
• 1:04:16
  Millennium reign. Like, is all of this what we're
• 1:04:18
  doing on earth? I think we are on a testing
• 1:04:22
  ground for God. God is maybe he's, he's trying
• 1:04:26
  us out in different capacities and he's figuring out, well,
• 1:04:29
  where is this person going to be in based on their, their free
• 1:04:33
  will decisions about what they do when they are given choices,
• 1:04:38
  where are they going to be placed in the Kingdom of God?
• 1:04:42
  And this should be very encouraging to people because
• 1:04:45
  you can be a lowly person in this world today that has
• 1:04:50
  nothing. But if you have, if your heart
• 1:04:54
  is focused on God, God may use you to be someone great in his
• 1:05:02
  Kingdom. Just like the people that it
• 1:05:04
  says in Revelation that have their heads, they're beheaded
• 1:05:08
  because of their testimony about Jesus, God's going, it literally
• 1:05:13
  says in the Book of Revelation that God is going to make, that
• 1:05:16
  they're going to reign with Christ.
• 1:05:18
  So we know that those people who are beheaded, you know, in order
• 1:05:23
  to be beheaded, you probably have to have a really strong
• 1:05:27
  faith. And it says faith comes by
• 1:05:30
  hearing the message, the message about the Kingdom of God.
• 1:05:32
  Where do we get that? We get that from the Bible.
• 1:05:35
  So it's through meditating on the Word that people have strong
• 1:05:40
  faith. The word of the Lord changes us.
• 1:05:44
  It it does something. I mean, I can personally say
• 1:05:47
  that about my life. Like I called myself a Christian
• 1:05:51
  my whole entire life, but it wasn't until I read the Bible
• 1:05:55
  and was convicted by what the Bible said and that I had a
• 1:06:00
  decision like, am I going to be a hypocrite and live how I want?
• 1:06:05
  Or am I going to surrender to the Holy Spirit and turn to God,
• 1:06:12
  Repent from my sins, repent from my selfish ways and become more
• 1:06:18
  selfless like God is. And the Holy Spirit is the one
• 1:06:22
  who, you know, prompts us along the way.
• 1:06:26
  And that's going to be that conviction.
• 1:06:28
  Sometimes I think people call it guilt.
• 1:06:30
  Like all of a sudden you feel the sense of guilt and you're
• 1:06:32
  like, oh, I should have done this.
• 1:06:34
  And I did that. And then, you know, you talk to
• 1:06:37
  God and you're like, God, I'm sorry I failed there.
• 1:06:39
  Help me the next time to do the right thing.
• 1:06:44
  I mean, that's the relationship with God that we have.
• 1:06:47
  And this is like what I wanted to.
• 1:06:50
  Like the main point of this recording is that I wonder and
• 1:06:56
  pray about it. I wonder if God is taking people
• 1:06:59
  today and putting it in front of you.
• 1:07:01
  Like here's the Bible, what are you going to do with it?
• 1:07:04
  Are you going to meditate on it? Are you going to read it?
• 1:07:07
  Are you going to implement it? What it says in your life?
• 1:07:10
  Are you going to follow it? How close?
• 1:07:12
  How much do you want to seek me? How much do you love me?
• 1:07:16
  Because Jesus said if you love me, you will obey my commands.
• 1:07:21
  So could God today be preparing kings in the future, because
• 1:07:29
  this is a command that God gave In Deuteronomy 17 verse 18, when
• 1:07:36
  he, referring to the king, takes the throne of his Kingdom, he is
• 1:07:40
  to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law taken from
• 1:07:44
  that of the Levitical priest. It is to be with him, and he is
• 1:07:48
  to read it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to
• 1:07:53
  Revere the Lord his God, and follow carefully all the words
• 1:07:58
  of this law and these decrees, and not consider himself better
• 1:08:04
  than his fellow Israelites, and turn from the law to the right
• 1:08:08
  or the left. Then he and his descendants will
• 1:08:11
  reign a long time over his Kingdom in Israel.
• 1:08:15
  Could that be the thousand year reign of Christ where God says
• 1:08:19
  OK you take care of this territory right here and you are
• 1:08:23
  given this because you have meditated on my law.
• 1:08:27
  This is my speculation, so don't take this as the word of God.
• 1:08:31
  However, I do think there is scripture that supports this.
• 1:08:34
  And again, either it was just my crazy idea that came to me in
• 1:08:39
  the middle of the night, or maybe it was was a God revealing
• 1:08:43
  something or giving me an understanding of things that's
• 1:08:46
  in His word. But whatever it is, I think
• 1:08:49
  there's no harm in really seeking the Word of God every
• 1:08:54
  day. In fact, I think it does bless
• 1:08:57
  us. Scripture tells us that it
• 1:08:58
  blesses us, but the question is, is God actually preparing
• 1:09:02
  certain people for the future Millennium by the people who
• 1:09:07
  really, truly seek Him and get into His word every day?
• 1:09:11
  I mean, God is a good God and He does these amazing things and
• 1:09:14
  surprises people with blessings and, and I just have a feeling
• 1:09:19
  that this could be what God might be doing.
• 1:09:23
  I can't say for fact that it is, but it's certainly something
• 1:09:26
  beautiful and it certainly reflects the character of God
• 1:09:30
  that I've seen in the Bible and what he does.
• 1:09:32
  And then I also want to talk about women because women and
• 1:09:39
  men have different roles. And I've often thought about
• 1:09:43
  this too. I was, you know, like just
• 1:09:45
  thinking about the future, like if I get beheaded, you know, I'm
• 1:09:49
  a female and I'm probably not going to be the leader of, you
• 1:09:53
  know, I'm not going to be a, a king or anything like that.
• 1:09:57
  You know, So like, what, what am I?
• 1:10:00
  What am I going to be? And I think we can kind of get
• 1:10:03
  some insight for women in Proverbs 31 because it talks
• 1:10:07
  about about a woman's role. And, and again we hear about
• 1:10:14
  like Jesus is the bridegroom and Jerusalem is the bride or the
• 1:10:21
  people who are grafted in all become the bride, men and women.
• 1:10:25
  And I think women do have a certain role.
• 1:10:28
  And I think we can get some insight into that role from the
• 1:10:33
  book of Proverbs. So for the women I want to read
• 1:10:37
  this and I think this could be pertinent to what God may be
• 1:10:44
  doing for women in the future in his Millennium in the reign of
• 1:10:50
  Christ. A wife of noble character who
• 1:10:54
  can find she is worth far more than rubies.
• 1:10:57
  Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of
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  value. So if we think about Jesus as
• 1:11:04
  the husband and he sees what women are doing today, and then
• 1:11:09
  he has full confidence because he's seen over this time that
• 1:11:13
  we've been on earth, we're being tested, we're being looked at,
• 1:11:16
  What do we do with what we know? And her husband, Jesus has full
• 1:11:22
  confidence in her and lacks nothing of value.
• 1:11:26
  She brings him good, not harm. All the days of her life.
• 1:11:31
  She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.
• 1:11:35
  So a woman is working. She is like the merchant ships
• 1:11:40
  bringing her food from afar. Now food could be symbolic of
• 1:11:45
  maybe the word of God. It could be a teaching thing.
• 1:11:48
  Remember in Isaiah it said that the Queens would be the nursing
• 1:11:53
  mothers. So maybe this is, you know, what
• 1:11:56
  the woman's role will be in the Millennium.
• 1:12:00
  She gets up while it is still night.
• 1:12:02
  She provides food for her family and portions for her female
• 1:12:07
  servants. She considers a field and buys
• 1:12:10
  it out of her earnings. She plants a vineyard.
• 1:12:14
  So a woman is also an entrepreneur too.
• 1:12:17
  She sets about her work vigorously.
• 1:12:20
  Her arms are strong for her tasks.
• 1:12:23
  She sees that her trading is profitable and her lamp does not
• 1:12:28
  go out at night. In her hand she holds the
• 1:12:32
  distaff and grasp the spindle with her fingers.
• 1:12:36
  She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the
• 1:12:41
  needy. When it snows she has No Fear
• 1:12:44
  for her household for all of them are clothed in scarlet.
• 1:12:49
  I think that could mean covered by the blood of Jesus, there's
• 1:12:53
  No Fear. So when it snows snow.
• 1:12:56
  If you look in the Bible and the the interplay in the Bible
• 1:13:00
  between books is amazing, but search snow and you will see
• 1:13:06
  that snow is stored in times of war.
• 1:13:11
  It's in God's storehouses for times of war.
• 1:13:15
  So it's symbolic about war in snow.
• 1:13:20
  So when it snows, so maybe when there's war, she has No Fear for
• 1:13:24
  her household for all of them are clothed in scarlet,
• 1:13:28
  protected by the blood of Jesus. She makes coverings for her bed.
• 1:13:34
  She is clothed in fine linen and purple.
• 1:13:37
  So fine linen is purity represents purity in the Bible.
• 1:13:42
  And purple is the color. It was a very rare dye and only
• 1:13:47
  royalty wore that. So this again supports that
• 1:13:51
  queen purpose of the the nurturing, you know, mothers,
• 1:13:59
  her husband is respected at the city gate where he takes his
• 1:14:02
  seat among the elders of the land.
• 1:14:05
  So her husband is a prominent one at the city gate and you
• 1:14:09
  know, he's respected by the community.
• 1:14:13
  She makes linen garments and sells them and supplies the
• 1:14:17
  merchants with sashes. She is clothed with strength and
• 1:14:22
  dignity. She can laugh at the days to
• 1:14:25
  come. She speaks with wisdom, and
• 1:14:28
  faithful instruction is on her tongue.
• 1:14:31
  She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat
• 1:14:36
  the bread of idleness. So again, here it's not literal
• 1:14:40
  bread, but it's like, what do you do with your time?
• 1:14:43
  Are you doing something productive with it?
• 1:14:46
  Or do you suffer from idleness and are you doing nothing and
• 1:14:50
  spending your time idly? Well, that's not what this woman
• 1:14:54
  is described at. She doesn't do that.
• 1:14:56
  She's not idle, she is busy. Her children arise and call her
• 1:15:01
  blessed. Her husband also, and he praises
• 1:15:05
  her. Many women do noble things, but
• 1:15:08
  you surpass them all. Charm is deceptive and beauty is
• 1:15:13
  fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
• 1:15:18
  Honor her for all her hands have done, and let her works bring
• 1:15:23
  her praise at the city gate. So that concludes the woman's
• 1:15:27
  role. And I think, you know, maybe
• 1:15:30
  this time on earth, God is seeing what we do with what He
• 1:15:34
  gives us with the gifts from the Holy Spirit.
• 1:15:37
  What do we use them for? What do we do?
• 1:15:40
  Are we as women, a Proverbs 31 woman?
• 1:15:46
  And it does, you know, it says she's clothed in purple and we
• 1:15:51
  go back to Isaiah 49 verse 23. Could that be insight that last
• 1:16:01
  night happened where I'm like God's preparing kings and Queens
• 1:16:05
  today and it's through meditating on His Word, through
• 1:16:08
  putting into practice of His Word and those who stay in the
• 1:16:12
  Word every day. God has something special
• 1:16:15
  planned for you. Think about it and pray about
• 1:16:18
  it.