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700. Bible Study: Isaiah 4 and 5 (Judgement on the Nation of Israel when the Messiah comes) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 4 from the book of Isaiah.
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Dear God, please let the Holy Spirit give us wisdom and
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revelation as we read through this chapter.
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We ask for this in Jesus name. Chapter 4 In that day seven
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women will take hold of one man and say we will eat our own food
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and provide our own clothes only.
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Let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace?
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Well, let's read what the study Bible says about this one.
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So why was being single a disgrace?
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Most likely these seven women were widows, their husbands
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having been killed in the invasion.
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In ancient times, widows were oppressed and treated poorly.
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However, because these widows claimed to have their own
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financial resources, their disgrace probably stemmed from
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being childless. In Hebrew culture, there was
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perhaps no greater humiliation than that of being a childless
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woman. These women apparently wanted
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children to remove their disgrace.
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Then it continues, the branch of the Lord.
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In that day, the branch of the Lord will be beautiful and
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glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory
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of the survivors in Israel. Notice what it says.
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The survivors in Israel, those who are left in Zion, who remain
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in Jerusalem will be called holy, holy.
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Like when has that happened? When there was like captivity
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that happened or, you know, taking a way of people who were
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besieged and then the ones who remained were called the holy
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ones. I don't think there's been a
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time that that has occurred. I believe these are in the last
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days. These are the last days when
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Jesus returns the branch of the Lord.
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In another prophecy, Jesus is called the branch, The branch
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that is Jesus in that day, the print, the branch of the Lord
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will be beautiful and glorious and the fruit of the land will
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be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.
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So this is a talk. This is talking about when Jesus
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returns to Jerusalem, to Israel, and then the people who remain
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who are their survivors, they will be called holy all and it
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continues, all who are recorded among the living in Jerusalem.
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The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion.
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He will cleanse the blood stains from Jerusalem by a spirit of
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judgment and a spirit of fire. So this this is like I, I think
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the I've heard it called the time of Jacob's trouble.
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So this is actually during the IT has to be the wrath of God.
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I would imagine. I don't know if it would be
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considered the great tribulation or not, but I, it's, it's during
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that time frame. I, I, it may be, sounds like
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possibly the wrath of God. So it's going to be a spirit of
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judgment. So there will be judgment and a
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spirit of fire. Fire is usually indicated to
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refine some someone. It's, you know, a metaphor
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burning away of the sinful ways and a cleansing of someone.
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So there's judgment. So there's a separation.
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And Jesus talked about that. He talked about the separation
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of the sheep and the goats. When he returns that, you know,
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he will put the goats to his left and the sheep to his right,
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and there's going to be a separation of people.
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And then it says like about the ones who are called holy.
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It says all who are recorded among the living in Jerusalem.
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Now, that could just be a record.
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Yeah, I guess it says recorded among the living.
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I was thinking about recorded in the Book of Life, but it doesn't
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say that. It just says recorded in
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Jerusalem. It says then the Lord will
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create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble
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there, a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by
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night. Over everything.
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The glory will be a canopy. It will be a shelter and shade
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from the heat of the day and a refuge and hiding place from the
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storm and rain. This is very much like Exodus.
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This are when they were leaving Egypt and how they were led
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exactly in the same way. A glowing flame, it says, a glow
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of flaming fire by night and smoke by day, because it would
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like keep the sun off of them, keep them shaded while they were
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traveling in the wilderness. That's exactly what God did.
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This is another restoration. Again, these are literal events
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that also are symbolic of future time.
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So Exodus was a literal event, but it also was symbolic of the
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very last days. OK, and that's all there is on
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chapter 4, and we're only 5 minutes in, so we're going to go
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on to chapter 5. Actually, I'll read 1.
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Let's see, there's two more, three more, three more questions
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for chapter 4. So why would people be called
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holy? To be holy means to be reserved
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by God for His own use. By judging Jerusalem and Judah,
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God purified his people, setting them apart for His glory.
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He separated his precious ones from the perpetrators of evil.
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Well, that comes at judgment time.
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Why did Isaiah focus on the filthiness of the women?
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This verse picks up on the theme of the women of Zion criticized
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in the preceding passage. Of the men, only survivors of
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holy character will remain. The women likewise will be
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cleansed in heart after the severe judgement God will
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inflict. Both the women of Jerusalem and
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her people generally need cleansing, and the Lord promises
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to do this. I see this is a very future
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event. OK, chapter 5.
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The song of the vineyard. I will sing for the one I love a
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song about his vineyard. My loved one had a vineyard on a
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fertile hillside. He dug it up and cleared it up
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stones and planted it with the choicest vines.
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He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well.
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Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only
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bad fruit. Now you dwellers in Jerusalem
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and the people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.
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What more could have done for my vineyard than I have done for
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it? When I looked for good grapes,
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what? Why did it yield only bad?
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Now I will tell you what I'm going to do to my vineyard.
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I will take away its hedge. I thought about the hedge of
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protection here, and it will be destroyed.
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I will break down its wall and it will be trampled.
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I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated,
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and breeders and thorns will grow there.
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I will command the clouds not to rain on it.
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The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the nation of
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Israel. OK, that explains it.
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The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the nation of
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Israel. So just think about that.
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The vineyard is the nation of Israel.
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So this prophet Isaiah is explaining it to us that the
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vineyard is the nation of Israel and the people of Judah.
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So I left that off and the people of Judah.
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So there's a separate denotation of these two.
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Then the nation of Israel. This is interesting.
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And the people of Judah. So the people of Judah would be
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a part of the nation of Israel, but the nation of Israel may not
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be all and completely part of Judah, which is interesting.
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And so the nation of Israel, I wonder if that includes those
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who are grafted in because in another Bible prophecy they talk
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about, you know, Gentiles even being grafted in to the nation
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of Israel. So I don't know that this this
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doesn't necessarily only apply to Jews.
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I don't believe this is in the end times.
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And it certainly takes place in Jerusalem.
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But I think it has a broader, it's a broader meaning here.
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So. And the people of Judah are the
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vines he delighted in. So the vineyard is Israel and
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the vines are Judah. That's it.
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OK, so that's a little bit better explanation.
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And he looked for justice, but he saw bloodshed for
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righteousness, but heard cries of distress.
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Woe to you to who? Add house to house, and join
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field to field till no space is left.
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You live alone in the land the Lord Almighty has declared in my
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hearing. Surely the great houses will
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become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants.
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A10 acre vineyard will produce only a bath of wine.
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A Homer of seed will yield only an ephah of grain.
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Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their
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drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed
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with wine. They have harps and leers at
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their banquets, pipes and timbrals and wine, but they have
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no regard for the deeds of the Lord, no respect for the work of
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His hands. So this is talking about, you
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know, they're, they're prosperous, they have
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everything, they love their wine, but they're not turned
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towards God at all. Therefore my people will go into
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exile for lack of understanding. Now God brings us forth through
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the prophet Hosea. Also, my people are destroyed
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for a lack of understanding. So this is repeated and God
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usually uses 2 witnesses to establish truth and to emphasize
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something as well. So we can find this in Hosea
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chapter 4, verse 6, the lack of understanding that, you know,
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people are destroyed for that those of high rank will die of
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hunger and the common people will be parched with thirst.
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Therefore death expands its jaws, opening wide its mouth,
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into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their
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brawlers and revellers. So people will beep, will be
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brought low, and everyone humbled, the eyes of the
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arrogant humbled. But the Lord Almighty will be
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exalted by his justice, and the holy God will be proved holy by
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His righteous acts. Then sheep will graze as in
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their own pasture. Lambs will feed among the ruins
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of the rich. Woe to those who draw sin along
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with cords of deceit and wickedness as with cart ropes.
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Let those who say, let God hurry, let him hasten his work
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so we may see it. I when I read that I, because I
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had heard this actually stated by someone, someone of Jewish
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faith and who doesn't believe that Jesus is the Messiah, but
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they are wanting to do things to encourage the Messiah's return,
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are not at return, but the Messiah is coming is what they
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call it. So I think about let God hurry,
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let him hasten his work so we may see it.
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I feel like, you know, that's where we're today.
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We're hearing that, OK, the plan of the Holy One of Israel, let
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it approach, let it come into view so we may know it.
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Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness
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for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for
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sweet and sweet for bitter. That certainly has been the last
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several years, at least here in the United States.
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Things that were evil were called good and good evil.
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So there's been a little bit of a change recently in 2025, but
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prior to that we had a good number of years where that was
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happening. So we are in this, I feel like
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we are in this like small window of opportunity for time.
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Maybe it's more than that. I hope it's more than that for
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more people to wake up and turn to God.
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But I do really feel like we are given this like window of
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opportunity and those who grab it will be so elated and a few
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more years that they did get close to God at this time.
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And those who ignore it and say I'll do that, I'll deal with
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that later or I've got this to do, I don't have time for that.
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Those people will, I'm a, I'm concerned that they will have
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run out of time and they will actually experience God's wrath.
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Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in
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their own sight. Woe to those who are heroes at
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drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks.
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And so I mean, it's like priorities not being in line
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with God's priorities, the worldly things and, you know,
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focused on the drinking wine, the mixing drinks and just, you
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know, the celebratory thing. It's, you know, just like the
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days of Noah, they were celebrating.
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They were, you know, being given in marriage.
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They were doing all these things.
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And then the flood came when they didn't expect it.
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The same will be when Jesus returns, the Messiah returns and
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people will be in the midst of living life as they always do.
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They will still have their ungodly priorities.
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When I say ungodly, it's it's God is not their priority.
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It's wine or mixing drinks or having fun or celebrating or
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whatever. That's their, that's what this
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is talking about is people who have their priorities.
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They're really good at certain aspects, but they've forgotten
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God. Who acquit the guilty for a
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bribe and their money focused. I mean this.
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There's a lot of stuff about being focused on money and
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possessions. Who acquit the guilty for a
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bribe but deny justice to the innocent.
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Like priorities are all messed up.
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Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw, as dry grass
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sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their
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flowers blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law
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of the Lord Almighty. So it gives the reason why this
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is going to happen. It's saying woe, saying woe to
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woe to this is really interesting too, because I've
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just, I just kind of picked up on this too.
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In the Book of Revelation, it talks about this is the first
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woe, this is the second woe. This is the, you know, and
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there's one more woe to come or something in the Book of
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Revelation, it talks about that. And it's interesting right now
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that we see that these are woes that Isaiah is talking about.
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So these are the people that will be coming under God's
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judgement. OK, So for they have rejected
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that's it's giving us the reason why they've rejected the law of
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the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of
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Israel. Therefore the Lord's anger burns
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against his people. His hand is raised and he
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strikes them down. The mountains shake and the dead
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bodies are like refuse in the streets.
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Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away.
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His hand is still upraised. He lifts up a banner for distant
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nations. He whistles for those at the
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ends of the earth. This is really kind of
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interesting when I read this because when I was starting to
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study like back in 2020, wondering if this is the, you
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know, the global pandemic, I was wondering, is this a warning
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from God? You know, is there anything in
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the Bible about this? And, and yes, there is.
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I mean, what happened that year is classified as pestilence in
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the Bible. And that is the way that God did
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bring about warnings. He would send plagues like to
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Egypt, they experienced plagues before he brought his people out
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of Egypt. And so likewise, I think these
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are warnings to us before Jesus returns.
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These are warnings that are coming to us.
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And anyway, I started studying end times concepts and I just
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was curious, like, what do all the different religions believe
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about that? So obviously the Jewish people,
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not obviously, but I understand the Jewish people are looking
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for a Messiah. I don't know that they
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necessarily call it end times. I'm not really sure what
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completely they believe about that.
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If they believe, I'm assuming they believe what's in the Old
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Testament, but they just don't know who the people are, who the
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Messiah is. So they would they would believe
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the same things as Christians. And then when you get to the
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Muslims belief theirs is very similar to and I do believe that
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what happened is they because the last book of the Bible was
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written in 90AD and the Muslims text came about in like 637 so
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600 AD. So you know a good 500 plus
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years after the Bible was written.
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So I do believe that the Bible truth was taken and twisted and
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these the Angel that appeared to Muhammad was actually Satan or a
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demon or a fallen Angel because it says that an that Satan
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himself can appear as an Angel of light.
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So Satan, according to the Bible, can appear like an Angel,
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Satan can appear like Gabriel. And so did Muhammad represent
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the fruits of the spirit like in accordance with Galatians 5
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Somebody who has the Holy Spirit, somebody who has been
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anointed by God? No, no, not at all.
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He did not. There are many terrible things
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that Muhammad did and and he, you know, he was by violence.
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I mean, still, that's a, you know, the very.
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Hardcore Islamic beliefs, it's very much about violence and
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extermination of people who don't believe the same way they
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call them the unbelievers. Like when you if you are in
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Christianity and you talk about unbelievers, there is never ever
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a call to kill them. Never.
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The only call to believers in regards to unbelievers is to
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share the knowledge about what's in the Bible so that they can
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turn to God, They can repent and turn to God.
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It's the Bible loves life, Islam loves death and they, they see
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death as the way, whereas the Christian's belief is that, you
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know, we, we, we regard life and life everlasting as a result of
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what Jesus did on the cross to break the curse of death.
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So very differing of views, but I kind of got sidetracked there
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when I was talking about it. Just stuff that came to mind.
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But in the Islamic Muslim beliefs, they have a belief
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about in their hadiths where there's going to be these black
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flags that are raised and that's where their Mahdi will be
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present. Now I their Mahdi.
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When you read the description of their Mahdi it very much seems
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like what the Christians call the Antichrist.
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It really lines up because I think the Mahdi ends up being a
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global ruler and they he reigns for about 7 years and they don't
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know what happens to him after that.
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I mean, it's just really weird. It's like when I was reading it,
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I'm like they're describing the Antichrist and this is their
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somewhat Messiah Mahdi, their guy.
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And then the other thing that's very, very different about their
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own times is that they do acknowledge that Jesus comes,
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but then they say that Jesus submits to their Mahdi.
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So he becomes a lesser person, like the Mahdi is the greater
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one. And then it's so it's very,
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very, very deceptive. And who knows if you know these,
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if it was a fallen Angel who gave Muhammad this information,
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if they kind of have this plan in effect so that when Jesus
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literally does, they'll have all these people confused thinking
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that Jesus is going to submit to this other guy who's the Mahdi
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or whatever. Maybe that Mahdi is the
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Antichrist. I, you know, I don't know, we
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will have to see. But it's certainly their
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beliefs. Take the Bible and they twist
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the truth and insert other things.
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And that's exactly like what Satan does.
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You know, it's when evil is called good and good called
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evil. I mean, that's exactly what
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happens with these hadiths when you really get into it and study
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it, unfortunately. And there's so many people who
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are blinded by that as well. There will be people who
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believed in that that will their eyes will be opened.
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I do know that there's a lot of videos currently where Jesus is
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actually appearing to multiple people in their family in their
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dreams and they are actually having conversions to believe in
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Jesus and to put aside their other ways because these are so
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powerful. So that's very encouraging.
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God will call, you know, he will call his people, He will call
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every people. Every person will have had an
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opportunity to choose him or to reject him, to believe in him or
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to not believe in him. And if you don't believe in him,
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it it's your choice. Like God allows that, God allows
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that. But what happens is they don't
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understand that they will be then put into eternal fire.
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And this is going to be like a God thing that happens.
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It's not going to be people destroying other people, but
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it'll be coming under the judgement of God.
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So their deceptive religion is really doing exactly what Satan
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wants to do, to seek, kill and destroy.
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And the answer of Christianity would bring them into eternal
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life and the blessings of God and the inheritance as a brother
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and sister to Jesus. So I hope that people's eyes are
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open who are currently believers in that deceptive religion.
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So let's see. Anyway, it says he lifts up a
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banner for distant nations. So I wonder if if this is really
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like, you know, Satan knows the Bible pretty well.
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He studied it. You know, he's he's a different
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being as far as he's a created being, but he has a longer
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lifespan. Like he's been around for
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thousands of years. I don't know how long he's been
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around. I don't know when he was
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created, but he's been around for a long time.
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So he's had a long time to really get to know the Bible.
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And he, he, he, he knows a lot of things and he used the Bible
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verses against Jesus when he tempted him in the wilderness
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right after Jesus got baptized. And he went and tempted him at
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during his weakness, during his weak point.
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And that's what Satan does to people today.
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He does the same thing or, or his helpers or whatever, because
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there's other angels who chose to go along with him.
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So some things from the spiritual realm that chose to
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align with them, but not to scare people because the power
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of the Holy Spirit that is in Jesus, the power of God is
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greater. God's the creator greater than
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any other spirit. So if we are protected by the
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power of God, we have nothing to fear.
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And the authority that God has given to us is greater than what
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their authority is. And it's just we have our free
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will to choose, you know, what spirit are we going to allow to
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be our our Lord, basically? And if we don't actively tell
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God that we want him to be our God, then by default we are
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corrupted, the way I understand it, because we are all sinners.
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So we've naturally by default, because of what happened
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thousands of years ago, we by default end up there.
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So we have to make a choice and choose God.
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But so these these hadiths believe that there are going to
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be these banners raised and the Mahdi is going to be present and
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that every Muslim should go and seek these people because the
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Mahdi is going to be present. There's going to be a Great War
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and a great battle and there's going to be something involved
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with Mecca. And there's like all of this,
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this story that goes along with it.
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So I wonder if, you know, Satan or fallen angels picked up on
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this Isaiah prophecy of 26 and you know, kind of took it and
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said, hey, we're going to do something with this.
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So these distant nations, he whistles for those who are at
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the end of the earth, ends of the earth.
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Here's what it says about it. Here they come swiftly and
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speedily. Not one of them grows tired or
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stumbles. Not one slumbers or sleeps.
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Not a belt is loosened at the waist.
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Not a sandal strap is broken. Their arrows are sharp and all
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their bows are strung. Their horses hood seem like a
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Flint, their cherry it wheels like a whirlwind.
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Their roar is like that, like that of a lion.
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They roar like Young Lions. They growl as they seize their
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prey and carry it off. With no one to rescue in that
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day they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea.
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And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and
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distress. Even the sun will be darkened by
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the clouds. So this really to me, I mean,
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this is evil coming against Israel and this is part of God's
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wrath because they rejected God, they rejected His law, and they
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didn't abide by the 10 commandments that Moses gave.
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They broke them and they didn't accept Jesus, who was the new
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covenant. So because they rejected Jesus,
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this is what is going to happen to the people up to the nation
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of Israel, as Isaiah says. And like I said, there are
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numerous verses here in the Bible, in other places that talk
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about the sun being darkened. So the last sentence, I'm going
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to read this again in that day. They will roar over it like the
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roaring of the sea. And and if one looks at the
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land, there is only darkness and distress.
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Even the sun will be darkened by the clouds.
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So I just, you know, that just came to mind, sun and darkened
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and there's just like 16 verses that had those exact words, sun
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and darkened. So I'm going to read that.
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Well, there's the first one I'm not going to read.
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OK, so Isaiah 530, that's the first verse that we talked
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about. So then Isaiah 13, verse 10, the
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stars of heaven and their constellations will no, will not
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show their light. The rising sun will be darkened
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and the the moon will not give its light.
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So that is right. The verse that comes before it.
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Isaiah 13 nine says, see the day of the Lord is coming, a cruel
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day with wrath and fierce anger to make the land desolate and
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destroy the sinners within it. So good news and bad news here.
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The good news is that the Lord is coming and there will be
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justice. The bad news is that all of us
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are sinners. So who can stand?
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Who can survive this? Those who put their faith and
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trust in Jesus. Those who reconcile themselves
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to Jesus. Those who finally say I don't
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care about my sin anymore, I'd rather be in eternity with you,
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God, do whatever you need to do in my life to change that, to
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make that happen. Those are the ones who won't
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have anything to fear, but everyone else will have to fear.
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And so this is really interesting too, because right
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now, of course, my computer is my laptop is is kind of acting
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weird as I'm going through this again.
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So and then Joel says this in chapter 2, verse 10 before them,
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the earth shakes, the heaven trembles, the sun and moon are
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darkened and the stars no longer shine.
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So what is he talking about? He's let's see, this is about an
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army of locusts. So that's really interesting
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too, because this army of locusts is also written about in
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Revelation, the Book of Revelation.
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So these are just, there's a lot more description.
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I'm not going to get into that, but it is talking about the end
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times again. So then in Joel chapter 3, verse
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15, it says the sun and moon will be darkened and the stars
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will no longer shine. So we have Joel who's saying the
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the Lord will roar from Zion and Thunder from Jerusalem.
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The earth and the heavens will tremble, but the Lord will be a
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refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of
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Israel. So these are not talking about
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the sinners. These are talking about the
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people who have reconciled and it says the next verse in 17
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says then you will know that I the Lord your God dwell in Zion,
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my holy hill. Jerusalem will be holy.
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Never again will foreigners invade her.
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Well, that doesn't happen. That hasn't happened yet, has
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it? That this is something future
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that we're talking about the sun and the moon being darkened and
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the stars not shining. Jesus said immediately after the
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distress of those days. This is talking about when that
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lawless one let's we should read that like immediately after the
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distress of those days. Let's see.
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So here's let's read what Jesus says about this because it's
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pretty. It's talking about the
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destruction and the temple of the temple and the signs of the
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end of times. Jesus left the temple and was
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walking along, walking away, when his disciples came up to
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him to call his attention to its buildings.
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Do you see all these things? He asked.
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Truly, I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another.
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Everyone will be thrown down. As Jesus was sitting on the
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Mount of Olives, the disciple came to him privately.
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Tell us, they said, when will this happen and what will be the
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sign of your coming and of the end of the age.
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So the disciples knew there was going to be an end of age.
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They knew he was going to be coming, He would come again.
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So they're asking Jesus, this isn't that interesting?
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Jesus answered, Watch out that no one deceives you, for many
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will come in my name claiming I am the Messiah.
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You know, like I am the Mahdi and all that stuff.
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And they will deceive many. So there's going to be a lot of
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people that are deceived. You will hear of wars and rumors
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of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed.
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Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.
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Nation will rise against nation and Kingdom against Kingdom.
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There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
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So I don't know if this is necessarily a global thing about
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the famines and earthquakes. It's just talking about along
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the way there's going to be famines in places and there will
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be earthquakes in places. And it says then he says all
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these are the beginning of birth pains.
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So that's at the very beginning. It it says then you will be
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handed over to be persecuted and put to death and you will be
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hated by all nations because of me.
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Well, that certainly happened to all of the disciples except for
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John. They were persecuted and put to
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death at that time. Many will turn away from the
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faith and will betray and hate each other and many false
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prophets will appear and deceive many people.
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All you have to do probably is go on YouTube now and search
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like God told me this. Well, who knows what is really
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behind that? It says many false prophets will
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appear and deceive money. So there's a lot of that going
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on. I think people like send me
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money and we'll give you, you know, a good prophecy and all
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that, all those people. But yeah, there's a lot of that.
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Because of the increase in wickedness, the love of most
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will go grow cold. It certainly feels like that
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today. It it feels like there's a lot
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of wickedness and it feels like a lack of love in the world.
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But the one who stands firm to the end will be saved and this
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gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a
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testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
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So there is also a reference like this is stated also in Mark
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and in Luke in many places about the gospel being preached in the
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whole world. It also is in the Book of
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Revelation. There's an Angel who goes out.
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Now whether it's a literal Angel or it's an Angel, as they say,
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messenger who goes out, but everyone will have the
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opportunity to hear the gospel. So God is a just God.
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He is not going to harm anyone who never had the opportunity.
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So people always, you know, bring that up about like, that's
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not fair. Well, God is just so he can't be
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unfair. He is entirely fair.
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And people will know if they haven't known already.
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So this is what Jesus said. Listen to this.
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So when you see standing in the holy place, the abomination that
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causes desolation, spoken of through the prophet Daniel, let
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the reader understand. Let then let those who are in
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Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the housetop go
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down to take anything out of the house.
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Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak.
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How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and
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nursing mothers. Pray that your flight will not
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take place in winter or on the Sabbath, for then there will be
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great distress unequalled from the beginning of the world until
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now, and never to be equaled again.
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Well, I don't think we've experienced that yet.
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We have not seen great distress unequalled from the beginning of
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the world until now, and never to be equaled again.
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So, you know, they're still like lots of evil that's happening
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and it says never to be equaled again.
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I don't know if we can say any event in the earth is that great
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distress. And we haven't seen this
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abomination that causes desolation that's spoken of
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through Daniel the prophet. So this is something when we
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read the book of Daniel, we'll be talking about those things.
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But so this is another thing like it says that, you know, the
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gospel gets preached, then there's going to be this
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abomination desolation. So it's giving like all these
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details and it says like if anyone says at that time, look,
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here's the Messiah or there he is, don't believe it.
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For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform
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great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible the elect.
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See I have told you ahead of time.
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So if anyone tells you there he is out in the wilderness, do not
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go out here he is in the inner rooms.
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Do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from
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the East is visible even in the West, so will be the coming of
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the Son of Man. So at this time it is saying,
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you know, like just don't believe any of these other
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people who are called the Messiah or anything.
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It's not true. There's going to be a lot of
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them. There's going to be false
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prophets. But like lightning that comes
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from the east is visible even in the West.
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That means everybody's going to see God, Jesus coming in the
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clouds. So that's what this says, that
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there's a specific way that Jesus is going to return.
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And even when he ascended into heaven, they said something to
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the people that were witnessing there.
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They're like Jesus's ascension. They they said in what are you
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doing standing there the same way that he left is the same way
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he will return. So Jesus went up into the
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clouds, and he's coming back down on the clouds, so.
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Here's what Jesus continues to say.
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Immediately after the distress of those days, the sun will be
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darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall
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from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
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Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and then
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all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son
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of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and glory.
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And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they
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will gather his elect from the four winds from one end of the
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heavens to the other. So as I read this sequence of
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things, this is telling me that we are going to see the
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Antichrist before the return of Jesus.
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So there's a lot of people who are teaching other people that
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there is a pre tribulation rapture.
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I believe there is a pre wrath rapture, but not a pre
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tribulation rapture because there is tribulation that's been
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going on. And all we I have to do is read
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this very slowly in Matthew 24 and you see that this is this is
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when this happens. It it's after the lawless 1, you
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know, starts doing these things. So and it you know, it, it says,
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you know, this is yeah, it anyway, we got to pay attention
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to this. And and everybody who believes
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in this pre tribulation rapture, you will notice they always
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reference Luke. That's the only gospel they'll
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reference. They don't go to Matthew 24.
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They don't read through Matthew 24 because I think if they did,
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then they would see this order. And so it really does.
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I mean, it doesn't, it doesn't matter.
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I said the only reason why it matters is if people think that
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Jesus doesn't return because they expected him to come before
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any of this happens. And then they start seeing all
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this stuff happen. I hope that they just realize,
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OK, my assumption was wrong and you know, Jesus is still coming.
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I just hope that they don't fall away from the faith when they're
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like, oh, we were supposed to be out of here before this
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happened. So that's my only concern.
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But about that belief. But, you know, there's a lot of
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questions about the timing of everything.
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And I certainly don't believe that I know it because I don't.
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It says that no one knows the day or the hour.
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And we have a little bit of information or we might get some
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information from God, but we just have to wait and see.
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But it's not, you know, we should look because we should
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warn other people so that they can get ready.
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That's what I think is really important about this.
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It's not so much for ourselves, but it's for other people who
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have no idea this is coming on at some point in time.
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And so they're not prepared and then they're going to go through
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God's wrath. Like if we were loving to other
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people, we would warn other people.
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Do you know what God says? Do you know that there's going
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to be this time of wrath that comes on people who have not
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reconciled themselves with God? You know, do you want to maybe
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look and get your questions answered and you know, read the
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Bible, study the Bible, pray to God, ask God to reveal himself
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to you. It says if you seek me with all
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your heart, you will he, God will be found.
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So if we seek him, if we desire to know him, to know the truth,
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he will, he will respond to that.
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He wants us all to be saved. He wants us to come to
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repentance. He wants us to turn to him.
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He wants us to be in his Kingdom.
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He wants to give us gifts. There's so much, but there's a
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lot of people who are just like not even paying attention to
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this. And it's very concerning to me
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because it's repeated throughout Scripture.
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I mean, just look at what these verses that I've been talking
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about. There's so many of them.
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So also Mark says, but in those days following that distress,
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the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.
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So you have Matthew, you have Mark, and I don't.
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I guess Luke doesn't say something about that, but it's
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in Revelation. So you have John because John
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wrote the Book of Revelation. Now here's the interesting
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thing. When he opened the abyss, this
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is Jesus, right? He has the keys to the abyss.
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Smoke rose from it like smoke from a giant gigantic furnace.
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The sun and the sky were darkened by the smoke from the
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abyss. Now, could this be that time is
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at that middle point when this is where like the evil gets
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loosed from the abyss and all these really strange wrathful
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things start happening that are written about in the Book of
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Revelation? That's what I tend to think is
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going to happen. And so I do want to warn people.
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So just search the sun being darkened or the sun will not
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give its light and see how many times and then read those
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chapters that talk about that if you don't believe me.
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But God said this through many prophets, through many
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followers. You have Matthew and John who
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were disciples of Jesus. You have Joel, you have Isaiah,
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and you also have Mark, who was a friend of Peter, who is one of
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the original disciples. So anyway, there's lots of
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people who are telling us this is what's going to happen.
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It's like the sun's going to be darkened.
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The moon, the sun and the moon are darkened and the stars no
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longer shine and the stars fall from the sky because the
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heavenly bodies will be shaken. Now, stars are sometimes
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symbolic of angels. So I don't know if that's the
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fallen angels are booted out of heaven at that point because it
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says like, you know, woe to the inhabitants of the earth because
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the devil has been sent down and he has he knows his time is
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short. So that could be that 3 1/2
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years. The final, like I think this
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happens like at the midpoint of the, the seven-year period that
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all this happens, like Satan is knocked out of heaven, doesn't
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get heaven any, you know, he doesn't have access there
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anymore. He's, he's just filled with
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wrath against all the people because he knows that his time
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is short and there's a 3 1/2 year period of this wrath that
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goes, well, I don't know, maybe not.
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There's some studies that say it's about a year wrath because
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people think like, how could somebody survive?
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But there's like a sequence. I mean, if you look at the
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trumpets and the seals, it's like the trumpets are almost
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like the warnings that it's gradually getting worse and then
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the seals take care of the the remainder.
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Like if it's a third happens in the trumpets, then 2/3 happens
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in the seals or something, you know, or you know, another
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third. It's just like an incremental
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increase. You have the trumpets and then
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you have the seals. And those are God's wrath, God's
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judgement on people who have not repented.
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So anyway, I will go back to the questions and answers on these
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chapters and then conclude this. So we talked about four.
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So in five on what it says, what's the purpose of the cloud
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of smoke by day and the flame flaming fire at night?
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In Isaiah, Mount Zion is elevated above the surrounding
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hills. Here it is protected by divine
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symbols reminiscent of the journey of Egypt.
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Out of Egypt. The protective symbols would not
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move as they did during the exodus for the future, Mount
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Zion is the journey's end The picture in these verses is
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glorious and certainly. Yet in the future as judah's
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returning exiles did not experience such tranquil
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conditions so study Bible agrees this is end times.
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Why the sudden shift to a love song?
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Isaiah was moving from the hope of the future time to the
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painful reality of of the moment.
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In this poetic shift shift, a picture of redemption changes to
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a parable in song followed by the stinging words of judgment.
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The what? Why did Isaiah focus on so much
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issues of of justice? The Hebrew word for justice
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refers not only to legal matters decided by courts, but also to
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all matters of right behavior and proper treatment of people.
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God is concerned about all human behavior, right and wrong in our
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personal lives, family interactions, neighborhoods,
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general society, and so on. Is productivity a bad thing?
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It is bad when the desire to accumulate wealth possesses
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people and causes them to walk over others.
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God's property laws provided for land to remain permanently
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within families. Like King Ahab, who coveted and
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seized Naboth's vineyard, many in Judah had become land
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grabbers, caring only for themselves in their mad pursuit
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of pleasure. Justice, love and respect for
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others had been sacrificed on the altar of pleasure, self and
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greed. What's wrong with having great
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houses and fine mansions? Throughout most of history, the
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number of people living in mansions is small compared to
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the number of people living in poverty.
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The building and upkeep of extravagant houses can sometimes
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be at the expense of those who barely have enough to exist.
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Isaiah links a lifestyle of wealth to oppression of many
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poor in Israel and Judah, tracing it back to the rejection
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of God and His laws. What would this exile mean?
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The people of Judah, like the people of Israel before them,
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would be banished from their own country, taken captive to a
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foreign land. God used exile in the Old
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Testament to punish his people, purging them of their sinful and
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rebellious ways. Why would Judas judgement exalt
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God? Because Judas punishment was
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deserved, it was right, and therefore honoring to God that
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these sinful people be punished. God's judgement revealed His
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Holiness as well as His power to act according to His character.
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Judging sin is consistent with who God is.
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Why condemn those who wanted to see God's work?
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They were condemned because they were not sincere.
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Their words dripped with deceit, scorn, and sarcasm.
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They had grown so arrogant that they even mocked God's power and
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holiness. Because they had prospered in
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their sin, they did not believe God was capable of judging them.
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That's a lot of people today don't believe that.
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You know, they're like, oh, these people are evil and yet
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they have so much. So God isn't fair.
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Well, that's exactly what it's talking about here.
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It's like they, you know, these people because they had
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prospered in their sin. They did not believe that God
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was capable of judging them. They just thought, nobody's
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going to touch me. I'm in no harm because look at
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what I've done and I've done an innocentful way.
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I think there's probably people like that today.
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So what role did a banner play? Symbols were placed on poles,
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hilltops or other highly visible places to rally troops.
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For God to raise a banner for his distant nations was a
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figurative way of saying that he was calling them to battle
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against his people. If verses 26 through 30 were
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originally a prophecy against the northern Kingdom, then Isaac
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certainly would have had a Syrian mind.
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And indeed, Assyria was to threaten Judah, too, even though
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it was the Babylonians from equally far away in Mesopotamia
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who had ultimately destroyed Jerusalem.
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And I still think that because the way this is written, that
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this is actually something that's going to come into the
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future. So we know when the nations rise
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against Israel, that's when it happens.
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So anyway, now is a great time to reconcile with God.
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That's pretty much all I have to say.