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764. Bible Study: Jeremiah 4 (585 -580 BC: warning/vision to Judah and Jerusalem about the "End Times" return of Jesus/wrath of God)) · Faith by annm2705

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  When reading Bible prophecy it often at the very beginning
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  especially I always questioned did this already happen or is
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  this yet to come? And that's a question that
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  sometimes gets really hard to find the answer to.
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  However, there are certain things in this chapter that I
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  believe do either their prophecies about our future or
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  they were partially fulfilled and a foreshadow of what is yet
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  to come. But there's no question in my
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  mind after reading through this that this does have future
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  significance to all of us. So let's get started first with
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  the prayer. Dear God, please be with us as
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  we read through this chapter and let the Holy Spirit open our
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  eyes and give us wisdom so that we may learn what you intended
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  from when you gave this to Jeremiah.
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  We ask this in Jesus name, Amen. So chapter 4, Jeremiah, it
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  starts out saying if you Israel will return, then return to me
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  declares the Lord. If you put your detestable idols
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  out of my sight and no longer go astray.
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  I want to stop there for a minute.
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  So he's he's giving them qualifications like if you get
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  rid of this stuff, then this is not going.
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  I mean, there's going to be a different outcome.
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  And if we see repeated throughout the biblical history
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  that idolatry is the greatest concern that God has, and even,
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  you know, the first, I mean, the two most important commandments
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  that were talked about that Jesus said, you know, love God,
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  love your neighbors. Well, how can you love God?
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  You know, if that's the greatest command, how can you love God?
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  If you're loving something else, which which thing not thing, but
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  which entity are you really in love with your there's going to
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  be one that's a priority. And is that priority God or is
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  it something else? And I think that applies to all
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  of us today. We can look at our lives and is
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  God our priority in our life? Is God number one in our life or
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  do we have anything else that we think of as #1 As I read this
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  further, I and study it, I believe that this is actually
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  more spiritual than literal. I mean, there is a spiritual,
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  we're definitely, you know, involved in a spiritual warfare.
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  It tells us that in Ephesians chapter 6 that we don't wrestle
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  against people or flesh and blood.
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  It's against the spiritual forces in the heavenly realms
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  and the principalities. So it tells us all that and
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  there's a war going on and we are in this war.
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  And I believe that also ties into idolatry.
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  If we, you know, to be in love with the world or to love the
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  world is to be an enemy of God. And that probably doesn't make
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  sense to people who are new in their faith because God says to
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  love everything. But what it does is there's,
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  there's a difference between the way God describes holiness and
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  the way the world culture is even the, the word love.
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  I mean, how many people are confused by what love really
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  truly means? The Bible describes that.
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  It describes all these different characteristics that describe
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  someone who is acting in a loving way.
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  And it doesn't have anything to do with the lustfulness that
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  most people relate love to. Like they have this feeling of
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  love and it's, it's a like a chemistry or an attraction to
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  someone else. That's not what the Bible
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  defines as love. Love's completely different than
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  that as described in the Bible. And that's what is another
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  example of how what the world says one thing is what the world
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  describes love as is very different from what God
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  described how God describes love.
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  And throughout the Bible we just see like we have become so
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  confused and who's the author of confusion, the enemy of God, but
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  we've become so confused about everything in our world that
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  seems and it it all goes against what the Bible says.
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  So everything the Bible says, which is truth is distorted and
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  used for confusion to where people I I'm just actually
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  amazed at medically trained people who get on board with the
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  culture about saying that there are more than two genders.
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  I mean, medically it just doesn't make sense.
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  I'm like, are these people delusional or what?
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  Like scientifically that just does not make sense.
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  But we see a world where there are people with the doctor name,
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  you know, the doctor title behind their name that will say
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  there's multiple. And it just, it, it's just we
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  are in this great deception about and this, yeah, this great
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  deception about knowing what is true, what is real and what is
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  not. And I believe this is a
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  spiritual thing more so than anything.
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  It's the enemy of God creating this confusion among people.
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  And the people who are confused are the people who do not have
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  to, who do not know God, and who do not have the Holy Spirit, who
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  the Holy Spirit lets us know what is truth and what is not.
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  So it's their spiritual discernment.
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  Anyway, there's so much here, but going back to what Scripture
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  says, it's about idols, examples of idols in our world at the
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  Olympics in, I guess it was 20, 24, I don't know, my years get
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  mixed up, but there was this very spiritually symbolic event,
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  the entertainment that was conducted during the Olympics.
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  And it had, it was very biblically symbolic of Satan and
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  his Yeah. I don't know what else you call
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  it but evil, let's just call it evil, whatever it is.
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  It was very symbolic of things that are in the Bible that are
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  evil. And it also had this Mike
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  mockery of the Lord's Supper also.
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  And it was, you know, there were a lot of LBDLBGTQ people at a
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  table and it was very symbolic of mockery against Jesus.
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  And we know that this comes about in the last days according
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  to Bible prophecy that that happens.
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  There will be mockers and scoffers and those types of
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  things. And there will be, you know,
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  blasphemy against God. And so we certainly are seeing
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  that today in our culture. And we are.
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  It's gets described as art. That's what people call it.
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  They were like, oh, it's just art.
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  It doesn't mean that. Well, that's another deception
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  that I believe people are under. Like, why celebrate something
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  like that? Why think that quote art is
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  good? I find a lot of distorted,
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  demented, evil looking things that people just say, oh, that's
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  art. Don't get too serious about
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  that. That's just expression of art.
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  Well, it may be an expression of art, but it's an expression of
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  something evil and people are not recognizing that today.
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  They're just saying, oh, it doesn't matter.
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  Think about like in music and a lot of different genres of
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  music, there is the exact opposite of what God describes
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  as the way he wants mankind, the what he created us to be like
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  and what is expressed. It's almost like the exact
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  opposite of what God promotes is showing up in a lot of different
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  genres of music. You can find it in in rap music,
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  in rock music, in pop music, you can see all of these things that
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  are it. It just seems like it's we are
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  so blind to it. We have no spiritual discernment
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  because until a certain point and some people probably express
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  it to emotionally. So then we just say, oh, they're
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  a little bit extreme. I'm not going to pay attention
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  to what they say because they're they're a little extra.
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  And but then we look at what is actually happening in, in music
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  and we see that there is a certain evil side to it, that
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  when you know what's in the Bible, you can see it.
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  And I believe that's what's called spiritual discernment.
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  You can see the spiritual impact, the spiritual influence
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  behind, behind the outward expression of art.
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  And there's like I've seen photos that are arts, you know,
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  the classified as art in elite parties that have come out that
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  had this representation of cannibalism.
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  And it's just like really horrible things.
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  Like who would ever want that? That isn't a feel good kind of a
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  thing. Why would you ever go there with
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  art? There's a lot of very evil
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  things being expressed as art and people accepting that.
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  And I just think we, as anyone who believes our eyes should be
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  open to that, and we should recognize that we should have
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  spiritual discernment about those things and realize that
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  this is not of God. This is something evil that's
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  deceptive and that's trying to come in and to influence our
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  lives. And we don't need to have a part
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  of that if we are a true Christian.
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  So anyway, we just need to realize that there are spiritual
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  entities that want to take away our attention from God and put
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  it on something else that creates this idolatry.
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  And I believe that's what God is speaking against throughout the
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  Bible. Are these spiritual entities
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  that are taking away the attention from God, drawing us
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  away from God? So let's read and we'll see more
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  about that. So if you put your detestable
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  idols out of my sight and no longer go astray, and if in a
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  truthful, just and righteous way, you swear as surely as the
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  Lord lives, then the nations will invoke blessings by him,
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  and in him they will boast. So God's just saying, you know,
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  if you turn away from these, you're going to get blessings.
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  But people don't realize that. They don't read the Bible.
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  So when we turn away from the evil that we see spiritual
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  discernment, when you turn away from it, when you say, no, I
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  don't want that in my life, God says he will give you blessings.
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  I mean, this is he's talking to Israel here, but it says that
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  God doesn't have any favorites. He doesn't show favoritism.
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  He has chosen Israel as his people, but that doesn't mean
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  that Israel are the only ones that will be in the Kingdom of
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  God. There are others because there
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  are Gentiles that have been grafted in too.
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  It's just God chose. You know it.
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  There's a part of scripture that says, you know, can't the Potter
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  who represents God choose some clay?
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  We're all clay for some special purposes and some for common
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  purposes. So God can choose to have
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  certain people be used for special purposes and certain
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  people just for every day, you know, like they, they don't
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  really have a, a special purpose.
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  They just have an everyday purpose.
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  And he's the creator. He can make people for that.
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  So he clearly said that he chose Israel as his chosen people, and
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  they were to bless others. They were to be very close to
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  him and then bless others. And eventually that will come
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  because God's will does prevail and he will.
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  There will be people who are willing to live according to
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  God's will. And so all of this will happen
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  in the future, but it certainly isn't right now.
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  So this is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to
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  Jerusalem. Break up your unplowed ground
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  and do not sow among thorns. Circumcise yourselves to the
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  Lord. Circumcise your hearts, you
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  people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or my wrath will
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  flare up and burn like fire because of the evil you have
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  done. Burn with no one to quench it.
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  So God again is repeating this again.
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  He's saying, you know, circumcise yourself, that he's
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  not talking about the outward action, but he's because people
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  can do an outward action and not have the inner turning towards
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  God. And that's what he's like.
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  Circumcise your hearts. That's the inner reality.
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  So you can, we can all appear one way, but yet on the inside,
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  deep inside, in our thoughts and our hearts and our minds, we may
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  not have the same relationship with God like on the outward.
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  Outwardly we could go to church every week, we could volunteer,
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  we could do all these things that make us appear like a
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  Christian. But inward, you know, like Jesus
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  said, if you love me, obey my commands.
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  So inward we can also like not obey His commands, but to the
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  outside world we can look like we're a Christian, but the inner
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  part of us is disobedient to God.
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  So that's showing we don't love Him in our hearts.
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  We love Him on the exterior where everybody can see, and
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  that's like the hypocrites of Jesus's time.
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  And that's what he warned them about.
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  You know, don't be a hypocrite. You know, the outside should
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  represent what's in the inside you.
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  You should be true to your actions, like you should be a
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  reflection of what's deep inside, not just go through the
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  motions, which is what was happening with these people
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  here. They were going through the
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  motions and everything, but inside they were not turned to
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  God. And so he's warning them, you
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  need to turn to me or my wrath will flare up.
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  Why? He gives everybody.
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  He always gives a reason. I remember, you know, as a
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  person growing up in my younger years that, you know, if
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  somebody would give me a rule or tell me an outcome, I'd always
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  be like, well, why? You know, I wanted to know the
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  reason behind it. We don't always get those
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  answers, but I love it when God really is clear about this.
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  And so he says why? Because of the evil you have
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  done. So there is a wrath that's going
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  to come because of it's a consequence of the actions.
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  So here's what the Study Bible says about some of these parts.
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  What does it mean to break up your unplowed ground?
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  This is an agricultural reference that points to the
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  necessary work that must be done if there is to be a spiritual
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  renewal. Judah was like the ground, hard,
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  thorny, and not prepared for seed.
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  Scattering seeds on thorny, unplowed ground will not yield a
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  harvest. So the ground of the people's
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  hearts needed to be prepared by removing idolatry and turning
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  back to the Lord. Only then would their repentance
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  be fruitful. So then what does it mean to
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  circumcise your hearts? This is a figurative way to call
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  people to cut sinful impurities from their lives.
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  Just as the foreskin is removed in a physical circumcision.
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  Jeremiah was advising the people of Judah to remove the sinful
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  practices that hindered their spiritual growth.
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  I think that's important, removing the sinful practices
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  that hinder spiritual growth. The Apostle Paul also used the
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  metaphor of a metaphor of a circumcised heart.
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  Then talks about disaster from the north, North, announce in
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  Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem and say sound the trumpet
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  throughout the land, cry aloud and say gather together.
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  So this is interesting to me because this goes back to the
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  way the the tribes when they would camp out when they were in
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  the wilderness. There was a certain arrangement
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  of each one of the tribes and how they were they were placed
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  and there were trumpet sounds that were used.
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  One of them was to assemble and then another sound was used to
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  go out to war. And so that's where the trumpet
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  sounds. I kind of did a study on that a
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  while ago to look at, you know, the trumpet sound because like,
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  what does that mean? Well, and there's also like an
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  announcing of a king too. So the those are things that are
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  coming to mind right now about these trumpet sound.
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  But again, this is something that, you know, this is talking
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  about announce in Judah. So it's, it's spoken to Judah
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  and Jerusalem and it's. So that's kind of interesting
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  too, because I don't believe that Jerusalem was actually part
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  of southern Judah. So it's, it's really talking
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  about Judah and Israel. So if Jeremiah is giving this
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  warning to them that the Assyrians are going to come and
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  conquer Judah because they were the southern tribe, then because
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  Assyria had already done that to the northern tribe.
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  And then Babylon was had conquered the southern tribe or
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  the yeah, the southern 2 tribes. And, and then after that came
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  Assyria from the north. So again, this is, you know, I
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  think this is futuristic because it's talking about Judah and
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  Jerusalem. Well, if Jerusalem was part of
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  the northern tribes, it had already been conquered by
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  Assyria, so why would he be warning them?
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  So again, this even more so emphasizes to me that this is
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  really more so about the future, like our future, even though
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  maybe some of it felt like it might have been.
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  Might have happened already, like prophecy fulfilled.
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  I still think this is something that's for the future.
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  So something that is applicable to us today that still has not
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  happened yet. So I'll, I'll talk about that a
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  little bit more too. So the study Bible says why did
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  disaster come after they had repented?
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  The sayings and stories of this book are not arranged
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  chronologically. We don't know when or to what
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  degree repentance took place before the fall of Jerusalem.
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  Some people may have responded to Jeremiah's message, but the
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  rest of the people remain sinful and hard headed, hard hearted.
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  So Jeremiah continued to warn them about the coming judgement.
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  So, OK, sound the trumpet throughout the land, cry aloud
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  and say, gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities.
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  Well, that goes way back in how the lands were established in
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  the very early books of the Bible, and there were these
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  cities of refuge that were given or assigned, or they were places
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  where people could go. And so I think this is really
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  interesting because fleeing for safety without delay, raise the
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  signal, go to Zion. Now Zion, was Zion an actual
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  place? No, this becomes more of a
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  metaphor, which is really interesting.
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  And and I think this I just OK, I want to talk you about what I
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  looked this up and I found this is really interesting.
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  So it says raise the signal to go to Zion, flee for safety
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  without delay. So where they're going to go if
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  Zion is meant as Jerusalem, right?
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  And if it's going, if Jerusalem's getting attacked,
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  why would you tell somebody to go to Jerusalem?
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  Because that's going to be attacked.
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  It's a warning to Jerusalem. So that doesn't make sense until
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  you think about the metaphor of all of this.
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  So in Hebrew, the word Zion means a sign, a landmark, a
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  fortification or a stronghold and refers to a place of
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  sanctuary, refuge or spiritual significance, often associated
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  with Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.
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  The root of the word forms verbs meaning to mark or to point out,
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  emphasizing God's significant presence or action at a
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  particular location. I've also found like Zion would
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  be like the heavenly Kingdom of God reigning, you know, when
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  Jesus reigns from Jerusalem. So that, you know, there's I
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  think some some pointing towards the millennial when Jesus reigns
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  as king from Jerusalem. I believe that's probably Zion.
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  And then I wondered, so it's interesting that Zion refers to
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  fortification or raised up or stronghold.
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  And so this is interesting. Flee for safety.
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  It's saying raise the signal and to go to Zion.
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  It's is it telling us this is a warning, this trumpet warning
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  gathered together, this is a warning to return to God because
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  he is our protection. So fortified cities could serve
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  as cities of refuge in the Bible, with the specific
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  requirement that they were equipped with defenses to
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  protect unintentional manslayers from the avenger of blood.
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  While fortified cities generally served as military and
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  administrative centers offering physical security, the
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  designated cities of refuge were a special type of these cities
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  specifically established by God to provide a place of asylum for
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  those who had killed someone accidentally, not to escape
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  justice, but to ensure a fair trial.
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  Like that's different from an accidental versus a murder.
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  To kill someone accidentally as like a, a side factor of
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  something that happened or there's like this premeditated,
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  I'm going, you know, choosing to kill someone, which is murder.
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  So there's a difference between killing someone and murder.
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  So the function of the fortified cities were protection and
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  security. They were built with strong
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  walls and strongholds to provide physical safety and protection
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  from enemies. And anyway, so it's interesting
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  that Zion means fortification and Zion is God's heavenly
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  Kingdom, right? You know, here on earth is what
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  that represents. And so this is also during the
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  time of the Millennium that I think it's pointing to.
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  And it's interesting too that we have these trumpet calls, sound
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  the trumpet throughout the land, cry aloud and say gather
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  together. Everybody thinks about that, you
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  know, with the the gathering of people.
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  So like in Matthew chapter 24 verse 31 and he, Jesus will send
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  his angels with a loud trumpet call and they will gather his
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  elect from the four winds from one end of the heavens to the
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  other. So, and then it says in Mark
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  chapter 13, and he will send his angels and gather his elect from
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  the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the
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  heaven. So it's there's like a gathering
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  of earthly and heavenly people who are in those presents.
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  So there's like a gathering together and there's a trumpet
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  sound. It's and, and I think this
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  relates to end times where the trumpet sound is, you know,
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  definitely associated with the gathering of people or what
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  people may call the rapture or the resurrection.
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  This is there's a sound that you know, it says is going to happen
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  and there is this gathering and, and I believe that is, you know,
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  there's this place of refuge that God provides for his people
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  who have turned to him. So that's again like God's
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  warning throughout, you know, even back in the book of
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  Jeremiah, which was in the BC time frame, let's see where we
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  were with this. The book of Jeremiah was written
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  about 585 to 580 BC. So how many?
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  How long has God been warning all the people who could read
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  from or who could orally, who heard this turn to Him, turn to
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  Him? There's safety.
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  There's refuge in Him and we're still hearing that today.
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  Yet people are obstinate from God.
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  Well, when people are obstinate from God, that means they don't
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  have his protection. They are rejecting him and
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  thinking they can do it on their their own when they can't
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  because there are things coming against people that are beyond
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  human in in in reality. And we're going to get to that
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  just next. So, and it's, you know, it says
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  flee for safety. And so it's saying flee for
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  safety without delay. So when I read that, I thought
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  about Matthew 24 where Jesus said then let those who are in
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  Judea flee to the mountains. So there's, you know, there is
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  a, a very common thing in Genesis.
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  I believe this is where Sodom and Gomorrah happened.
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  Genesis 19, verse 17. As soon as they had brought them
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  out, one of them said, flee for your lives.
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  Don't look back. Don't stop anywhere in the
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  plane. Flee to the mountains or you
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  will be swept away. Well, that's what happened to
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  Lot's wife. She didn't obey that.
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  The angels said that. And they were helping Lot and
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  his two daughters. There were more that were
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  supposed to be helped, but they again, were obstinate.
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  They didn't believe it. They didn't think about it.
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  And so they were left behind and they were not taken to safety.
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  And so again, it seems like this that it definitely seems like it
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  is a A continual reference are to flee to the mountains to get
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  to safety. And mountains are also symbolic
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  in the Bible. We will see they are almost like
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  strongholds, like God is a mountain.
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  But then these spiritual entities that are enemies of God
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  are also mountains. And I think we get into some of
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  that symbolism in the Book of Revelation.
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  So a mountain can also be something spiritual and not
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  literal, and we have to be aware of that.
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  So you know, in Genesis 1919, it says your servant has found
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  favor in your eyes and you have shown great kindness to me in
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  sparing my life, but I can't flee to the mountains.
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  The disaster will overtake me and I'll die.
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  So again, there's like the safety of going towards the
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  mountains in Ezekiel 7 verse 16, the fugitives escape, will flee
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  to the mountains like doves of the valleys.
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  They will all moan, each for their own sins.
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  So again, there's this safety, fleeing to the mountains.
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  How about maybe fleeing to a higher power, to God?
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  But there's also, you know, a literal sense.
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  You know that like Jesus said then that let those who are in
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  Judea flee to the mountains. He was quoted in in the Gospel
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  of Mark. When you see the abomination
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  that causes desolation standing where it does not belong, this
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  is on God's holy ground. Let the reader understand.
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  Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
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  In Luke it says, then let those who are in Judea flee to the
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  mountains. Let those in the city get out
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  and let those in the country not enter the city.
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  So again, this is, you know, Jerusalem is where the Temple
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  Mount is. It's where that Holy Land is.
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  And this is saying, you know, don't be in Jerusalem.
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  Get out of Jerusalem, flee to the mountains.
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  And I believe this is a future warning for the people who will
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  be here at that time. Now, going back to Jeremiah,
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  chapter 4, verse 7, a lion has come out of his lair.
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  A destroyer of nations has set out.
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  Now I think that's significant too.
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  A destroyer has talked about 13 times in the Bible and I think
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  we learned something about this because like who is the
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  destroyer? And God actually gives us the
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  answer at the very end. But I'm going to read through
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  the verses that talk about a destroyer just so maybe you see
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  it like I see it as well. So in Exodus chapter 12, when
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  the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, He
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  will see the blood on the top and the sides of the door frame
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  and will Passover that doorway and He will not permit, He will
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  not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you
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  down. Now that was a warning and they
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  were covered by the blood of the lamb, which was symbolic
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  representing Jesus sacrifice on the cross.
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  His blood protects. So Jesus protects us from the
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  destroyer. And this goes all the way back
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  to the book of Exodus, then in Isaiah and it says, let the
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  Moabite fugitive stay with you. Be their shelter from the
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  destroyer. The oppressor will come to an
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  end and destruction will see. The aggressor will vanish from
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  the land. Isaiah chapter 33.
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  Woe to you, destroyer, you who have not been destroyed.
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  Woe to you, betrayer, you who have not been betrayed.
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  When you stop destroying, you will be destroyed.
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  When you stop betraying, you will be betrayed.
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  So God uses evil intentions for his own purposes.
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  He uses it to bring about wrath, to bring about judgement on
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  people who don't turn to him. And he's in control of that
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  because they have turned away from God.
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  They are rejecting God. And so God is going to allow
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  this evil destroyer to wreak havoc in the lives of those who
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  are not turned to him. There must be some legal
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  allowance of this. God allows it and we know he
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  doesn't like this. He just wants people to turn to
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  him. But when they are hard headed,
• 33:55
  hard hearted and say no to God, I'm going to be obstinate from
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  you. You are basically leaving
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  yourself open to have this destroyer come against you.
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  In Isaiah chapter 54, it says, see, it is I who created the
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  blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon
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  fit for its work, and it is I who have created the destroyer
• 34:23
  to wreak havoc. So God created everything.
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  The destroyer is not greater than God.
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  God can stop the destroyer from affecting people, just like
• 34:34
  those who are protected by the blood of the Lamb in the
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  Passover, but he can also let the destroyer wreak havoc.
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  And he created it and it's the destroyer is has free will.
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  The destroyer can, but he's, the destroyer is bent on destroying.
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  Like that's what this destroyer wants to do.
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  That's what the destroyer chose. And God allows the free will,
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  but he'll use it to accomplish his purposes.
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  So God is still in control then? It references the verse we just
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  read, Jeremiah chapter 4 verse 7.
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  A lion has come out of his lair. A destroyer of nations has set
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  out. He has left his place to lay
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  waste to your land. Your towns will lie in ruins
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  without inhabitant. So Jeremiah 6 says, put on
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  sackcloth my people, and roll in ashes.
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  Mourn with bitter wailing As for an only son, For suddenly the
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  destroyer will come upon us. Just now when I'm reading this,
• 35:39
  I was like, oh, that's really interesting.
• 35:43
  Mourn with bitter wailing As for an only son, well, who is Jesus,
• 35:49
  God's only son? Isn't that interesting?
• 35:52
  Like put on sackcloth, my people, and roll in ashes.
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  Mourn with bitter wailing As for Jesus, for suddenly the
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  destroyer will come upon us. So if people accepted Jesus for
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  what he did, believed in Jesus, they would be protected and this
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  destroyer would not affect them. But there are people who reject
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  Jesus as the Son of God, and the destroyer will come.
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  That's what Jeremiah is saying here.
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  Jeremiah 15. I will make their widows more
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  numerous than the sand of the sea at midday.
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  I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men.
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  Suddenly I will bring down on them anguish and terror.
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  I do think that some of this actually happened, but it's not
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  to the fulfillment yet. But I believe that October 7th,
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  2023 was some of this, that I mean, this just really sounds
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  like what happened that day. So, and these again, that's not
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  the fulfillment of all this. So it's going to be worse.
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  Jesus warns about that, that this there is going to be a time
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  that's even worse than anything any of us have ever experienced.
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  And it will never again be as bad as what it's going to be.
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  So this is, you know, October 7th, I think is a big warning
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  that there is something that is, you know, it's a warning to turn
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  to God, to stop being an idolatry, stop having
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  worshipping these other things. You know, stop this new age
• 37:38
  spirituality that is not focused on God, that is focused on some
• 37:43
  ambiguous, you know, God or ambiguous being that is, you
• 37:50
  know, a higher being than us. No, there is a one true God.
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  That's what God is saying. You know, don't just make me
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  into something of many. There is one true God.
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  There is one creator and that is God the Father.
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  And, and so let's see, the destroyer will come against
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  Jeremiah 48. The destroyer will come against
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  every town and they not a town will be will escape.
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  The valley will be ruined and the plateau destroyed because
• 38:21
  the Lord has spoken. Then Jeremiah 48 also says, I
• 38:26
  weep for you as Jaser weeps, your vines of Sibma, your
• 38:29
  branches spread out as far as the sea.
• 38:32
  They reached out as far as Jaser the destroyer has fallen on your
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  ripened fruit and grapes. Jeremiah 51 says this is what
• 38:41
  the Lord says, See, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer
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  against Babylon and the people of Lebkemae.
• 38:53
  So here's where we see that Jeremiah 51 verse one that God
• 38:58
  is saying I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer and when
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  he says spirit, I believe it's ruah.
• 39:08
  I'm going to double check that because that is I'm going to
• 39:12
  arouse against Babylon and against the inhabitants of the
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  the spirit of a destroyer. So it's Ruah.
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  Yes, it is talking about a spirit and and again this God
• 39:26
  will give us the clue to this the answer to this in Revelation
• 39:29
  as well. So in Hebrews Chapter 11 verse
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  28, it says by faith He kept the and the application of the of
• 39:38
  blood so that the destroyer of the first born would not touch
• 39:44
  the first born of Israel. So God gave a warning 1st and
• 39:50
  again this was symbolic of Jesus and this is back in the Old
• 39:54
  Testament, A Passover where the lamb is a reference to Jesus, a
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  foreshadowing of Jesus and showing the Israelites that
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  Jesus is their protection and this Jesus will protect them
• 40:09
  from the destroyer if they would turn to him.
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  But. The spiritual blindness is
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  preventing many in Israel from understanding this or from
• 40:19
  seeing this, the stubbornness of their own hearts.
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  There are people in Israel who have who do believe in Jesus
• 40:25
  and, and so I'm not including them, but there are many people
• 40:30
  who don't. Then in Revelation 9, Chapter 9,
• 40:35
  verse 11, it gives us the answer.
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  They had as king over them the Angel of the abyss, whose name
• 40:49
  in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon, that is comma
• 40:57
  destroyer. So all along, throughout all the
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  ages, the Greek apollyon is the destroyer, the Hebrew word
• 41:07
  Abaddon is the destroyer, and the destroyer has been around.
• 41:12
  The the destroyer is apparently an internal being, it's spirit.
• 41:19
  Just like it says in Jeremiah 51, I will stir up the spirit of
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  a destroyer against Babylon. So there is a spiritual war.
• 41:30
  Just like Ephesians chapter 6 tells us there's a spirit behind
• 41:35
  these things that happened. There's a spirit behind the
• 41:38
  October 7th event. It's not just people.
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  We are not fighting against flesh and blood.
• 41:44
  There is a spirit, a long term spirit that has been impacting
• 41:49
  the earth since the beginning of the Bible has mentioned.
• 41:54
  So like I said, this is the clue right now.
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  There's there's something in the abyss that's going to come forth
• 42:04
  in the future and it's a destroyer just like what
• 42:07
  happened in Exodus. It's going to happen again in
• 42:11
  the future. And this is what it says.
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  You know, a lion has come out of his lair.
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  This is in Jeremiah chapter 4, verse 7.
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  A lion has come out of his lair. A destroyer of nations has set
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  out. He has left his place.
• 42:24
  Could that be the abyss to lay waste your land?
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  Your towns will lie in ruins without inhabitant.
• 42:32
  So put on a sackcloth, lament and whale.
• 42:35
  For the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned away from us
• 42:40
  because nobody was repentant. Then it says in that day,
• 42:43
  declares the Lord. Now that could be, you know, the
• 42:46
  day that that happens. But often it talks about the day
• 42:49
  of the Lord. It seems to be a reference to
• 42:54
  the day of the Lord. So in that day, declares the
• 42:57
  Lord, the king and his officials will lose heart, the priest will
• 43:00
  be horrified, and the prophets will be appalled.
• 43:04
  So obviously this is probably a foreshadowing where this
• 43:09
  happened, like when Jerusalem and our Judah, when Judah was
• 43:16
  attacked, and I'm sure everybody was surprised by this after
• 43:21
  Jeremiah warned them. And it's so it did happen to
• 43:25
  them. But there's also in that day,
• 43:28
  which could also mean the day of the Lord.
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  And this is an opinion of mine. So but there are the day of the
• 43:35
  Lord is it occurs 1946 times in 233 verses in the New
• 43:42
  International version, including 24 exact phrases.
• 43:46
  So there's exact phrases and then there's like inexact
• 43:50
  phrases. So I will read through.
• 43:53
  I don't know that I'm going to necessarily reference where
• 43:56
  these are. I might if they're significant,
• 43:59
  really significant. But so the day of the Lord,
• 44:03
  Isaiah 13 wail for the day of the Lord is near.
• 44:07
  It will come like destruction from the Almighty.
• 44:11
  Here's another verse. See, the day of the Lord is
• 44:13
  coming, a cruel day with wrath and fierce anger to make the
• 44:18
  land desolate and destroy the sinners within it.
• 44:23
  So this is not it's, it's for the destruction of the sinners
• 44:27
  within it, the day of the Lord, a cruel day with wrath and
• 44:30
  fierce anger. So for all of us, we want to
• 44:34
  make sure that we are not actively choosing to sin, that
• 44:38
  because the wrath of God is going to come against those who
• 44:43
  don't repent, who don't change their ways, who keep on sinning.
• 44:48
  Grace doesn't cover that. It says if you keep on sinning
• 44:51
  after knowing about grace, that all you can expect is the wrath
• 44:57
  of God. And that's a big warning.
• 44:59
  There's a lot of people, a lot of Christians who think they're
• 45:02
  covered by grace and they can keep on sinning and it's not
• 45:05
  going to matter. And the Bible's very clear about
• 45:09
  it. You can't do that unless you
• 45:11
  just want to face God's wrath. And I don't think I would want
• 45:13
  to face God's wrath. So just a wake up call to
• 45:18
  people. Ezekiel says you have not gone
• 45:22
  up to the breeches in the wall to repair it for the people of
• 45:26
  Israel so that it would stand firm in the battle on the day of
• 45:30
  the Lord. Now, a lot of these things are
• 45:32
  physical and spiritual. So because Paul talks about
• 45:37
  standing firm on the day of the Lord, that we hope that we can
• 45:41
  stand firm on that day. Ezekiel 30 says for the day is
• 45:46
  near, the day of the Lord is near, a day of clouds, a day, a
• 45:50
  time of doom for the nations, plural.
• 45:55
  Joel says alas for that day, for the day of the Lord is near, it
• 46:01
  will come like destruction from the Almighty.
• 46:06
  Joel too says, blow the trump in Zion, sound the alarm on my holy
• 46:12
  hill, let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the
• 46:18
  Lord is coming. It is close at hand.
• 46:21
  So again, this is I believe future biblical prophecy.
• 46:26
  In Joel chapter 2 it says further, the Lord thunders at
• 46:30
  the head of his army. His forces are beyond number and
• 46:34
  mighty is the army that obeys his command.
• 46:38
  The day of the Lord is great, it is dreadful.
• 46:40
  Who can endure it? Now again, this is something
• 46:44
  that crossed my mind and I didn't look into this that
• 46:47
  deeply, but I wondered. The Lord thunders the head of
• 46:51
  his army. His forces are beyond number,
• 46:53
  and mighty is the army that obeys his command.
• 46:56
  That's the way the NIB says. I want to see what it says in
• 46:59
  the English NISB. It says.
• 47:02
  The Lord utters his voice before his army.
• 47:06
  Surely his camp is very great for the strong is for the strong
• 47:14
  is he who carries out his word. The day of the Lord is indeed
• 47:19
  great and very awesome. And who can endure it?
• 47:24
  Now is this, I mean, is this what he's talking about?
• 47:30
  Like is he using, you know, his art When I say his army, is that
• 47:38
  somebody that he calls? Like, remember, he used Cyrus,
• 47:42
  who was not from Israel to do something.
• 47:48
  He used, you know, it doesn't necessarily.
• 47:51
  And these are coming against Israel.
• 47:54
  Well, God doesn't come against Israel.
• 47:56
  And I don't know. That is something that I
• 48:01
  probably should have. You know, it says blow the
• 48:04
  trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, gather the people,
• 48:08
  consecrate the assembly, bring together the other.
• 48:10
  You know, let the bridegroom leave his room in the bride, her
• 48:13
  chamber. Wonder if that has a significant
• 48:17
  symbolic between Jesus as the bridegroom and the hit believers
• 48:22
  as his bride or Jerusalem as his bride.
• 48:28
  So let the to minister before the Lord weep between the
• 48:31
  protocol and the altar. Let them say, spare your Lord.
• 48:35
  Do not make an inheritance an object of scorn.
• 48:39
  Why should they say among peoples?
• 48:41
  Where is their God? The Lord is jealous for his land
• 48:45
  and took pity on his people. And I will drive the northern
• 48:50
  horde far from you, pushing it into the parch and barren land.
• 48:55
  Its eastern ranks will drown in the Dead Sea and its western
• 48:58
  ranks in the Mediterranean Sea. And its stench will go up, Its
• 49:01
  smell will rise. Surely he has done great things.
• 49:04
  Do not be frayed, afraid, land of Judah, be glad and rejoice.
• 49:08
  Surely the Lord has done great things.
• 49:12
  So God is going to come with his armies to fight off those who
• 49:19
  use their free will to go against the destroyer that God
• 49:23
  allows to destroy. He will.
• 49:26
  It's a, like it said before, woe to you destroyer.
• 49:30
  When you finish destroying, you're going to be finished.
• 49:33
  So God doesn't let it go unpunished.
• 49:35
  He's going to, you know, let it it it will again be something
• 49:47
  that he ultimately takes control of.
• 49:50
  But there is this interim where there is an attack that's
• 49:53
  coming. And that does sound when he
• 49:55
  starts talking about this circular pattern surrounding of
• 50:01
  Israel that is usually the end times like these other things
• 50:04
  that was like always coming from the north, but now he's talking
• 50:09
  about them being encircled. And in fact, later on in this
• 50:13
  chapter, it talks about surrounding Israel, which I do
• 50:18
  think again, this this makes it more like the the day of the
• 50:21
  Lord. So Joel chapter 2 says the sun
• 50:26
  will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the
• 50:31
  coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
• 50:34
  Well, it's great because if you are turned towards Jesus, that's
• 50:39
  when you will be resurrected. But it's also dreadful for those
• 50:44
  who are not prepared because wrath is coming.
• 50:47
  So when Jesus returns, there is a gathering of people and
• 50:51
  there's also wrath. So it's two different things
• 50:54
  that happened in Joel chapter 3. It says multitudes, multitudes
• 50:58
  in the valley of decision, for the day of the Lord is near in
• 51:01
  the valley of decision. Amos 5 says Woe to you who long
• 51:06
  for the day of the Lord. Why do you long for the day of
• 51:08
  the Lord? That day will be darkness, not
• 51:10
  light. Amos 5 says Will not the day of
• 51:15
  the Lord be darkness, not light, dark without a ray of
• 51:20
  brightness. Gosh, this is the first time I
• 51:23
  read that and after reading that, not the well, the first
• 51:26
  time that it made a connection in my mind.
• 51:29
  I had three rapture dreams in they occurred in 22, I think all
• 51:39
  within that year in 2022. And the first one was amazing.
• 51:45
  You know, the second one and the third one were not as impressive
• 51:49
  as the first one, but I literally like was rising up
• 51:57
  into the sky and there were things that I saw and it was I
• 52:01
  didn't even really know much about the rapture when these
• 52:04
  things happened. I do now because it made me
• 52:07
  investigate it a lot more. But one of the details in all
• 52:11
  three of my dreams was that everything went black before the
• 52:19
  ascending happened. And so it's very interesting
• 52:22
  that Amos chapter 5 verse 20 says, will not the day of the
• 52:26
  Lord be darkness, not light, dark without a ray of
• 52:32
  brightness. So that was like an
• 52:35
  instantaneous pitch dark where I could not see the hand in front
• 52:38
  of my face in all three dreams. But right after that is when
• 52:43
  there was the ascending into, you know, the sky in each one of
• 52:50
  them. So just something to pay
• 52:54
  attention to. Obadiah chapter 1, The day of
• 52:58
  the Lord is near for all nations.
• 53:00
  As you have done, it will be done to you.
• 53:02
  Your deeds will return upon your own head.
• 53:06
  So remember, God is he says the vengeance is mine.
• 53:10
  If somebody hasn't repented of their sin, they're going to get
• 53:13
  what they've done. Zephaniah one, be silent before
• 53:17
  the southern sovereign Lord. The day of the Lord is near.
• 53:20
  The Lord has prepared a sacrifice.
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  He has consecrated those he has invited.
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  So consecrated is to make holy, right?
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  And if we have an invitation from God to come to him, we
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  shouldn't turn it down. And that invitation, the way we
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  are consecrated or made holy, is by the Holy Spirit.
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  Just like Jesus said in John chapter 3 that we must be born
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  of the Spirit, we must receive the Holy Spirit.
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  We must be born again, become a new creation and have the Holy
• 53:58
  Spirit in dwelling in us like we must welcome the Spirit of God
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  to empower us, to change us, to make us into what God intended
• 54:12
  us to be. Zephaniah one goes on to further
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  say the great day of the Lord is near, near and coming.
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  Quip quickly. The cry on the day of the Lord
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  is bitter. The mighty warrior shouts his
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  battle cry in Zephaniah 14 A day of the Lord is coming Jerusalem,
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  when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within
• 54:36
  your very walls. So again, I believe that people
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  are armies are coming against Israel, but God will there's
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  going to be some destruction happening because it is the, you
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  know, part of the wrath. It's a it's a consequence of
• 54:54
  decisions of people because they would not turn to God.
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  They would not believe in the one who came, Jesus who died on
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  the cross for all people's sins so that we may go into the
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  Kingdom of God. If we reject that truth, then we
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  will be subject to the wrath of God when that happens.
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  And Malachi, it says, see, I will send the prophet Elijah to
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  you before the great and dead full dreadful day of the Lord.
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  He went on to Elijah already came obviously, and the spirit
• 55:31
  of Elijah came as the disciples understood that this was John
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  the Baptist where he told everybody to repent.
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  And it was a repentance of turning away and a turning
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  towards got a changing of the mind that that was that was what
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  John was baptizing for. And then Jesus came to give the
• 55:54
  Holy Spirit to create new beings, so new creation.
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  So there's kind of like 2 baptisms really.
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  One of them is the repentance and the other part is receiving
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  the Holy Spirit. In Acts chapter 2, it says the
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  sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the
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  coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.
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  So again, there's that darkness that talks about things that are
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  going to happen. In one Corinthians 5, it, you
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  know, it references like a Sinner who's unrepentant and it
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  says hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh
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  so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.
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  So again, God will, there's a consequence of sin.
• 56:43
  So he's saying, you know, go ahead, let him be punished.
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  So hopefully his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.
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  So sometimes when we hit rock bottom is when we turn to God.
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  And again, that's referenced here in two Corinthians.
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  One, as you understood us in part, you will come to
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  understand fully. You can boast of us just as we
• 57:04
  boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5
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  For you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a
• 57:15
  thief in the night. It's going to surprise people to
• 57:19
  Thessalonians 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by
• 57:25
  the teaching allegedly from us, whether by prophecy or by word
• 57:29
  of mouth or by letter, asserting that the day of the Lord has
• 57:32
  already come. So Paul was addressing people.
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  He's like the day of the Lord has not come because people were
• 57:38
  being told that either by prophecy or gossip or by letter,
• 57:44
  somebody was going around telling people, oh, that already
• 57:46
  happened. Well, there's still people today
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  that, you know, don't believe in the literal part of the Bible
• 57:52
  that says Jesus going to return. He's going to reign on the earth
• 57:55
  for 1000 years. That's kind of the same thing.
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  Back then they were having a problem with it.
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  And they have people today who are thinking, no, that's not
• 58:04
  going to happen, but the Bible's really clear that it is going to
• 58:06
  happen. So and then second Peter chapter
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  3 says, but the day of the Lord will come like a thief.
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  So that's the same thing that Paul was saying.
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  The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be
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  destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will
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  be laid bare. Isaiah says the same thing.
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  He talks about complete destruction on the day of the
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  Lord. And then God addresses that
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  because there's going to be a new heaven and new earth that
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  comes from above. God created the one we have
• 58:42
  right now, and there is a new, whether it's a restored one, it
• 58:46
  sounds like it's a new one, but we'll just have to wait and see
• 58:49
  because there is some question about that.
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  But the city of Jerusalem is going to be half the size of the
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  United States. So it's not anywhere near what
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  it is today. Like today, the city of Israel
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  or not the city, but the state of Israel or the nation of
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  Israel is about the same size of the state of New Jersey within
• 59:11
  the United States. So size wise, it's going to be
• 59:15
  approximately half the size from east to West of the United
• 59:20
  States. And it's going to be a square
• 59:22
  shape, a cube shape actually, what it's how it's described.
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  Now, whether that's a metaphor, who knows, But it's certainly
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  going to be different than what exists today because it's going
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  to be as wide as it is deep as it that is tall.
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  And that's going to be, there's a lot of details about that in
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  the Book of Revelation. So again, Matthew 24 says
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  immediately after the distress of those days, the sun will be
• 59:52
  darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall
• 59:56
  from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
• 1:00:00
  Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and then
• 1:00:06
  all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son
• 1:00:10
  of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great
• 1:00:14
  glory. And he will send his angels with
• 1:00:18
  a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the
• 1:00:23
  four winds from when one end of the heavens to the other.
• 1:00:27
  So all of this stuff culminates at the day of the Lord.
• 1:00:33
  So, you know, if we want to read Matthew 24, if you haven't read
• 1:00:39
  it before, it read it slowly because it gives you an order of
• 1:00:44
  events that are going to happen. And I think if I did that now,
• 1:00:48
  my podcast would be, it's already long.
• 1:00:50
  It's always long. So I don't want to go into that
• 1:00:53
  detail, but read it. If you haven't read that before,
• 1:00:57
  then we'll go back to something else that the Bible says back in
• 1:01:04
  Jeremiah chapter 4. It says, then I said at last,
• 1:01:08
  Sovereign Lord, how completely you have deceived this people
• 1:01:11
  and Jerusalem by saying you will have peace when the sword is at
• 1:01:15
  our throats. So here Jeremiah is talking
• 1:01:19
  about, boy, these people are deceived.
• 1:01:21
  They thought peace was here, but now they're sword at our
• 1:01:26
  throats. It's kind of interesting too
• 1:01:28
  when I, you know, sword at our throats in the Book of
• 1:01:32
  Revelation at the 4th seal, I believe it talks about people
• 1:01:37
  being beheaded and it talks about more people being
• 1:01:40
  beheaded. And we're seeing that right now.
• 1:01:43
  Like first the Jews were are targeted and then the Christians
• 1:01:47
  are targeted. There are people being
• 1:01:50
  Christians currently in Africa who are being beheaded by
• 1:01:57
  extremist Islamic people that are beheading Christians.
• 1:02:03
  And this is this gets a little bit more interesting also as we
• 1:02:07
  read Jeremiah chapter 4. So again, there is this there's
• 1:02:12
  going to be this false Messiah that Jesus talks about in all in
• 1:02:16
  Matthew chapter 24 and people are think there's going to be
• 1:02:20
  peace, but then there's going to come sudden destruction and
• 1:02:24
  there's a false sense of peace. This is also happened about like
• 1:02:28
  in Hezekiah in his lifetime he thought there was going to be
• 1:02:31
  peace, peace and security and then there was the Babylonians
• 1:02:35
  came after him and he was mistaken for that and that's
• 1:02:41
  referenced in Second Kings chapter 20 and Isaiah chapter
• 1:02:47
  39. And eventually there will be
• 1:02:52
  peace when Jesus returns. But it's there's going to be a
• 1:02:57
  false Messiah who comes first before the real Messiah, someone
• 1:03:03
  that people think is the Messiah.
• 1:03:06
  So but when Jesus, that's why everybody's going to think it's
• 1:03:10
  really peace. But Jesus tells us there's going
• 1:03:13
  to be one that comes before him that's going to make people
• 1:03:16
  think that they will have it, but it's going to be a false
• 1:03:21
  one. And in First Thessalonians
• 1:03:25
  chapter 5, verse 3, it says while people are saying peace
• 1:03:29
  and safety, destruction will come on them threateningly as
• 1:03:35
  labor pains on a pregnant woman and they will not escape.
• 1:03:39
  There's a lot there. So again, peace and safety.
• 1:03:44
  So pay attention when you hear that because destruction will be
• 1:03:47
  coming suddenly as labor pains like the end times are always
• 1:03:53
  talked about as labor pains on a pregnant woman and they will not
• 1:03:57
  escape. So the Bible is, has been
• 1:04:01
  warning us since 500 BC that this is the order of events and
• 1:04:07
  has also shown us historically, people get surprised.
• 1:04:11
  They think it's peace and safety and then sudden destruction and
• 1:04:15
  what, you know, that's what we need to pay attention to now,
• 1:04:17
  because what is everybody saying?
• 1:04:19
  We're trying to get a peace agreement in the Middle East.
• 1:04:22
  Again, I can remember, I think, you know, there's, there's been
• 1:04:25
  several times in the, you know, throughout the, the world where
• 1:04:30
  there's been a, an interest in establishing peace.
• 1:04:34
  Well, right now, I mean, we have a lot of things that are
• 1:04:37
  happening and yeah, that we certainly have this peace that
• 1:04:42
  Abraham Accords. Who's going to join?
• 1:04:45
  You know, it certainly involves Israel, and everything about
• 1:04:48
  Bible prophecy involves Israel. So this Middle East peace is
• 1:04:52
  something that many nations want to have, but we are not getting
• 1:04:57
  there yet. There's like this tug of war to
• 1:05:00
  happening. But as soon as we get there,
• 1:05:02
  probably everybody will be so elated.
• 1:05:05
  But it's going to be a false peace.
• 1:05:07
  That's what Bible prophecy tells us.
• 1:05:08
  So hold on, because right after that false peace, Jesus will be
• 1:05:12
  coming soon. So then I want to add this in
• 1:05:17
  First Thessalonians chapter 4. So this is about talking about
• 1:05:22
  believers who have died. But I want you to pay attention
• 1:05:27
  to the order of events, brothers and sisters.
• 1:05:31
  We do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep
• 1:05:35
  in death so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind
• 1:05:40
  who have no hope. So if you're a believer, there's
• 1:05:43
  hope. You don't you?
• 1:05:45
  You know that whoever has died before us, they, if they were in
• 1:05:50
  Christ, if they had been born again, they are only sleeping
• 1:05:55
  and they are only waiting for all the brothers and sisters
• 1:06:00
  like in like it says in the fourth seal where they're under
• 1:06:04
  the altar and they're saying, Lord, how long before your
• 1:06:07
  vengeance comes? And so they are waiting, they
• 1:06:11
  are in the presence of the Lord, but they are waiting and until
• 1:06:15
  all of us who are going to be gathered.
• 1:06:18
  So till this, till Jesus returns, they're they're waiting
• 1:06:22
  for this. And that's when everybody gets
• 1:06:23
  their immortal bodies. So continuing on in First
• 1:06:27
  Thessalonians chapter 4, for we believe that Jesus died and rose
• 1:06:31
  again. And so we believe that God will
• 1:06:34
  bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.
• 1:06:39
  So notice that they come with Jesus those who had fallen
• 1:06:43
  asleep with him. But we have to get down to verse
• 1:06:46
  17 for clarification on that. So according to the Lord's word,
• 1:06:52
  we tell you that we who are still alive who are left until
• 1:06:58
  the coming of the Lord, you know, because there's been
• 1:07:01
  generations prior to us that were believers, but they've
• 1:07:05
  already they've got they've fallen asleep.
• 1:07:07
  But it says, according to the Lord's word, we tell you that we
• 1:07:11
  who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the
• 1:07:15
  Lord, will certainly not seed those who have fallen asleep.
• 1:07:22
  So the dead rise first. So that's why I really can't
• 1:07:28
  imagine. I don't see anywhere where it
• 1:07:30
  talks about this rapture that happens.
• 1:07:33
  I you know, I just think it all is in one time and I think the
• 1:07:37
  dead will rise 1st and then the rest come.
• 1:07:40
  So for the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a
• 1:07:45
  loud command and the voice of the Archangel, and with the
• 1:07:50
  trumpet call of God. So it's a trumpet of God, and
• 1:07:54
  the dead in Christ will rise first.
• 1:07:57
  After that, we who are still alive and are left will be
• 1:08:02
  caught up. That's where that rapture thing
• 1:08:04
  is, together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the
• 1:08:09
  air. And so we will be with the Lord
• 1:08:12
  forever. Therefore, encourage one another
• 1:08:15
  with these words. So there is this safety, this
• 1:08:21
  refuge. We are not subject to God's
• 1:08:24
  wrath. He when he comes, he's going to
• 1:08:27
  come with a dual purpose, but he's going to gather and then
• 1:08:30
  there's going to be wrap on the rest.
• 1:08:32
  So anyway, this is OK, let's keep going.
• 1:08:40
  I don't know what I was somehow I, I didn't remember looking
• 1:08:48
  this up, but Ephesians 612 is for our struggle is not against
• 1:08:54
  flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities,
• 1:08:57
  against the powers of this Dark World and against the spiritual
• 1:09:02
  forces, spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
• 1:09:07
  So sometimes when you are taught that heaven is the place where
• 1:09:10
  only good things are, it says here that the spiritual forces
• 1:09:14
  of evil in the heavenly realms, there's evil up there.
• 1:09:19
  But again, there's a point that Revelation tells us where the
• 1:09:24
  evils going to be, like Satan and his fallen angels or the
• 1:09:28
  angels who have rebelled against God will be swept with him down
• 1:09:32
  to the earth and they'll not be able to go back to heaven
• 1:09:34
  anymore. But in the book of Job, we know
• 1:09:36
  that heaven, we know that Satan roams around the earth and he
• 1:09:40
  also goes up into the presence of the Lord.
• 1:09:43
  He has that freedom. And it says that Satan is angry
• 1:09:47
  because he's thrown down to earth and he knows he doesn't
• 1:09:49
  have access to heaven anymore. And so I don't believe that has
• 1:09:53
  happened yet. And that's when it says, like,
• 1:09:57
  woe to the people on the earth because he's gone down there and
• 1:10:00
  he knows his time is short. I believe there's 3 1/2 years
• 1:10:04
  that have, you know, before he gets 3 1/2 years to wreak havoc
• 1:10:09
  down here. And so will I.
• 1:10:12
  Yeah. So again, just no scripture.
• 1:10:16
  But these are things that I found in in reading Scripture
• 1:10:19
  that at least when things start to go sideways, we will know
• 1:10:24
  that we will still have hope. If we know what's in Scripture
• 1:10:28
  and we are not, you know, if we've studied it, we will, we
• 1:10:32
  will be confident in that. So going back to Jeremiah
• 1:10:38
  chapter 4, verse 11, at that time this people and Jerusalem
• 1:10:43
  will be told a scorching wind from the barren heights in the
• 1:10:46
  desert blows towards my people, but not to winnow or cleanse a
• 1:10:52
  wind too strong for that comes from me.
• 1:10:56
  Now I pronounce my judgments against then.
• 1:11:01
  So it says at that time this people and Jerusalem will be
• 1:11:06
  told. So that would be interesting if
• 1:11:10
  people are not turned to God and they hear this, you know, on the
• 1:11:15
  news or something. A scorching wind is coming from
• 1:11:18
  the barren heights in the desert that it says a wind too strong
• 1:11:23
  for that comes from me. That's going to be a God thing,
• 1:11:27
  and it's going to come on with judgement.
• 1:11:30
  Look, he advances like the clouds.
• 1:11:32
  His Chariots come like a whirlwind.
• 1:11:34
  His horses are swifter than eagles.
• 1:11:37
  Woe to us, We are ruined. Jerusalem, wash the evil from
• 1:11:41
  your heart and be saved. OK, that's interesting too,
• 1:11:45
  because how can anybody be saved?
• 1:11:47
  You know they're going to be attacked, but how can they be
• 1:11:49
  saved? Wash the evil from your heart
• 1:11:52
  and be saved. Jesus already died on the cross.
• 1:11:56
  He made it possible to be saved. But we have to do something in
• 1:12:00
  response to that. We have to willingly say we want
• 1:12:05
  to get rid of the sin in our life.
• 1:12:06
  We have to willingly invite the Holy Spirit into our lives so
• 1:12:12
  that we can start to change. Because our flesh is weak, we
• 1:12:17
  are weak as humans. We have to not think that we are
• 1:12:20
  can do it all. We have to be humble and say we
• 1:12:23
  can't do it. God, we need your help.
• 1:12:26
  And God loves to hear that. He loves to help us, He loves to
• 1:12:29
  do things for us. But people don't turn to him.
• 1:12:33
  So turn to him and see the difference that it makes in
• 1:12:38
  life. Look, he advances like the
• 1:12:41
  clouds. His Chariots come like a
• 1:12:43
  whirlwind. His horses are swifter than
• 1:12:45
  eagles. Woe to us, we are ruined.
• 1:12:48
  Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart and be saved.
• 1:12:50
  How long will you harbor wicked thoughts?
• 1:12:54
  A voice is announcing from Dan proclaiming disaster from the
• 1:13:00
  hills of Ephraim. So when I read this OK.
• 1:13:03
  And a voice is coming from, from Dan.
• 1:13:06
  I don't think it's the tribe of Dan.
• 1:13:08
  I think it's from the city of Dan, which is up north.
• 1:13:12
  And it's really interesting because it's near Mount Hermon
• 1:13:16
  and in the hills of Ephraim. Again, this is I, it's, I
• 1:13:21
  believe it's like like East Manasseh, the eastern tribe of
• 1:13:28
  Manasseh. So it's way up north and there's
• 1:13:31
  a voice proclaiming disaster. Tell the nation tell this to the
• 1:13:36
  nations proclaiming to the nations proclaim concerning
• 1:13:40
  Jerusalem. A besieging army is coming from
• 1:13:43
  a distant land raising a war Cray cry against the cities of
• 1:13:49
  Judah. So a distant land.
• 1:13:53
  What does that mean? Like Dan is the city of Dan is
• 1:13:56
  warning. This gets really spiritual and I
• 1:14:00
  didn't even think about this until I started looking back at
• 1:14:04
  I went to Blue Letter Bible and I searched this verse, which is
• 1:14:12
  I guess verse 16 and chapter 4 of Jeremiah.
• 1:14:16
  And I went through the the original Hebrew words for this.
• 1:14:21
  And as a result, this distant land could possibly be it was
• 1:14:28
  it's the Hebrew word eris ERES for land.
• 1:14:32
  But when you look in the definition of it, of how it is
• 1:14:36
  used in the Bible, it also references Sheel, the
• 1:14:41
  underworld, the place where people like the dead are, the
• 1:14:46
  underworld, she Sheol. And so does it mean this is an
• 1:14:52
  interpretation thing? So I'm not saying that I know
• 1:14:54
  that it is, but it's very interesting.
• 1:14:56
  A besieging army is coming from what if it's coming from Sheol,
• 1:15:02
  from the underworld? What if this is a spiritual
• 1:15:05
  thing? Remember, there's the Apollyon
• 1:15:08
  Abaddon, the destroyer, and this is a spiritual entity.
• 1:15:13
  It says I will raise the spirit of a destroyer.
• 1:15:16
  This is what God said. Like we have to look through
• 1:15:18
  scripture to find this stuff and, and it's a pot.
• 1:15:21
  It's definitely possible, especially when it says that
• 1:15:25
  there's an Angel in the Book of Revelation that comes down and
• 1:15:28
  opens up the pit and out from the pit, this is where that
• 1:15:32
  Apollyon is talked about. There's these things that come
• 1:15:36
  up in there. And like I said, it's
• 1:15:39
  interesting that Mount Hermon, the gates of 80s, it's often
• 1:15:47
  associated with that. And it's interesting that Dan is
• 1:15:51
  located there. And then if you think about
• 1:15:54
  these prophecies about Dan, the tribe in Genesis 49, you know
• 1:15:59
  when I guess it's Jacob on his deathbed and he's talking about
• 1:16:03
  all of the different sons and how significant they will be.
• 1:16:07
  In Genesis 49, verse 16, it says Dan will provide justice for his
• 1:16:14
  people as one of the tribes of Israel.
• 1:16:19
  Then it says Dan will be a snake by the roadside, a Viper along
• 1:16:25
  the path that bites the horse's heels so that it's rider
• 1:16:30
  stumbles, tumbles backward. So initially I think I thought,
• 1:16:36
  well, he's going to be defending Israel.
• 1:16:41
  But then I wondered, I I was like, well, I don't know if it
• 1:16:45
  really says he's going to provide justice for his people.
• 1:16:49
  Does that mean he's actually going to be used by God to, you
• 1:16:56
  know, pay back people and for turning away from him, from
• 1:17:04
  turning away from God? It's just a question that I have
• 1:17:07
  because when it says Dan will be a snake, well, that's never a
• 1:17:11
  really good thing. A Viper along the path that's
• 1:17:15
  like a serpent that's like evil and that bites the horse's
• 1:17:19
  heels. So remember in the, in the
• 1:17:24
  beginning book of Genesis where it says about, oh, I lost my
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  part now, but it talks about, yeah, Genesis 3, verse 15, when
• 1:17:35
  God is talking to the serpent and to Eve, and he says, and I
• 1:17:40
  will put enmity between you, the serpent and the woman who is
• 1:17:44
  Eve, and between your offspring and hers.
• 1:17:49
  He, Jesus will crush your head. He's saying this to the serpent
• 1:17:54
  and you will strike his heel. So isn't that interesting that
• 1:17:59
  Dan is the snake by the roadside, a Viper along the path
• 1:18:04
  that bites the horse's heels? Now there's an another
• 1:18:08
  interesting thing. If you go into the Book of
• 1:18:09
  Revelation and I didn't pull that one up, but when it talks
• 1:18:13
  about the 144,012 thousand people from each tribe, notice
• 1:18:19
  this Dan is not listed. The tribe of Dan does not have
• 1:18:27
  representation in the Book of Revelation.
• 1:18:31
  So all of these pieces throughout the Bible lead me to
• 1:18:36
  believe that, you know the reference to striking the heel
• 1:18:39
  from the very first, the 3rd chapter of Genesis.
• 1:18:42
  Then in chapter 49 it says he's going to be a snake in a Viper
• 1:18:47
  and he's going to bite the horse's heels so that the rider
• 1:18:51
  tumbles backwards. So I just I don't think there's
• 1:18:57
  good things about Dan. Why is his tribe missing?
• 1:19:00
  Why are there 12,000 missing from the tribe of Dan?
• 1:19:03
  Is it because he turned out evil?
• 1:19:06
  He chose evil, he rejected God. Something to think about South
• 1:19:13
  and is this distant land, you know, coming from a distant land
• 1:19:16
  we always think about as another area of the the earth or
• 1:19:20
  whatever. But what if it means she'll what
• 1:19:24
  if it's the, you know, this Angel that comes down from
• 1:19:26
  heaven and opens up the abyss and Apollyon the destroyer comes
• 1:19:30
  out. Now here's another thing about
• 1:19:33
  Dan in Deuteronomy chapter 33 verse 22 about Dan, he said Dan
• 1:19:38
  is a lion's cub springing out of Bashan.
• 1:19:45
  Isn't that interesting? So let's dive deeper into this.
• 1:19:50
  Remember earlier in Jeremiah verse 7A, lion has come out of
• 1:19:56
  his lair, a destroyer of nations has set out.
• 1:20:00
  So the lion and the destroyer are linked here and and we know
• 1:20:05
  that sometime you know, there there's a lion is, you know, is
• 1:20:08
  related to. God, but not in this case.
• 1:20:12
  This is a lion has come out of his lair, a destroyer of nations
• 1:20:16
  to set out. Now it says about Dan, he is a
• 1:20:19
  lion's cub. So he's like a baby.
• 1:20:23
  Let's call it a baby, an offspring of this, this, this
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  lion who is a destroyer springing out of Bashan.
• 1:20:33
  BASHAN. That is significant, and we
• 1:20:38
  could pass right over it and not pay attention to it at all.
• 1:20:42
  But we need to look into that deeper because here's where it
• 1:20:49
  is. Bashan had this king called Ogg.
• 1:20:54
  Ogg was described as the last of the refaeum and a giant, so it
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  gave his bed size, which I think was like 9 or 14 feet long is
• 1:21:07
  how the physical description of it that they talked about Ogg.
• 1:21:11
  And there's another one in Cyhan too.
• 1:21:13
  There's another king too of this area, but this area was up by
• 1:21:18
  Mount Hermon and Jesus talked about the gates of Hades will
• 1:21:24
  not prevail. Like is this where everything
• 1:21:28
  comes from? It's up in the north, and it's
• 1:21:31
  just something interesting to contemplate.
• 1:21:37
  So I want to read a little bit about the Raphaean because
• 1:21:41
  that's what this area was. And the Raphaean were an ancient
• 1:21:45
  people described in the Hebrew Bible as both mighty giants and
• 1:21:51
  shades slash spirits of the dead.
• 1:21:57
  So again, we are getting into something spiritual and this is
• 1:22:00
  the Bible. This is when you do a deep dive
• 1:22:02
  in the Bible. When you find these things out,
• 1:22:04
  you can skim right over it and say, I don't recognize these
• 1:22:06
  words. I don't know where these places
• 1:22:08
  are and not look into it. But when you look into the
• 1:22:10
  words, into the cities and all of that stuff, you start to see
• 1:22:14
  something that's hidden in the Bible.
• 1:22:17
  While the Bible depicts them as powerful enemies whom the
• 1:22:21
  Israelites eventually defeated, ancient Near Eastern text
• 1:22:26
  suggest a complex role as venerated ancestral kings.
• 1:22:32
  The term Refaeim is not a specific ethnic name, but a
• 1:22:37
  descriptive term, possibly meaning terrible ones or
• 1:22:43
  relating to the root for healing.
• 1:22:46
  Biblical accounts, the Raphaim, are mentioned in the Abrahamic
• 1:22:49
  narratives in Generation in Genesis 14 as a people defeated
• 1:22:54
  by invaders. They are later associated with
• 1:22:58
  Ogg, King of Bachchan, who is described as the last of the
• 1:23:03
  Raphaim and a giant. They were primarily associated
• 1:23:07
  with the region of Bachchan or the Transjordan area and other
• 1:23:12
  areas of Canaan, including near Jerusalem in the valley of
• 1:23:17
  Raphaeim, then underworld imagery in other biblical text
• 1:23:24
  such as Isaiah and Psalms. The term Raphaeim refers to the
• 1:23:30
  deep souls dwelling in shale. Now remember that other
• 1:23:36
  connection in verse 16 where it says a besieging army is coming
• 1:23:41
  from a distant land. But the word is eris and when
• 1:23:44
  you look in the deeper definition of the word how it's
• 1:23:47
  used in the Bible, it can reference shale she'll the
• 1:23:51
  underworld. And again this says again I'll
• 1:23:55
  repeat in other biblical texts such as Isaiah and Psalms, the
• 1:23:59
  term Raphaim refers to the departed souls dwelling in
• 1:24:04
  shale. Then you have in the Book of
• 1:24:07
  Revelation, the Angel opening up the the abyss where the
• 1:24:10
  destroyer is, and the destroyer is linked to a lion and the lion
• 1:24:15
  is linked to Dan and Dan is missing from the 144,000 tribes
• 1:24:20
  in the Book of Revelation. This is there's just a lot here.
• 1:24:25
  I don't believe there's all these coincidences.
• 1:24:28
  I think this is probably some information in here that if you
• 1:24:35
  get when you finally study. So let's see.
• 1:24:40
  I don't know if there's anything Israel's Israelites suppression.
• 1:24:44
  The Israelites emphasis on monotheism and a direct
• 1:24:48
  relationship with Yahweh LED a reinterpretation of the
• 1:24:52
  refereeing, transforming them from active ancestral spirits
• 1:24:57
  into either powerless ghosts or defeated enemies.
• 1:25:02
  That's really interesting. So anyway, there's there's
• 1:25:07
  something strange about interesting that that comes
• 1:25:14
  about this I and I just I don't know, I'm starting to think this
• 1:25:17
  is what's going to happen. This is more spiritual like when
• 1:25:20
  Jesus returns. It seems like that's when that a
• 1:25:24
  biscuits opened up and then there's like hell on earth
• 1:25:27
  because it says like the believers are not going to be
• 1:25:29
  subject to God's wrath where he allows the free will of these
• 1:25:34
  evil ones to do what they want to the people because the people
• 1:25:38
  have been obstinate to God. They have not turned to God.
• 1:25:42
  That's why it's so important for us to be turned to God to have
• 1:25:47
  that protection from God. Because if what I'm reading
• 1:25:51
  right now and contemplating is the in reality, we are not going
• 1:25:56
  to be fit for that battle. We can't fight against these
• 1:26:00
  spiritual entities that have more power.
• 1:26:03
  God is greater. God can protect us, but if we
• 1:26:06
  aren't surrendered to God, we are exposed to this.
• 1:26:10
  If we are still in unrepentant sin, we are subjecting ourselves
• 1:26:15
  to that. We can't blame God for it when
• 1:26:17
  it happens because God's warned us all throughout the Bible.
• 1:26:21
  If we're going to stay unreported, we're going to get
• 1:26:24
  what God says. This is what's going to happen
• 1:26:26
  to you. So we need to have the fear of
• 1:26:31
  God by reading the word of God and knowing what God says.
• 1:26:36
  So again, God doesn't just like, you know, destroying people at
• 1:26:42
  all. He keeps warning and keeps
• 1:26:44
  warning, but people don't listen and he keeps sending people to
• 1:26:47
  warn people and they don't listen or they make get made fun
• 1:26:50
  of and all this stuff. Well, we're in like we're in
• 1:26:52
  that time today to like how many people just say, oh, they've
• 1:26:56
  been talking about this forever, Especially when you get these
• 1:26:58
  fake, oh gosh, these fake visions or people who are having
• 1:27:05
  dreams that are saying the rapture is this specific date
• 1:27:09
  that can cause people to lose faith and when it doesn't
• 1:27:13
  happen. So I see that as well.
• 1:27:17
  And but yet at the same time, I also feel like God is really
• 1:27:21
  warning US, warning this generation right now, just like
• 1:27:25
  he did in the past, and people are going to blow it off and
• 1:27:28
  they're not going to listen. So if you've heard this podcast,
• 1:27:33
  you've been warned. You can make up your own mind
• 1:27:35
  about what you want to do with the result of hearing this
• 1:27:38
  information. But at least you know, I'm
• 1:27:41
  warning from things that I see here.
• 1:27:44
  And we're doing a Bible study. So now again, God doesn't leave
• 1:27:48
  this as like why this happens, like we can't say God is not we.
• 1:27:52
  We have to know that God is just.
• 1:27:54
  And here he gives the reason he goes.
• 1:27:57
  Your own conduct and actions have brought this on you.
• 1:28:02
  This is your punishment. How bitter it is, how it pierces
• 1:28:07
  to the heart, like because of our free will, we're bringing
• 1:28:12
  this on ourselves. We also have the free will to
• 1:28:14
  say, God help me, God rescue me, God, you know, change me.
• 1:28:20
  That's what God is looking for us to do.
• 1:28:23
  So don't stay obstinate to God because it's only going to hurt
• 1:28:28
  you. It's only going to destroy you.
• 1:28:31
  Oh, my anguish, my anguish. I writhe in pain.
• 1:28:34
  Oh, the agony of my heart. My heart pounds within me.
• 1:28:37
  I cannot keep silent. This is Jeremiah.
• 1:28:40
  But for I have heard the sound of the trumpet.
• 1:28:46
  I have heard the battle cry. So again, this is the warning.
• 1:28:50
  Jeremiah's heard it. Disaster follows disaster.
• 1:28:55
  That reminds me of what Jesus said in Matthew 24.
• 1:28:58
  You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you
• 1:29:02
  are not alarmed, such things must happened, but the end is
• 1:29:05
  still to come. In Mark chapter 13 it says when
• 1:29:10
  you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed.
• 1:29:13
  Such things must happened, but the end is still to come.
• 1:29:18
  So wars keep continuing on until the eventual day of the Lord
• 1:29:24
  arrives. Disaster follows disaster, for
• 1:29:28
  the whole land lies in ruins. In an instant my tents are
• 1:29:32
  destroyed. Remember how it says suddenly
• 1:29:35
  when people are saying peace and security or peace and safety?
• 1:29:38
  Then comes sudden destruction in an instant.
• 1:29:41
  So Jeremiah says, in an instant, my tents are destroyed, my
• 1:29:45
  shelter in a moment. How long must I see the battle
• 1:29:50
  standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?
• 1:29:53
  So I wonder if Jeremiah was having a vision when all this
• 1:29:56
  stuff happened. Like, he's just, you know, in
• 1:29:58
  desperation, Like he saw this and he's warning them.
• 1:30:01
  He's like, this is what I've seen.
• 1:30:04
  My people are fools. They do not know me.
• 1:30:06
  They are senseless children. They have no understanding.
• 1:30:09
  They are skilled in doing evil and know not how to do good.
• 1:30:14
  I looked at the earth and it was formless and empty, and the
• 1:30:18
  heavens and at the heavens and their light was gone.
• 1:30:23
  Now this is what I looked at the mountains and they were quaking
• 1:30:27
  at the hills and they were swaying.
• 1:30:30
  This is what it sounds like. When Jesus returns at the 6th
• 1:30:35
  seal, I'm going to read this. I watched as he opened the 6th
• 1:30:39
  seal. There was a great earthquake
• 1:30:42
  again, just like Jeremiah says. He says the mountains were
• 1:30:46
  quaking. There was a great earthquake.
• 1:30:49
  The sun turned black, like sackcloth made of goat hair.
• 1:30:53
  Now goat hair is like, you know, of mourning and it's black,
• 1:30:57
  which is usually evil, but the sun disappeared.
• 1:31:02
  Now in all those prior we talked about when Jesus returns the day
• 1:31:05
  of the Lord, this, you know, the sun just continues to shine.
• 1:31:09
  The moon turns blood red before the day of the coming of Lord,
• 1:31:12
  and the stars fall from the sky. Do does that really mean that
• 1:31:17
  the literal stars fall from the sky?
• 1:31:21
  I, you know, I guess it could, there could be meteors
• 1:31:24
  happening. The stars could also be symbolic
• 1:31:28
  like in the Book of Revelation, because the stars are symbolic
• 1:31:31
  in the Book of Revelation of angels and Satan is symbolic of
• 1:31:36
  the dragon and the Dragon's tail sweeps 1/3 of the stars in
• 1:31:42
  heaven, the angels in heaven down to the earth.
• 1:31:45
  So again, could this when the stars fall from the sky mean the
• 1:31:50
  angels fall from the sky that all this happens?
• 1:31:54
  Like there's just this big, you know, like Jesus said, there's
• 1:31:57
  going to be this calamity that has never occurred before that
• 1:32:00
  never will again. It's probably like all of these
• 1:32:04
  heavenly entities, like from heaven, the evil things out of
• 1:32:08
  heaven are coming down to the earth and then the angels open
• 1:32:11
  up the abyss. So it's coming from below.
• 1:32:13
  Also she'll, you know, maybe there's going to be giants
• 1:32:17
  coming or people spirits that are coming and you know, the
• 1:32:20
  wrath of God. All of these things get to do
• 1:32:23
  their own free will and God allows it to happen because
• 1:32:26
  people are unrepentant and it's coming against the sinners.
• 1:32:32
  It certainly puts this picture together.
• 1:32:35
  So again, Revelation 6, verse 12 and to the end.
• 1:32:39
  I watched as he opened the 6th seal.
• 1:32:42
  There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like
• 1:32:45
  sackcloth made of goat hair, The whole moon turned blood red, and
• 1:32:49
  the stars in the sky fell to earth as figs drop from a fig
• 1:32:54
  tree when shaken by a strong wind.
• 1:32:58
  Remember that also in Jeremiah he talks.
• 1:33:02
  What about that strong wind? He said A scorching wind from
• 1:33:07
  the barren heights in the desert blows toward my people.
• 1:33:12
  Kind of interesting. The heavens Back to Revelation
• 1:33:16
  6. The heavens receded like a
• 1:33:18
  scroll being rolled up. Every mountain and island was
• 1:33:24
  removed from its place. So Jeremiah 24 or Jeremiah 4
• 1:33:30
  verse 24 says all the hills were swaying, so every mountain and
• 1:33:36
  island was moved from its place. There was a great shaking.
• 1:33:39
  Then the kings of the earth, the Princess, the generals, the
• 1:33:43
  rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid
• 1:33:50
  in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
• 1:33:55
  So this is not going to be God's people.
• 1:33:57
  He's not bringing wrath on His people.
• 1:33:59
  These are the unrepentant, the current sinners that have never
• 1:34:04
  turned to God. They're going to be fearing God
• 1:34:08
  because they know the wrath of God.
• 1:34:10
  I don't know how they know this, but I guess it's just so scary
• 1:34:13
  that they're just sort of hiding in the caves and on the rocks in
• 1:34:16
  the mountains. But then listen to what is said
• 1:34:19
  next. They called to the mountains and
• 1:34:22
  the rocks fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on
• 1:34:29
  the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.
• 1:34:33
  The wrath of the Lamb. The Lamb is representative of
• 1:34:36
  Jesus. Him who sits on the throne, I
• 1:34:38
  believe is the Father. Perhaps it could be Jesus.
• 1:34:42
  I'm, you know, I'm not quite sure yet, but or it's just both
• 1:34:47
  of them are referring to Jesus. He's sitting on the throne and
• 1:34:50
  it's the wrath of the Lamb. So it's saying to hide us.
• 1:34:54
  So this is interesting because these people know the truth, but
• 1:35:00
  they've rejected it. So again, God is not doing
• 1:35:04
  something unjust. You know, if if they didn't
• 1:35:07
  know, they'd be like, what's going on?
• 1:35:09
  You know, what is this? They're not going to say hide us
• 1:35:11
  from him. How?
• 1:35:13
  You know, like who sits on the throne?
• 1:35:16
  They know he's on the throne and they know it's the wrath of him.
• 1:35:21
  So it's, they're not like, it's not like, who is this?
• 1:35:25
  What's going on here? They're not confused in that
• 1:35:27
  way. They know.
• 1:35:28
  So again, this shows the justice of God when he brings about
• 1:35:33
  wrath. These are people who rejected
• 1:35:35
  him. It's not innocent people who
• 1:35:39
  didn't know. These people know it's Him.
• 1:35:43
  It says for the great day of their wrath has come, and who
• 1:35:48
  can withstand it. This is when wrath has come at
• 1:35:52
  the 6th seal. That's when the wrath starts.
• 1:35:56
  And those people who are believers are not subject to
• 1:35:59
  wrath. It says that in Scripture as
• 1:36:00
  well. So if you are a believer, if
• 1:36:02
  you've reported the return to Christ and asked for the Holy
• 1:36:05
  Spirit to start guiding your life, you don't have to fear
• 1:36:08
  anything after this. You'll see Jesus return, but it
• 1:36:12
  says that we're gathered to Him so we don't have anything to
• 1:36:15
  return or to fear. The wrath comes after that and
• 1:36:18
  these are for people who are unrepentant sinners.
• 1:36:25
  So let's keep going. This is even, you know,
• 1:36:30
  continues to be interesting. We're almost finished with us.
• 1:36:32
  I looked and there were no people.
• 1:36:34
  Every bird in the sky had flown away.
• 1:36:36
  That's interesting. So there's a I looked and there
• 1:36:40
  were no people. You would think there's still be
• 1:36:42
  a lot of people, but you know, they were hidden.
• 1:36:44
  Or maybe you know, some of them have already gone up to Jesus.
• 1:36:48
  Perhaps these are speculations. I looked and the fruitful land
• 1:36:52
  was a desert. All its towns lay in ruins
• 1:36:56
  before the Lord, before his fierce anger.
• 1:37:00
  The whole land will be ruined, though I will not destroy it
• 1:37:04
  completely. Therefore the earth will mourn
• 1:37:07
  and the heavens above grow dark, just like we read about the sun
• 1:37:11
  going dark. Because I have spoken and will
• 1:37:14
  not relent. I have decided and will not turn
• 1:37:18
  back at the sound of horsemen and Archers.
• 1:37:23
  Every town takes to flight. Now Archers, it's really
• 1:37:30
  interesting when you search Archers and there are certain
• 1:37:35
  groups who are identified as hunters and also as Archers and
• 1:37:39
  they're usually not ones that are really close to God.
• 1:37:45
  So The Archers, I did a little research in here and found some
• 1:37:49
  things that are very interesting.
• 1:37:51
  So Isaiah chapter 21, verse 17, it talks about there's a couple
• 1:37:57
  things that are interesting, like it sounds like there might
• 1:38:00
  be a year of time frame for this, like is God's wrath going
• 1:38:04
  to last a year long? There's a couple other things
• 1:38:06
  where people have come to that conclusion because they talk
• 1:38:09
  about like the flood of Noah and how it's like symbolic of the
• 1:38:13
  end times as well and the shelter of the people and it
• 1:38:16
  lasts for I think a year and 10 days.
• 1:38:19
  And so again, this is Isaiah 21 verse 16 says this is what the
• 1:38:24
  Lord says to me. Within one year, as a servant
• 1:38:28
  bound by contract would count it, all the splendor of Kedar
• 1:38:34
  will come to an end. Kedar.
• 1:38:36
  OK, so we got to look that up right?
• 1:38:38
  Then it says the survivors of The Archers comma, the warriors
• 1:38:43
  of Kedar comma will be few. So to me that's saying that The
• 1:38:50
  Archers are the warriors of Kedar and there's going to be
• 1:38:54
  few of them. So then let's look up Kadar.
• 1:38:58
  So it says the mighty men, the sons of Kadar.
• 1:39:02
  So what are who are the sons of Kadar?
• 1:39:05
  Kadar means dark. So it could be like darkness,
• 1:39:09
  like evil or something perhaps. So here's what it says.
• 1:39:16
  A son of Ishmael, the descendants of Kadar.
• 1:39:22
  Ishmael. Isn't that interesting that
• 1:39:26
  there's going to be a few of them?
• 1:39:29
  And when you look at the different religions, you look at
• 1:39:34
  what Muslims believe, there's a dispute between who is the first
• 1:39:43
  born of Abraham. Is it Ishmael or is it Isaac?
• 1:39:49
  Well, by physical, since Ishmael was the first one, but that
• 1:39:54
  wasn't God clearly said in the Bible.
• 1:39:57
  Yeah, you'd kind of jumped the gun, Abraham.
• 1:40:00
  That wasn't what was intended. Yours is going to be Isaac.
• 1:40:04
  That's the one I was talking about.
• 1:40:06
  So God clears that up and then he also repeats this promise or
• 1:40:11
  this covenant to 1st Abraham, then to Isaac and then to Jacob.
• 1:40:16
  So he does repeat it several times.
• 1:40:19
  So there isn't a confusion. But I think that's what the
• 1:40:22
  Muslims again, you know, the enemy is always trying to change
• 1:40:27
  the narrative, change the history.
• 1:40:29
  And that's again what I feel so bad for the people, the Muslim
• 1:40:33
  people, that they have this deception because that's what it
• 1:40:40
  is. The Bible was written before it
• 1:40:41
  was written 600 years before Muhammad got these visions or 5
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  or 600 years before Muhammad got these visions.
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  And in the Bible it says if an Angel tells you a gospel just
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  different than what we have told you, let them be accursed.
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  So do you want to follow an Angel?
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  That is said in the Bible, which was written in 90AD and then I
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  quote prophet. There's false prophets out there
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  and Jesus warned about false prophets.
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  So then you're going to listen to this false prophet?
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  Muhammad did not live a sinless life who did a lot of really
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  horrible things. I think he married an 8 year old
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  or 9 year old and even consummated that marriage with
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  an 8 or 9 year old. That's not really good.
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  He also, like, went out and like killed people.
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  And you know, that's, you know, you have Jesus who laid down his
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  life for all of us to give us life.
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  Then you have Muhammad who goes out and massacres people.
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  I just don't understand why anyone would choose to put
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  Muhammad higher, which is what the Islamic faith do.
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  They, they recognize Jesus, but they say Muhammad's a greater
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  prophet and I don't think so at all.
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  I think Muhammad is was deceived by a fallen Angel and then had
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  this whole, you know, different story that denies Jesus.
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  If you look at the, the bottom line between the religions is
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  that it's a denial of Jesus as the son of God because that is
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  foundational to Christian belief.
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  Not and it doesn't even matter whose belief it is, but that is
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  foundational to our salvation. That's what it what's important
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  about it doesn't matter who believes what branch believes
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  what. It just means that Jesus is the
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  only way into the Kingdom of God.
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  His sacrifice on the cross is the only way he resurrected from
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  being dead. He rose again and it was
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  witnessed by 4 or 500 people at one time and numerous people who
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  have all accounted for it. All of his closest people, their
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  lives were, they were killed, most of them, many of them
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  because they would not deny him. And Jesus said no greater love
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  than to lay ones life down for one another, so people would not
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  deny him. And Jesus said if you deny me, I
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  will deny you in front of the Father.
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  Well, his followers did not deny him.
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  They were loyal to him. So there is like a massive
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  deception. And we look at Islam and how
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  that's growing as far as a religion in the world, and
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  that's very scary. This is what I think is the
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  great deception. And I also tend to think that it
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  might be the first rider on the horse that sets out to conquer
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  this spiritual entity. We know from other books in the
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  Bible that the horses are spiritual entities that go out
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  throughout the earth. And so this is something thing
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  that appears to be a savior, appears to be good, but it's
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  actually bent on conquering, on conquering people.
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  And I do think that is Islam. And I do think that is a great
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  deception. And you know what we're getting
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  here in the book of Jeremiah, written 500 BC, not AD, but 500
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  BC at the sound of horsemen and Archers.
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  Now we're tying The Archers into descendants of Ishmael, and
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  that's very concerning. It's a warning because it says
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  that there are going to be very few of them in the end.
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  So this is a warning, like if people can wake up and learn
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  that. I mean, that's in Isaiah that it
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  talks about. There's very few of them in
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  Isaiah 21 verse 17. They're survivors of The
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  Archers. The warriors of Kadar will be
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  few. The Lord the God of Israel has
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  spoken. You don't want to be on the
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  wrong side. And until Jesus returns, there's
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  that opportunity to come to him and to believe in him.
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  That's such a hard thing for Muslims because they get
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  rejected from their families, from their communities, and in
• 1:45:09
  extreme places, they would even be killed for that.
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  So I know what a great sacrifice a person would have to make who
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  is raised Muslim. And we should all pray for the
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  Muslim people that they can, that Jesus can be known by them
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  and they can seek him before it's too late.
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  Because it says those who love their lives will lose it, but
• 1:45:36
  those who lose their lives will gain it.
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  If someone loses their life because of Jesus, you have hope.
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  You will be in the Kingdom of God.
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  And God has something that is prepared for.
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  Jesus has gone to prepare a place for his people, his
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  brothers, his sisters, and it's going to be something so
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  incredibly awesome. You can find out a little bit
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  about that in the last couple of chapters of the Book of
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  Revelation. There's not a whole lot of
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  detail, but there's a lot of good things planned.
• 1:46:08
  That's what gives people hope that we don't see death as the
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  end of it all. All people were really
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  essentially created to be eternal beings.
• 1:46:17
  But this time here on earth is sorting out where we are going
• 1:46:22
  to reside for eternity. Are we going to be with God or
• 1:46:26
  eternally separated from God? So I'm going to, I think, wrap
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  up this. So starting at verse 29 in
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  Jeremiah, at the sound of horsemen and Archers, every town
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  takes to flight. Some go to the thickest, some
• 1:46:42
  climb up among the rocks. All the towns are deserted.
• 1:46:45
  No one lives in them. What are you doing?
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  You devastated one? Why dress yourself in scarlet
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  and put on jewels of gold? Why highlight your eyes with
• 1:46:56
  makeup? You adorn yourself in vain.
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  Your lovers despise you. I think this is again, the
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  spiritual idolatry that I was talking about.
• 1:47:06
  Like in music and art and all these things, like people get
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  dressed up and they, you know, there's this, this, this kind of
• 1:47:14
  this sexual thing. That's what really got Israel in
• 1:47:16
  the beginning with Balaam and Balak.
• 1:47:18
  I talk about that a lot. But he couldn't curse them.
• 1:47:22
  This was a a false prophet or a prophet that probably got some
• 1:47:27
  things from the enemy and some things from God.
• 1:47:29
  He was spiritually attuned, but he couldn't curse Israel, but
• 1:47:34
  instead he gave a clue as well. You know, turn introduce them to
• 1:47:38
  the temple prostitutes. That way you'll get them.
• 1:47:40
  And that's what happened and it worked.
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  And so it's that that sexual, you know, appeal that can really
• 1:47:50
  bring someone down when there's all these other things like for
• 1:47:54
  men, I guess, especially they, you know, this is what's going
• 1:47:59
  to be, you know, it's going to sound good, it's going to look
• 1:48:02
  good, but it's eventually going to destroy.
• 1:48:06
  And that's what the enemy does. He comes in a subtle way to
• 1:48:10
  deceive people because he ultimately, he doesn't care, he
• 1:48:13
  just wants to destroy. So again, I think this is where
• 1:48:19
  God's just talking about, you know, this is spiritual
• 1:48:22
  idolatry. Like, don't make yourself up for
• 1:48:25
  all of that because that's in vain, because they just want to
• 1:48:28
  kill you. That alluring thing isn't going
• 1:48:32
  to pay off in the end. I hear a cry of a woman in
• 1:48:37
  labor, a groan of one bearing her first child, the cry of
• 1:48:42
  daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands
• 1:48:46
  and saying, at last I'm fainting.
• 1:48:49
  My life is given over to murderers.
• 1:48:54
  So there is like a very distraught thing the the labor
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  pains. That's always often the end
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  Times reference. And again, I forgot one more
• 1:49:07
  verse that I was going to quote about Ishmael in Genesis 16,
• 1:49:11
  verse 12. He will be a wild donkey of a
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  man. His hand will be against
• 1:49:18
  everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in
• 1:49:22
  hostility towards all of his brothers.
• 1:49:27
  So they're like half brothers, but that just shows us what's
• 1:49:31
  happening today between the Israelites and the Arabs, the
• 1:49:37
  Muslims and the Jewish people. They are essentially step
• 1:49:41
  brothers, but they have this hostility that has gone on since
• 1:49:45
  the first book of the Bible, that he will live in hostility
• 1:49:49
  towards all his brothers. You know, Ishmael kind of
• 1:49:52
  connected with all the Arabs, and then Isaac is connected with
• 1:49:56
  the Jewish people. And we have this, this, you
• 1:50:00
  know, problem since the book of Genesis, that again, if we would
• 1:50:06
  just read the Bible, we would understand what this is, that
• 1:50:09
  there's something spiritual behind all of this and something
• 1:50:14
  that when we recognize it doesn't have to overpower us
• 1:50:16
  because we fight that in a spiritual sense with the Holy
• 1:50:22
  Spirit. When we surrender to God, when
• 1:50:24
  we receive the Holy Spirit, that's how we can fight this
• 1:50:30
  off. So anyway, I'll see how long
• 1:50:33
  this this thing. Oh gosh, almost two hours.
• 1:50:36
  OK, so probably I don't know if anybody's listens to this.
• 1:50:39
  So anyway, I am not going to read any more of the questions
• 1:50:42
  and answers in the study Bible. But that concludes Jeremiah
• 1:50:45
  chapter 4.