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The f A. Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. I hope you're
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having a great start to your weekend. If you got today off as a
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holiday, I hope you're using it. Well, let's get right back into
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where we left off last week. You may remember that in radio replies it
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very well, we'll say, very ecumenical, well meaning Protestant, perhaps a
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universalist Unitarian type who thinks that all Christians of all denominations are equal, you
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know, and alike and in brotherhood, which is you know, honestly,
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that's the way I was brought up. So, while not valid, is
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absolutely a better alternative for those who are raised to hate people in other denominations.
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I mean, as I said, I never encountered anti Catholic bigotry until
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I went to a prominent Southern Baptist university in Virginia, and it actually drove
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me to explore what Catholicism was all about and to become Catholic. And I
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just been a you know, stayed in the Methodist Church or Presbyterian or whatever,
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and never really heard all these anti Catholic messages. Yeah, I mean,
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I guess I would have known some about Catholicism thanks to William F.
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Buckley junior. William F. Buckley was the biggest you know, literary political
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influence on my life. Certainly I got into Buckley through Rush Limbaugh, who
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was the biggest you know, political influence of my life. You could easily
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say that, you know, Rush Limball may have been the strongest male influence
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in my life since you know, my parents divorced when I was five,
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and I never really had any contact with my dad afterwards, and my grandfather
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died when I was ten. You know, once I started listening to Rush
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Limball around age nineteen or so, it was it was three hours a day,
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every day, five days a week. Now, Rush would have been
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one of those people who was raised to believe that all Christians are just basically
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Christians, no real difference between denominations. You know, he was divorced two
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or three times, but he was so he was certainly not Catholic at all.
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His brother David is a Protestant writer. I don't think either of them
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were ever told that there was any more to explore in Christianity than what they
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had been taught as children. And I think, you know, that's sort
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of the way I was raised. So I wasn't raised to hate Catholics anymore
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than Russia Limball was because William F. Buckley was his absolute hero. Had
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had he ever sat down with Buckley and Buckley explained to him the importance of
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becoming Catholic, I think Russia Limball would have converted in an instance, so
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probably would have been good had Buckley done that. But anyway, when we
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meet a Protestant brothers sister who in good faith believes that we are brothers and
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sisters in Christ, we can be absolutely ecumenical and do a lot of good
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together. We can pray for each other. I mean, I'm one of
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my very best friends is a very evangelical, non denominational Protestant who sees no
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difference between protestantsm and Catholicism because he was He's never read any Catholic books and
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didn't have a preacher or parents that beat that into his head verbally, I
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mean, you know, metaphorically speaking, and we get along just find you
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know, he is really interested. When I give him a historic fact,
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you know, or I tell him about a certain saint, he just gets
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really interested. It hasn't led him to conversion, but we you know,
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Jesus said two different points in the Bible, those who are not with me
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or against me. But he also said those who are not against me are
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for me. So I think we can definitely draw some lessons from that.
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But the person says, you must admit spiritually that I am your brother,
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and the priest answers in so far as you're sincere, our Lord overlooks your
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mistaken notions and accepts your love for him. The fact remains that you serve
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him in your way and not in his, and that he does not obtain
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from you all that he desires. Also that he over what he overlooks in
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you, he would not overlook in a Catholic who has known the truth very
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true, person says, has not the Disciple of Christ even outside of the
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Catholic Church power and authority given to them by the Holy Spirit. This is
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important and the answer as explained in the Bible. You remember in Acts there
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were there were I guess Jewish exorcists who were not Christians, who had seen
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the power of the name of Christ. And at this point even you know
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the name of Saint Peter, the first pope in driving out demons, who
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went and tried to drive out demons, and the demon answered them, Jesus,
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I know, and Peter, I know, but I don't know you.
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And he jumped on him and beat them and ripped their clothes off and
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send them, you know, screaming out the door in terror. Only the
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Catholic who was in communion with Saint Peter, you know, through the sacraments
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of Christ, has the authority given them by the Holy Spirit. We only
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receive the Holy Spirit. We receive it in part of baptism, okay,
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so all projects to receive a partial measure of the Holy Spirit, but the
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full authority only comes through the sacrament of confirmation. And I mean that's the
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fullness of the spirit of a lay person in the sacrament of the priesthood,
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which you know in the Bible is laying on of hands. When they received
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the Holy Spirit, and they suddenly, you know, received the ability to
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understand and speak all languages. You know, that doesn't happen outside of that,
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you know, Apostolic Keroism. And that was necessary in the early Church
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and isn't necessary now that we we have more universal languages. You know,
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first of all, Latin became the language for the civilized world. So a
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lot of languages just disappeared. Well, now English is the language most people
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speak. Of course, the Chinese want Mandarin to be the language universal language.
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We actually have fewer languages than we used to. A friend of mine,
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very dear friend of mine, speaks seven languages. She's fluent in her
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native Ukrainian Russian, so she can speak both dialects of that language. She
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can speak Polish, German. Let me think, well, she's fluent in
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English, she's fluent in Italian because she knows Italian, she can pick up
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most French and Spanish. So this one person is able to communicate with essentially
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two thirds of the globe. We'll see at least half the globe, right,
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I mean, if you can understand Spanish pretty and well, she would
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also probably be able to understand most Portuguese. She says, she can read
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them both perfectly. Well, So yeah, take out a few Asian languages
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and a few African languages and she can pretty much speak with anyone on earth.
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So there wasn't a need anymore for that Keroism to allow the original apostles
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to understand and speak all languages. Well, now we have phone apps that
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can do it for us. But anyway, I'm getting way off track,
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they answered, no. Not all the sincerity in the world can be a
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sufficient substitute for authentic credentials in this matter. An immense power and authority over
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the souls of men requires solid proof that it is really possessed. Christ proved
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that he had it. The Catholic Church can prove that He entrusted that power
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to her. Founders of other churches have no more than their own personal conviction
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that they possess such authority, a persuasion as insufficient as would be my own
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personal belief that I had the authority to be the chief justice in the land.
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So only the Catholic Church can turn bread and wine into the body and
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blood of Christ. You know, only the Catholic priests can absolve, since
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that's the authority of the Holy Spirit. Well beyond you know, the early
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Church and speaking in tongues, and all the miracles of the Bible, all
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Theo's miracles still exist. But only the Catholic Church has the authority of the
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Holy Spirit. And this is one that really gets you. The person says,
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I feel that I am right. I have the witness in myself.
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Now, that is one of the greatest flaws of a modernity, of modernism,
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and it does start with the Protestant so called Reformation. They say,
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I feel this is right, and therefore it's right. That's the idea of
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each person can read the Bible and interpret it without anyone to give them instruction,
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even though the Bible says differently, and it has led us to someone
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says, I feel that, even though I have a penis, I should
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have been born a woman, and therefore i'm and identify as a woman,
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and I'm right. I have a witness to myself and you have to accept
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it. Yeah, that's actually a form of insanity. But feelings, feelings,
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when feelings and facts don't match, facts win every time, all right,
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So they answer, witness in oneself may easily be purely subjective persuasion and
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is no sure test of the truth. Men holding totally divergent views claim to
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experience this witness within themselves, yet they cannot all have the same exact truth
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revealed by Christ. Thank God. Intellectual mistakes do not always mean evil dispositions.
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But remember that Christ allowed the Jews to go because they knowingly refused to
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accept his teaching on the Eucharist. A teaching you also reject as we shall
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see, if you knew what you were doing, he would reject you also,
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very grave words there. And it's true, and that's something you know.
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Even Martin Luther had to admit near the end of his life, he
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railed against the Eucharist. As he put it, he denied the validity of
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the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and later admitted that it was
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Satan who led him to do that. So a Protestant who denies the Eucharist
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because that's what they've been taught and they don't know any better. God's not
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going to hold their ignorance against them. But one who realizes that that is
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actually what Jesus meant in the Bible when he said, this is truly my
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body, this is truly my blood, and unless you eat of it and
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drink, you have no life in you. Truly, truly, I say
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to you, I mean as adamantly as could be said in the Aramaic language
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it translated into the Hebrew and Greek. I mean, he was absolutely clear.
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And if you realize that and you still deny it, that's actually it's
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actually a sin against the Holy Spirit. I mean that's actually one of the
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unforgivable sins if you know it to be true and you willingly, willfully deny
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it because you hate the Catholic Church, or for whatever reason else, you're
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committing idolatry by putting your own opinions of superior to God's. You're maliciously willfully
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denying the divinity of God because you say you know better than God. And
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that's true in so many regards. Some regards, and I mean so many.
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You know, Protestants of otherwise good faith have done that in regards to
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marriage. You know, they say, yeah, Jesus said no divorce.
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Divorce is not acceptable in all four of the Gospels. But our church is
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okay. So we say it's okay. Boom, major mortal sin. And
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because they they know it, it's not like they're doing it ignorantly. What
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do you say about that? I don't know. I honestly don't know how
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someone can answer for that. So anyway, let's get on to Father Spirago,
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And the topic of the day is the redemption. This is in the
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Apostles Creed under the topic of the second to seventh article of the Creed,
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Jesus Christ. So I don't even know what the second the seventh article was
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the sixth? Why can't you just say the sixth? I have no idea.
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Sometimes the old language confuses me. But this is the topic of the
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redemption. Our Lord, Jesus Christ, a redeemer, has freed us from
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the evil consequences of sin. Man after the fall was unable to regain for
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himself his former holiness and justice and all the goods that were bound up with
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these. A man whose body is dead cannot raise himself again to bodily life,
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so one who is spiritually dead cannot raise himself again to spiritual life.
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Man after the fall became like a sick man who cannot move a hand or
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a foot, or arise from the bed on which he is lying. What
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the good Samaritan was to the man who had fallen among thieves, our Lord
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is to the man who has been wounded by the crafts of the devil and
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robbed of his spiritual and supernatural gifts. Jesus Christ is also called our Savior,
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our redeemer, or our redeemer because he saved us from hell and brought
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us back at the cost of his own precious blood. Christ freed us from
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the spiritual consequence of sin. In the following manner, he enlightened our understanding
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by his teaching, inclined our will to good, by his precepts and promises,
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and by his sacrifice of himself upon the cross one for us the means
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of grace by which we once more attain to sanctification and become the children of
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God. It airs to the kingdom of heaven. Christ took upon himself a
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threefold office that a prophet or teacher, priest and king. The threefold office
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he ascribes to himself under various titles. He calls himself the light of the
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world, because he enlightens the darkness of our understanding by his doctrines. As
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the light makes distant objects clear and visible, so Christ makes clear to us
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the most distant objects, God and his perfections, the world to come,
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heaven and hell, time and eternity before a pilot. He calls himself the
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King, whose kingdom is not of this world. He also calls himself the
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good shepherd who gives his life for his sheep. He also compares himself to
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a guide or a leader. We are wanderers in this world. We have
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no abiding, dwelling place, but seek one that is to come. The
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road is rough, steep, and surrounded by precipices, and we are ignorant,
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are in constant danger of wandering from the way. Christ undertakes to be
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our guide. He says, I am the Way, the Truth, the
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Life, and he promises that if we take him for our guide and follow
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his sacred footsteps footsteps, we shall never go wrong. Saint Paul caused Christ,
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our great high priest in Hebrews two, who needs not like other priests,
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first to offer sacrifice for his own sins and then for the people.
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By his obedience, he atoned for Adam's disobedience. That's Romans five nineteen,
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for he was obedient to death, even to the cross Philippians two eight.
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Christ opened Heaven again to us by earning for us the means of grace,
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by which, especially by the sacraments and Holy Mass, we can obtain sanctifying
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grace and be made children of God. In opening heaven to us, Christ
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tore away the veil which shut us out from the Holy of Holies, i
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e. From Heaven, and by his blood he gives a sure hope of
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entering Heaven. Hebrews ten nineteen the cross is just is thus the key to
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heaven. For US's freed us also from the consequences of sin as it affected
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our bodies. He died instead of us, and has thus earned for us
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the resurrection of our bodies. He has, by his teaching and his example,
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taught us what we must do in order to be happy in this world,
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to overcome the world, and so to obtain or attain this celestial paradise.
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Lastly, he has given us the means by which we may vanquish and
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drive far from us the enemy of our souls. By his own resurrection,
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Christ ensured for us the resurrection of our bodies. By man, death came,
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and by man came also the resurrection from the dead one Corinthians, fifteen
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twenty one. By following the teachings of Christ, we shall secure true peace
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on earth, and by practicing the virtues that he taught us, especially humility,
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chastity, and liberality, we shall overcome the devil in the world.
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By liberality he means charity basically generosity. By the sacraments, we drive away
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from us the evil one. Christ has broken the power of the devil that's
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revelations or apocalypse, as he would say twelve, verse ten and eleven.
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But final victory over him will be at the end of the world several verses
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cited. There by the death of Christ, we have won back almost all
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that was lost by original sin, though some of its consequences still remained,
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such as sickness, death, and evil tendencies. Yet we have won more
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by the death of Christ, and we have lost by sin. Where sin
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abounded, grace did more abound. That's Romans five point twenty. Hence the
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Church proclaims in the office of Holy Saturday, Oh happy fault, which obtained
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for us so great a redeemer. Point number two. The promise of the
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redeemer. God forgave fallen men. Though he had not forgiven the angels.
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Man sin was not so grievous. He had less light and knowledge, and
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moreover was tempted by them. Besides, he at once to some extent,
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confessed that he lamented his sin. Lastly, God would not for the guilt
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of one thrust down into eternal banishment from himself the whole race of men.
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Immediately after the fall, God promised man redeemer. For he said to the
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serpent, I will put enmity inmity between thee and the woman, between thy
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seed and her seed, she shall crush thy head that Senesis three point fifteen.
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The seed of the woman here referred to is our Lord Jesus Christ,
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and the woman is the blessed Virgin Mary. There is to be a complete
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enmity between our Lord in his Holy Mother on one side, and the devil
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and his friends on the other. These words of Almighty God are a promise
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that the power of the devil should be destroyed, and that the whole race
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of men, who through original sin had fallen under the power of the devil,
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that he had great influence over them in persuading them to sin, should
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be freed from the subjugation to him. These words are called the Proto Evangelum
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or the First Gospel, inasmuch they are the first promised of a redeemer to
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come. Yet he was not to come at once. Man had to learn
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by experience and by suffering the evil of sin, and by seeing the effects
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of God's anger against it, e g. The flood, the destruction of
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the cities of the Plain, in the destruction of the Tower of Babel,
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etc. Two thousand years later, God promised to Abraham that the Redeemer should
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be one of his descendants. Abraham lived in Er of Chaldea and later in
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Huran in Mesopotamia. He preserved amid the idollary tree around him the worship of
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the True God. God commanded him to leave his father's house and journey forth
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into a land which was to be shown to him. In a journey forth.
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In reward for his prompt obedience, God promised him and promised him that
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in him all families of the earth should be blessed Genesis twelve two and three.
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He directed his steps toward the fertile land of Palestine and promised a numerous
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posterity. Abraham is called the father of the Faithful Romans four eleven. God
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repeated the same promise when three angels visited Abraham Genesis eighteen eighteen, I think,
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and again when Abraham, in obedience to God's commandments, offered up his
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only son, Isaac in Genesis twenty two seventeen. The same promise that God
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had made to Abraham he repeated to Isaac and to Jacob, and a thousand
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years later to King David. God appeared to Isaac when he was about to
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fly into Egypt, or flee in Egypt on account of the famine in Palestine
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Genesis twenty six to two. And a Jacob when he was fleeing from his
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brother Esau and saw the latter reaching up to heaven Genesis twenty eight twelve,
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and repeated the same to each the same promise. To King David, the
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prophet Nathan announced by God's commandment that he would raise him up a son whose
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throne should be established forever. Second Kings seven thirteen. The men who belonged
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to the family from which Christ was to be born were termed patriarchs. All
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the patriarchs reached a good old age. God had ordained this in order that
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they might hand down the knowledge of Him to their posterity at a later time.
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God sent the prophets, and through their mouth foretold many things about the
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coming, the birth, the person, the sufferings, the death, and
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final triumph and glory of the Redeemer. The prophets were men enlightened by God,
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men of God, who spoke to the people of Israel in God's name
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and with this authority. Their chief task was to keep the people from sin,
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and to reprove them when they had sin and also to prepare the mind
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of men for the advent of the Redeemer. They were from different classes in
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society. Isaiah was of royal blood, Amos was a herdsman, Elsius was
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called from the plow to the prophetical office. God gave them the power of
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working miracles, of foretelling his judgments, and also a prophesy in respecting the
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Messiah. Most of them lived a life of penance. They were held in
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great veneration by the people, but were persecuted and in many cases suffered a
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violent death. Matthew twenty three thirty there were in all there were in all
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about seventy prophets. Moses was one of the greatest of the prophets. Due
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torotomy was that thirty four to ten I believe, and Isaiah was greater still
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on account of his clear prophecies respecting the Messiah. The last of the prophecies
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was Malachi, who prophised about prophesia about four fifty BC. Sixteen of the
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prophets left writings behind. Four of these are called the greater prophets Isaiah,
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Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. Twelve of the lesser prophets, on account
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of the smaller amount of their writings of the Advent of the Messiah, the
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prophets have given the following account. Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem.
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So here again Fosbraguer uses the old spelling, and he says, machayas says
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now Bethlehem Epherata art a little one among the thousands of Judea. Where judas,
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I should say, out of these shall come forth unto me, he
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who is to be the ruler of Israel, and is going forth from the
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beginning until the days of Attorney. T Hence the three kings were informed that
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the Christ would be born in Bethlehem. The Messiah was to come at a
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time where the temple was still standing. When the Jews, after their return
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from captivity, began to rebuild the temple, the old men, who had
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seen the former temple began to weep. They saw from the character of the
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foundation that the new temple would not be as large nor as beautiful as the
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old one. The prophet a gaeus, it's odd the way the old spellings
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are so hard, so different from our modern spellings. I'll be reading through
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this. I'm like, who was that again? Anyway, the comforted them
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by telling them that in this new Temple, the desired of all nations shall
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come and fill it with glory. But the Second Temple was destroyed by Titus
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seventy years after Christ and was never rebuilt. The Messiah was to come when
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the Jews were no longer an independent kingdom. Jacob and blessing his sons before
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his death, said to Judah, the scepter shall not be taken away from
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Judah till he come that is to be sent, and to him shall be
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the expectation of the nations. From this time, the tribe of Judah was
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the leading tribe and referenced numbers two, three through nine. King David was
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of the tribe of Judah, and so were the successors up to the captivity
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of Babylon. Zoro Babyl, who brought the Jews back from captivity, was
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of the same tribe, also spelled differently in my modern Bible. When the
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Jews regained their liberty, they were under the rule of the Maccabees, who
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also belonged to Judah. It was not until the your thirty nine BC that
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the Jewish monarchs were deprived from their so sovereignty, and it was not till
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thirty nine BC, that the Jewish monarchs were deprived of their sovereignty, and
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Herod the Great, a foreigner and a pagan, was raised to the throne
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by the authority of the Romans. In the time of Herod, a redeemer
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was looked for all over Judea. Herod was alarmed at the inquiry of the
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magi for the newborn king. The Jewish people thought that Saint John the Baptist
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was the Messiah. Reverisd Salute three point fifteen. The Samaritan woman to whom
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our Lord talked at Jacobs Well, was looking forward to the advent of the
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Messiah as well. The chief priest conjured The chief priest conjured Jesus to tell
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them whether he was the Messiah. Matthew twenty six sixteen three. As many
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as sixty impostors about this time gave out that they were the Christ and deceived
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many. This is something very few Protestants know. Many of the heretical beliefs
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of Protestant churches were actually spread by false messiahs. After the Resurrection. Father
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Sparago will get into this. The main one was Simon Magnus Simon, the
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magician who's recorded acts of having tried to buy the power of the Holy Spirit.
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There were many though, and a lot of those foster than Gnostic sects
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and such, and a lot of their heresy really really, I don't know,
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you know, it's hard to say. You know, very few Protestants
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read the early Church fathers or really anything older. I mean, they got
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the Bible, and they got something written by you know, a preacher one
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hundred and two hundred years ago, and like everything in between is like a
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big bore, right, So you can't really say that the heretical doctrine of
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once saved, always saved, which the Baptist believed fully and so does several
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Protestant churches, comes from reading the writings of the Gnostics what were in the
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first you know, two hundred years AD. But the Gnostics had that same
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idea and were condemned the Church said, saying iron are specifically said, this
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is not in keeping with Christian belief. It disagrees with the Bible, disagrees
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with the teachings of the Apostles, it disagrees with the words of God.
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You know, we have to reject this. So I cannot say that,
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you know, a Baptist minister of one hundred and fifty years ago whatever,
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probably less than that read a Gnostic document and thought, oh, yeah,
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that makes sense. We're going to DoPT this into our doctrine. I would
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say, probably the same deceiving demon that deceived the Gnostic writers two thousand years
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ago deceived the founders of that doctrine in the Baptist Church. That actually makes
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a whole lot more sense if you believe in the words of the Bible.
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It says, you know, God and the angels and demons exist outside of
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time. One days is a thousand years and a thousand years as a day,
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and that there really are demons trying to deceive people in this world,
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and that many who call themselves Christians are deceived by demons. That's all biblical,
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And if you believe the Bible, that makes a whole lot more sense
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than thinking that some you know, Southern Baptist minister in I don't know,
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Alabama in eighteen ninety or nineteen hundred chants upon a Gnostic manuscript written in Greek
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two thousand years ago and thought, oh, yeah, that seems really to
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be inspired by the Holy Spirit, and that's the true doctrine of Christianity.
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Probably not probably not okay, So anyway, oh see, it's me sixty
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US many sixty impostors about this time gave out that they were with the Christ
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and deceived many. Even among the Heathen, there were at the time of
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Christ an expectation of a deliverer who would banish crime and restore peace to the
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world. Let's see. The prophet Daniel from six oh five to five point
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thirty BC foretold that from the rebuilding of Jerusalem in four fifty three BC until
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the public appearance of the Messiah there would be sixty nine weeks of years,
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and until the death of the Messiah sixty nine and a half weeks of years.
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This prediction was revealed to him by the archangel Gabriel, and he was
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one day offering as he was one day offering the evening oblation or sacrifice,
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and was praying for the deliverance of his people out of captivity. Cyrus in
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the year five thirty six gave the Jewish people leave to return to Palestine and
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rebuild their city in the year four fifty three. This all BC. Remember,
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so it gets smaller in number as we get closer to where we are
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as opposed to ad which gets larger in numbers, we get closer to where
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we are. You know, confuse the crab out of me when I was
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a kid. But you know, what are you going to do? In
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the year four fifty three, King artists Erxes gave his cup bearer Naemiah full
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power to fortified Jerusalem. This had not been allowed by Cyrus, on account
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of which the Jews have been exposed to the constant attack by their enemies.
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Now, if we add four hundred and fifty three sixty nine weeks of years
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as four hundred and eighty three years, we have the date of the commencement
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of Christ's public ministry. Or if we had sixty nine and one half weeks
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of years, that's four hundred and eighty six and a half years, we
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have the date of christ crucifixion eighty thirty three and a half. The Messiah
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was to be born of the virgin Mary of the House of David. As
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a sign God gave to King haz akas I guess the following prophecy, Behold,
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a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be
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called Emmanuel God with us and of the tribe of Messiah, which is to
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be born the prophet. Jeremiah says, behold the days to come, Saith
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the Lord that I shall raise up to David a just branch, and a
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king, shall raise and reign, and shall be wise, and shall execute
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judgment and justice on the earth Jeremiah twenty three to five. And his name
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shall be the Lord, our Just One. You know, isn't it interesting
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that all these lector absorbent Christians say the name of Jesus, Say, is
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Yeshua? You can only be called Yeshua. You call him anything else,
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you shoe, you call him Jesus, You're committing blasphemy. No, his
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name is actually Jesus in Latin and English, and it was Jesu in Old
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English. But anyway, in the Bible it's also you know, well,
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the Messiah is also the Lord, our just One. It's also Emmanuel.
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Jesus has many names, and ignorant people make ignorant mistakes. The Messiah was
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to be preceded by a precursor, or a forerunner, who was to be
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who was to preach in the desert and to live in an angelic life.
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Isaiah says of this forerunner that he was to be the voice of one crying
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in the desert, preparing ye the way of the Lord. Make straight the
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desert a path for our God. And God says through the mouth of Malachius,
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anyway, through the mouth of Malchius, behold, I send my angel,
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and he shall prepare my way before my race. And presently the Lord
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whom you seek shall come to his temple Malachi three. I think that's right.
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This precursor was John the Baptist. When the messiahs with the Messiah,
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a new star was to appear. The prophet Bailamb. I guess that's the
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way you pronounce it. B a l Aam announced to the king of Moab,
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when the Israelites were approaching, I shall see him, but not now.
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I shall behold him, but not near. A star shall come out
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of Jacob, and a scepter shall raise from Israel, rise up from Israel.
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The Messiah was to be adored by kings from district lands, and they
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were to bring him gifts. That's I think psalms. One of the psalms.
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The time of the birth of the Messiah, many children were to be
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put to death. We breathe the prophet Jeremiah. A voice was heard on
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high of lamentation and mourning and weeping of Rachel, weeping for her children and
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refusing to be comforted because they are not Rachel herself represents the Jewish people.
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She died in Bethlehem and was buried there. Genesis twenty five nineteen, the
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Messiah was to flee to Egypt and to return again from thence the person of
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the Messiah. The following prophecies had been of the person of the Messiah.
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The following prophecies had been uttered. The Messiah was to be the Son of
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God through the prophet, and Nathan promises through the prophet. Nathan promises David
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the Redeemer and says he will call me following I would call him son second
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Kings. In Psalms, God addresses Messiah, thou art my son this day
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I've forgotten thee he shall be at the same time both God and Man.
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Isaiah says, the children is born to us. A son is given to
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us, and his name should be called Wonderful counselor God, the Mighty Father
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of the world, to come, the Prince of Peace. So there's another
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half dozen names she can call Jesus other than calling him Joshua, which is
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actually Hebrew for Yeshuah, or I should say Yeshua's Hebrew for Joshua also be
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used for Isaiah. So by the reckoning of the tour observant Christians, you
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could call Jesus Joshua or Isaiah or Yeshuah or, but not Jesus for some
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unknown reason that only uncatechized people could understand. He was to be a great
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worker of miracles. God himself shall come and save you. Then shall the
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eyes of the blind be open, and the ears of the death be unstopped.
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Then shall the lame man leap as a heart that's a like a deer,
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and the tongue of the dumb shall be unstopped small deer. Basically,
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he was to be a priest like Makisa Deck. The Lord has sworn,
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and he shall not repent. Thou art a priest forever after the order of
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melchised Dec. Christ offered bread and wine at the Last Supper and offers it
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daily, and Holy Master, the hands of the priests who are represented as
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Malchisa Dec you may remember, offer bread and wine as a sacred vice.
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He was to be a prophet or teacher of the people. To Moses.
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God had said I would raise up into them a prophet out of the midst
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of thy brethren, like to thee from Deuteronomy. Hence the Jews named the
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Messiah. That's another name for Jesus, the Messiah, the prophet who was
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to come into the world. There is another name as the Prophet. The
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Messiah was to teach and prophesia. He was also to be the teacher of
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the nations. He was to be the king of a new kingdom Jeremiah twenty
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three to five, which was never to be destroyed and was to embrace all
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other kingdoms Dan to forty four. The kingdom is the Catholic Church, or
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the Church of the whole world. Before pilot Christ proclaimed himself a king and
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said, my kingdom is not of this world. His kingdom was to be
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a spiritual one. John twenty eight thirty six of the sufferings of the Messiah,
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the Prophet spoke as follows. The Messiah was to enter into Jerusalem,
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writing and ass that's from Zachariah. He was to be sold for thirty pieces
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of silver, And I took thirty peace so silver and cast him into the
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house of the Lord. Oh so Zachariah. The words of Zachariah were exactly
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fulfilled. Judas threw down the money in the temple, and with it was
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bought a field belonging to a potter as a bearing place for strangers. He
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was to be betrayed by one who ate at the same table with him.
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Judas went out at the last Supper to betray his master. The disciples were
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to forsake him. At the time of the passion Zachariah twenty three seven.
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He was to be mocked, beaten, spit upon scourge, crowned with thorns,
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and giving gall invinters gird a drink. The chief priests inscribes at the
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crucifixion mocked our lord and said to themselves he saved others himself, he cannot
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save. In the house of Annas, the servant gave him a blow.
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In the house of Caiaphas, when he declared himself son of God, the
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servant spit in his face and gave him blows. Pilot had him scourged and
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handed him over to the soldiers, who crowned him with thorns and put upon
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him a purple robe and mockery of the imperial purple. Struck him on the
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head with the reed and rided him on Golgotha. They gave him wine to
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drink mixed with gall When he tasted, he would not drink it. For
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his garments, lots were cast. The soldiers divided his garments into four parts
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and gave to each soldier Apart his coat, they would not divide, for
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it was without seam, woven from the top throughout. Therefore they cast lots
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for it. His hands and feet were pierced with nails. Our Lord was
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really fastened with nails to the cross, for he showed to Saint Thomas saloons
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of his hands and feet and told him to place his fingers in them.
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The usual practice was to tie and dramn criminals to the cross with ropes.
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He was to die between two evildoers. The prophet Isaiah said, they shall
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give the ungodly for his burial and the rich for his death. He died
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between two highway robbers, which were crucified at the same time with him.
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He was to be patient as a lamb in his sufferings, and was to
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pray for his enemies. He was to die willingly for our sins of the
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glory of the Messiah. The pro prophets made the following predictions. He was
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to make his grave with the rich, and it was to be glorious.
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His body was not to undergo corruption. I'm not going to give you all
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the scriptural references here, Okay, I think we know the story pretty well.
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But anyway, he was returned to heaven and was to sit at the
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right hand of God. His doctrine was to spread from Jerusalem from Mount Zion
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over the whole world. The Hall of the Last Supper, where the apostles
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received the Holy Ghost, was situated on Mount Zion. The Heathen nations of
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the whole world were to receive his kingdom and to adore him. The Jewish
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people who had put them Assiah to death were to be severely punished and scattered
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all over the face of the earth. Remember, just a few years after
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Christ's crucifixion and resurrection, Israel was destroyed and the whole nation scattered. The
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Temple destroyed, everything gone. The city Jerusalem was to be destroyed as well
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as the Temple. The Jewish sacrifices and the Jewish priesthood were to cease,
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and the Temple was never to be rebuilt. That's actually from Dan and every
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place around the world. A clean oblation was to be offered to him.
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That's the Holy Mass. The sacrifice of the Mass, the bread and wine,
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which becomes the body and blood of Christ, is a clean oblation or
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sacrifice. It's not bloody. There's no smoke and fire. He will one
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day judge all men. Before the day of judgment, Elias will be sent
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on the earth. That's Elias was considered a precursor to the Messiah. The
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Messiah was announcer may types. The twilight announces the approach of the sun.
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So the lives of the patriarchs announced and foreshadowed the coming of Christ. Almost
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all the ceremonies of the Tabernacle foreshadow the ceremonies of the religion of Christ Classans
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two, sixteen seventeen. The relations of the Old Testament to the New is
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that of the shadow to the substance, the image to the object that it
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represents. The ancient Covenant was the which concealed the New. The persons and
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things of the New, thus represent representing the Old Testament. The persons and
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things of the New are called types. The types of the Messiah. Whears
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follows Abel Noah, Melchizedic Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David,
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Jonas, the archangel, Rafael, the pastoral lamb, the offering on the
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day of Atonement, the brazen Serpent, and the Manna. Brazen serpent was
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what was held up by Moses in the desert. It was in the shape
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of a cross. Abel was the first of just men, Christ, the
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first of the saints. Abral was a shepherd and offered to God an acceptable
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offering. He was gentle as a lamb, but was hated by his brother
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and was murdered by him. Noah was the only just man among all those
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around him. Christ alone was was without sin. Noah amid his course of
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preaching built the Ark, so Christ the Church. Noah saved the human race
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from temporal death, so Christ from eternal death. Noah said sacrifice on his
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quitting the Ark was the beginning of a new covenant. So Christ, on
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leaving the world milkisadic, etc. Of justice, was the King of Salem
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i A the King of peace. Christ was both king and priest. He
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offered a God bread and wine. Isaac was the only begotten and well beloved
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son of his father. He carried the wood on which he was to be
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sacrificed and offered himself willingly. He was restored to his father, and from
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him sprang a countless offspring. Jacob was persecuted by his brother, but afterwards
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reconciled to him. Though the son of a rich father, he wanted a
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strange land, and there won his bride by long service. So Christ the
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Church he had twelve sons, of whom one was a beloved son. So
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Christ had twelve disciples, of whom Saint John was the beloved disciple. Joseph,
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the well beloved son of the Father, was hated by his brethren and
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sold by them for a few pieces of silver. After great humiliation, he
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was raised to the highest honor, and by his counsel save the whole peace
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from death. Heralds proclaimed that all should bow the knee before him, and
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he was reconciled to his brethren. Moses went, a little child escape the
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cruel command of the king, spent as youth in Egypt, fasted forty days
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before the publication of the ancient Law, freed the Israelites from slavery and brought
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them to the promised land work miracles. In proof of his divine mission,
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interceded for the people to God, appeared on Mount Sinai with a shining countenance
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as Christs on Tabor, and was the mediator of the ancient Covenant. David
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was born in Bethlehem, spent his youth in a humble state. Vanquished the
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giant Goliath, the enemy of the people of the Lord was king of Israel,
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had much to suffer in triumphed over all his enemies. Jonas was three
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days and three Knights in the belly of the Will and preached penance to the
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Ninevites. The archangel Gabriel came down from heaven to conduct safety safely on his
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journey, one of the children of Men, delivering Tobias from blindness Sincereah from
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the devil. The pastial lamb was slain just before the department of the Israelites
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from Egypt and the therefore, on Friday, preceding the patial Sabbath, it
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was offered to God and afterwards eaten. It was to be without spot and
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in the prime of sage. Not a bone of it was broken. Its
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blood sprinkled on the post of the door to preserve from temporal death as the
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blood of Christ from spiritual death. It was eaten on the eve of the
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department, of the departure of the Israelites to the promised land. So our
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Lord is given as the viaticum on our departure for heaven. The emissary goat
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on the day of Expiation, was presented by the high priests before the Lord,
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and the priest then laid his hands upon its head in order thereby to
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signify that the sins of all the people were transferred to it, And then
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it was driven out to die in the desert as a leviticus. So Christ
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said, the sins of the world laid upon him, and passed from Heaven
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into the desert of the sinful world to die from us. The brazen serpent
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and the devil in the desert was set up on a piece of wood,
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and all who looked upon it were healed of the bite of fiery serpents numbers
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twenty one, six or nine. So Christ was raised up in the wood
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of the Cross, and all who looked on him with faith and hope are
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saved from the deadly effects of sin. Hence our Lord says, as Moses
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lifted up the serpent and the devil, So is Moses lifted up the serpent
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in the desert. So the Son of Man must be lifted up, that
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whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but may have everlasting life. John
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three, fourteen fifteen. Lastly, the Manna is a type of Christ and
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the blessed Sacrament of the Altar. It is white and small, came down
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from heaven every day, was to be consumed in the early morning, was
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given only during the journey through the desert, and contain in it self all
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sweetness. In all these things, it resembles the blessed Sacrament. Our Lord
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says that there is a difference between the Manna and the blessed Sacrament of the
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Altar, that Moses did not give the Israelites spread from heaven, but that
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the blessed Sacrament is the bread that came down from heaven and giveth life to
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the world. And I think we will wrap this one up here. And
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Father Sprangres says, exhaustive. Boy, he means exhaustive. So we've just
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gone through all the uh, well probably not all, but many of the
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prophetic references to Jesus in the Old Testament, and we're just scratching the surface.
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We'll pick up on this one tomorrow. Y'all have a good one.
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Remember the words of Saint Padre Pio, Pray, hope and don't worry,
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and I'll talk to you tomorrow.