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674. Bible Study: Jonah 1 (Salvation is for ALL nations! Symbolism pointing to Yeshua (Jesus)- the Messiah) · Faith by annm2705

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  The book of Jonah. This book is actually a very
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  short book. It's only four chapters long.
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  And I want to tell you about something, if you haven't seen
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  this already, because it's amazing.
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  When the Bible comes to life, many people have probably heard
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  the story. If you're in Christianity,
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  you've heard the story of Jonah and the whale, and a lot of kids
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  see it. There's kids books about it and
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  about this man being, you know, inside the mouth of a whale.
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  And it's always like, for me, it was always like that.
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  This was just a story, a fabricated story, a myth to put
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  together something. And until I read the Bible and
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  realized that no, this is actually legitimately true.
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  Like this did happen and people would say like that could never
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  happen. What kind of a fish was it?
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  Well, here's what I want you to do, which is really cool, the
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  way God is revealing himself. Go to YouTube and just search
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  Whale Swallows Kayak and you will see all of these different
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  accounts even on the CBS News. For those who would only trust
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  it if they saw it on the news, it's there's Whale Swallows
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  kayaker and then spits him out off the Chilean coast.
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  This was four months ago. I'm recording this on June 16th,
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  2025, so just four months ago. God is revealing himself.
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  He's letting us know the Bible is true.
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  There was a man and there's other accounts too.
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  So it shows these other people that were almost like, you know,
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  swallowed up by a whale. And again, so search it for
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  yourself. It's there's a Guardian News has
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  one that CBS News has it. ABC News has it.
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  I don't know. And then there's actually an
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  interview, which is really cool. But actual man who had happened
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  to describes being swallowed by the whale.
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  And there's like 52,000 views on his humpback whale swallows
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  kayaker. There's 1.4000 views and
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  humpback whale swells kayaker 20,000 views.
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  So there's a lot of people are seeing this, but not everyone.
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  And so there probably is a chance that people have not seen
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  this yet, but it's really cool because it shows us that the
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  Bible is true. So with that introduction, I'm
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  going to go to the study Bible introduction about Jonah and
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  what it says about Jonah. So why read this book?
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  I love how the Study Bible always has that introduction on
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  it. Why read it?
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  If you've ever thought that some people are beyond hope, so evil
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  that they are incapable of change?
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  The book of Noah may upset your thinking.
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  When we consider serial killers, rapists, drug kingpins or
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  terrorists, it's natural to expect that such violent, hate
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  filled individuals will be punished.
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  But this book shows us that God wants to extend His grace and
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  mercy to even the worst of people.
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  People like the Assyrians, who were known for their gruesome
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  torture practices. Jonah challenges us to see that
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  God may want to use us to reach out to the very people we tend
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  to despise and see beyond and see as beyond redemption.
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  That's a great reminder that God is so forgiving, merciful,
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  compassionate, that all people are sinners.
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  People have done things to various degrees, but God
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  welcomes everyone back who is willing to repent and receive
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  the Holy Spirit so that their lives can be changed and that
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  they can become more holy like God.
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  Who who wrote the book? Most likely the prophet Jonah
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  wrote autobiographically about what happened to him.
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  When was it written? Probably sometime between 785
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  and 750 BC during the reign of Jeroboam the second, the king of
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  Israel. So if you listen to the last,
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  you know, where are we headed with this Bible study podcast on
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  this is showing us that he was in the area.
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  I guess he was part of the 10 tribes of Israel because it's
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  referencing Jeroboam, the second, the king of Israel.
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  We have two separate factions. So this is the northern faction
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  of Israel. They split because they couldn't
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  agree on who was going to be king.
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  So they have two parallel kings at governing portions of Israel.
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  And so this this Kingdom represents 10 tribes.
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  The other ones that it doesn't represent are the southern
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  kingdoms, which are Judah and Benjamin.
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  So what was happening at this time?
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  Israel's northern Kingdom regained its influence as and
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  was restored by Jeroboam the second.
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  But the Assyrians, whose capital was Nineveh, were asserting
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  themselves in increasingly menacing ways.
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  I think it's really helpful, at least for me it is to kind of
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  when they use these ancient lands names because they aren't
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  exactly the same boundaries as today.
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  So we can't interchange identically.
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  But for me it helped. If I think about what land is it
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  today that we're talking about, South Nineveh is in modern day
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  Iraq. So that's what we're talking
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  about. And we're talking about people
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  who are coming from Samaria, which is in Israel.
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  And a lot of times you hear you hear this reference.
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  So their their capital was Samaria.
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  It was not Jerusalem. Jerusalem was the capital for
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  the kings of Judah, but these kings were from Samaria.
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  And it's kind of interesting because Samaria is the, I guess
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  the the origin of Samaritans. So when we study the New
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  Testament Bible, we hear about the Samaritans and they were
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  kind of the look down upon ones. But there was the Good Samaritan
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  story that Jesus told. So again, this is another thing
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  that supports how God is so merciful and even if they are
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  considered the lesser of or the more evil of, God is still
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  redeeming them and still wanting them to come into His Kingdom.
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  So we remember that. Why was it written to tell the
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  story of God's concern for even the enemies of His people?
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  This book also shows how God used a reluctant prophet as a
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  vehicle of His grace, what to look for in Jonah, God's
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  compassion for all people, His desire for earnest repentance
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  regardless of what someone has done, and the extraordinary
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  links to which he will sometimes go to get our attention.
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  That's so true. I know it took me a while in my
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  faith journey and I had to go through some tough hardships for
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  me personally before I actually came to turn to God and
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  repented. So chapter 1, Jonah flees from
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  the Lord. The word of the Lord came to
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  Jonah. Son, actually I need to stop and
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  pray. Dear God, please be with us as
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  we read through this scripture and bring to mind anything you
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  want the Holy Spirit to give us and to reflect upon and to apply
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  to our lives. We ask for this in Jesus name,
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  Amen. So the word of the Lord came to
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  Jonah, son of Amitaya, Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach
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  against it, because its wickedness has come up before
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  me. Now this reminds me of Sodom and
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  Gomorrah, where God, the prayers of the people, had come up
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  before him. And that's what came to mind
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  when I was reading this, was that the people of Nineveh, the
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  prayers are going up to God. Could this also be the same of
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  what's happening right now in June of 2025 in the Middle East?
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  Are the prayers I'm I've seen reports like of the people of
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  Iran, which is the next country over where they are not happy
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  with the regime that's in power right now.
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  And Israel is currently attacking and eliminating many
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  of the people of power in Iran. And there's, you know, the the,
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  the leadership, the ones who are oppressing the people of their
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  own country and not looking out for their own country.
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  I've also seen where the leaders were fleeing the country to
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  protect themselves, but leaving the people with really no
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  defenses. So we're we're watching
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  historical biblical events almost replaying and today.
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  And God loves the people of Iran, and God wants the people
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  of Iran to know him and to repent of worshipping other gods
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  and come to him for protection. So yes, God even extends to the
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  people, the enemies of Israel like it.
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  We talked before about curses and blessings against those who
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  come against Israel, that if you bless Israel, you will be
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  blessed. If you curse Israel, you will be
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  cursed. And that starts in the book of
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  Genesis. And it was given to Abraham,
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  which everyone of religion, like the three religions, Islam,
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  Jewish and Christian, all recognize Abraham as the
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  beginning of everything. But then Abraham gives that
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  blessing to his son Isaac. So that would be the Jewish
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  people that it was given to. And but we have to also remember
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  that God wants all people in his Kingdom.
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  So even though he chose Israel, he, it's not only Israel that he
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  wants in his Kingdom. So it's open to all nations and
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  that's just very important for us to remember.
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  So anyway, God is speaking to Jonah.
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  He's telling him to go to Nineveh, which is in modern day
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  Iraq, and he because he's there's been prayers apparently
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  that it's wickedness has come up before me.
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  Or maybe it was prayers. Maybe it wasn't prayers.
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  Maybe it was actually the accuser.
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  Like Satan goes around looking for his next victim and he
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  accuses before God because he knows God loves people because
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  he created all the people and he created the people to be a part
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  of his family. And so Satan knows that Satan
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  knows it, but there's a law that if you know the basically the 10
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  commandments, if you break any of them, that your wages of sin
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  is death. And the only way to avoid that
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  death, that permanent, well, it's not even permanent death,
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  but that eternal separation from God is to trust in Jesus, to
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  trust in Jesus's death and resurrection on the cross, to
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  believe that and pray to God that that be revealed.
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  You know, we can all agree that Abraham had a good relationship
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  with God. And Abraham is the father of all
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  of all, you know, the Jewish faith, the Islamic faith, and
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  the Christian faith, because everybody recognizes him.
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  And but he passed on to Isaac his son that God supernaturally
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  made happen because Abraham was like 100 years old and Sarah was
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  about 90 years old when she had Isaac.
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  And it was divine intervention that she had a baby.
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  And that was the one that was in that got it intended for Abraham
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  to have. But Abraham, actually, Sarah got
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  impatient and offered her her servant or her, I don't know
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  what you call it, but her helper to sleep with Abraham.
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  And that's where Ishmael was born from that interaction.
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  But that wasn't what God had intended.
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  That's an example of us. Take of us.
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  That's an example of people taking things into their own
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  hands and not waiting on God to wait on God.
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  We should always do that. That's submitting to God.
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  That's allowing God's leadership, guidance, and
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  everything to guide our lives. So I'm getting a little bit off
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  track here. I'm going to go back to the
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  story here, but OK Jonah. So verse 3.
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  But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed to headed for
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  Tarshish. He went down to Joppa where he
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  found a ship bound for that part.
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  After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish
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  to flee from the Lord. So Tarshish is the exact
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  opposite direction from Nineveh. Nineveh is inland.
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  Tarshish is like out in the Mediterranean Sea.
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  So I'm looking at a map and I'm seeing where this is.
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  And so he traveled to Joppa and Tire is shown in here too.
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  So that's kind of interesting to not knowing where where he was
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  originally located. I don't, but maybe this study
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  Bible will tell us later. But he went in the exact
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  opposite direction from where God told him to go.
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  And a lot of times we are like that too, When, when we feel
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  like not, well, I don't know if we feel like God is asking us to
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  do something we don't want to do.
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  Like apparently, I mean, he, he served the Lord.
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  So he recognized the Lord and the Lord came to him and told
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  him what he wanted him to do, but he didn't do it.
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  He was like, no, I don't, I don't want to do that.
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  I want to, I'm going to get away from all that.
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  Like you can't run away from God.
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  God will sees everything. He will find you wherever you
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  are. So if you had a word from God or
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  a if you knew something was from God and he wanted you to do
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  something, you might as well do it because if you don't, you can
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  probably expect what happens to Jonah.
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  So let's let's read this. But Jonah ran away from the
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  Lord, OK? Then the Lord sent a great wind
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  on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship
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  threatened to break up. All the sailors were afraid, and
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  each cried out to his own God. So they weren't worshipping the
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  one true God, and they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten
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  the ship. But Jonah had gone below deck
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  where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
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  The captain went to him and said, how can you sleep?
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  Get up and call on your God. Isn't this interesting just now?
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  This came to mind. Jesus kind of did the same
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  thing. If you remember the disciples,
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  he was with his followers on a ship and a storm came about and
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  Jesus fell asleep and his disciples were like, how can you
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  sleep with all this stuff? And then Jesus stood up and
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  Jesus calmed the storms. So that was an account in the
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  New Testament. It reminds me of this account
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  here where the captain finds him and he's sleeping.
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  He goes get up and call on your God.
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  So it's a very similar, like a again, this is 700 BC, I mean,
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  earlier than that. And, and this is happening, it's
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  like a foreshadowing of Jesus. And you don't notice this until
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  you start studying the Bible and finding these things like this.
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  So how can you sleep, get up and call on your God?
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  Maybe he will take notice of us so that we will not perish.
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  Then the sailors said to each other, come, let us cast lots to
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  find out who is responsible for this calamity.
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  So casting lots we learned in the book of Esther was called
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  poor PUR and it was a term that was they were like almost like
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  dice. And not only the Hebrews but
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  other are not only the Jewish people, but the Israelites.
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  Not only the Israelites, but also all people were using dice
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  to get decisions from their gods.
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  Now, God did condone this sort of thing, apparently, because
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  the ephod of the high priest had the whatever it was that they
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  used to get decisions. So the high priest would use
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  that to gain guidance from God. But they were seeking guidance
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  from the one true God, whereas other people who don't believe
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  in God and are asking for guidance are getting things from
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  evil. And so it's it's just
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  interesting. But back then they did this to
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  find out who is responsible for this calamity.
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  They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.
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  So somehow somebody, I don't know, you know, well, God is
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  ultimate. So maybe God just took over that
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  that chance in quotations chance and actually made it truth like
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  this is Jonah. So they asked him, tell us who
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  is responsible for making all this trouble for us?
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  What kind of work do you do? Where do you come from?
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  What is your country from what people are you?
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  So they're like this guy. Who is this guy?
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  And he answers, I am Hebrew and I worship the Lord, the God of
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  heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.
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  This terrified them and they asked, What have you done?
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  They knew he was running away from the Lord because he had
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  already told them so. The sea was getting rougher and
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  rougher. So they asked him, What should
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  we do? What should we do to you to make
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  the sea calm down for us? Pick me up and throw me into the
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  sea, he replied, and it will become calm.
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  I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon
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  you. Instead, the men did their best
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  to row back to land, but they could not, for the sea grew even
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  Wilder than before. Then they cried out to the Lord.
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  Please, Lord, do not let us die for taking this man's life.
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  Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man.
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  For you, Lord, have done as you pleased.
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  Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging
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  sea grew calm. All this, all this.
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  At this, the men greatly feared the Lord, and they offered a
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  sacrifice to the Lord and made vows to him.
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  OK, so God will do like again. He's using supernatural means to
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  get the attention of people. He still does this today.
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  When we see hail, when we see abnormally big hail happening,
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  that's a warning from God. If we knew the Bible, we would
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  understand that when there are so many natural events that are
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  from God to get our attention like He allows, He allows.
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  Now there is something that I don't know, I think evil can
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  enforce. Storms can make storms happen
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  also, but God is ultimately in charge of it.
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  So God allows certain things to happen.
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  And so it's really important to be submitted to God, to be
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  faithful to God, to be obedient to God because it can impact
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  even storms, even the weather. And people today think, Oh my
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  gosh, that's like weird thinking.
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  That's primitive people who didn't know any better.
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  But that is not true. God is still whether or not we
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  have meteorologists today, if you notice, none of them can
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  predict accurately 100% of the time.
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  They're doing their best guesses with radar, with all sorts of
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  scientific means to figure out what's going to happen and maybe
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  even create what's going to happen because they can
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  manipulate the weather too. So there are certain
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  capabilities, but God is above all of that.
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  So there are these miraculous stories where people were spared
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  from a severe natural storm and it is God.
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  God did that. And that probably just depends
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  on your level of faith, whether you believe it.
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  Like IA 100% believe it. I know it's truth because I've
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  seen it in the Bible, historical accounts of it.
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  I believe the Bible and I know who God is and I know that God
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  can do those things and he does those things today.
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  But we are so conditioned by the world's thinking that we don't
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  necessarily always believe in these miracles or these
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  supernatural means of protection.
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  But God does do this today. So be in to God when you see
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  disaster coming. It says that God will shelter
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  his, He will protect his children.
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  So keep in prayer to God and pray for your family, your
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  friends, those you love for protection.
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  You know, it's God protects his children.
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  Unfortunately, the wicked might succumb to God's judgment when
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  that happens. So you know, prayer doesn't
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  protect 100% of the whole population because 100% of the
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  whole population is not submitted to God.
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  So there is protection when we are submitted to God.
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  It shows us that in the Bible repeatedly.
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  So read the Bible if you don't believe me and find it for
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  yourself. So how did God send his word to
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  Jonah? God could have used visions,
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  dreams, or even signs in nature. He also could have spoken to him
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  directly. So think about that.
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  You know God still does that today.
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  He's giving people visions and dreams today.
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  There's a couple of YouTube channels where people are
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  sending in their visions and dreams and it's ironic that a
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  lot of them are having similar dreams and visions.
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  Now people can scientifically or logically say now they're
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  hearing these things, they're all repeating them.
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  So again, believe what you want to believe.
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  But you know, some of them I, I don't, I do listen to those just
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  because I'm curious, because I started having dreams myself.
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  Ironically, the night of my baptism was my first dream in
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  2021. And they've continued.
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  I never know when they're going to come, but when they come,
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  they are very detailed and I remember things and they have
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  biblical context. And I never dreamed about the
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  Bible before in the past, Despite that I was reading the
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  Bible since 2019. So for two years I was reading
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  the Bible regularly and studying it, and I did not have any
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  dreams. It wasn't until the night of my
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  baptism that I started having dreams.
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  So and that was when I actually submitted to God, when I was
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  like, OK, I'm not going to be a hypocrite anymore.
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  I need your help in living my life so that I'm not a hypocrite
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  and I want to do your will. And when I did all of that and I
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  took action and did that by being baptized, things did
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  change in my life and things are changing in my life.
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  And I do get dreams. I've never had a vision, but I
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  get dreams if unless a vision is what I call like a scene.
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  Sometimes I'll see a scene like a dream, but it doesn't, it's
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  not like a, it's not like a movie or a reel that goes on and
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  has a whole story content. It's just a, a picture of
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  something. And so maybe that is a vision.
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  I don't really know what these things are.
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  I definitely know what dreams are and I do have those or even
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  signs in nature. And he could have spoken to him
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  directly because Samuel, when he, I think it was when Samuel
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  was called, he actually audibly heard the voice of God.
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  And I believe it was Samuel when yes, it was when he was in the
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  priest. His mother Hannah had given him
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  to live with the priest because God enabled her to have him to
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  have a child. And then she devoted her child
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  to God, to the service of God. And God audibly spoke with him.
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  I never heard God's audible voice, but I have like heard or
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  received what I would just call like words were in my thoughts.
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  So it was never an audible voice.
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  There wasn't a sound associated with it, but they were like
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  scripture verses of Scripture. They were also warnings before
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  that actually came true that like I understood what they were
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  after the fact. I had no idea what it meant when
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  I got it, but then later on I understood what it meant.
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  So this is true. And I can only say this because
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  it's happened to me. And that's, you know, you just
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  it's not going to probably mean much to you because it didn't if
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  it didn't happen to you. But I'm just speaking.
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  I'm, you know, get telling you the truth about what happened to
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  me. So why did Jonah run from God?
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  He may have been afraid of the wicked Ninevites who were
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  international terrorists who fueled the Assyrian war machine.
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  He may also have been influenced by nationalistic prejudice and
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  may have wanted God to favor Israel alone, even though God's
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  word to Nineveh was one of judgement.
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  So a warning of judgement to, you know, repent.
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  That's the thing right now. Like what's going on right now
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  is Israel seems to have the upper hand with Iran.
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  Iran is shooting things back. But it I was, I had read that a,
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  a good number of their missiles had been destroyed of but they
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  still have a lot more that they can send.
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  And so they are there's like a volley going back and forth
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  between Israel and Iran right now.
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  And but if they would stop and repent and turn to God, this
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  could all end. The question is they don't all
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  believe in the same God, which is sad.
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  Tarshish was a city. OK, where is where was Tarshish?
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  Tarshish was a city in Spain. It was the opposite direction
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  from Nineveh and was about as far away from Nineveh as Jonah
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  could get. OK, so that's interesting.
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  I didn't know that it was near Spain.
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  So he's supposed to go to Iraq, but he goes to Spain instead.
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  Interesting. What?
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  Where was Joppa? Joppa was a seaport northwest of
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  Jerusalem, known today as Jaffa. How did the lots expose Jonah?
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  He may have drawn a marked Pebble or the short straw.
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  Whatever the method, it was no coincidence God was in control
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  of the outcome. You can check out Proverbs 1633
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  about God being in control and was confronting Jonah's
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  stubbornness. What frightened the sailors?
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  These Pagan sailors believed in many gods, each restricted to
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  certain domains, are limited to certain abilities.
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  Yet they were suddenly confronted with the unfamiliar
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  concept that one God ruled over heaven and was creator of both
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  the sea and the land, and they were caught in the middle of a
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  storm caused by this awesome God's anger.
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  They may have also been afraid of Noah, of Jonah, who was in
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  their midst. Must have been a wicked man to
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  have caused such divine wrath. So that's really interesting.
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  These Pagan sailors that believed in many gods.
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  I have a theory, it's not fact, but it's drawn from extra
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  biblical records. The book of Enoch that talks
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  about there were watchers, angelic watchers over human
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  beings and some of those watchers rebelled against God
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  and did selfish things and interacted with humans.
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  I believe as a theory, as a possibility, not like 100%
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  believe, but I think it's a really solid theory that if the
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  book of Enoch is true, which I think it probably it might be,
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  then these fallen angels presented themselves as gods to
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  all the people of the world's. And that's how we have all these
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  different religions and these different deities that are
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  worshipped around the world because they are dividing up the
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  people, dividing up humans. And as Jesus said, a divided
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  Kingdom cannot stand. So if they create these multiple
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  religions, they're going to wipe out, basically destroy the
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  people who believe in false gods.
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  But they're very deceptive about it.
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  So they do it in a way that lures people in.
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  So the people are rather innocent.
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  And God will reveal himself and at some point in everyone's
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  life, because God is just, He will make known who He is to
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  someone and they will have a choice.
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  Do you want to follow your false God?
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  Or do you want to believe in the one true God?
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  Do you want to live in God's Kingdom?
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  Do you want the inheritance? You know who is the one who was
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  humble, meek, loving, sacrificed himself.
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  He was not selfish. He let, he allowed himself to be
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  killed on the cross in order to become the sacrifice that was
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  required for the atonement of sin forever for all people, for
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  all of mankind, so that we could be in God's Kingdom.
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  This is Jesus, Yeshua the Messiah or the Messiah means
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  Christ. So Jesus Christ or Yeshua
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  Hamashiach, I think it's how you say that.
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  So he is the Messiah, Jesus the Messiah, Jesus Christ.
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  And anyone who doesn't believe in Jesus will be eternally
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  separated from God the Father because Jesus made it possible
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  for us to be in the Kingdom. And if we deny him, he will deny
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  us. So if you are not a believer of
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  Jesus, if you're not a Christian, then you will have
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  eternity, but it's going to be separated from the one true God,
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  and there will be torment for that choice.
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  It's very clear in the Bible that is a real outcome and it's
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  eternal because you will have rejected God by rejecting His
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  Son. So please do all that you can.
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  Pray to the one true God to reveal if you don't believe in
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  Jesus, that you and God will reveal somehow in your life.
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  He will make it known. So why does God use such unusual
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  methods? God may use what is unusual in
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  our eyes to get our attention and build our faith in Him.
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  Unusual or miraculous events tend to be impressive and hard
• 34:08
  to explain away as coincidence. When.
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  In addition to the raging storm and the results of casting lots,
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  God used a great fish to save Jonah's life.
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  He got Jonah's attention in a dramatic way that softened
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  Jonah's stubborn attitude. What kind of fish swallowed
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  Jonah? The Bible uses language that
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  spoke to people in ancient times in terms they knew and
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  understood. Here the word translated fish
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  could refer to a whale, but the Hebrew is not specific.
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  All we know for certain is that the creature was big enough to
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  swallow Jonah whole and retain him in its belly for three days
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  and nights. Now, the three days and nights,
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  that's significant. You know, earlier we talked
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  about Jesus being in the boat with the disciples and the
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  storm. And Jesus stood up and rebuked
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  the storm and it stopped. So that was like a foreshadowing
• 35:06
  of Jesus, like an actual event that ultimately pointed to
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  Jesus. So this is the Old Testament
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  written in 700 BC that is giving the Israelites a clue, which
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  they don't even know until hindsight.
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  They're going to see that this is pointing them to Jesus when
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  Jesus did these. And they unfortunately don't
• 35:30
  read the New Testament. So they don't have that
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  information and they don't understand this.
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  And but it ties us back to the Old Testament.
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  And then the three days and three nights.
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  This was like Jesus on the cross, his death on the cross
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  and his resurrection. It happened over 3 days, three
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  nights. So it's again a foreshadowing, a
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  symbolism of Christ resurrection.
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  And again, this is for all people.
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  So this is a message for all people.
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  Jesus Christ died and raised, was raised again to life and is
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  living right now. And because he defeated death,
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  he did that. He was the ultimate, the only
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  sacrifice needed. Like we don't have to go through
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  a bunch of works to earn it. We can't earn it because we're
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  broken and we're broken by sin, by our sinful nature.
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  So the only way could be by the the blood of Christ, the
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  sacrifice that he was the sacrificial lamb.
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  So the Jewish people understand sacrificing animals as atonement
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  for like temporary atonement for their sins.
• 36:42
  Jesus death, his body, his blood is the permanent sacrifice that
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  atones for all people. Why?
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  Because he is the son of God. He, I mean, he didn't have a, he
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  had a stepfather, Joseph not, but his true father was God and
• 37:06
  the Holy Spirit made it possible for Mary to have Jesus.
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  So that's why he is different. He did not sin while he was here
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  on earth. You compare that to other people
• 37:20
  that are in elevated positions like anybody, like Moses.
• 37:23
  He killed a man, all the greats in the Bible, David had an
• 37:28
  affair. He had Bathsheba's husband
• 37:30
  murdered. But you know, these are all
• 37:33
  people that were considered great in the Bible.
• 37:36
  All of them had bad things in their life.
• 37:39
  And then if you talk about Islam, Muhammad, they're Oh my
• 37:42
  gosh, the list is on and on and on.
• 37:44
  He like killed so many people. He took a wife of an 8 or a nine
• 37:49
  year old child and made that his wife and consummated that, you
• 37:55
  know, like that was really bad there.
• 37:57
  And there's a lot of other things about Muhammad that is
• 38:00
  really bad. And I don't know why people can
• 38:02
  think he was greater than Jesus, but they recognize Jesus and
• 38:07
  recognize that Jesus was good. I think it's just the deception
• 38:10
  of the enemy of God to lure people into this false religion.
• 38:14
  And anyway, but Jesus is the answer.
• 38:19
  Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life and no one
• 38:21
  comes to the Father except through me.
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  So if you don't recognize Jesus as the Son of God, that he died
• 38:29
  on the cross, which is what Islam does, it talks about Jesus
• 38:32
  not dying but being taken up to the father.
• 38:35
  That's not true because that's the whole thing.
• 38:39
  It's the lie. And, and here's the other thing.
• 38:42
  The last book of the Bible was written around 90 AD, the Book
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  of Revelation. And Muhammad didn't come around
• 38:49
  with his story until 637 and he was around the 600 mark.
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  OK, So that's, you know, 500 years later, he comes up with a
• 39:00
  story and he comes up from an Angel Gabriel that he says or
• 39:04
  tells him this. And and so it does, Jesus warned
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  like if anybody, and I think the disciples said, if anybody, even
• 39:13
  an Angel of the Lord comes and reveals a different gospel
• 39:16
  message than what we have told you, that is like the it's a
• 39:22
  false prophet. So Muhammad is a false prophet.
• 39:26
  He told a different story that the story about Jesus, not the
• 39:30
  story but the account of Jesus was already in writing, but he
• 39:35
  came along and had to convince other people that he was greater
• 39:41
  than Jesus. He is a false prophet and he,
• 39:45
  anyone who believes in him is being led to slaughter.
• 39:49
  But they have the opportunity to report of that and to turn to
• 39:53
  Jesus. They don't have to do all these
• 39:55
  these things to earn God's Kingdom.
• 39:59
  They receive God's Kingdom by loving people by believing in
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  Jesus, not really by loving people, but I mean that's the
• 40:08
  only requirement that Jesus says love one another as I have loved
• 40:11
  you. So that's a drastic difference
• 40:14
  from the way that their religion teaches and everything in love
• 40:19
  and not to go out and destroy and kill And you know, that's.
• 40:28
  Just like when you compare the two religions, it's just
• 40:33
  unbelievable. I just don't know if maybe the
• 40:35
  people who still believe in Islam, if they just don't know
• 40:40
  what Christianity says. So I really hope that someone
• 40:44
  who maybe hasn't heard about Jesus or doesn't know about
• 40:49
  Jesus, here's this podcast because this book of Jonah is
• 40:54
  really good for anyone in that in anyone of Islam, because
• 40:58
  obviously God sending Jonah, who is a Hebrew man to modern day
• 41:05
  Iraq. And if I mean, at that time,
• 41:09
  they weren't believers in Islam at that time, but they were
• 41:13
  doing wickedness. But then, you know, 500 years
• 41:16
  later, Muhammad gives all of this, you know, distorted Bible.
• 41:22
  And then he starts convincing other people that it's true.
• 41:27
  But he's leading people to their death.
• 41:29
  He's a false prophet. And hopefully the people who
• 41:33
  believe in Islam, the Muslims, can come to this truth.
• 41:39
  Pray to God that this be revealed.
• 41:42
  God Jesus is coming to Muslims and dreams.
• 41:45
  So that's awesome. That is, you know, God is going
• 41:48
  to extraordinary means of reaching people because God does
• 41:54
  love the people. God does love the Muslims.
• 41:57
  God wants the Muslims eyes to be opened.
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  He wants them to repent of that and to follow the one true God
• 42:06
  and then as a result of that be in the Kingdom of God.
• 42:10
  So pray for our Muslim brothers and sisters because ultimately
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  that's what they are. They have just they are turned
• 42:21
  away from God. But hopefully their eyes will be
• 42:25
  opened and they will see the one true God and they will recognize
• 42:30
  Jesus as their Savior, and which will keep them from having to do
• 42:37
  all the different things that they believe that they have to
• 42:39
  do right now to earn their way, which they don't.
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  And the good news is the gospel, the message of Jesus.