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The Apocalypse of the Old Testament | Matt Freeman · The Week in Bible Prophecy

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Speaker 1: The Week in Bible Prophecy, a Prophecy Watchers podcast.
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Speaker 2: Hello, I'm Gary Steerman. Welcome to Prophecy Watchers. Our guest
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Speaker 2: today is Matt Freeman, a local pastor here in Oklahoma City.
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Speaker 2: And Matt, it's great to talk to you. You've got
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Speaker 2: so much to say, and we're not going to fight
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Speaker 2: for who says how much, but we've both got a
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Speaker 2: lot to say today, right.
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Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, thanks for having me, Gary, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: Happy to be teaching in your church. And by the way,
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Speaker 2: you might mention the church itself, but you've been teaching
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Speaker 2: on the Book of Zechariah, and lately I've been delving
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Speaker 2: into the minor prophets. Minor prophets sort of get left behind,
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Speaker 2: you know, in years gone by, who notices a minor prophet?
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Speaker 2: But today they are coming to the forefront.
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Speaker 1: They are screaming off the pages. Actually, Gary, more than
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Speaker 1: more than any other time in history that I'm aware
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Speaker 1: of in my short lifetime. But yeah, I lead New
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Speaker 1: City Church here. Actually Jesus leads New City Church here.
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Speaker 1: I'm just happen to be the pastor that teaches there.
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Speaker 1: And he founded New City Church in twenty twenty in
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Speaker 1: the middle of COVID and our first time meeting was
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Speaker 1: in November of twenty twenty, and Jesus wrote our mission
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Speaker 1: statement for the church that it would be to foster, strengthen,
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Speaker 1: and grow an unashamed bride looking for Jesus's return. So
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Speaker 1: no longer a bride that is lukewarm, watered down, anemic,
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Speaker 1: starving for the Word of God, but a bride that
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Speaker 1: is strengthened, a bride that is energized and fed by
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Speaker 1: the meat of the Word of God. And that's really
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Speaker 1: what we do at New City. We just go through
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Speaker 1: the Bible verse by verse and it's been an amazing
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Speaker 1: It'll be four years this November. And one of the
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Speaker 1: things I always tell everyone as we're studying the Bible
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Speaker 1: is you have to keep in mind one John two
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Speaker 1: twenty seven and twenty eight. But the annoying which you
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Speaker 1: have received of Him abideth in you. And you need
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Speaker 1: not that any man teach you, But as the same
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Speaker 1: anoying teacheth you of all things in his truth, and
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Speaker 1: is no lie. And even as it hath taught you,
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Speaker 1: ye shall abide in him. So that first part of
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Speaker 1: the verse, if you sit down with the Word of God,
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Speaker 1: and you rely on the Holy Spirit to teach you
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Speaker 1: everything out of it. It's amazing how he will just
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Speaker 1: unpack it. And the author himself is so desperate to
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Speaker 1: sit with you today. And it's something that's been missing
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Speaker 1: in the Church for a long time. And the verse
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Speaker 1: closes with really the mission for all of us right
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Speaker 1: as a Christian and now little children abide in him
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Speaker 1: that when he shall appear, so when Jesus appears at
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Speaker 1: the rapture, we may have confidence and not be ashamed
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Speaker 1: before him at his coming. And that's really what we're
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Speaker 1: about it. And you say church is just teaching the
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Speaker 1: Word of God, and we search the scriptures daily to
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Speaker 1: prove those things are so. No matter what I say
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Speaker 1: or anyone else says up there, your source is the Word.
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Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit's your teacher. And it's just been an amazing,
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Speaker 1: amazing three and a half almost four years now.
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Speaker 2: That's fantastic, And I'm glad to see younger men as
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Speaker 2: such as yourself, who are filled with the spirit of
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Speaker 2: the Lord. And you're going to bring the Living Word
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Speaker 2: to the people. It's got to be done, particularly now
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Speaker 2: the way things are shaping up. When it came to
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Speaker 2: mind sometime ago that you and I would be discussing Zachariah.
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Speaker 2: I just went back and read Zachariah, and you know
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Speaker 2: what my reaction was. It was, this is in the
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Speaker 2: newspapers today, people marching college campus campuses, large cities, and
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Speaker 2: what are they doing. They're dressing up in the clothing
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Speaker 2: of the end. To me, they're carrying the flag of
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Speaker 2: the enemy and they are marching against Israel from the
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Speaker 2: river to the sea. They say, we've got to give
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Speaker 2: that land back to its rightful owners, namely Hamas and Company.
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Speaker 2: And you watch this and you say, this can't be happening.
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Speaker 2: Is this America? Is this the world that I grew
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Speaker 2: up in, and we've entered, i think, another arena at
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Speaker 2: this point in time. And you've been teaching on Zachariah,
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Speaker 2: and I'm sure that it's hit you some of the
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Speaker 2: similarities and things that are going on right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, if you just look at it, Zachariah.
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Speaker 1: Fore it's told that all nations would come against Jerusalem,
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Speaker 1: and you're seeing the setup, the stage setting right now.
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Speaker 1: It's amazing how Israel is one tenth the size of
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Speaker 1: the state of Oklahoma. Wow, And yet the entire world
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Speaker 1: is so fixated on this little piece of land that
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Speaker 1: has no real value so to speak. I mean, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't really have any major natural resources or major ports,
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Speaker 1: or it's so tiny, and yet every nation has an
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Speaker 1: opinion on who that land belongs to, and that alone
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Speaker 1: should have people wake up and see the spiritual side
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Speaker 1: of what's really going on. And you look at it's
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Speaker 1: getting a lot more violent in Europe Gary with those
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Speaker 1: marches and a lot of looting and rioting and people
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Speaker 1: burning Israeli flags and tucking alongside of that death to America,
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Speaker 1: you know, death to Israel. And because despite how much
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Speaker 1: our administration gets wrong over the last few years, they
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Speaker 1: are still standing with Israel. They are sending weapons to
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Speaker 1: them and sending ships to the Gulf and sending military
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Speaker 1: aid and support. But you see it all over the
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Speaker 1: college campuses. It's infiltrating the culture that everyone has an
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Speaker 1: opinion on Israel. And we know at some point the
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Speaker 1: United States will fall in that camp of being against Israel.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and we can see our country sadly turning away
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Speaker 2: from its spiritual personality. The spiritual persona of America has
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Speaker 2: been known worldwide, but I think we're drifting away from
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Speaker 2: it now. I think that the forces within America anti
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Speaker 2: Christian forces are growing in strength. And it does not
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Speaker 2: make me happy to talk about that, but it's happening.
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Speaker 2: And the other thing that's happening. We talked about this
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Speaker 2: for a while here at Prophecy Watchers, the fact that
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Speaker 2: there is the Temple mount in Jerusalem, and there is
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Speaker 2: the city of Jerusalem, and there is a priesthood rising
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Speaker 2: in Jerusalem, and a while back they had the red hiffers.
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Speaker 2: They were ready to sacrifice the red efforts so that
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Speaker 2: they could sprinkle the ashes of purification and get things
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Speaker 2: started again. And I believe Satan didn't like that idea.
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Speaker 2: I believe he's trying to slow it down a little bit.
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Speaker 2: And that's where we are right now. When you go
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Speaker 2: back to Zechariah and you read it again, and by
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Speaker 2: the way, I would recommend that for him, just sit
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Speaker 2: down and read Zechariah exact and the thing that hits
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Speaker 2: you is, WHOA, this is happening. Parts of this are
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Speaker 2: beginning to come into focus right now.
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Speaker 1: That's absolutely right. And I love how when you look
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Speaker 1: over at Israel, and we've always said this for years,
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Speaker 1: right that Israel is God's time piece wherever we are
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Speaker 1: in history. And when you look right now, you have
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Speaker 1: the Temple Institute, you have all of the levitical priesthood.
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Speaker 1: They've gathered, the young men they've been training as priests.
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Speaker 1: They have the garments, they have every artifact in the
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Speaker 1: temple refashioned. You can go on the internet and go
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Speaker 1: through a three D rendering and walk through the temple
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Speaker 1: that will be built, and actually see the temple that
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Speaker 1: the Antichrist will desecrate at some point. It's just amazing.
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Speaker 1: All of it is today and all they're waiting on
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Speaker 1: is just the agreement somebody to say it's time to
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Speaker 1: build that. And when you look at Zachariah, the thing
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Speaker 1: that I love about the Book of Zachariah is that
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Speaker 1: it opens with the ending from the beginning. And when
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Speaker 1: you read, so God does this, This is so fascinating, Gary.
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Speaker 1: God does this on a macro level in the Bible,
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Speaker 1: but yet he does it in a micro level. In
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Speaker 1: Zachariah and Isaiah forty six, verse ten, God says, declaring
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Speaker 1: the end from the beginning, and from ancient times, the
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Speaker 1: things that are not yet done, saying, my counsel shall stand,
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Speaker 1: and I will do all my pleasure. And so if
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Speaker 1: you take that verse, and indeed God sees all things right,
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Speaker 1: he is outside of time. He sees the end from
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Speaker 1: the beigin. But this this is literal. He's declaring the
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Speaker 1: end from the beginning. And at a macro level. I
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Speaker 1: always love to share this with people. It means that
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Speaker 1: what's declared at the end of Revelation you should be
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Speaker 1: able to see at the very beginning of Genesis, because
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Speaker 1: he declares the end from the beginning. Yes, and you
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Speaker 1: should be able to read that in Genesis of what's
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Speaker 1: happening in Revelation. And indeed that's the case. So if
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Speaker 1: you start in Revelation at the end of chapter three,
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Speaker 1: you have the end of the church age, well, you
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Speaker 1: go to Genesis and you start at Noah's arc the
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Speaker 1: end of an age. And in Genesis you work backwards,
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Speaker 1: and in Revelation you work forward. They should line up. Well,
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Speaker 1: then you get to Revelation four, verse one, what do
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Speaker 1: you have the rapture of the church. Do you go backwards?
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Speaker 1: In Genesis you get Genesis five twenty four, you get
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Speaker 1: Enoch who was raptured at that point. Then after that
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Speaker 1: there's a sealed scroll, and the tribulation begins in Revelation six',
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Speaker 1: one where you go backwards In genesis more in chapter
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Speaker 1: four you have deep distress and turmoil on the earth
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Speaker 1: during that. Time then you go forward In revelation and
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Speaker 1: you get a mark given by the beast In revelation,
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Speaker 1: thirteen where you go backwards In genesis, still and there's
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Speaker 1: a mark given On. Cain so you have marks being.
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Speaker 1: Given those with a mark kill those without a. Mark
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Speaker 1: In revelation, thirteen verse. Fifteen, well then you go backwards
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Speaker 1: In genesis. More In genesis four, Eight cain Kills. Abel
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Speaker 1: so the man with the mark kills the man without a.
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Speaker 1: Mark then you go backwards even more In. Genesis you
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Speaker 1: get to the seed War genesis three, fifteen where you
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Speaker 1: go forward In revelation you get To revelation in nineteen,
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Speaker 1: Twenty jesus crushes the head of the serpent and he comes.
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Speaker 1: Back then you have in chapter twenty In revelation the,
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Speaker 1: Millennium christ reigns on the. Earth, well go backwards In
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Speaker 1: genesis a little bit. More you have In genesis chapter
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Speaker 1: Two god In eden he's, reigning he's. Ruling then you
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Speaker 1: Have satan's rebellion at the end of the. Millennium, Well
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Speaker 1: satan let a rebellion In genesis one between verse one
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Speaker 1: and verse two of The, bible and so you have
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Speaker 1: that rebellion take. Place and then finally at the end
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Speaker 1: of it, all In revelation twenty one through twenty, two
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Speaker 1: you Have god in all, things all in, all ruling the.
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Speaker 1: Universe and at the very beginning of The, bible what
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Speaker 1: do you have in the Beginning? God and So he's
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Speaker 1: ruling all over all. Things and so it's amazing How
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Speaker 1: god set that up on a macro.
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Speaker 2: Level you, KNOW i think All christians should understand That
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Speaker 2: god does nothing by, accident and he has a. Plan that's,
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Speaker 2: right the plan that you just mentioned just a fraction
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Speaker 2: of his magnificent, plan but so clear when you look
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Speaker 2: at these. Things, now when you open to the Prophets,
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Speaker 2: zechariah the first thing you see is. Horses these horses
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Speaker 2: are the intact there are four of. Them if you
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Speaker 2: find four horses In, revelation that was the first thing
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Speaker 2: that you, Know hit me, again why four?
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Speaker 1: Horses isn't it? Amazing so to that, Point god declares
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Speaker 1: the end from the beginning In, zachariah he opens up
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Speaker 1: with the ending of the, scene the battle. Scene and
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Speaker 1: when you study, this AND i always encourage Everyone, gary you,
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Speaker 1: know you need to search the scriptures yourself and find these,
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Speaker 1: things BECAUSE i could be, wrong all of us could
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Speaker 1: be wrong about something that we were stating and seeing
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Speaker 1: here In acts seventeen eleven always applies.
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Speaker 2: Right but it's a great.
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Speaker 1: Discussion but it's a great. Discussion and In zachariah declaring
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Speaker 1: the end from the, beginning so you see in verse
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Speaker 1: eight in chapter, ONE i saw by night and behold
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Speaker 1: a man riding upon a red. Horse and he stood
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Speaker 1: among the myrtle trees that were in the, bottom and
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Speaker 1: behind him were there red, horses speckled and. White and
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Speaker 1: AS i was preparing to study this at church and teach,
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Speaker 1: THIS i REALLY i spend a lot of time seeking
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Speaker 1: The lord on, this on who is the man on
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Speaker 1: the red? Horse who is? He why does he show
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Speaker 1: up in chapter one of this deep prophetic. Book and So,
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Speaker 1: zachariah in my, opinion is the apocalypse of The Old.
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Speaker 1: Testament it is so much of the book is About
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Speaker 1: jesus in his first arrival and his second. Arrival and
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Speaker 1: just like The book Of, revelation the word, apocalypse all
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Speaker 1: it means is an unveiling of, yes to pull back the,
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Speaker 1: curtains so to. Speak and so In, revelation the THING
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Speaker 1: i love about that book is all it is is
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Speaker 1: the unveiling of who Is Jesus christ as The king
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Speaker 1: Of kings for all. Eternity and the culture is terrified
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Speaker 1: of the word, apocalypse and it just means the unveiling
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Speaker 1: Of and that's what we have here In zach, writes
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Speaker 1: the unveiling of it's who Is. Jesus and this rider
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Speaker 1: on the red, horse, well he's standing among myrtle. Trees
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Speaker 1: he's in the, bottom which means a deep. Ravine the
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Speaker 1: myrtle trees all through The bible are representative of the
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Speaker 1: feast of, tabernacles the feast of. Booths they represent the
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Speaker 1: millennium all over The. Bible it's the shrub that was
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Speaker 1: used in constructing those. Booths and so you have a
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Speaker 1: represent a representative The angel of The lord in verse
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Speaker 1: eleven of chapter, one sitting on a red horse amongst myrtle,
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Speaker 1: trees which represent the. Millennium he's in the bottom of
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Speaker 1: a deep, ravine and behind him are more red horses
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Speaker 1: speckled and then. White and Immediately, gary The lord took
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Speaker 1: me To revelation nineteen and where we come back With
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Speaker 1: christ on our white, horses the armies Of, heaven And
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Speaker 1: jesus comes. Back and we know at the end Of
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Speaker 1: zachariah that he wipes out his enemies by simply the
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Speaker 1: war his mouth and letting them. Go and we know
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Speaker 1: From revelation that that blood fills the ravine up to
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Speaker 1: the horse's bridle Of. Jesus and so here you Have
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Speaker 1: jesus coming back on his white. Horse he's At. Armageddon
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Speaker 1: he wipes out his, enemies the blood fills the ravine
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Speaker 1: to the horse's, bridle thus dying his horse. Red and
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Speaker 1: all of us that are with, him some of us
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Speaker 1: may be in the ravine with, him some on the outer,
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Speaker 1: edges some at the top of the. Ravine and so
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Speaker 1: that blood that came, up that's splattering everywhere At armagaedin
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Speaker 1: you have other red, horses but then you have some,
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Speaker 1: speckled and then you have some white that weren't touched by.
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Speaker 1: It and so after this scene the opening with the.
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Speaker 1: Ending in the, Beginning jesus sends us on a mission
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Speaker 1: and in verses ten and eleven Of Zachari chapter. One
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Speaker 1: the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and,
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Speaker 1: said these are they whom The lord has sent to
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Speaker 1: walk to and fro through the. Earth and they answered
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Speaker 1: The angel of The lord that stood among the myrtle,
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Speaker 1: trees and, said we have walked to and fro through the,
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Speaker 1: earth and behold all the earth sit it still and
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Speaker 1: is at. Rest and so you have we're at that
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Speaker 1: point as the armies Of heaven on our white horses
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Speaker 1: that are gifts from The father to.
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Speaker 2: Us AND i have to read the twelfth, Verse yes we,
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Speaker 2: did because this WHEN i read, this it just carried
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Speaker 2: me over To, israel Today's, israel AND i, visualize you,
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Speaker 2: Know i've been To israel a couple. Times i'm sure you.
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Speaker 2: Have and people who go To israel and go To
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Speaker 2: jerusalem and they see the ruins and they think of
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Speaker 2: the Promises god made concerning those. Ruins And i'm reading verse.
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Speaker 2: Twelve The angel of The, LORD i answered and, Said,
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Speaker 2: Oh lord Of, hosts how long wilt thou not have
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Speaker 2: mercy On, jerusalem the cities Of judah against which has
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Speaker 2: had Indignation these threescore and ten, years And i'm thinking to,
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Speaker 2: myself that's practically current, events except it's. Not it's talking
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Speaker 2: about some other times and times yet to. Come that's,
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Speaker 2: right that's.
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Speaker 1: Right i've actually never been To. Israel i'm looking forward
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Speaker 1: to making that trip. Sometime, WELL i thought you you,
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Speaker 1: know But i'm excited to go check it. Out but you're.
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Speaker 1: Right the having mercy On jerusalem and him asking that
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Speaker 1: in verse, twelve that's finally what happens When jesus. Returns
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Speaker 1: he vanquishes the enemies and the Anti christ Surrounding jerusalem
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Speaker 1: and wanting to wipe it off the. Map and we,
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Speaker 1: know as we, mentioned all nations are gathered together Against.
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Speaker 1: Jerusalem and so is that? Amazing can you imagine the
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Speaker 1: scene of The jewish people that didn't listen To jesus
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Speaker 1: In matthew twenty. Four they're stuck there In. Jerusalem they
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Speaker 1: didn't flee to the wilderness as they were supposed to
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Speaker 1: when they saw the abomination of, desolation and they're still.
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Speaker 1: There and three and a half years, later The antichrist
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Speaker 1: is surrounding the city to take it out once and for,
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Speaker 1: all and they're, crying how, long Oh? Lord and it's
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Speaker 1: after they see this vision Of jesus coming, back and
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Speaker 1: there he is on the red horse that's been stained
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Speaker 1: by the blood of his, enemies according To revelation fourteen,
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Speaker 1: twenty because we know and the wine press was trodden
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Speaker 1: without the, city and blood came out of the wine
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Speaker 1: press even unto the horse, bridles you, know by the
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Speaker 1: space of one thousand and six hundred. Furlongs and you,
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Speaker 1: know it's, Amazing gary if you go To Google maps
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Speaker 1: and you look at From, meghetto which is in the
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Speaker 1: northern part Of, israel all the way down in that
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Speaker 1: ravine The valley Of jehosephad As god calls a lot
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Speaker 1: in The, bible The valley Of, decision The valley Of,
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Speaker 1: decision And Mount meghetto all the way down through that.
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Speaker 1: Valley sure, enough it is exactly sixteen hundred, furlongs which
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Speaker 1: which is a horse racing, term but it's approximately two hundred.
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Speaker 1: Miles that's thes and that's a lot of blood to
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Speaker 1: fill four and a half feet or so over two hundred.
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Speaker 1: Miles that's a lot of people That god has wiped
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Speaker 1: out In. Armageddon and when you read further In, zachariah
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Speaker 1: the thing that struck me too is, afterwards The lord
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Speaker 1: talks about how his cities will be spread abroad at
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Speaker 1: that point, afterwards and you think Of god's, cities and
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Speaker 1: you think automatically Of. Jerusalem but in the Millennium he's
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Speaker 1: going to have many cities spread. Abroad and that's What
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Speaker 1: jesus told us In luke remember in the, Parable oh,
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Speaker 1: yes that the faithful servant some would be over ten,
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Speaker 1: cities some over, one some over. None and we have
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Speaker 1: that to look forward. To AND i just love that
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Speaker 1: that we get to rule and reign With christ and
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Speaker 1: be co ers with, him.
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Speaker 2: And that, rulership by the, way is much more complex
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Speaker 2: and much more beautiful that it's usually. Depicted we tend
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Speaker 2: focus on the, drama the, negatives the, wars the rumors of,
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Speaker 2: wars of the, difficulties and of, course With, israel there's a.
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Speaker 2: Hit from the time That jacob wrestled with The angel
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Speaker 2: of The lord to the, Present israel has been under
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Speaker 2: siege under a if you, will a continuing war to
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Speaker 2: win back this world to its original, promises and that's
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Speaker 2: going to. Happen the Whole bible is about. That But
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Speaker 2: zechariah kind of brings it down to a few chapters.
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Speaker 1: And at the end of it isn't amazing. Too at
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Speaker 1: the end Of, zachariah it describes how The lord is
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Speaker 1: going to change the topography of the. Region, yes when
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Speaker 1: he comes, back he splits The mount Of. Olives there's
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Speaker 1: a ravine From jerusalem all the way down Into egypt
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Speaker 1: that he raises. Up it's considered the deepest depression on
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Speaker 1: the Planet earth right, now and he just brings it
20:58
Speaker 1: up to. Level and why does he do, That who,
21:02
Speaker 1: Knows but it's amazing that he.
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Speaker 2: Does you, know you're. Right and there's that sea famous
21:08
Speaker 2: or in Fromus i'm not sure which called The Dead,
21:10
Speaker 2: sea very very low, elevation and in, fact going down
21:15
Speaker 2: from From galilee and the river that runs down to
21:18
Speaker 2: The Dead sea is part of a huge, rift and
21:22
Speaker 2: geologists say that one day that rift is going to
21:26
Speaker 2: cut loose and change the topography all Through. Israel and
21:30
Speaker 2: you know it's in the, book as they, say exactly The.
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Speaker 1: Bible we don't even have to guess about, it, right it's.
21:37
Speaker 1: There and you, know the thing That zachariah is such
21:40
Speaker 1: an interesting has such an interesting story too in The
21:43
Speaker 1: bible when you study Why god raised him, up when he.
21:47
Speaker 1: Did so it was the post exile. Season they had
21:51
Speaker 1: been In babylon for seventy years their. Backs persia comes
21:57
Speaker 1: in And, Cyrus god's anointed in his servant as he,
21:59
Speaker 1: declared And isaiah comes in and Conquers babylon and sets
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Speaker 1: them free to go rebuild the. Temple and there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of ancient writings that describe How daniel Showed cyrus
22:09
Speaker 1: how he was prophesied in the book Of isaiah one
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years before he was even born by.
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Speaker 1: Name and So cyrus is so amazed he sets the
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Speaker 1: captives free to go back and rebuild the. Temple and
22:23
Speaker 1: so they go, back And god raises Up malachi to
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Speaker 1: prophesy to encourage them to rebuild the, temple but they
22:30
Speaker 1: don't get very far because they're spiritually. Immature and that's
22:34
Speaker 1: when then he raises Up zachariah to prophesy all of
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Speaker 1: this to try to push them to spiritual maturity to
22:43
Speaker 1: get them to finish the. Temple AND i think that's
22:45
Speaker 1: amazing That god raised up this prophet and gave him
22:50
Speaker 1: all of these amazing insights Into jesus's first arrival and
22:55
Speaker 1: his second arrival to encourage the people, then but to
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Speaker 1: her us today as.
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Speaker 2: Well and you, Know matt Rereading, zachariah and by the,
23:05
Speaker 2: way if you've got a, chance you'll love it because
23:10
Speaker 2: it does. Things zechariah does things in a very brief,
23:14
Speaker 2: way succinct and just point after point after point right.
23:19
Speaker 2: Online i'm looking at chapter, two the man with the measuring,
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Speaker 2: line chapter, three the cleansing Of, joshua The High, priest
23:28
Speaker 2: and then chapter four The Golden candlestick and the olive,
23:33
Speaker 2: trees and then there's a flying, scroll and then there
23:37
Speaker 2: are four. Chariots and as these symbols come one after,
23:42
Speaker 2: another you talk about something that's, inspiring it's just you
23:47
Speaker 2: can almost see the big screen movie of this thing
23:50
Speaker 2: as it rolls, past and it's so dramatic and so
23:55
Speaker 2: positive when it comes to the power and the presence
23:58
Speaker 2: of The, lord it's it's really breathtaking to. ME i
24:03
Speaker 2: read through it again before we sat down to, talk
24:05
Speaker 2: AND i had forgotten how dramatic it.
24:10
Speaker 1: Is it's an outstanding. Book and you're. Right those visions
24:14
Speaker 1: That god Gave zachariah from chapter, one verse seven all
24:17
Speaker 1: the way to chapter, six verse, fifteen he gave them
24:20
Speaker 1: him all of them in one. Night, yes and you
24:24
Speaker 1: have the rider on the red. Horse we discussed Where
24:26
Speaker 1: god declares the end from the beginning the aftermath of the,
24:30
Speaker 1: battle and Then god spends the time and the rest
24:33
Speaker 1: of the book telling you how it gets to that,
24:37
Speaker 1: battle The battle Of. Armageddon and even in chapter five
24:42
Speaker 1: you have the woman in The epha describing how That
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Speaker 1: harlot system will return to its base In. Babylon.
24:51
Speaker 2: Ufo, yes an epha which is a basket and an
24:56
Speaker 2: evil woman riding in the, basket and you talk about, You.
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Speaker 1: Yeah that's one you you don't want to see, though
25:04
Speaker 1: the wickedness returning to The Middle.
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Speaker 2: East that's for.
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Speaker 1: Sure she even has on her forehead a name Written.
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Speaker 1: Wickedness and it's amazing how when you study that holy,
25:15
Speaker 1: event you have the women and the woman in The,
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Speaker 1: epha and you have these, storks which are an unclean
25:22
Speaker 1: bird to The, jews coming and lifting it up to
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Speaker 1: return to the plane Of shinar so that it could
25:28
Speaker 1: establish itself once again on her own, base, right and
25:33
Speaker 1: it automatically takes you all the way back to what
25:36
Speaker 1: is the plane Of. Shinar, well it's the founding With
25:39
Speaker 1: nimrod And. Babylon it's that Whole harlot occultic system that
25:43
Speaker 1: began With nimrod And babylon and finishes with The antichrist And.
25:48
Speaker 1: Revelation it's it comes full. Circle And zachariah prophesied. That
25:54
Speaker 1: and so all.
25:55
Speaker 2: Those kids carrying flags in the streets and wearing strange
25:58
Speaker 2: costumes and demonstrate Against israel should Read zechariah Because zechariah
26:04
Speaker 2: says it very. Plainly god has a plan for National,
26:08
Speaker 2: israel and it's a point by point by point. Plan
26:12
Speaker 2: and when you come to the end Of zechariah's, prophecy
26:17
Speaker 2: you come to an amazing. Resolution it's JUST i, mean
26:21
Speaker 2: you take a deep breath and, Say, ah at, last
26:25
Speaker 2: now we get a little bit of a picture of
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Speaker 2: What god is.
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Speaker 1: Doing and you're, Right, gary you do come to a.
26:30
Speaker 1: Resolution and the resolution that the world needs to be
26:33
Speaker 1: aware of is that resolution Is. Christ, yes The, messiah
26:36
Speaker 1: The king Of, israel and he's our, king but he's
26:40
Speaker 1: also the king of The, jews and he will have
26:43
Speaker 1: his eternal city and he's going to rule and reign
26:45
Speaker 1: from the throne Of david in that. City as The
26:48
Speaker 1: angel Promised mary when she was pregnant with him that
26:51
Speaker 1: her son would sit on the throne Of. David that's
26:54
Speaker 1: a ruling political throne whose capital is In. Jerusalem and
26:59
Speaker 1: all of the people that want to wipe Out israel
27:03
Speaker 1: the thing that they it's almost like they don't understand
27:07
Speaker 1: the spiritual side of. IT i know they, don't or
27:10
Speaker 1: else they would. Turn But satan is taking advantage of
27:14
Speaker 1: that and really getting a lot of people mustered Against.
27:18
Speaker 1: Israel and at some point we know From, zachariah they
27:21
Speaker 1: will stand alone in this world and they will be
27:26
Speaker 1: pushed to the. Brink and we know From zachariah thirteen
27:29
Speaker 1: that during the, tribulation two out of Three jews, die,
27:32
Speaker 1: unfortunately and during that time, period and so one of
27:36
Speaker 1: the missions that we all need to do is to
27:39
Speaker 1: be witnessing to The, jews Because god gives us the,
27:43
Speaker 1: ratio not the, number, thankfully so the More jews we get,
27:46
Speaker 1: saved the less there are of the two.
27:48
Speaker 2: Thirds and praying for the, peace of.
27:51
Speaker 1: Praying for the piece Of, jerusalem because ever Since october,
27:54
Speaker 1: seventh there's just been tension, yes back and, forth and
27:57
Speaker 1: it's hard to sit here and imagine that that's been
28:01
Speaker 1: almost a year.
28:02
Speaker 2: AGO i know it's amazing time, flies and even as
28:06
Speaker 2: we're sitting here talking about, this there is intense, plotting, planning, fighting,
28:13
Speaker 2: positioning Politicking Israel. IS i think at the crossroads of
28:20
Speaker 2: the Planet. Earth if there is a spot on Planet
28:23
Speaker 2: earth that is the place Where god has his, finger that's.
28:26
Speaker 2: It and everything else is rotating around this political chicanery
28:33
Speaker 2: of all, sorts financial chicanery all over the, world, wars
28:37
Speaker 2: rumors of, wars And god's finger is still right there On.
28:41
Speaker 1: Israel you, Know i've Often i'm an engineer by, trade
28:44
Speaker 1: AND i was an engineer for nineteen years, wow before
28:49
Speaker 1: The lord called me away at the end of last
28:52
Speaker 1: year for a lot of. Reasons and so for three
28:55
Speaker 1: and a half YEARS i was doing consulting full time
28:58
Speaker 1: as an engineer and studying The bible and teaching at the.
29:02
Speaker 1: Church AND i think there's something to. THAT i Think
29:06
Speaker 1: jerusalem could actually be the center of the universe if
29:10
Speaker 1: you were to unfold all those other dimensions that we
29:13
Speaker 1: don't have access to right. Now but When, jesus we
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Speaker 1: know when we rule and reign with him in the,
29:19
Speaker 1: millennium if we suffer With him and we're ruling and
29:23
Speaker 1: reign With, christ there's a New heaven and a New.
29:26
Speaker 1: Earth we have access to the throne room of the.
29:29
Speaker 1: Universe AND i would not be Surprised gary if when
29:33
Speaker 1: you peel back those dimensions and you unfold them somehow
29:36
Speaker 1: and have access to, them That jerusalem is not just
29:39
Speaker 1: right there At god's, throne the center of it. All
29:43
Speaker 1: wouldn't that make sense That satan has been rebelling against
29:46
Speaker 1: it forever and wanting that why that, land.
29:49
Speaker 2: Why that piece of real, lihy why the temple? Mount
29:53
Speaker 2: and by the, way WHEN i think Of, israel the
29:57
Speaker 2: thing THAT i think of is amount of olives Where
30:00
Speaker 2: jesus' foot is going to touch down one. Day prophecy
30:04
Speaker 2: tells us that in that day when he Is lord To,
30:08
Speaker 2: earth just exactly the opposite way that he left from
30:12
Speaker 2: amount Of, olives he's going to touch down and geography
30:17
Speaker 2: will be. Changed And i'm certain that that geography is
30:22
Speaker 2: exactly what you're talking. About he knows what he's going
30:25
Speaker 2: to do with that piece of, land and that piece
30:27
Speaker 2: of land is right in the center of his. Plans that's.
30:30
Speaker 1: Right it's his name's on that, land nobody, else's and it's,
30:35
Speaker 1: his and he's given it To. Abraham he confirmed it
30:37
Speaker 1: again To, isaac he confirmed it To. Jacob it was
30:40
Speaker 1: by a perpetual decree that would never had nothing to
30:44
Speaker 1: do With israel's. Obedience it was. Unconditional this land is.
30:48
Speaker 1: Yours and the spiritual attack on that promise has been
30:54
Speaker 1: since the very. Beginning and it's, amazing, Too, gary when
30:57
Speaker 1: you look at the land he actually prophesies and promise to.
31:00
Speaker 1: Them they're occupying the smallest sliver of it. Possible the
31:05
Speaker 1: land goes from The River euphrates Through iraq all the
31:09
Speaker 1: way to The River nile In. Egypt that's their. Land
31:13
Speaker 1: and he promised that To, abraham and so it'll. Be
31:17
Speaker 1: it'll be amazing to see how all these wars and battles,
31:20
Speaker 1: unfold how much of the land they start to get more.
31:23
Speaker 1: Of maybe in our, lifetime who, knows but certainly When
31:28
Speaker 1: jesus rules and, REIGNS.
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Speaker 2: I would hazard that it's happening right. NOW i, MEAN
31:32
Speaker 2: i don't want to say dates or, anything AND i
31:34
Speaker 2: don't do, that But i'm looking at what's happening right,
31:37
Speaker 2: now and From russia all the way down Into Northeast,
31:42
Speaker 2: africa all the way Across turkey And turkey you know
31:47
Speaker 2: is where the seven churches were. Located and you take
31:50
Speaker 2: all that biblical land and it is as hot as
31:54
Speaker 2: hot can be right. Now, now there is, plotting there is,
31:57
Speaker 2: planning there is global maneuvering of all, sorts and for some,
32:04
Speaker 2: Reason god put a lot of oil in that. COUNTRY
32:10
Speaker 2: i understand that the oil reserves in The Middle east
32:13
Speaker 2: and under The Mediterranean sea are the largest oil reserves
32:17
Speaker 2: in the whole wide. World and so there's another reason
32:20
Speaker 2: to fight Over god's, country that's.
32:23
Speaker 1: Right and they just discovered. That right off the coast Of.
32:25
Speaker 1: Israel they found this huge gas and oil reserve that's
32:29
Speaker 1: been there. Forever they just discovered. It and that could
32:33
Speaker 1: be the reason why in The gog And magog, War
32:36
Speaker 1: russia comes down to seek booty or, wealth to Steal israel's.
32:42
Speaker 1: Wealth they may become a very wealthy nation after, all
32:45
Speaker 1: which they haven't been for.
32:47
Speaker 2: Decades i'm going to ask you a. Question you've preached
32:50
Speaker 2: to A bible believing, group people who are hanging on
32:55
Speaker 2: the word Of god and just loving to hear about.
32:57
Speaker 2: It you talk about when you talked About zachariah over
33:03
Speaker 2: your recent. Study what was their? Reaction what came out
33:08
Speaker 2: of their.
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Speaker 1: Participation Yet i'll answer that this. WAY i think when
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Speaker 1: you go To revelation, Nineteen god declares the testimony Of
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Speaker 1: jesus is the spirit of. Prophecy and we like at
33:24
Speaker 1: our church At New, city like you Guys, gary we're prophecy.
33:27
Speaker 1: Watchers we are. Watching and when you line Up, zachariah
33:32
Speaker 1: because everything prophetic in The word Of god speaks Of.
33:35
Speaker 1: Jesus somehow it's the testimony Of. Jesus some, way you
33:39
Speaker 1: just have to find how does it point to? Him
33:42
Speaker 1: and In, Zachariah god speaks Of jesus in a lot of.
33:46
Speaker 1: Ways he speaks of him as the stone with seven,
33:48
Speaker 1: eyes which is a link To. Revelation he speaks of,
33:51
Speaker 1: him he speaks of his, Throne jesus's. Throne he speaks
33:55
Speaker 1: Of jesus The, nazarene which was a prophecy you don't
33:58
Speaker 1: find anywhere. Else he prophesied the king riding on a,
34:02
Speaker 1: donkey And zacharie nine to nine The messiah coming. Forth
34:06
Speaker 1: and he fulfilled that certainly to the day according To
34:09
Speaker 1: daniel nine in the Seventy weeks Of, daniel when he
34:11
Speaker 1: would ride in on that. Donkey so he's going to
34:14
Speaker 1: write in on a, Donkey But daniel nine tells you
34:17
Speaker 1: when will he ride in on the on the? Donkey
34:19
Speaker 1: and when you study the life Of, jesus he always
34:24
Speaker 1: he always slipped away when they tried to grab him
34:26
Speaker 1: and saying things, like my time's not, yet my time's not.
34:29
Speaker 1: Yet it's not my time. Yet and then then one
34:32
Speaker 1: day he orchestrated it to Fulfill zachari at nine to
34:36
Speaker 1: nine on the day That daniel nine. Prophesied and that's.
34:41
Speaker 1: Amazing it's a lot of.
34:42
Speaker 2: Minds it is a lot of.
34:43
Speaker 1: Nines, Yeah And zachari describes him as The shepherd his
34:48
Speaker 1: betrayal for thirty pieces of silver, actually and what they
34:52
Speaker 1: did with the money to buy a. Field remember when he's,
34:55
Speaker 1: portrayed he's betrayed in The New testament for thirty pieces
34:58
Speaker 1: of silver and silver in and The bible always speaks
35:01
Speaker 1: of blood. Levitically and that's why the tabernacle is carried
35:05
Speaker 1: on the poles with the silver, sockets because our relationship
35:09
Speaker 1: With jesus stands on the.
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Speaker 2: Blood could Read. Zechariah since we're talking about, this rejoice,
35:16
Speaker 2: greatly old daughter Of, zion, shout Oh daughter Of, Jerusalem
35:21
Speaker 2: behold my king cometh unto. Thee he is just having
35:28
Speaker 2: salvation slowly writing upon an ass and upon a cult
35:32
Speaker 2: the full of an. Ass, now how about that for
35:35
Speaker 2: a compact. Statement one? Verse amazing one. Verse it's a whole.
35:41
Speaker 2: Story it's a Whole. Bible and there it is In
35:44
Speaker 2: zechariah nine to.
35:45
Speaker 1: Nine and not just that it would be their, king
35:48
Speaker 1: but what he would ride. On, yeah the fact in
35:51
Speaker 1: The New testament that it was never ridden on, before
35:54
Speaker 1: which if you've ever tried to ride on a wild
35:56
Speaker 1: animal that's never been set, on they don't, cooperate But
36:01
Speaker 1: jesus made it, cooperate, oh of, course and come. Down
36:05
Speaker 1: and then that he would be pierced or. Crucified crucifixion
36:09
Speaker 1: In zachari's day wasn't even invented. Yet and yet there
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Speaker 1: it is that they shall look upon him whom they have,
36:16
Speaker 1: pierced when he returns the second. Time and then of
36:20
Speaker 1: course his ruling and reading in the destruction At, armageddon
36:24
Speaker 1: how he just when you Read zachariah at the end
36:27
Speaker 1: in chapter, fourteen when their eyes melt in their eye
36:30
Speaker 1: sockets and all this tissue melts away At, armageddon And
36:35
Speaker 1: jesus comes back and we Know gary From Colossian's chapter
36:39
Speaker 1: one that by him all things, consist and in The
36:44
Speaker 1: greek that means are held together literally.
36:48
Speaker 2: Literally and you.
36:50
Speaker 1: Know as a guy that's an engineer AND i love,
36:53
Speaker 1: SCIENCE i think The bible is the greatest science book ever.
36:55
Speaker 1: Written i'll never forget this a few years. Ago scientists
37:00
Speaker 1: have been looking in quantum physics for decades in terms
37:04
Speaker 1: of what holds an atom together because you have you
37:08
Speaker 1: have a nucleus in the center of the, atom and
37:11
Speaker 1: you have all these electrons and protons spinning around. It,
37:15
Speaker 1: well they're like. Charges they're negative and positively. Charged and
37:19
Speaker 1: if you take the ends of two magnets that are south,
37:21
Speaker 1: poles they. Repel so what's what is holding those those atoms?
37:26
Speaker 1: Together because you have all these like charges close to one,
37:29
Speaker 1: another they should be ripping. Apart and when you can
37:32
Speaker 1: break that, bond we've discovered it's the greatest source of
37:35
Speaker 1: energy in man's, history the nuclear. Bomb but what holds it? Together,
37:40
Speaker 1: well in TWENTY i think is around twenty, eighteen maybe twenty,
37:43
Speaker 1: nineteen there was an article. Published they they've been calling
37:47
Speaker 1: it gluons. Forever you, know they're just they're.
37:50
Speaker 2: Gluons, yeah.
37:53
Speaker 1: They just made something up because they didn't know what
37:55
Speaker 1: it was, sticky and they finally discovered about five years
38:00
Speaker 1: ago that it's sound. Waves sound waves are what's holding
38:04
Speaker 1: every single atom. Together, well that's what The bible has
38:08
Speaker 1: said all, along by, him all things consist or are held.
38:12
Speaker 1: Together and we know In genesis one That jesus spoke
38:15
Speaker 1: everything into. Existence so by the word of his, mouth
38:19
Speaker 1: all things are held, together and he's holding them together right.
38:23
Speaker 1: Now imagine the creative of the universe holding even his
38:27
Speaker 1: enemies together right. Now, well in Zachari a, fourteen when he,
38:30
Speaker 1: returns we learn that's how he wipes them out by
38:34
Speaker 1: the word of his, mouth the sword of the, spirit
38:37
Speaker 1: and he just lets them, go and that atomic structure
38:41
Speaker 1: just falls. Apart it's not even a, battle, really you.
38:44
Speaker 1: Know In christian circles we always call it the battle
38:47
Speaker 1: of arm, again and there's really no. Battle it's a staging, ground,
38:50
Speaker 1: Yes And jesus comes back and there is no. Contest
38:54
Speaker 1: he just wipes them. Out And i've always found that
38:57
Speaker 1: fascinating THAT i do wish wi you, know as a young,
39:01
Speaker 1: MAN i do wish The lord would give us just
39:04
Speaker 1: a few minutes to go out and fight for, him you,
39:06
Speaker 1: know just let us do something as a part of this.
39:08
Speaker 1: War but he doesn't need, us according To isaiah sixty, Three, well.
39:13
Speaker 2: My physique wouldn't have allowed me to fight that kind of.
39:17
Speaker 2: Fight but we're fighting another kind of in the, spirit
39:20
Speaker 2: in the, spirit in the.
39:21
Speaker 1: Spirit that's.
39:23
Speaker 2: Right, Ah, Yes. Zachariah it's an amazing. Book AND i
39:29
Speaker 2: wouldn't have said this. Before a few days, ago WHEN
39:32
Speaker 2: i sat down and Reread, ZACHARIAH i had Forgot and
39:36
Speaker 2: as soon AS i, FINISHED i thought everybody should read this.
39:40
Speaker 2: Book i'm going to go out and tell everybody to Read,
39:42
Speaker 2: zachariah because it's not, dull it is, exciting and once
39:47
Speaker 2: you begin to put the little pieces, together it has
39:49
Speaker 2: an incredible. Message that's.
39:51
Speaker 1: RIGHT i really appreciate you guys putting the series on
39:53
Speaker 1: your platform, too just to get the word out. There
39:55
Speaker 1: and you, know one of the things The lord told
39:57
Speaker 1: Me gary in twenty twenty when he founded the church
40:00
Speaker 1: in the middle of the, shutdowns he, Said, matt my
40:03
Speaker 1: people of the. Church doors have been, shuttered and my
40:07
Speaker 1: people have gone, astray and when they, reopen they'll have
40:10
Speaker 1: nothing to return. To And i've always thought about that
40:14
Speaker 1: because when you look at the state of the church,
40:17
Speaker 1: globally it's very, anemic it's very watered, down it's very
40:22
Speaker 1: very much. Lukewarm As jesus described in The book Of,
40:25
Speaker 1: revelation were in.
40:26
Speaker 2: The church of la. Less so as time goes, by.
40:29
Speaker 1: Yes, yes and and we're getting It's amus eight one
40:34
Speaker 1: that we've been in a famine of The word Of
40:36
Speaker 1: god and the body Of. Christ we have to get
40:42
Speaker 1: the word back into the, people into the hands of the,
40:45
Speaker 1: people and try to repair the biblical illiteracy within the
40:48
Speaker 1: body Of. Christ we have to it is imperative in
40:52
Speaker 1: this day that The body Of christ is strengthened by
40:55
Speaker 1: The word Of god and only The word Of. God
40:57
Speaker 1: and the thing about when you study famines gear and a,
41:00
Speaker 1: famine people will eat. Anything they're just so starved and
41:05
Speaker 1: malnourished in, anemic they'll eat anything that's put before. Them
41:09
Speaker 1: and so anybody at any church can get up and
41:11
Speaker 1: teach a false, doctrine teach something that's not in The,
41:13
Speaker 1: bible and the people just eat it up because they're
41:17
Speaker 1: starving for The. Word and so we've got to get
41:19
Speaker 1: the truth of The word Of god back into the
41:22
Speaker 1: hands of the people and let them feast on the.
41:25
Speaker 2: Word totally. Agree NOW i have to read something. ELSE
41:29
Speaker 2: i need. YOU i need your commentary on this. One
41:31
Speaker 2: Sure zachariah, fourteen the final chapter Of. Zechariah behold the
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Speaker 2: day of The lord, cometh and thy spoil shall be.
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Speaker 2: Divided in the midst of the FOUR i will gather
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Speaker 2: all nations Against jerusalem to. Battle NOW i could read,
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Speaker 2: more but that's sort of the big opening. Punch this
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Speaker 2: is the conclusion Of, zechariah the gathering of all nations to.
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Speaker 2: Battle do we not see?
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Speaker 1: That?
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Speaker 2: NOW i have the feeling that something like this is
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Speaker 2: shaping up even as we.
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Speaker 1: Speak it's every nation On earth is turning their back
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Speaker 1: on them right. Now and the wane skills For god
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Speaker 1: are always the nation Of, israel you know those. Are
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Speaker 1: that's his balance is how do you Treat? Israel and
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Speaker 1: you can actually track the rise and fall of nations
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Speaker 1: based on their treatment Of. ISRAEL i, mean just look
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Speaker 1: At england for. Example After World War, two they partitioned
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Speaker 1: a huge chunk of land and created Trans. Jordan they
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Speaker 1: took land From israel and gave it To. Jordan And
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Speaker 1: god has removed a lot of, favor so to, speak
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Speaker 1: from the nation Of. England since. THEN i, mean look
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Speaker 1: at every statistic of their. Country divorce rates have gone,
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Speaker 1: up murders have gone, up violent crime has gone, up
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Speaker 1: their economy has, slowed all because you can pinpoint it
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Speaker 1: to one time After World War, two when they turn
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Speaker 1: their back On england On, ISRAEL i mean On, israel On,
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Speaker 1: israel and so you see, it and you've been seeing
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Speaker 1: it since the founding Of. Israel and we need to
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Speaker 1: pray for the peace Of. Jerusalem we also need to
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Speaker 1: be praying gary for our elections coming, up that The
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Speaker 1: lord restores righteous people in the highest office of the,
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Speaker 1: land all the way down into the school, boards the,
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Speaker 1: mayor the city, council the local. Governments we need righteousness
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Speaker 1: And god fearing people back in this nation sitting in
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Speaker 1: office so that they understand the importance Of israel and
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Speaker 1: That america doesn't go the same.
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Speaker 2: Way and by the, way here At Prophecy, watchers that's
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Speaker 2: one of our main. Messages by the, WAY i should
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Speaker 2: mention that this Coming december fifth through, eighth twenty twenty,
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Speaker 2: four this year we're going to Have christmas In. Branson
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Speaker 2: we'll Have mondo And la Mar, zouli And I'm Billy,
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Speaker 2: Crome Bill, Sollas Ken. Johnson we're going to have a
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Speaker 2: lot of people, speaking AND i THINK i know what
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Speaker 2: they're going to be speaking about pretty much the things
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Speaker 2: that we've been speaking about right here In zechariah And
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Speaker 2: matt you're going to be At branson, too RIGHT i will.
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Speaker 1: Be i'm, excited excited to be. There AND i was
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Speaker 1: In Colorado springs with you guys In june And orlando In,
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Speaker 1: february and it's going to be a really exciting time
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Speaker 1: to be with the, remnant The body Of. Christ it'll
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Speaker 1: be roughly a month after the. Election we'll kind of
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Speaker 1: have some finality to the craziness we've been living in
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Speaker 1: for the last four, years and we'll, see we'll see
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Speaker 1: what The lord.
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Speaker 2: Does, listen there's just not enough. Time i've had to
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Speaker 2: hurry BECAUSE i wanted to GET i wanted us to
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Speaker 2: get more or less all the way Through zechariah to
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Speaker 2: develop the. Fear love it because it's an exciting. Book,
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Speaker 2: NOW i think The bible is, exciting but this particular
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Speaker 2: book compacts a huge amount of information in fourteen. Chapters
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Speaker 2: it's just.
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Speaker 1: Amazing it is, amazing and it's as we wrap, Up,
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Speaker 1: Gary i'll just say my encouragement to. Everyone you've been
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Speaker 1: encouraging people to Read, zachary and absolutely they need to
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Speaker 1: do that and get into The word Of. God it
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Speaker 1: is your sort of the. Spirit it's your, offense and
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Speaker 1: it's the shield of, faith it's your. Defense AND i, Think,
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Speaker 1: gary you could ask a Thousand christians what is faith
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Speaker 1: and you might get nine hundred and ninety different. Answers
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Speaker 1: but it's amazing that The bible defines Faith hebrews eleven.
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Speaker 1: One faith is the substance of all that is hoped
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Speaker 1: for and the evidence of things not. Seen and when
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Speaker 1: you study that in The greek the substance of all
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Speaker 1: that's hoped, for it it Is. Christ he is the
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Speaker 1: substance of all that we hope for as our king And. Savior,
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Speaker 1: well why is faith important for The? Christian will you
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Speaker 1: get To hebrews, eleven verse. Six for without, faith it
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Speaker 1: is impossible to Please. God so if it's impossible to
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Speaker 1: please him without, faith we should know how to go get.
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Speaker 1: It and That's romans ten. Seventeen faith comes by, hearing
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Speaker 1: hearing by the word Of. God so the word Of
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Speaker 1: god is the only way we can build our. Faith
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Speaker 1: that we can be. Watchers we can see what's going.
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Speaker 1: On jesus challenged us to know the times and the
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Speaker 1: seasons that we're living. In we've got to be watchful
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Speaker 1: so that he doesn't overtake us as a thief in
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Speaker 1: the night from Our revelation. Sixteen and if we are,
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Speaker 1: watching he won't overcome and take us as a thief
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Speaker 1: in the. Night we won't be surprised when the rapture.
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Speaker 1: Happens and you can you can stand in this time
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Speaker 1: because the, deception the evil around the world that is
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Speaker 1: just overtaking the earth right now and unleashing is unlike
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Speaker 1: anything we've Ever in, fact.
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Speaker 2: Since you said that a comment on, THIS i have
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Speaker 2: noticed the same, thing and with that sort of a sinking.
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Speaker 2: Feeling although we shouldn't have that sinking feeling because our
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Speaker 2: faith is In god through The Lord Jesus. Christ, nevertheless
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Speaker 2: you watch, television you read a paper or, magazine you
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Speaker 2: read anything in the, news and your heart just sinks
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Speaker 2: because it's getting it's coming. Apart but we shouldn't be, surprised, Right.
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Speaker 1: No we, shouldn't because The lord told us that all
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Speaker 1: of this would. Happen and the real, question the challenge
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Speaker 1: for a lot of people in the church is how
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Speaker 1: much more does The lord let us see before he
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Speaker 1: calls us? Home how much more does the church have
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Speaker 1: to become apostate before he takes us? Home how much
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Speaker 1: more does the enemy have to try to set up
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Speaker 1: the beast system before he takes us? Home and, really
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Speaker 1: that's what's been happening since twenty, Nineteen, Gary, really when
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Speaker 1: you look at, it you, know throughout History satan has
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Speaker 1: always tried to bring in the Anti christ upon the
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Speaker 1: world and then force a system. Afterward he's done it
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Speaker 1: From nimrod all the way Through hitler's, day and the
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Speaker 1: world rebels against, that and so he changed his tactics this.
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Speaker 1: Time he's very, clever and he's Trying since twenty nineteen
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Speaker 1: and twenty, twenty he's been trying to bring a system
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Speaker 1: on the world that will be ready for somebody to walk.
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Speaker 1: Into and if he can get the world in agreement
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Speaker 1: with a, system then he has someone in the wings
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Speaker 1: waiting to stand by to walk in and take over that.
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Speaker 1: System and that's what you, hear, Right you've heard it
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Speaker 1: for four or five years. Now think of how many
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Speaker 1: world leaders you've heard saying we need a one world,
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Speaker 1: answer we need a one world, government we need a
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Speaker 1: one world solution to this. Problem, well that's the end.
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Speaker 1: Times that's what's.
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Speaker 2: Happening by the, way we now have the. Technology we
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Speaker 2: have the satellite, networks communications, networks we have incredible science
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Speaker 2: popping up everywhere that enables the world to become one
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Speaker 2: more or less, electronically let's put it that. Way that's,
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Speaker 2: Right and The bible talks about. That it talks about
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Speaker 2: a global system that's going to control every, man, woman
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Speaker 2: and child on the face of the planet during the,
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Speaker 2: tribulation but we see the means by which that might.
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Speaker 2: Come so, again when you compare the prophetic truth Of
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Speaker 2: zachariah with the developmental truth Planet, earth things are coming
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Speaker 2: together in.
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Speaker 1: A, hurry and we shouldn't have a spirit of fear
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Speaker 1: about it at. All and my other encouragement for all
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Speaker 1: of the believers out there, listening do not let the
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Speaker 1: spirit of fear take a footholder root in your life at.
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Speaker 1: All because of, this you do see the headlines falling
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Speaker 1: into place of what's going on in The, bible but
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Speaker 1: it should give you a sense of, urgency to live
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Speaker 1: that much more for The king, now and to be
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Speaker 1: excited because it just means we're getting that much closer
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Speaker 1: to the rapture of The, church which is.
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Speaker 2: Amazing it is, Amazing and that's another, subject but what a,
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Speaker 2: subject you, Know. MATT i really appreciate your. Coming and
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Speaker 2: there's so much more we could say About, zachariah BUT
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Speaker 2: i hope we've sort of stimulated a little discourse out
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Speaker 2: there that people will be inclined to jump into and
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Speaker 2: look around and see what This zachariah prophet is really,
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Speaker 2: about because it's. Amazing it.
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Speaker 1: Is, yeah thank you for having me appreciate.
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Speaker 2: IT i appreciate your being, here and may The lord
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Speaker 2: bless your work and may your church prosper in these strange.
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Speaker 2: Days I'm Gary. Steerman, hey you keep. Watching we are