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721. Bible Study: Isaiah 30 (Spiritual Discernment, Rejecting God, Return of Messiah) · Faith by annm2705

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  We're on chapter 30 of Isaiah and once again this gets good.
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  There's some I think revelations that I got as I was reading
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  through that this morning. And again Jesus is featured 700
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  something BC Isaiah is talking about Jesus.
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  This is wild. So let's get right into it and
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  start with a prayer. Dear God, please be with us as
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  we read through this and know that we are seeking you reveal
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  yourself to us and to everyone who listens to this.
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  I ask for this in Jesus name. Amen.
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  OK it talks about woe to the obstinate nation, but actually
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  that's what the title is in study Bible.
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  But Isaiah's words are woe to the obstinate children.
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  So this is a warning to obstinate children, Well,
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  obstinate. I looked that up in the context
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  of Isaiah in the Hebrew and the word that was used, I forgot the
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  Hebrew word, but it means rebellious or stubborn children.
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  So I take this as, I mean, this is obviously for speaking to
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  Israel or to Judah, I guess about the this, this actually
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  has like multiple meanings, like it has a an immediate
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  fulfillment and a future fulfillment.
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  And the things that are stated here, because God doesn't have
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  favoritism and because he is the same and he doesn't change,
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  these things can can be applied to us today too.
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  So we can learn something from this.
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  So it's not just a prophecy way back when.
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  And I do think it is also about the future.
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  And you know, maybe it's the future for Israel, maybe it's
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  the future for all of us. But certainly we can learn from
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  the way God responded to Israel. And that's what the way God
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  responded to Israel is, the way God will respond to us as well.
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  So this says woe to the obstinate children, the ones who
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  are rebellious or stubborn. Like I can say I was one of
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  those rebellious or stubborn people.
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  I believe, looking back now in hindsight, that God was probably
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  trying to call me a long time ago.
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  And because I kept getting invitations like from the church
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  to participate in certain things and I kept turning it down
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  because I was focused on my kids and I just didn't feel like I
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  had any free time. And I avoided it.
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  And, and it was just weird. Like I actually got the feeling
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  back then I was like, gosh, this is just weird that it just keeps
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  happening over and over again that people keep asking me these
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  things. And I just think it's strange,
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  but I didn't, you know, that's all I thought of it.
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  I just ignored it and I just went along my way.
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  And so it took me years later until God just like destroyed
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  everything in my life that I finally started seeking God.
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  And that's what happens to stubborn and rebellious people
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  is when you are not listening to God, he's going to get your
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  attention. And that's how he got my
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  attention. So if you're fortunate to listen
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  when he calls you, you may not experience the hardship that
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  some of us do, But when you're rebellious and you're thinking
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  you can do it all on your own or you've, you know, you've dabble
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  in things that are idolatry kind of stuff.
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  Then like I accidentally got into astrology when I was a teen
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  and it all started from finding a book on it in the library,
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  which I read and I was interested in it.
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  And then I like just got more into it.
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  And that's how it can start so innocently.
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  And and then just like there was like so much chaos in my life
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  and I had no idea. But it was probably because I
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  was messing around with that. And it wasn't until after I read
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  the Bible that I threw away books that I had about it all.
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  So that was one specific thing about my life in the past that
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  that, you know, was rebellious to God and, and it was like
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  started very innocently. So all these things can start
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  very innocently, but it doesn't matter how they start, they are
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  still rebellion to God and they are still like seeking another
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  spirit, quite honestly. And you don't even know it.
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  So it's so important to respond to God and draw near to Him when
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  he calls you. So OK, going in back into the
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  Word, woe to the obstinate children, declares the Lord to
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  those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming an
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  alliance, but not by my spirit, heaping sin upon sin.
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  So people who decide that they're going to do whatever
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  they're going to do and they're going to make up their own plans
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  and they're not going to consult God.
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  God's not happy with that. He wants to be consulted and
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  forming an alliance, teaming up with others.
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  But this is where he's saying, but not by my spirit.
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  And so when I think about not by my spirit, I think about
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  Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12, because this is reality, Paul
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  says, for our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but
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  against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers
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  of this Dark World and against the spiritual forces of evil in
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  the heavenly realms. If you know about the Book of
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  Enoch, the Book of Enoch basically tells us that there
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  were certain, I guess, angels that were given territories over
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  dirt, different parts of the earth.
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  They were called watchers and they rebelled against God and
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  they did things that God told them not to do.
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  For example, one thing was teaching people astrology was
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  one thing, and so that came from the evil ones.
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  The evil natures are the evil forces, spiritual forces in the
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  heavenly realms. That's where it came from.
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  And so the book of Enoch, I wish that was actually in the Bible
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  because it really explains these things that are hinted at
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  through the Bible. But the book of Enoch actually
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  makes it clear and and I think the book of Enoch just, you
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  know, expands and explains the things that are in the Bible.
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  Like in Revelation, it says that Satan, which is the devil, his
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  tale sweeps 1/3 of the angels from heaven or a third of the
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  stars, which are symbolic of angels in the Book of Revelation
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  and sweeps them down into heaven.
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  Well, that lines up with the Book of Enoch, what he said,
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  like Satan and his evil spiritual forces in the heavenly
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  realms, they all teamed together.
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  And the Book of Enoch gets into detail about what their names
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  are, what they did when they came here.
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  And you know, if you think about it, think about like Egypt, the
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  pyramids, all the great mysteries of these things that
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  were built in times when people were very primitive and how did
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  they build these things? And we, we all like marvel at it
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  like, wow, this is amazing. How did they do that?
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  Maybe they did that with some help of the spiritual forces of
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  evil in the heavenly realms. Think about that.
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  I mean, if if you really get into it, you'll probably come.
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  You may. I came to that conclusion that
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  that makes sense. That's where it came from
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  because nobody here on earth figures it out.
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  They don't know how it came. It's just a great mystery.
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  Well, yeah, it's a great mystery because it was a spiritual force
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  of evil from the heavenly realms that came and helped this
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  happen. I mean, that's the one thing is
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  people are their eyes are starting to open.
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  I actually saw a quick clip of Tucker Carlson talking about the
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  spiritual realm. And and I, you know, this recent
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  discussions of Tucker talking about spiritual realm is just,
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  you know, it was quite shocking to me, honestly, because he was
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  always a newscaster. I know he's just like a human
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  being like everybody else. But all of a sudden he's
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  starting to, and he's actually commented about some
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  supernatural weird things that happened to him personally.
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  And it's just, I guess when those things actually happen to
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  a person, then you start talking about it.
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  But he would seem like a very conservative person that, you
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  know, wouldn't necessarily talk about these things.
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  I'm sure he didn't talk about these things quite, you know,
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  much of his life until recently when some weird things started
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  happening to him. So anyway, the spiritual realm
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  is real. It's all over the Bible and
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  churches don't talk about it. And I don't know, I mean,
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  society doesn't talk about it, but yet they talk about aliens
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  and our government officials talk about aliens and there's
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  all these files about aliens. Well, what if aliens are
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  actually from they're, they're spiritual forces of evil from
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  the heavenly realms? What if that's what they are?
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  They aren't beings from another planet.
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  I believe that's what they are. They are spiritual forces of
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  evil in the heavenly realms. And there's documentation and it
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  goes back very long time ago, like I remember, you know, like,
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  I mean, you've always heard of UFOs and things and those were
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  always the strange people that thought about that stuff.
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  And now you see, like in government sessions, they're
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  talking about these things in the past several years.
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  And that just blew my mind. It's like everything that's
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  happened since 2020 really got weird on the earth.
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  And, and it's things that people never talked about that all of a
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  sudden are starting to come out and, and things that people
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  would say were our conspiracy theories are being proven true.
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  And it's just really a bizarre time that we are living in.
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  But the Bible tells us all about it.
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  And we're not surprised by any of this when we read the Bible.
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  So anyway, God's saying woe to these rebellious children who
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  form an alliance, but not my spirit heaping sin upon sin, who
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  go down to Egypt without consulting me, who look for
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  Pharaoh's protection to Egypt's shade for refuge.
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  When I thought about shade, I thought about that's what God
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  did for the Israelites when he brought them out of Egypt.
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  He was a dark cloud over them during the day, protecting them
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  from the sun, giving them shade, covering them, protecting them.
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  So this is like symbolic words to describe what God was doing.
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  And then he's talking about Egypt's shade.
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  Well, Egypt is referred to as idolatry.
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  And just like I was talking about a few minutes ago about
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  the pyramids. I mean, there's some connection
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  between Egypt and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly
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  realms. I believe there's a lot of
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  things there. They did a lot of magic.
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  There's a lot of things that if you understand the Bible, you
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  will see that they, there's some evil connection there definitely
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  there's no question about it. And so anyway, they, they, he's
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  talking about like Israel, he's talking to the children of
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  Israel and that they are going to Egypt to for protection
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  against the Syria as at this time.
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  And but he's saying who's forming an alliance?
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  So the people of Israel were going to Egypt to form an
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  alliance so that they could protect themselves against
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  Assyria. And again, this is back in that
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  time. But I think it's also there are
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  allied spirits. And just like if, if the Book of
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  Enoch is true and different spiritual entities, you know,
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  there are principalities that rulers over certain areas, if
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  lands are divided up and God gave this spirit control over
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  this area and this spirit control over this area and blah,
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  blah, blah, all of those. If that's, if that's true from
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  the book of Enoch, and it sounds like it is because according to
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  the Bible, there's not a departure from that spiritual, I
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  guess each, each area of land really stays true to evil or
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  good. That's what you see in the
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  Bible. It's so even if it's like a
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  historical land and people will say, well, that was OK.
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  For example, let's say Persia or let's say the Medes.
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  The Medes were like in the country of Iran and Persia was
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  Iran in the Bible, but now it's called Iran.
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  Well, that same spirit continues in that same land and I think
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  there is something spiritual about that.
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  And then you think about all these different areas who
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  worshipped different quote gods. What if these were fallen angels
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  that presented themselves to people and acted like they were
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  God because they wanted to be worshipped.
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  Just like, you know, Satan wanted to be worshipped.
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  So what if this happened all over the world?
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  And then the people, they knew, they were greater beings.
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  They had different powers than what the people had.
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  So they thought, oh, these are something greater than I.
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  And then they begin to worship so often in the Bible, when an
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  Angel appears to someone in the Bible, a lot of times the people
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  will fall down and, you know, like bow to them and the Angel,
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  if it's a good Angel, will say, don't do that.
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  I'm I'm just a messenger, you know, like, don't worship me.
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  So people will get deceived by something that's like an Angel.
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  It says. It also says that Satan
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  masquerades as an Angel of light, so he's going to present
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  himself like something good to people.
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  And anyway, this, this whole spiritual thing is, is something
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  to really wrap your mind around. And then when you understand it,
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  you don't become fearful because if you're, if you're a friend of
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  God, you have the Holy Spirit. And so the Holy Spirit is more
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  powerful than any other spirit you will ever encounter.
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  So there's nothing at all to fear, but it just everything in
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  the world starts making sense. You start seeing like you start
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  having spiritual discernment. You start seeing who has the
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  Holy Spirit and who has some other spirit operating in their
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  life. And it's very clear if you go to
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  Galatians chapter 5, I reference that so many times in podcast.
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  So I, I think I'm just going to read those paragraphs because
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  it, it's just like, if you want to find out about a person, just
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  watch how they are and watch what they do because you will,
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  you will see a difference. So OK, let's see.
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  I'm trying to find. OK, so this is a life by the
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  spirit. Galatians 5 chapter 5 verse 13
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  is where it starts, and I'll read down to the end of it.
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  So you, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free.
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  That's when you receive the Holy Spirit.
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  But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh to do like
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  your sinful nature or what you want to do.
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  Rather serve one another humbly in love, for the entire law is
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  fulfilled in keeping this one command.
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  Love your neighbor as yourself. If you bite and devour each
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  other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
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  So I say walk by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires
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  of the flesh. So he's saying right here that
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  if we have the Holy Spirit, if you walk by the Spirit, if you
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  have the Holy Spirit, if the Holy Spirit is guiding you, you
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  will not gratify the desires of the flesh, the things that you
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  naturally want. When you have the Holy Spirit,
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  the Holy Spirit will change you. That's what Jesus talked about
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  when he said about being born again, that we need to be born
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  again to enter the Kingdom of God.
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  So then it's continues, for the flesh desires what is contrary
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  to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh.
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  They are in conflict with each other so that you are not to do
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  whatever you want, but if you are led by the Spirit, you are
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  so that if you have the Holy Spirit, you are not under the
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  law. So that's why we're protected by
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  the blood of Christ when He died on the cross.
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  That means the law of death, the law of eternal separation from
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  God. If we are led by the Spirit, if
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  God is our Lord and that's proven by how we live our lives.
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  If God, if God is our master. You know where we give up, we
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  get freedom. It's freedom to choose, but then
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  we surrender that freedom to say, God, guide me through your
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  spirit. So if you are led by the Spirit,
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  you are not under the law and then it defines what the acts of
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  the flesh are the acts of the flesh.
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  This is when you don't have the Holy Spirit are obvious sexual
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  immorality, impurity and debauchery are going out and
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  getting drunk right? Idolatry and witchcraft.
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  That's could be like magic and things and astrology and stuff
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  like that. Hatred, discord, jealousy, fits
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  of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy,
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  drunkenness, orgies, and the like.
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  I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this
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  will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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  That's a pretty harsh statement, that so if these things that
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  were just described in verses 19 through 21 describe you.
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  And it's not changing. You're just sticking with it.
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  You're, you're being one of those stubborn kids of God,
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  children of God. And you're saying, oh, I like
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  this stuff. I'm not, I'm not giving all that
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  stuff up. Then you are.
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  You're rebelling against God. And you know what, if you don't
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  repent and stop it. And through the power of the
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  Holy Spirit, let the power of the Holy Spirit work in your
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  life. If you don't, it says those who
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  live like this will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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  So you're you're under the law. If you don't have the Holy
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  Spirit, you're under the law and you won't get into the Kingdom
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  of God. This not this exact verse, but
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  so I think one in chapter 21 of Revelation kind of says the same
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  thing where I that really affected me and changed my life.
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  So now if you want to know, like what does, how does somebody act
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  if they have the spirit working in their life?
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  The fruit of the spirit. So the character of a person who
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  has a spirit is Lovejoy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness,
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  faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
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  Against such things there is no law.
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  Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with
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  its passions and desires. So if we belong to Christ, we
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  have crucified, we've killed the flesh with its passions and
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  desires. We.
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  But you know, we still have love and we still have joy and all
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  these things like that. It's not like you're going to be
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  dead. It's you become a new creation.
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  And I know when you're still in that rebellious, sinful state,
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  this doesn't sound so appealing, like the way you're living
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  sounds more appealing. But believe me when I say, I
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  mean, that's what I was like. That's what I was thinking.
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  But after time it, it does change you, you don't you don't
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  desire those things like you don't like.
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  I don't know, in 2019 I gave up getting drunk and and I don't
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  desire to get drunk. I haven't been drunk since 2019.
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  So that doesn't mean that I don't drink sometimes I still do
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  sometimes, but I don't get drunk.
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  And I didn't think I would ever be like that.
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  But there's like little things in life that you don't think you
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  would ever change. And then when you truly
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  surrender, because that's what I said to God when I decided I was
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  going to get baptized, I was like, I'm not going to be a
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  hypocrite. You know, I'm not going to, you
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  know, say this one thing and then live another way.
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  I'm going to, I'm going to go in all the way.
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  And, and I asked God to help me and he apparently has helped me
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  because now I'm four years later and I'm seeing changes in my
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  life. And I've also experienced things
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  from the Holy Spirit because there's a whole nother area
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  where you have gifts of the Holy Spirit and that's where you can
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  see like, do I have the Holy Spirit?
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  And first of all, you know, a changed life is one example of
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  having the Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit also gives
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  gifts to people. But I'm getting too far off
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  track here. We got to go back to Scripture.
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  This is going to be a forever long 1 again.
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  OK, going back to scripture. So God's angry with the
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  Israelites for going to Egypt's shade for refuge, but the
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  Pharaoh's protection will be your shame.
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  Egypt's shade will bring you disgrace.
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  Though they have officials in zone and their envoys have
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  arrived in Haines. Everyone will be put to shame
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  because of a people useless to them, who bring neither help nor
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  advantage, but only shame and disgrace.
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  Then it says a prophecy concerning the animals of the
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  Negev. Through a land of hardship and
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  distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and dark
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  darting snakes, the envoys carry riches on their donkeys, backs
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  their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable
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  nation, to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless.
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  Therefore I call her Brahab, the do nothing.
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  So I don't really understand how this is like a prophecy
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  concerning the animals of the Negev unless it's just saying
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  these are what are in the Negevor will be in the Negev
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  lions and lioness adders and darting snakes.
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  I you know, I don't know they're treasures on the humps of the
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  camel. I don't know what that prophecy
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  about the animals of Negev mean, but anyway, Egypt is now
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  referred to Rahab the do nothing.
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  So here's another interesting You just search Rahab and you'll
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  find out that Rahab was a literal person in the book of
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  Joshua. She was a prostitute and she was
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  in the city of Jericho and she actually protected God's people
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  by not turning them over to the king of Jericho at the time and
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  who was against the Lord. And so she was a prostitute.
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  She wasn't living the way God wanted her to live, but she did
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  something that was right. And so God, God blessed her
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  actually. And that's something else that I
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  do want to talk about and I will talk about that in it goes to
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  Luke 11, Luke Chapter 11, verse 13 about the blessing of God
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  when you do right. And I've experienced that myself
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  too. And so he does that.
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  But gosh, what what he's, what's he, what has, what he has done
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  for Rahab, the prostitute is amazing.
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  She is actually in the genealogy leading to Jesus.
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  So look at how great she became, like she was the mother of
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  Selma. I think I'm we might get into
• 26:54
  the genealogy, which I think it's just very.
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  Yeah, we'll, we'll talk about that.
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  So Rahab was this prostitute not living the way God wanted her
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  to. But then she had Joshua, who was
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  one of God's men, sent spies into Jericho and she protected
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  the spies. So they are their lives were not
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  taken and allowed them to escape.
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  And so God blessed her in a big way.
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  But then Rahab was also talked about in the oldest book of the
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  Bible about in the book of Job. And this is talking about like
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  God and his defeat by his wisdom, he cut Rahab to pieces.
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  So in Job chapter 20, let's say Job Chapter 9, God does not
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  restrain his anger. Even the cohort, cohorts of
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  Rahab cowered at his feet. So Rahab might be a little bit
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  more than the literal person that was talked about in the
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  book of Joshua. It might be something spiritual.
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  And there might be a spirit of Rahab, a spirit of prostitution,
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  a spirit of idolatry, which I do believe that is true.
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  Like it is. It is from the evil, the spirit
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  of evil in the heavenly realms, and it's the spirit that affects
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  people that are not covered by the Holy Spirit so it can
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  operate through other people. And we see that continually
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  throughout all of these different kinds of gods that the
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  people of the land surrounding the Israelites were worshipping.
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  They all seem to have this like idolatry.
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  There's like this sexualization, there's this kind of like trans,
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  you know, I don't know, like not man, not woman.
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  When you study these, these gods that they worshipped, they're
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  just really bizarre things, like twisted opposite of what God
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  supports in the Bible. And that's what these God things
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  were. And, and I think they'd still
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  influence our our world today. I think we have had a massive
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  and I guess we still continue. It's starting to change a little
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  bit. Maybe.
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  I don't know if it's changing. I don't even know.
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  I mean, because social media can make you think one thing, but
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  it's not really reality, but just the fact that people are
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  actually having surgeries to make themselves into the
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  opposite sex. And that was literally happening
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  in our world. And there's legislation that's
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  trying, you know, trying to prevent that for young children,
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  especially that they, you know, because other people, after they
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  did that, they came around and they regretted their decision,
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  but they had gone so far, they had mutilated their bodies and
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  then they weren't able to get it back.
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  So it's just, it's just evil. And I think it's the same evil 1
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  of Rahab the prostitute. I think there's some evil spirit
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  behind that. So it says.
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  And Joe, by his power, he churned up the sea.
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  By his wisdom, he cut Rahab to pieces.
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  Then it also compares Rahab to Leviathan, which is interesting
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  because lion Leviathan is the the Mons.
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  I don't know the serpent in the sea.
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  And and it was, you know, it, it talks about God, you know,
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  defeating that. And then there's other like
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  religions that they actually tell that same story, but they
• 30:48
  twist the story a little bit. So it's kind of interesting.
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  Like, I mean, we all, I mean, think all of us because we've
• 30:57
  we've seen or heard of artifacts that say that dinosaurs were
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  here one day, one time ago. So we can believe in dinosaurs
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  because they've archaeologists have found bones.
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  But what about this leviathan thing in the sea?
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  You know, just that could that could definitely, I mean, it's
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  interesting because the Bible even talks about like like
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  literal Dragons that were that were here that I think at
• 31:22
  Leviathan's youth where his like smoke comes in from his nostrils
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  and fire from, you know, like it's just, I don't know.
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  I mean, it sounds like a dragon like what we have in, you know,
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  just like made-up stories, fictional stories.
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  But this literally, I mean, the description that God goes into
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  in the book of Job about the details of this, this being
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  thing that's in the sea. Why would the Bible give so
• 31:53
  much? I don't pay, you know, so, so
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  much volume to talking about the description of how this thing
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  was made and how strong it is. You know, that just doesn't make
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  sense because the Bible is not here for entertainment.
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  The Bible is here with a message and God inspired the Holy Spirit
• 32:15
  inspired the the writers of the Bible to, to write what they
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  did. So to go into a description on
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  something like that that didn't really exist, that was a made-up
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  story would be ridiculous. I mean, it doesn't have a
• 32:28
  purpose. So we have to think about those
• 32:30
  things about when we read the Bible.
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  So in Psalm, this is this is interesting too because I think
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  just this just shows like the love, the mercy of God.
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  So in Psalm 87 it says I will record Rahab and Babylon among
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  those who acknowledge me, Philistia 2 and Tyre along with
• 32:53
  Cush and will say this one was born in Zion.
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  So this is I believe talking about after Jesus returns and
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  that the people there will be survivors of his wrath and there
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  apparently will be people from all these countries like Babylon
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  is modern day Iraq, Rahab is like the Bible says a a poetic
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  name for Egypt and Philistia is the ancient name for Gaza and
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  Tyre is today in Lebanon and then Kush is the Upper Nile
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  region. And so it's like in the future
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  there will be people from these ancestral places that will be
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  born in Zion. They're going to come to the
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  Lord. And and then in Psalm 89, it
• 33:47
  says you crushed Rahab like one of the slain with your strong
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  arm, you scattered your enemies. So again, this is, I think, a
• 33:57
  reference to either to Egypt or to Leviathan.
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  I'd have to read all of Psalm 89.
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  But it, yeah, I think it's, oh, it says you rule over the
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  surging sea. When its raves mount up, you
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  steal them. You crushed Rahab like one of
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  the slain with your strong arm, you scatter your enemies.
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  So I don't know if that's the one from the sea or not.
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  And so then let's see to Egypt those whose help is utterly
• 34:33
  useless. We're reading that.
• 34:34
  Therefore I call her Rahab. The do nothing.
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  And then in chapter 51, it refers again to awake, awake,
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  arm of the Lord, clothe yourself with strength awake as in the
• 34:48
  days gone by, as in the generations of old.
• 34:51
  Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced that monster
• 34:58
  through or that serpent? So there was apparently some
• 35:03
  battle that and it's, you know, this will happen again, that God
• 35:09
  himself will be the only one to do it because in the book of
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  Job, it when it goes through all that description about
• 35:15
  Leviathan, it just says that, you know, there's nobody, I
• 35:20
  mean, that can really defeat that monster.
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  The God's the one who can do that.
• 35:25
  Now here's about Rahab the person and her line in the
• 35:33
  genealogy of Jesus. So Salmon, the father of Boaz,
• 35:38
  whose mother was Rahab. So Rahab was Salmon's mother,
• 35:43
  and then he was the father of Boaz.
• 35:47
  Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth.
• 35:51
  Now Ruth was a Moabite. She was one of the forbidden
• 35:54
  foreign countries that God told the Israelites they couldn't
• 35:57
  marry. But she turned away from her
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  idolatrous country and told Naomi, her mother-in-law.
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  I will follow you and your God. So God put her.
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  Look at that. She's like in the genealogy of
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  Jesus also. So Ruth is Obed's mother.
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  Obed is the father of Jesse and Jesse the father of King David.
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  David was the father of Solomon and and then whose mother had
• 36:27
  been Uriah's wife. So again, this is another thing
• 36:30
  like David literally had adultery with Solomon's mother
• 36:35
  and that's a whole nother story too.
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  But that is all that is also in the genealogy of Jesus and it
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  just goes down. I'm not going to read all of
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  these. But then in Matthew chapter 1,
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  it goes all the way down and to verse 16 where it says and Jacob
• 36:55
  the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was
• 36:59
  the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.
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  So it just shows like how God can use Rahab the prostitute and
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  bring forth his son because God found, you know, Mary was the
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  virgin and God it was the Holy Spirit who made Mary conceive
• 37:22
  Jesus. So he was pure.
• 37:25
  But look at the whole family line like this is just showing
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  the the mercy that God has on people.
• 37:32
  And in Hebrews it reminds us Chapter 11 by faith, the
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  prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies was not
• 37:40
  killed with those who were disobedient.
• 37:44
  So again, that's a good gift from God just because she
• 37:46
  protected God's people. And then James, the brother of
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  Jesus says in chapter 2, verse 25.
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  In the same way was not even Rahab the prostitute considered
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  righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies
• 38:03
  and sent them off in a different direction.
• 38:05
  She protected them. God's people, she protected
• 38:08
  them. So God blessed her in a big way.
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  And that, you know, you just have to think that God doesn't
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  change. He will bless people.
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  When you turn to Him, there will be blessings in your life and
• 38:23
  something to keep in mind. And let's see, what else do we
• 38:29
  have here? OK, so we talked about Rahab,
• 38:35
  and Rahab is also connected to Leviathan.
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  I don't know if I got into that, but there's a part where it is.
• 38:40
  I mean, Rahab is connected to Leviathan especially, OK, when
• 38:44
  it said to talk, talked about cutting her to the monster to
• 38:48
  pieces, that's where it ties into Leviathan.
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  So I think it's a spiritual thing.
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  OK, then go now, write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on
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  a scroll that for the days to come, so future it will be an
• 39:06
  everlasting witness. For these are rebellious people,
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  deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the
• 39:16
  Lord's instruction. So these rebellious people, it's
• 39:20
  not that they don't know what they should do, it's that they
• 39:24
  choose not to do what they know they should do.
• 39:28
  They're rebellious. They don't want to listen to
• 39:30
  God. And that's what this is about,
• 39:34
  the unwilling to listen. Now here's what it says about
• 39:37
  them. They say to the seers, see no
• 39:40
  more visions, and to the prophets, give us no more
• 39:44
  visions of what is right, Tell us pleasant things, prophecy,
• 39:49
  illusions, leave this way. Get off the path and stop
• 39:53
  confronting us with the Holy One of Israel.
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  Do you think you hear that today?
• 39:59
  Do people like when they hear like, oh, you know what?
• 40:04
  That's actually in the Bible, and that's something against
• 40:08
  God. And they're like, I, I don't
• 40:10
  want to hear that, you know, like just, you know, just leave
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  me alone. And and then they'll say, you
• 40:15
  know what the Bible's all about. It's about loving God and loving
• 40:18
  your neighbor. And that's what people say.
• 40:21
  Love. The Bible's all about love.
• 40:24
  So you start throwing that stuff at me.
• 40:26
  No, I'm, I'm done with it. You know why?
• 40:28
  Because people don't want to give up their sin.
• 40:32
  They don't. They like it too much and they
• 40:34
  don't want to. And it it affects them.
• 40:37
  There's some spiritual thing happening inside that person
• 40:40
  that is like, I'm not willing to let go of this.
• 40:45
  I don't want to hear it get away from me because it's making a
• 40:49
  person feel guilty and they don't like, none of us like
• 40:53
  feeling guilty. We don't like to feel bad.
• 40:55
  We like to think we're good people, but yet when we read the
• 40:59
  Bible and we see these things that the Bible talks about are
• 41:02
  sinful and they're in our life and we're doing it, then it it's
• 41:07
  just we, we reject it. I mean, I can relate to that
• 41:11
  too. Before finally I did surrender
• 41:14
  and I'm like, OK, God, your will, not mine.
• 41:16
  And but you know, when you're in that stage where you're not
• 41:20
  ready, you're a rebellion to God, but just you don't want to
• 41:25
  stay there because you don't want to be there.
• 41:28
  If we happen to be that generation that that's living
• 41:32
  when Jesus returns or we don't want to suddenly have something
• 41:36
  unexpected happen where we die and that does happen to people,
• 41:40
  you know, when sudden deaths, it could be internal things, it
• 41:45
  could be something external. And if we are still in our
• 41:48
  rebellion and we're saying, God, you know, I no, not right now.
• 41:52
  What if something happens? God's trying to warn us and and
• 41:59
  it's wise to listen, But it's just like the time when Isaiah
• 42:03
  was saying this to people. There's like, stop confronting
• 42:07
  us with this holy one of Israel. We don't want to hear it and it
• 42:11
  talks about in the in the in our times today and I believe this
• 42:15
  is true that in 2 temp in second Timothy chapter 4 verse 3, it
• 42:21
  says for the time will come when people will not up with sound
• 42:27
  doctrine. Instead, to suit their own
• 42:30
  desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers
• 42:36
  to say what their itching ears want to hear.
• 42:41
  They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to
• 42:45
  myths. So this is, you know, this is
• 42:50
  the way we are today. I mean, because everybody wants
• 42:55
  to talk about love, but they don't want to talk about
• 42:57
  repentance. But Jesus said, if you love me,
• 43:02
  obey my commands. That's the way we show God we
• 43:04
  love him. So we can't talk about love and
• 43:10
  ignore obedience. And if we are being disobedient,
• 43:16
  that's saying we don't love you God.
• 43:18
  So it is all about love, but we just want it to be the love that
• 43:25
  the world gives and not the love that's described in the Bible
• 43:29
  because there's a huge disconnect in what we consider
• 43:32
  love from a worldly perspective. And what is love defined in the
• 43:39
  Bible? And that's a great another one.
• 43:42
  It's in Corinthians and I, I don't know, 13 or 14, I can't
• 43:45
  remember what chapter it is, but it talks about love is.
• 43:47
  So if you want to search that patient, kind, all these
• 43:51
  different things, but in the world, love is this sexual
• 43:55
  thing. And so there's even the
• 43:57
  definition of love is different. It's just like romantic thing.
• 44:02
  But in the Bible it's something different than that.
• 44:05
  So there's a Bible description of love and then there's the
• 44:08
  world love. So even I think probably the
• 44:11
  enemy even did that to make us confused about what is love.
• 44:15
  Love is not a feeling. It's not a feeling that we get
• 44:20
  around someone. And that's what we all tend to
• 44:22
  think because that's what we hear in the world.
• 44:26
  And so that's a great thing. If you if you've not felt loved
• 44:31
  in relationships or you haven't been loving, look up what love
• 44:35
  is in the Bible and start paying attention to that and start
• 44:40
  paying attention to another person that you're connected
• 44:43
  with. Are they loving?
• 44:44
  Do they show the actual true love that's described in the
• 44:49
  Bible because that can steer you away from bad connections with
• 44:53
  people. If you look at what love is and
• 44:56
  memorize it, just like Galatians, 5I should know what
• 45:00
  Corinthians it is. I'm going to look that up just
• 45:03
  so people have that. I know that was one of the first
• 45:05
  things that I like discovered in, in that was helpful to me to
• 45:13
  have like more of a discernment about people because you, you
• 45:18
  just, you get deceived by people.
• 45:22
  And so it's in First Corinthians chapter 13 and it starts with
• 45:27
  verse four. And a lot of people have heard
• 45:30
  this at weddings, but do you actually listen to the words?
• 45:35
  Do you actually think about, does this describe me?
• 45:39
  Does this describe the person I'm in a relationship with?
• 45:42
  Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not
• 45:48
  boast. It is not proud.
• 45:50
  It does not dishonor others. It is not self seeking.
• 45:55
  It's more like selfless is the opposite of that.
• 45:59
  It is not easily angered. It keeps no records of wrongs.
• 46:04
  Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
• 46:11
  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always
• 46:17
  perseveres. Love never fails.
• 46:23
  But where there are prophecies, they will cease.
• 46:27
  Where there are tongues, they will be stilled.
• 46:30
  Where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
• 46:34
  I mean, then it goes on further. But love never fails is
• 46:36
  basically the end of describing love.
• 46:40
  So it's it's helpful to use that as a tool to evaluate ourselves
• 46:46
  and to evaluate other people that we might think about being
• 46:51
  in a relationship with. So let's see what else it goes
• 46:57
  on to say because you have rejected this message.
• 47:01
  So we were talking about stop confronting us with the Holy One
• 47:04
  of Israel. Therefore, this is what the Holy
• 47:07
  One of Israel says. Because you have rejected this
• 47:11
  message, rejected God's message, relied on oppression and
• 47:16
  depended on deceit, this sin will become for you like a high
• 47:23
  wall cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly in an
• 47:29
  instant. It will break in pieces like
• 47:31
  pottery, shattered so merciless, mercilessly that among its
• 47:36
  pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a
• 47:40
  hearth or scooping water out of a cistern.
• 47:43
  This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel says in
• 47:49
  repentance and rest is your salvation.
• 47:55
  Think about that repentance. Nobody likes to hear you need to
• 48:00
  change your ways. Well, you need to change to be
• 48:04
  holy. God says be holy because I am
• 48:07
  holy and God tells us what holy is and people are like.
• 48:11
  I don't know if I want to do that, but if you want to be in
• 48:16
  God's Kingdom, that's his rule. So if you want to be in His
• 48:21
  Kingdom, then you need to repent.
• 48:25
  And God knows. He's such a loving God.
• 48:28
  He knows how bad it is hard. It is for us that He sends us,
• 48:33
  sends the Holy Spirit to us when we are sincere about wanting to
• 48:37
  do that. He sends the Holy Spirit to give
• 48:40
  us the power that we don't have so that we can make that choice.
• 48:45
  The one thing that we do have the power of is choice.
• 48:49
  We get to choose. So we will be faced with
• 48:52
  temptations of the things that used to steer us away from God,
• 48:57
  but through the power of the Holy Spirit, we can overcome it.
• 49:00
  It says that God will never put a temptation in front of us
• 49:05
  that's greater than what is known to mankind.
• 49:09
  There's nothing that we can't overcome.
• 49:11
  So and He gives us a way out. He doesn't put us with no choice
• 49:17
  where we're just like, this is the only way he gives us a way
• 49:20
  out. So repentance is possible and
• 49:25
  it's just, it's a decision. It's a decision.
• 49:28
  It's about what is important to you Is God your priority?
• 49:32
  Is God the most important to you?
• 49:34
  Then if God is, and if you want to be in God's Kingdom, you need
• 49:39
  to repent and you need the Holy Spirit because Jesus said we
• 49:42
  won't get into God's Kingdom unless we are born of the
• 49:44
  Spirit. That's in John chapter 3.
• 49:48
  And then here's the other thing. So repentance is one thing about
• 49:52
  salvation and he says rest in repentance and rest is your
• 49:58
  salvation. Think about this.
• 49:59
  These these people are fearing another country coming and
• 50:03
  attacking them. And the Holy One of Israel is
• 50:06
  saying just repent and then rest.
• 50:09
  It's like be still and know that I am God.
• 50:12
  That's another line from Scripture.
• 50:15
  So yeah, rest, rest, be quiet, get away from everything, spend
• 50:21
  time with God, pray about it, find God, let God be your
• 50:27
  refuge. But that's what it says in
• 50:31
  repentance. And rest is your salvation in
• 50:34
  quietness and trust. Trusting in God is your
• 50:39
  strength. The Holy Spirit gives us
• 50:41
  strength, but you would have none of it.
• 50:44
  You said no, we will flee on horses, therefore you flee.
• 50:48
  You said we will ride off on swift horses, therefore your
• 50:52
  pursuers will be swift. 1000 will flee at the threat of one,
• 50:58
  at the threat of five. You will all flee away till you
• 51:02
  are all left like a Flagstaff on a mountain top, like a banner on
• 51:07
  a hill. Yet the Lord longs to be
• 51:11
  gracious to you, therefore he will rise up to show you
• 51:18
  compassion for the Lord is a God of justice.
• 51:23
  Blessed are all who wait for him.
• 51:28
  So again, this to me is where I see Jesus that we wait for him.
• 51:35
  Jesus has there is a second coming where Jesus returns and
• 51:39
  at the end time and it this is, yeah, this is something that the
• 51:47
  study Bible says something a little bit different.
• 51:50
  So. But I really think this is this
• 51:57
  is. I'll read that in a minute.
• 52:00
  OK, I might just finish this chapter and then go through the
• 52:03
  questions and answers and then, yeah, we're almost there.
• 52:06
  So let's see where we are. Blessed are those who wait for
• 52:11
  him. People of Zion who live in
• 52:14
  Jerusalem, you will weep no more.
• 52:17
  OK, has Jerusalem ever been in a condition where they are going
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  to weep no more? Like it says that the Lord will
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  rise up and you will weep no more.
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  I would say that October 7th of 2023 didn't make Jerusalem weep
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  no more. In fact, they're still hostages
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  that are in captivity. So this has not been fulfilled.
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  And it says you will weep no more.
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  How gracious He will be when you cry for help.
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  As soon as he hears you. As soon as he hears, he will
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  answer you. Although the Lord gives you the
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  bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers
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  will be hidden no more. With your own eyes you will see
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  them. Whether you turn to the right or
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  to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you saying this
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  is the way, walk in it. Then you will desecrate your
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  idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold.
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  You will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them
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  away with you. This is the changed heart that
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  happens to people when they turn to God, when they repent, when
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  the Holy Spirit begins to reside within them.
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  But I want to go back to weeping no more because that's really
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  important. This is again, we know when we
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  read the Book of Revelation, this is what happens when Jesus
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  returns and there's a new heaven and a new earth.
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  Revelation chapter 21, verse four, He will wipe every tear
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  from from their eyes. There will be no more death or
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  mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has
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  passed away. When Jesus returns after the
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  wrath, there's going to be a period of restoration.
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  Jesus will be raining on the earth for 1000 years and peace
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  will actually be on earth, something we've never
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  experienced. Even the animals that are
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  predators will eat straw. I mean, there's just like
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  there's going to be a huge change, change and everything on
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  earth. And that's going to be such a
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  wonderful time after the wrath of God happens because the evil
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  has to be cleaned out first. But then there's going to be
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  this phenomenal time that God has promised.
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  And I want to read, I kind of skipped over some of the, I
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  guess I'll go back to that later.
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  OK, so we read about that. I'm going to try and finish this
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  chapter. He will send, He will also send
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  you rain for the seed you sow in the ground and the food that
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  comes from the land will be rich and plentiful in that day.
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  Your cattle will graze in broadmeadows.
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  The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder and
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  mash spread out with fork and shovel in that day of great
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  slaughter. OK, so that's the wrath of God.
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  When the towers fall, streams of water will flow on every high
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  mountain and every lofty hill. The moon will shine like the sun
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  and the sunlight will be 7 times brighter like the light of seven
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  full days when the Lord binds up the bruises of his people and
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  heals the wounds he inflicted. So the reign of Christ when that
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  happens actually like after this is all over.
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  In Revelation chapter 21 verse 23, it says the city does not
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  need the sun or the moon to shine on it for the glory of God
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  gives it light and the Lamb is the lamp.
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  So this is like the brightness of God that you know the light
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  will be 7 times brighter, like the light of seven full days.
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  This is just talking. I think this is like before you
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  right before eternity. I think when Jesus is raining on
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  earth and that's the healing period, that the restoration
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  period, the 1000 years that Christ lives on the earth, that
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  he reigns on the earth right before eternity.
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  This is what this, this is what it's going to be like.
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  See, the name of the Lord comes from afar, you know, from like
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  the heavenly realms with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke.
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  This is the wrath of God. His lips are full of wrath and
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  his tongue is a consuming fire. His breath is like a rushing
• 57:29
  torrent rising up to the neck. So this rushing water thing,
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  this is, you know what, how Jesus is described.
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  So I'm going to read in Ezekiel chapter 43 verse 2, and I saw
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  the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east.
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  His voice was like the roar of rushing waters and the land was
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  radiant with his glory. Then it says in Revelation
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  chapter 1 verse 15, when John saw Jesus, his feet were like
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  bronze glowing in a furnace and his voice was like the sound of
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  rushing waters. And then in Revelation 14
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  chapter 2, I don't know if this is, I'm not sure, but this is
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  also like a sound. And I heard a sound from heaven,
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  like the roar. Jesus is often called the lion
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  from the tribe of Judah of rushing waters.
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  And like a loud peal of Thunder, the sound I heard was like that
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  of harpist playing their harps. This is when Jesus stands on
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  Mount Zion and there are 144,012 thousand from a few different
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  tribes. There's a couple tribes that are
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  left off of Israel. The 2 tribes that are left off
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  are the tribe of Dan and the tribe of Ephraim, which aren't
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  counted for but there are 144,000 and they know a song
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  that only they know. And these are the ones that
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  Jesus redeems from the earth when he returns like through his
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  wrath, he's these people will be saved from that.
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  So again, this this, you know, rushing torrent, his breath is
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  like a rushing torrent. It's talking about Jesus.
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  I mean, there's God always gives us two extra witnesses to
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  establish truth within Scripture.
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  We can usually find other sources saying the same thing.
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  So that's how we can prove things.
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  He shakes the nation's in the sieve of destruction.
• 1:00:05
  He places in the jaws of people a bit that leads them astray.
• 1:00:10
  And you will sing. As on the night you celebrate.
• 1:00:14
  Now this is interesting because in the Book of Revelation it
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  says Revelation chapter 14 verse 3.
• 1:00:21
  And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four
• 1:00:27
  living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song
• 1:00:30
  except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
• 1:00:36
  So that's interesting that this says that I'm going to write
• 1:00:40
  that in my Bible too, because another reference to and you
• 1:00:43
  will sing as on the night you celebrate a holy festival.
• 1:00:48
  This is, you know, there's a lot of speculation about when this
• 1:00:51
  happens, when Jesus returns. And many speculate that it's
• 1:00:55
  going to be during the time of a holy festival.
• 1:00:58
  So that's why people always talk about Jesus returning during a
• 1:01:04
  holy festival that is approaching.
• 1:01:06
  In fact, people are talking about Jesus returning in 2025,
• 1:01:10
  September 23rd, 24th, 25th, somewhere around there.
• 1:01:14
  Because it will, because of the festival that will that's going
• 1:01:18
  to, you know, happen seasonally every year.
• 1:01:21
  But again, this year people are talking about that.
• 1:01:24
  I tend to think that's not going to happen.
• 1:01:27
  But you know, who knows? We'll see one day that probably
• 1:01:31
  will happen. Your hearts will rejoice as when
• 1:01:35
  people playing pipes go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the
• 1:01:39
  rock of Israel. The Lord will cause people to
• 1:01:43
  hear His majestic voice and will make them see His arm coming
• 1:01:51
  down with raging anger and consuming fire.
• 1:01:54
  This is the wrath of God with cloudburst, thunderstorm and
• 1:02:00
  hail. Now, I don't know about you, but
• 1:02:05
  we've been having some wicked storms lately and we've been
• 1:02:09
  having, I mean, I talked to an insurance agent, you know, with
• 1:02:12
  between tornadoes, hailstorms, all this damage and I asked, I
• 1:02:18
  forgot the percentage, but I was like, is it just me because of
• 1:02:23
  media thinking that we're getting more and more of this?
• 1:02:26
  Or if you look over the whole world and you start seeing
• 1:02:30
  what's happening, you know, I, I wonder, is it because social
• 1:02:34
  media, because we can know what's happening in the world
• 1:02:36
  before we were connected as we are today, we didn't know what
• 1:02:40
  was happening in another, another country.
• 1:02:42
  But there are these floods ravaging places like India.
• 1:02:46
  There was just a recent one now that just happened I think last
• 1:02:50
  night, and this is August 6th, 2025 that I'm recording this,
• 1:02:56
  but we had floods in Texas. We had floods in the Carolinas
• 1:03:00
  that were just devastating. And we've had significant hail
• 1:03:05
  that comes in a lot of these storms.
• 1:03:07
  It's like I remember growing up, I didn't, you know, we had rain.
• 1:03:11
  But now it's like every time it rains, there's a threat of hail.
• 1:03:15
  Well, is God warning us? Is God really saying wake up
• 1:03:20
  people, I'm coming? I mean, I tend to think since
• 1:03:24
  2020, I've tended to think that we are getting closer to, we
• 1:03:28
  definitely are, but I think we're like very, very close.
• 1:03:31
  I mean, there's a lot of people having dreams about Jesus
• 1:03:34
  returning to which I have had also.
• 1:03:38
  So I had three rapture dreams in 2021.
• 1:03:44
  So which again, I I think is significant because God always
• 1:03:49
  puts things in threes and are two or three witnesses
• 1:03:53
  established truth. And I was not a person that
• 1:03:57
  focused on that. That was all new stuff to me and
• 1:03:59
  I didn't like seek wanting to know more about it or anything.
• 1:04:02
  All of a sudden it just happened in my dreams and more people are
• 1:04:06
  having that. Like a lot of people are having
• 1:04:08
  dreams about that today, like the and everybody, there's so
• 1:04:12
  many people. If you go on YouTube and search
• 1:04:14
  like end time dreams or dreams of Jesus return and you will
• 1:04:19
  find like there's kids having these dreams.
• 1:04:21
  There's people of all countries, nations, everything having
• 1:04:26
  dreams. And most of them are saying,
• 1:04:28
  they're warning people, they're saying Jesus is coming soon,
• 1:04:32
  like these people. And they're not specifying a
• 1:04:34
  date. Some, you know, obviously are
• 1:04:37
  thinking, you know, they look at every festival and they specify
• 1:04:40
  that date. But these people are just
• 1:04:43
  saying, I have this very urgent feeling that it's close.
• 1:04:47
  And I do too. Like ever since 21, I started
• 1:04:51
  feeling like it was really close.
• 1:04:54
  And but I have another year from a dream that I have, which my
• 1:04:59
  year is 2026, so I don't know if something's going to happen in
• 1:05:03
  that year, but I dreamt about that.
• 1:05:05
  And I'll just have to wait and see what happens by the end of
• 1:05:07
  the year. And if nothing happens, it was
• 1:05:10
  just a dream. But you know, if it was a
• 1:05:13
  warning from God, that's what kind of prompted me to start
• 1:05:17
  doing these podcasts and things to warn people about repentance
• 1:05:21
  and about getting prepared for the Lord's return whenever it
• 1:05:26
  may be. But OK, the thing about hail,
• 1:05:29
  let's talk about hail for a minute because the, the agent
• 1:05:34
  that I spoke with, the insurance agent that I spoke with about
• 1:05:37
  hail said, yes, there is been an exponential number.
• 1:05:41
  I don't remember what she said, but yes, hail has definitely
• 1:05:46
  increased. They're seeing way more like the
• 1:05:49
  insurance companies are just like devastation after
• 1:05:51
  devastation. And so this is increasing and I
• 1:05:56
  think we need to take note of that.
• 1:05:59
  So in Job chapter 38 verse 22, this is God talking to Job and
• 1:06:05
  God says, have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen
• 1:06:12
  the storehouses of the hail, which I reserve for times of
• 1:06:18
  trouble, for days of war and battle.
• 1:06:24
  Think about that, think about that.
• 1:06:28
  I think God is warning us. Read Job chapter 38.
• 1:06:33
  It gives you a lot of things about it.
• 1:06:34
  Like we take these things for, you know, like it's just nature.
• 1:06:39
  Well, God controls nature and I think God is warning us.
• 1:06:45
  And you know, like I said, if people don't turn to him, he's
• 1:06:50
  going to have to use supernatural means to get their
• 1:06:52
  attention. And sometimes it's devastation
• 1:06:55
  and that will bring people to the Lord.
• 1:06:57
  I, you know, didn't have a flood or a storm that did that to me,
• 1:07:01
  but I had other circumstances where God took away everything
• 1:07:04
  and, and it humbled me and that's when I finally turned to
• 1:07:08
  God. So God's going to do whatever he
• 1:07:11
  has to do. And you have to remember that
• 1:07:12
  even the the bad things are actually ultimately for our
• 1:07:15
  good. OK, so the voice of the Lord
• 1:07:19
  will shatter Assyria. Now, Assyria back then was
• 1:07:23
  actually made-up of different countries today.
• 1:07:26
  So that's an ancient name for Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.
• 1:07:32
  Isn't that interesting? Think about the alliance of
• 1:07:34
  Assyria and think about what they represent today and how
• 1:07:39
  they like Israel. Actually they don't like Israel.
• 1:07:43
  So the Lord, the voice of the Lord, will shatter Assyria with
• 1:07:49
  his rod. He will strike them down.
• 1:07:52
  Every stroke the Lord lays on them with his punishing club
• 1:07:56
  will be to the music of timbrels and harps as he fights them in
• 1:08:02
  battle with the blows of his arm.
• 1:08:06
  Topeth has long been prepared. It has been made ready for the
• 1:08:11
  king. Its fire pit has been made deep
• 1:08:16
  and wide with an abundance of fire and wood.
• 1:08:20
  The breath of the Lord, like a stream of burning sulfur, sets
• 1:08:25
  it ablaze. You know the end.
• 1:08:28
  The evil ones will be thrown into the burning lake of sulfur.
• 1:08:34
  So this is what it's talking about.
• 1:08:36
  It's talking about judgement and who's going to go there.
• 1:08:39
  And I mean, if I were in Turkey, Syria, Iraq or Iran, I would
• 1:08:45
  definitely turn to God and not the God that they worship
• 1:08:53
  because the God that they worship is not the God of the
• 1:08:55
  Bible. Because the God of the Bible
• 1:08:59
  says this is my son Jesus, of whom I of who I am pleased and
• 1:09:08
  listen to him. And the God of the Bible has a
• 1:09:13
  son. Their God does not.
• 1:09:17
  Their God might be Leviathan. Their God might be something
• 1:09:21
  else, might be, I don't know what it is, but it's deceived
• 1:09:25
  them. It's not a good thing.
• 1:09:28
  It's all about death and destruction, which sounds like
• 1:09:31
  Satan. It's not the God of light.
• 1:09:36
  In fact, the one thing and I really don't, I don't like
• 1:09:39
  saying this, but I really want people to wake up that believe
• 1:09:42
  this. The Bible, the last book of the
• 1:09:46
  Bible, was written in 90 AD and it there was a warning in the
• 1:09:51
  Bible that says don't listen to anyone that gives you a gospel
• 1:09:57
  or a message that is different from what we've preached to you.
• 1:10:03
  If anyone does even like an Angel, know that it's the spirit
• 1:10:07
  of the Antichrist. It is against Jesus if it gives
• 1:10:10
  you even an Angel. And who did Muhammad get his
• 1:10:14
  revelation from? An Angel who can appear like an
• 1:10:20
  Angel. Satan himself masquerades as an
• 1:10:23
  Angel of light. Think about it, deception, great
• 1:10:30
  deception. Could that be that religion that
• 1:10:33
  is growing so massively? Look at the growth of Islam, the
• 1:10:38
  religion of Islam and this massive deception that is over
• 1:10:44
  all people and, and just think about it.
• 1:10:48
  Just think about it. And this really like pray for
• 1:10:53
  our brothers and sisters, because there are a lot of good
• 1:10:55
  people that are in the Islamic or Muslim religion, people that
• 1:11:03
  I know at least, and they are deceived.
• 1:11:07
  And so pray for them. God can reveal himself.
• 1:11:11
  There's been Muslims who've had dreams about Jesus and their
• 1:11:14
  whole family converted, like they all had dreams the same
• 1:11:17
  night and their families converted to Christianity.
• 1:11:21
  It's not so much about doing the traditions of a religion, but
• 1:11:26
  knowing God and praying God and submitting to him and receiving
• 1:11:30
  the Holy Spirit. That's what it's about.
• 1:11:32
  It's not all about the religion. It doesn't matter what religion
• 1:11:34
  you, I mean, it does, but it what traditions you do.
• 1:11:39
  The only thing that's important is knowing God, receiving the
• 1:11:44
  Holy Spirit, being in communication with God, letting
• 1:11:46
  God lead you, letting the Spirit guide you.
• 1:11:49
  So that's what it takes. Like just pray for our brothers
• 1:11:53
  and sisters who are Muslims who are deceived by probably Satan
• 1:12:01
  and pray that their eyes are opened and that someone crosses
• 1:12:07
  their path to show them the love of God and to let them know that
• 1:12:11
  they, they, I don't know, to give them hope about being in
• 1:12:15
  the Kingdom of God and that it all it takes is a surrender of
• 1:12:19
  their heart to God. And they certainly do a lot of
• 1:12:23
  the actions and the things that are in the Bible.
• 1:12:26
  There's a lot of good things that they do.
• 1:12:28
  But then there's the radical extremists who are all about
• 1:12:32
  death and destruction, which is exactly what Satan is.
• 1:12:35
  So it is more and more it makes me believe that that is the
• 1:12:40
  religion of Satan. And and actually, you know, the
• 1:12:44
  the strange thing about it, you know, like the Bible tells us in
• 1:12:46
  the late in the last days that that goodwill be called evil and
• 1:12:50
  evil will be called good. What does Iran call Israel?
• 1:12:55
  Little Satan? What does Iran call the United
• 1:12:58
  States big Satan? So it's like you, you just say
• 1:13:03
  the opposite. It's kind of like, you know,
• 1:13:05
  there's, it's kind of like what a narcissist does where there's
• 1:13:10
  like it, IT projects on other people what the reality is of
• 1:13:16
  that person that's saying it. So that's like what Iran and
• 1:13:21
  Iraq are doing is they are, I say Iraq, I mean, there's like
• 1:13:25
  the Muslim nations, the extremist, the jihadist, all
• 1:13:30
  those, they're deceived. They are being run by the
• 1:13:35
  spiritual entity. The Bible clearly does talk
• 1:13:38
  about these spiritual entities. I've finished the chapter 30,
• 1:13:42
  but there's still more that more to talk about.
• 1:13:45
  And this is all gotten to be a long one.
• 1:13:47
  Again, I can't get away from these long ones, but OK, I'm
• 1:13:51
  going to go through questions and answers and then wrap this
• 1:13:53
  up. So what was wrong with looking
• 1:13:58
  to Egypt for protection? The problem was that the leaders
• 1:14:02
  of Judah hadn't consulted God. God alone was to be their source
• 1:14:06
  of security. But the people wanted a backup
• 1:14:08
  plan just in case something went wrong didn't come through.
• 1:14:12
  So to hedge their bet they were negotiating A treaty with Egypt
• 1:14:16
  and to bribe them with protection from Assyria.
• 1:14:20
  The question would any alliance with Egypt, past or future be
• 1:14:24
  wrong? Isaiah's prophecy was given in
• 1:14:27
  the context of his time and is not a declaration about
• 1:14:31
  international affairs today. The alliance between Israel and
• 1:14:35
  Egypt in modern times resulted from a war over disputed
• 1:14:39
  territory. The agreement was not based on
• 1:14:42
  any known prophetic voice. Well, I disagree like no
• 1:14:47
  alliances. Israel right now in 2025 is
• 1:14:52
  acting alone. They don't they certainly don't
• 1:14:54
  have help from Egypt. I don't know if they're ever
• 1:14:56
  going to go back to Egypt again for support.
• 1:14:59
  I don't know. But the Bible that doesn't
• 1:15:02
  change. So in I I just yeah, I disagree
• 1:15:06
  with what the study Bible said here.
• 1:15:09
  We talked about Rahab. We talked about the
• 1:15:12
  principalities in the heavenly realms that the evil, the
• 1:15:15
  spiritual forces of evil in heavenly realms.
• 1:15:18
  We talked about Rahab being a prostitute.
• 1:15:20
  So this question says who was Rahab?
• 1:15:23
  The do nothing Rahab was, which likely means arrogance, was a
• 1:15:28
  sea monster in ancient mythology, and also became a
• 1:15:32
  name for Egypt. When threatened by a powerful
• 1:15:36
  foe, the Israelites sometimes stopped trusting God and turned
• 1:15:40
  to Egypt for help. They usually got very little
• 1:15:42
  assistance, however, since Egypt's help was utterly
• 1:15:46
  useless. Isaiah was saying that reliance
• 1:15:48
  on Egypt would do no good. She was a do nothing ally.
• 1:15:52
  Well, we did investigate what Rahab is within the Bible.
• 1:15:57
  It's a person. It's also connected to Leviathan
• 1:16:00
  and it's a prostitute, which could be symbolic of following
• 1:16:06
  another spirit rather than God. So there's a lot more to Rahab
• 1:16:11
  than just that. So question, did the people
• 1:16:15
  actually want Isaiah to prophecy illusions?
• 1:16:18
  Isaiah was putting into words and not what people actually
• 1:16:21
  said, but what they meant. They wanted the prophets to say
• 1:16:26
  pleasant things to them. They did not actually ask for
• 1:16:29
  illusions, but Isaiah said that is what they were in reality
• 1:16:34
  asking for when they demanded that he stop confronting them
• 1:16:38
  with the Holy One of Israel. People who refuse to obey the
• 1:16:43
  Lord want comforting messages, not words of judgement.
• 1:16:49
  That is so true. So people who refuse to obey the
• 1:16:53
  Lord, nobody wants to be confronted.
• 1:16:55
  Nobody wants to be told you're not doing what's right, you're
• 1:16:58
  not doing what God says. And we shouldn't, because I
• 1:17:01
  mean, we should make people aware of it.
• 1:17:03
  Just say read your Bible. The Bible will do it.
• 1:17:05
  We don't have to tell them, but maybe we could reference a verse
• 1:17:08
  and say, read this and reflect on it, You know, let God do the
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  work. It's not, it's not our rules.
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  It's not our, we didn't make up these laws.
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  We didn't do this, God did. And so church is nothing.
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  I mean, nobody's enforcing this. God's going to enforce it.
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  And God gives us freedom to choose.
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  So nobody is forced to do anything.
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  But what Jesus said is very interesting about, you know,
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  when you know, people only want to hear comforting things and
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  they just they want to they only want to hear the good stuff.
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  Go to Luke chapter 12, verse 51. This is what Jesus said.
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  Do you think I came to bring peace on earth?
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  No, I tell you, but division. And then he goes into saying,
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  like even in within a family, there's going to be division.
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  And it's about him. It's about him that the division
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  goes and he he didn't come to bring peace on earth.
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  He came to save sinners, to tell people about the Kingdom of God
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  and to die on the cross. He knew he was going to die on
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  the cross. He did it to break the curse of
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  the power of death that Satan held.
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  He broke the curse when he died on that cross, and he had to
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  kind of go about it in a secretive way so that people
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  would kill him because that needed to be done.
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  So he could be the sacrifice that would atone for all mankind
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  to allow us to get into the Kingdom of God.
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  So fascinating and strategic. Like nobody's going to pull one
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  over on God. Then I do want to talk about
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  something good because we do want to hear something good.
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  It's not going to be all destruction and things like
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  that. And this is so true.
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  I've definitely experienced it. Luke Chapter 11, verse 13.
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  If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good
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  gifts to your your children, how much more will your Father in
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  heaven give good, give the Holy Spirit to those who ask of him.
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  Now that's really, that's one of the verses.
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  So it's, it's about receiving the Holy Spirit, which is
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  important. And but there's another, I think
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  it's might be Matthew that talks about the good gifts as well.
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  And I'm going to find that. Yes, it's Matthew Chapter 7
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  verse 11. It says if you then, though you
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  are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children.
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  How much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to
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  those who ask him like God gives?
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  The Holy Spirit is the greatest gift of all, but there are
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  blessings that when we surrender to God, there are blessings and
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  God will send little things along the way to encourage us as
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  we. Obey God because he will give us
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  these little good things that we'll know didn't come from
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  anyone but God and it'll just, it'll just make us happy.
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  It's a little happy thing in an unexpected way.
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  So the other thing is that God talks about his arm.
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  Obviously it is Jesus who throughout with the book of
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  Isaiah he refers to his arm like God's arm and Jesus the Son of
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  God is his arm that is going to bring about wrath at his second
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  coming. So then it says how would the
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  sun be 7 times brighter? This imagery, along with the
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  imagery that comes before it, shows how everything good for
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  God's people would be magnified. 7 was considered a picture of
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  completeness, our perfection. The symbolism of a brighter sun
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  also stands in contrast to the time when the sun and the moon
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  were ashamed during God's execution and judgement on the
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  world. So there's this darkness, but
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  then there's going to be light that comes and the light is
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  found in Christ. Jeez.
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  Well, it's the life, but it's also the light.
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  So Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life.
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  But you could also say the light.
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  That's what Jesus is also. Then how would God lead people
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  astray? This is likely a reference to
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  pulling the reins back on Assyria and halting her
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  destructive Stampede. God would use Assyria, so he
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  lets people have free will. So even if somebody has bad free
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  will, he lets them use it to punish Judah.
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  But after Judah's time of punishment, Assyria would face
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  the consequences because God is just of its own sin.
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  And then Babylonian, Babylon defeated the last Assyrian army
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  in six O 9 BC. God controls the nations as
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  easily as a good rider directs a horse.
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  Then it asks, oh, I want to talk about this, the horses.
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  This is really interesting too, because I don't think I, I don't
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  think I looked it up here. I forgot to do that.
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  The courses in the Bible are especially in some of the
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  prophets are really interesting because in Zechariah is where it
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  it all gets cleared up. Zechariah.
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  Let's see one verse 10. Then the man standing among the
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  Myrtle trees explains they are the ones the Lord has sent to go
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  throughout the earth. So he's talking about horses.
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  So during the night he has a vision and he sees a man mounted
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  on a red horse. He was standing among the Myrtle
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  trees in a ravine. Behind him were red, brown and
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  white horses. So there's these horses behind
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  him and he says, like, what are these?
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  My Lord? The Angel who is talking with me
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  answered, I will show you what they are.
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  And so he said these are the ones the Lord has sent to go
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  throughout the earth. So we're like, OK, maybe horses
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  are going throughout the earth to observe something for God.
• 1:23:30
  But no, that's not really what that what that's about because
• 1:23:34
  in Zechariah 6, it tells us that again, here's horses again,
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  Zachariah sees this. He goes, I looked up and again
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  there were before me were 4 Chariots coming out of between
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  the mountains, mountains of bronze, which I think is
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  symbolic. These are symbolic things.
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  The first chariot had red horses, the second black, the
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  third white and the 4th dappled, all of them powerful.
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  Now they're in a different order than what we see in the Book of
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  Revelation. There are four horses that are
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  sent out. And so I think we need to think
• 1:24:09
  about this also because Scripture interpret Scripture.
• 1:24:14
  I asked the Angel who was speaking to me, what are these?
• 1:24:16
  Now here's where the explanation comes in.
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  Zechariah chapter 6, verse 5. The Angel answered me, These are
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  the four spirits of heaven going out from standing in the
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  presence of the Lord of the whole world.
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  The one with the black horses, it, it gives the direction of
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  where they're going and what they're doing and they're going
• 1:24:41
  throughout the earth. And then so the four spirits of
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  heaven, so that's where it, the horses are not horses, they're
• 1:24:56
  actually spirits. And they're going out looking
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  over the whole world and, and it, you know that it says the
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  one with the black horses is going towards the North Country.
• 1:25:08
  The one with the white horses is going towards the West.
• 1:25:12
  The one with the dappled horses is going towards the South.
• 1:25:15
  When the powerful horses went out, they were straining to go
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  throughout the earth. And he said go throughout the
• 1:25:21
  earth. So they went throughout the
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  earth. And then he called to me, look,
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  those going toward the North Country have given my spirit
• 1:25:29
  rest in the land of the North. So there's just like the Book of
• 1:25:36
  Revelation, there are the four horsemen of are actually 7
• 1:25:42
  horsemen, I guess six or seven, I don't remember.
• 1:25:44
  But there's one is war, one is famine, and then there's death
• 1:25:51
  in Hades. So as I was reading this, I all
• 1:25:56
  of a sudden this like made sense to me.
• 1:25:59
  So the horses are spirit, but there are riders on the horses.
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  So there's someone else controlling the horses which the
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  controlling the spiritual entity and it's going out throughout
• 1:26:13
  the earth. I just, I realized that, you
• 1:26:16
  know, today was because each of these horses have riders.
• 1:26:20
  So the horses are a certain color.
• 1:26:23
  We know that the horses are spirits.
• 1:26:25
  But then when you get into the Book of Revelation, there's
• 1:26:28
  someone dressed in white who's conquering.
• 1:26:31
  There's someone who is going out to war, that's taking peace from
• 1:26:36
  the whole earth. Then there's someone who goes
• 1:26:38
  out in famine to create famine throughout the world.
• 1:26:43
  Then there's death and Hades are the riders on the other the next
• 1:26:48
  two horses. So we know Satan had the power
• 1:26:53
  of death. Hades is a place where people
• 1:26:56
  get held before judgement so those spirits will go out.
• 1:27:02
  And this is all this happens before Jesus was returned.
• 1:27:07
  Then at the 6th seal, that's when Jesus returns.
• 1:27:12
  So we'll, we'll if we're around, we will see those different
• 1:27:16
  things. The conquering spirit, we will
• 1:27:19
  see a war spirit, we will see a famine spirit.
• 1:27:23
  I think we're kind of seeing those things right now and it's
• 1:27:27
  just a matter of how inflation, like the famine and inflation,
• 1:27:31
  we are seeing that right now. How great is it going to get?
• 1:27:34
  Is it a preview of what yet what is yet to come maybe or is it
• 1:27:39
  what is actually happening? The next things we if if those
• 1:27:44
  things are actually out in the earth going throughout the earth
• 1:27:47
  right now, the next things would be death and Hades.
• 1:27:52
  And there's also like all of these Christians and different
• 1:27:56
  places like in Africa and other countries are actually being
• 1:28:01
  beheaded right now from Muslims, extreme, extreme extremist in
• 1:28:09
  the Muslim faith. They're beheading Christians and
• 1:28:13
  there's not a lot of it on the news.
• 1:28:15
  But they are also are announcing that they're going to conquer
• 1:28:20
  Europe, they're going to conquer France, they're going to conquer
• 1:28:23
  Europe. That's they're clearly saying
• 1:28:25
  that they want to do it in the United States as well.
• 1:28:28
  And they're trying to set up communities to do that to get
• 1:28:31
  an, an announce Sharia law in the United States.
• 1:28:35
  So they are bent on a conquest. I believe that Islam is the
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  first writer. And I, I don't think the, I
• 1:28:43
  think these things are like gradually like they're just
• 1:28:45
  sneaking up on people. But I think the first writer is
• 1:28:48
  actually Islam going out to conquer.
• 1:28:52
  That's what it is. That's what that religion is
• 1:28:55
  doing, is going out to conquer all the people.
• 1:28:58
  It's a spirit behind it, and it's a spirit that that is
• 1:29:02
  against God. But it's people who are
• 1:29:04
  unwilling to listen to the truth who are accepting it.
• 1:29:08
  And it's going out to conquer people.
• 1:29:10
  So I, I think you, I don't know, pray about what I've just said.
• 1:29:17
  I didn't really intend to talk about that right now, but pray
• 1:29:22
  about it and ask God to confirm with you whether what I'm saying
• 1:29:26
  is true or not. And and that's the important
• 1:29:30
  thing. The other thing is to know
• 1:29:33
  what's happening in the world. We may not hear a lot.
• 1:29:36
  A lot of people are not getting, I mean, don't listen to the
• 1:29:42
  mainstream news because it's a programmed message that people
• 1:29:48
  want that whoever is in charge of it want everybody to believe
• 1:29:52
  whatever they say. So they all communicate the
• 1:29:55
  exact same message. And you can't, you can't deter
• 1:29:57
  from that. You got to stay on the same
• 1:29:59
  path, the message that is supposed to be given to the
• 1:30:02
  people. But if you want to know what's
• 1:30:05
  happening in the world and what's happening related to the
• 1:30:08
  Bible, what's happening all over the world, I really truly
• 1:30:11
  suggest that you subscribe to Amir Sarfati on Telegram because
• 1:30:19
  he reports World News as it relates to the Bible.
• 1:30:25
  And when you start knowing what's in the Bible, you start
• 1:30:28
  seeing that wow, a lot of things that prophecy talks about are
• 1:30:32
  happening today. So if you want to see what's
• 1:30:35
  happening, know what's happening, a lot of times you'll
• 1:30:38
  see it on his channel before you'll even see it in the news.
• 1:30:41
  So I recommend that He has like 633,000 subscribers and his name
• 1:30:47
  is A AM IR and last name is TS ARFATI.
• 1:30:57
  But if you want to kind of stay up to date and know what's going
• 1:31:00
  on, I mean it might he, he has a lot of, I don't know how he ever
• 1:31:04
  sleeps honestly. He puts so much news out there.
• 1:31:07
  But if you kind of want to snip it and to know what's happening
• 1:31:10
  in the world and how it relates to Bible prophecy, I highly
• 1:31:14
  recommend getting the Telegram app and following him because
• 1:31:20
  you will see all these things that are happening that relate
• 1:31:24
  to what's in the Bible. Anyway, this podcast once again
• 1:31:29
  was way longer than I anticipated it to be, but
• 1:31:32
  hopefully this will benefit someone.
• 1:31:34
  I hope you subscribe or share this.
• 1:31:36
  If it is something valuable to you or anyone that you know,
• 1:31:40
  please do so, because the important part is that more
• 1:31:45
  people are able to enter the Kingdom of God and that they
• 1:31:50
  know the truth.