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822. Bible Study: Daniel 12 (The Gathering by Jesus, 2 Witnesses? and timeframes) · Faith by annm2705

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Today is the last book from Daniel chapter 12 and it's about
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the end times. Dear Lord, please be with us as
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always to help us understand this chapter.
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We ask this in Jesus name the end times.
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At that time, Michael, the great Prince who protects your people
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will arise. Now, this is something that
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we've been introduced to in earlier chapters, that Michael
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is an Angel who has been assigned to the Israelites or I
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guess Israel, both. I guess the says your people, I
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don't know if it was specifically just the tribe of
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Judah are also the 10 tribes as well.
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But we know for sure that it was a tribe of Judah because that's
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what who Daniel was from. He was from that group of
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people. So at that time, Michael, the
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great Prince who protects your people will arise.
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And this is a little bit interesting.
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Well, I'm going to read the next line.
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There will be a time of distress, such as not happened
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from the beginning of nations until then, but at that time
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your people, everyone whose name is found written in in the book,
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will be delivered. Multitudes who sleep in the dust
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of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, others to
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shame an everlasting contempt. Those who are wise will shine
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like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many
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to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.
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But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll
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until the time of the end. Many will go here and there to
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increase knowledge. So there's a lot in that
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paragraph. So first of all, we talked about
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Michael and then the the next line was there.
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There will be time of distress. Such has not happened from the
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beginning of nations until then. And that's exactly what Jesus
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said too in Matthew 24 verse 21. For then there will be great
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distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until
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now, and never to be equaled again.
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Then in Matthew 2429, it says immediately after the distress
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of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give
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its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly
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bodies will be shaken. Now this will tie also into the
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Book of Revelation because in the Book of Revelation the stars
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are symbolic of angels. And when he said the stars will
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fall from the sky and the heavenly bodies will be shaken,
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it seems to me like Jesus was talking about the angels falling
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from the sky and that the heaven heavens would be shaken at this
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point. So to me, it sounds like the
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time that Michael goes up to heaven and Will, I'll show you
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in Revelation where I get this from, but Michael arises in
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heaven. There's a great battle in
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heaven, Mike and Michael remains in heaven, but then Satan is
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thrown down and Satan has this wrath that's against the people.
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I also think this is the time where where everyone's gathered.
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Similar to what this says in verse two, it says multitudes
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who sleep and the dust of the earth will awake, some to
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everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting content.
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So I believe this is when Jesus will gather the people and just
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like he gave an order of events that there's going to be this
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distress. The Suns will be darkened, and
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the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall
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from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
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And then it says, I'll just read the next verse.
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But after that it says, then will appear the sign of the Son
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of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the
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earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the
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clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
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And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they
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will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of
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heavens to the other. So it it seems like that is when
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the gathering occurs. And then in Mark it, it also
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says the same thing. Because those days of distress
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unequaled, those will be days of distress unequalled from the
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beginning when God created the world until now, and never to be
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equaled again. So this distress that will
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happen before Jesus returns is going to be greater than
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anything we've ever seen. And, and Mark also says the same
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thing. But in those days following that
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distress, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not
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give its light. The stars will fall from the sky
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and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
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At that time, people will see the Son of Man coming in the
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clouds with great power and glory, and he will send his
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Angel angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from
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the heavens, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the
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heavens. So this is when Mark gives a
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little bit more detail that he's talking about earth and heaven,
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like all these people will be gathered.
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Then Luke also talks about this and he says how dreadful it will
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be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers.
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There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this
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people. They will fall by the sword and
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be taken as prisoners to all the nations.
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Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of
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the Gentiles are fulfilled so, and then it continues on in
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Luke. There will be signs in the sun,
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moon, and stars on the earth. Nations will be in anguish and
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perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.
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People will faint from terror, apprehensive about what is
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coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken
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at that time. They will see the Son of Man
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coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
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When these things begin to take place, stand up, lift up your
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heads because your redemption is drawing near.
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So there's that sequence, there's that great distress, and
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then comes the Jesus on the clouds.
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And in Romans it says there will be trouble and distress.
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This is Romans chapter 2, verse 9.
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There will be trouble and distress for every human being
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who does evil, first the Jew, then for the Gentile.
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And I kind of think about that today because the Jews are being
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persecuted after, you know, October 7th, 2023.
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And then there's the there have been lots of Christians who have
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actually been beheaded. Also, Nigeria was the most
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recent one that's been talked about.
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So this really does seem like some of these things that are
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talked about in the Bible are happening today.
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And I think that's that's about all from the great distress.
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And there is in 2nd Thessalonians 2 verse 7, it says
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for the mystery of lawlessness is already at work.
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Only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of
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the way. I know there's a lot of people
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who say that refers to the church, but I also think we
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should consider that that may mean Michael, Michael being
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taken out, he protects Israel and then he's going to be, he's
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going to arise into the heavens when Satan gets thrown down and
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then they don't have their protection anymore.
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It's part of the plan that God put in place, that the wrath of
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God is coming because people were unrepentant.
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They rejected him and for all the reasons.
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God always gives reasons why these things come about, but
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it's because of people's decisions.
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And he also wants people still to return to him in the book,
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throughout the Book of Revelation, which ties into
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this, he's continually saying, you know, if they would have
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repented, they would have been saved.
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But they choose not to repent, not to change their ways, not to
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turn to God. So I think we need to, it's much
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better to read about it and learn about it than to
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experience it. So if we are in that place where
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we haven't turned to God and we're still living rebellious to
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God, now is a really good time to do it because there's so many
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different signs from these prophetic books that are
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happening in our world today that there's a lot of people who
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think Jesus is coming soon. And from what I'm seeing too, I,
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I think the same way. And we'll only know after the
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fact, but it is certainly something that I wouldn't want
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to be surprised by. I would rather be prepared and
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know that whenever Jesus returns, I don't have anything
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to fear because I'm at peace with God.
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I'm not rebelling against him and I've gone through that
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process. So anyway, that's I think the
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most important of all of this is not so much the timing, but just
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getting our relationship right with God.
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So when Michael the restrainer is removed, I believe that's
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when this war happens. And that's found in Revelation
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chapter 12 verse 7. And war broke out in heaven.
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Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon
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in his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place
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found for them in heaven any longer.
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So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old called
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the Devil and Satan who deceives the whole world, and he was cast
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to the earth and his angels were cast out with him.
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So at that point, I do wonder if that's when it really gets that
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that distress that's never happened before and never will
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again is because of Satan being cast down to the earth and that
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he is pursuing Israel and Michael is in the heavenly
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realms. And this is part of what God was
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warning everyone about. That's my opinion, and we'll
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just see what happens after the fact.
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But there is a warning in here. It does say that.
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Here's something else that's I think is important for us to pay
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attention to. Then I heard a loud voice in a
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loud voice saying in heaven. This is in Revelation chapter 12
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verse 10. Then I heard a loud voice in
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heaven saying, Now salvation and strength and the Kingdom of our
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God and the power of his Christ have come for the accuser of our
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brethren who accused them before our God day and night has been
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cast down. And they overcame him by the
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blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and
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they did not love their lives to the death.
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So this also means that some people which we already know
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that Christians are being beheaded today, that for not
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denouncing their faith in Jesus. So some people may be required
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to do that. That's what this the Bible tells
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us. But those people, the the good
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news about those people is they will come to life when Jesus
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returns and they are going to be in a prominent position.
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They're actually going to be reigning with Christ ruling
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during this thousand year millennial reign that Christ
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will be king and ruling from Jerusalem.
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So God restores everything like we that's one thing that, you
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know, maybe some of this Bible prophecy is concerning some of
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the things it definitely is. But if our relationship is good
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with God, we don't have anything to fear because we know that our
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relationship was right with him and and he will protect us
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whatever we need. Maybe we'll have to live through
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some of this and but there's a point where he will gather us
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because I believe we are not subject to his wrath.
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But I do believe that we will go through a certain amount of
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tribulation. I'm just not sure how much of
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it. But it it does sound like there
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will, there are people that are believers who are still here
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when Satan's wrath is coming out.
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So just I think people need to be prepared more or less.
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There's nothing really physically that you can do.
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It's more spiritually prepared with your relationship with God
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and just believing in Jesus and having the Holy Spirit because
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the Holy Spirit gives us power and does all, you know, does all
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sorts of things within our lives.
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I mean changes us. And that's we need the Holy
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Spirit to enter the Kingdom of God.
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Just like Jesus said in John chapter 3, you must be born
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again. So there's a there's things also
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that not things, but it says in the book of Daniel, it says the
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multitudes who sleep in the earth.
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Those are people who are dead already and the Bible refers to
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them as those who sleep. They will awake.
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That's when they rise up some to everlasting life and others to
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shame and everlasting content. Those who are, Oh, actually it
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was the verse before that I meant to read.
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It says, but at that time, your people, everyone whose name is
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found written in the book will be delivered.
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So this is saying that there's going to be this great time of
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distress. But at that time, your people,
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everyone whose name is found written in the book will be
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delivered. So that to me sounds like
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protection like there are, there will be this gathering that
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we're going to, we'll see it. We're going to see it happen,
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happening. But Jesus is going to gather
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those whoever's name is written in the book.
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So I think it's important to know that your name is written
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in the book of life. And I'll read some things about
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the book of Life. If you want to go to digital
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version of the Bible, I go to blueletterbible.org and you can
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just search book of life and you will find that there are 8
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verses in the NIV version that talk about the book of Life.
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Now this is interesting because it's in Psalms 69 verse 28, it
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says may they be blotted out of the book of life and not listed
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with the righteous. So we know that the book of life
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are those who are considered righteous.
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And this is probably maybe David's Psalm or something.
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I'm not sure. I'll look back at it to see it
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says for the director of music to the tune of Lilies of David.
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So this is something that David was pleading for.
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But do does God blot people out of the book of life?
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I don't really know. I haven't studied that fully,
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but it sounds like if your name is in there, he's not going to
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blot it out. But there still could be
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consequences of how we live even if our names are in the Book of
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Life. So I'll just read these various
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entries that are called the Book of Life and then maybe this will
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make sense. But I also want to read about
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who is subject to wrath. So I've also done a separate
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search on the word wrath because these two things are really
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important because I think we need to hear what what it says
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about the book of life people and also about the people of
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wrath and to make sure like to evaluate where we stand with
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God. So in Philippians 4 verse three
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it says yes and I ask you my true companion, help these women
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since they have contended at my side in the case of the gospel
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along with Clement and the rest of my Co workers whose names are
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in the book of life. So Paul is talking about people
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who you know he was talking about the gospel to many people
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and making sure that people had the Holy Spirit.
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And so I believe if you have the Holy Spirit, then your name is
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in the book of life. So then in Revelation chapter 3,
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verse 5, it says the one who is victorious will, like them, be
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dressed in white. I will never blot out the name
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of that person from the Book of Life, but will acknowledge that
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name before my Father and his angels.
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And it's talking about the one who let's see, maybe I should
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read. It's to a certain church in
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Sardis. To the Angel of the church in
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Sardis, write. These are the words of him who
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holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.
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I know your deeds. You have a reputation of being
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alive, but you are dead. So Jesus is taught, He told John
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to write a letter to seven different churches and this is
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to 1 church and and he's saying that you have a reputation of
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being alive. This is spiritually, but you are
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dead. Wake up, strengthen what remains
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and is about to die. For I have found your deeds
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unfinished in the sight of my God.
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Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard.
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Hold it fast and repent. But if you do not wake up, I
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will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I
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will come to you. Yet you have a few people in
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Sardis who have not soiled their clothes.
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They walk with me dressed in white, for they are worthy.
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The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white.
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So there is it. It looks like, you know, that
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even though we are saved by grace, if we're rebelling
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against God, I think we should be concerned about that because
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the way that this is stated by Jesus, he, he said, you know,
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talking about. You have a reputation of being
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alive, but you are dead. Strengthen what remains and is
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about to die. For I have found your deeds
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unfinished in the sight of my God.
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I don't think I'd want to see Jesus and have him say this to
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me at when he arrives here at on earth.
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I mean, I'd I'd rather think about it right now and if
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there's something I need to do, take care of it.
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I don't want to hear it from him when he comes because that that
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would be awful. Revelation 13, verse 8.
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All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast.
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All the names haven't, all whose names have not been written in
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the Lambs. That's Jesus's book of life, the
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Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world, That was
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Jesus who is crucified on the cross.
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So it it's interesting in the Book of Revelation, what I've
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noticed is that at least in the NIV version, it talks about the
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inhabitants of the earth. That seems to be different than
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the people who had the Holy Spirit, because it says all
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inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast, and then it
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clarifies it all whose names have not been written in the
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Lamb's Book of Life. So there's going to be this
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great deception over people and they are going to worship this
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beast and they are going to reject God.
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And those are the people whose names are not written in the
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Lamb's Book of Life. And they don't realize, they
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don't know that they are actually going to be in eternal
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torment. I mean, this is.
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And if somebody takes the mark of the beast, it's an
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unforgivable sin because I believe it's probably saying it.
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It's dedicating your worship. I mean, you're worshipping
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something else. And that's one of the things
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that God will not share with something, a created being that
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is not a God. And that's what he says
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throughout the Bible over and over again as he's not going to
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share that with anyone. So I believe that's why the mark
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of the beast, if anybody takes it, it's an unforgivable sin.
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So that's something that will send you with into the burning
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lake of sulfur. I mean, that's the Bible tells
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us. So you're being warned.
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You can make a choice now, and it may mean death.
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You may have to choose to be willing to willingly die rather
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than take the mark of the beast because there are people who are
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going to do that. As the Bible indicates in
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Revelation 17 verse 8, it says the beast which you saw once
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was, now is not and yet will come up out of the abyss and go
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to its destruction. So the abyss is a place where
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demons are and apparently one of the fallen angels has the key to
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it will have access and and let the these demons out of the
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earth around the 5th trumpet. I was just looking at that.
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So then it says in this Revelation 17 verse 8, it says
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the inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been
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written in the book of life from the creation of the world will
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be astonished when they see the beast because it once was now is
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not and yet will come. So this is going to be something
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that is going to be something we probably have never ever seen
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before. And I don't know that anybody
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can quite prepare for that. But we can prepare and have our
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names in the book of life. When we receive the Holy Spirit,
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we that's our life. So then let's talk about the
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wrath of God. Like who is?
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Yeah, Jesus was saying this in Matthew chapter 3, verse 7.
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But when he saw many of the Pharisees and the Sadducees
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coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them, you
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brood of Vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
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So these were ones, they, they weren't believers and they were
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against Jesus. And apparently they, you know,
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he's observing this and saying, you know, why are you trying to,
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you know, notice that he was baptizing and he said to them,
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you brood of Vipers. Vipers are kind of like the
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snake and they're connected with Satan.
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And I don't know if I want to look for this.
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I think it was John, John, not Jesus who said that.
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And but he was, he had spiritual discernment and he knew that
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these were not godly focused people.
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They were religious people, but they they were all about the act
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and not really about the sincerity of it.
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Luke says the same thing that John said to the crowds coming
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out to be baptized. You brood of Vipers who warned
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you to flee from the coming wrath.
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So you can see that this baptism, that's repentance of
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your sin, like turning your mind to, I guess, turning your mind
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towards God and agreeing with God that you don't want to be
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rebellious to him and his commands anymore.
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And then receiving the Holy Spirit through Jesus so that our
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lives can change and we can, I guess essentially our lives do
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change and we begin to appreciate what God appreciates
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and not like what God doesn't like.
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And that's through the Holy Spirit.
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The Holy Spirit really does change people, but we have to be
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willing to do that or it won't happen.
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Then it says in Luke 21 verse 23 how dreadful it will be in those
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days for pregnant women and nursing mothers.
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There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this
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people. Now here in John, it tells us a
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little bit about John chapter 3 verse 36.
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Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever
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rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on
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them. So when Jesus said I am the way,
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the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father except
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through me. This is, you know, being
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repeated again. Whoever believes in Jesus has
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eternal life, but whoever rejects Jesus will not see life,
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for God's wrath remains on them. Then Romans chapter one verse
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18, the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all
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the godlessness and wickedness of people who suppress the truth
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by their wickedness in Romans chapter 2 verse 5.
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But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you
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are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's
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wrath when His righteous judgement will be revealed.
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In Romans chapter 2 verse 8 it says but for those who are self
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seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil there will be
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wrath and anger. In Romans 4 verse 15 it says
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because the law brings wrath and where there is no law there is
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no transgression. So this is basically saying that
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without Jesus, we're subject to wrath because we all break the
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law, the 10 commandments, the laws that God gave.
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And there's no way once we break it, we are separated from Him.
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And the only way that we can atone for that, there's nothing
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we can do. The only the consequence of that
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is just death. But that's why Jesus died on the
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cross, to make atonement for us so that we can be in God's
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Kingdom. So that's where the law is not
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going to prevail because the substitute sacrifice was made by
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Jesus for us. So we're not subject to the
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wrath of God. And then it says in Romans
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chapter 5, verse nine, since we have now been justified by His
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blood, by Jesus's blood, how much more shall we be saved from
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God's wrath through Him? So Jesus is the one that saves
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us from God's wrath. Romans 9 verse 22.
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What if God, although choosing to show His wrath and make His
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power known, bore with great patience the objects of His
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wrath, prepared for destruction? So God is very patient with us
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and He doesn't want anyone to experience His wrath, but He's
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the God of justice. So if the only way we can really
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handle this in our minds is by thinking about somebody who has
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done something really awful and has never been forgiving, like
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maybe they killed a loved one and you would want justice for
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that. And so God has to do justice.
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If somebody isn't repentant, if they don't turn away from living
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like that, they are going to be separated because that will not
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be in God's Kingdom. In Romans chapter 12, verse 19.
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Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for
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God's wrath. For it is written, it is mine to
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avenge. I will repay, says the Lord.
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So if somebody is wrong to you, just forgive them and let God
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handle it. He will.
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And we also have to remember that when somebody does
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something wrong to us, they are really no different than us in
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that they are rebellious. And if they're doing something
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mean, we've done things mean to others at some point in our life
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and we've been forgiven. And it also says like we will be
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forgiven on the basis of how we forgive others.
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So it doesn't mean that when we forgive somebody that we're
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saying it was OK what they did. It just means we are not going
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to take that opportunity to have revenge on them.
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We will let God deal with them and we will pray for them that
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they they can have a change of heart and realize their eyes
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will be opened. So and then Romans chapter 13
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verse 4. For the one in authority is
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God's servant for your good, but if you do wrong, be afraid, for
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rulers do not bear the sword for no reason.
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They are God's servants, agents of wrath to Bing bring
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punishment on the wrongdoer. And then in Ephesians chapter 2,
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verse 3, all of us also lived among them at one time,
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gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires
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and thoughts like the rest. We were by nature deserving of
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wrath. So we shouldn't, none of us
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should think we're any better than anyone else because we've
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all been there. You know, it's just a matter of
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timing. Like have we repented of it?
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Have we turned to God? Do we have the Holy Spirit?
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Are we in the process of being changed by the Holy Spirit with
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us being willing for that? But everybody goes through it.
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And then Ephesians 5, verse 6, it says, let no one deceive you
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with empty words, for because of such things, God's wrath comes
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on those who are disobedient. So it says in the verse before
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this is probably I mean there's a few there's several verses
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ahead of this maybe that we should I'll read the verses that
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come about it. So you know that what they're
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talking about. God's wrath comes on those who
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are disobedient. Here are the verses one through
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5 before the one I I read. Follow God's example.
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Therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of
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love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a
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fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
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But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality
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or of any kind of impurity or of greed, because these are
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improper for God's holy people. Nor should there be obscenity,
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foolish talk or coarse joking which are out of place, but
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rather Thanksgiving, for of this you can be sure.
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No immoral, impure or greedy person.
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Such a person is an idolater, has any inheritance in the
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Kingdom of Christ and of God. So that's kind of important and
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it about repentance and turning away from those kinds of ways of
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living, because it says that if you if you live like that and
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you don't do anything about it, you don't change with through
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Christ, then they're those people do not have an
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inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
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That's you don't, you don't want to be in that.
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First Thessalonians 2 verse 16 in their effort to keep us from
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speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved in this way,
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they always heap up their sins to the limit.
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The wrath of God has come upon them at last.
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And then in First Thessalonians 5, verse 9, For God did not
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appoint us to suffer wrath, but to receive salvation through our
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Lord Jesus Christ. So there's a big difference
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about what he, there's a, an important word that he used our
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Lord Jesus Christ. That means we answer to him,
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that means we're obedient to Him, and that means we obey Him.
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So he is the Lord of our life. So for God did not appoint us to
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suffer wrath, but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus
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Christ. So when we make Jesus our Lord
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and we're obedient to Him, we have salvation and we're not to
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suffer wrath. And then let's see then it just
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talks about the actual wrath that comes when Jesus returns.
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So those there's other there's a lot more verses about wrath.
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But anyway, I just thought I would share those things because
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I think it's really important to know that.
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So going back to verse 5 of Daniel chapter 12, it says then
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I Daniel looked and there before me stood two others, one on this
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Bank of the river and one on the opposite bank.
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One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was above
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the waters of the river. So I'm imagining this as he
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floating above the the river. I don't know how long will it be
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before these astonishing things are fulfilled.
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The man in clothed in linen who was above the waters of the
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river, lifted his right hand and his left hand toward heaven.
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And I heard him swear by him who lives forever, saying it will be
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for a time, times and half a time, when the power of the holy
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people has finally has been finally broken, all these things
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will be completed. So that's another question, when
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the power of the holy people has been, when that's happened.
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And there's a verse in Revelation 11 verse 13 or verse
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3. So first of all, this is what
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Jesus is saying. I will give power to my 2
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witnesses and they will prophecy 1260 days clothed in sackcloth.
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The same statement in Daniel says time times and half a time
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so that 1260 days is 3 1/2 years.
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So when the power of the holy people has finally been broken.
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So I wonder if that is the two witnesses when their power has
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been broken. And then in that same chapter of
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Revelation in verse 7, it says when this is referring to the
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two witnesses, when they finish their testimony, the beast that
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ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them,
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overcome them and kill them. So that's when I think the power
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of the holy people has been broken, when the beast out of
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the abyss kills the two witnesses who had been
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prophesying for 3 1/2 years. So that's when all these things
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will be completed. I heard, but I did not
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understand. So I asked my Lord, what will
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the outcome of all this be? He replied, Go on your way,
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Daniel, because the words are rolled up and sealed until the
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end of the Until the time of the end, many will be purified, made
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spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be
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wicked. None of the wicked will
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understand, but those who are wise will understand.
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From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the
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abomination that causes desolation is set up there will
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be I I recommend going to Blue Letter Bible and looking up
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Daniel chapter 12 verse 11 and go use the toolbar because I
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came up with a different number. The Bible says 1290 but when I
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look at the Hebrew it I came up with 1190 which makes a
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difference. But anyway it's from the time
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the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes
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desolation is set up. So it's giving us a time frame
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to look at. But the time frame I think was
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not translated correctly. So check it out and see if you
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find the same thing. And then it says blessed is the
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one who waits for and reaches the end of 1335 days.
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That seemed to translate the way the Bible is.
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As for you go on your way till the end, you will rest and then
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at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted
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inheritance. So that's the end of chapter 12.
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And there were, there are things that I went through the book of
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Daniel and Revelation because these dates were our numbers of
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days got me very confused. And I think they probably
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confuse everybody because there's all these variety of
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dates. So there's 1290 days, but then
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there's 1260 days. So that was always confusing.
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But I think that it may be a translation error.
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And I came up with 1190 days, which is 3.3 years.
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And you can find that verse in Daniel chapter 12 verse 11.
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And then the 1260 days is 70 days longer than that 1190 days
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that we just talked about, which I think is very interesting
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because this is how much longer it's part of Satan's wrath
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because he gets 3 1/2 years to do this.
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So it lines up at 70, which is a really interesting number
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scripturally because Babylon's exile was the the tribe of Judah
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was in Babylon for 70 years. And so this is 70 days.
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And I just think maybe it's symbolic.
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A lot of times there's historical repetition and
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numbers are significant. So when you get the what I think
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is the correct number of 1190, the difference between 1190 and
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1260 is 70 days, something that's interesting.
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And then in the next time frame is I think 1300 days, not 2300
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days. And you can find that in Daniel
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chapter 8 verse 14 and look up the Hebrew and see what you get.
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I got 1300 days and that 1300 days is 40 more than the 1260
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days. And the whole purpose of it is
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to cleanse the sanctuary. So I thought that was more
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accurate biblically because 40 days, remember, like Noah's ark
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was, I mean, it rained for 40 days and 40 nights.
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And that was like a symbolic cleansing of evil.
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And so this is what it takes, you know, this is 40 more days
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to cleanse the sanctuary. Just it seems to make sense.
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And then 1335 days, I didn't find a discrepancy with what was
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in the Bible when I looked at the Hebrew, it's 35 days longer
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than the 1300. And it says that the people will
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be blessed that last till that day till that time.
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And I don't really know the significance of it, but it's
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kind of interest. It's it's very interesting
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anyway, so I will go through the study Bibles, questions and
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answers, and then we'll wrap this up and we'll move on to
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another book the next time I do this podcast.
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So how did the people in the Old Testament view resurrection, the
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Hebrew word for the place of the dead?
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She'll offers few details about what they thought it was like.
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There are hints that the dead would be raised in Job chapter
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19, verses 25 through 27 in Psalm 49 verse 15 and Isaiah 26
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verse 19. Daniel chapter 12, verse 2 is
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the first clear reference to resurrection of both the
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righteous and the wicked. When will the power of the holy
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people be broken? This verse may refer to a
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military conquest of Israel, which some believe will happen
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in the end times, perhaps as part of the battle of
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Armageddon. From Revelation chapter 16, the
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word finally seems to reflect the passage of time before the
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event, not its desirability. So I happen to think it's the
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two witnesses. Perhaps, but we will find out.
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OK what's been sealed until the time of the end?
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The prophecy was to be safeguarded so that current and
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future believers could benefit from it.
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The Heavenly Message also seems to have been saying that the
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prophecy was complete and no further information would be
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given at that time. What was the purpose of this
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prophecy? If the words were sealed?
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The prophecy made it clear that suffering would be allowed.
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What would be followed by justice and God's eternal reign?
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For the Exiles in Babylon, this meant new motivation to stay
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true to their faith. For those who later suffered at
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the hands of Antiochus the 4th, it meant hope for a time when
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the Messiah would come. For the early Christians and for
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oppressed believers today, it means a glimpse at the end of
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the story when Christ will return.
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What happened when these two time periods had passed?
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The persecution by Antiochus the 4th Epiphanes was followed by
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the rededication of the temple in 165 BC.
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If this is what the times stand for, it's not certain why one is
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longer than the other. Some think the times involved a
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much later period, namely the great tribulation described in
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the Book of Revelation. Revelation Chapter 11.
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That's kind of where we were talking about.
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If so, the 45 day difference might be a gap between the end
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of the tribulations and the beginning of the thousand year
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reign by Christ. So, and I think I came up with
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35 days because of the numbers that I see.
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So look and look and see what you think about the Hebrew and
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see what you come up with. I, I just, I'm surprised that
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there would be a discrepancy, but I've looked at it several
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times and I keep coming back to that.
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So I don't know. But anyway, we are, that's the
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end of chapter 12. So we are finished with the book
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of Daniel and we will be moving on to the next prophet.
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