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714. Bible Study: Isaiah 22 (Is this about End Times? Iran? Israel? Jesus? ) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 22 from the book of Isaiah, This one has a lot of
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  interesting things in it, things that were not in the study
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  Bible. So they are just observations
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  that came to me as I was reading it.
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  So I will save those for the end.
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  But very interesting stuff to say the least.
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  So dear God, please be with us as we read through this chapter.
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  Please give us wisdom from the knowledge that we received from
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  it. And we ask for this in Jesus
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  name, Amen. So a prophecy against the valley
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  of vision, Jerusalem. Right away, the very first
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  statement that it says a prophecy against the valley of
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  vision found it interesting that in Joel, another prophet in
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  chapter 3, verse 14, he says multitudes, multitudes in the
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  valley of decision for the day of the Lord is near in the
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  valley of decision. We'll see later on that in this
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  Scripture it references that day and I believe it.
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  It is the day of the Lord, but I'll get to that at the very end
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  of it. So I will just read through.
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  I think I'll just read through Scripture first.
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  Then I will go through the questions and answers from the
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  Study Bible, and then I will go through things that came to me
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  as I was reading this. So a prophecy against the valley
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  of vision. What troubles you now that you
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  have gone up on the roofs? You, you town so full of
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  commotion, you city of tumult and revelry.
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  You were slain. You are slain.
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  Were not killed by the sword, nor did they die in battle.
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  All your leaders have fled together.
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  They have, they have been captured without using the bow.
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  All you who were caught were taken prisoner together, having
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  fled while the enemy was still far away.
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  Therefore I say, turn away from me.
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  Let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over
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  the destruction of my people. The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has
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  a day of tumult, of tumult and trampling and terror in the
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  valley. A vision, a day of battering
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  down walls and of crying out to the mountains.
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  Elam takes up the quiver with her charioteers and horses.
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  Kerr uncovers the shield. Your choicest valleys are full
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  of Chariots, and horsemen are posted at the city gates.
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  The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah, and you
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  looked, and you looked in that day to the weapons in the Palace
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  of the Forest. You saw that the walls of the
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  City of David were broken through in many places.
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  You stored up water in the lower pool.
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  You counted the buildings in Jerusalem and tore down houses
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  to strengthen the wall. You built a reservoir between
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  the two walls for the water of the old pool, but you did not
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  look to the one who made it, or have regard for the one who
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  planned it long ago. The Lord, the Lord Almighty,
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  called on you that day to weep and to wail, to tear out your
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  hair and put on sackcloth. But see, there is joy and
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  revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating of
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  meat and drinking of wine. Let us eat and drink, you say,
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  for to Morrow we die. The Lord Almighty has revealed
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  this in my hearing. Till your dying day this sin
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  will not be atoned for, says the Lord the Lord Almighty.
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  This is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty says.
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  Go, say, to the steward, to Shibna, the palace
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  administrator. What are you doing here?
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  And who gave you permission to cut out a grave for yourself
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  here, hewing your grave on the height and chiseling your
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  resting place in the rock? Beware, the Lord is about to
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  take firm hold of you and hurl you away, you mighty man.
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  He will roll you up tightly like a ball and throw you into a
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  large country. There you will die, and there
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  the Chariots you were so proud of will become a disgrace to
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  your master's house. I will depose you from your
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  office and you will be ousted from your position.
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  In that day I will summon my servant Eliakim, son of
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  Heliakaya. I will clothe him with your robe
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  and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to
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  him. He will be a father to those who
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  live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah.
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  I will place on his shoulder the key to the House of David.
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  What he opens, no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can
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  open. I will drive him like a pig into
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  a firm place. He will become a seat of the
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  house for the House of his father.
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  All the glory of his family will hang on him its offsprings and
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  offshoots all of its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all
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  the jars. In that day, declares the Lord
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  Almighty, the peg driven into the firm place will give way.
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  It will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it
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  will be cut down. The Lord has spoken, and that's
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  the end of chapter 22. So there is a lot in here, but I
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  will first read what the study Bible says.
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  What does the Valley of Vision refer to this.
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  The prophecy that follows clearly refers to Jerusalem,
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  though this is a surprising way to introduce a prophecy about a
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  holy city, because Jerusalem is often referred to as a mountain,
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  not a valley. A mountain provides commanding
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  view, but little can be seen from the valley.
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  This may be sarcasm. Isaiah may have been saying that
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  the people had no vision. The valley of vision could also
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  refer to a specific valley, likely near Jerusalem, in which
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  Isaiah had this vision. Why was Jerusalem full of
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  revelry? It is difficult to know in this
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  past if this passage refers to the unsuccessful Assyrian threat
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  to Jerusalem in seven O 1 BC or to the Babylonian siege and
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  destruction of the city in 588 through 86 BC.
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  If it refers to the former, then the Judeans were likely
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  celebrating their miraculous deliverance.
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  If the latter, then they were likely behaving just like the
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  Babylonians did prior to their fall.
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  How did these people die? Whether the Assyrian or
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  Babylonian threat is in view, the slain who were not killed by
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  the sword could refer to those who starved or died of disease.
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  Perhaps some of Judah leaders were so demoralized at the
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  approach of the cruel Assyrians that they simply fled the night
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  the Babylonians finally broke through Jerusalem's wall.
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  King Zedekiah and his army fled together but were chased down
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  and captured near Jericho. What caused Isaiah to whip Weep
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  bitterly? The section of Isaiah's prophecy
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  from verses 4 through 8 appears to look beyond the Assyrian
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  threat of Isaiah's day to Judah's destruction by the
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  Babylonians over a century later.
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  Isaiah knew that the people did not learn from God's wonderful
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  act of deliverance. The sorrow the prophet, The
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  sorrow of the prophet prophet for his people was so deep that
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  he was inconsolable. Who or what were Elam and Kerr?
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  Elam and Kerr were great nations that led to the east of Israel.
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  Elam was the land northeast of the lower Tigris valley.
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  Kerr was probably another name for media.
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  Troops from these nations were probably part of the Babylonian
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  military machine that attacked Judah.
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  It doesn't reference us here, but those areas are actually
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  modern day Iran. OK, what was the Palace of the
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  Forest? This was the name of Solomon's
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  Palace, which was built of Cedars shipped from the Forest
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  of Lebanon. Part of this palace served as an
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  Armory. Isaiah listed the palace with
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  its weapons, their ingeniously engineered water supply, and
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  their reinforced walls as evidence that they were trusting
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  in themselves rather than God. Let us eat, drink, eat and
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  drink, for tomorrow we die. Jesus and Paul referred to this
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  cavalier attitude that some people have towards life and
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  death. Who was this Shibna?
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  He was likely one of the chief culprits in persuading Hezekiah
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  to revolt against Assyria and was subsequent subsequently
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  demoted to secretary and replaced by Iliakim.
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  The only explicit charge made against Shibna is that he
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  planned for himself in an ostent.
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  He he planned for himself an ostentatious grave.
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  No doubt this action typified his self-centered attitude and
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  apathy towards the plight of his country and fellow citizens.
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  What he opens and no one can shut.
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  Similar words are used to illustrate authority given by
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  God in Matthew 16 verse 19 and Revelation chapter 3, verse 7.
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  Why would Eliakim fall? Unlike Shibna, his replacement,
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  Eliakim could be concerned for the people under his charge and
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  would act as a father to them. But such individuals can become
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  so dependable, like a peg driven into a firm place, that others
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  rely too much on them. Eliakim's family would evidently
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  become a special burden to him. Isaiah seemed to predict predict
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  that Eliakim would crack under the strain, and all that had
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  been dependent on him would come crashing down.
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  Likewise, the people of Judah had rejected divine resources
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  and were trusting in humans instead.
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  And that's the end of the questions and answers from the
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  Study Bible for chapter 22. When I was reading it, of
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  course, I noticed other things like valley of vision.
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  So that was something, of course, yes.
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  But it also is referred to, like I said, in Joel 314, where it
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  says this is this is in regards to the end times where it says
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  multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision for the day
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  of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
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  And it's it's about the judgment of the nations that in the book
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  of Joel chapter 3. So this is one of those
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  prophecies where we can see that it does have, you know, a, a
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  partial fulfillment. But a, in my opinion, it seems
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  like it actually has some sort of end time relevance as well
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  because it, there's a lot of things that happen, like history
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  repeats itself. And this is one of those times
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  where I think history repeats itself.
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  And whether or not everything's been completed here or this is
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  just going to say that there's going to be another repeat of
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  this because we do know that nations will surround Israel in
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  the very last days. And so it talks about all the
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  leaders being fled, obviously Hezekiah.
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  And was it Hezekiah that left that they said flood and in
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  advance of everything? And this, you know, maybe that
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  was the fulfillment of it or maybe there is a future time
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  too. Because we do know at the end
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  times that the Bible instructs those who are in Judea, when the
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  lawless man is revealed, or what is known as the Antichrist is
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  revealed, they are supposed to flee to the mountains.
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  So again, these things could have multiple meanings or
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  multiple fulfillment of prophecy.
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  So I could I could read more about what this chapter 3 I'll
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  read of Joel, what that is when I mentioned, you know, the
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  prophecy against the valley of vision.
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  I will read to you what just several lines of what Joel says
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  about the nations being judged. Here's the prophet Joel chapter
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  3 in those days and at that time when I restore the fortunes of
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  Judah and Jerusalem. So it's talking about the same
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  entity. I will gather all nations and
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  bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
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  There I will put them on trial for what they did to my
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  inheritance, my people, Israel, because they scattered my people
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  among the nations and divided up my land.
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  Now, that is something that's very interesting right now in
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  2025, because they're talking about dividing up the land.
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  And God gave Israel a certain guidelines of or not guidelines,
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  boundaries of land. And that is constantly being
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  challenged by the surrounding nations.
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  And it is, I think there's an actual meeting in September
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  where it's going to be talked about.
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  And Israel has actually been meeting, I don't know if it was
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  in the Knesset to discuss this in their bargaining with Hamas.
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  And there is, you know, creating a Palestinian state.
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  So it if Bible prophecy gets fulfilled, then the Palestinian
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  state may come to be. It doesn't seem like Israel is
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  very much interested in doing that right now, but there's a
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  lot of pressures from other countries that are suggesting
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  this be the way. I I don't know what's going to
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  happen with that. But certainly if it gets divided
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  up it that would be another like mile marker where it seems like
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  boy, we must be in the end times if that happens.
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  So going back to what Joel says, they cast lots for my people and
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  traded boys for prostitutes. They sold girls for wine to
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  drink. Now what have you, what have you
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  against me, Tyre and Saidon and all your regions of Phil
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  Philistia. Well, Tyre is Lebanon and the
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  regions of Philistia is Gaza. So it's really interesting that
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  these ancient cities were, you know, are something that's
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  happening today. Again, it seems like the Bible
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  is becoming alive with what we're seeing today, our Bible
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  prophecy. And it says Joel says, are you
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  repaying me for something I have done?
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  If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return
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  on your heads what you have done for you took my silver and my
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  gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.
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  You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks that
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  that you might send them far behind, far from their homeland.
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  See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you
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  have sold them, and I will return on your heads what you
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  have done. I will sell your sons and
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  daughters to the people of Judah and they will sell them to the
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  Sabians, a nation far away. The Sabians were believed to be
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  Nubians, I believe from near Sudan.
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  That's that's the history of those.
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  So that's just another interesting point.
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  The Lord has spoken. Proclaim this among the nations.
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  Prepare for war. Rouse the warriors.
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  Let all the fighting men draw near an attack.
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  Beat your plowshares into swords and you're pointing hooks into
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  Spears. Let the weakling say I am
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  strong. Come quickly, all you nations
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  from every side, and assemble there.
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  Bring down your warriors, Lord, let the nations be roused.
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  Let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will
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  sit to judge all the nations on every side.
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  So isn't that interesting? It's called the Valley of
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  Jehoshaphat. It's called the Valley of
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  Decision, and Isaiah calls it the value, the Valley of vision.
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  OK, Joel 313 says swing the sickle for the harvest is ripe.
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  Come trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the bats
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  overflow, so great is their wickedness.
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  Now this compares to the Book of Revelation where Jesus is on the
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  cloud and there's multiple angels.
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  Jesus harvests the land and then another Angel comes with another
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  sickle and harvest and then these go into the winepress.
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  So there's like some are some are taken and then some are put
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  into the winepress are the wrath of God.
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  And it's it's not a very pleasant picture.
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  So Joel 314 says multitudes, multitudes in the valley of
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  decision for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of
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  decision. Then here's another detail.
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  The sun and the moon will be darkened and the stars will no
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  longer shine. We know from many, many, many
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  verses about the day of the Lord, the sun and the moon will
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  be darkened. And some of them say the sun
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  will be darkened and the moon will be turned to blood and the
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  stars will no longer shine, or the stars will fall from the
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  sky. Those details are given almost
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  in every scenario with the return of Jesus.
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  And and then it's interesting also because that seems to be
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  the, you know, I wonder if that is also the point in the
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  Revelation where in the Book of Revelation, where the Dragon's
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  tail with the dragon is Satan, his tail sweeps 1/3 of the
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  angels, the 1/3 of the stars, and brings them down to the
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  earth. And stars are also angels, but
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  those are disobedient angels. Those are symbolic in
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  Revelation. The stars are angels or
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  messengers. And so does all this, all of
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  this happen at the same time? And we also see like an Angel,
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  We'll, we'll even get to that about an Angel or a messenger
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  coming down with the keys to Hades and opens up this
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  bottomless pit. So do all these things happen at
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  one time? It's the descriptions are pretty
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  interesting. They're very consistent about
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  these things. The Lord will roar from Zion and
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  Thunder from Jerusalem. The earth and the heavens will
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  tremble. It says another scripture that
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  the Lord's going to shake the heavens and the earth once again
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  and that everything that is meant to be shaken will fall.
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  But then there will be, you know, the some will stand
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  strong, OK, but the Lord will be a refuge for his people, a
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  stronghold for the people of Israel.
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  So God never, you know, if there's some people that are
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  faithful to God, he will be a refuge for those people.
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  He delivers his people, his faithful people.
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  He continually does. We see that throughout history
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  where he delivers these people, his faithful ones.
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  So that was what the prophet Joel said.
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  And so in Isaiah it says like the Lord the Lord Almighty has a
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  day of tumult and trampling and terror in the valley of vision.
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  So again, this is that is verse 5.
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  And then in verse 12, it says the Lord, the Lord Almighty
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  called you on that day to weep and wail, but it's like joy and
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  all these other things that are going on.
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  And that makes me think about it will be just as it was in the
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  days of Noah where people were marrying and, you know, being
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  given in marriage and marriage, you know, and everybody is just
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  going about life is normal when Jesus returns.
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  But there's all this, you know, this revelry that nobody
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  refrained from, nobody cares. Their eyes aren't on God.
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  And and we can learn from that too.
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  Like we it says often it says don't get, I don't know the
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  exact words of it, but don't get caught up in carousing and
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  drunkenness as the day of the Lord approaches or you will, it
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  will come on you like a thief, something like that.
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  I can't remember that scripture, but you know, you can just feel
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  like it's a it's been a long time and you don't want to put
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  your guard down because if Jesus returns at that point, you don't
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  want to be an enemy to him. You don't want to be like what
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  they're talking about here. In fact, where it says, let us
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  eat and drink, you say, for tomorrow we will die.
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  There are a lot of people that have that attitude.
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  And that's like the Yolo. You only live once.
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  And it's very short sighted because we don't just we, we do,
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  we just have one life, but it's eternal.
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  And So what we do, what we decide to do every day does
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  matter how we, whatever we're doing at the time Jesus returns
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  or at the time of our death is going to have eternal
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  implications on us. And and so it's so important to
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  have our relationship right with God and you know, every day
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  focus on it and let God guide, let God lead you in what he
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  wants you to do for the day. Because we don't know how much
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  time we have, but there's just so many things that are seem to
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  be happening in the Middle East that seem to be aligning with
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  prophecy. And, you know, it could like
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  ramp up right now. Supposedly we are in a Jubilee
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  year at the moment. So that would be like another 50
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  years according to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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  There would be like another, I think 5049 or 50 years before
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  the year 6000. And everybody pretty much
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  Christians and Jews believe that we have 6000 years to to
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  basically live on this earth before Jesus returns.
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  And there's the calendars have been messed with and redone.
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  So everybody's got different interpretations of where we are
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  relative to that 6000 year mark. The the Jewish people believe we
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  have like a couple 100 more years.
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  But there was this Jewish sect of people that called the
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  Essenes that had the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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  And they are the ones who had a calendar from ancient times ago
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  that were found, I guess in that the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 19,
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  mid 1900s. Those were found in some caves.
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  And this calendar that they had indicates that we have this 49
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  or 50 years. And then we have modern people.
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  If you look at something on YouTube, Messiah 2030, that's
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  predicting that Jesus will return in 2030 based on
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  mathematical calculations and things in the Bible that are
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  symbolic. And they make a lot of great
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  points like it's, it's very believable.
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  But again, you know, everybody, these are these are I guess
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  that's a theory, but it would certainly indicate, you know,
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  that's only a few years from now, four years from now.
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  And so it would be really important that you're prepared
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  if it is 4 years from now or maybe it's 50 years from now or
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  maybe it's a couple 100 years from now, but whatever, it
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  doesn't matter. You don't like wait until the
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  last minute to be prepared because it says you will be
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  caught like a thief. It'll be like a thief.
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  Like a thief comes when you're not expecting and your death
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  could come when you're not expecting.
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  Jesus could return when you're not expecting.
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  So it's not a matter of saying how long can I live in rebellion
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  to God. It's a matter of, you know, I
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  need to think about this. I need to commit to God if I
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  want to be in God's Kingdom for eternity.
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  Then, you know, we communicate with God.
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  Ask God to show you what needs to be done.
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  I mean it, it's clear in the Bible what needs to be done,
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  that we need to ask for forgiveness.
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  Then turn away from the things that we were doing that God
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  doesn't agree with and ask God for the Holy Spirit to help us
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  not do those things anymore. And the Holy Spirit will change
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  us. Certainly we have to believe
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  that Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead.
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  And if we don't believe that, we can read Scripture and learn
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  about it because faith comes by hearing the Word.
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  So that's the process to be an eternity.
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  That's all you need to do is ask for forgiveness, ask for the
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  Holy Spirit and be honest and sincere about wanting to change
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  and live the way that God wants you to live.
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  Do what? Let God actually literally be
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  your Lord. Let him be your guider.
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  Like let him guide you. Don't rely on anything else.
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  Just rely on God for everything. So anyway, it talks, you know,
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  in Isaiah it talks about the leaders fleeing and it talks
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  about people being captured. You know, this, this could be
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  any point in time of prophecy or war or something.
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  It's very common when Isaiah is talking to Judah about this
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  prophecy. What throws me off is that Judah
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  was conquered by the Babylonians.
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  Israel was initially conquered by the Assyrians and then Judah.
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  So it was the Babylonians and the Assyrians that you would
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  think if he's talking about this, well, yeah, if he's
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  talking about this, I want to go back to the dates of these
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  things. So the exile of Israel was in
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  722. So the Assyrians captured them
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  by that point. And that's what Isaiah is
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  writing this now. So he wouldn't really be talking
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  about that. He would be talking to Judah
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  because they the fall of Jerusalem was in 586 BC and
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  that's when the Babylonians captured them.
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  So he would be talking to Judah about Babylon, which we did see
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  earlier. You know, there was a prophecy
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  about Babylon. But what's weird to me is that
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  he in verse 6 and well, verse 6, he talks about Elam.
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  Well, Elam is southern Iran. Elam takes up the quiver with
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  her charioteers and horses. Kerr uncovers the shield.
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  And that would be Kerr is also in modern Iran.
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  So why is if he's talking about this Assyrian or Babylonian
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  capture, why is he bringing up Iran in it?
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  But today in 2025, who do you think?
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  I mean, who probably hates Israel the most?
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  Who wants to to destroy Israel the most?
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  In fact, not only Israel, but I have heard that Iran refers to
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  the United States as big Satan and Israel as Little Satan.
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  So Iran is doesn't like the US or doesn't like Israel.
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  And so so I find it very interesting that I, this I
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  prophecy about Isaiah is referring to Iran and not
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  necessarily Babylon. So that's why I think it's this
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  end times, because it says and it says the Lord, the Lord
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  Almighty, has a day of tumult and trampling and terror in the
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  Valley of vision, a day of battering down walls and crying
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  out to the mountains. Elam takes up the quiver with
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  her charioteers and horses. Kerr uncovers the shield.
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  Your choicest valleys are full of Chariots and horsemen are
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  posted at the city gates. So this sounds like an attack.
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  And this is a prophecy about Jerusalem.
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  So to me it it's like Iran attacking Israel and what what's
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  been going on lately? I mean, that's where it seems
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  like a lot of this activity has been happening.
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  In fact, it's some of Iran's proxies that have been coming
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  against Israel, like the Houthis, Hamas, and and then the
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  third one, which I can't recall at the moment, but they have
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  others who are going against them and obviously they have
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  actually sent stuff. So there was a brief battle.
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  I think it might have been 12 days long between Israel and
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  Iran before it settled down. But again, Isaiah says has a day
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  and then he says on that day. So I searched the day of the
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  Lord to find out where it's written and it occurs.
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  Well, the exact phrase, the exact matches, there are 24
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  exact phrases in the new international version.
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  So Isaiah 13, six says, well for the day of the Lord is near, it
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  will come like destruction from the Almighty.
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  And then it says, see, I'm just going to read all these verses.
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  See the day of the Lord is coming, a cruel day with wrath
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  and fierce anger to make the land desolate and destroy the
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  sinners within it. Now when Jesus came, He came to
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  save the sinners, but when he returns, it's going to be to
• 31:20
  destroy the sinners. There is going to be essentially
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  a purification of the land before eternity because sinners
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  can't go into God's Kingdom. So you can't currently be
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  sinning and going into God's Kingdom.
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  You need to repent of that and the Holy Spirit will help you
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  with that. OK, so you have not gone up to
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  the breaches in the wall to repair it for the people of
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  Israel so that it will stand firm in the battle on the day of
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  the Lord. That's in Ezekiel.
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  Ezekiel says for the day is near, the day of the Lord is
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  near, a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
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  And then Joel says, alas for that day, for the day of the
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  Lord is near, it will come like destruction from the Almighty.
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  So twice both Isaiah and Joel say this is coming from the
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  Almighty. So this is, this is wrath from
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  God coming. Joel says, Blow the trumpet in
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  Zion, sound the alarm on my holy hill.
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  Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the Lord
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  is coming. It is close at hand.
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  The Lord thunders at the head of his army.
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  His forces are beyond number, and mighty is the army that
• 32:39
  obeys his command. The day of the Lord is great, it
• 32:43
  is dreadful. Who can endure it?
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  The sun will be, the sun will be turned to darkness and the moon
• 32:51
  to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of
• 32:57
  the Lord. So great and dreadful.
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  That's just gives me another thought as I read that.
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  It's going to be great for those who are reconciled with God, but
• 33:06
  it's going to be dreadful for those who are rebellious to God.
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  Joel 313 We read before, but multitudes, multitudes in the
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  valley of decision, for the day of the Lord is near.
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  In the valley of decision. Amos, the prophet says, Woe to
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  you who long for the day of the Lord.
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  Why do you long for the day of the Lord?
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  That day will be darkness, not light.
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  Amos says, Will not the day of the Lord be darkness, not light,
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  pitch dark without a ray of brightness.
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  This is really interesting because I have to say that I
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  this is the first time I read that line or it that it stood
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  out to me. And because I had when, gosh,
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  when the night of my baptism, I started having dreams, dreams
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  with the name of Jesus in it. And I've had 70 something of
• 34:01
  those dreams and they've paused for a little bit.
• 34:04
  I haven't had anything for any dreams like that, maybe for the
• 34:08
  last month. But in my dreams, I did have a
• 34:12
  dream of being gathered to the Lord.
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  I actually had three of those dreams.
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  And the one thing that was consistent in every one of those
• 34:23
  dreams is that it turned pitch dark where you couldn't even see
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  your hand in front of your face right before.
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  And honestly, the more I think about it, it, you know, I wonder
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  if you know, it's, there's like, if that's what death is like
• 34:38
  actually where you actually just, you know, it goes pitch
• 34:42
  dark. But then all of a sudden, you
• 34:44
  know, well, I know in my first dream, I didn't, I didn't
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  actually die. It just it, it went completely
• 34:51
  dark and then I, I light started coming from the clouds and they
• 34:57
  were like floating over this water.
• 34:59
  And I realized that it was the gathering of people, the rapture
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  that people call the resurrection.
• 35:05
  If you want to call, call that, call it that.
• 35:08
  So this was yeah. So anyway, this reading this
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  verse right now, will not the day of the Lord be darkness, not
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  light, pitch dark without a ray of brightness.
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  I don't know if my dream was symbolic, if this was symbolic,
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  or if that's going to be a literal event.
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  But I all I can say is I had three dreams that were like that
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  about the gathering. And in each dream, before I
• 35:34
  started rising up, it went pitch black and it startled me.
• 35:39
  It scared me. But then in my second dream, I
• 35:42
  was telling somebody, I was like, oh, don't worry about it
• 35:44
  because the rapture comes next. Like the gathering of people
• 35:47
  comes next. Like don't worry when it goes
• 35:49
  pitch dark. So just very interesting on
• 35:52
  those dreams. Anyway, we'll go back to
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  Scripture. Obadiah says the day of the Lord
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  is near for all nations. Have you as you have done, It
• 36:01
  will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your
• 36:05
  head. Zephaniah chapter 1 says be
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  silent before the sovereign Lord for the day of the Lord is near.
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  The Lord has prepared a sacrifice.
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  He has consecrated those he has invited.
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  So think about this. He has consecrated.
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  Isn't that to make holy and that's what the Holy Spirit does
• 36:28
  to us. So I don't know or or it could
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  be, you know the ones because some will actually outcomes
• 36:36
  people had got his purposes for a different people and we don't
• 36:42
  all have the same purpose. And so it's important to know
• 36:45
  what God's purpose is for each of us and to be obedient to that
• 36:49
  to serve God in that way. So Zephaniah chapter 1 also says
• 36:54
  the great day of the Lord is near near and coming quickly.
• 36:58
  The cry on the day of the Lord is bitter.
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  The mighty warrior shouts his battle cry yell.
• 37:06
  Zachariah says a day of the Lord is coming, Jerusalem, when your
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  possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very
• 37:15
  walls. That's interesting.
• 37:17
  Just thinking about will the division of Jerusalem happen?
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  I don't know. We'll find out because that
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  hasn't happened yet. Matthew or Malachi says, see, I
• 37:28
  will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and
• 37:32
  dreadful day of the Lord comes. Jesus confirmed that and he said
• 37:37
  the spirit of Elijah came with John the Baptist.
• 37:41
  So that's already happened. That prophecy has been fulfilled
• 37:45
  and then in Acts chapter 2 it says the sun will be will be
• 37:49
  turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of
• 37:52
  the great and glorious day of the Lord.
• 37:54
  I believe that is a repetition of what Amos the prophet said
• 37:58
  and so this. Is kind.
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  Of interesting this has to do with First Corinthians chapter 5
• 38:08
  verse 5. So this is talking about a
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  backslider, a person. That's what they call when
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  somebody who commits to the Lord but then starts sinning again or
• 38:19
  continues sinning and isn't fully turned to the Lord.
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  It, this is what it says, hand this man over to Satan for the
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  destruction of the flesh so that his spirit may be saved on the
• 38:35
  day of the Lord. Now I, I don't believe that that
• 38:42
  once saved, always saved theory. I believe that God will never
• 38:49
  turn away from us, but I believe that people can and do all of a
• 38:55
  sudden, for whatever reason, I don't know why, but they decide
• 38:59
  they no longer want to follow God and they they kind of
• 39:03
  renounce that they're they're just done with that.
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  And so reading this verse does make me wonder if if God still
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  is hanging on to that person. It says so that his spirit, it
• 39:19
  doesn't say will be saved. It says may be saved on the day
• 39:23
  of the Lord. So often God will.
• 39:26
  God does let people go, undergo horrible circumstances to get
• 39:34
  them to turn to him. So if somebody's kind of
• 39:38
  rebellious, but maybe they gave their life to God at one point
• 39:41
  and they're just rebelling and they're doing, they're sinning,
• 39:45
  you know, deliberately, not accidentally, but just doing
• 39:49
  whatever they want. And they may believe in the once
• 39:53
  saved, always saved thing. And that's why they do it.
• 39:55
  They're like, I'm good, I've already given my life to Christ.
• 39:57
  Well, it really means making him Lord over your life so that
• 40:01
  you're not being rebellious to him.
• 40:03
  I mean, it's just this doctrine is, I think, very harmful that
• 40:07
  churches teach. But.
• 40:10
  But not to say that God doesn't always love us and God always
• 40:14
  wants us to turn back to Him. But there is other scripture
• 40:17
  that says if you keep on sinning then all you can really expect
• 40:22
  is judgement for that. So there isn't this supernatural
• 40:28
  protection over your life if you just keep on sinning and
• 40:32
  rebelling against God. However, this verse here says
• 40:36
  hand this man over to Satan. So if somebody's turned away
• 40:40
  from God, they're turning towards Satan and and basically
• 40:43
  let Satan destroy the flesh, let Satan destroy the body.
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  And that does happen to people when they are turned over
• 40:50
  because that's what Satan wants to do.
• 40:52
  Satan is he doesn't like humans. He wants to destroy, to kill and
• 40:56
  destroy. That's what he comes for.
• 40:58
  And so when people continue to sin, that's what you're kind of
• 41:03
  have this open door. You have a relationship with
• 41:05
  Satan rather than with God. And so this is talking about
• 41:09
  somebody who was in the church, and it says hand this man over
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  to Satan for the destructionless flesh, like God's going to let
• 41:16
  Satan destroy his flesh, probably in the hopes that that
• 41:19
  person will turn to him. It says so that his spirit may
• 41:23
  be, may be may be saved on the day of the Lord.
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  So God is compassionate, merciful and so forth.
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  We can only hope and pray for people while they are still
• 41:34
  living that God may do that for others.
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  You know that we know and love maybe that are not living the
• 41:41
  life that we know God wants us to live, because, you know, this
• 41:47
  is this is the choice that somebody makes, but God lets us
• 41:50
  make those choices. And so there is maybe hope.
• 41:55
  But again, it doesn't say that they will be saved.
• 41:58
  It says they may be saved on the day of the Lord.
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  So then in Second Corinthians chapter 1, it says, as you have
• 42:07
  understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that
• 42:11
  you can boast of us just as we boast of you in the day of the
• 42:14
  Lord Jesus. So at that time is when
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  everybody will be anyone who's dead, who is in Christ, who is a
• 42:22
  believer, will be raised at that point when Jesus returns and be
• 42:26
  given their new immortal bodies. So we're going to be like in the
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  presence of people from the Old Testament who you know, from all
• 42:36
  the time in the past. I don't know who the people were
• 42:41
  that were the graves opened up when Jesus was, when Jesus died
• 42:46
  on the cross and the graves opened up and people were seen
• 42:48
  walking around Jerusalem from the graves.
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  There's not a lot written about it, which is wild.
• 42:53
  I don't know if there was, but then people took it out.
• 42:58
  I don't know, but it's very interesting.
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  And and I don't know who those people were.
• 43:03
  It doesn't really say what happened to them afterwards.
• 43:05
  Did they go back into the grave? Did they rise up to the sky?
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  There's nothing that's talked about.
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  So we don't really know. OK.
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  And then First Thessalonians says, for you know very well
• 43:18
  that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night,
• 43:21
  so people won't be expecting it not to become.
• 43:25
  And then another verse he says not to become easily unsettled
• 43:29
  or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us, whether by a
• 43:33
  prophecy or a word of mouth or letter asserting the day of the
• 43:36
  Lord has already come. Some people were saying the day
• 43:39
  of the Lord has already come, maybe because those people were
• 43:43
  seen in Jerusalem and they were walking around.
• 43:46
  But Paul was saying, no, that hasn't happened yet.
• 43:49
  And then second Peter, Peter says, but the day of the Lord
• 43:53
  will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with
• 43:57
  a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth
• 44:02
  and everything done in it will be laid bare.
• 44:05
  So that's when judgment comes upon.
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  There is going to be fire, there is going to be destruction.
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  That's what happens when Jesus returns the second time.
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  He gathers the people who are prepared and the people who
• 44:19
  rebelled against him, who didn't want him, who wanted to continue
• 44:23
  to live in sin. They will be subject to God's
• 44:26
  wrath and. So.
• 44:30
  Those are just all of the references that I searched the
• 44:33
  day of the Lord. And then again in the book of
• 44:38
  Isaiah where it talks about the Lord, the Lord Almighty has a
• 44:41
  day of tumult and trampling and terror in the valley of vision.
• 44:46
  So the trampling, I knew that there's something in the Bible
• 44:49
  about trampling. So it's I searched that word and
• 44:53
  I'm going to read those verses. So Isaiah, there are two from
• 44:56
  Isaiah, 2 from Daniel, one from Zechariah and one from Luke.
• 45:00
  So Isaiah says, when you come to appear before me, who has asked
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  this of you, this trampling of my courts?
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  The Lord, the Lord Almighty has a day of tumult and trampling
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  and the terror in the valley of vision, a day of battering down
• 45:16
  walls and crying out to the mountains.
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  Now we'll go into the book of Daniel, which we haven't read
• 45:22
  yet. In the podcast he gave me this
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  explanation. The 4th beast is 1/4 Kingdom
• 45:31
  that will appear on the earth. It will be different from all
• 45:36
  the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth,
• 45:41
  trampling it down and crushing it.
• 45:44
  So this is that grouping of seven different rulers who form
• 45:51
  the beast and they're going to take over the governance of the
• 45:58
  whole earth at some point. And this is the last Kingdom.
• 46:02
  A lot of people feel like that is, you know, everybody, I guess
• 46:05
  every throughout the years, everybody's always saying, oh,
• 46:08
  this is becoming one world government.
• 46:10
  So that does continue. People keep saying that in the
• 46:15
  book of Daniel chapter 8, it said, I heard.
• 46:18
  Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one
• 46:22
  said to him, How long will it take for the vision to be
• 46:26
  fulfilled? The vision concerning the daily
• 46:29
  sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, the surrender
• 46:35
  of the sanctuary, and the trampling under foot of the
• 46:40
  Lord's people. So again, this is another thing
• 46:43
  that is considered the end times when it's talking about God's
• 46:48
  holy mountain, Jerusalem being trampled.
• 46:55
  Zechariah. Says together they they will be
• 46:59
  like warriors in battle, trampling their enemy into the
• 47:02
  mud of the streets. They will fight because the Lord
• 47:04
  is with them and they will put the enemy horsemen to shame.
• 47:09
  So I didn't look back at that to see when this was.
• 47:15
  Yeah, this is another End Time 1.
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  Because in Zechariah 10, verse 11, they will pass through the
• 47:20
  sea of trouble. The surging sea will be subdued,
• 47:23
  and all the depths of the Nile will be dried up.
• 47:27
  A serious pride will be brought down, and Egypt's scepter will
• 47:30
  pass away. I will strengthen them in the
• 47:33
  Lord and in His name they will live securely.
• 47:36
  Well, people are not living securely today, so this is
• 47:41
  definitely a future prophecy from the book of it says the
• 47:46
  Lord will care for Judah. So that's a whole nother.
• 47:50
  We're going to get into all these prophetic books that we
• 47:52
  haven't yet done, but so that's another end time kind of
• 47:57
  prophecy. Luke 12 verse one.
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  Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered so that
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  they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak
• 48:05
  first to his disciples saying be on your guard against the yeast
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  of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
• 48:12
  Now that one doesn't really, you know, it's just talking about
• 48:16
  people being crowded. It doesn't have anything to do
• 48:18
  with the end times. But then again, it, it does in a
• 48:22
  sense stretching it because be on your guard against the yeast
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  of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
• 48:31
  That is really important because hypocrisy living, you know,
• 48:35
  calling ourselves Christians, believers, followers of Christ,
• 48:39
  but not living that way. That's a hypocrite.
• 48:42
  If you're going to say you're a Christian, that means that
• 48:44
  you're following what Jesus taught that like that is your
• 48:48
  guide. God is your guide.
• 48:50
  You are submitted to him. You've surrendered your life to
• 48:54
  him. You're not going to be
• 48:55
  disobedient and be rebellious towards him.
• 48:59
  So that's what the Pharisees did.
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  The Pharisees on the outside, they look like they were
• 49:05
  righteous, but on the inside, what they were actually doing
• 49:08
  towards others was not righteous.
• 49:11
  And Christians can be the same way.
• 49:13
  And that is a call that God is, that Jesus is, you know, telling
• 49:19
  his disciples, those who listen to him, be on your guard against
• 49:23
  the east of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
• 49:27
  So we don't want to be hypocrites if we are saying that
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  we are disciples or people who learn from Jesus.
• 49:34
  We can't act in a way that Jesus doesn't condone.
• 49:38
  There's a lot of people that call themselves Christians and
• 49:41
  act completely opposite or against the Bible, maybe because
• 49:45
  they haven't even read the Bible.
• 49:47
  But once you read the Bible, you you realize the things that God
• 49:52
  says are OK and the things that he says are not.
• 49:56
  And you can't really call your you can call yourself a
• 50:00
  Christian, but you aren't really.
• 50:02
  And you might have this false sense of salvation because you
• 50:05
  haven't surrendered to Jesus. You haven't made him the Lord of
• 50:11
  your life because Jesus has been given all the authority.
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  In fact, this is wild that I just said that because the very
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  next part of Scripture was it's about authority on earth.
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  And it's so in Matthew chapter 28 verse 18.
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  Then Jesus came and said to them.
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  Jesus came to them and said all authority in heaven and on earth
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  has been given to me. And then Luke documents this
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  too. And he said, and he said to him,
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  I give you all their authority and splendor.
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  It has been given to me and I can give it to anyone I want to.
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  So this is I believe this is Jesus talking to his disciples,
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  but I want to. Oh no, this is Jesus.
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  Being tested in the wilderness. I'm sorry, this is what this is
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  Satan actually talking to Jesus. See, this is what Jesus did on
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  the cross. He defeated Satan.
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  He's been given all the authority.
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  Satan had the authority for a certain amount of time.
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  And when Jesus got baptized, he went into the wilderness and
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  Satan tempted him and. Jesus responded.
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  With scripture, he kind of kept his strategy hidden because if
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  if Satan had known Jesus's strategy, then Jesus would not
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  have been put to death because by Jesus death on the cross, he
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  became the sacrifice that enabled all humankind, all
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  humans to be in God's Kingdom because he was the blood
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  sacrifice, the substitute sacrifice.
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  Like Satan was really probably felt like he had the upper hand,
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  like he was, you know, making all these people get separated
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  from God. And he didn't know what Jesus
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  had up his sleeve. If you want to say that where he
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  was planning this out. Like he knew he was going to die
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  on the cross. He knew he was going to be the
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  sacrifice because he saw how people were unable to be, you
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  know, honor God's commandments. The Israelites, you know, they
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  would say, Oh yes, we promise we're going to do this.
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  And then it would be like 2 seconds later, they're breaking
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  all the commandments. And this happened over and over
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  and over. And so God, that's why God sent
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  Jesus here because that was what was needed to abide within the
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  law. And Jesus had to be that
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  sacrifice for all of us. So at this point in time, Jesus
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  had gotten baptized and received the Holy Spirit.
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  And then as soon as that happened, he started getting
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  tempted by Satan and, and even, you know, like he's saying, I
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  can give it to anyone I want. And so he's trying to get Jesus
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  to submit. Satan was trying to get Jesus to
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  submit to him and Jesus responds to him.
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  It's written worship the Lord your God and serve him only.
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  So he's trying to trade off. And in fact, a lot of people do
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  say that Satan, you know, has promised.
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  I mean, some people get into this occult stuff in a serious
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  way and do believe that they get these like powers, fame, glory
• 53:35
  and all these things. But there's a trade off.
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  Like they, you know, they talk about like traded their soul for
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  something. So it's a, it's a real thing.
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  The spiritual world is real. And anyway, I'm sorry that I
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  didn't have that looked at much, but Matthew 28, this is where
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  Jesus says so. It was the Great Commission
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  then. The 11 disciples went to
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  Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go.
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  When they saw him, they worshipped him, but some
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  doubted. Then Jesus came to them and
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  said, This is after his death. Remember, all authority in
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  heaven and on earth has been given to me.
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  Therefore go and make disciples of nations, baptizing them in
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  the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
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  and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you,
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  and surely I. Am with you always.
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  To the very end of the age, that's that understood to be
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  that end of that 6000 year mark. So yeah, this is, you know,
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  Jesus said obey everything I have commanded to you.
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  So when people say, oh, we don't have to obey, that's being
• 54:54
  legalistic. Well, why does Jesus say obey
• 54:59
  everything? Teach people to obey everything
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  I've commanded you. So there's yeah, there's some
• 55:06
  like bad stuff that's gotten into our churches that is taking
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  people away from the truth. And don't do the whole thing.
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  You you only live once thing because we do live once.
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  We only live once, but it's eternal.
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  So what we do matters so. Let's see the next.
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  Thing that I was going to talk about was this verse 20 in
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  Isaiah that goes all the way through 25, which is so amazing
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  because I believe this is actually Jesus that it's talking
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  about as a symbolic of Jesus, and I'll tell you why.
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  So this is interesting. I'll just read this so it's
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  fresh in your mind, and then I'll go to the other Scriptures.
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  So here's what Isaiah says, verse 20.
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  In that day I will summon my servant Eliakim, son of Heliaka.
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  I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him
• 56:06
  and hand your authority over to him.
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  So again, this is like symbolic where the authority was given to
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  Jesus. He will be a father to those who
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  live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah.
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  Well, this is like a familial relationship that everyone has
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  with Jesus. Ultimately, we will be his
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  brothers and sisters and God will be our father.
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  And then it says, I will place on his shoulder the key to the
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  House of David. What He opens, no one can shut,
• 56:41
  and what he shuts, no one can open.
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  Now that's really interesting because that's what it talks
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  about in Revelation chapter 3, verse 7, and also maybe verse 20
• 56:56
  or chapter 20. So we'll get into that too.
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  I will drive him like a pig. Jesus is compared to a pig and
• 57:06
  he's it's also talked about in Zechariah, another prophet in
• 57:10
  verse 10, our chapter 10, verse 4, into a firm place.
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  He will become a seat of honour for the House of his Father.
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  Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father.
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  All the glory of his family will hang on him, its offsprings and
• 57:29
  offshoots, all its lesser's vessels, from the bowls to all
• 57:33
  the jars. So all the glory, all the glory
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  is to Jesus for what He's done in that day, declares the Lord
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  Almighty. The peg driven into the firm
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  place will give way. It will be sheared off and will
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  fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.
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  The Lord has spoken. Now when I read that, I was
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  trying to reconcile, like what? How does that fit into place?
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  But the peg driven into the firm place will give way.
• 58:05
  Does that mean when Jesus was crucified on the cross, it will
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  be sheared off and fall like, like all of our sins?
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  The weight of all of the burden of everything will come off
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  because, you know, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.
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  Like that's what Jesus did by his death on the cross.
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  That's what came to mind when I read that.
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  So I thought that this whole from 20 all the way down, you
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  know, maybe it does, you know, refer to Eliah Kim, but it's
• 58:34
  very, very symbolic of Jesus. Like immediately I was like,
• 58:38
  this is Jesus, but it's talking about Eliah Kim and how does
• 58:41
  that work? So this was really wild.
• 58:45
  So then I had to search Eliah Kim because I wanted to know
• 58:48
  more about him. And and then I find that Eliakim
• 58:54
  is an ancestor of Jesus in Matthew chapter one verse 13 and
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  Luke chapter 3130 or I'm sorry, Luke chapter 3 verses 30 through
• 59:09
  31, Jesus has an ancestor named Eliakim.
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  And I thought, wow, OK, so this really sounds like Jesus this is
• 59:19
  talking about cause a lot of times prophecy does that where
• 59:23
  it'll, you know, it'll say David when it'll mean a descendant of
• 59:26
  David or something like that. But here Eliakim is in Jesus's
• 59:34
  ancestral line in both Matthew and Luke.
• 59:38
  And I thought, well, why didn't this study Bible say that?
• 59:41
  Because you know, this is this is significant because this is
• 59:46
  very symbolic of Jesus and Eliah Kim.
• 59:49
  Why isn't this talked about? But then when I dug deeper, I
• 59:53
  saw that in Matthew and Luke, Eliah Kim, his father, Eliah
• 1:00:01
  Kim's father is somebody different in those two things in
• 1:00:06
  those two verses. But if you look up Eliah Kim,
• 1:00:09
  there are only. I don't know there's, gosh,
• 1:00:19
  there are 18 verses with Eliah Kim and only two when you get to
• 1:00:29
  the New Testament where Eliah Kim is mentioned.
• 1:00:32
  And that is in the genealogy of Jesus.
• 1:00:35
  And so I, I looked up the different names because I was
• 1:00:42
  like, OK, this is confusing. Like if, if it would have been,
• 1:00:46
  that's probably why it's not in the study Bible, because it
• 1:00:49
  will, it will show, you know, certain names.
• 1:00:51
  One of them in, in Luke, Malia is the father of Ilia Kim.
• 1:01:00
  And then in Matthew Abin nude is the father of Ilia Kim.
• 1:01:10
  And so that, you know, it shows like two different ones.
• 1:01:14
  So I was like, OK, I know that the Bible is true and I know
• 1:01:19
  that the Bible is according to Second Timothy chapter 3, verse
• 1:01:23
  16, it's God breathed scripture. So I know it's true.
• 1:01:29
  But the question is, why are we not getting it?
• 1:01:32
  Like it's not telling us something that's not true.
• 1:01:36
  It's not contradicting. Whenever the Bible there appears
• 1:01:39
  to be a contradiction, this always seems to happen.
• 1:01:43
  We will eventually understand it.
• 1:01:46
  And you know how God changes names of people or people go by
• 1:01:51
  nicknames and things like that? That would make an that would
• 1:01:56
  make sense. Like again, this is a theory.
• 1:01:58
  I can't prove this or anything, but what if these people went by
• 1:02:03
  other names? And because that often happens
• 1:02:06
  in Scripture. But it's just interesting that
• 1:02:10
  Eliakim is only mentioned in the Bible as in the book from like
• 1:02:15
  Isaiah in these past times, like he was a person back then.
• 1:02:18
  But then it's mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus.
• 1:02:23
  And then to go through like I wanted to look at what is the,
• 1:02:27
  what do the names mean of the fathers of Eliakim?
• 1:02:32
  And it's really interesting because Melia, Melia, I guess
• 1:02:38
  MELEA means full or complete. And it also says it, my dear
• 1:02:45
  friend, object of call, object of care.
• 1:02:50
  And so I thought that was kind of interesting too, because
• 1:02:53
  these are, you know, that could really like full or complete the
• 1:02:57
  completeness of Jesus. I mean, there's just it's
• 1:03:00
  interesting and then Abihude is means glorious father, father of
• 1:03:07
  the Jews. Isn't that interesting because
• 1:03:11
  of Jesus being the son of God. So along the descendant line.
• 1:03:18
  And then I also looked up Hilkiah because Eliakim.
• 1:03:23
  Eliakim was the son of Hilkiah. And what does Hilkiah mean?
• 1:03:29
  It means Yahweh, God is my portion.
• 1:03:34
  So isn't that interesting? All these names, I mean, they're
• 1:03:36
  all like glorifying God. And I could see how this would
• 1:03:40
  all be within the lines of the genealogy of Jesus.
• 1:03:43
  And again, that's just my opinion, but I thought it was.
• 1:03:47
  There's just too many things in here that seem to speak about
• 1:03:52
  Jesus. Another part that I think talks
• 1:03:57
  about Jesus too is in Revelation chapter 3 verse 7 where it says
• 1:04:03
  to the Angel of the church in Philadelphia, right?
• 1:04:08
  These are the words of him who is holy and true.
• 1:04:12
  This is referring to Jesus who holds the key of David.
• 1:04:17
  What he opens, no one can shut, and what he shuts, no one can
• 1:04:22
  open. That's exactly what Isaiah said.
• 1:04:26
  So John sees this vision and he sees Jesus on the island of
• 1:04:32
  Patmos, and he writes this down. And Isaiah in seven hundreds BC
• 1:04:37
  writes the same thing. I will place on his shoulder the
• 1:04:42
  key to the House of David. What he opens, no one can shut,
• 1:04:45
  and what he shuts, no one can open.
• 1:04:48
  But when he's saying this, it's in context with talking about
• 1:04:52
  Eliakim, the son of Heilkai, and Heilkai is Yahweh.
• 1:04:58
  God is my portion. So and that's interesting.
• 1:05:02
  God is my portion. Like I don't know, that's just
• 1:05:06
  interesting why it would say those things.
• 1:05:11
  So then. It.
• 1:05:13
  Says in Revelation 20 verse one, it says and I saw an Angel
• 1:05:19
  coming down out of heaven, having the key to the abyss and
• 1:05:22
  holding in his hand a great chain.
• 1:05:26
  So I don't know that was that's certainly talking about an Angel
• 1:05:30
  coming down and not necessarily Jesus, but sometimes Jesus was
• 1:05:35
  referred to as an Angel. I think like when Abraham was
• 1:05:40
  going to sacrifice Isaac, I think that Angel was actually
• 1:05:45
  Jesus because that Angel said I am who am and that was a
• 1:05:50
  reference to being God. So I just, that's another theory
• 1:05:55
  that I have, but you can't prove it.
• 1:05:57
  It's just a thought that I have and maybe it's right, maybe it's
• 1:06:00
  not, but just interesting. And then when we talk about
• 1:06:06
  Jesus being the peg in Zechariah chapter 10 verse 4, it says from
• 1:06:12
  Judah will come the cornerstone. We know Jesus is called the
• 1:06:15
  cornerstone from him, the tent peg, from him, the battle bow
• 1:06:22
  from him every ruler. So this to me again, verses 20
• 1:06:29
  through the end of chapter 2322 seems to be talking about Jesus.
• 1:06:36
  And I also wanted to bring up a resource for people if you want
• 1:06:41
  to look into this deeper, because as I, as I mentioned,
• 1:06:45
  the two different genealogies, one in, in Matthew chapter 1 and
• 1:06:50
  then another one in Luke chapter 3, there are two genealogies of
• 1:06:54
  Jesus, but they and they have some differences.
• 1:06:59
  But biblical scholars have studied these things.
• 1:07:03
  So if you want to go to a website to dig deeper into that
• 1:07:06
  because it's way too complicated for me to explain, but it's, you
• 1:07:11
  can look into it this way. There's a website
• 1:07:13
  calledjewsforjesus.org and just search Are there 2 genealogies
• 1:07:21
  of Jesus? So they have a full article on
• 1:07:24
  that and another resource that I think is really good and will
• 1:07:29
  give lots of insight because we really need to know the new, the
• 1:07:34
  Old Testament. A lot of Christians will just
• 1:07:36
  say, oh, I'm just going to pay attention to the New Testament.
• 1:07:38
  You don't understand the New Testament unless you understand
• 1:07:42
  the Old Testament. And the way that we understand a
• 1:07:44
  lot of the traditions is by going to people who know the
• 1:07:49
  Jewish culture, because without knowing the Jewish culture,
• 1:07:53
  we're in the dark. We don't have any idea.
• 1:07:56
  So One for Israel is another great resource.
• 1:07:59
  They have a website, oneforisrael.org, that I would
• 1:08:03
  recommend if you want to study more on that.
• 1:08:06
  And I think that you know about God breathed Scripture, Second
• 1:08:13
  Timothy chapter 3, verse 16, all Scripture is God breathed and is
• 1:08:18
  useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in
• 1:08:23
  righteousness. So it's not meant to be a
• 1:08:27
  history book, but it's meant to teach, to rebuke, to tell us
• 1:08:32
  like what we're doing that we shouldn't be doing, for
• 1:08:35
  correcting us, to turn us to the right ways and for training us
• 1:08:40
  in righteousness. So that's the purpose of
• 1:08:43
  Scripture, as is stated by in. So that this OK so it says.
• 1:08:52
  So that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every
• 1:08:56
  work. So this is for people who choose
• 1:08:59
  to follow Jesus that that's what scripture.
• 1:09:04
  That's why we need to be in the word of God, because if we are
• 1:09:08
  going to call ourselves that, we are followers of Jesus.
• 1:09:10
  He knew all the scriptures and he taught from the scriptures.
• 1:09:15
  And he also said that I don't take a word away from this.
• 1:09:19
  Not one of my words will fail. Heaven and earth will fall away
• 1:09:22
  before one word that I've spoken ceases to exist.
• 1:09:26
  So all of these like things that are in the Bible and Jesus
• 1:09:31
  didn't come to change any of it. He came to fulfill prophecies
• 1:09:36
  that were written. The only thing that was a change
• 1:09:41
  is the covenant because Israel couldn't keep their end of the
• 1:09:48
  covenant that was made with the Lord.
• 1:09:50
  And so that's why Jesus came to make a new covenant.
• 1:09:55
  And the new covenant was the sacrifice of his life, his life
• 1:09:59
  that was given so that all could have, could possibly have the
• 1:10:05
  entrance into God's Kingdom through Jesus.
• 1:10:08
  Just like he said, I am the way, the truth and the life and no
• 1:10:11
  one comes to the Father except through me.
• 1:10:14
  That's what Jesus says, because it's by his death on the cross
• 1:10:18
  that makes us, makes it possible for us to get into God's
• 1:10:21
  Kingdom. So anyway, I think those are all
• 1:10:27
  the things that I was going to cover.
• 1:10:29
  There's a little bit more that I was going to cover, but I think
• 1:10:32
  that really goes down another path.
• 1:10:34
  So I am going to stop at this point because it's gotten long
• 1:10:40
  enough again. So that was chapter 22 and we
• 1:10:43
  will go into chapter 23 next time.
• 1:10:46
  Hope you join us. I really don't want to make
• 1:10:48
  these as long as they are, but there's so much to talk about
• 1:10:51
  and some of these prophecies that it does get long.
• 1:10:54
  So just stay in the word, read it and pray about it.
• 1:10:59
  Pray about any kind of insights and ask the Holy Spirit to
• 1:11:03
  reveal things because the Holy Spirit will, I believe so.
• 1:11:09
  Thanks for listening.