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712. Bible Study: Isaiah 19 & 20 (End times prophecy? Egypt, Israel, Assyria -Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran?) · Faith by annm2705

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We'll start with chapter 19 and probably go into chapter 20 of
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Isaiah. Dear God help us as we read
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through this these chapters because there's a lot to be
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understood. We ask for wisdom and revelation
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in Jesus name, Amen. So it starts out this is a
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prophecy against Egypt. The first line says, see the
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Lord rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt.
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Well right away when I read that I thought about the basically
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the end times and and we know when Jesus ascended into the
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clouds, they said this would be the same way that he would
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return. So that is you can find that in
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the book of Acts chapter one verse 11 and it says well I can
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read from verse 9. So in Acts chapter one verse 9
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it says after he said this he was taken up.
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This is referring to Jesus before their very eyes, and a
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cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up
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into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in
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white stood beside them. Men of Galilee, they said, why
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do you stand here looking into the sky?
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This same Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven will
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come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.
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So there's other verses too that talk about him writing on a
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cloud. So in Luke chapter 21 verse 27
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one of the gospels it says at that time they will see the Son
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of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
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Verse 28 says when these things begin to take place, stand up
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and lift up your heads because your redemption is drawing near.
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So those who have prepared themselves will will be taken to
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be with the Lord and the the remainder will be subject to
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judgement. So then in Revelation chapter 10
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it says verse one. Then I saw another mighty Angel
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coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud with a
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rainbow above his head. His face was like the sun and
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his legs were like fiery pillars.
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And anyway, this is the, if you search cloud or in a cloud or on
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a cloud throughout the Bible, like blueletterbible.org, you
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will see all these different entries about God and about the
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return of Jesus being on a cloud.
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And that's how God came to the Israelites.
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When he came to Moses at Mount Sinai, he was in the cloud and
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then Moses went up into the cloud and he was there for 40
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days on this mountain. And he was receiving the
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information on the 10 commandments and also on all the
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details of the Tabernacle and the ark of the covenant and
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everything else that he was to build.
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So anyway, it's there's a lot in Scripture about God being in the
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clouds and coming on the clouds. And then in Revelation chapter
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14, verse 14, it said I looked and there before me was a white
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cloud. And seated on the cloud was one
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like the Son of Man who is, that's the way Jesus was always
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referred to with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle
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in his hand. So there are a lot of different
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verses. And these aren't all of the
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verses. I just chose a few of them to
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compare. But it says, see the Lord, I'm
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going back to chapter 19 of Isaiah.
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See the Lord rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt.
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So to me, this reminds me of the second coming.
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The idols of Egypt tremble before him and the hearts of the
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Egyptians melt with fear. We know when the when Jesus
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returns that it says that people will try to hide in caves.
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In fact, I want to look that verse up too.
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That's that's in Revelation and it's the 6th seal of Revelation.
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So I'm going to see if I can find that one real fast and read
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it because it gives all of these same descriptions and it's
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helpful to see them. I'll just take a second.
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OK, The seals. So on the 6th seal, it said.
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I watched as he opened the 6th seal.
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There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like
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sackcloth made of goat hair. The whole moon turned blood red,
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and the stars in the sky fell to the earth as figs dropped from a
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tree when shaken by a strong wind.
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The heaven heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and
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every mountain and island was removed from its place.
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Then the kings of the earth, the Princess, the generals, the
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rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid
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in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
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They called to the mountains in the rocks fall on us, and hide
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us from the face of Him who sits on on the throne, and from the
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wrath of the Lamb. For the day of their wrath has
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come and who can withstand it. So that is another place where
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it talks about the wrath of God and and when you start reading
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the descriptions of what happens, you will see that at
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the 6th seal is when it sounds like Jesus is returning at that
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time. Matthew 24 I think also has some
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interesting things about that as well too.
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So I find that part and read that one to you.
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It says that. So it it gives.
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This is interesting too, because this will tie into some of the
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other references that we'll have.
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So I'm going to start reading in chapter 24 of Matthew, verse 15.
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So when you see standing in the holy place, the abomination that
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causes desolation spoken of through the prophet Daniel, let
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the reader understand. Then let those who are in Judea
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flee to the mountains. So the prophet Daniel is also
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going to be referenced from the book of Isaiah, and we'll get to
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that in a few minutes. Let no one on the housetop go
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down to take anything out of the house.
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Let no one on the field go back to get his cloak.
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How dreadful it will be in those days for the pregnant women and
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nursing mothers. Pray that your flight will not
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take place in winter or on the Sabbath, for then there will be
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great distress, unequalled from the beginning of the world until
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now, and never to be equaled again.
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If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but
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for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.
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At that time, if anyone says to you, look here is the Messiah or
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there he is, do not believe it. For false messiahs and false
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prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to
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deceive if possible, even the elect.
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See I have told you ahead of time.
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So if anyone tells you there he is out in the wilderness, do not
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go out here he is in the inner rooms.
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Do not believe it, for here's the part about Jesus.
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For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the
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West, so it will be the so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
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Wherever there is a carcass there, the vultures will gather.
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Immediately after the distress of those days, the sun will be
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darkened and the moon will not give its light.
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The stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies
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will be shaken. Didn't that sound like the 6th
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seal? Then will appear the sign of the
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Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the
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earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the
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clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
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And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they
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will gather his elect from the four winds from one end of the
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heavens to the other. So that is very descriptive and
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it sounds very much like this situation that we're reading
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about, this prophecy that Isaiah is speaking against Egypt
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because he says that the Lord's coming on a swift cloud, and
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then he also says the hearts of the Egyptians will melt with
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fear. That's exactly how the coming of
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Jesus is described. Those people who have not
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prepared themselves, there's going to be some people that are
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cheering when they see Jesus coming in the clouds and others
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who will be very fearful because they will know that what is in
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the Bible is actually true and happening and they won't have
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time to to do something different.
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They're going to be subject to the wrath of God.
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So it says and the other thing it says in here, which is the
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idols of Egypt tremble before him.
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Now that could be just poetic language or or it could really
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be literal the idols of Egypt. So these are false gods.
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And if if you get into studying the Bible and you really get
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into deep deeply into it, then you will see that there are
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principalities that are apparently assigned to certain
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geographical areas in the heavenly realms, I guess
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spiritual influences over they have like territories or
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something. And so I think that these these
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entities actually made people believe that they were God when
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they weren't. And they were just supposed to
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be watching over the people or watching over those areas or,
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you know, God is a God of order. So he had people, not people,
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but he had heavenly beings overseeing certain areas of the
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earth. And they had certain amounts of
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authority and not all of them decided they were going to honor
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God, respect Him, and obey him. And so they rebelled against
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him. They wanted to be worshipped
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just like God was worshipped. And maybe it's just one, maybe
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it's more. The Book of Enoch says that
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there were several of them. I don't remember the numbers,
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but it says there were several of them that were lured away, I
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guess, with Satan. And anyway, because of their
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disobedience, they will be banned from the Kingdom of God.
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And so they are not happy about that and they are very much
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against people and try to lead people away from God so that
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they can keep people from entering into the Kingdom of
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God. So anyway, I, I believe that
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these are actually spiritual entities, these idols of Egypt.
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They tremble. So it's not just making their,
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it's not just personifying a wooden statue or something like
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that. It's much more than that.
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But that's my theory. It's not, you know, proven by
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any means, but just an opinion that I have after reading the
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Bible. So it says I will stir up
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Egyptian against Egyptian, brother will fight against
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brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city,
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Kingdom against Kingdom. The Egyptians will lose heart
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and I will bring their plans to nothing.
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They will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead.
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You know, God warns about that too.
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He says, you know, that's something that we are not to do
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the mediums and the spiritist. So when he says I will stir up,
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I'm going to backtrack a bit when he says I will stir up
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Egyptian against Egyptian, brother will fight against
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brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city,
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Kingdom against Kingdom. That's a strategy that God often
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used when he he would bring like confusion among people and that
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would be where the enemies would actually fight one another.
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And there's something in Luke chapter 12 verse 51, and I want
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to read that one too because this is something that Jesus
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said actually 49 through, but this is Jesus talking.
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He said I have come to bring fire on earth, and how I wish it
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were already kindled, but I have a baptism to undergo and what
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constraint I am under until it is completed.
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Then he says this is the verse that do you think I came to
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bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.
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From now on there will be 5 in one family divided against each
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other, three against two and two against three.
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They will be divided father against son, son against father,
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mother against daughter and daughter against mother,
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mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and
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daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.
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So this is what Jesus was saying that he came to do this.
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So it's interesting again when we say, you know, when some
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people have trouble understanding or believing that
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Jesus is the Son of God and he is one with God, it says I will
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stir up the stir up Egyptian against Egyptian.
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So it's interesting that Jesus said explain this as well.
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So that's another part. Then it goes further in the book
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of Isaiah that talks about they will consult idols and
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spiritists in the spirits of the dead, the mediums and the
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spiritists. I will hand the Egyptians over
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to the power of a cruel master, and a fierce king will rule,
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rule over them, declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
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Well, that made me think about Daniel chapter 8 and verse 23.
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In the latter part of their reign, when rebels have become
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completely wicked, a fierce looking king, a master of
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intrigue, will arise. He will become very strong, but
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not by his own power. He will cause astounding
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devastation and will succeed in whatever he does.
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He will destroy those who are might, who are mighty, the holy
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people. He will cause deceit to prosper
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and he will consider himself superior when they feel secure.
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You know, when there's like peace or safety, peace and
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security. He will destroy many and take
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his stand against the Prince of Princess.
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Yet he will be destroyed, but not by human power.
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The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been given
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to you is true. But seal up the vision, for it
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concerns the distant future. I, Daniel, was worn out.
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I laid exhausted for several days.
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Then I got up and went about the King's business.
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I was appalled by the vision. It was beyond understanding.
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So this is this is about a future person who will arise at
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the end of time and do these things.
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So it's interesting because this prophecy that Isaiah says is
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it's going to be the power of a cruel master and a fierce king
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will rule over him. And that's what Daniel saw, a
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fierce looking king that arose in the end.
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And this is the latter part of the end time.
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So then there's another verse it that made me think about it too,
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was Daniel Chapter 11, verse 42. It says that he will extend his
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power over many countries. Egypt will not escape.
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So he is basically saying that this is this is the same thing
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that Isaiah's saying that I will hand the Egyptians over to the
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power of a cruel master and a fierce king will rule over them.
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So that's Daniel verse our Chapter 11, verse 42 it says,
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going on from 42, it says he will gain control of the
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treasures of gold and silver and all the riches of Egypt with the
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Libyans and Kushites in submission.
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But reports from the east and the north will alarm him and he
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will set out in a great rage to destroy and annihilate many.
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He will pitch his royal tents between the seas at the
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beautiful holy mountain. Yet he will come to his end and
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no and no one will help him. So that's the final outcome.
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But these are things that Daniel saw.
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Now Isaiah continues to say the waters of the river will dry up.
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So the Nile River runs through Egypt.
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And if you want to search, you can just search are the, is the
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Nile River drying up? Well, I guess since I, I looked
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at it at it earlier and I think since at least 2017, there have
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been reports of that and everybody's concerned and
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they're blaming it on global warming.
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But the Bible says it, it's going to happen.
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It says, here's what Isaiah says.
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The waters of the river will dry up and the riverbed will be
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parched and dry. The canals.
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The canals will stink. The streams of Egypt will
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dwindle and dry up. The reeds and brushes will
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wither. Also the plants along the Nile
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at the mouth of the river, every sown field along the Nile will
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become parched, will blow away, and will be no more.
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So again, I think this sounds like it's in the future because
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there it they aren't blown away. They aren't gone.
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And it says it will be no more. So it says.
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The fishermen will groan and lament all who cast hooks into
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the Nile. Those who throw Nets on the
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water will pine away. Those who work with with cone
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flax will despair. The weavers of fine linen will
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lose hope, the workers and cloth will be dejected, and all the
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wage earners will be sick at heart.
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The officials of Zone are nothing but fools.
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The wise counselors of the Pharaoh give senseless advice.
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How can you say to Pharaoh I am the one?
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I am one of the wise men, a disciple of the ancient kings.
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So anyway, this is, oh, something else to point out
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about the Nile River is that ironically, I mean, this is July
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of 2025 that this podcast is being made.
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And I just read an article that the Ethiopian dam was completed
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July 2025. So this had been going on for
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several years and Egypt was not happy about it because this dam
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is obviously a concern to them because it, it, it's not going
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to allow the, the silt or the riverbed fertilization of the
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areas that it typically floods now that there's a dam there.
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And Egypt's very concerned about scarcity of water.
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And I would be too, if you know what's in the Bible and it talks
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about the rivers will dry up. And we're hearing reports of
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that. Again, these are things that,
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you know, just to keep everybody's eyes open that the
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things that the prophet spoke about in like 700 BC, these
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things are happening today. And these, these things are
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descriptive of events of the end times.
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So This is why it's so important for people to get right with God
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because there are signs. I saw something else that I want
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to look a little bit further into it, but I was learning more
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about what the Jewish people believe in the, and their belief
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in the Messiah when he returns. And they they believe it will
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happen by the year 6000. And it's currently 5785 S
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according to the Jewish people, there's, you know, maybe like,
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you know, 200 something years remaining.
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Then there's this other interesting fact that the Dead
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Sea Scrolls were when they were found, I guess they were found
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somewhere around 1948 or something, something somewhere
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near the time that Israel became a nation or maybe a little bit
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after that. Maybe it was in the 1960s or
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something. But anyway, there was a calendar
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that was found and that was kept by the Essenes.
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So you can look that up if you want to search that.
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But they were another, just like we have different denominations
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of Christians. They were another group of
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believers that did believe in a, in a Messiah and they had a
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calendar that they were keeping. And according to their calendar,
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it's the year is 59, 5949 right now or 5950.
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I think it might be 5950. And so according to their
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calendar, it would again, they're still thinking the
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Messiah will come by the year 6000.
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We would have 50 more years. So those are the two different
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actual dates. Then of course, if you want to
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look up current projections, I mean, people are I apparently
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people have been doing this for years and years and years when
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the the last, you know, the end of this age will be I think
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everyone, everyone, all three different, you know, a theories
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all believe that at the 6000 mark, that is when it's going to
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be. But there's some question on
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what is the 6000 mark. So because of Jesus's death on
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the cross, that was when the new covenant began.
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And that's what people and the Essenes also established that
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there was this church age that was going to be 2000 years.
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And there's a another the way of coming at that same date you can
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look up on YouTube Messiah 2030. There's a series of videos that
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explain the 2030 because that's another theory that 2030 is
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going to be when the when Jesus returns.
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And that's based upon Jesus's death on the cross.
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And that, you know, it'll be like if it was like in 30 AD,
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20-30 would be 2000 years later. And there's lots of scripture,
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prophetic scripture that supports that.
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But again, that's a theory. So you could have 2030, you
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could have another 50 years or you could have a couple 100 more
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years. And that's all based on Bible,
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based on information, based on people's interpretation.
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So I'm sure not everyone has it right and it will happen when it
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happens. We our calendars have been
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tampered with throughout the years, the ones that everyone
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goes by. And so we don't really have an
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accurate calendar, but a lot of people are sensing that, you
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know, we, you know, we could be within that last, you know, I
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don't know, time frame here. So everyone should always not
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just because the end being near, but that I guess that really
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kind of creates a little bit of urgency, but more so that, you
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know, you never know if today's your last day or if you're, you
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know, what's going to happen in the world.
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There's lots of interesting things that can happen and do
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happen to people unexpectedly. So prepare yourself to be right
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with God. God is your creator and God
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ultimately he loves you and he uses people to reach other
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people. So sometimes the people who are
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the instruments of God wanting to reach other people don't do
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the best job at doing it. But you can be assured if
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somebody has the Holy Spirit that they are certainly have
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good intentions of it and are trying to get people to wake up
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and realize the times that we're in right now and that it's a
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time to turn to God and to get right with God because we all
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have strayed away from God. And there's a, you know, it just
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however we are when we die, that's going to seal where we
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are in eternity. We don't get any do overs.
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So when our time comes, whenever that may be, whatever we have
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prepared for, if we'd not prepared for anything, then
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unless God has extreme mercy for some reason, because it says he
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can have mercy on whoever he wants to have mercy on, but if
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he has mercy, then that person will be very fortunate.
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If he doesn't have mercy and that person hadn't turned to
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him, then it's just judgement ahead and separation from God.
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And I don't think that's something you want to play
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around with. If if you think about it,
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eternity, we can't comprehend that because that's forever and
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you can't imagine what it's like.
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So if people live, you know, maximum of 120 years or so, then
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that's a short time frame compared to eternity.
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So how we live right here, like that's not as important as where
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we're going to live in eternity. So the focus should be more on
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God and an eternal perspective rather than what's happening in
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our lives right here in the earth.
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That's all going to go away. We're not going to take anything
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with us. All we're going to have is our
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character. We're going to have our spirit,
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and either that spirit is going to be with God or separated from
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God. We will get physical bodies too.
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So we aren't just going to be spiritual, but these bodies on
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earth will not go into the into God's Kingdom.
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We will receive new bodies, immortal bodies that the way God
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designed us to be. So that's something that happens
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when Jesus returns, the people who had prepared before they
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passed away will actually rise from the dead and will be given
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their immortal bodies and will meet Jesus in the clouds.
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That's what the scripture, the coming on the clouds talks
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about. And then people who are alive at
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that time and are in Christ are, have, are obedient to Christ,
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they will then also rise and they won't even experience
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death. So if you're around and you've
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prepared when Jesus returns, you're going to be a really
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fortunate person because you're never even going to have to die.
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You're just going to be instantly changed and then be
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with God forever. So I kind of went a little bit
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far off on that one. But that's why these these
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things, really, these prophecies are so interesting because they
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all kind of say the same thing, but you don't get it when you
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first read it. You don't understand it until
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you start putting all of these things together.
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All these different prophets, they're talking about the same
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thing. OK, so continuing on, let's see
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Isaiah verse or chapter 19 verse 12.
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I might just read through everything.
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Where are your wise men now? Let them show you and make known
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what the Lord Almighty has planned against Egypt.
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The officials of Zohan have become fools.
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The leader of Memphis are deceived.
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The cornerstones of of her peoples have led Egypt astray.
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The Lord has poured into them a spirit of dizziness.
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They make Egypt stagger in all that she does as a drunkard
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staggers around in his vomit. There is nothing Egypt can do,
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head or tail, palm, branch or Reed in that day.
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And a lot of times that's how the last day is talked about,
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the day of of judgment when Jesus returns.
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So in that day the Egyptians will become weaklings.
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They will shudder with fear at the uplifted hand that the Lord
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Almighty raises against them. This can also be a foreshadowing
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event of a of the final end time because Egypt did have Assyria
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conquer them at some different points.
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We'll read about that too. But I do believe that this is
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ultimately an end time prophecy. So maybe it was like a partial
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fulfillment, but not the complete fulfillment that's
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happened yet. Especially when you read this
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next line. And the land of Judah will bring
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terror to the Egyptians. Everyone to whom Judah is
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mentioned will be terrified because of what the Lord
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Almighty is planning against them.
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So, yeah, I, I, you know, has there ever been a time when
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Judah or Israel has brought terror to the Egyptians?
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I don't know. This is, you know, this seems
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like it's has to be some future. OK, in that day, 5 cities in
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Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to
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the Lord Almighty. OK, that I think is again in the
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end times, 5 cities in Egypt swearing allegiance to the Lord
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Almighty. It says one of these, one of
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them will be called the city of the sun.
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And what's interesting is the city of the sun, there is
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actually a an ancient city of the sun.
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It was the sun God RA and it's called Heliopolis and it exists
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today, maybe not the the proper one.
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I think there was like a an ancient city that was gone.
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And then there's a newer city just outside of Cairo that's
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called Heliopolis. But so one of those cities
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that's going to be that's going to swear allegiance to the Lord
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will be Heliopolis. I did find out that there were
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some, I believe there were some Catholic churches there that
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currently, and I'm sure there's other ones too, but just kind of
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an interesting thing to to note. So in that day there will be an
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altar to the Lord in the heart of Egypt and a monument to the
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Lord at its border. That was another thing I
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searched is that what's the monument at the border?
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And there is nothing that is a monument to the Lord.
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I think there might have been some like temples to other gods
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or something that were at the borders at at different times.
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But there is nothing to the true God that exists.
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So again, this makes it another future prophecy.
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It will be a sign and a witness to the Lord Almighty in the land
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of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord
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because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and
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defender and he will rescue them.
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Now does that mean Jesus? I, I mean, I think ultimately
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yes, because he, he does relent, but it could also be someone
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else who helps. I'm not sure about that.
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So the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians and in
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that day they will acknowledge the Lord.
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So perhaps that is Jesus like they will see and he will
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actually have mercy on some. They will worship with
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sacrifices and grain offerings. They will make vows to the Lord
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and keep them. The Lord will strike Egypt with
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a plague. He will strike them and heal
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them. They will turn to the Lord and
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He will respond to their pleas and heal them.
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A lot of times we hit rock bottom before we actually turn
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to God and that's when bad things are happening.
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You know, we hit rock bottom when it gets the worst it's
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been, But that point, that's when we either turn away from
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God or we turn towards God and God is loving and welcomes us
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when we turn back to Him. In that day, there will be a
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highway from Egypt to Assyria. That would be like Iran or
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Turkey or, you know, some of that area.
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And you can actually drive from Cairo to Istanbul.
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I think you have to take a ferry or something.
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But I actually checked it out on Google Maps.
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So there is a highway now today that can take some people there
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who knows if it's the exact highway that they're talking
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about here. Maybe there's going to be a new
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highway, you know, because during the reign of Christ,
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there's going to be a Millennium and a rebuilding of, of things.
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So maybe there's a new one. The Assyrians will go to Egypt
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and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will
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worship together in that day. Israel will be the third along
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with Egypt and Assyria. A blessing on the earth Now
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isn't that wild? You know like the Assyria and
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Egypt will also be a blessing. This is just showing the mercy
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and compassion extended to all humans like God isn't showing
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favoritism. The Lord Almighty will bless
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them saying blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria, Assyria my
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handiwork and Israel my inheritance.
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So that's the other thing as I was reading too, as I, I don't
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know, I'm trying to sort through this thing with it seems like
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it's going to be the Assyrian who will be the if you want to
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call what people have labeled the Antichrist or the lawless 1.
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And it just you see a lot of that through biblical prophecy
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and it just seems to come from the same area.
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And again, you know, maybe it's just that spiritual influence
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over those land areas. So my expectation is that
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someone from like Turkey or Syria or something like that,
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that eventually becomes the Antichrist and because of these
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Bible prophecies. And anyway, it's, it's just, I
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don't know, I don't remember what I was going to say there.
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I will continue reading chapter 20 also because it's a prophecy
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continuing against Egypt and Kush in the year that the
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supreme commander sent by Sargon, king of Assyria, came to
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Ashdod and attacked and captured it.
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At that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah, son of Amos.
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He said to him, take off, take off the sackcloth from your body
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and the sandals from your feet. And he did so, going around
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stripped and barefoot. Now this is Isaiah.
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Then the Lord said, just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped
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and barefoot for three years as a sign and portent against Egypt
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and Kush, so the the king of Assyria will lead away stripped
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and barefoot. The Egyptian captives and
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Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared to Egypt's
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shame. Those who trusted in Cush and
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boasted in Egypt will be dismayed and put to shame.
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In that day, the people who live on the coast will say, see what
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has happened to those we relied on, those we fled for help and
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deliverance from the king of Assyria.
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How can we escape? And then that's the end of
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chapter 21. So I will read through the study
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Bibles, questions and answers, and then we'll wrap this one up.
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So it says, let's see, where does it start?
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What kind of prophecy is this? The Hebrew word prophecy here is
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related to the verb meaning to lift or carry and is possibly to
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be understood as either a lifting of 1's voice or a caring
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of a burden. Such a prophecy often brings
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unwelcomed news or judgement. How would the Egyptians see God
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coming? God would come on a swift cloud,
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used here as figurative speech for God's power and sudden
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judgement. OK.
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I also think it might be a literal thing because of other
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parts in the Bible where it says Jesus comes on a cloud and that
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when he ascended into heaven, Acts one, Acts chapter one verse
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11, when it says the way that Jesus ascended like he went up
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into the clouds is the way he's coming back.
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So it seems like it's going to be kind of literal OK during the
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templates. The God of Israel had also
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judged the gods of Egypt. So again, we were talking about,
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you know, how these spiritual entities kind of had powers over
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certain areas. And so God was, I think, I think
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there might be something to that as well as its people.
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Now his appearance on the heaven, now his appearance on
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the heavenly horizon, filled them both with dread.
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When did Egypt experience civil war and subjection to a fierce
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king? Egyptian unity has been secured
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by the power of the Kushite dynasty according to the Greek
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historian Herodotus, that unity was destroyed by civil war and
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12 petty kingdoms arising until finally, in the middle of the
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17th or the 7th century, BCA measure of unity was secured
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once again under sametekus the first.
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The cruel master and fierce king might refer to one of Egypt's
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Kushite overlords, but more likely points to Azar Hardon,
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the king of Assyria who conquered Egypt in 670 BC.
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Cruelty was a general characteristic of all the
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Assyrian monarchs, so again, this could be a future Assyrian.
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Also, it could be one of those foreshadowing events where part
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of it did happen, but there's still a greater fulfillment at
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the end times. So what were mediums and
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spiritist? These were people through whom
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the spirit of a dead person was believed to communicate with the
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living. Consulting them was a widespread
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practice among Israel's neighbors and was a constant
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temptation for the Israelites, especially when they were under
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judgement of God. Isaiah pointed out the
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foolishness of consulting the dead when they could consult the
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living God. And there's an interesting
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thing. I wish I would have remembered
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where this verse was, but I think it's actually in the book
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of Job. But it talks about that, you
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know, once somebody is dead, they don't come back.
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So when people are consulting dead people and somebody that
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they're familiar with and they're wanting to get advice or
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information from them, what apparently is happening is that
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demons are actually involved. If somebody's successful in
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doing this and they actually see something or witness something
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or have some kind of experience, that is actually a a demon.
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Because it says that even Satan can appear as an Angel of light.
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So he's, he's darkness, but he can appear as something good.
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And that's why God is saying don't do that because you're
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messing with demons and it's going to bring about a lot of
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trouble with you. Other people who have been
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involved in that type of practice have, you know, come
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forward and have testimonies about about what happened in
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their lives. There's a lot of people that
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speak about this, that it's, it's not just make believe that
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this stuff does happen. OK?
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What happened to the Egyptians? In addition to being invaded by
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Sargon the second the Egyptians most likely experienced A
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drought, the so-called gods of Egypt had failed.
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The Nile dried up and caused economic collapse throughout the
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country. Well, the only part of that, you
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know, maybe that did happen, but the only thing that it says is
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that all these things will blow away and will be no more.
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So again, it could have a double fulfillment, A partial
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fulfillment back in this time and then in the, you know, the
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BC era and a future 1 yet to come.
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Especially because there's all these reports now about the Nile
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drying up. I saw 11 report.
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I have no idea how deep the Nile is but I saw something that said
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it was like 60 feet per year which that I just can't imagine
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the river being that deep. But maybe I got the number wrong
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but it was 60 something per year or maybe it was talking about it
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It's receding from the banks when it floods by 60 feet.
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I'm not sure, but whatever it there are reports that you will
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find if you just search Google about the Nile drying up.
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Did Judah ever invade Egypt? There is no evidence that Judah
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invaded Egypt with military force.
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The people of Judah who escaped the Babylonian siege of
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Jerusalem in 586 BC fled to Egypt and formed colonies there.
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Even Jeremiah, who protested going to Egypt, went there.
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Some Jews still live in Egypt today.
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Jewish believers living in Egypt spread the good news of Yeshua
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the Messiah. Why would Egyptians speak
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Hebrew, the language of Canaan? This may be a reference to Jews
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living in Egypt forming a colony of worshippers of the Lord in
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this Pagan land. After the fall of Jerusalem in
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586 BC, many Jews fled to Egypt. On the other hand, this could be
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a symbolic reference to the conversion of Egypt to the
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worship of the one true God. Who knows?
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Maybe when Jesus returns everybody will speak Hebrew.
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We don't. We don't know, so it's all
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speculation at this point. What was the city of the sun?
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Most likely this refers to the Egyptian city Heliopolis at And
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then Heliopolis, the city of Egypt's sun God was destroyed by
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Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon in about 567 BC.
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And then what's interesting is, you know, I don't know if this
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is just prophetic or what, but if this is about end times, that
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there is actually a current city called Heliopolis.
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And it was, I don't know if there's somebody from Britain or
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German. I, I can't remember who
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developed it, but it's currently, there's a town called
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Heliopolis just outside of Cairo.
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And it's where the affluent live.
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So it's kind of interesting. I mean, who would have thought
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that this happened in the 19 in the 20th century?
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So did Isaiah expect revival among the pagans?
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Yes, as a fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham that Abraham
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would be a blessing to the nations.
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The revelation of God's Amazing Grace to the Gentiles embraced
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not only the old enemy, Egypt, but also the new one, Assyria.
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Egypt and Assyria would do their long standing antagonism toward
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each other and come together in worship of the one true God, the
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God of the little Israelite nation whom they had both
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affected so severely. So just think, you know, in the
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future everybody is going to be at peace, like not until Jesus
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returns. And that's another thing to
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remember that you know, this is definitely future because
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Assyria and Israel and Egypt are not all buddies right now and
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are not completely peaceful and are not all worshipping the one
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true God. So why would God strike the
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Egyptians only to heal them? The reference to a plague is
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another echo of Exodus in the time of Moses.
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The pleas of the Egyptians for the lifting of the plagues were
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heard throughout the intercession of Moses, though
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there was no true penitence in the hearts of Pharaoh and his
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servants. In terms of this prophecy,
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however, the plague would bring the Egyptians to repentance and
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God would hear their cries for deliverance.
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Then who was this Sargon? Sargon the Second ruled Assyria
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from 7:21 to seven O 5 BC. Ashdod, a leading Philistine
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city, had rebelled against Assyria but succumbed to Sargon
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the Second in 711 BC. Why did God tell Isaiah to go
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around stripped and barefoot? Acted prophecy occurs frequently
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in the Old Testament. There's examples of that in
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First Kings Chapter 11, Jeremiah chapter 13, Ezekiel chapter 4.
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Using the object lessons of a of a captive, stripped and
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barefoot, Isaiah demonstrated what would happen to Egypt and
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Kush, but the message really was for Judah.
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God was vividly warning King Hezekiah about what would happen
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if Judah joined in an alliance with Egypt against Assyria and
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that's found in chapter 30 verses one through 5 and chapter
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31 verse one. Once again we see one of Isaiah
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key things. God wanted his people to trust
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in him rather than in foreign allies.
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And that's the end of chapters 19 and 20.
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So we can all to learn something from this too, is that we
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should, in our day-to-day lives, we should trust God with
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everything. God is the one we should go to
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and ask for him for guidance on absolutely everything in our
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life. And so remember that the next
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time you have a decision to make, and hopefully you'll come
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back for Chapter 21.