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741. Bible Study: Isaiah 54 (Are you prepared for the Messiah, For God's Kingdom?) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 54 From the book of Isaiah Let's first pray.
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Dear God, please be with us and give us wisdom and insight as we
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read through your word in Jesus name, Amen.
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Chapter 54 Sing Barren woman who never bore a child, burst into
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song. Shout for joy.
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You were never in labor, because more are the children of the
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desolate woman than of her who has a husband, Says the Lord.
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Enlarge the place of your tent. Stretch your tent curtains wide.
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Do not hold back. Lengthen your cords, strengthen
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your stakes, for you will spread out to the right and to the
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left. Your descendants will
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dispossessed nations and settle in their desolate cities.
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So the question and answer from the study Bible says how would
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this tent be enlarged since people lived in in houses during
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Isaiah's day? This image from Nomadic Life
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suggests that the promises to Abraham and his family found in
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Genesis chapter 12 and chapter 28 are in view.
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Some think this refers to enlarging the family tent by
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adding skins or stretching the present fabric and lengthening
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the cords. Others think this refers to
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setting up a new, bigger tent. Either way, God was promising to
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enlarge the nation as the Exiles return.
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Now the Study Bible talks about this in the past tense, but I
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see this as a future, especially today in 2025.
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Israel does not have all the land that God promised back in
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Genesis. So I think this is a forthcoming
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event that we will see in the future that Israel will their
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boundaries will be expanded and they are in a temporary place.
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That makes me think about the last chapter.
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I think it was that we read where it was talking about your
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tents in Jerusalem but your dwelling in Zion.
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It seems like two different things to me, like a tent is
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something temporary, but a dwelling place is something
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permanent. And the Zion is kind of like the
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heavenly realm. It's Jerusalem, but the heavenly
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Jerusalem. And we will probably read, we
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will read a little bit more about the new Jerusalem that God
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has prophesied. So I think at the time, the
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people that saw this probably or that heard this from Isaiah
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could relate to it at their time.
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But I think it's relatable to us at our time too and maybe future
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generations, I don't know. But it certainly seems like it's
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applicable to us in the future right now with the year being
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2025. So let's continue on says do not
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be afraid. You will not be put to shame.
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Do not fear disgrace. You will not be humiliated.
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You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more
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the reproach of your widowhood. So the study Bible says.
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What was the shame of youth and reproach of widowhood?
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The shame of their youth probably refers to Israel's
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bondage in Egypt that was talked about in Jeremiah chapter 31 In
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Hosea Chapter 11. The reproach of their widowhood
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probably refers to the exile when Israel was alone, like a
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widow in Isaiah 54 verses 6 through 7.
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Yet God promised to reverse his people's humiliation.
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Then Isaiah continues, For your maker is your husband.
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The Lord Almighty is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your
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Redeemer. He is called the God of all the
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earth. That's interesting that he is
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called the God of all the earth and that's referring to Jesus
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again, 700 BC and Jesus has talked about.
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So again, I had, I had seen a heard a rabbi talking about the
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Messiah that is to come and how he, you know, he's obviously
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Jewish and and so he was saying that this Messiah, it means
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anointed one. It has nothing to do with
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salvation and he's not God. And when I heard that, I
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thought, Oh my gosh, just look at Isaiah and it contradicts all
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of that. Now, right now, it's not saying
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the Messiah, but ultimately Israel, the city of Jerusalem is
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going to have a king. Everybody agrees and, and I
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think the Jewish people and the Christians agree that this king
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is going to be the Messiah, the future Messiah, that everybody's
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looking towards his coming. But the, the big surprise is
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going to be that it's going to be Jesus.
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And it was talked about in Isaiah.
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So if you can read through Isaiah or go through the
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chapters of Isaiah, you will find out the surprise that it is
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Jesus. Because all of these different
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scriptures that I've read are the different chapters that I've
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read. I've related them to the New
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Testament. And the, the thing that's at the
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detriment of the Jewish people is that they that the ones who
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are, are Jewish of faith and are not Messianic Jews is that they
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haven't read the New Testament. Now the New Testament was
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written written around 90 AD was the last book, the Book of
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Revelation, written by John, who was one of the original
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disciples or followers of Jesus. And so when I, I think, you
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know, both Christians and Jewish people can benefit so much from
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reading both parts of the Bible, referring to the Old Testament
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and the New Testament, because when we read it in total, we
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better understand. If I just read as a Christian,
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just read the New Testament and never read the Old Testament, I
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would be clueless about so much that's in the New Testament.
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And the same for the Jewish people.
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If the Jewish people just, you know, they basically have the
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first what, 5 books of the Bible and in their Torah.
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And, but they're missing out on all of this other information
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that's here that was documented. And so it answers a lot of
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questions and clears up confusion.
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So I just hope that more and more people start looking at the
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whole book and really understand and become enlightened by it
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when they see these things. So again, I will, I will, you
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know, read this sentence verse 5 again.
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For your maker is your husband, the Lord Almighty is his name.
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The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer.
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So that has to do with salvation.
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He is called the God of all the earth.
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That's really important. So the study Bible says who
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called Israel's God the God of all the earth?
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Only the people of God who had heard the message of his
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prophets would know that the Lord was truly the God of all
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the earth. Most other people did not have
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much respect for the God of Israel because he could not be
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seen while their own idols were visible.
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Those who acknowledged Israel's God became a part of God's
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people. Well, my study Bible doesn't
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even say this about being Jesus, but Jesus redeemed the all of
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you know all people by what he did on the cross.
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So Jesus is the Redeemer. He is called the God of all the
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earth. All authority has been given to
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Jesus. So that's also in the Bible.
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So this is, you know, the Son of God is going to be called God of
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all the earth. He'll have all the authority of
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the earth. He does right now actually.
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But there's a time frame where God's enemy still has some
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access to the earth, but that's not going to be forever.
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OK, so let's go to verse 6. The Lord will call you back as
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if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit, a wife who
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married young only to be rejected, says your God.
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For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I
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will bring you back. In a surge of anger.
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I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting
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kindness I will have compassion on you, says the Lord, your
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Redeemer. So that's coming from Jesus.
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And then the study Bible says, what are the limits of God's
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patience? His patience is limitless.
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God commanded the Israelites to be holy and He gave them the law
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and the prophets to help them. But when they persisted in their
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sins, He punished them because He is holy.
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Still, He did not leave it at that.
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He forgave them and received them back with great compassion.
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I think this happens like at the end of the this age through or
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the yeah, through Christ. Forgiveness is still available
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today to anyone who believes in him.
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Then Isaiah continues to say verse 9.
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To me, this is like the days of Noah, which I think is really
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interesting, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never
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again cover the earth. So now I have sworn not to be
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angry with you, never to rebuke you again.
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So let's see. So the comparison like the days
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of Noah is also often talked about in the end of the age that
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Jesus talks about, it will be like the age like the days of
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Noah that people will be marrying and eating and drinking
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and then along. They were not expecting the
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flood to happen, but then it happened.
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Now this verse here is not really talking about that
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surprise element like Jesus talked about in Matthew 24, but
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this one is talking about the promise he made to Israel that
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he would never flood the entire earth again.
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We're certainly seeing a lot of flooding.
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And that makes me think, are these warnings from God, like
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he's never going to flood the whole earth, but there are
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significant floods happening all over into various places around
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the earth. And is this God saying wake up,
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people wake up? I, I really certainly feel like
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that. But we won't know for sure, like
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wake up because Jesus is returning soon.
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And it just really seems like that to me.
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OK, so then it says Isaiah says in verse 10, though the
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mountains be shaken and the hills removed, yet my unfailing
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love for you will not be shaken, nor my covenant of peace be
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removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
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When I read that though the mountains be shaken and the
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hills be removed, it made me think of additional scripture
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found in the well many places, but in the Book of Revelation
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specifically because Revelation chapter 6 verse 14 says the
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heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up and every
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mountain and island was removed from its place.
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Now this is talking about when I believe when Jesus returns.
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I'm going to read this in context so you get the whole
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part of it. So this is during the 6th seal
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that's in Revelation chapter 6 and it's verse 12 that I'm
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starting with and I'll read to verse 17.
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I watch this is John talking as he, which is the he is Jesus
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opened the 6th seal. There was a great earthquake.
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The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair.
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The whole moon turned blood red and the stars in the sky fell to
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earth. The stars in Revelation are
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symbolic of angels and these are believed to be the why they call
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them the fallen angels, the ones who rebuild against God.
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And the stars in the sky fell to the earth, as figs drop from a
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fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.
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The 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, and the rocks fall on us and
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hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the
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wrath of the Lamb. The one who sits on the throne
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is God the Father, and the wrath of the Lamb is Jesus.
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And it says For the great day of their wrath has come and who can
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withstand it. So this is really interesting to
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me because just that they called to the mountains and rocks fall
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on us and hide us. It's and they know what's
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happening. That's what really surprises me
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that it's not like they're saying what is going on here?
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Let's let's just hide and get away from this.
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But they are actually wanting to be hidden from God.
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So to me, this shows that, you know, the people who are
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rebelling against God, they deliberately know that they're
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doing that and they're guilty, and they know they're guilty.
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And they don't think that Jesus is going to return.
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They don't think that there's going to be the wrath of God
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that will come. And they just keep on doing what
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they're doing. But then all of a sudden here he
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is and it's happening and the like I said, these people are
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not saying what is going on in this world.
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There's like earthquakes and everything shaken.
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No, they are saying we know what's going on and I want to be
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hidden from him. And it's it's not going to
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happen. Nobody escapes it.
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So this is going to be, yeah, this is going.
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I mean, it's been foretold. So this was foretold in 90 AD by
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John when he was on the island of Patmos.
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And it says that whoever reads the Book of Revelation will be
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blessed. So it's worth reading and it's
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worth understanding as much as we can.
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There are different interpretations of various parts
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in Scripture, but when Scripture interprets Scripture, you get a
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better understanding for it. So I've done some prior podcast
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on the Book of Revelation of everything that I had heard and
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know from it up to this point. And there's we're none of us are
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going to get it 100% right because because of the way it's
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written, it's open to interpretation, but it certainly
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talks about some, some good things and some bad things.
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And we're going to talk a little bit more about the Book of
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Revelation because of what Isaiah says.
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But I hope that you see that this is clearly verse 10, though
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the mountains may be shaken and the hills removed.
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And that's exactly what it says here, that the heavens receded
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like a scroll being rolled up and every mountain and island
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was removed from its place. So it matches up with Revelation
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chapter 6 verse 14 in also there is several times where things
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are talked about being shaken. So in Matthew 24 verse 29, Jesus
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talks about it. He says immediately after the
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distress of those days, the sun will be darkened and the moon
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will not give its light, The stars will fall from the sky and
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the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
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And so this is like the distress of the those days is referring
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to the great tribulation. So Jesus said that when that
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great tribulation happens, it's going to be a time that we have
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never experienced on this on the face of the earth and nor will
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we ever experience it again. It's going to be a once in an
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only time event. And and then it says if those
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days had not been cut short, no one would survive.
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I believe that is why Jesus returns at that point to, you
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know, right after the 6th seal opens, because if he didn't, no
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one would be around because this just stress, whatever that is,
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that great tribulation of those days is going to be worse than
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anything. All the world wars that we've
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had, it's going to be worse than that.
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So, and this and this is told to us that it happens after this
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person that Daniel refers to as the Lawless 1 is on the holy
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ground and he, he or people put up some sort of image and the
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image is made to talk or something.
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That's what the the Bible gives us as a clue.
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So what people generally say is that this is like the
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Antichrist, the, the last Antichrist.
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There's been many Antichrist throughout time, but this is
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like the last and final one. And he will be on the holy place
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standing somewhere. And people are believing that
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this is probably the Temple Mount.
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So somebody on the Temple Mount and puts up this image and the
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images made to talk. So think about our technology
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that we have today that that could be very possible.
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But so this is what is told that's going to happen.
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And when we see that anybody who's in Jerusalem should flee
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and don't go back to their place because that's when the greatest
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distress that has ever happened on the earth is going to occur.
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But sometime after that is when Jesus returns on the clouds.
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So there is going to be that awareness of what's happening.
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That's probably why the people say, because actually that's
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probably God's like final attempt to get people saved.
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Is when everybody sees and knows this is the Antichrist that
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people have been talking about for years and years, thousands
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of years probably. And because when he is on that
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temple or that image is set up and it begins to speak on the
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probably the Temple Mount, when that happens, then people, all
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the people who study Scripture will be warning everybody else
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like this is what's in the Bible.
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This is what's in the book of Daniel.
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And, you know, flee, flee. I mean, this is going to be the
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greatest distress that ever happened on the earth.
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And then we're going to like experience that.
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Now how long we will experience that I don't know, but it says
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that he, that's when they will see.
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It says like immediately after the distress of those days.
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So it sounds days sounds plural. The sun will be darkened, the
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moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the
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sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
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I will continue to read from there because that the order of
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this is really important. It says, then the next verse
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says, then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and
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then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see
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the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and
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great glory. The next verse says, and he will
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send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will
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gather his elect from the four winds from one end of the
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heavens to the other. So this is that's in in Matthew.
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He said that I want to read mark what he says in chapter 13.
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But in those days following that distress, the sun will be
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darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall
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from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
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At that time, people will see the Son of Man coming in the
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clouds with great power and glory, and He will send His
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angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of
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earth to the ends of heaven. So this is that great gathering
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of people. And that's exactly what it says
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about the rapture. What people call the rapture is
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Jesus has seen on the clouds. His angels go out and gather
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people and draw them to him while he's in the clouds.
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And that's what it's it's talking about.
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And then in Luke, here's what Luke says.
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There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars so that matches
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up on the earth. Nations will be in anguish and
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perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.
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People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming
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on the world. That sounds pretty significant
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for the heavenly bodies will be shaken at that time.
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They will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and
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great glory. When these things begin to take
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place, stand up and lift up your heads because your redemption is
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drawing near. So a lot of people when they say
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that the pre Trib, I mean this, this very specifically shows us
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it is not pre Trib. If you read carefully, don't
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listen to what all these teachers say that don't aren't
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take it. They're taking the Bible out of
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sequence and they're not reading the full paragraph or they're
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not reading it in context because it very, very clearly
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says that we are. Whoever's alive at that time is
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going to see this. They're going to see this
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lawless one that Daniel describes, and they are going to
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see this great tribulation start.
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But it says that right at that point, that is, and they're
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going to see Jesus coming on the cloud, but that's when he
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gathers his elect. Those are the people who have
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prepared themselves, the ones who are made themselves ready
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for the Lord. The rest are going to experience
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wrath because as soon as Jesus returns, that's when the wrath
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starts. But the people, it says that if
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you are, you know, basically if you're born again, you are not
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subject to God's wrath. So that that moment is very
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critical and that sequence of events is very critical.
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And people should really read Scripture and not be, oh gosh,
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not be blindsided by what people teach and just listen to
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whatever their pastor says or whatever their theology person
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says. But read Scripture, see what it
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says, see what Jesus says. And anyway, it's very important
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because it affects, it'll affect all people.
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So then again, going back to the we talked about Mark and Luke
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about, you know, everything that's shaken.
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And then let's see, in Hebrews chapter 12, the words once more
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indicate the removing of what can be shaken, that is, created
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things so that what cannot be shaken may remain.
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Therefore, and. And it says, therefore, since we
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are receiving a Kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be
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thankful and so worship God acceptably with reverence and
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awe. And then it also refers to
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Revelation chapter 6, which we read just before this.
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And the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig
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tree when shaken by a strong wind.
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I want to read Hebrews chapter 12 though, because it is it's
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it's also very important. So let's see where should we say
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like, I guess we'll start with God disciplining his children.
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And Hebrews chapter 12, verse 4, it says in your struggle against
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sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your
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blood. And have you completely
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forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you
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as a father addresses his son. It says, My son, do not make
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light of the Lord's discipline and do not lose heart when he
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rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines the one He loves and
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He chastens everyone He accepts as his son.
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Endure hardship as discipline. God is treating you as His
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children, for what? Children are not disciplined by
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their father. If you are not disciplined and
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everyone undergoes discipline, then you are not legitimate, not
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true sons and daughters at all. Moreover, we have had human
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fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it.
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How much more should we respect? Should we submit to the Father
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of spirits and live they referring to our natural, you
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know, our earthly parents. They disciplined us for a little
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while as they thought best. But God disciplines us for our
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good, for our good, not to punish us, but for our good, in
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order that we may share in His Holiness.
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No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful later on.
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However, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for
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those who have been trained by it.
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So if we get trained by the discipline that we receive, we
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will become more righteous and we will have peace.
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Nobody likes it. I can relate to that and I've
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been through discipline and but I can say that my life is
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changing and I do have peace. So you can see that the
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discipline was effective. I don't want any more
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discipline. I've had enough.
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But who knows what God has in store?
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Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees.
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Make level paths for your feet so that the lame may not be
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disabled, but rather healed. Now here's a warning and an
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encouragement. Make every effort to live in
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peace with everyone and to be holy.
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Without holiness, no one will see the Lord.
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How many times does that get preached in church today?
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Without holiness, no one will see the Lord.
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That's a good that's pretty powerful there.
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See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and
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that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.
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See that no one is sexually immoral or godless like Esau,
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who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest
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son. You know, this whole sexual
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immoral thing, it's just like a huge thing today because it's so
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easy to experience sexual immorality just by, you know,
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being online, the Internet, there's there's access to so
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much stuff that it becomes like people can do that in secret and
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nobody would even know about it. It's, you know, apparent that
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it's happening in churches. It's happening everywhere.
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It's not that just some do this. I mean, it is all over the
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place. And if by reading the Old
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Testament we would remember the story of Balaam and Balak and
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now I'm forgetting which one was which one of them was a prophet
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and a prophet though our communicator with darkness
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essentially, yet God overruled who he was communicating with.
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And when the king who was I think he was Balak.
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I might have the names by mixed up because they I'm not really
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good with names, but the king wanted the prophet to curse the
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people of Israel and so he was. He told the king he could only
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do whatever God would tell him to do and every time he tried to
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curse, and I think it happened like 7 times, he ended up
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blessing Israel. And so the king was not really
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happy about that and neither was the prophet because he wanted
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the reward that the king was going to give him for putting a
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curse on Israel and it didn't happen.
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So then later the prophet gets really creative and he goes and
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tells the king, OK, I couldn't curse them for you, but here's
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what you can do is get them to be sexually immoral and that
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will be their fall. And so that's what happens
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because that other king in there in his belief they had these
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temple prostitutes and they had all this sexual immorality.
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And so that is like God's enemies way to really hook
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people. Like you could be so righteous
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in every other aspect, but fall short with that and not address
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that. And I see so many people saying
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that, oh, but grace covers me. But then, you know, Hebrews
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says, see to it that no one falls short of the grace of God.
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So what does that mean? Like the grace?
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I mean, if we repeatedly, you know, it says don't keep on
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sinning because if you keep on sinning, the only thing that's
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going to be left for you is judgment.
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We need to be in the word of God because the churches are not
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being bold and telling people and nobody likes to talk about
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this. Nobody wants to hear this
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because most of the people in the world are probably sexually
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immoral. And so it's not singling out any
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one person. It's talking about just about
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everybody. Now, there may be a few
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exceptions to the rules, so I'm not talking about every single
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person, but I'm saying the majority.
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And so if nobody wakes up and nobody changes this and nobody
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asks God for the Holy Spirit to help with this issue, that means
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a whole bunch of people are going to be eternally separated
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from God. Jesus died on the cross.
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For those who are repentant, those who, who, you know, maybe
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it's not within their, I mean, if, if we say it's not within
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their power, then we're saying that God doesn't have the power
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because God gives us the Holy Spirit to give us the power
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because he says that when he, when it comes to temptation, he
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gives us a way out. So it's not that we are not
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powerless against it, it's that we choose not to be because we
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like it. So this is like a, this is a big
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wake up call for all people because if the coming of Jesus
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is really soon, this is probably something that people need to
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personally address and go to God directly with it and ask God for
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the Holy Spirit to help you. And it says that God always
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provides a way out. So you can, you can find a way
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out. And every time you're about to
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go into that temptation, say Jesus, help me.
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I mean, that's the quickest, you know, simplest prayer to say.
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And he will do it. He will do it.
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Now we still have to make the decision because we have free
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will. God gave us that.
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So it's not like all of a sudden it's not going to be a
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temptation. It's a, you know, it's just like
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what Jesus says, like unless you take up your cross, you're not
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worthy to follow him. So it's not the saying this is
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going to be super easy. It's just saying that it is
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possible and you can do it with the power of God.
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For in his strength, I mean, in our weakness, we have his
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strength. So if we deny the strength,
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we're denying the power of God. So we have no excuses
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essentially is what I'm saying. And it's it is a warning to
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everybody because Scripture is very clear on this.
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I didn't like reading it the first time I read that, but it
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became, you know, digging deep and see if you can disprove it
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because you can't when you get into all of Scripture.
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So here's what it says right after that it says, see that no
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one is sexually immoral or godless.
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Like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as
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the oldest son. So Esau was supposed to have the
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inheritance from his father and instead Jacob gets it because
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Esau traded. Jacob made a deal with Esau,
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Israel made a deal with Esau. And Esau, you know, didn't think
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it was that important. He wanted the soup.
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He wanted what he wanted right now.
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He was hungry. He wanted that.
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Just like people with sexual immorality.
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That's what it's talking about here.
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People want it right now and they're like, well, I want it
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right now. And then, you know, are you
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thinking about like eternity? I mean, that makes a huge
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difference. Do you want to sell your rights
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to the inheritance that God has given us?
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You got to ask that question, is it worth it?
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Is it worth it to be separated from God for eternity so that
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you can have that one sexual immoral, immoral time?
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I mean, if you're, if you have, never mind, I'm not going to say
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anymore. So the next verse says
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afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit the blessing,
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he was rejected. So Esau wanted to get his
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inheritance back after he realized what he lost, he was
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rejected. So is this like when Jesus
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closes the door and he says depart from me, you evil doers?
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Is that going to happen to some people?
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We know it is. I mean, it talks about like
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Jesus gave the parable of the 10 virgins.
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They all thought they were prepared, but only five of them
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had oil in the lamps. They were anointed.
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They were, they were truly prepared.
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The other ones still needed to do something.
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They still needed to take care of something.
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So are you going to be, which five are you going to be with?
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Are you going to be the one that's prepared?
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Are you going to be the one that was like, oh dude, I should have
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done that When God comes and then be turned away where he
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says depart from me, you evildoer, you worker of
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iniquity. I think it's something we
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seriously have to talk. And it says even though he
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sought the blessing with tears, he could not change what he had
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done. It was his decision.
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You know, he regretted his decision, but that was his
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decision. He gave it up.
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So are you going to give up eternity because of some sin
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that you want to hang on to and not let go of?
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OK, then in verse 18 it's OK. Actually the next section of
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this is talking about the mountain of fear and the
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mountain of joy. So there are going to be two
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different reactions when Jesus returns.
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One reaction of the people who knew they should have done
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something and they didn't. And the other reaction of the
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people who, you know, went through some pain and suffering
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of giving up stuff they didn't want to give up, but they're
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prepared. And when Jesus comes, they're
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joyful because they know they they've already taken care of
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the mess that they had from the past.
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So here's what it says. You have not come to a mountain
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that can be touched and that is burning with fire, to darkness,
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gloom, and storm, to a trumpet blast, or to such a voice
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speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further
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word be spoken to them, because they could not bear what was
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commanded. If even an animal touches the
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mountain, it must be stoned to death.
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The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, I am trembling with
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fear. This is, you know, coming into
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the presence of God and realizing the power and the
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might of Him. But you have come to Mount Zion,
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to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.
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You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful
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assembly to the Church of the first born whose names are
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written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge
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of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect.
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To Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled
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blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel, see to
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it that you do not refuse him who speaks.
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If they did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on
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earth, how much less will we if we turn away from Him who warns
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us from heaven? So God is warning.
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At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised
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once more. I will shake not only the earth,
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but also the heavens. So when, when Moses received the
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10 commandments, there was the voice of God and the thundering
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and the fear that came upon everybody.
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That was the first covenant. When the second covenant comes
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to be in effect, I guess, or I guess it's already in effect,
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but when it comes to fruition, when Jesus returns, this is
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going to be the second time that things are shaken up.
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The words once more indicate the removing of what can be shaken,
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that is, created things, so that what cannot be shaken may
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remain. Therefore, since we are
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receiving a Kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful
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and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our
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God is a consuming fire. A lot of pretty sobering things
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being discussed there, so let's see what else it says about like
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the days of Noah. The study Bible says.
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Why then, did God allow the Holocaust?
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There are historical reasons why the Holocaust happened, but
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there is no biblical or doctrinal rationale to explain
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it. In this text.
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God made a promise to the Exiles who would be returning from
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captivity in Babylon to their homeland.
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God promised that he would no longer be angry with them and
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that they would have relative peace.
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It was not necessarily a guarantee of permanent peace.
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OK. I disagree with the study Bible
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because I think the study Bible is being narrow minded with this
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because this is clearly about the end days and sometimes it
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can be a foreshadowing. So it's like partially right,
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but they're not looking at it as the future because God is
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promising everlasting peace, but it's when Jesus returns and not
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until then. Because Jesus even said in
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Matthew 24 that war will continue until the end.
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Wars and rumors of wars will continue to the end.
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So we're never going to have complete peace.
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But then when it describes the millennial reign, the thousand
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year reign of Christ on Earth, it talks about peace that we
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have never experienced before. Like it even sounds like animals
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will no longer be meat eaters, that they're going to lie down
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at peace with one another. Like it.
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It talks about a lot of and little kids can play with snakes
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and not be bitten. I mean, there's a lot of things
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that don't happen today that will be experienced once God
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starts to restore the things when Jesus reigns on earth for
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1000 years. So that's going to be a really
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cool time to be on the earth during that time.
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And OK, so let's go back to what Isaiah said in verse 11.
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Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted.
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I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise, your foundations
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with lapis lazuli. I will make your battlements of
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rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of
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precious stones. All your children will be taught
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by the Lord, and great will be their peace.
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So this is really interesting too is that again it talks about
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in multiple places. I always wondered what's the
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purpose of the Millennium and the Millennium people will be
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taught by the Lord Himself. So He's going to be present and
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He will be taught and great will be their peace.
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Now this other part in verse 11 and 12, it talks about these
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semi precious stones. So again, if you only read the
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Old Testament and you didn't read the New Testament, then you
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would not know this. But I will read a short excerpt
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of the New Jerusalem, the bride of the Lamb.
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It says that one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls
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full of the seven last plagues, came to me and and said to me,
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Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.
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And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and
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high, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out
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of heaven from God. So remember it says in I will
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rebuild. This is Isaiah, what he said I
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will rebuild you with stones of and it goes on to describe more
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that he is going to do it. Now here it says the holy city,
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Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.
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It's shown with the glory of God and its brilliance was like that
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of a very precious jewel, like a Jasper, clear as crystal.
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It had a great high wall with 12 gates and with 12 angels at the
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gates. On the gates were written the
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names of the 12 tribes of Israel.
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There were three gates on the E, 3 on the N, 3 on the South, and
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three on the West. The wall of the city had 12
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foundations, and on them were the names of the 12 apostles of
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the Lamb. So the Lamb is Jesus, the 12
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disciples of Jesus, The original.
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Well, not. Maybe it's not the original.
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Maybe Mattheus is in there. I'm not sure if Judah, Judas.
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I think Judas is probably not, but who knows?
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Because Mattheus Matthias, I don't know how you say his name,
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but he was added later, so there are 12.
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Anyway, Sidetrack, the Angel who talked with me had a measuring
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rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls.
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The city was laid out like a square, so that's not the way
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Jerusalem is right now. Jerusalem is a strip.
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I mean, it's not even a strip. I'm talking of.
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Israel is a strip. Jerusalem is, you know, a city.
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But wait till you hear the size of the city.
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The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide.
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He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000
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stadia in length and as wide as and high as it is long.
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So we have like a kind of like a perfect cube.
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The width, the depth and the height are all the same.
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Now this 12,000 stadia, what does that mean for us?
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Like how do we understand what that stadia means?
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That is about 1400 miles or about 2200 kilometers.
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So for us in the US, that's about half the size of the
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United States from left to right, from east to West.
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If you split it right in the middle, that's about 1400 miles.
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So that gives you some idea. The city, the holy city of
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Jerusalem is going to be like as big as half of the size of the
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United States. Now the whole country of Israel
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fits in like 1 of the small states that says it's been
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compared to the size of New Jersey in the United States.
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So that's what Israel is currently.
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The whole country is sized, and we're talking about a city
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that's going to be as big as half of the United States.
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The Angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it
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was 144 cubits thick. So what does that mean to us?
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That's about 200 feet or 65 meters deep, 200 feet deep.
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Think about that 65 meters. There's this wall that's
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separating God's children, God's chosen, those prepared from
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everything else. The wall was made.
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Now here's where it gets to all of the beautiful pieces of it.
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The wall was made of Jasper and the city of pure gold, as pure
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as glass. The foundations of the city were
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decorated with every kind of precious stone.
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That's exactly what Isaiah heard from the Lord too, that there
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would be all these different stones and sparkling jewels and
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all the walls of precious stones in verse 12.
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That's what Isaiah heard from the Lord, and John's hearing the
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same thing. The foundations of this, but
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more detail, the foundations of the city walls were decorated
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with every kind of precious stone.
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The first was Jasper, the second sapphire, the third a gate, the
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4th emerald, the 5th Onyx, the 6th Ruby, the 7th crystallite,
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the 8th barrel, the 9th Topaz, the 10th turquoise, and the 11th
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jacinct and the 12th amethyst. The 12 gates were 12 pearls,
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each gate made of a single Pearl.
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The Great St. of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent
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glass. I did not see a temple in the
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city because the Lord Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
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The Father and Son are going to be present in this city with
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those who have prepared. We will be living with God.
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The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for
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the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.
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The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the
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earth will bring their splendor into it.
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On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night
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there. I think something also says
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there's no darkness there, so the glory and honor of the
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nations will be brought into it. Nothing impure will ever enter
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it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful,
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but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of
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life. So it's important for us, like
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God says, be holy because I am holy.
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If we want to be in God's Kingdom, if we want to live in
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this holy city of Jerusalem, we have to come into agreement with
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God because we can't live under a king that we don't agree with.
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So we need to really look at our lives and see like, are we in
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agreement with God? Are we showing God?
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Are we showing God it? You know, we don't get into
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God's Kingdom by what we do. It was only made possible by
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Jesus death on the cross because he was the atoning sacrifice for
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our sins. We, there's nothing we could do
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to make because we're imperfect, we are broken, we are sinful
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beings and we are not holy. So we can't get our way.
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We can't work our way into the Kingdom of God.
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And that's another deceptive thing that the enemy uses like
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just do all these good things and then you'll be in the
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Kingdom of God. No, that's not what it says.
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You have to put your faith and trust in Jesus and what he did.
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But when we do that, the good things that we do and the
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righteous things that we decide to do, we are showing God that
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we love him by that those actions, those are evidence that
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we have been saved, that our names are written in the book of
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the life. If we are not showing the
52:56
evidence, our names may not be written in the book of life.
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So think about that. You want to make sure your name
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is written in the book of life, that you're not turned away.
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Then you know when Jesus returns that he doesn't say depart from
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me. You evil doers, you workers of
53:13
iniquity, you workers of sin, you workers, you know, people
53:16
who keep sinning, you know, go away.
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We don't want anybody to hear that.
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And churches are not doing a good job of telling people the
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truth. That's in Scripture.
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And so that's why I'm so passionate about this, because
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I'm so disappointed in the churches today that they don't
53:35
won't talk about it. So many of them won't talk about
53:38
it. They'll just talk about the
53:39
blessings, but they don't talk about the preparation.
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And by doing so, they are not helping people.
53:46
All they're doing is making money for themselves because
53:48
they're doing what it says that in the last days, people will
53:52
have itching ears to hear these good things.
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They don't. Nobody wants to hear this stuff.
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Nobody wants to hear. Well, I have to, you know, I
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have to accept God and I have to become holy because God is holy.
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I mean, nobody really likes to when you're in a sinful state,
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that doesn't sound appealing. And so I think churches just do
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that for their own benefit. And it it seems like that from
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the outsiders, there could be other reasons for it.
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But to never talk about sin, to never talk about being prepared
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for the return of Jesus, I think is very concerning to me because
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I'm so fearful that so many Christians who are going to
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church every Sunday are not prepared and the churches are
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doing a disservice all the time. These people are investing and
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going to that church and they're not getting the information they
54:50
need from the Bible, and they're looking to a leader who
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supposedly is telling them is helping them prepare for God's
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Kingdom. How often do you go to church
55:01
and hear about God's future Kingdom?
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I mean, it's just, you'll notice this after you read the Bible,
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after you get into it, you'll see that there are so few places
55:11
that are preparing their people and God's going to take notice.
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God's paying attention to what these quote, shepherds of the
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sheep are doing. So because the shepherds are not
55:21
doing their job. I think there's a lot of other
55:23
people who are now taking up that responsibility to say, hey,
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wake up everybody. You know, like the churches
55:31
aren't telling you, but you've got to get yourself prepared.
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So that's exactly how I feel right now.
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Anyway. Let's see in verse 14 going back
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to Isaiah in righteousness you will be established.
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Tyranny will be far from you. You will have nothing to fear.
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Terror will be far removed. It will not come near you.
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If anyone does attack, does attack you, it will not be my
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doing. Whoever attacks you will
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surrender to you. So the study Bible says, does
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God allow things to happen that he doesn't like?
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Yes, he does. God is all powerful and can
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control everything that happens in this world.
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In his world, however, he gives humans freedom to decide things
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for themselves. When we sin, for example, we
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have only ourselves to blame for the consequences, though God has
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the ability to prevent evil, including the enemy attacks
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mentioned here. Having having given humankind
56:45
certain authority, God often allows circumstances to play
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out. So going back to what Isaiah
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says verse 16, see it is I who created the blacksmith who fans
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the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work.
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And listen to this. God's admitting this.
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And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc.
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God knows it's gonna he, he basically he gives everything.
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This is the way I understand it. He's is, he gives every being
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the free will, a free choice. He doesn't force anybody to do
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anything. He gives them a choice and and
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there's going to be an eventual separation, a permanent
57:42
separation where you can't cross over from one side to the other.
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But he's going to separate those who choose to rebel and those
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who choose to submit to him. The ones who choose to submit to
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Him will be in His Kingdom, and the ones who want to continue in
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sin will be separated from Him for all eternity.
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Now then, as soon as you know, God says it is I who have
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created the destroyer to wreak havoc.
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Listen to what it says though. No weapon forged against you
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will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses
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you. This is the heritage of the
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servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from Me,
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declares the Lord. So if you are a servant from the
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Lord, then you can repeat this verse.
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No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will
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refute every tongue that accuses you.
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This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this
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is their vindication from me, declares the Lord.
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So God keeps his promises. So remember that verse and, and,
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and use it. Remind God of it when you see
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disaster coming towards you. So anyway, I hope this helps
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prepare and please keep coming back to stay in the word because
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it helps us deal with everyday things when we know what's in
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the word of God. So come back.