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699. Bible Study: Isaiah 3 (Third Temple, Jesus warning, Pride Month, Leaders Judged, Mark of the Beast?) · Faith by annm2705

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Before we get to chapter 3 of Isaiah, I will read the
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questions and answers from the study Bible that I forgot to
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read in the last recording. So we'll start there and then
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we'll get into chapter 3. So what are the last days
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referencing chapter 2, verse 2, The last days is a vague phrase.
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Some believe it refers to a future time of God's judgement,
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the day of the Lord, that will be followed by Jesus the
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Messiah's direct rule from Jerusalem.
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In the New Testament, however, the last days began with Jesus's
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first coming in accordance with Acts chapter 2 verse 17 and
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Hebrews chapter 1 verses one through 2, and will be
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completely fulfilled at His second coming.
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What will the role of the Lord's temple?
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What will be the role of the Lord's temple in the last days?
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The temple will be elevated in importance as both Jews and
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Gentiles come to worship God. Some think this will be an
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actual earthly temple in conjunction with Christ return.
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Others believe it symbolizes people coming to Christ in
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repentance. Perhaps Isaiah did not foresee
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one specific event, but rather many ways which the message of
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the law, the word of the Lord, could and should impact the
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world. So I will comment on this.
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This is not my study Bible, but it's something that I looked
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into because you do hear those different interpretations.
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But here's where I think it's very clear.
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In the Bible, there is there will be a third temple and it's
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talked about an Ezekiel. I forgot what chapters there
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are, but it's towards the end, the middle to the end of
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Ezekiel. And it's very, very, very
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descriptive, very much like when God told Moses to remember all
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these details when he was going to build the Tabernacle.
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The same thing happened with Ezekiel.
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Like be very careful to write down these things so when this
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prophetic image and extremely detailed description of the
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temple and how it would be utilized and what would occur
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and the sizes were given and everything.
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And if you compare the second temp, some second temple or the
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first temple to the third temple, it's neither one of
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those, you know, that's in fact it, it is not describing those.
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It's a different size. So this will definitely be 1/3
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temple. It has not been built yet.
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And the interesting thing for many people already know this,
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but there might be some people who don't know this that listen
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to the podcast on the over in Israel, the Temple Institute
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actually has architectural plans that match the temple described
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in Ezekiel and they are ready to build it.
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There's a lot of preparation that is has been underway for
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many years in preparation for this third temple.
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And all of the items that go inside the temple have all been,
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I guess, stored away for that day.
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And so anyway, it's it, there is another temple coming.
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And I think if you look into Scripture, I just don't even
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understand how you could think that it would be anything other
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than that. I do understand that we become
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the temple of God people, metaphorically, when we have the
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Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit resides in US.
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So that maybe confuses people who haven't fully studied the
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Bible and don't, some people don't read the Old Testament,
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but if they don't read the Old Testament, then they miss out on
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a lot of things. So anybody who's read the entire
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Bible and studies it will know that, yeah, that's that's a
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temple, but there's literally a temple that will be coming.
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And the closer we get or the more advanced we get in time,
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the more that it really seems reality.
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I mean, architectural plans are drawn up.
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There's all sorts of things that have been worked on for years
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and years and years about this. So this, this is going to come.
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There's lots of preparation for this third temple.
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And if you've never heard about it, just search it and you will
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find so much that you probably won't have time to look at it
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all. OK, so does this prophecy mean
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that the world is going to get better instead of worse?
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Referring to chapter 2, verse 4. Certainly when Christ returns.
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Some see this prophecy as a description of a future reign of
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Christ on earth. Others view the peace described
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in this passage as fulfilled in a spiritual sense through the
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coming of Christ and the inauguration of God's Kingdom,
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which then will be culminated when Christ returns.
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Though we know that eventually God will remove all sin and thus
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the causes of war and conflicts, we should still work toward the
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day helping people and nations reconcile their differences.
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Yeah, again, I think there's no way to deny it when you read the
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text that, you know, we've never been in a time period where
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nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they
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train for war anymore. And he will judge between the
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nations like when has that ever occurred?
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And they're no longer need any of their weapons.
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That has not ever been in the history of the world.
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And it's, it will, I mean, in the, I don't know, it's, it's a
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day that's coming and it's a day that's coming.
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The only one who can bring peace is Jesus Jesus Christ, Jesus the
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Messiah. Why the dramatic change of tone
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in verse 6? For impact, Isaiah wanted Judah
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to know that God's rule would not come before God purged sin.
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That's something that I see sometimes.
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Actually recently I saw the church actually ignore the fact
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that the wrath of God happens before Jesus reigns for that
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thousand year period when Jesus returns, he is first purging
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sin. So that really concerned me when
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I heard a church talk about that.
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When they said that, you know, they basically said, you know,
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we're they, you know, we're addressing the rapture actually.
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And they were saying, you know, we're going to meet Christ.
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And I think they kind of said like on earth and then, you
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know, about his reign. And they kind of went into this
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wonderful period of time when Jesus reigns on earth, but they
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completely ignored the wrath of God.
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And that just really concerned me when I heard that because,
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you know, if you don't have the fear of the Lord about knowing
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how much he does not like sin and that he is going to purge
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sin, what kind of, you know, what kind of a desire will you
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have to get rid of the sin in your life?
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If if you only hear love and grace and grace is not always
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clarified that grace is the power of the Holy Spirit to
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overcome sin. So then, you know, if you don't,
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if you only think about love and grace and you don't really know
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what grace is, because a lot of people don't know that grace is
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the power of the Holy Spirit to overcome it's other things as
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well. But it is the power of the Holy
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Spirit to overcome sin. And, and it is a free gift.
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It's a gift from God. So it it just like I get
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concerned about people who take that in, who absorb that
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information and don't know the truth, because I believe that
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those people will not be prepared for what will be coming
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in the future. And I think that leaders who do
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that are doing what it says in prophecy.
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They will be basically telling a scripture that itching ears.
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I think itching ears is the word that you can search that and
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find the scripture for it. But they are producing something
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that people want to hear, the good things, not the total
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truth, but the good part. They're giving people the good
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part. And, and it's just very, very
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concerning to me. Anyway, I'll go back.
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These sudden shifts in language or scenes occur throughout the
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book. What are superstitions and
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divination? The nations of the ancient Near
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East traded not only their goods and services but also their
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religious traditions in idolatry.
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The customs from foreign religions had polluted Judah
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worship of the Lord. How did materialism and
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militarism and impact Judah? It caused the people to become
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less dependent on God, on the Lord and more confident in their
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own resources. This led to arrogance and
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self-sufficiency, also known as pride, right?
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Their tendency towards idolatry, then, is not surprising, since
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idolatry is a little more than worshipping the works of 1's own
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hand. Why did Isaiah ask God to not
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forgive Judah? Genuine forgiveness must be
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preceded by admission of sin and a desire to change.
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That's pretty important. Pretty impactful statement.
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Genuine forgiveness must be preceded by admission of sin and
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a desire to change. So when we go to God, we have to
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admit we've sinned and we have to have a desire to change.
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Then we can get forgiveness. Isaiah saw no signs of
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repentance from the rampant sin throughout the land, so he asked
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God not to forgive his fellow Israelites so that they would be
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humbled. That's what God will do if we
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don't submit to Him, He will humble us so that we have that
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opportunity. Some people have to learn the
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hard way. Others people can learn from
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what's spoken, learn from history, and decide not to.
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I learned the hard way, so I'm not saying I was the one who
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learned the easy way. I learned the hard way too, and
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it's not fun doing it that way. It's so much better if you could
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just listen to the Word of God and react based on what the
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Bible tells us. But if you don't, you're going
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to have to go through what I went through, and you're going
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to have hardships come upon you until they get so bad that you
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seek God because you feel like you're rock bottom.
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So what is the day God has in store for all the proud and
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lofty? This is what Isaiah called the
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Day of the Lord, or simply that day.
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A day of decisive divine intervention in human history to
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create a right order, punishing evil and establishing good in
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the ancient world. The mark of a great king was
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thought to be his ability to win a war in a single day.
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Isaiah applied that idea here to God honoring the Lord as the
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greatest of all kings, who can decisively defeat all evil on
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any day he chooses. Why would God humble trees and
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mountains? Until our era of skyscrapers and
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high towers, nothing on earth was more prominent than a high
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mountain or a very large tree, depending on topography of
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region. Isaiah said that these symbols
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of greatness and endurance would be humbled, meaning possibly
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destroyed in that day when only the Lord would be exalted.
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And it's also, I think kind of a, a metaphor of things because
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a lot of times, like trees are representations of different
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types of people, different nations.
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And mountains are basically like they're either a literal
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mountain or they are symbolic of, of a spiritual or, you know,
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like on a yeah, I guess a spiritual or a stronghold or
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something like that. So anyway, that's the end of the
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questions and answers for chapter 2.
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Then we will get into chapter 3. But before we do, I need to
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pray. Dear God, please be with us as
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we read through this chapter 3 and let the Holy Spirit give us
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wisdom and insight and understanding of how we apply
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the knowledge of this and use it as wisdom so that we can change
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through the Holy Spirit, through the guiding of the Holy Spirit
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and submission to the Holy Spirit so that we can take your
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word and apply it to our own lives.
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And let us learn something from your words.
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We ask for this in Jesus name, Amen, judgment on Jerusalem and
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Judah. That's what it's titled.
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See now the Lord, the Lord Almighty is about to take from
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Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support all supplies of food
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and all supplies of water. The hero and the warrior, the
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judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the
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captain of 50 and the man of rank, the counselor, skilled
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Craftsman and clever enchanter. So this is saying that all
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supplies of food and all supplies of water are going to
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be affected for everyone. I will make mere youths their
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officials. Children will rule over them.
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I think the study Bible addresses this, so I'm not going
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to because I don't know. I'd be guessing people will
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oppose each other. Man against man, neighbor
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against neighbor. Now Jesus says something like
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this. He said, do not think I've come
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for peace, but I've come for division.
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And then he goes on to illustrate how divided even
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families will be. And it's over the name of Jesus.
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So again, this is like something that Isaiah saw and then Jesus
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saw. And like, I think this really
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has significance in the the end times.
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Like I think that a lot of what Isaiah's talking about had, you
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know, maybe a partial fulfillment during his time.
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Of course, it's it's talking to Jerusalem and Judah.
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It says that. So these are the people that are
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going to be in Jerusalem and Judah in that day.
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I believe. I believe that's what this is
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talking about and it maybe didn't mean in the seven
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hundreds BC, although they were captured by the Babylonians.
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And so that was 1 portion of this prophecy, but not the
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entire prophecy. And that's the thing that
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sometimes we apply the prophecies and say, oh, this is
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happening right now or something, but it doesn't have
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all of the elements of the prophet of what the prophet
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says. So I still think this is coming
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up in the in the future, OK, the young will rise up against the
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old, the nobody against the honored.
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So there's going to be a huge shake up.
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A man will seize one of his brothers in his father's house
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and say, you have a cloak. You be our leader, Take charge
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of this heap of runes. But in that day, he will cry
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out, I have no remedy. I have no food or clothing in my
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house. Do not make me the leader of the
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people. Jerusalem staggers.
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Judah is falling. Their words and deeds are
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against the Lord, defying His glorious presence.
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The look on their faces testifies against them.
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They parade their sin like Sodom.
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So we need to think about like Sodom, what happened at Sodom.
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Sodom was destroyed. And there was, there was a lot
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of like sexually sexual immorality that was going on in
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Sodom. And we actually have an English
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word that is derived from Sodom sodomy.
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So think about that. Think about what sodomy means.
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They prayed their sin like that and they do not hide it.
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Woe to them. And again, we are not too far
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from the month of June. And in the United States, the
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June month has been dedicated at some point.
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I don't know when it happened to Pride month.
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God hates pride, and it's very clear in the Bible that he hates
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pride and he hates the sinful acts that that celebratory month
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is exalting. So although this is written to
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Judah and Jerusalem, I don't know if that's happened.
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I'm sure that's maybe, maybe it's a global thing, I don't
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know. But Despite that, God doesn't
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change. God still doesn't like the
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things he didn't like before. He destroyed an entire city
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because of that. And here in the United States,
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we dedicate a month to that. That's really concerning and we
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need to rethink that and understand that if we persist in
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that, we can expect judgement from God because God will not
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let it go on forever. So like Isaiah says, woe to
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them. We need to wake up.
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They have brought disaster upon themselves.
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That's from Scripture. They have brought disaster upon
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themselves. So when we have disaster fall
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upon us, it shouldn't be a surprise.
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Tell the righteous, now I love this.
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OK, so after I just love that, you know, Isaiah is, he's just
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speaking truth. He's speaking what God has shown
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him. And he says tell the righteous
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it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of
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their deeds. So that's verse 10 in Isaiah
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chapter 3. So there is a reward for
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righteousness. There is a reward for submitting
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to God's will, even if it's something we don't want to do,
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say we know what God wants and we're going to do what God
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wants. Not maybe what we want what
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we're our initial inclination is, but we're going to we're
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going to essentially crucify that and we are going to let God
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let the Holy Spirit give us strength so that we don't
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continue in that persistent sin and therefore become righteous.
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The Holy Spirit is how we become how we change how we become
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different. If we don't receive the Holy
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Spirit, we can't change. We're going to be fighting a
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battle that's pretty hard and that's why people who haven't
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found Jesus have not found the the power to overcome sin.
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So if if we are truly sincere in recognizing, like it said
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earlier in this chapter, recognizing our sin, about
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forgiveness, if we recognize our sin and the Bible shows us what
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sin is. So if we don't know what sin is,
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then we have to read the Bible. When we read the Bible, it will
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convict us of our sin. It'll point out our sin to us.
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It's very uncomfortable. It may make you cry, may make
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you sob. A lot of people do that when
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they really are convicted by the word of God.
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That happened to me. So you you kind of like you blow
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off things because you think it's a man made rule or
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something. But then when you read it in the
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Bible and you realize this is what God says, that's when it
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hits you. And, and so when we realize that
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we are sinning and then we have a desire within us that we don't
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want to do it anymore. We want God to take over our
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lives, guide us. When we want that, when we
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sincerely want that, God will do that because he gave us free
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will and we're making that choice now.
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Along the way, even after we choose to do that, we will be
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tested. And that's not fun to go through
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testing. But I don't know.
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I don't know how often we get tested, but I certainly don't
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want to be tested anymore. I've had enough of it, but who
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knows how much more I'll get tested by.
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But anyway, it's, it's the Holy Spirit can change us and when we
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submit, when we surrender to God, when we say, not my way,
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but your way God, and let your Holy Spirit start guiding our
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life. So tell the righteous, it will
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be well with them for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.
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So that's comfort to the people. So this, when this disaster talk
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is talking, you know, it's being spoken to all of the people that
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are there. He's also making the exception.
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Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will
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enjoy the fruit of their deeds. Remember that woe to the wicked.
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Disaster is upon them. They will be paid back for what
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their hands have done. Youths oppress my people.
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Women rule over them. My people, your guides lead you
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astray. So even bad leaders are leading
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people astray because they're telling people things that are
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not the truth. They turn you from the path,
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from the truth. The Lord takes his place in
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court. Again.
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Here we go. God is a a man.
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God is a God of order and He just like a court, like He
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established. If you really look deeply into
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the laws that we have and where everything came from, it really
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came from God, at least the United States it did.
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He rises to judge the people. The Lord enters into judgement
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against the elders and leaders of His people.
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This is a good warning to the leaders of Jerusalem, of Judah.
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And also it could probably apply to all of us because again, God
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feels the same way. He doesn't have favoritism, so
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he's going to treat all equally. So elders and leaders, they're
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going to be judged. It is you who have ruined my
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vineyard. The plunder from the poor is in
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your houses. That makes me think about
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establishments who take money from people and use it for
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themselves as opposed for the good of others.
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And so that's kind of a word of warning there.
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What do you mean by crushing my people by grinding the faces of
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the poor, Declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
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The Lord says the women of Zion are haughty or proud, walking
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along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes,
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strutting along with swaying hips with ornaments jingling on
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their ankles. Therefore the Lord will bring
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sores on the heads of the women of Zion.
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The Lord will make their scalps bald.
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Now this is really concerning and I don't know if there has
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been a time when that has happened.
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Sores on the heads and bald baldness.
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Revelation chapter 16, verse 2 and also verse 11 talk about
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that. So I guess I could read that
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right now. But again, this is like in
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Revelation, this is the end times and like and so again,
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this supports the why I feel like or why I believe that this
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is future. So Revelation 16 verses 2:00 and
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11:00. So verse 2 says the first Angel
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went out and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly festering
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sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast
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and worshipped its image. So this is part of God's wrath.
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And these are the people who take the mark of the beast.
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There's no forgiveness for these people.
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It says if you take the mark of the beast, there's no
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forgiveness. So I believe it's because you
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are probably blaspheming the Holy Spirit.
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You're basically rejecting the Spirit of God and you are
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worshipping some other image. What that's going to be, I don't
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know. But there's something that
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whoever has the mark of the beast, the mark of the beast is
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something that supposedly is on the right hand or the forehead
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and you cannot buy or sell without it.
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So it sounds like it's going to be something physical.
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And yeah, it sounds, I don't know if it could be metaphorical
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where it could be in your thoughts and in your hands, like
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how you work and how you think. You know, that could be another
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thing. But it there's a, there's an
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Angel that goes out that warns everybody.
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Don't take the mark of the beast.
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Now, an Angel could be a literal Angel, which I do think it is,
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but it could also be a messenger.
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So it could be some messenger of some kind who's saying don't do
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this or you will, you know, you know, not have eternity with
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God. Basically they give the message
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of of salvation. So people will not be without
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warning. And who knows this, this could
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be your warning or somebody else talking about the mark of the
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beast and don't taking it. That could be your warning.
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But whatever it is, whenever it comes out, because it isn't here
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yet, don't take it. Even if you have to die, don't
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take it because there is no forgiveness.
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Everything else you can be forgiven of except for blasphemy
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of the Holy Spirit. And I guess when you take this,
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you're actually doing blasphemy of the Holy Spirit because
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that's the one unforgivable sin. And so anyway, but it's the
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people. Now this just talks about the
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people. Have festering sores broke out
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on the people who have the mark of the beast?
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So whatever that is, it's not going to be pretty when it
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happens. So then verse 11, it says it
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talks about the people. The fifth, Well, I'll read verse
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10 first. The 5th Angel poured out his
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bowl on the throne of the beast, and its Kingdom was plunged Into
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Darkness. People gnawed their tongues in
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agony and curse God of heaven because why did they?
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Why were they so angry at God, their pains and their sores, but
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they refused to repent of what they had done.
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They love their sins so much. They're not going to change.
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They don't want to change. They want to keep their sin.
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That's another warning. Don't hang on to sin because if
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you do, that's, you know, like the evil 1, he seeks to kill and
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destroy. So he tempts people to lead them
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into sin, not for their so they get more enjoyment out of life.
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That's a lie. What he's doing is he's luring
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them kind of like, you know, throwing out some bait for a
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fish and he's sitting that bait out for everybody looking for
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what is your temptation? What are you going to fall into
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sin over putting it in front of you?
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Then when you fall and latch onto it, it only makes you
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desire it more. If you ever think about that,
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like any kind of sin that you fall into, once you start it,
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you just like crave it more. So that's again, that's just
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like hooks you. It's like an addiction and it
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just hooks you. And what it's going to do is it
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destroy you unless you break that.
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And the only way you can break that is by the Holy Spirit by
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receiving the Holy Spirit from God, from Jesus.
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Jesus receives it from the Father and sends it to whomever
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he chooses. So again, Jesus is the
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gatekeeper on that. If you don't call on the name of
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Jesus, you don't receive the Holy Spirit because Jesus
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controls that. If he doesn't know you, he
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doesn't know your will, your free will, that you want to
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follow the Lord, that you reject sin.
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If he doesn't see that from you, from us, you know, he won't give
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us the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit only goes to
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those who are willing to obey God.
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And God knows our heart. We might be able to lie to other
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people and say, yeah, we'll, we'll obey because we want the
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power. But God won't do that.
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God, you know, decides who he's going to give the Holy Spirit to
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when he sees our heart, when he sees our true heart, our true
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desires. And if he doesn't see that we
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are repentant. We're not going to receive the
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Holy Spirit when he knows if we're submitted to him or if
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we're not. Like we can fool other people,
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but we can't fool God. All right, then continuing on in
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that day, the Lord will snatch away their finery.
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The Bengals and headbands and Crescent necklaces.
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I just recently when I was reading that, I thought Crescent
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necklaces. That's really, I mean, that
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could be like superstitious kind of things.
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It could be astrology things. And then there are some nations
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that have crescents on their flags too.
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And so I don't know if there is an alliance to that.
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I don't know it just what are Crescent necklaces?
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Maybe it'll tell us in here. The earrings and bracelets and
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veils, the headdresses and anklets and sashes, the perfume
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bottles and charms, the signet rings and nose rings, the fine
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robes and capes and cloaks, the purses and mirrors and the linen
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garments and tiaras and shells. So God's going to take away all
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that instead of fragrance, there will be a stench instead of a
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sash, a rope instead of a well dressed hair, baldness instead
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of fine clothing, sackcloth instead of beauty branding.
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Oh my gosh, that's kind of weird when you think of a branding,
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you know, like when you sear something on your head or on a,
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you know, an animal, if it's branded, it's, you know, there's
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a, a, a marking of possession. So these are people who have
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given over themselves to the beast, if you want to call it
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that. That's the, that's not a literal
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thing. It's it's, well, it's probably
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like a spiritual beast, but it's representative of human beings
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are going to be a part of this thing, but it's going to be some
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governing authority. And it's metaphorically called
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the beast, but it's something that people will pledge
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allegiance to some governmental type thing.
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And this mark, mark of the beast, like I didn't even think
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about Isaiah actually talking about the mark of the beast.
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But now when I'm reading this, I'm like branding, that's like a
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mark of a beast. Like if it's on your head, your
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forehead or your hand, that's like a mark, you're branded by
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it. And so and it's like anybody who
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has just like we read in Revelation, anybody who has this
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mark, they're going to have the sores break out.
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So this matches up. This is amazing right now.
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Like seriously, I'm just now catching this part of it, how
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the mark of the beast is actually indicated here.
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And, and so if people, if, yeah, if people take it, it's, it's a
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warning right here. Do not take it because.
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And if you, if you, we or anybody are around, I, I don't
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know at what point Jesus will return to gather his those who
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have prepared themselves because they are not subject to wrath.
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I know this is part of the wrath.
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So I have a feeling that the people who have prepared
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themselves in advance will not be around to see this because it
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says that if we, that we are not subject to wrath.
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And this is like the bowl judgments, these, this is the
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wrath of God, the bowls of wrath.
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So, but the people who are here in that day, they will see that
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the ones that take the mark are going to have these sores break
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out on them. It's apparently going to called
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cause baldness and they're not going to have beauty.
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They're going to have this baldness and they're going to be
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marked whatever this marking is. So another word of warning, your
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men will fall by sword, your warriors in battle, the gates of
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Zion will lament and mourn. Destitute.
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She will sit on the ground. So that's the end of Chapter 3.
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Not such an uplifting one, but a good one for warnings at least.
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So I will read through the questions and answers for
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Chapter 3, and then we'll conclude.
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We'll stop there. So what was Isaiah predicting in
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parts of Judah? This prophecy was beginning to
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come true in Isaiah's lifetime, but it's real fulfillment would
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come with Babylon's invasion and subsequent exile of the nation's
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leaders in 586 BC. Well, part of it, I think.
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I think there's more to it, especially when we've like just
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seen that there's a mark of the beast that's talked about here.
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What did having having child rulers indicate?
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That Jewish society was in chaos and upheaval.
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In a culture in which men dominated the power structures,
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having a child or woman as a ruler was a sign of a
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devastated, ruined country. Isaiah's prediction may have
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also pointed to the future carnage of war.
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If most of the men were killed in battle, only children and
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women would be left to rule. Why would a cloak make someone a
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leader? This graphic image underscores
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the devastation Isaiah predicted for Judah.
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Though men didn't normally need to be pressed into leadership,
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Isaiah seemed to be claiming that the nation would become so
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impoverished that anyone left with a cloak would be considered
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privileged and thus a candidate for leadership.
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How did the how did the look on their faces testify against
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them? The reference to Sodom indicates
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that, like the Sodomites, the people of Judah made no effort
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to conceal their sin. Their faces reflected sins such
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as greed, lust, and envy. But God would punish His people
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by throwing them into utter confusion without any able
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leaders in that chaos, their faces would reflect fear,
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distress and sorrow. And as I'm reading that, I'm
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also thinking about like, because of like sodomy and pride
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month and all that. And I'm thinking just like, like
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the the makeup that goes into all of that, like their faces
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reflect it and it's not hidden anymore.
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Like men dressing like women and stuff like that.
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Like, that's another example of how the look on their faces
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would testify against them. How were the leaders crushing
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God's people and grinding the faces of the poor?
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This was done through a variety of exploitations, manipulating
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prices through dishonest weights and measures, coveting and
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defrauding others of their property, accepting bribes,
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lending to the poor at high interest rates and then
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foreclosing on their properties, and so on.
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Why was God's? Why was God angry with the women
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of Zion? Most commentators believe Isaiah
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was speaking to a literal upper class of women.
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Some however, think that the term women of Zion is a
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personification of a class of people, Jerusalem's self
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indulgent, rich or the nation as a whole who cared little for
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anything but their own comfort. Either way, Isaiah's
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descriptions, outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes
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were symptoms of their self-centered lives and inward
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moral decay. How would Judah be punished
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through military defeat? The stench, rope baldness and
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branding describe the treatment of people defeated in war and
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forced into foreign captivity. Reports of this squalor, our
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hordship hardships of modern WARF refugees offer some
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analogies. And that's the end of chapter 3.
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So come back next time for chapter 4.
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Hopefully there will be some something up there is something
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more uplifting. So anyway, it's good to be in
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the Word of God every day because it makes us think about
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God and examine our lives, and that's really important,
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especially now.