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683. Bible Study: Hosea 5 (Israel's Rebellion against God and a History Lesson about Palestine and Israel) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 5 of Posea Dear God, please be with us as we read
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  through this. Have the Holy Spirit give us
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  revelation and insight and application to our own lives.
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  We ask for this in Jesus name. So chapter 5, I did read this
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  and it's not that long. We'll probably go through it
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  fairly quickly. I will read through it then I
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  will go through the questions and answers.
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  And after reading it the first time, I had lots of questions.
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  So I did additional research and we'll get into some history
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  after that. So let's get started.
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  Judgement against Israel. Hear this, you priest.
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  Pay attention. You Israelites listen, Royal
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  house, this judgement is against you.
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  You have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.
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  The rebels are knee deep in slaughter.
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  I will discipline all of them. I know all about Ephraim.
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  OK? That's where it started for me.
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  I know all about Ephraim. And I was like, what about
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  Ephraim? That's where we get into the
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  history. We'll do that later.
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  Israel is not hidden from me. Ephraim, you have now turned to
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  prostitution. Israel is corrupt.
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  Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God.
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  So that's really interesting. Their deeds do not permit them
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  to return to God. I'm wondering if that's
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  spiritual. That's verse 4A.
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  Spirit of prostitution is in their heart.
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  They do not acknowledge the Lord.
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  So I do think that there is a spiritual either we have the
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  Holy Spirit or we are susceptible to evil spiritual
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  influence or idolatrous influence.
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  And in our lives we're in rebellion to God until we
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  surrender to Him. That's what the Bible tells us.
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  So Israel's arrogance testifies against them.
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  The Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble in their Soon Judah also
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  stumbles with them. So I will read that part of the
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  question and answer just to clarify this right now.
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  Why single out Ephraim for punishment when all Israel had
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  sinned? Ephraim sin was particularly
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  terrible because they conspired with Syria to overthrow Judah in
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  a war that led to the devastation of both Israel and
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  Judah. By consorting in this alliance
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  with a foreign Pagan power, Ephraim betrayed its birthright
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  and forsook its special relationship with the Lord.
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  I think that's pretty significant, and that's what I
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  get into with the history that I looked up and I will read later.
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  We'll go back to Scripture. Right now.
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  When they go with their flocks and herds to seek the Lord, they
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  will not find him. He has withdrawn himself from
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  them. They are unfaithful to the Lord.
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  They give birth to illegitimate children.
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  So when I said He has withdrawn himself from them, I think
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  that's a consequence of our decisions, like if we don't love
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  God back, if we don't submit to him, if we reject him, he
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  doesn't force it. And that's, you know, that's
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  what I read into this. OK, when they celebrate their
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  new moon feast, he will devour their fields, sound the trumpet
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  in Gibeah, the horn in Rama, raise the battle cry in Beth
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  Avon, lead on Benjamin Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of
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  reckoning. So listened.
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  I mean like on the day of reckoning.
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  Is this a one time or is this at the end?
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  On the day of reckoning, it could be a, an early judgement
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  or it could be like end times. I wonder.
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  I mean, I know for sure they're talking about the judgement when
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  they are captured by Assyria. But I don't know if this also
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  implies a further date. You know, sometimes there's a
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  foreshadowing of future events in these.
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  So it could be both. It could be both, you know, at
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  this moment and then in the future too.
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  I'm not sure. I proclaim what is certain,
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  Judah's leader. Leaders are like those who move
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  boundary stones. I will pour out my wrath on them
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  like a flood of water. Ephraim is oppressed, trampled
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  in judgement, intent on pursuing idols.
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  I am like a moth to Ephraim. Now that's something that's
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  interesting. The moth, which I really didn't
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  look into, but I should look into that because like a moth I
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  I don't know if it really covers that in the study Bible, like
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  wrought to the people of Judah when Ephraim, I guess a moth
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  does eat like clothes. So maybe that's it, like
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  destruction when Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his sores.
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  Then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king for
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  help. So when I read this, that's why
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  I questioned it. I'm like, what happened here?
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  But he is not able to cure you, not able to heal your sores.
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  For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, like a great lion to
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  Judah. I will tear them to pieces and
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  go away. I will carry them off with no
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  one to rescue them. Then I will return to my lair
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  until they have borne their guilt and seek my face.
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  So God knows that eventually they will turn to him.
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  It says in their misery, they will earnestly seek me.
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  So that's really what happens to a lot of us.
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  We may reject God, reject God, reject God and just, you know,
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  not even like in a, in a way that we openly do that not like
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  saying we don't want you God, but just saying it by our
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  actions, like actions are stronger than our words.
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  So if we are disobedient to God's commands, we are
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  ultimately rejecting him. We are just saying no, God, I
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  don't want that. I don't want that in my life.
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  I want to do what I want to do. And that's rebellion to God.
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  And that's what he's talking about with the people of Ephraim
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  and Judah. I mean, like all of Israel, he's
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  talking about that and that applies to all of us because if
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  we are not surrendered or submitted to God and doing God's
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  will, we are currently in rebellion.
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  If that's our situation, and many of us don't know that
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  didn't like, I didn't realize that until after reading the
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  Bible. Then I understood that I was in
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  rebellion to God and I still profess the name of godfather
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  and son. You know, I still, I had, I
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  called myself a Christian. I that's what is so concerning
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  about reading the Bible is that just because you may go to
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  church, you may say you believe, doesn't mean that you were in a
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  good relationship with God. And it's a personal
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  relationship. And some of the things that we
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  do unknowingly are, I think we're just deceived by the
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  enemy. We're in the spiritual warfare
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  and the enemy of God seeks to destroy us.
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  And he does it in a very crafty way.
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  He's very manipulative because he does, he draws us in with
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  something that appeals to us. But what it does is it's against
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  God and then it will eventually destroy us.
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  And if we are unaware of our enemy, we can't fight it off and
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  on our own. We can't fight it off.
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  That's why we need God. We need the Holy Spirit in order
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  to battle a spiritual warfare against us because the enemy is
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  continually seeking people to destroy them.
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  And he doesn't come like this horrible destructive force where
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  everybody would say, I don't want any of that.
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  He comes in with very appealing things in a variety of ways,
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  something that, you know, especially what they talk about
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  in here is like seducing ways like prostitution and things
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  like that. Like think about all the the the
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  images that you know, we have today, like the things the the
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  way people operate on social media in a very lustful way that
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  will draw the attention. Well, that's not is that of God.
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  I mean, you can look at things after you've have discernment
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  and see right through them when you're seeing what spirit is
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  active in a person. If a person is very like sensual
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  and alluring and all that stuff in there, you know, to everyone
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  out in the world. I mean, that is not a spirit of
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  God because that is not the way God is.
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  That's that's not that doesn't represent holiness.
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  It doesn't also mean that God created, you know, the sensual
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  sexual side of everything for a husband and wife relationship.
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  Like God is not against that, but he wants it in a, an
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  intimate relationship between one man, one woman.
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  And ultimately that symbolically indicates the type of
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  relationship that God wants with us, like a very intimate
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  relationship, a very close intimate personal relationship
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  with us, where we talk to him, we go to him with everything.
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  We realize that he is the provider, even if we are married
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  then and we think that our spouse contributes to, you know,
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  our our well-being. Ultimately it's God, a God
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  enabled that person, that spouse or ourselves, whatever to do
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  what we do. So ultimately, all the good
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  comes from God. And we often don't realize that
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  pride gets in the way and we start thinking we did it, but we
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  didn't do it. God did it for us.
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  And eventually when you read the Bible, you realize that that
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  it's not us, it is from God. Anyway, kind of went on a
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  tangent there. So I'm going to go through the
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  questions and answers and then I'll get into some of the
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  history that kind of brought came to mind as I read through
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  this. So a few, first of all, before I
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  get into the questions, a few things that stood out was like
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  this spiritual part, the spirit of prostitution is in their
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  heart. Their deeds do not permit them
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  to return to their God. There's something spiritual that
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  we don't really fully understand.
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  And I don't know that God really wants us to understand the
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  workings of the spiritual realm, but he points those things out
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  through prophets that you know, we are there.
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  It's very clear that we are in a spiritual battle battle when you
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  read through Scripture and let's see what else did I I underlined
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  was then I will OK, so after God, you know, allows all this
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  destruction for them, then I will return to my lair until
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  they have borne their guilt and seek my face in their misery.
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  They will earnestly seek me. And so guilt comes upon a person
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  because God has written in our hearts He is in internally as
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  his as one that He has created something he puts inside of us
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  that we eventually at some point in our life question or maybe
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  start to seek Him. And often that happens when we
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  get to a very difficult or terrible situation in our life.
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  That's often when people turn to the Lord and we can see that
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  through Scripture as well. And so he's patient and allows
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  people on their own path to get there.
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  But there is a time where this is just going to God has an
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  appointed time when Jesus is going to return.
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  And at that time it says it'll come upon us like a thief in the
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  night, like we're not going to know exactly when that's going
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  to happen. And so it talks about those who
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  are prepared. You know, blessed are those who
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  are prepared and who can stand when Jesus returns.
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  When we are not in rebellion, like if we are in rebellion,
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  when Jesus returns, we will go through, we will be subject to
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  God's wrath. If we are not in rebellion, we
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  will be gathered to Him and protected during God's wrath.
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  So there is a personal benefit and we shouldn't seek it for
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  that. But if that's what it takes to
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  start the relationship with God, you know it has to start
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  somewhere, right? But the point is, there's a lot
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  of weird stuff happening in the world, and whether this is a
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  foreshadowing of something that will happen years later, we
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  don't know. But I just personally don't
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  think it's a good time to be a risk taker.
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  I don't want to be a risk taker with my eternity.
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  It's important enough to me that everything here on earth can,
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  you know, it's not as important as eternity for me.
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  And I've gotten to that point. It took me a long time.
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  And that's the other reason why I feel kind of urgent to say
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  this to people because I know my own path, my own journey, my own
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  walk to true faith took a long time.
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  It didn't happen overnight and it's still growing and
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  continuing. And so I look at that some
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  people have these radical changes.
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  I did not. It was a gradual thing for me.
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  And so then I get concerned about other people.
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  I'm like, what if it takes them a really long time to come to a
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  true relationship with God? Where we seek God for guidance
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  every single day we're in God's word every single day because it
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  says that we must remain connected to the vine in a
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  symbolic sense and the vine is Jesus and Jesus is the the Bible
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  is the living word. So that's how we stay connected
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  and also through prayer, daily prayer, daily conversations with
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  God, it says, you know, pray without ceasing.
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  We should be in communication with God all day long, you know,
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  just like we would a loved one that we stay in contact with.
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  That's what we should be doing with God.
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  And if we're not doing that, we don't have a relationship with
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  God. Or maybe we have a relationship
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  with God, but it's a distant one.
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  And I don't want to be that distant one that when Jesus
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  returns, he says depart from me. I never knew you.
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  Like you can't keep a relationship with someone if you
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  never talked to them. And that's what God is seeking
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  from us. Like he loves us, He keeps
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  pursuing us, but he gives us free will so we don't have to
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  accept his love and we can stay in our rebellion.
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  But he warns us, the Bible warns us, if you stay in your
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  rebellion, it's going to be pretty bad for you.
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  But turn to God and he has all of this beautiful inheritance of
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  in his Kingdom that he has planned and he tries to reach
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  people, all of us, and let us know that this is what is in the
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  future for us. But we often are blindsided by
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  the immediate alluring deception of his enemy that doesn't want
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  us to inherit it, inherit this. And it's like the enemy wants us
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  to, you know, think about Yolo. You only live once and think
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  about let's, you know, like in the Greek thing, seize the day
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  like, you know, take this, you know, like carpe diem.
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  I mean, those are enemy things where it's just like, you know,
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  live for the day and, and just like do everything that you want
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  to do. It's very like self seeking.
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  But no, the Bible tells us think about eternity.
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  Yes, live every day to the fullest and don't worry about
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  tomorrow. Tomorrow will take care of
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  itself. Put our trust in God.
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  And yes, we should live fully every single day, but we
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  shouldn't live recklessly. We shouldn't live in a way that
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  God says this is not good for you.
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  This is not what I want you to do.
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  So if our lives are living in that way, then we are in a very
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  risky position in regards to our eternity and it's time to get
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  serious about eternity. OK, let's go back to questions
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  and answers. What happened at Mizpah and
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  Tabor? The Israelites bowed down to
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  false gods and were knee deep in slaughter.
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  These centers of idolatry were condemned as places that
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  ensnared the people like a wild animal ensnares its prey and LED
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  them into great apostasy. Does God ever hide from us?
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  Our sinful deeds and our arrogance become like a wall
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  separating us from God. OK, so that's what the enemy
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  does. The enemy like, puts sinful
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  things in front of us so that we latch onto that and also tells
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  us to elevate ourselves, like have arrogance, have pride.
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  The things that are against God stress pride.
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  Pride in all these different ways, like our world, you know,
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  puts pride in a very good light. But the Bible talks about pride
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  is one of the things that God hates.
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  He hates haughty eyes, the proud look.
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  That is not what, that is not a characteristic or a character
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  trait that God says is good. Pride is not good.
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  In fact, pride separates us from God.
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  Pride is all about me, me, me. And it's not a selfless, a self,
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  you know, like towards God, a loving.
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  It's not a loving thing at all. It's all about selfishness
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  rather than selflessness. And it doesn't mean that you
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  don't care for yourself. Of course we care for ourselves
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  because we are created by God. We want to do the best we can
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  with what God gave us and take care of ourselves and be healthy
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  and you know, take care of everything that God's given us
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  to. As the Bible calls steward to
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  take care of all the things that we have, all of our possessions
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  that we have borrowed from God, We should take care of that.
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  And our we are considered a temple of the Lord.
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  Like our bodies, the Holy Spirit resides within us when we
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  receive the Holy Spirit. So we need to take care of our
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  bodies too. So it's not to leave ourselves
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  on a. Unkempt.
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  It's not that, but it's that we don't just think about
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  everything in terms of ourselves.
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  Like yes, we take care of ourselves, but that's our not
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  our primary focus. We're thinking about other
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  people. That's what that's the God
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  character is about others, everything about others, not
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  about our self. And so our sinful deeds and our
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  arrogance are our selfishness, our pride.
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  They come like a wall separating us from God.
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  Until we repent of such sinful behavior, behaviors and
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  attitudes, fellowship with God is impossible.
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  So this is the part where if we are in sin and we are pride, it
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  we are prideful, that means we don't have a relationship with
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  God. Even if we say we believe in
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  Him, we don't have a relationship with him.
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  And it says fellowship with God is impossible.
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  So we don't, we don't have a relationship.
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  Think about that in human terms, like with another person.
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  If they are all about themselves and they do things that you
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  don't like all the time, do you really like them?
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  Do you really enjoy being with them?
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  Do you have a good relationship with that person?
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  If they're all about themselves and they do all these sorts of
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  things that you've told them you don't like but they keep doing
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  it over and over, what kind of a relationship do you have?
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  I would say none. Not much of one anyway.
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  That would be us with God when we sin and when we are prideful.
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  But when we seek God with repentant hearts, we will find
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  him. He doesn't stay away from us
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  when we have repentance. We say we don't want to do that
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  anymore. Like, yes, I recognize I did
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  that, but I don't want it anymore.
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  God, you know, help me change. Please send me the Holy Spirit.
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  That's the whole, that's that's the power to overcome.
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  That's what grace is. Grace is the Holy Spirit, the
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  power of God coming into our lives.
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  So who were these illegitimate children?
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  Judah and Israel had been called God's beloved children, so to
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  call them illegitimate was to severely condemn them.
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  Hosea was continuing the metaphor of marital infidelity
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  to describe the nation's apostasy.
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  So then there's this phrase that talks about sound.
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  The trumpet and gibeah, the horn and Rhema raise the battle cry,
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  and Beth Avon lead on Benjamin. Ephraim will be laid to rest on
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  waste on the day of reckoning. So where were these places?
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  This verse describes an invasion of the territory of Benjamin
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  from the South. As these cities lay in sequence
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  on a straight line due north of Jerusalem, so the advancement
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  would have been on the main mountain Rd. from Jerusalem into
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  Ephraim. Beth Avon is another name
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  probably derogatory for Bethel. So Beth Avon means the House of
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  wickedness, and it's a derogatory name for Bethel,
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  which means the House of God. So what was meant by moving
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  boundary stones? Judah's legal system, like
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  Israel's, had become thoroughly corrupt.
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  Hosea accused the leaders of cheating others and stealing
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  their land by changing the boundary lines.
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  Their actions would have been like someone today altering A
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  deed or purchase agreement in order to get more property.
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  But Hosea's implications were even broader.
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  These leaders were ignoring their civic responsibilities and
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  forgetting their ultimate accountability to God.
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  When did Ephraim turn to Assyria?
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  Ephraim was a dominant tribe in the northern Kingdom of Israel
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  that one of the 10 tribes in the northern Kingdom called Israel
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  and their capital was Samaria and it's name was often used to
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  describe the whole nation. When Pool, king of Assyria
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  invaded Israel, King Menahem sought to pay him off with a
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  tribute. You can find that in Second
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  Kings chapter 15 verses 19 through 20.
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  In a sense, Menahem brought protection from the very nation
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  that was invading Israel, and although Assyria withdrew
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  temporarily, Israel was left with a horrendous tax burden.
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  So that's what the study Bible gives us for the for this part.
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  Now I'm going to get into the historical part and the part
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  that I was questioning. And so I had to look up certain
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  things. So I'm going to read some things
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  to you that I found that are interesting.
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  So I wanted to find out about Ephraim.
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  So I looked up that in the Bible the alliance between Syria, also
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  known as Aram, and Ephraim, the northern Kingdom of Israel
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  against Judah occurred in the 8th century BCE, specifically
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  during the reign of King Ahaz of Judah.
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  This event is known as the Siro Ephraimite War.
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  The conflict is detailed in Second Kings chapter 16, Second
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  Chronicles chapter 28, and Isaiah chapters 7 through 8.
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  The war's primary cause was the rising power of the Assyrian
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  Empire. Syria and Israel, seeking to
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  resist Assyrian domination, formed an alliance to try to
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  force and tried to force Judah to join them.
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  When A has refused, they invaded Judah, attempting to replace him
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  with the more amenable ruler. The conflict is significant
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  because it also highlights the prophetic role of Isaiah, who
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  advised A has to trust in God rather than seeking foreign
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  alliances. However, A has ultimately turned
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  to Assyria for help setting the stage for future Assyrian
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  intervention mention in the region.
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  So God is he, gosh, he warns about this.
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  And and that was something that, you know, I just wanted a little
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  bit more detail. Then I after that part, I
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  started thinking, OK, so you know, there's these two
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  kingdoms, there's the 10 tribes in the north and then there's
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  Judah and both of them get taken off into captivity.
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  And so now who is modern day Israel?
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  And Israel became a state in 1948.
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  So I looked that up and I wanted to, and this was just like a
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  Google search, OK, So I wanted to see like what are the things
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  that led to the creation of Israel on May 14th, 1948.
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  And so this is what I found. I will read this to you.
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  The creation of the modern state of Israel on May 14th 1948 was
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  the culmination of several historical events and movement.
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  Key factors that led to the establishment of Israel include
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  Zionist movement beginning in the 19th century.
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  This movement advocated for the re establishment of a Jewish
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  homeland in Palestine which had a historical and religious
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  significance for Jews. We're going to have to get into
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  the name Palestine in a moment because that's really important,
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  Important also Balfour Declaration.
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  So this is another moment. Balfour Declaration.
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  In 1917, the British government issued this declaration
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  expressing support for the creation of a national home for
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  the Jewish people in Palestine. British Mandate after World War
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  One, Britain was granted control of Palestine by the League of
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  Nations and was tasked with implementing the Balfour
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  Declaration. The Holocaust, The horrific
• 28:43
  genocide of the Jews during World War 2, created widespread
• 28:47
  international sympathy for the creation of a Jewish state to
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  address the issue of Jewish homelessness and provide refuge.
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  UN Partition Plan In 1947, the United Nations passed Resolution
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  181, which recommended the partition of Palestine into
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  separate Arab and Jewish states, with Jerusalem to be under
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  international administration. Declaration of Independence and
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  the 1948 War In accordance with the UN resolution and upon the
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  termination of the British Mandate, David Ben Gurion
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  declared the establishment of the State of Israel on May 14th,
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  1948. This declaration triggered the
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  1948 Arab Israeli War, where Israel successfully defended
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  itself against invading Arab armies.
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  In essence, a confluence of historical movements,
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  international political decisions and event like like
• 29:57
  the Holocaust created the circumstances leading to the
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  establishment of Israel as a nation.
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  So there's a lot there to absorb, a lot of details.
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  And I want to talk about the name of Palestine 1st, and then
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  we'll get into more of the details of things.
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  So the name of Palestine, the name Palestine has a complex
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  history rooted in ancient times and evolving through various
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  empires and administrations. It originates from the
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  Philistines, an ancient people who inhabited the coastal region
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  of the of the Levant. The Romans later adopted the
• 30:44
  name Palestina to designate the region, and it continued to be
• 30:50
  used, albeit informally, after the Roman Empires fall.
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  The name was revived officially with the British Mandate for
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  Palestine after World War One. Here's a more detailed
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  breakdown. Ancient origins.
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  The term Palestine is derived from Philistia, the name given
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  to the coastal region occupied by the Philistines, a group of
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  people who migrated from the Aegean Sea region.
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  If you remember these people, biblical history, these people
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  were the ones that God wanted to wipe out.
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  And they were also the giants. So they were referred to as
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  giants. This is when you had the story
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  of David and Goliath, actually, not sure about that.
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  Take that back, OK, Samson and Delilah and Delilah.
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  So he took a wife from this area.
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  And this is like, this is currently Gaza is what we're
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  talking about, the land there. And that was a land that if you
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  look, they, the Philistines were always at war with the Jews and
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  the, the Israelites, I should say.
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  And they, God had something against them because they were
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  idolatrous. And he told the Israelites never
• 32:19
  to interact with them, never to join with them.
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  They were basically forbidden. So it's really interesting that
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  the British mandate that the British people took the name of
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  the Israel's enemy and made that, you know, designated that
• 32:38
  land with that name instead of the land that God gave to the
• 32:46
  Israelites going all the way back to what was it Abraham?
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  No, you know Moses when he told them this is these are the
• 32:55
  boundaries of the land. So that was included like this
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  is God the Creator. So God the Creator said Israel,
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  this is your land and gave the boundaries of that which
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  includes this area of Philistine, which is called
• 33:10
  Palestine. And the Philistines were the
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  ones who were at war with the Israelites throughout all the
• 33:15
  Bible history, and they did terrible things to him, and they
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  were evil. And Israel never quite cleaned
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  out that group of people. Every time it seemed like they
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  always left some remnant. And then I think about what
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  happened in Gaza today, and it's like, there's a spirit.
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  It's not maybe the people, but there's a spirit that hasn't
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  gone away that just keeps fighting.
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  Israel does not want Israel to have that land because it's a
• 33:48
  spirit against God ultimately, and it's seeking to destroy the
• 33:54
  chosen people. God did choose Israel and told
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  Israel, this is your land. And so this spirit is still, you
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  know, alive. It hasn't gone away.
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  There isn't there hasn't been final judgement.
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  So the spirit still is there and it's still coming against the
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  Israelites and it's still being brought up today.
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  I mean, when we talk about the Palestinians, I mean, if you,
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  it's not a good thing to be called Palestine.
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  So because of who they were and because they were an enemy of
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  God. So I wouldn't want to be called
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  a Palestinian because it's an it's in the Bible, it's an enemy
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  of God. So it's kind of very derogatory
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  to give that to the Israelites when that was not what God said
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  to them. So we go back to the earliest
• 34:50
  record, which is God and what was told to us in the Bible.
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  So the Byzantine period. During the Byzantine period, the
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  region was further divided into Palestia Prima, Palestinia
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  Sukhanda and Palestinia Solaratus.
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  In the Islamic period after the Muslim context conquest, the
• 35:09
  name Philistine, a cognate of Palestine, was used to refer to
• 35:15
  the region, particularly within the military district Crusades.
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  The name Palestine remained in use informally as a geographical
• 35:23
  designation during the Crusades and beyond.
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  British Mandate. The name Palestine was
• 35:29
  officially revived as the name for the British Mandate,
• 35:32
  encompassing a territory that include present day Israel and
• 35:37
  the West Bank, as well as the territory east of the Jordan
• 35:41
  River which is now Jordan. Modern usage, the name Palestine
• 35:45
  continues to be used to refer to the region, often in the context
• 35:50
  of the ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict and the
• 35:53
  aspirations for a Palestine state.
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  Well, if we acknowledge a Palestine state in today, 2025,
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  we would be directly opposing God.
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  If you look at where the name came from the Philistines.
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  Search the Bible for the Philistines and see what God has
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  to say about the Philistines. Do we want that battle with God?
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  So we need to look at the Bible because it's my people.
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  What is it? My people are destroyed from a
• 36:27
  lack of knowledge. If we don't know what's in the
• 36:29
  Bible, sudden destruction will come upon.
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  So with all of this Israel Palestine stuff that's going on
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  today in 2025, it's it's very biblical and it's something that
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  we need to be aware of and read the Bible.
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  Look at what it says. And it also says those who bless
• 36:52
  Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will be cursed.
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  Do you want to bring cursings on yourself?
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  If you are aligning with the Palestinian movement, you're
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  bringing cursing curses onto yourself according to the Bible.
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  So we do, and it's the Bible. Also, if you look at this
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  chapter that we just read, the Bible clearly shows that Israel
• 37:16
  is not obedient to God. It never says that Israel's
• 37:20
  perfect. It just says that God chose
• 37:23
  them. Of all the people, none of us
• 37:25
  are perfect. And that's again, we don't need
• 37:29
  to judge other people, but we need to look at what God says
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  about everything. And anyway, I think I've said
• 37:41
  what I needed to say with that. Now I'm going to go back to more
• 37:44
  history. So again, more study of history.
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  I wanted to find out about the Arab Israeli War and what that
• 37:52
  was all about. So the Arab Israeli War of 1948,
• 37:58
  the Arab Israeli War of 1948 broke out when 5 Arab nations
• 38:04
  invaded territory in the former Pence Palestinian Mandate
• 38:08
  immediately following the announcement of the independence
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  of the State of Israel on May 14th, 1948.
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  This is really interesting. So all of a sudden a war breaks
• 38:19
  out with five nations invading right after Israel gets their
• 38:26
  independence state. Now that is spiritual again.
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  The enemy does not want God's chosen to have the land that God
• 38:37
  said was theirs. And that battle goes on today.
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  And Jesus said it will be wars and rumors of wars continuing
• 38:44
  until the end. Until he returns, there's going
• 38:47
  to be a constant fighting over this land.
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  Going back to the history part, in 1947 and again on May 14th,
• 38:55
  1948, the United States had offered a de facto recognition
• 39:00
  of the Israeli Provisional Government.
• 39:02
  But during the war, the United States maintained an arms
• 39:05
  embargo against belligerents. On November 29th, 1947, the
• 39:12
  United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 181, also
• 39:17
  known as the Partition Resolution, that would divide
• 39:21
  Great Britain's former Palestinian mandate into Jewish
• 39:26
  and Arab states in May 1948. Under the resolution, the area
• 39:32
  of religious significance surrounding Jerusalem would
• 39:35
  remain under international control administered by the
• 39:39
  United Nations. The Palestinian Arabs refused to
• 39:44
  recognize this arrangement, which they regarded as favorable
• 39:48
  to the Jews and unfair to the Arab population that would
• 39:51
  remain in Jewish territory under the Partition. the United States
• 39:55
  sought a middle way by supporting the United Nations
• 39:58
  resolution but also encouraging negotiations between Arabs and
• 40:03
  Jews in the Middle East. the United Nations resolution
• 40:06
  sparked conflict between Jewish and Arab groups within
• 40:10
  Palestine. Fighting began with attacks by
• 40:13
  irregular bands of Palestinian Arabs attached to local units of
• 40:17
  the Arab Liberation Army, composed of volunteers from
• 40:21
  Palestine and neighboring Arab countries.
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  These groups launched their attacks against Jewish cities,
• 40:28
  settlements and armed forces. The Jewish forces were composed
• 40:32
  of the Hagana, the underground militia of the Jewish community
• 40:36
  in Palestine, and two small irregular groups, the Ergun and
• 40:41
  the Lehi. The goal of the Arabs was
• 40:45
  initially to block the part partition resolution and to
• 40:49
  prevent the establishment of the Jewish states.
• 40:53
  The Jews, on the other hand, hope to gain control over the
• 40:56
  territory allotted to them under the partition plan.
• 40:59
  After Israel declared its independence on May 14th, 1948,
• 41:04
  the fighting intensified with other Arab forces joining the
• 41:08
  Palestinian Arabs in attacking territory in the former
• 41:12
  Palestinian Mandate. On the eve of May 14th, the
• 41:16
  Arabs launched an air attack on Tel Aviv, which the Israel
• 41:20
  Israelis resisted. This action was followed by the
• 41:24
  invasion of the former Palestinian mandate by Arab
• 41:28
  armies from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Egypt.
• 41:35
  Saudi Arabia sent a formation that fought under the Egyptian
• 41:40
  command. British trained forces from
• 41:43
  Transjordan eventually intervened in the conflict, but
• 41:47
  only in the areas that had been designated as part of the Arab
• 41:51
  state under the United Nations partition plan and the corpus
• 41:54
  separate separatum of Jerusalem. After tense early fighting,
• 42:00
  Israeli forces, now under joint command, were able to gain the
• 42:04
  offensive. Though the United Nations 2
• 42:09
  ceasefires during the conflict, fighting continued into 1949.
• 42:15
  Israel and Arab states did not reach any formal Armistice
• 42:19
  agreements until February. Under separate agreements
• 42:23
  between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt,
• 42:27
  Lebanon, Transjordan, and Syria, these bordering nations agreed
• 42:33
  to formal Armistice lines. Israel gained some territory
• 42:37
  formally granted to the Palestinian Arabs under the
• 42:40
  United Nations resolution in 1947.
• 42:43
  Egypt and Jordan retained control over the Gaza Strip and
• 42:48
  the West Bank, respectively, so Egypt and Jordan had the control
• 42:53
  over these areas. These Armistice lines held until
• 42:57
  1967. the United States did not become directly involved with
• 43:02
  the Armistice negotiations, but hoped that that instability in
• 43:07
  the Middle East would not interfere with the international
• 43:10
  balance of power between the Soviet Union and the United
• 43:14
  States. So that gives a little bit about
• 43:17
  the Arab Israeli war. And then there's more about the
• 43:23
  creation of Israel 1948, so I will read that.
• 43:26
  On May 14th, 1948, Ben David, Ben Gurion, the head of the
• 43:32
  Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of
• 43:35
  Israel. U.S.
• 43:36
  President Harry S Truman recognized the new nation on
• 43:39
  that same day. Although the United States
• 43:43
  supported the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which
• 43:47
  favored the establishment of a Jewish national home in
• 43:51
  Palestine, President Franklin D Roosevelt had assured the Arabs
• 43:56
  in 1945 that the United States would not intervene without
• 44:01
  consulting both the Jews and the Arabs in that region.
• 44:04
  The British, who held a colonial mandate for Palestine until May
• 44:09
  1948, opposed both the creation of a Jewish state and an Arab
• 44:14
  state in Palestine, as well as an unlimited immigration of
• 44:19
  Jewish refugee refugees to the region.
• 44:22
  Great Britain wanted to preserve good relations with the Arabs to
• 44:26
  protect its vital political and economic interest in Palestine.
• 44:31
  You know, it's always about money.
• 44:33
  Soon after President Truman took office, he appointed several
• 44:37
  experts to study the Palestinian issue.
• 44:40
  In the summer of 1946, Truman established a special cabinet
• 44:45
  committee under the chairmanship of Doctor Henry F Grady, an
• 44:49
  assistant secretary of the state, who entered into
• 44:52
  negotiations with a parallel British committee to discuss the
• 44:56
  future of Palestine. In May 1946, Truman announced
• 45:00
  his approval of of a recommendation to admit 100,000
• 45:05
  displaced persons into Palestine and in October publicly declared
• 45:10
  his support for the creation of a Jewish state.
• 45:14
  Throughout 1947, the United Nations Special Commission on
• 45:18
  Palestine examined the Palestinian question and
• 45:21
  recommended the partition of Palestine into a Jewish and an
• 45:26
  Arab state. On November 29th, 1947, the
• 45:30
  United Nations adopted Resolution 181, also known as
• 45:35
  the Partition Resolution, that would divide Great Britain's
• 45:39
  former Palestinian Mandate into Jewish, Jewish, and Arab states
• 45:46
  in May 1948, when the British Mandate was scheduled to end.
• 45:52
  Under the resolution, the area of religious significance
• 45:55
  surrounding Jerusalem would remain a corpus separatum under
• 45:59
  international control and administered by the United
• 46:02
  Nations. Although the United States
• 46:04
  backed Resolution 181, the US Department of State recommended
• 46:08
  the creation of a United Nations trusteeship with limits on
• 46:13
  Jewish immigration and a division of Palestine into
• 46:16
  separate Jewish and Arab provinces, but not states.
• 46:21
  The State Department, concerned about the possibility of an
• 46:24
  increasing Soviet role in the Arab world and the potential for
• 46:29
  a restriction by Arab oil producing nations of oil
• 46:33
  supplies to the United States, advised against US intervention
• 46:37
  on behalf of the Jews. Later, as the date for British
• 46:41
  departure from Palestine group drew near, the Department of
• 46:46
  State grew concerned about the possibility of an all out war in
• 46:51
  Palestine as Arab states threatened to attack almost as
• 46:56
  soon as the UN passed the partition resolution.
• 47:00
  Despite the growing conflict between Palestinian Arabs and
• 47:04
  Palestinian Jews, and despite the Department of State's
• 47:08
  endorsement of a trusteeship, Truman ultimately decided to
• 47:13
  recognize the state Israel. So there is a biblical fight for
• 47:21
  the land and dividing the land is not what God said.
• 47:27
  We need to read the Bible. We, our governments need to read
• 47:32
  the Bible because God is the ultimate one in control and it
• 47:37
  will affect each and every single one of us what our
• 47:41
  countries decide in regards to this land.
• 47:45
  Think about it and study the Bible.