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694. Bible Study: Micah 5 (Prophecy about Yeshua/Jesus from 700 BC!) · Faith by annm2705

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Since I missed today, I'm going to catch up and do another
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chapter. Chapter 5 from the book of
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Micah. This is about a promised ruler
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from Bethlehem. Do we want to guess who that is
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about? Jesus, right?
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Yeshua. OK, so here we go.
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Marshall your troops now. City of troops for a siege is
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laid against us. They will strike Israel's ruler
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on the cheek with a rod. But you, Bethlehem, Ephrathah,
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though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will
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come for me, the one who will be ruler over Israel.
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This is Jesus Yeshua, whose origins are from of old from
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ancient times. So that's Jesus.
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I mean, that's not, you know, somebody who's from the past,
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somebody who's, you know, this is talking about the future,
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about Jesus reigning as king. Therefore, Israel will be
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abandoned until the time when she is in labor, bears a son,
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and the rest of his brothers return to join the Israelites.
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So Jesus is calling all his brothers together, all the
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Israelites. When everybody returns, He will,
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He will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the
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Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God, and they
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will live securely, for then his greatness will reach the ends of
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the earth. So this is talking about when
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Jesus returns to the earth to reign and he will be king over
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everything. Authority has been given to him
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by God the Father. Jesus is the Son of God and he
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will be our peace when the Assyrians invade our land.
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Now this is really interesting because this is again, is this a
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foreshadowing of a future event? We certainly know it was a
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future event when Micah spoke this because the Assyrians did
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invade and captured Israel. But he will be our peace when
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the Assyrians invade our land. So is there a second time that
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quote the Assyrians from a symbolic nature will invade And
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the Assyrians were like kind of part of their their land in
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biblical times was part of Turkey, Syria, Iraq,
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southwestern Iran or Iran, Iran, Anyway, those areas And where is
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all this conflict going on right now with Israel?
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Just think about that. That's why people are saying we
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are living in biblical times. We are living in prophetic times
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because those, those lands, those entities, those groups of
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people are what make up the Assyrian territory from the
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past. And if you, if you think about
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what God talks about, you know that our fight is not against
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flesh and blood, but against the spiritual realms and the
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principalities in the heavenly, in the heavenly realms, not
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spiritual realms, but the principalities and the heavenly
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realms. And it does seem, and there are
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some sources outside of the Bible that are connected to the
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Bible, but not included in the Bible that do talk about God
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basically giving authority to certain spiritual or heavenly
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entities. Like Satan does have some sort
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of authority over the earth right now.
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He's called the ruler of the air.
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Currently he doesn't have his authority, isn't going to last
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forever, but God did give him a period of time here on earth.
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Why? I don't know, but he did.
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And maybe we'll someday we'll know why that ever happened.
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But anyway, so there are entities and it does seem like
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that perpetuates because what happens is it's always the same
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nations coming against Israel. It's always like they there's
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always this, this problem, like it'll get, it'll be OK for a
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little bit, but then they'll come and attack Israel and this
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just happens over and over again.
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And it's just like history does repeat itself and and it's
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always the same land. It seems like the same ones from
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that were written about in, you know, 700 or 1000 BC that are
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still coming against Israel. It just keeps happening over and
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over. So it just makes me think that
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this is much bigger than just the people.
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This is something spiritual that's happening and they're,
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you know, there may be some truth to those extra sources
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outside the Bible that these spiritual entities or these
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entities that are in the heavenly realms, principalities
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or like they have their own territory that they can rule
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over. And that's what like ancient
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people believed that believed in multiple gods.
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They believe that certain gods have have certain authority over
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certain things. Well, you know, maybe God, God
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is orderly and maybe he did give that power, that authority to
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those entities, but they used it for bad because he let them have
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free will too. And and so God is ultimately in
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charge of all of this, but there's a period of time that
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he's letting these things happen.
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And, and I, you know, I just, I don't know if it was just like
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God wanted to see, you know, what the people or allow the
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people to make a choice to either be adopted as his
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children or if they just chose to reject him.
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And you know, it's like any of us, I mean, if there's this
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desire for people within people to be loved and to love others,
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I think that's something that even though we are sinful, we
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still have that desire. And it just seems like you, you
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can't force anybody to love you. So it's all by choice.
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And that's what God is doing with us.
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He is. He gave us free will.
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He didn't want a puppet to control.
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He just gave us free will and is letting us make that choice.
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And the enemy is doing all. God's enemy is doing all that it
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it can to confuse us, to make us think that's not real, to keep
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us from receiving the inheritance that God has planned
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for the people who reconcile with God.
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And so it's just, it's really interesting, like read the Bible
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every day because you, your eyes are opened to the spiritual
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truth about what's happening in the world.
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And and just then you won't fall hopefully into deception when
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the word of God is really ingrained in our mind and
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especially these prophetic books that when we understand them,
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our eyes are opened. And then we can, we can protect
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ourselves, not personally, but through God, like God is our
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protector. And we realize who we are in
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Christ. And we've been adopted as God's
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children, as brothers and sisters to Jesus.
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So it's just a, it's a beautiful story of what God has done to
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show his love for us, But it gets distorted by God's enemy to
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make people think that God is just mean, but he isn't.
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He's just holy. And he can't, he will not
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tolerate anything that isn't holy within his Kingdom.
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And, and we can be changed to be holy by the help of the Holy
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Spirit. And then when we agree to that,
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when we are willing and let God do that within us and we accept
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that Jesus did everything that's necessary for us to be in the
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Kingdom. He was the sacrifice that made
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it possible for us to be in God's Kingdom.
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When we accept that, we pray to God and we ask for God to
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forgive us for the things that we've done against him and we
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are willing to change and we ask God give, you know, please give
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us the Holy Spirit so that we can have strength to overcome
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our sins because that's what God does through the Holy Spirit.
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And so it's, you know, it's a combination of things.
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Jesus died on the cross for us. Jesus said he will receive the
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Holy Spirit from the Father and give it to us.
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And we just have to ask for it. And then our lives begin to
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change and the repentance is turning away from sin and
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turning towards God, realizing that what the Bible says is
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alright, you know, just I don't know.
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Realizing we do realize that what God said is good is good,
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and what God says is bad is bad. And so we do realize that, but
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it's also just coming into agreement with God.
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Like you can't be at war with the king, you know, you're going
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to have to either agree to his laws or just say, I don't want
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them. And that's what God gives us the
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free will to do. So anyway, going back.
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So Jesus is going to be here now, it says, and he will bring
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our peace when the Assyrians invade our land.
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So let's see who that's going to be.
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And that's also found in Revelation chapter 2, verses 12
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through 13 and March through our fortresses.
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Now this is interesting. He will, he we will raise
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against them seven shepherds, even 8 commanders.
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I just got a lot of question marks.
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The study Bible does say something about that.
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But I just who knows? Let's maybe it'll become
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apparent when we actually are seeing these things happen.
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So there's he will, we will raise against them seven
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shepherds and even 8 commanders. There's that, you know, 7 or 7
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headed beasts that rises that has 10 crowns.
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And then there's an eighth one who is like the lawless one who
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wants who claims to be God that comes up from the enemy side.
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So it looks like God always has point and counterpoint.
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So maybe these are 7 shepherds. These are people who take care
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of Israel are it says like we will raise against them seven
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shepherds. So there's like there's seven
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different, you know, I think there's going to be like a, an
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equally matched just reading this right now, even 8
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commanders that there's something at this, you know,
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conflict that they're going to be equally matched, however, not
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so equal because God's on our side.
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So who will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, the land
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of Nimrod with a drawn sword? He will deliver us from the
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Assyrians when they invade our land and March across our
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borders. So Israel never really has to
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fear. Not if they are in in Christ.
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Not if they believe in God and trust God and submit to God
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because He will deliver them from the Assyrians when they
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invade our land. The remnant of Jacob will be in
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the midst of many peoples, like dew from the earth, like showers
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on the grass, which do not wait for any one or depend on man.
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So there, you know, their full dedication is going to be really
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to the Lord. They don't depend on a man.
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They're not looking for Amanda to save them.
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They rely on God. They trust in God.
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The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations in the midst
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of many peoples. So this, this is repeated twice
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now. So it says the remnant of Jacob
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will be in the midst of many peoples.
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And here it says again, the remnant of Jacob will be in the
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midst. I think in Revelation 7 I wrote
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that off to the side. I didn't write what it was
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there, but that's a reference that are supporting another
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secondary witness for this. There is going to be 12,000
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members from 12 tribes. However, the tribe of Dan is not
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mentioned and the tribe of Ephraim is not mentioned.
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So I don't know what happens to those, but those two tribes are
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not. But they were, you know, the
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remnant of Jacob will be among the nations.
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So they're spread out in the midst of many peoples.
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We don't really know who those peoples are.
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Like a lion among the beast of the forest, Like a young lion
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among flocks of sheep which mauls and mangles as it goes,
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and no one can rescue. Your hand will be lifted up in
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triumph over your enemies and your All your foes will be
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destroyed in that day, declares the Lord.
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I will destroy your horses from among you, and demolish your
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Chariots. I will destroy the cities of
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your land and tear down all your strongholds.
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I will destroy your witchcraft. You will no longer cast spells.
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I will destroy your idols and your sacred stones from among
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you. You will no longer bow down to
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the work of your hands. I will uproot from among you
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your Asherah polls when I demolish your cities.
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I will take vengeance in anger and wrath on the nations that
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have not obeyed me. Everybody likes to downplay
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obeying God, and they say, oh, that's not necessary anymore,
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That's legalistic. But God repeats it over and over
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and it's, you know, faith and action.
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If we have faith, if we believe, then we will obey.
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Because why would you not? If you believe what God says and
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he says to obey over and over and over again, why would you
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not obey him? It just doesn't make sense that
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that's when people start making up their own rules.
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But that's not what God says. And God says that if we are
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obedient to him, we won't be perfect.
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And that's what grace is all about.
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Grace is really, I believe it's the power of the Holy Spirit
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because when we are weak, God is strong.
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So that's how we overcome it. It's not a license to keep on
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sinning. And Paul talks about that in
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Romans, that we don't keep on sinning.
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No, we don't. So there's no way if you read,
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if you know the Bible, there's no way that you can say that you
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can continue to be disobedient to God and be covered.
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No, you are subject to wrath if you are disobedient to God.
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If you have not surrendered your will to God's will, you will be
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the subject of wrath by God. So it's, you know, people don't
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want to hear that and but it's the truth.
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That's what's in the Bible. And I will only speak what I
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understand from the Bible. And I believe the Bible is true
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and it says it over and over again.
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And people don't like to search it and don't like to hear it.
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They don't like to hear repentance.
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They don't like to hear obedience.
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But God says it. It's a warning.
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God's doing. I mean, it's like an open book
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test. Here's your answer.
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But if you don't read it, if you don't acknowledge it, if you
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don't do it, then you know you've been given it all.
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You've been, everything's been spoken to you, but you just
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choose to do your own way and you will suffer the
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consequences. So knowledge is what we find in
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the Bible. Wisdom is the application of
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that knowledge. So we can have all the knowledge
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in the world. We can quote things, we can
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memorize things, we can do all that.
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But if we don't use the knowledge and apply it to our
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life and live it out, whatever we've memorized from the Bible,
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then we're not wise. We're foolish.
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We might have knowledge, but we're not applying the
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knowledge. So we are not wise people if we
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do that. And all you have to do is read
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the Bible to find out these things.
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So that concludes chapter 5. I know there's that's not a more
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pleasant thing for people to hear, but it's the truth.
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And it's better to find out now than to find out the day that
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Jesus returns and say, Oh, I was believing some church that told
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me that's all legalism. And and you know, I Jesus died
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on the cross, so I don't have to worry about any of the laws.
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Well, Jesus said, you know it, that none of the laws, his word
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would remain, you know, like forever and in I guess in this
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age and we are part of this this current age before Jesus reigns.
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So read the Bible every day. In fact, if you aren't reading
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the Bible and even some courage, you know, subscribe to this
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podcast because that's what I'm trying to do is read a chapter a
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day and really reflect on it, go deeper into it and think about
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how does it apply to my life, to our life?
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That's where wisdom comes in. So I want to be wise from this.
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I want it to impact my life. I want to live according to
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God's will and submit what I want to do what?
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You know, my sinful ways. No, you know, I'm going to
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listen to God and do what God wants.
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And when I, when I'm weak, that's when I pray.
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Help me, help me God. That's all you know, that's a
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quick prayer. Help me and speak to God about
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it. That's it.
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That's all we have to do. And God provides a way out.
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So not a way to cover us when we sin.
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It's a way out. So we don't have to sin.
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And we know when we're going into sin.
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We we know, I mean, God the Holy Spirit will convict us of that
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will make us feel guilty about something that we're doing that
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we shouldn't be doing. And when we start going into it,
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we know when we're going there. We're not stupid.
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We know it and it's that moment of choice that we have.
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Are we going to say, hey, God, I'm, I'm going into this
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temptation. Help me out.
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I need some help here. You think God's going to respond
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to a child saying that? I mean, would you, if you're a
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parent, would you respond to your child and help them if they
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said, mom, dad, help me. You know, like I'm, I'm
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struggling here. Every loving parent would.
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So think about that. OK, let's go into questions and
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answers that are in the study guide.
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So how would Jerusalem be a city of troops?
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This is a picture of a city besieged by enemy troops.
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It would be paraphrased as a city surrounded by troops.
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What was Bethlehem Ephrathan Ephratha.
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This was either an alternate name for Bethlehem or the name
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of the district in which Bethlehem was located.
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Out of you will come one who will be a ruler.
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Centuries later, the religious leaders use this verse to tell
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King Herod where the Messiah would be born.
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That's really interesting. So yeah, in the story of
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Matthew, chapter 2, verse 6, when the wise men, what?
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I've always heard of the magi's. What?
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I'm not sure The Who you know exactly.
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I learned of them as the wise men.
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But when they came to see Jesus, they knew they followed the
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stars and they knew how to find Bethlehem and also Herod.
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That's why he was killing all the children that were going to
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be born during this time because these religious leaders, I mean,
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he heard about it and he's like, well, I don't want to lose my
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power. It's always a struggle of power
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on this earth. And the people who are maybe
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evil, they want power. We can see right now that
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someone or multiple people do want power.
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They want to rule over the whole globe.
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They want to unify everybody, but they want them, everybody to
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do what they want everybody to do.
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It's not like freedom. It's like they want to have
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their way and they want everybody to submit to them.
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They want to be God. This is what prophecies, you
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know, somebody who wants to be God and rule over everything,
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have everybody under their, you know, their authority as leader.
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That's coming about. And it seems like it's coming
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about really soon. And in this world today, in
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2025, did Micah know he was predicting the Messiah?
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Perhaps, though he may not have known that it would be centuries
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before his vision would be fulfilled.
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In the New Testament, Peter writes that the prophets, though
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they understood some some details, still puzzled over many
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things about the coming Messiah and longed to know more.
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God used their prophecies, however, to confirm His final
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revelation in Jesus Christ. Knowing Jesus gives Christians A
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clearer picture of salvation than the Old Testament prophet
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prophets were ever able to understand.
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And Jesus even said, you know, I came to fulfill what the
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prophets talked about. So it's we can't be in a vacuum.
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And that's why it's it would be so good if Jewish people and
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Christian people, true Christians that read the Bible
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and know the Bible and don't preach a false Bible, if they
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could talk and maybe open the eyes.
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Because Christians can learn from Jewish people who know the
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Old Testament. And then Jewish people can learn
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from Christians because Christians know the Messiah and
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they can show how Jesus is, you know, was talked about way back
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here in the Old Testament. I mean, we're talking about the
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seven hundreds BC right now. So thousands of years ago, the
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prophets talked about Jesus coming.
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OK, who were these 7 shepherds and eight commanders?
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OK, let's see what they say. This phrase, 7, even 8, is a
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literary device meant to show that in the midst of the
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Assyrian crisis, Israel's leadership would come in ample
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supply. The number 8 is more than the
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#7, which is the number of perfection.
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So the numbers are proclaiming Israel's strength and
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leadership. Yeah, that could probably be
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true. And that could also be a
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literal, you know, we could wait and see, you know, like nobody
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really knows. And it could be symbolic, and it
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could be literal because often God does it both ways.
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So will Assyria again be a power in the last days?
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Probably only in a figurative sense.
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Assyria serves here as a model representing all God's enemies.
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When God rules through his Messiah, Messianic King, his
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people will no longer need to fear cruel oppressors like the
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Assyrians, for the Messiah will protect God's people.
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And that's again, you know, the Assyrian is used and you know,
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it could very well just be symbolic and it could be a
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different entity. But so often history in the
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Bible repeats itself and it's the same entities, the same
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areas, the same principality areas happening.
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So that leads me to believe that it may be some of those areas,
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like I said, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, southwestern Iran, those
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areas, I mean, they're happening right now.
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They're joining together. So, and they're also talking
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about a peace agreement with Israel, which is really
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interesting because there's this sense of false peace that
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happens. And halfway through that
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agreement is when the lawless one that claims to be God speaks
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of himself. And yeah, it's just like,
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really, this sounds like there's a lot of prophecy that may be
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coming true in the very, very near future.
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So it's definitely a time to be watching the Middle East, but
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most importantly, to have your relationship with God reconciled
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so that you don't have anything to fear of.
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And, you know, you can welcome the stuff happening because you
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know that Jesus will be coming after these things, you know,
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start literally happening. So who was Nimrod, the
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traditional founder of Assyria? Nimrod was a famed hunter and
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warrior. Micah used the founder's name as
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a cinema synonym for the country itself.
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You know, and maybe there's, you know, when it talks about the
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beast, you know, it says something that was like, is it
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is Nimrod spiritually there? There's a lot of theories about
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that too. Is there some, you know,
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spiritual influence that affected Nimrod?
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It's kind of interesting that Nimrod, you know, sarcastically
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became known as like somebody stupid.
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So I don't know where that came from The, the, I guess the
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etymology of how are the cultural connotation of Nimrod,
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But it's kind of interesting that somebody at some point, it
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probably came from somebody who knew the, the Bible.
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But what do these poetic images represent?
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Like dew and showers that come from the Lord.
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So too, the remnant will have its source in the Lord alone.
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The Remnant will also share the pride, power and cunning
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associated with lions and beasts of the field.
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Why this warning against witchcraft?
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Ancient peoples were obsessed with gaining special insight
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from the gods and finding out what would happen in the future.
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They say. Ancient peoples, people today
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still want. Who goes to psychics?
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That's the same thing. Who looks into astrology, That's
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the same thing. Who does tarot cards?
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That's the same thing. I mean, that stuff is going on
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today. It didn't ever go away.
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To get this kind of information, they would consult experts of
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divination who claimed they could tell the future by
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interpreting omens, examining livers of sacrificed animals,
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contacting the dead like mediums, and through other
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techniques. All that stuff is still
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happening today. The Old Testament law prohibited
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these occult practices in Deuteronomy chapter 18, verses 9
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through 12. So all those kinds of things are
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witchcraft. And it's so I mean, there's like
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all these Movies Now are really like focused on this sort of
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thing and making it sound good and making witches appear good.
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It's just like, again, the enemy, the spirit of God's enemy
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is alive and active in the world today.
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And we can see that through Hollywood movies, we can see
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that through music, we can see that through cultural
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entertainment. It's very clear when you finally
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get your eyes opened by reading the Bible that this stuff is
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alive and and flourishing today. It won't last forever though,
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because it's going to be subject to God's wrath.
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So it will go away, but we're living in it.
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We're seeing it and now is the time if you want to be, if you
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want to inherit God's Kingdom. And we shouldn't do it for what
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God can do for us, but rather for the love that God has for
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us. But if you want to be, if you
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want to really know God and live with him on a daily basis and
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get to talk to him and be with him in the future, be a brother,
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sister to Jesus. If you want that in your life in
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the future and to live forever and to be in a restored world,
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then now is the time before, before we die that we need to
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make that known to God and speak that to God.
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Ask for forgiveness. Ask for the Holy Spirit to be
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changed and to be conformed, to be come holy as we go through
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the rest of the life that we have here on earth.
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So don't be lukewarm right now because you know what it what if
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a bomb went off? What if all of a sudden we were
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completely destroyed and we never saw it coming and it
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happened instantaneously and we didn't have that chance to
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reconcile with God? What if that happens so or, you
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know, a freak accident or a freak medical condition that
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nobody like expected, but all of a sudden happened?
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That happens to people all the time.
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Not all the time, but you know, throughout time.
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It happens. It's rare, but it does happen.
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And it's just not worth gambling.
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When you're talking about gambling, you're talking about
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your eternity. You're talking about where you
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live in eternity. People like spend so much time
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being worried about where we live here on earth or what we
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have while we're here on earth and that becomes our focus.
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We are so like focused on that and achieving here in the earth
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today that we don't even think about what the future is.
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We can achieve everything here, but if we can lose it all, if
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we, if our soul is not with God and, and, and just like
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prioritize things like really understand why God is so why
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it's so important to have that relationship with God, to know
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God. And God says if we seek him, we
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will find him. And he is a good God and he he
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does give blessings to people. I know the Bible talks about a
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lot of wrath, but those are people who are against God And
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yes, they experienced that. But to those who are connected
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to God and who love God, boy, he loves a lot deeper than we do
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and he does a lot nicer things for us than we do.
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So it's, it's a relationship that if it's one sided, it's
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because God loves us and we don't love him back.
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But it's really awesome when we can show God that we love him
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and then he loves us back. I mean, it's a great
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relationship and I encourage all of you if you're not there to
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get there. And you can get there easily
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just through prayer and read the Bible every day, come back, join
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