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730. Bible Study: Isaiah 42 (Jesus Christ - the Servant of the Lord written in 700 BC!) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 42 from the book of Isaiah.
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This one's an interesting chapter because once again, I
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see Jesus throughout it, and I know it also relates to Cyrus of
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Persia back at that time, but I think it applies even more so to
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Jesus. And I'll show how that's true as
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we get going in this study. So first let us pray, dear Lord,
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please be with us as always and let the Holy Spirit give us
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revelation, speak to whomever listens to this with your words
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and give knowledge, wisdom, application to our lives of how
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this effects all of us. We ask for this in Jesus name,
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Amen. So it starts out saying, here is
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my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight.
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I will put my spirit on him, and he will bring justice to the
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nations. Now the study Bible says this,
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you know, probably refers to Cyrus, and I will, I guess I'll
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read. I don't know if it says it
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there. Oh, who was God's servant?
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Here's what the study Bible says.
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At first glance, it seems that this servant might refer to King
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Cyrus of Persia. God had already talked about
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using one from the east for his purposes.
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But also remember that Jesus arrives from the east on the
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clouds and people see it like as lightning flashes from the east.
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So it will be at the coming of the Son of Man on the clouds.
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So that's just another reference that was in my study Bible, but
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something I wanted to mention. So God had already talked about
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using one from the East for his purposes.
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And Cyrus did do great things to redeem God's people.
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He set them free and helped them restore their homeland.
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However, though those Cyrus delivered the Israelites from
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Babylon, he stands as a mere prototype of an anointed ruler
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to come who will deliver the world from bondage to from the
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bondage to sin. Many Jewish scholars see the
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servant as Israel itself, suffering for the sins of
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humanity. To some extent, this fits.
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For example, the servant is identified by name as Jacob or
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Israel in verse one. It's Jacob or Israel in verse in
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well, that's in chapter 44 verse one, or Israel in chapter 41
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verse 8. But chapter 49 adds a new angle.
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The servant's purpose is to bring Jacob back to God in verse
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449.5 and to be a light for the Gentiles in 49 verse 6.
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Christians have always understood the servant to be
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Jesus Christ. In fact, at Jesus baptism the
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divine voice alluded to Isaiah 42 one saying, This is my Son,
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whom I love. With him I am well pleased,
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allowing for translation from Hebrews to Greek, With him I am
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well pleased is the same as in whom I delight.
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From Isaiah 42 verses one through 4 is quoted in Matthew
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1218 through 21 in reference to Jesus.
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So that's exactly what came to my mind as I read.
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This was Matthew 1218. So it says, here is my servant,
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whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I delight.
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I will put my Spirit on him and he will proclaim justice to the
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nations. Now, what's really interesting
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is this is in the book of Matthew and this is I should
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read the sentences before because it basically affirms
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this isn't this isn't just like the servant.
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I mean, Jesus basically affirms that he is the servant.
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OK, it our Matthew affirms this that the servant talked about in
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Isaiah is Jesus. So if you start at Matthew
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chapter 12 verse 15, it says aware of this, Jesus withdrew
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from that place. A large crowd followed him and
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he healed all who were I'll. He warned them not to tell
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others about him. This was to fulfill what was
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spoken through the prophet Isaiah.
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And that's where it says here my here is my servant whom I have
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chosen, the one I love, in whom I delight.
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I will put my spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the
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nation's. He will not quarrel or cry out.
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No one will hear his voice in the streets.
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A bruised Reed He will not break in a smoldering Wick He will not
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snuff out till he has brought justice through to victory in
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his name. The will put their hope.
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Now that's from Isaiah that's chapter 42 verses one through 4.
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So Matthew specifically quotes Isaiah 42 one through 4 and it's
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talking about Jesus. I mean, this is happening at the
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time of Jesus. So to me, that's very clear
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evidence that this is not really talking about Cyrus, but this is
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talking about Jesus. And and then further on in the
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book of Isaiah, which you know, I actually, I read that through
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the book of Matthew. I read he will not shout or cry
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out or rise. His voice in the streets, a
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bruised Reed he will not break and a smoldering Wick he will
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not snuff out. In faithfulness.
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He will bring forth justice. He will not falter or be
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discouraged till he establishes justice on earth.
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So that's definitely Jesus. Nobody else established justice
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on earth. And then it says in his teaching
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the islands will put their hope. So something else about this
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servant in whom I delight because this is in Mark chapter
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1. Actually, let's go back to
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Matthew chapter 3, verse 16. As soon as Jesus was baptized,
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he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened
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and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and a
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lighting on him. So Isaiah says that I will put
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my spirit on him. So at Jesus's baptism he saw the
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Spirit of God descending like a dove and a lighting on him.
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In the gospel of Mark chapter one, verse 10 says the same
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thing. Just as Jesus was coming up out
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of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit
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descending on him like a dove. And then Luke, the other gospel
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says the same thing in chapter 3, verse 22.
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And the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove,
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and a voice came from heaven. You are my son whom I love with
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you. I am well pleased.
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So we you have the Father, the Holy Spirit and Jesus all
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present at the same time. And the Father is saying you are
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my son and I am pleased with you.
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And then this is, you know, talking about in Isaiah, so 700
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BC in that time frame, Isaiah is aware through God that there is
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a servant coming whom God will put his Spirit on, who will
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bring justice to the nations and justice on earth.
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So this is all to me very clear that this is all about Jesus in
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chapter 42 from the book of Isaiah.
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Now it says that in verse 4, it says in his teaching the islands
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will put their hope. Now the islands are kind of
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personified about people, but this is also what I've come to
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understand as the Millennium time frame.
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Like what is the purpose of the Millennium time frame?
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And if we go to Isaiah chapter 2 verse 3, it says many peoples
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will come and say, come, let us go up to the mountain of the
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Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob.
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He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in his paths.
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The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from
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Jerusalem. There is so much in here in
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Isaiah chapter 2 verse 3. So first of all, when Jesus
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returns, he claims the city of Jerusalem and that's where he is
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a king and he will reign for 1000 years.
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And this is this is talking about in Isaiah chapter 2.
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OK, again, let's just go backwards in Isaiah chapter 2
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and reread this because this is really important.
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This is what Isaiah, son of Amos saw concerning Judah and
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Jerusalem in the last days. OK, again, that's always a
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reference to the return of Christ, the return of the
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Messiah. In the last days.
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The mountain of the Lord's temple will be established as
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the highest of the mountains. So also in Ezekiel it talks
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about 1/3 temple. If you're not aware, the Temple
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Institute has plans, has all of the components that go inside of
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the third temple. And ironically, just this week,
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this is August 15th, 2025, apparently there was a, well,
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not apparently there was a sacrifice, it was a called a
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practice sacrifice for the red heifer.
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And that's a purification event. And it was supposed to be a
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practice one. That's what everybody knew it
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as. But there was some speculation
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by some. And it seems like there are some
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like whistleblowers now who are saying that this sacrifice of
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the red heifer was actually an official one, like they followed
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all of the procedures that they need to do.
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So now it's done and over and they have ashes from the red
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heifer which they have not had for I think I've heard like 2000
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years or thousands of years. The sacrifice has not been done
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and it's it's required so that they can go forward with the
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building of the third temple. So that's like things are
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progress progressing according to Bible prophecy.
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So again, Isaiah, the book of Isaiah was written in 700 BC and
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it tells us in the last days the mountain of the Lord's temple
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will be established as the highest of the mountains.
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It will be exalted above the hills and all nations will
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stream to it. Many people will come and say,
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let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the
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God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways so
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that meet we may walk in his paths.
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The law will go out from Zion. Zion is kind of, you know, it's
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like the another name for Jerusalem and the the word of
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the Lord from Jerusalem, the word of the Lord in the Gospel
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of John, the first statement, the word became flesh.
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That is Jesus. It's talking about Jesus.
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So the word of the Lord from Jerusalem, and then in the next
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verse it says he will judge between nations and will settle
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disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into
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plowshares and their Spears into pruning hooks.
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Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they
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train for war anymore. So this is something really
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important because just yesterday I actually listened to a podcast
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where people actually, there's a nun who Tucker Carlson
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interviewed and then the spokesperson, I don't know if
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she said it or if it was just the person who was showing a
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clip of it, but they were basically talking about we're in
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the Millennium right now. That is so false.
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We do not have peace. This is talking about the
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Millennium in Isaiah chapter 2. Are we in a time where people
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don't train for war anymore? Nation will not take up sword
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against nation. Do we have all nations going to
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the temple in Jerusalem, streaming to it?
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It also talks about there's peace like animals don't even
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like attack one another. Like the lion and lamb lay down.
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A child can play with a cobra and not be bitten.
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There's just like so many different things that happen
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when Jesus comes back to earth to reign as king for that
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thousand years. We are not in the Millennium
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right now. And there are people who think
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we are. And I just, I, I guess the only
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thing I can say is those people have not studied the Bible.
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They may have read pieces of the Bible, but if you studied the
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Bible, you would clearly see this.
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All we have to do is talk about Isaiah chapter 2 verse or
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chapter 2. And then also in Ezekiel, there
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are multiple chapters that go through very specific designs of
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the third temple. And originally I wasn't sure,
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like when I first started reading the Bible, I didn't know
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like, what temple is this? And did this already get built?
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Is it coming? You know, like, and so I did a
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comparison of the description of all the different temples that
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were talked about in the Bible. So the first temple, the second
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temple, and then there's this temple in Ezekiel and the sizes
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do not match the other two. That's how I was aware that this
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is a different building and it's very descriptive.
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And just like when God gave Moses and the details of all of
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the the Tabernacle and the curtains and he was on the
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mountain with God for like 40 days and God basically
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downloaded these, you know, attention Moses to all these
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details. And this is what I want you to
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to do for me to design for me. And it was like a replica of
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what happens in the heavenly realms, apparently.
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But anyway, he got he 40 days. He got all these details.
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Well, God gave Ezekiel heal extreme details and it even
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talks about like in the future about what will happen and about
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the Prince and I I think maybe the Prince, I don't know the I
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think it says something about the Prince eating with the Lord.
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And I actually there's other scripture where I've interpreted
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it. This is my interpretation.
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I seriously wonder if David will literally be reigning in the
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third temple, not reigning, but participating because of
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scripture verse interpreting scripture.
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So because there's this this person who's in the temple and
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he sacrifices a bull for himself.
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I think he's called a Prince. He sacrifices a bull for his
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himself and for the people. Well, Jesus wouldn't do that
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because he doesn't need to do that.
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And then it also says that the Prince would eat with the Lord
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and the Lord would only come in from One Direction, the east.
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And, and if you know anything about what the Temple Mount,
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they've kind of the Muslims have bordered up the one of the
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gates, the at the Temple Mount because the Messiah is supposed
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to come through that, you know, so there's like all this
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preparation. It's really fascinating when you
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get into studying this because you realize that all the stuff
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that's happening in the world is truly a result of what the Bible
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tells us. I mean, if we want to know
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what's going on, all we have to do is look in Scripture and it
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becomes very apparent what is happening in our world.
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And it's very fascinating because we are living in times
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where things that are talked about in the Bible like 2700
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years ago are coming to fruition.
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So this thing seriously, I think it was July 1st when this red
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heifer sacrifice happened. So and then we have like next
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month. Well, there's a whole bunch of
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people that are thinking that the Rapture is going to happen,
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and next month during Rosh Hashanah, I do believe it's
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going to happen some year in that one.
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This year kind of seems a little bit early to me, but anything is
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possible. I just we haven't seen the
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lawless one being revealed, although he could be revealed.
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There's a big meeting happening at the same time during Rosh
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Hashanah with the UN and apparently that one of the
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things that will be discussed again is this 2 state solution,
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the dividing of the land, which is also talked about in the Book
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of Revelation, that this is turned over to the Gentiles for,
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you know, 3 1/2 years, like don't measure it.
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That's in the Book of Revelation.
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So let's you know, these are certainly times to be watching
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what happens in the world because if it lines up with what
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Bible prophecy has to say, we are certainly in these like late
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stages of the end times, which would be very fascinating to see
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all of this unfold. And just to, I guess most
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importantly, that we are prepared with our relationship
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with God that we we do believe, we proclaim our faith in Jesus.
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We know that Jesus died on the cross for us and that by his
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death on the cross, he broke the curse and enables us to get into
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the Kingdom of God. And the other thing is we need
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to make Jesus Lord of our lives like what he taught again, just
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like this says the people say come and let us teach.
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Let him teach us his ways. So Jesus came the first time to
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teach us, to teach us how to live.
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And he gives us a helper, the Holy Spirit, to help us live out
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what he taught us to do when he came, what is filled in the
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gospels, all of the information about how we should live.
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That's what Jesus did. And he revealed God's Kingdom.
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And he's, you know, basically saying this is what you need to
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do. And there is a reward for you,
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the Kingdom. You're going to be brothers and
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sisters of mine, basically. I'm paraphrasing all this, but
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there's an eternal time that we're all going to be together
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and that it's all worth it. I mean, and then his followers
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continue that message to talk about the Kingdom of God, the
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gospel messages about the Kingdom of God and Jesus
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sacrifices. His own life so that we could be
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living with him like that was like, the greatest sign of love
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is to lay down your life for someone else.
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And that's what Jesus did for all of us.
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And so anyway, there's there's a lot to look forward to in a
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positive way, but there's also a lot for those who reject Jesus
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as the son of God, which we just read about.
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God said, this is my son, who I'm well pleased.
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And then it also is affirmed in the book of Isaiah.
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So there's no excuse about Old Testament readers, the people of
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the Jewish faith. This information is here.
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Like I've been going through every single chap it seems like
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every single chapter of Isaiah and seeing Jesus present in
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every chapter. So there's just, I don't know.
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I mean, there's, it's just very clear.
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But we'll get into that too, because I'll talk a little bit
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more about that. Anyway, the, I always wondered
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what's this purpose of the Millennium anyway?
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And I think this is what it tells us that Jesus is going to
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be teaching people. There are going to be survivors
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that come out of God's wrath. When Jesus returns, he's
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bringing wrath those who are unrepentant and those who
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rejected him. However, God is very just and
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today I was actually this thought crossed my mind about
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people who don't necessarily Maybe they grew up in another
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relate they never heard about Jesus or something.
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Well, first of all, the Bible clearly tells us before God's
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wrath goes out on people, before any destruction is done, they
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will know about it. There's every single person it
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says an Angel goes out sending the message of the Kingdom of
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God and also warning people not to take the mark of the beast
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when that happens. So there is, there is clear
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communication to everyone about who Jesus is and what not to do.
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And so people will either decide to I don't want to listen to
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that, or they'll decide to listen to it.
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And so you, either you, we will all have a choice to reject
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Jesus or to accept him. And so we really are in control
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of our destiny and that's our choice.
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We can either believe Jesus or we can deny him.
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And if we deny him, it says that if you deny, Jesus said if you
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deny me, I will deny you in front of the Father.
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And Jesus is the only way to the Father.
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His life made he. He's the way, the truth and the
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life. So he's the way into God's
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Kingdom. He led the way.
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He is the truth. Everything that's talked about
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with him in the in the Bible, in the Gospels is true and he is
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the life. He gives us eternal life.
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So without him we would not have this because of the law.
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The wages of sin is death. We're all sinners, so we would
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all die. And so this God allowed in his
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mercy for mankind, He allowed substitute sacrifices.
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That's what animal sacrifices were in the Old Testament times.
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But Jesus came to take that all away.
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So the animal sacrifices aren't needed anymore.
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He sacrificed his life and just like the red heifer had to be
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without blemish. No, you know, never work, you
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know, like it had to be pure. Jesus was pure.
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He never sinned and his death made atonement for us.
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The book of Hebrews tell us, tells us without the shedding of
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blood, there is no forgiveness. So Jesus's blood was shed for
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us. So there's, there's just so much
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to absorb here, but let's continue on.
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This is what God the Lord says, the creator of the heavens who
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stretches them out, who spreads out the earth with all that
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springs from it, who gives breath to its people and life to
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those who walk in it. I, the Lord have called you in
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righteousness. I will take hold of your hand.
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I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the
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people. Now within these chapters, just
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as that first question and answer that we talked about from
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the study Bible about who is this talking about the servant
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because there's some indication that it's Israel.
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But the way that I look at that is that Jesus came from Israel
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because he came through the line of Judah and Judah was a tribe
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of the greater group of Israel. Like he was the southern
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Kingdom, but still all Israel. There were 12 tribes and he is
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from one of those 12 tribes, the tribe of Judah.
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So sometimes in Bible prophecy, and maybe this is just to keep
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people who don't study the Bible from understanding this, and
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maybe this is how the Holy Spirit reveals things to people,
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Names will be substituted. Or it's kind of like you have to
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follow the dotted line. Like if it says Israel or Jacob,
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well, Jesus is a descendant of that lineage.
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So you just have to put it all together.
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Scripture, interpret scripture. So I, the Lord have called you
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in righteousness. I will take hold of your hand.
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I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the
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people. I think that's really important
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because how is Israel a covenant for the people?
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It's not necessarily a a covenant for the people, but
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Jesus is. Jesus is the new covenant.
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It no longer do people die because of breaking the laws of
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God that he gave Moses eternally.
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Like eternal death. Jesus is a new covenant of life
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that his atonement basically forgives us or purifies us from
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what would cause death to us. So Jesus is the new covenant,
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the life that is given to everyone.
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That's why it's so important to understand who he is and what he
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did for us and why he is so important that without his
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bloodshed on that cross, we would not have the opportunity
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to be in God's Kingdom. And OK, and then and a light for
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the Gentiles. So of course, I mean, Jesus is a
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light for the Gentiles. He, he is for all nations.
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His death on the cross is for all nations.
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It's just that, you know, not all nations believe, but they
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have the opportunity. It's, it's a gift from God to
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all human beings on this earth. And, and it says to open the
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eyes that are blind. Well, that's Jesus opening the
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eyes of the blind in a literal, well, a metaphorical sense, a
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literal sense in a spiritual sense, like he healed blind
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people. But there's a spiritual
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blindness too. And that comes from the
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rejection of Jesus. Why someone rejects Jesus, I
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have no idea, but people do. And you know, maybe there could
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be a lot of reasons, but when someone chooses to reject Jesus,
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then they are in alignment with darkness.
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Basically they are blinded. And at a certain point, I don't
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know how God decides this, but at a certain point he will turn
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people over to their choices. Like he keeps pursuing us and
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calling us, but, and, and we often reject him over and over.
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He was, he's very, very patient. But at a certain point he's
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like, it's, it's like he's that's enough.
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And he turns people over to their desires.
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And then he's, you know, that's what happens with people.
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And when I first read that in the Bible, I was like, gosh, I
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know God has given me multiple chances.
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And I've in hindsight realized that I didn't accept the calling
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when there was probably times where God was calling me.
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And and so I didn't, you know, become of service.
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I didn't follow through with any of that.
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I kind of pushed it off and it'll, it'll happen later.
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And so I really got concerned about my own life, like, is God
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going to just say, OK, I've given you enough chances and now
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that's it? Like, I don't know when our time
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is, when God says, all right, you've rejected me enough, I'm
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not going to do it anymore. And so that was kind of
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something that, you know, made me get serious about serving God
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and seeking God. So anyway, to free captives from
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prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in
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darkness? When I read that, I immediately
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thought about the Angel descending in Revelation with
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the keys to the abyss, and that's what came to mind.
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So I went back to blueletterbible.org and I looked
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at the sentence Isaiah 42 verse 7, because I was wondering, is
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the dungeon the abyss I mean it, or the prison the abyss?
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And it is not. So that doesn't because I was
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saying I was thinking that's a tie to Jesus potentially, but it
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is not. But what I did discover when I
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did that was that it talked about prison houses.
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It talked about people being prisoners in a house and Jesus
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comes to free captives from prison.
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Then all of a sudden I started thinking about October 7th and
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what happened and the people of Israel, when the people from
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Gaza or Hamas entered into Israel, they captured people
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from Israel and took them hostage, which there are still
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hostages in in Gaza or somewhere.
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They're still hostages that are not turned back over to Israel.
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And some of these hostages who had been released, they were
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actually prisoners in people's houses.
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So here at 700 BC, this is talking about things that really
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just happened in 2023. The, the, and, and then there
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was something else that I recalled from the Bible about
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Basra. And I want to, I want to go to
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that too, because there were these verses about Basra and it,
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it made me think actually, I'll just read a little bit longer
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because it, you'll see what I mean.
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OK, so just think about the prisoners in, in people's homes.
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And that actually happened October 7th.
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And then we'll continue on and then I'll stop and we'll start
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talking about this next part. So it says to release.
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So this is Jesus to release from the dungeon.
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Those who sit in darkness. I am the Lord, That is my name.
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So is it God revealing that? You know, Jesus is the Son of
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God and He's the one who's going to be doing this?
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I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.
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See the former things that have taken place and new things I
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declare before they spring into being, I announce them to you.
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So he's revealing. This is like the mystery
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answered. Isaiah's getting the information
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from God, and then it says sing to the Lord a new song, His
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praise from the ends of the earth.
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You go down to the sea and all that is in it, you islands and
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all who live in them. Let the wilderness and its town
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raise their voices. Let the settlements where Kedar
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lives rejoice. So I had to look up Kadar.
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Who's Kadar? He is the son of Ishmael and
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it's basically Arabia or Arabian descent.
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And and they were nomadic tribes that we're in various places.
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So this is again, this is talking about a song of praise
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to the Lord. And so the sons of the son of
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Ishmael, the Arabians will also be praising the Lord at this
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time. So you can see here, this is for
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all nations. You know, some of them will be
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enemies of Israel and some of them will be the enemies of the
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Lord, but not all of them. And so salvation is for all
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nations. And this is indicating that as
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well, because the in let the settlements where Kadar lives
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rejoice. So this is when the Lord
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returns. And we know that he returns.
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Like some of the people don't have that experience.
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They're wanting to hide in caves and be hidden from the Lord when
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he returns. Let the people of Selah sing for
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joy. Let them shout from the
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mountaintops. Again, I wanted to know where is
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Selah? Well, it's modern day Petra in
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Jordan. So again, we have the people of
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Jordan who are Muslim majority that are, I guess there's going
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to be some that some believers there and they're going to be
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singing in the same with the sons of Ishmael.
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A lot of the Ishmael descendants are Muslim.
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And so it sounds like these will both be rejoicing when the Lord
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returns, that some of them will and let them give glory to the
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Lord and proclaim his praise in the islands.
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The Lord will March out like a champion, like a warrior.
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He will stir up his zeal with a shout.
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He will raise the battle cry and will triumph over his enemies.
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So when I heard about actually I'm jumping ahead a little bit.
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Let's go back to this. It's not talking about Basra,
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but when Jesus returns, I guess what came to mind was actually
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I'll just read it. There's not a whole lot of it.
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So in Isaiah chapter 63, actually it Isaiah 34, we read
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about it, the sword of the Lord is bathed in blood.
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It is covered with fat, the blood of lambs and goats, fat
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from the kidneys of Rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in
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Basra, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
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Now that land is in Jordan. Basra is in Jordan.
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It's a southern part of Jordan. And so this is something that
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has not happened yet, and this is going to be at the, you know,
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at the very end times. But there's something that
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happens with Edom, apparently. And I just wonder as we read
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also, if there are prisoners that are being held in Basra.
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And that's why when the Lord frees his prisoners, that's why
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he's going to Basra. So that's how this ties into
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Isaiah chapter 42. And so in Isaiah chapter 63 it
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says, who is this coming from? Edom, from Basra with his
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garments stained Crimson. Who is this robed in splendor,
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striding forward in the greatness of his strength.
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It is I claiming victory, mighty to save, and it says, why are
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your garments red like those of 1 treading the winepress in the
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Book of Revelation. It says Jesus treads the
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winepress. Here's the next verse in Isaiah
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63. I have trodden the winepress
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alone from the nation's. No one was with me.
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I trampled them in my anger and trod them down in my wrath.
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Their blood spattered my garments, and I stained all my
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clothing. It was for me the day of
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vengeance. The year for me to redeem had
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come. I looked, but there was no one
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to help. I was appalled that no one gave
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support, so my own arm achieved salvation for me and my own
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wrath sustained me. I trampled the nations in my
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anger, in my wrath. I made them drunk and poured
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blood on the ground. The Book of Revelation says that
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when this trampling of the winepress happens, there is like
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a lot of blood that's shed and it says it goes up to the horses
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bridles, like there's just an incredible amount.
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So anyway, that's that was something that, you know, came
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from the Basra, which I know is in Jordan.
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And so I was like, well, you know, here we have people
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singing the praise of Jesus in Petra, and the sons of Ishmael
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in Arabia are singing it, but we know in Basra that's not going
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to be the case. So it says in Jeremiah chapter
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49, I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that Basra will become
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a rune and a curse, an object of horror and reproach, and all its
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towns will be in ruins forever. And then in further along, it
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says, look, an eagle will swore and swoop down will soar and
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swoop down, spreading its wings over Basra.
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In that day, the hearts of Edom's warriors will be like the
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heart of a woman in labor. So again, this this thought of
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Labor pains we're going to talk about also, but that is about
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the end times and the return of Jesus, right?
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Well before the return of Jesus. So in Amos one, verse 12, I
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don't even know if this is current our future, but I will
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send fire on Teeman that will consume the fortresses of Basra.
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So anyway, there's there's several different times.
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Oh, I wanted to read this too because it was very insightful.
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Basra and Edom. So Basra means sheepfold or
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enclosure in Hebrew, and it was a pastoral city in Edom,
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southeast of the Dead Sea. According to the biblical
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narrative it was the home city of 1 of Edoms kings Joe Bab son
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of Zira and the homeland of Jacob's twin brother Esaw.
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And these were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom
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before the reigning of a king over the sons of Israel and Bala
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died and Job Jobab the son of Zira from Basra reigned in his
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place. That's written in Genesis
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chapter 36 verses 31 through 33. The prophets Amos, Isaiah and
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Jeremiah predicted Basra's destruction.
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We just read about that so that. But I will send a fire against
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human, and it shall devour the palaces of Basra.
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And Isaiah 34 The Lord has a sacrifice in Basra, and a great,
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great slaughter in the land of Edom.
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And Jeremiah 49, I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that
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Basra will become a ruin and a curse and an object of horror
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and reproach, and all its towns will be in ruins forever.
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According to Isaiah 63, the Lord will come from Eden, modern day
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Jordan and Basra in blood stained clothing on the day of
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vengeance and quote the year of my redemption.
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In Revelation chapter 29, he was clothed.
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Sorry, Revelation chapter 19 verse 13, he was clothed with a
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robe dipped in blood. So all those things kind of
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match up. And then here is more
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information. This is actually from Wikipedia,
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but it was a really good summary of everything that we just kind
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of read. So the Christian Basra of the
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end times. According to one Christian
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interpretation of Micah chapter 2, verses 12 through 13, Basra,
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or a place the Bible cryptically refers to as Basra, will also be
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the scene of a magnificent breakout of God's covenant
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people. According to this
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interpretation, the deliverance will come at an Edomite
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controlled place of exile and incarceration in the end times.
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Remember those like house prisons?
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This epic event referred to in Michael chapter 2 verses 12
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through 13 has been referred to by Doctor Gavin Finney as the
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Basra Deliverance Basra in Hebrew, but most translators
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render it as fold, sheep and fold.
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This breakout could be tied to Zechariah chapter 14 verses one
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through 5, when Yahweh fights against the nations, stands on
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the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem, and splits the Mount
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in two as a valley so that the remnant of Israel trapped in
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Jerusalem can escape those who would kill them.
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If so, Micah chapter 2, verses 12 through 13 would not relate
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to the to the locale of Basra. The notion of a remnant in
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Jerusalem fleeing through a split Mount of Olives derives
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from the Masoretic reading of Zechariah 14 verse 5.
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The Septuagint translation states in Zechariah 14 five that
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a valley will be blocked up as if it was blocked up during the
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earthquake. During King Uzziah reign, at the
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return of Jesus, there's also supposed to be a huge
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earthquake. Jewish historian Flavius
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Josephus mentions in the Antiquities of the Jews that the
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valley in the area of the Kings Garden was blocked up by a
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landslide rubble during Uziah earthquake.
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Israeli geologist Walks and Levitt identified the remnant of
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a large landslide on the Mount of Olives directly adjacent to
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this area. Based on geographical and
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linguistic evidence. Charles Clermont Gano, a 19th
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century linguist and archaeologist in Palestine,
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postulated that the valley directly adjacent to this
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landslide is Azel, the location mentioned in Zechariah chapter
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14, verse 5, to which the remnant in Jerusalem is to flee.
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Supposedly this location accords with the 70th reading of
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Zechariah 14, verse 5, which states that the valley will be
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blocked up as far as Azel. If Claremont Gano is correct,
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the notion of the people fleeing E through the Mount of Olives to
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Azel is impossible because the valley he identified, which is
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now known as Wadi Yazul in Arabic and Nahal Ezel in Hebrew,
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lies South of both Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives.
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So there's a lot more information and I'm, I won't
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read all of that, but I just, I think it's really interesting
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and important to do research on these ancient cities and, and
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tie it all together when we're studying it.
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It's very helpful to know what's going on here.
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So again, then it says, which is interesting.
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Oh gosh, I haven't yet got to this part about how this is also
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Jesus because it talks about the Lord will March out like a
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champion. This is verse 13 from Isaiah
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chapter 42. I know I'm jumping around a lot,
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but we're going back to the chapter we're reading.
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The Lord will March out like a champion, like a warrior.
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He will stir up his zeal with a S, with a shout.
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He will raise the battle cry and will triumph over his enemies.
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So in the end times it talks about Matthew chapter 24 verse
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30 and 31. Then will appear the sign of the
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Son of Man in heaven, and then all the peoples of the earth
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will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of
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heaven with power and great glory.
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And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they
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will gather his elect from the four winds from one end of the
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heavens to the other. And then in Mark chapter 13, it
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says here's this his version. But in those days following that
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distress, this is talking about the distress from the Antichrist
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or the lawless one that gets revealed.
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And then there's great this is like the great tribulation that
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happens, so it says. But in those days following that
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distress, so we do see the Antichrist, The sun will be
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darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall
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from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
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At that time people will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds
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with great power and glory, and He will send his angels and
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gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the
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earth to the ends of the heavens.
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Then in Luke it talks about it also in chapter 21 verses 25
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through 28, there will be signs in the sun, moon and stars on
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the earth. Nations will be in anguish and
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perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.
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People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming
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on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
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It sounds like there's going to be some supernatural things.
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The heavenly bodies will be shaken.
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That's like the fallen angels. I believe that's what it is.
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And then the Book of Revelation, it talks about the dragon who is
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Satan. His tail sweeps 1/3 of the
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stars, which is 1/3 of the fallen angels.
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That's why they're called fallen angels, because the stars are
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are symbolic of angels and they fall to the earth.
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So this Luke chapter really talks about people will faint
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from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for
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the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
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So there's something, you know, pretty supernatural coming down
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to earth at this point. It sounds like at that time they
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will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great
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glory. When these things begin to take
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place, stand up and lift up your heads because your redemption is
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drawing near. This is when God gathers.
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I mean, this is when people talk about the rapture or the
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resurrection. This is when it happens.
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So again, that's, you know, he will shout and raise the battle
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cry that when the trumpet is sounded, it's it's sometimes a a
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call to gather. If we look at the Old Testament
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and how it was done, I think I did a search on the word gather.
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Yeah, there's like there's so many references 116 times where
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it talks about the OR uses the word gather.
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And this is originally when the tribes were organized, they
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would have different trumpet sounds.
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That would be one for gathering all assembling all.
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Then there was another one like a war cry when they were going
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out to battle and even like in the the toppling of Jericho when
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amid that's very symbolic of the the end times where they go
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around the city and the 7th time they blow the trumpet, the
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police the are blowing the trumpet.
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That's when the wall falls down and it's very, it was, you know,
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a literal event that happened, but it's also very symbolic of
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Jesus returning in the whole like 7 year time frame.
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And you know the, there's a lot of symbology there about the end
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times. And so anyway, since there's 116
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different references about gathering, I don't know that I'm
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going to read all those, but that's a good study to, you
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know, really you'll see a lot where it's about the Lord
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gathering people at in the last days.
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And just go to blueletterbible.org and search
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the word gather and then you can see all of the verses that have
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that. But it's, it's worthwhile.
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And then it says for a long time we're going back to Isaiah
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chapter 42 now verse 14. For a long time I have kept
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silent. I have been quiet and held
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myself back. Well, I think about God being
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silent like for thousands of years.
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He's very patient and he's letting, he wants everybody to
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come to repentance. And so for a long time I have
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kept silent thousands of years and and I've been quiet and held
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myself back. But now, like a woman and
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childbirth, I cry out, I gasp and pant.
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I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their
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vegetations. I will turn rivers into islands
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and dry up the pools. There's a lot of things and, and
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times too that talk about I think the Euphrates River dries
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up so that the kings of the East can cross it and come over.
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And then there's also the Nile River drying up, which we are
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actually, you know, there's reports of that right now
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happening. And this is all prophesied in
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God's word. And again, this is like the
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comparison of like a woman and childbirth.
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That's another one that's really good to search because if you
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search like labor and pain, there's 19 times where it talks
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about that in Psalm 4048. Trembling sees them there, pain
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like that of a woman in labor. Isaiah 13 terror will see, sees
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them. Pain and anguish will grip them.
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They will writhe like a woman in labor.
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They will look aghast at each other and Isaiah 21 at this my
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body is wracked with pain. Pang sees me like those of a
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woman in labor. Jeremiah 6.
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We have heard reports about them are and our hands hang limp.
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Anguish has gripped us. Pain like that of a woman in
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labor. A lot of times it talks about
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hands going hanging limp about the end times too.
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And Jeremiah, Jeremiah says it quite a bit multiple verses like
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Jeremiah 13 and chapter 132249, Jeremiah 50 and then Micah.
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It also brings it up. So you'll see lots of references
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to a woman in, in labor pains and and then in One
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Thessalonians, chapter 5, verse 3, while people are saying peace
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and secure peace and safety, destruction will come on them
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suddenly as labor pains on a pregnant woman and they will not
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escape. So this is something that a lot
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of people are warning about because they're, if you look at
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what's happening now with Trump and all these different nations,
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there's all these like people joining the a nations, I should
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say, joining the Abraham Accords.
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And there's all these peace agreements.
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And in fact, some were saying they were nominating Trump for
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the Nobel Peace Prize because of all this peace that's happening.
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So we have to keep in mind that while this all sounds great, if
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we know the Bible, in First Thessalonians chapter 5, it says
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while people are saying peace and safety, destruction will
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come on them suddenly as labor pains on a pregnant woman and
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they will not escape. So it's important to be right
53:50
with God because the peace, it doesn't mean anything because
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Jesus said war will continue. There will be wars and rumors of
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wars all the way until the end. So we're not going to have this
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true peace until Jesus returns. Then if you look up childbirth,
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there are 6 times and it, you know, it just talks about
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childbirth, about the, the pains that come on and it's related to
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end times and, and severe pains. And so in Matthew 24, then
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there's birth pains. So if you want to look that up,
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there's only two of those that are mentioned.
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So in Matthew 24 verse 8, it says all these are the beginning
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of birth pains. So what is he talking about?
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It says Jesus answered, watch out so that no one deceives you,
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for many will come in my name, claiming I am Messiah and will
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deceive many. So that's probably the one who
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claims to be God standing in the presence of others.
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The lawless 1. You will hear of wars and rumors
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of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed.
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Such things must happen. But the end is still to come.
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Nation will rise against nation and Kingdom against Kingdom.
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There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
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Well, we sure have been seeing earthquakes and there has been
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famine in various places. All these are the beginning of
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birth pains. And then it continues and it
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talks about false prophets and about, you know, the gospel
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being preached to all nations. This is Jesus talking about, and
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it says so when you see that one standing in the holy place, the
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abomination that causes desolation, spoken through the
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prophet Daniel. Let those who are in Judea flee
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to the mountains and don't take any breaks.
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And for them there will be great distress, unequaled from the
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beginning of the world until now, and never to be equaled
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again. If those days had not been cut
55:52
short, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect,
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those days will be shortened. So that's Jesus returning.
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He will shorten those days. It says immediately after the
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distress of those days, talks about the sun and the moon and
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all that. Then will appear the Son of Man
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in heaven and all the people, and he will send, you know,
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after they see him, he's sending his angels with the trumpet
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call, and they will gather his elect.
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So that's the sequence of events.
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And then continuing on in Scripture, in Isaiah chapter 42,
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I will lead the blind by ways they have not known along
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unfamiliar paths. I will guide them.
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This is showing the mercy of God.
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I will turn darkness into light before them and make the rough
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places smooth. These are the things I will do.
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I will not forsake them, but those who trust in idols who say
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to images you are our gods will be turned back in utter shame.
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Now, you know, like today, it's kind of hard to think of what
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would be idols. Idols could be power, money,
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wealth, self-sufficiency, those kinds of things.
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Those who trust in idols but who say to images you are our gods.
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There's been sometimes where people were talking about AI
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kind of like being like a God, like it's, you know, the, the
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resource that everybody's going to.
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As it gets more and more developed and more
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sophisticated, people start relying on it for all their
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answers rather than God. So it's, you know, we're, if we
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do that, we are treating this thing like a God, like go to God
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with those questions, don't go to AI.
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But that's something in modern days that we can we can look at
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like that could definitely be this image that's being talked
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about. And then in verse 18 it says
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here you deaf look you blind and see who is blind but my servant
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and deaf like the messenger I send.
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So this is talking about Israel who is blind like the one in
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covenant with me. So the one in covenant with God
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is Israel blind like like the servant of the Lord.
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So it isn't the servant of the Lord, but blind.
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You have seen many things, but you pay no attention.
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You're your ears are open, but you do not listen it.
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It pleased the Lord for the sake of his righteousness to make his
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law great and glorious. But this is a people plundered
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and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in
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prisons. And in the new King James
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Version it says prison houses. And so again that made me think
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of October 7th, 2023. They have become plunder with no
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one to rescue them. They have been made loot with no
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one to say send them back. Which of you will listen to this
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or pay close attention in time to come?
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So this is talking about a future event right here.
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And this was in 700 BC. Who handed Jacob over to become
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loot and Israel to the plunderers?
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Was it not the Lord against whom we had sinned?
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For they would not follow his ways.
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They did not obey his law. So he poured out on them His
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burning anger, the violence of war.
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If people ever wonder why Israel is in all these wars, it's
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because of disobedience to God. That's what the Bible tells us.
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It enveloped them in flames, yet they did not understand.
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It consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
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And that's the end of chapter 42.
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So there is a lot that we covered and I think that was all
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of the references. That we have, so I will read
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through the the remaining questions and answers from the
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study Bible, which gives a different perspective.
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But to me it seems very clear that this whole chapter is about
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Jesus. So in what way would the Gent
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would the servant be a light? To the Gentiles, the Lord's
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servant is the Messiah Israel. In its ideal form, He would
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welcome not only Jews but also Gentiles into the family of God.
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Jesus Christ, who died for the sin of all humanity, fulfilled
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God's purpose of reaching out to the whole world through His
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chosen people and through His promised Messiah.
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Why is it a good idea to free prisoners?
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In the more immediate future, Isaiah was looking to his
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people's release from captivity in Babylon.
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Once again, though, we see that God's role for his people
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remained largely unfulfilled until the perfect work of
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Christ. The release from exile could
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only presage the release of all peoples from the bondage of sin
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and ignorance. God frees from the imprisonment
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of sin everyone who believes in His Son.
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What were kedar and Selah? Kedar was the home of nomadic
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tribes that settled in the Arabian desert.
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Selah probably referred to the capital of Edom, later known as
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Petra, set on the towering plateau South of the Dead Sea.
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Isaiah gives us topography lesson.
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Deserts, Kedar and the mountains.
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Selah will welcome the victorious Lord.
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And then why was God silent for so long?
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The Lord stood by, his stood by as his people went into
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captivity. Perhaps he felt the tension of a
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parent who must punish A beloved child.
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After a period of silence, God's inaction, he would again express
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himself mightily, crying out in judgement against Babylon and
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causing a miraculous restoration of his people.
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So again, that could be a foreshadowing.
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But I also think this is like end times related.
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So what made the Lord's servant blind?
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The servant in this context was Israel as a nation and the blind
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blindness was their willful resistance to see and believe
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the truth. God had earlier predicted the
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blindness and deafness of the people in chapter 6, verses 9
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through 10. These verses expressed not only
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God's frustration but also His determination to turn the
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darkness into light. How was Israel plundered and
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looted? The Assyrians overran the
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northern Kingdom of Israel in 722, deporting its people.
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The Babylonians raided the southern Kingdom of Judah in a
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series of invasions from 6:05 to 586 BC, looting and taking
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prisoners each time. In 586 BC, the Babylonians
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destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple and took the people of
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Judah into exile. Thus, the nation of Israel was
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not only looted, but the people themselves were made loot, being
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taken by force from their homeland.
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And then again we had October 7th, 2023.
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Did the people of Israel heed Isaiah's warnings?
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History reveals that Israel ignored Isaiah.
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The northern Kingdom of Israel was sent into Assyrian exile in
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722 BC, and the southern Kingdom of Judah went into Babylonian
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exile in 586 BC. Isaiah's contemporaries, the
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prophets Amos, Hosea, and Micah, were similarly ignored.
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So again, this will even be ignored.
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I don't know if anybody who would be Jewish would even
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listen to this podcast, but this would be like another one where
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if if in time they could turn and really explorers like seek
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God. God says if you seek me, you
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will find me. And to just pray to God that
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Jesus be revealed like who he is and eyes be opened.
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And if that is the person's will, it will be done because
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there are Jewish people, there are Messianic Jews, there are
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Jewish people who believe in Jesus as the Messiah.
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So some people's eyes have been opened.
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It's not everybody who's Jewish. And it's none of our jobs to
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force anyone but God does that work.
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So if people seek him, then he will be found.
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So if the Jewish people will ask God to reveal the truth because
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Jesus said he is the way the truth and the life and no one
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comes to the the Father except through him.
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So if if they will willfully do that, God will honor that and
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and they will be able to be to escape some of this of what is
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coming. What is written in prophecy that
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will definitely happen in the land of Israel.
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I mean, there's very, there's a lot of description about what's
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going to happen in Israel and coming on the whole earth.
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The whole earth is going to go through this, this trial, this,
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I guess trial testing period, judgment period.
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And it's a very important time to not delay in seeking God at
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this time. Get your life right with God.
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The main thing is knowing Jesus and also letting him be your
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Lord, which means we have to change our ways.
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We have to repent, we have to ask for forgiveness and then
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change our lives and asking for the Holy Spirit because God
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gives us the Holy Spirit so that we can live it out.
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So hopefully you'll come back for chapter 43.
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Another interesting, I just noticed the title.
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It says Israel's only savior. So we'll be talking about Jesus
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again.