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753. Bible Study: Joel 3 (Lebanon, Gaza, Turkey, Yemen, 2-State Solution? Could it be?) · Faith by annm2705

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  Could the timing of this chapter be any more coincidental?
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  This is very, very interesting. The date today is September
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  12th, 2025 and that we are going to be covering Joel chapter 3.
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  So let's get started. Dear God, there is so much going
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  on in the world and we need you so badly.
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  We really need to take Your Word seriously and take it to heart.
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  Please give us wisdom as we read through this chapter.
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  Please let the Holy Spirit open our eyes.
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  Let us see what You have shared so many thousands of years ago
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  with the prophet Joel and let us learn from this and let us apply
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  it to our lives and do to come away with being in a good
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  relationship with you. I ask for this in Jesus name,
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  Amen. So this is talking about the
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  nation's being judged. Chapter 3.
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  In those days, at that time when I restore the fortunes of Judah
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  and Jerusalem, OK, stop right there.
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  Have the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem been restored?
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  You know, some might say, yes. I mean, they're doing well.
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  They're very prosperous right now and.
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  That could be. That some of it has.
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  But then as we read further it, this is a future time.
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  This is not now. This is still in the future.
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  And let's go back again to say when Joel was written, it was
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  written around 8:35 to 796 approximately BC.
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  So this is almost like 3000 years ago when this was written.
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  And so he's a he's a prophet and he saw something or received the
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  word from God and he documented this and you know, all these
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  years people have set seen this. But when you when we start going
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  through this and I start bringing out some of the details
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  of this, you will probably be a little.
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  Is this coincidence that so? Many things are happening right
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  now. It's really it's it's.
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  It's going well. Did it?
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  Did me. It's just like, whoa.
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  This is this is very timely right now, like I said,
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  September 2025, OK, So in those days, at that time, when I
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  restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all
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  nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
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  There I will put them on trial. This is judgment.
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  So that hasn't happened yet. God hasn't brought all nations
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  to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. This is still in the future.
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  So this still has not been fulfilled yet.
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  There, I will put them on trial for what they did to my
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  inheritance, my people Israel. God is still calling His people
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  Israel. We there.
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  Is a a wave of anti-Semitism coming across regarding Israel
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  and Israel is being hated by many nations.
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  In fact, this is really interesting that just I just
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  received OK on Friday. Today is actually Friday,
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  September 12th. On this day there was, I'm going
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  to read what just happened because like I said, this timing
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  is so crazy. So today the UN General Assembly
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  a approved a declaration initiated by France and Saudi
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  Arabia calling for support of the two state solution.
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  The assembly convened today, Friday and passed the New York
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  declaration. That's what it's called the New
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  York Declaration by a vote of 142 in favor, 10 against and 12
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  absence sanctions. The declaration addresses the
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  Israeli Palestinian conflict and the implementation of A2 state
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  solution. The proposal introduced by
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  France and Saudi Arabia was first adopted at the New York
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  conference held in July. It outlines an action plan
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  intended according to its sponsors, sponsors to establish
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  UN quote, irreversible path toward the creation of a
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  Palestinian state. So a few of the highlights here.
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  There is, there are most of the nations are in favor 142,
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  there's ten against it and 12 that are abstaining from voting.
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  So the majority is saying we need to do this, we need to
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  divide the land and do A2 state solution in the name of peace.
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  Really, you know, they want to do this so that they can
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  establish peace because there's been these wars that are going
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  on in the Middle East. And so they have these
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  intentions and they are pushing this forward.
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  And whether it happens, I don't know.
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  But if it does happen, we could very well be in this time that
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  I'm about to read in this chapter 3.
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  So in it talking about a quote, irreversible path toward the
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  creation of a Palestinian state. Now when I read Joel chapter 3,
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  pay attention to the countries that are named here because
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  you're going to find this really eye opening right now.
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  When I did, I just was like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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  OK, so let's go back into what scripture.
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  First of all, it says what time does this refer to?
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  Here's question and answer from the Study Bible.
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  The final cosmic struggle between good and evil when
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  Christ returns like the the study Bible says this.
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  Now remember, this was written almost 3000 years ago.
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  What time does this refer to? The very first statement in
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  those days and at that time. And this refers to the final
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  cosmic struggle between good and evil when Christ returns.
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  We need to be watchful and not only do we need to be watchful,
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  but we need to be prepared and we need to prepare other people
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  too, so that if this is. Happening because we're seeing
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  the signs. If this has happened, we don't
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  want. People to be subject to the
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  wrath of God, because if your relationship with God if if you
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  are. Rebelling against him.
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  If you are keeping on sinning, you are subject to the wrath of
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  God. Scripture says that.
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  Scripture says those who keep on sinning are subject to the wrath
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  of God. So this is a.
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  Warning, you know they thank God if you're hearing this and you
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  have time before Jesus returns that you can get your life in
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  order so that you don't go through wrath.
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  There may be consequences of whatever sin it is that you
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  still have to deal with, but at least it won't be the wrath of
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  God. And it does say in the Bible,
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  and nobody likes to say this, but the fear of God is the
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  beginning of wisdom when we comprehend the power that God
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  has and that he will not be mocked.
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  These words that he's given us, they aren't just fluff.
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  They aren't just for our optional use.
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  They are to warn us, but the God behind this is a loving God.
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  But he's also. Just and when he says something,
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  he means it. And there are warnings
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  throughout Scripture and we as the world continue to ignore
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  God's warnings. This Bible has been around for
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  thousands of years. We don't read it.
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  I'm not. I mean, not, not everybody.
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  I mean, as the everyday person out on the street that you pass
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  by, how many people do you think have read this Bible, have read
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  this, who have studied this? It's not common for people to do
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  that. The majority of the people have
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  not the the majority of people might be just going to church
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  every great once in a while. With Christians, I mean all
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  Christians, then there's some, you know, who go every week and
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  but those who go into the word of God and study it daily.
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  There's smaller and smaller numbers when you get down to it.
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  But the ones who read it daily and who study it and who live by
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  it, they, they have more wisdom from God because they're reading
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  what he gave to his prophets. They're reading the history and
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  they're gaining an understanding of what is to come and a
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  warning. And we who go through this, who
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  read the Bible, who study the Bible, we will be blessed
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  because if we listen to God's Word, if we pay attention to
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  what he's saying, if we do what it says, like this is the answer
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  book. And if we go to the answer book
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  and we listen and we apply. What it says we're?
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  Going to be fine. There's nothing to fear.
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  But if we don't, it tells us we do have to fear because it will
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  not go well. So I, I mean, OK, I've talked a
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  little bit about this, so let's go.
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  What is the Valley of Jehoshaphat?
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  The city of Jerusalem overlooks this valley, which cuts a swath
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  north of the Mount of Olives southward past the old city of
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  Zion. This valley eventually joins the
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  Valley of Hinnom, located southwest of Jerusalem.
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  So this is this is very clearly in the Middle East, in
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  Jerusalem, and God is going to gather all nations and bring
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  them down to this valley. Then I won't, he says.
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  And Joel then there, I'm sorry, there I will put them on trial
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  for what they did to my inheritance, my people, Israel.
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  There is punishment for all nations for what they did to
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  Israel. Now, here's the reason why it
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  says because. So God's giving a reason why
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  he's going to bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
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  Here's why he's going to do that.
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  Because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up
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  my land. Divided up my land.
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  Listen to that. Divided up my land.
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  What is being discussed right now apparently in New York, I
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  thought this was going to be saved honestly for September
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  22nd through 24th, that this was going to be talked about and
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  maybe it will be talked about again and maybe this division of
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  the land doesn't happen right now, but if at some point it
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  will. Happen because prophecy says it
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  will. But prophecy also says that
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  that's when judgments going to come, sometime after the land
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  gets divided. How soon after the land gets
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  divided? It doesn't say here, but it says
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  that God is not happy with this. So we have 142 nations right now
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  that God is not happy with. There are 10 who said no to it.
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  God's still happy with them. And then there's 12 who
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  abstained. Whether or not they're for it or
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  against it or just want to remain neutral, who knows?
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  But God will judge those nations.
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  And so if you, you should probably look up and see if
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  you're a nation now, God isn't going to, I mean.
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  He will judge the nation's. But if we are God's children, if
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  we are obedient to God, we don't have to worry about this, we
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  don't have to fear. So even if we belong to one of
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  those nations, who? Is doing something against God
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  voting against God? Essentially.
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  God knows the person like. He it it's all on a personal
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  basis that that we will be judged.
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  But this is generality speaking and maybe because people are,
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  you know, like the the generalization of the nation's
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  all or majority are agreeing with us.
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  You know, maybe that's it. So anyway, let's go back to
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  Scripture. They cast lots for my people.
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  Now that's casting. Lots is kind of like rolling the
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  dice and, you know, making decisions.
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  That's what they did back at that time to make decisions on
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  things. But I'm just wondering like
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  dividing up the land, casting the lots, is it also like?
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  Casting a vote like this just happened.
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  Like casting a lot. I don't know, that's just
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  speculation right there. They cast lots from my people
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  and traded boys for prostitutes. They sold girls for wine to
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  drink. Don't really know how that
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  applies and I don't know if that symbolism.
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  Because a lot of times prostitutes are referred to as
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  idolatry and it could be a literal or it could be symbolic,
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  I don't know. And sold girls for wine to
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  drink. I know there's been a lot of
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  talking about the, I guess like sex trading too, that's occurred
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  in this community that came to in.
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  Not in this community, in this world, sex trafficking and, and,
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  and so there's that, you know, maybe this is referring to that,
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  I don't know. But those, those topics are
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  certainly topics that are in the news that are being talked about
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  today. And it's it's interesting that
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  the all this stuff is mentioned right here and it about the
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  judgment of the nations. Now here's where it it's like
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  whoa, now what you have now what have you against me, Tyre and
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  Sidon and all you regions of. Philistia OK, today that means
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  like, what do we? You know, like Tyre, we might
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  recognize Sidon maybe, but it's like, OK, these are names from
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  like, if you're not in the Middle East and you're in the
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  United States, you may not have any idea like where are these
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  places? Well, Tyre and Sidon is in
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  Lebanon in the modern day Lebanon.
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  So God is saying now what have you against me?
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  If you want to say Lebanon, but he talks about two cities,
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  Lebanon and all you regions of Philistia.
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  Well, where is Philistia? Philistia is Gaza, so that's the
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  land of the Philistines, That's the land of Gaza today.
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  So he's talking about Lebanon and Gaza.
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  What have you against me? Lebanon and Gaza.
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  What kind of turmoil's happening right now?
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  Right now we're seeing turmoil in the Middle East and Lebanon.
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  We're seeing it in Gaza. Now it even gets more in Gaza.
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  It would like Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ekron, Gath, Gaza, Jaffa, all of
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  those are part of the lands of Philistia.
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  And so here's what God says. Are you repaying me for
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  something I have done? If you are paying me back, I
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  will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have
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  done. Have you noticed what's been
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  going on with this? Like October 7th, 2023, the the
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  people of the land of Gaza came into Israel and slaughtered
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  people and God's calling Israel my inheritance, my people in
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  verse 2. And he's saying for what you
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  have done to my people, you are going to pay for this, this.
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  And he mentions Philistia, he mentions Gaza and he's like, are
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  you paying me back? I'm going to bring back on your
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  own heads. And then I'm thinking about what
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  has happened recently in the war between Israel and Hamas.
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  And a lot of leaders of Hamas have been eliminated.
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  A significant number of leaders have been significant, have been
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  eliminated. And and so it's very interesting
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  to me that God says if you are paying me back, I will swiftly
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  and speedily return on your own heads, heads what you have done.
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  Israel was killed. Now those who perpetrated who
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  were the perpetrators of Israel are now being killed.
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  So is this in fulfillment for you took my silver and my gold
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  and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.
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  That's really interesting. And I, I do wonder if it said
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  like I, I don't know about the temples.
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  I mean, like that's the worship of a, a false God, but I don't
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  know if it was that. Again, I don't know if that's
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  translation. I want to find that in the blue
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  letter Bible. It's verse 5.
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  It says to your temples or palaces.
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  OK, so again, these translations sometimes can get us mixed up on
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  what it's actually saying. So it says, you know, in another
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  version, it says you carried off my treasures to your palaces.
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  So they've taken and and again, this can be a silver and gold
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  and carried it off to your palaces.
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  I I'm going to look at the deeper to your temples and I
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  want to see what it says. It says, hey call.
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  I don't know how to pronounce this, so I'm going to have to
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  listen to it. Hopefully you can hear this.
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  Strong's H 1964 Hehal Hehal so it it's it's translated to mean
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  a temple or a palace, so. Whatever this is, is God is not
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  happy about this happening. So anyway, it says you you sold.
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  The people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that
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  you might send them far away from their homeland.
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  Well, I've been through this. Before in the Bible where I've
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  seen it. You know, when we hear Greeks
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  modern day today, we think of Greece.
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  Well, that's a bad. Translation, a really bad
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  translation and it doesn't give us the right information.
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  So to find the correct information, go to
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  blueletterbible.org. Look up Joel chapter 3.
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  Go to verse 6. When you get there, click on the
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  button on the left that says tools and then Scroll down to
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  where it says the Greeks. I'm in the new international
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  version and it's Strongs H3125 and it's Yevon or Yevoni.
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  I will let them pronounce it too.
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  Strong's Age, 3125 Yevadi Yevani, second entry.
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  So it's Yevani and it is Grecian comma Ionian.
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  OK, so again we get the word Greek and it was like a a
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  descendant of Yevon and it's like a proper name of a people
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  and it. You know it.
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  Goes into a lot of detail. There's the Hebrew Chaldean
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  lexicon, it says Ionia from this province being more to the east
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  and better known as the rest of Greece to the Orientals.
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  Its name became applied in their languages to the whole of
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  Greece. So again, it talks about all
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  these things in these different place, places here.
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  And then it says like also in Ezekiel, it says it's perhaps a
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  city of Arabia compared to Yevon, a city of Yemen.
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  But so then I looked up in just Google where was Ionia because
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  it talks about Ionia. Ionia is, is much bigger than
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  what it is. And I'm going to read to you
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  what this says. Ionia was an ancient region on
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  the central West Coast of Asia Minor, so that matches up with
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  what the Bible says, which is now modern day Turkey.
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  Isn't that interesting? It's Turkey, so we could be
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  thinking this is Greece, but in reality, because of the ancient
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  territory it is. What was modern day Turkey?
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  So that significantly changes like you sold the people of
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  Judah and Jerusalem to Greece. No, you sold them to Turkey that
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  you might send them far from their homeland.
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  Now has this happened? I don't think so.
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  Is there something coming about where they will be brought into
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  Turkey? I don't know.
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  I mean, but it's something that this is in prophecy and the rest
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  of this has not happened yet. I think we should pay attention
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  and watch. And when these things happen, we
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  will know that these things are true.
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  Like everything will come to pass that God talks about in in
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  the Bible. That's in the Bible and he's the
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  he God says, See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to
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  which you have sold them. And I will return on your own
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  heads what you have done. I will sell your sons and
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  daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them
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  to the Sabians, a nation far away.
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  The Lord has spoken. So again, the Sabians, who are
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  the Sabians? Because we don't have any people
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  that I don't know who the Sabians are.
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  So let's look that up. The Sabians were an anti-Semitic
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  people of South Arabia who founded the wealthy Kingdom of
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  Saba or Sheba, known for controlling trade routes,
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  especially for incense and precious goods.
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  From its capital at Merab, mentioned in the Bible, an
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  ancient Assyrian and else they were known for their strong
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  economy, organized monarchy and eventually.
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  Collapsed due to internal conflicts and civil war, so
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  again. This is prophesied way back
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  when, so the people of that time would know what area it is.
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  But then like if this is talking about the future, if that's
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  already collapsed, then people would say well this already
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  happened before, but because of the context of the rest.
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  Of the chapter. This hasn't happened already
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  before. This is something that is coming
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  up and you'll see even more so how it is coming up.
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  It has not happened yet. So where is this place?
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  This is where it gets very interesting.
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  Who were they? Ancient S Arabians.
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  The Sabians were inhabitants of the Kingdom of Sabah or Sheba in
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  what is now Yemen. Is Yemen active right now with
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  Israel? I'm just saying these, this is,
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  you know, this is all happening right now.
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  We've got Yemen, we've got Turkey.
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  We've got Gaza, we've got Lebanon.
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  These are all mentioned in Joel chapter 3 and the nations are
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  going to be judged. So I think we just need to pay
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  attention to these things. OK, then it continues on in
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  verse 9. Proclaim this among the nations.
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  Prepare for war. Rouse the warriors.
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  Let all the fighting men draw near an attack.
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  Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into
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  Spears. Let the weakling say, I am
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  strong. Come quickly all you nations
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  from every side, and assemble. There, he's talking about
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  bringing them all into the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
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  These nations do surround Israel.
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  Bring down your warriors, Lord. Let the nation's be roused.
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  Let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will
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  sit. To judge all the nations on
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  every side. There's prophecy in Daniel when
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  it says like when you see the nation's surrounding army like
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  to pay attention. This also like happens around
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  the abomination of desolation when all of the nations are
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  surrounding Israel and come against Israel.
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  So this is certainly a time to just be watching and sometimes
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  these things take years to eventually escalate to the level
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  of a war. But certainly all the players
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  are in position right now. All the ones who are talked
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  about in Joel are right there. And there's like conflict going
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  on. So this could be the very early,
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  we don't know how quickly this will accelerate.
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  But then it also says in here it's it talks about this all of
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  a sudden like happening very quickly.
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  And there's also that verse in Scripture that says when they
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  say peace and safety or peace and security, then comes sudden
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  destruction. So really, you know, there's a
• 28:08
  lot of talk about peace. There's this meeting coming up
• 28:11
  September 22nd or 23rd and 24th and they're talking about
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  dividing up the land of Israel maybe, you know, and it
• 28:21
  certainly looks like 142 nations are saying yes, do it.
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  There's only a few who are abstaining from it.
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  How is that going to come out? What's going to be the reality
• 28:30
  that? Unfolds after that.
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  That's yet to be seen. Will God pause this?
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  Will he give people more time? Or is he going to accelerate?
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  And we're going to be in the book of Joel in a matter of
• 28:42
  weeks, perhaps. Seriously, we need to think
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  about this stuff and. And and realize that this stuff
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  is talked about in the Bible. Now it says.
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  For there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side.
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  Now verse 13 Listen to this swing the sickle, for the
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  harvest is ripe. Come trample the grapes, for the
• 29:07
  winepress is full and the vats overflow, so great is their
• 29:12
  wickedness. Does that sound like anything
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  that you've heard before? If you ever read the Book of
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  Revelation, which it says, those who read the Book of Revelation
• 29:22
  will be blessed, That should make you think about Revelation
• 29:27
  chapter 14 verses 14 through 20, which I will read.
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  I looked and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the
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  cloud was one like a Son of man. That's usually referred to Jesus
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  and it's also referred to in Daniel Chapter 7 verse 13.
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  OK with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his
• 29:55
  hand. Then another Angel came out of
• 29:58
  the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on
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  the cloud. This is a heavenly temple.
• 30:05
  Take your sickle and reap because the.
• 30:08
  Time has come, the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the
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  earth is ripe. So he who was seated on the
• 30:18
  cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was
• 30:22
  harvested. Another Angel came out of the
• 30:25
  temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
• 30:29
  So again, pay attention. There were, there's one
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  harvesting that came out, there was, you know, something that
• 30:35
  already happened, but then there's another one.
• 30:38
  So still another Angel who had charge of the fire.
• 30:42
  So last chapter, weren't we talking about fire coming also?
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  So that's just another interesting detail.
• 30:49
  So another Angel who had charge of the fire came from the altar
• 30:53
  and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle.
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  Take your sharp sickle and gather the cluster of grapes
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  from the earth's vine because its grapes are ripe.
• 31:05
  The Angel swung his sickle on the the earth, gathered its
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  scrapes, and threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath.
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  This is God's wrath. They were trampled in the
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  winepress outside the city. Could that be in the Valley of
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  Jehoshaphat? And I added that could that be
• 31:28
  in the valley of Jehovah's fat? OK, so they were.
• 31:31
  They were trampled in the wine press outside the city, and
• 31:34
  blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horse's
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  bridles. For a distance of 1600 stadia.
• 31:44
  That translated is about 180 miles or about 300 kilometers.
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  So this is like a bloodbath. This is like very, very severe.
• 31:58
  And this is saying like when these nations are coming against
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  Israel and we're talking about Yemen, Turkey, Lebanon, Gaza,
• 32:11
  just listen, pay attention. It says multitudes, multitudes
• 32:16
  in the valley of decision, for the day of the Lord is near.
• 32:22
  In the Valley of Decision, the sun and moon will be darkened
• 32:27
  and the stars no longer shine. OK, that's a big clue right
• 32:33
  there. Because many times in.
• 32:36
  Scripture. It talks about the sun and the
• 32:39
  moon darkened and the stars no longer shining, no longer giving
• 32:44
  light. And so I want to read these.
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  There's not a ton of verses that I'm going to read, but this is
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  repeated throughout Scripture. And this is the day that the
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  Lord comes. So Isaiah chapter 13, verse 10,
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  the stars of heaven and their constellations will not show
• 33:03
  their light. The rising sun will be darkened
• 33:06
  and the moon will not give its light.
• 33:10
  In Joel chapter 2 before them, the earth shakes, the heavens
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  tremble. God said he was going.
• 33:20
  Remember, God said He was going to shake the earth and the
• 33:23
  heavens one more time. So then it continues.
• 33:27
  The sun and moon are darkened and the stars no longer shine.
• 33:32
  Like how many times does God have to repeat this?
• 33:34
  First He said it with Isaiah, then he said with Joel, and then
• 33:37
  again in Joel chapter 3 that we're reading right now.
• 33:40
  The sun and moon will be darkened and the stars will no
• 33:42
  longer shine. Now Jesus says in Matthew 24,
• 33:47
  verse 29, immediately after the distress of those days.
• 33:53
  Now he when he's talking about that, he's talking about the
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  abomination of desolation that happens and, and the people in
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  Judah are supposed to flee to the mountains at that time.
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  And there's going to be great distress that has never ever
• 34:08
  happened from the beginning of time and never will be as bad in
• 34:16
  the future. Like this is going to be the
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  worst time time and it's called the great tribulation.
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  And so there's going to be extreme tribulation that happens
• 34:27
  during this time. There's going to be an
• 34:30
  abomination. Of desolation.
• 34:31
  That's set up on the holy place, which is probably the Temple
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  Mount somewhere. I don't.
• 34:37
  We don't know what it is, but someday we we will know.
• 34:41
  And it's going to be very evident and if all of these
• 34:44
  things are like happening like these vote, I don't know this
• 34:47
  timing like really this chapter is very odd that we came upon it
• 34:52
  right now within this week where.
• 34:56
  Just be watchful. Just get right with God is all I
• 35:00
  can say. Because if these events unfold
• 35:03
  like what it's saying, Jesus has returned, I mean.
• 35:06
  I, the other thing is I don't, I, I'm so hesitant to believe
• 35:11
  this like, but I don't want to be one of those same doubting
• 35:14
  people that when Jesus came the first time, they doubted that he
• 35:17
  was the Messiah And so they missed him.
• 35:19
  And they're, they're still like the Jewish people are still
• 35:22
  waiting for the Messiah because they denied Jesus being that
• 35:26
  Messiah. And so just because things don't
• 35:29
  happen the way I thought they might, I don't want to be
• 35:32
  somebody who is, I don't, well, I don't care if I'm wrong about
• 35:37
  it, but I don't want to like, miss, not like be ready for
• 35:42
  that. And, and so there's, there's all
• 35:45
  these people, which I'm very skeptical of, but more and more
• 35:50
  people, if you want to like search on YouTube and find
• 35:52
  people who have been having dreams or you'd find the dates
• 35:56
  that this Rosh Hashanah is coming up or Rosh Hashanah is
• 36:00
  coming up September 22nd through 24th, somewhere in that time
• 36:05
  range. The Jewish feast, it's the feast
• 36:07
  of trumpets. And every year people, you know,
• 36:12
  say, usually say like, oh, could this be the year that Jesus
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  returns? Because a lot of people think
• 36:17
  that's when it's going to happen.
• 36:19
  And I, I do think that it's going to happen some year.
• 36:23
  And I didn't think this year, but all sorts of people are
• 36:27
  getting very bold about saying a specific date.
• 36:32
  Does that contradict Scripture? It says no one knows the day or
• 36:35
  the hour. So, you know, only the Father
• 36:40
  knows Jesus nor the angels know. So yeah, you know, you got to be
• 36:46
  like, is this a mass deception that's happening right now?
• 36:50
  Could the enemy of God be letting people think this is
• 36:54
  going to happen? Like, I think these people had
• 36:57
  these experiences and they're telling of all these quote
• 37:00
  confirmations that they've received from the Lord after
• 37:03
  prayer that they said, yes, this is the date.
• 37:06
  This is the date. I mean, there are so many people
• 37:09
  who have said this and I am skeptical, like I said.
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  And but at the same time, I'm not going to be so prideful as
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  to think that they didn't get this word.
• 37:24
  But this only gives us a few weeks.
• 37:26
  Like if you are not right with God, get right with God now
• 37:31
  because you can't afford to ignore this in my opinion,
• 37:37
  because if it does come and you are not prepared, you are just
• 37:41
  subject to the wrath of God. And I would not want to go
• 37:44
  through the wrath of God. And anyway, so this is really
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  just for people's protection, like people who take this
• 37:53
  seriously. And and all along all throughout
• 37:56
  history, like nobody, you know, everybody kind of mocked the
• 37:58
  prophets anyway, like back in this day, they, you know, they
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  just blew them off just like the days of Noah, you know, nobody
• 38:05
  knew what was coming up. And then all of a sudden the
• 38:07
  flood happened. And then people were, you know,
• 38:09
  only eight people were survived. Only eight people survived in
• 38:14
  the ark because they listened to God and they prepared.
• 38:18
  And, you know, they probably look crazy building this big ark
• 38:22
  on land for this flood that encompassed the whole earth.
• 38:28
  You know, sure, ahead of time they'd be like, OK, what's this
• 38:31
  nut doing? He's building this big ark.
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  But it turned out that he was the only one that was saved.
• 38:37
  You know, it's as broad as the path that leads to destruction
• 38:41
  and narrow is the road that leads to salvation and few find
• 38:44
  it. So all throughout the Bible it
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  tells us there are, you know, it's not a big number of people,
• 38:52
  but there are warnings there. It's a matter of whether we heed
• 38:55
  the warnings and we listen to what God says and do we apply it
• 38:59
  to our lives? Do we listen to God or do we
• 39:02
  just say it's not going to happen like I?
• 39:05
  Said I'm skeptical of this, but at the same time I'm not going
• 39:09
  to be in a compromised. Relationship with God, you know,
• 39:15
  this is really a critical time and it's not like you can just
• 39:19
  like say, OK, well, I'm only going to be good for this period
• 39:22
  of time because God's coming and we're not saved by our quote
• 39:26
  good works at all. But we are saved because of what
• 39:30
  Jesus did on the cross. Jesus made it possible for us to
• 39:35
  be in God's Kingdom. Just because he died on the
• 39:38
  cross doesn't mean that every single person is going to be in
• 39:40
  God's Kingdom because we either accept Jesus as Lord of our life
• 39:48
  as Lord. When I say Lord he's, do we
• 39:51
  accept him to rule over us? Will we submit to what he says
• 39:58
  we should do? Do we say, OK, Jesus, you would
• 40:02
  want me to do this and you know, or to not do?
• 40:06
  This. Or to not do, yeah, you know,
• 40:09
  whatever it is like, are you willing to do this?
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  Are you willing to say, you know, I want to do this, but I
• 40:15
  know that the Bible says I should not do this.
• 40:19
  Are you willing to stop doing what you want to do because the
• 40:23
  Bible says don't do it. You don't get to heaven that
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  way. You don't get into God's Kingdom
• 40:28
  that way. That's not your ticket to the
• 40:30
  Kingdom. The only thing that.
• 40:31
  Does is shows? God that you love him.
• 40:34
  So that's kind of affirming your relationship with God.
• 40:38
  If you say I don't care what you said, God, I'm going to do what
• 40:42
  I want to do. Do you think God feels love
• 40:45
  there? Do you think he's he?
• 40:48
  He feels like you valued his death on the cross so that you
• 40:53
  could just keep on sinning. Do you think God appreciates
• 40:58
  that? Do you think God feels like you
• 41:01
  love him if you choose that? I mean, we need to wake up
• 41:05
  people like this is real. We're not talking about some
• 41:07
  myth. We're not talking about some old
• 41:09
  story. This God is real and we just
• 41:16
  it's been so long ago that this this was that he was here on
• 41:21
  earth that, you know, we've kind of gone so far away where maybe
• 41:26
  to some it doesn't feel real, like it doesn't feel.
• 41:29
  But there were witnesses, people documented, people gave up their
• 41:33
  lives and would not deny that he was the Son of God, that he died
• 41:41
  on the cross, that he resurrected.
• 41:44
  They gave up their lives. They were beheaded, they were
• 41:47
  crucified upside down. They were tormented.
• 41:51
  They most, I think, except for one of the 12 disciples, maybe
• 41:57
  there was a couple, they, they died very horrible deaths
• 42:02
  willingly because they would not deny Christ.
• 42:06
  So those kinds of actions that people take, you know, to give
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  up your life to say, no, I'm standing by this is true.
• 42:16
  Like I'm willing to die because this is true.
• 42:18
  They aren't killing other people because that's what other
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  religions do. They'll just wipe out other
• 42:22
  people that don't agree with them.
• 42:23
  No, these people were like letting their own lives be taken
• 42:30
  from them because they wouldn't because of the because of his
• 42:34
  name, because of Jesus, their lives were taken from them and
• 42:40
  they believed so strongly that they would, they would suffer
• 42:45
  that because they know that life does continue.
• 42:50
  We do have eternity there. It isn't.
• 42:53
  You only live once. I mean, it is, but it isn't.
• 42:56
  It's not like our life here on earth is the only thing that
• 43:00
  matters because the earth is going to pass away, the heavens
• 43:04
  are going to pass away, God is going to create a new creation
• 43:07
  and nothing evil will ever enter it, and we will have eternity
• 43:12
  forever. I mean eternity.
• 43:15
  I mean, that's what it is forever.
• 43:17
  Anyway, I'm just, I, I went way off the path, which I do often,
• 43:21
  but it's just like where my thoughts come to mind.
• 43:25
  But this, the sun and the moon will be darkened and the stars
• 43:27
  will no longer shine. That's what Joel says.
• 43:30
  The Lord will roar from Zion and Thunder from Jerusalem.
• 43:34
  The earth and the heavens will tremble.
• 43:37
  OK, I want to read about these things, about the darkening.
• 43:40
  We talked about Isaiah. We talked about Joel and Jesus
• 43:43
  saying immediately after the distress of the those days, the
• 43:47
  sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the
• 43:50
  stars will. Fall.
• 43:51
  From the sky and the heavenly bodies will be shaken, but in
• 43:57
  those and then in Mark he documents Jesus saying this
• 44:01
  chapter 13 verse 24. But in those days following that
• 44:06
  distress, that's the great tribulation.
• 44:09
  The sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.
• 44:14
  And there's more to it, but that's verse 24 and.
• 44:21
  Let's. See there's I want to read this
• 44:26
  is not related to the sun and the moon getting darkened.
• 44:29
  But when I searched darkened in the blue letter Bible this verse
• 44:33
  came up and I was like wow I need to read this though because
• 44:38
  this. Is.
• 44:39
  For. All of us.
• 44:42
  This is a warning. It's in in Ephesians chapter 4
• 44:46
  verse 18, and it says they are darkened in their understanding
• 44:55
  and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance
• 45:03
  that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
• 45:09
  So the point I'm making from here, it says separated from the
• 45:14
  life of God because of hardening of their hearts, refusal to
• 45:20
  listen, like no, I don't want that.
• 45:23
  So you say, no, I don't want that.
• 45:25
  They're separated from life of God.
• 45:29
  I think that's really important to don't let your heart be
• 45:33
  hardened towards God. Like turn to him in a humble way
• 45:39
  and ask him for forgiveness and ask him, tell him that you want
• 45:45
  to be a child of God and you want him to guide you and you
• 45:49
  want and you accept his leadership, his authority.
• 45:54
  So I just felt strongly about reading that part.
• 45:58
  But then you know, when it gets again about the sun in the sky
• 46:01
  darkened. I don't know if this is the same
• 46:03
  time frame or if it's just a coincidence that there's another
• 46:07
  darkening because it talks about it's darkened because of the
• 46:10
  smoke. Now, whether the sun and the
• 46:13
  moon were darkened. But this OK so Revelation
• 46:16
  Chapter 9 verse 2, when he opened the abyss, smoke rose
• 46:22
  from it like the smoke of a gigantic furnace.
• 46:26
  The sun and the sky were darkened by the smoke from the
• 46:31
  abyss. Now this is when the Angel
• 46:36
  releases something that is deep in the earth, the abyss like
• 46:41
  somewhere deep in the earth. This is like evil things that
• 46:44
  are released into the earth and they come out to torment people
• 46:50
  of the earth. And this happens during all the
• 46:53
  trumpets. So I'm not certain about the
• 46:57
  sequence of events here and whether this darkening is the
• 47:01
  same. It it does, it does look a
• 47:03
  little bit different, but it could be the same time.
• 47:06
  I'm just not sure. I, I don't know.
• 47:12
  And so I, I'm going to qualify it with that because it just
• 47:16
  says the sun and the sky were darkened from the smoke from the
• 47:18
  abyss. Now, is this the same event
• 47:20
  where the sun and the moon are darkened and the stars no longer
• 47:23
  shine? Is it, is it, is that how it
• 47:25
  gets darkened? Because there's this smoke from
• 47:27
  the abyss that happens that, you know, like it, it talks about
• 47:31
  people having this fear that makes them grow pale, like they
• 47:34
  are pale, like they're just horrified or terrified from what
• 47:38
  they see. And just like this is what the
• 47:43
  Bible's telling us is, is sometime in the future, the
• 47:48
  trembling. So this, you know, talks about
• 47:51
  the earth and the heavens will tremble often when God's
• 47:55
  presence is there, there's a trembling like people, you know,
• 48:00
  we, we haven't seen God in the sky.
• 48:04
  But when there's something like astonishing that happens, I'm
• 48:10
  sure there will be this kind of like, wow, it's so big, so huge
• 48:15
  and so impressive that we will like tremble in the presence of
• 48:20
  God. And, and it says like in Psalm
• 48:24
  114, it says tremble earth at the presence of the Lord, at the
• 48:30
  presence of the God of Jacob in Isaiah 13 verse 13, it says,
• 48:37
  therefore I will make the heavens tremble and the earth
• 48:41
  will shake from its place at the wrath of the Lord Almighty in
• 48:48
  the day of his burning anger. So there's going to be like it
• 48:53
  sounds like an earthquake. The earth will shake from its
• 48:56
  place. It's probably a big earthquake.
• 48:59
  There was an earthquake when Jesus died on the cross because
• 49:03
  the tombs opened up and several people came out of them.
• 49:06
  It doesn't really. The Bible doesn't go into detail
• 49:08
  about who those people were, but they walked around the city of
• 49:10
  Jerusalem, which I find very interesting.
• 49:13
  Like why is there not more information about that?
• 49:15
  What happened to him afterwards? The Bible doesn't say.
• 49:19
  So it's a mystery. But a lot of times when God's
• 49:23
  presence is there, there is an earthquake, there is a
• 49:25
  trembling, there is a shaking and God said, I will shake the
• 49:29
  heavens and the earth one more time.
• 49:34
  So there's an Isaiah 19 verse one, it says a prophecy against
• 49:38
  Egypt. OK, this wasn't in and this
• 49:42
  country was not named in Joel chapter 3, but in Isaiah chapter
• 49:47
  19, it is a prophecy against Egypt.
• 49:50
  See, the Lord rides on a swift cloud.
• 49:53
  Now remember, we said he was the Son of man, was on this cloud
• 49:57
  and he had a sickle and it was about to, you know, use the
• 50:02
  sickle to gather the grapes and trample them.
• 50:05
  And that's what Jesus does. He tramples the grapes, not the
• 50:09
  real, I mean, it's the symbolic grapes.
• 50:12
  He brings out the wrath. Jesus's return is going to be
• 50:16
  for wrath, for justice, a prophecy against Egypt.
• 50:21
  See the Lord rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt the
• 50:26
  idols of Egypt tremble before him and the hearts of the
• 50:31
  Egyptians melt with fear so that's very interesting like the
• 50:34
  idols to me that that is like a spiritual thing that they
• 50:38
  worship those spirits are submitting to the Son of God
• 50:47
  let's. See.
• 50:50
  I don't know if this is before or after, but it says the Lord
• 50:53
  has stretched out his hand over the sea and made its kingdoms
• 50:55
  tremble. So again, this is just like a
• 50:58
  the Lord's presence and trembling happen.
• 51:02
  Then in Isaiah 32 verse 10, it says in in little more than a
• 51:07
  year, you who feel secure will tremble, the grape harvest will
• 51:13
  fail and the harvest of fruit will not come.
• 51:18
  So I don't know if that was past prophecy or not.
• 51:23
  So that may not even be relevant.
• 51:25
  But let's see. Isaiah 44 says do not, do not
• 51:34
  tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and
• 51:38
  foretell it along long ago? You are my witnesses.
• 51:42
  Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other rock.
• 51:47
  I know not one. So God's children should not
• 51:52
  tremble. If we have a good relationship
• 51:54
  with God, if we are not in rebellion towards Him, we don't
• 52:00
  have anything to fear. It says, like God, we are not
• 52:03
  subjects of wrath. When we have a good relationship
• 52:07
  with God, we are not appointed to wrath.
• 52:10
  So we don't have to fear. He's not coming to hurt us, but
• 52:13
  he's coming to hurt his enemies, not to hurt.
• 52:17
  He's coming to take make justice happen on his enemies for what
• 52:21
  they did. So that's what he's coming for.
• 52:25
  But if we are against God, then we are.
• 52:32
  Subject to wrath. Let's see, you know it just this
• 52:38
  is an exclamation to God. Oh, that you would rend the
• 52:41
  heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before
• 52:45
  you. I mean this, the presence of the
• 52:47
  Lord is something that people would tremble.
• 52:53
  You know, should this is in Jeremiah chapter 5 verse 22.
• 52:58
  Should you not fear me, Declares the Lord.
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  So again, God, God's like, you know you should fear me.
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  You know He's not saying he goes.
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  Should you not tremble in my presence?
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  I have made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting
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  barrier. It cannot cross.
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  The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail.
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  They may roll, but they cannot cross it.
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  Like think about what God has done.
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  He put the sand on the beach and and it's like, no, the waves are
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  going to stay in that area. That's where I told the waves to
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  stay. Like who else can do that?
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  This is God doing this it. But again, they there's a lot of
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  things about God and trembling at the day or at when in his
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  presence. That.
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  Here's Joel chapter 2. It says, Blow the trumpet in
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  Zion, sound the alarm on my holy hill.
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  Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the Lord
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  is coming. It is close in hand before them.
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  The earth shakes, the heavens tremble, the sun and moon and
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  darkened, and the stars no longer shine.
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  So this is that, that similar verse that's in chapter 2, verse
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  10 from Joel and Joel chapter 3, verse 16, The Lord will roll,
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  roar from Zion and Thunder from Jerusalem.
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  The earth and the heavens will tremble, but the Lord will be a
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  refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of
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  Israel, like the people of Israel will not have to fear at
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  this. Those are the Lord's people.
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  And it says like when a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the
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  people tremble? When disaster comes to a city,
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  has not the Lord caused it? That's an Amos.
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  He's another prophet, which we haven't read yet or yet maybe we
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  did chapter 3, verse 6. So I think I've kind of made the
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  point about God's presence and trembling and Romans.
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  Paul says Chapter 11, verse 20. Granted, but they were broken
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  off because of unbelief. And you stand by faith do not be
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  arrogant but tremble. So he's talking about the tree
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  on how I guess the olive tree. I'll have to go back to that
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  chapter. But this is AI think this is
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  probably when he's talking about Israel being broken.
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  Yeah, like so there this is symbolism about this engrafted
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  branches that and I'll I'll just read this.
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  OK, so this is Romans Chapter 11 verse 11 through 24.
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  I'll read again. I ask this is talking about
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  Israel. Did they stumble as so to fall
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  beyond recovery? Not at all.
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  Rather because of their transgression, salvation has
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  come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious.
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  So all this anti-Semitism, it's God hasn't turned away from
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  Israel. He's, you know, obviously he's
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  not. I mean, they're, they're being
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  successful in their battles currently.
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  And are they, you know, have they denied Jesus?
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  Yes, they've been blinded, they've chosen other things.
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  But did they stumble so far as to fall beyond recovery?
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  Paul says no, not at all, but because of their transgression,
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  because of their their sinful ways, salvation came to the
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  Gentiles, to all those who are not Jewish people, to make
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  Israel envious, like God's Kingdom is going to be for all
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  nations. And OK, I'll go on.
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  But if their transgression means riches for the world and their
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  loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater
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  riches will their full inclusion bring?
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  I am talking to you, Gentiles, in as much as I am an apostle to
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  the Gentiles. I take pride in my ministry in
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  the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and
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  save some of them. For if their rejection brought
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  reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be
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  but life from the dead? If part.
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  Of the dough offered as first fruits as holy, then the whole
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  batch is holy. If the root is holy, so are the
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  branches. So a lot of stuff that Paul says
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  is really hard to understand and the symbolism in there, but you
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  know. Jesus is like the root.
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  And he and he also says like I am the vine, you are the
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  branches and apart from me, you can do nothing.
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  There's, there's all these things like we, if we are in
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  Christ, if we are connected to the vine, if we, if we have the
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  Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God is that that shared when we
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  receive the Holy Spirit, when we believe in Jesus and we repent
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  of our sins and we receive the Holy Spirit.
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  That is how we become one with the Father and the Son through
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  the Holy Spirit. And that's what Jesus promised
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  his followers that he would send an advocate who would be with
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  them. And that's the Holy Spirit.
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  And when we believe and we truly repent and we make him our Lord
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  and we are in obedience to him. You know, we are willingly
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  obedient. We might mess up here and there,
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  but we don't let that go on. We don't continue to keep on
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  sinning. We just, we, we go back to God
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  and we're like, he's, he's our boss.
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  You know, he's, he's, he's our, he's our authority.
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  I should say more, whatever you want to call it, but he's the
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  authority. And so if we're connected to
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  him, then we become holy. If we don't show fruit of the
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  Holy Spirit, I don't think we can be confident that we have
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  the Holy Spirit. If we're not showing fruit, if
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  there's no change in our life, that's that's something that's
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  evident evidence of it. And it it does begin to make us
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  change, to become more holy like God.
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  We will never become, we will never be perfect, but we do
• 1:00:05
  start to change. As a result of the Holy Spirit,
• 1:00:09
  not by our own works, but what God does in US.
• 1:00:13
  And it's that humbling of us, like we're not doing it on our
• 1:00:16
  own. We're letting, letting God
• 1:00:18
  change our lives and we're willfully submitting to him to
• 1:00:22
  say, OK, I'm going to do what you want me to do.
• 1:00:24
  I'm not just going to be selfish and do what I want to do.
• 1:00:28
  So if some of the branches have been broken off and you, though
• 1:00:31
  a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among others, and now
• 1:00:35
  share in the nourishing SAP from the olive root, do not consider
• 1:00:39
  yourself to be superior to these other branches.
• 1:00:42
  If you do consider this, you do not support the root, but the
• 1:00:46
  root supports you. You will then say branches were
• 1:00:50
  broken off so that I could be grafted in granted, but they
• 1:00:54
  were broken off because of unbelief and you stand by faith.
• 1:00:59
  Do not be arrogant but tremble. That's the other thing is we
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  have to remember that this in Scripture says pride comes
• 1:01:06
  before the fall. So we when we are like grafted
• 1:01:11
  in, we weren't supposed to be anyone chosen.
• 1:01:14
  Israel was chosen and if we are in Christ and he has, you know,
• 1:01:21
  accepted us or called us and we responded in a positive way to
• 1:01:25
  him, then we are grafted in. We become a part of him.
• 1:01:31
  Like Jesus prayed to the Father before he died on the cross.
• 1:01:35
  He said like Father, make them one as we are one.
• 1:01:38
  He wanted that that wonderful relationship that he has with
• 1:01:42
  the Father for all of us to have as well.
• 1:01:45
  And that happens through the Holy Spirit.
• 1:01:48
  And like Jesus said in John chapter 3, that you cannot enter
• 1:01:52
  the Kingdom of heaven unless you were born again, born of the
• 1:01:56
  Spirit. So if we don't have the Holy
• 1:01:58
  Spirit, we can't get into the Kingdom of heaven.
• 1:02:03
  So for God, if God did not spare the natural branches, he will
• 1:02:08
  not spare you either. So like don't get, don't get too
• 1:02:12
  cocky because if he didn't do this for his own people in
• 1:02:18
  Israel and he broke them off because they had unbelief, don't
• 1:02:22
  think he will not do the same to you.
• 1:02:25
  So it says, consider therefore the kindness and stemness of
• 1:02:29
  sternness of God, sternness to those who fell, but kindness to
• 1:02:35
  you, provided that you continue in his kindness.
• 1:02:42
  Otherwise you also will be cut off.
• 1:02:46
  And God hates pride. So if somebody's getting
• 1:02:48
  prideful, that's a warning because it says pride comes
• 1:02:51
  before the fall. And if God's going to say, hey,
• 1:02:54
  I'm going to cut you off, you, you don't represent me.
• 1:02:57
  You're not showing the fruits of the Spirit.
• 1:02:59
  The fruit of the Spirit is not prideful.
• 1:03:01
  So that's a word of warning to people who are like, I'm this
• 1:03:06
  perfect religious person and you know, I'm a child of God and I'm
• 1:03:11
  righteous and all this. I mean, no, that's not what what
• 1:03:14
  God wants. He wants, you know, mercy,
• 1:03:18
  compassion, love out of people, not pride.
• 1:03:22
  And so Paul also says like, and if they, and if they do not
• 1:03:27
  persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in for God is able to
• 1:03:33
  graft them in again. So this is a message to the
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  Jewish people. Like right now, the Jewish
• 1:03:38
  people who are Orthodox Jew do not believe that Jesus is the
• 1:03:42
  Messiah, and right now they are. They are cut off because of
• 1:03:47
  unbelief, but they will be grafted in.
• 1:03:52
  God is able to graft them in. So when they recognize Jesus as
• 1:03:58
  the Messiah and accept him, then they will be grafted back in
• 1:04:05
  after all. OK, so Paul goes on to say,
• 1:04:07
  after all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is a is
• 1:04:12
  wild by nature and contrary to nature were grafted into a
• 1:04:17
  cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these the
• 1:04:22
  natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?
• 1:04:27
  So we have to remember that Israel will definitely be
• 1:04:31
  granted in God is not, you know, he Israel is still God's chosen
• 1:04:38
  people. In fact, that is what Paul
• 1:04:43
  continues to say all it says all Israel will be saved in my book.
• 1:04:48
  I do not want you to be ignorant of those mystery brothers and
• 1:04:52
  sisters so that you may not be conceited.
• 1:04:55
  Israel has experienced a hardening in part until until
• 1:05:03
  the full numbers of the Gentiles have come in.
• 1:05:06
  So God's putting this hardening on Israel because of their
• 1:05:11
  choice, like he's letting it happen, letting it continue,
• 1:05:14
  continue to happen. They have this blindness about
• 1:05:16
  who Jesus is until in part until the full number of Gentiles has
• 1:05:23
  come in the non Jews until they have come into belief.
• 1:05:28
  He's allowing this to happen, and in this way all Israel will
• 1:05:34
  be saved. As it is written, the deliverer
• 1:05:37
  will. Come from Zion, He will turn
• 1:05:41
  godlessness away from Jacob, and this is my covenant with them
• 1:05:47
  when I take away their sins. As far as the gospel is
• 1:05:52
  concerned, they are enemies for your sake, but as far as
• 1:05:56
  election is concerned, they are loved on account of the
• 1:06:02
  patriarchs like God's promise to Abraham.
• 1:06:07
  For God's gifts and His call are irrevocable.
• 1:06:14
  Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now
• 1:06:21
  received mercy as a result of their disobedience, so they too
• 1:06:28
  have now become disobedient in order that they too may now
• 1:06:33
  receive mercy as a result of God's mercy to you.
• 1:06:38
  For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that He may
• 1:06:44
  have mercy on them all. So I'll just read the very end.
• 1:06:51
  Oh, the depth of riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God.
• 1:06:55
  How unsearchable his judgments and his paths beyond tracing out
• 1:07:02
  who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his
• 1:07:06
  counsellor? Who has ever given to God that
• 1:07:09
  God should repay them? For from him and through him and
• 1:07:14
  for him are all things. To him be the glory forever.
• 1:07:19
  Amen. So that was a letter written to
• 1:07:22
  the Romans and explains some things, but probably creates
• 1:07:26
  confusion for a lot more too. So anyway, let's go back to Joel
• 1:07:33
  in verse 16. The end of it the.
• 1:07:36
  Lord will roll. From roar, from Zion and Thunder
• 1:07:39
  from Jerusalem, and the earth and the heavens will tremble,
• 1:07:42
  but the Lord will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for
• 1:07:47
  the people of Israel. Then you will know that I, the
• 1:07:53
  Lord your God, dwell in Zion. My holy hill, Jerusalem will be
• 1:08:00
  holy. Never again will foreigners
• 1:08:03
  invade her. So I'm going to say that's not
• 1:08:06
  today. Never again will foreigners
• 1:08:09
  invade Jerusalem. I mean, we're talking about
• 1:08:12
  dividing up that land right now. So it and it's going to be holy.
• 1:08:19
  This is God's chosen place. He chose Jerusalem.
• 1:08:22
  So in that day the mountains will drip new wine, and the
• 1:08:27
  hills will flow with milk. All the ravines of Judah will
• 1:08:30
  run with water. A fountain will flow out of the
• 1:08:36
  Lord's house and will water the valley of Acacias.
• 1:08:44
  But Egypt will be desolate. Edom, a desert waste.
• 1:08:49
  That's southwest Jordan. Edom, a southwest Jordan.
• 1:08:52
  A desert waste. Why?
• 1:08:54
  Because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose
• 1:08:59
  land they shed innocent blood. Sounds like there's going to be
• 1:09:05
  some tragedy that occurs that some will be, you know, when
• 1:09:10
  this abomination of desolation happens.
• 1:09:12
  That's why God says get out of there, go to the mountains.
• 1:09:15
  There's probably going to be some people that'll be killed.
• 1:09:17
  This is going to be like something horrific that comes
• 1:09:20
  up. We have a lot of horrific things
• 1:09:22
  happening right now, but there's one more that's going to be the
• 1:09:29
  worst in all history and the worst ever to happen and will
• 1:09:36
  never happen again. But this is something that
• 1:09:41
  nobody can prepare for this. We don't even know what to
• 1:09:43
  expect. But this is not a time to be
• 1:09:47
  playing around with with God. This is a time to be sincere
• 1:09:53
  with God and to come to him in a humble way and get right with
• 1:09:59
  him because you don't. You don't want to experience the
• 1:10:03
  wrath of God. You don't want to be his enemy
• 1:10:05
  when Jesus returns, and it's because of the violence done to
• 1:10:10
  the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
• 1:10:15
  Judah will be inhabited forever. Forever is eternity and
• 1:10:21
  Jerusalem through all generations.
• 1:10:23
  Shall I leave their innocent blood unavenged?
• 1:10:29
  No, I will not. The Lord dwells in Zion.
• 1:10:36
  This is Jesus is going to reign from Jerusalem as king for 1000
• 1:10:44
  years during the Millennium. In fact, this temple where it
• 1:10:48
  says in this verse a fountain will flow out of the Lord's
• 1:10:51
  house and will water the valley of Caius.
• 1:10:53
  That's what in Revelation 22 it talks about this temple.
• 1:11:00
  Listen to what it says here. It says in Revelation 22 verse
• 1:11:04
  one, then the Angel. This is talking about an Angel
• 1:11:07
  that's showing this to John, the disciple of Jesus, one of the
• 1:11:10
  apostles who was on the island of Patmos when he had this
• 1:11:14
  vision. The Angel showed me.
• 1:11:16
  The river of the Water of life. As clear as crystal, flowing
• 1:11:22
  from the throne of God and of the Lamb, down the middle of the
• 1:11:29
  great St. of the city, on each side of the river stood the Tree
• 1:11:34
  of Life, bearing 12 crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every
• 1:11:39
  month. And the leaves of the tree are
• 1:11:42
  for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be any
• 1:11:47
  curse. See, there is a curse right now.
• 1:11:49
  The throne of God and the end of the Lamb will be in the city,
• 1:11:54
  the throne of God and Jesus. Jesus is the Lamb of God, the
• 1:11:59
  sacrificed Lamb. The throne of God and of Jesus
• 1:12:04
  will be in the city and his servants will serve him.
• 1:12:09
  They will see his face and his name will be on their foreheads.
• 1:12:14
  You know, is that symbolic of having, you know, that's, that's
• 1:12:18
  their first thought. He's their priority.
• 1:12:21
  There will be no more night. I think again, this is a
• 1:12:24
  translation thing. It's just there will be no more
• 1:12:27
  darkness. I think is really what it says.
• 1:12:29
  You will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun,
• 1:12:34
  for the Lord will give them light and they will reign
• 1:12:37
  forever and ever. Maybe it is literal, I don't
• 1:12:39
  know. I mean, again, we don't have a
• 1:12:41
  perfect interpretation of this, but there is a restoration
• 1:12:45
  coming and and I should probably just read the this other.
• 1:12:50
  I want to read the rest of this chapter because this chapter is
• 1:12:52
  kind of beautiful. The Angel said to me, these
• 1:12:56
  words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God who inspires
• 1:13:00
  the prophets, like we're reading about Joel, he inspired Joel,
• 1:13:04
  sent his Angel to show his servants the things that must
• 1:13:08
  soon take place. Look, I am coming soon, bless.
• 1:13:13
  It is the one who keeps the words of this prophecy written
• 1:13:19
  in the scroll. I, John, and the one who heard
• 1:13:24
  and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen
• 1:13:28
  them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the Angel who had
• 1:13:31
  been showing them to me. But he said to me, don't do
• 1:13:34
  that. I'm a fellow servant with you
• 1:13:36
  and with your fellow prophets, and with all who keep the words
• 1:13:42
  of the scroll. Worship God.
• 1:13:45
  Then he told me, do not seal up the words of the prophecy of
• 1:13:51
  this scroll, because time is near.
• 1:13:53
  God wants to warn everybody. Let the one who does wrong
• 1:13:59
  continue to do wrong, let the vile person continue to be vile.
• 1:14:05
  Let the one who does right continue to do right, and let
• 1:14:10
  the holy person continue to be holy.
• 1:14:13
  Look, I am coming soon. My reward is with me and I will
• 1:14:20
  give to each person according to what they have done.
• 1:14:24
  I am the alpha and the Omega, the 1st and the last, the
• 1:14:29
  beginning and the end. Blessed are those who wash their
• 1:14:33
  robes. That's like getting rid of sin,
• 1:14:38
  that they will have the right to the tree of life and may go
• 1:14:43
  through the gates into the city. Listen to this.
• 1:14:47
  This is this is kind of, yeah, this is something that really
• 1:14:51
  pay attention. Outside are the dogs.
• 1:14:55
  Now, the dogs was a a word back then for male prostitutes.
• 1:15:00
  It was an idiom, I guess. Outside are the dogs, those who
• 1:15:05
  practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers,
• 1:15:13
  the idolaters, and everyone. Who loves and practices
• 1:15:18
  falsehood? It it just OK that that
• 1:15:22
  sentence? Revelation 22 verse 15.
• 1:15:27
  Really. I mean this.
• 1:15:29
  Is this is? Jesus, it'll say it next
• 1:15:31
  sentence, it'll say I, Jesus have sent my Angel to give you
• 1:15:36
  this testimony for the churches. So this is this is.
• 1:15:41
  For the churches. This is these are for believers.
• 1:15:44
  This is not for others who don't believe.
• 1:15:47
  This is for the believers. I am the root and the offspring
• 1:15:51
  of David and the bright Morning Star.
• 1:15:54
  So it's saying outside are the dogs, those who practice magic
• 1:15:58
  arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and
• 1:16:03
  everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
• 1:16:06
  If you don't want to be in God's Kingdom, continue to do all that
• 1:16:10
  stuff that was just mentioned. If you want to be in God's
• 1:16:15
  Kingdom, you need to repent. You need to ask for forgiveness
• 1:16:19
  for those things that were just mentioned in Revelation 15.
• 1:16:24
  Ask God to change you. Ask God to make you new, make
• 1:16:28
  you a new creation, because He will.
• 1:16:32
  But He's only going to do it if you ask Him.
• 1:16:37
  You can't just keep on doing it and expect that nothing's going
• 1:16:41
  to happen to you. It's a warning.
• 1:16:45
  The Spirit and the bride say, come, and let the one who hears
• 1:16:50
  say come. Let the one who is thirsty come
• 1:16:55
  and let the one who wishes to take the free gift of the water
• 1:17:00
  of life. This is free.
• 1:17:02
  It's free to us because Jesus paid the ultimate price by his
• 1:17:07
  life. He died on the cross so that we
• 1:17:10
  can enter this Kingdom of God. Revelation 22, verse 18.
• 1:17:16
  I warn everyone who hears the prophecies, the words of this
• 1:17:21
  prophecy of the scroll. If anyone adds anything to them,
• 1:17:26
  God will add to that person the plagues described in the scroll,
• 1:17:33
  And if anyone takes words away from the scroll of prophecy, God
• 1:17:38
  will take away from that person any share in the tree of life
• 1:17:43
  and in the holy City which are described in the scroll.
• 1:17:47
  He who testifies to these things says, yes, I am coming soon,
• 1:17:53
  Amen. Come, Lord Jesus, the grace of
• 1:17:57
  the Lord Jesus be with God's people.
• 1:18:00
  Amen. I think we need to heed the
• 1:18:04
  warnings and make ourselves prepared.
• 1:18:09
  Who knows when that day is going to come?
• 1:18:11
  And I do know that there's a concern that I have is that
• 1:18:19
  this, this, this wrath of God and this fear of God, people
• 1:18:24
  don't like hearing about it and they don't want to acknowledge
• 1:18:32
  that they I've heard so many times before, like.
• 1:18:36
  Oh well, the God of the old. Testament he's mean and he's
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  he's like crabby and he's he's full of wrath and he's, you
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  know, all this whatever people have said that and they're like,
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  and then Jesus like he's love and he's yeah, well, Jesus came
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  in a very loving, kind way, but his return is going to be with
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  wrath. There's another verse in
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  Scripture that says that he's got like blood on his robe
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  because he was fighting. I think it's in Edom, actually,
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  southwestern Jordan. There must be some people who
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  are actually going to be like imprisoned there are captured
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  there are taken to that place and nobody's there with him.
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  He alone fights against them and his own clothes are blood
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  stained. That's not the Jesus that is
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  documented in the New Testament and well, no, I take that back.
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  That is in the New Testament. It says that's what he's going
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  to do. It's not the Jesus that people
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  already met when he was here originally and and churches
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  don't like to, I guess it's maybe, well, if you talk about
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  that, people may not want to be a part of this religion.
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  I don't know why churches do this, but they don't want to
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  talk about this part of it. They want to talk about love and
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  only love. But then what we have, what I'm
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  concerned about is that there are a lot of Christians and they
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  all, you know, say love would just be loved, just be loved,
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  just be loved. But they might love and they
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  might just keep on sinning. But what does the Bible say
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  about that? You don't keep on sinning and
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  and if you do, you're subject to wrath.
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  And it does say that I would need to find it in here.
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  It says I, I don't know. But I mean, that's like what I
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  think is that there's a disservice that the the church
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  is doing to people by not telling them everything.
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  Like yes, God is love and yes, he wants us to be in his Kingdom
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  and he will do everything possible, even give us the Holy
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  Spirit so that we can overcome. The Holy Spirit gives us power,
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  gives us courage, gives us wisdom.
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  It enables us to overcome what we can't overcome as just human
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  beings. In our quote fleshly self that
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  the Bible talks about. And churches are not encouraging
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  people, not preparing people to overcome sin.
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  They're making people comfortable in their sin because
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  things that are like clearly called out as not being in the
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  Kingdom of God. Like I didn't read Revelation
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  21, but Revelation 21 kind of is another warning, just like that
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  one sentence that talked about those who, you know, weren't
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  going to be in the Kingdom or outside, you know that part.
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  So there's, this is in the Book of Revelation and then in
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  chapter 21, verse 8, this is what it says about I, I think
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  there's even more too, but it, it talks about the cowardly, the
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  unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral,
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  those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars.
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  They will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
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  This is the second death. So we need to take that to
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  heart. Like God doesn't say, oh, OK,
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  it's sin, you know, like I died on the cross for you.
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  So you can keep on doing that. That's no big deal.
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  If it was no big deal, then why did he have to be tortured and
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  crucified on the cross? He did it to break the curse.
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  Yes, he did that to save mankind and yes, he knows that we're not
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  going to be perfect. But I want to read something
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  else that's in Scripture. So it says like that.
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  It says those people are not going to be in the Kingdom.
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  And in Hebrews chapter 10, verse 26, pay attention to this
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  because every church should remind people of this.
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  If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received
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  the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left.
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  No sacrifice for sins is left, and listen to what it says,
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  verse 27, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of
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  raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
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  I want to go over that slowly because this is talking about
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  people who received the knowledge of the truth.
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  These are like we all were sinners to start with and we
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  didn't have the knowledge, but once you have the knowledge and
• 1:24:06
  then choose sin over obedience to God, you, you might think you
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  have grace. But this Hebrews chapter 10,
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  verse 26 and 27 says no sacrifice for sins is left.
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  And then now you've become an enemy of God and you can only
• 1:24:29
  expect judgment and raging fire that will consume the enemies of
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  God. And so people say, well, Oh my
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  gosh, I mean, OK, Hebrews is that's in the New Testament.
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  Will people say, well, that, you know, that must be the Old
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  Testament God, not the New Testament God.
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  I mean, how many times have we all heard that?
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  I want to remind people of that. There's probably like 5 verses
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  that I'm going to read in Psalm 15.
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  Four who despises A vile person but honors those who fear the
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  Lord, who keeps an oath even when it hurts and does not
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  change their mind. Actually that's not appropriate
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  verse I was in when I put does not change that came up.
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  So actually that's about a person.
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  It's not about the Lord. So scratch that one.
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  I read it without pre reading it.
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  So let's go to Psalm 55 verse 19.
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  God who is enthroned from of old who does not change, he will
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  hear them and humble them because they have No Fear of
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  God. So God, he's enthroned, he
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  doesn't change, He's going to humble people because they have
• 1:25:52
  No Fear of God. I got, I got humbled myself.
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  And God disciplines his children and he disciplines his children
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  out of love because he doesn't want us to continue down that
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  path. So when bad things start
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  happening to us, when we are doing things against God's will,
• 1:26:10
  those are warnings from God, warnings to stop, turn to him.
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  So nothing like Jesus. OK, he said this just came to
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  mind right now. Jesus said to the woman, I think
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  he was going to be stoned. He said like go and sin no more.
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  She was going to be stoned because she was caught in the
• 1:26:31
  act of adultery and Jesus didn't stone her.
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  Nobody else stoned her. He.
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  Goes you without. Sin be the first to cast the
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  stone and nobody could because they all knew they had sin.
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  And Jesus said I'm not going to do it either, but go and stop
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  sinning. And he said that many times to
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  people. He healed people and he he said,
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  I don't remember where this is in scripture, but I remember
• 1:26:56
  reading it where he told the man like stop sinning or something
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  worse will happen to you. There is never.
• 1:27:05
  Because of the. There's never this Jesus died on
• 1:27:09
  the cross, so I can keep on sinning.
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  That's not true. That's that's false.
• 1:27:14
  I mean, that's an abuse of the grace that God gave to us.
• 1:27:19
  Grace is the power to overcome sin, the power of the Holy
• 1:27:24
  Spirit. It doesn't mean that it's a
• 1:27:28
  license to sin. Paul even says that no, it isn't
• 1:27:31
  a license to sin. So if someone is saying, well,
• 1:27:34
  I've got grace, I can keep on doing this.
• 1:27:36
  God's grace covers me. You know what you have actually,
• 1:27:40
  if that's your opinion, here's what Second Timothy chapter 4,
• 1:27:46
  verse 3 says for the time will come when people will not put up
• 1:27:51
  with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own
• 1:27:55
  desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers
• 1:28:01
  to say what their itching ears want to hear.
• 1:28:06
  It's not going to be sound doctrine, but they're going to
• 1:28:08
  say I like. What they have to say.
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  Yeah, that's true. Like or even miss applying
• 1:28:14
  verses in Scripture and putting them to say something they were
• 1:28:18
  not intended to say, but to justify their sin, to make them
• 1:28:24
  comfortable in their own sin. And there's a lot of this, you
• 1:28:28
  know, like someone who doesn't, I mean, God doesn't change.
• 1:28:31
  He does not sin separates us from God.
• 1:28:38
  God doesn't want to be separated from us.
• 1:28:40
  We do it to ourselves. We separate ourselves from God.
• 1:28:44
  He doesn't separate from us. We separate ourselves from him.
• 1:28:49
  And God is good. This is such a this is a
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  reminder too. Like every good and perfect gift
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  is from above. Do we acknowledge that?
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  Do we acknowledge every good thing that we get is from God
• 1:29:06
  coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights who does not
• 1:29:11
  change like shifting shadows? God doesn't change.
• 1:29:15
  He's always been good. God is always been love.
• 1:29:20
  God has always been just. And he also said, you know, like
• 1:29:26
  Christians are not supposed to take vengeance on one another or
• 1:29:30
  anyone. God says the vengeance is mine.
• 1:29:33
  He's the one who's going to who has the who's going to take care
• 1:29:39
  of the judgement? Not us.
• 1:29:41
  And then in Numbers Old Testament, there's a couple
• 1:29:45
  things. God is not human that he should
• 1:29:48
  lie, not a human being that he should change his mind.
• 1:29:53
  Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
• 1:30:02
  God is a God of his word. He's not like the human beings
• 1:30:05
  that we know. We can't compare him to a human
• 1:30:08
  being. He's not a human being.
• 1:30:10
  He doesn't change his mind. He doesn't change.
• 1:30:12
  He is the same today as he ever was.
• 1:30:16
  So in first Samuel 1529, he who is the glory of Israel does not
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  lie. So this is something that just
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  came to mind. There's another religion where
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  it it talks about that says like Allah is the greatest of
• 1:30:40
  deceivers. So that's another piece of
• 1:30:44
  evidence that it contradicts Scripture.
• 1:30:48
  It was written 600 years after the Bible was written, the Bible
• 1:30:54
  says. If an Angel or anyone else
• 1:30:56
  gives. You a gospel other than what we
• 1:30:58
  had preached. Let them be accursed.
• 1:31:02
  I think it might say, but it's it's false.
• 1:31:05
  It's false. And so when you when everybody,
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  not everybody, but when some people say that we all worship
• 1:31:13
  the same God, it's just we call them different names.
• 1:31:16
  Why does it say that Allah, Allah is the greatest of
• 1:31:20
  deceivers. But in first Samuel 15 verse 29,
• 1:31:24
  it's talking about God and it says he who is the glory of
• 1:31:28
  Israel does not lie. He does not lie or change his
• 1:31:35
  mind, for he is not a human being that he should change his
• 1:31:39
  mind. God doesn't change.
• 1:31:42
  He's the same. There isn't a different God.
• 1:31:46
  Jesus said if you've seen me, you've seen a reflection of the
• 1:31:49
  Father. Jesus, like I said before, he
• 1:31:53
  prayed that we would be one with him as he is one with the
• 1:31:57
  Father. There is that unification in
• 1:32:03
  spirit between the Father and the Son, and Jesus asked the
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  Father for that, for all of us. Jesus didn't want to be
• 1:32:14
  separated from the Father and there is pure joy in that
• 1:32:19
  connection to the Father. People who've had near death
• 1:32:23
  experiences, they have, they have mentioned that there has
• 1:32:28
  been this like overwhelming joy and peace in the presence of
• 1:32:32
  wherever they went, whatever they saw in spirit and they
• 1:32:37
  didn't want to come back to this earth.
• 1:32:41
  And there's like that's a very common theme from people who
• 1:32:47
  have had the spirit experience in their lives.
• 1:32:49
  Usually like everybody who added something like that, I mean,
• 1:32:52
  their lives changed as a result of it because they actually got
• 1:32:57
  to experience something of the presence of and then they all
• 1:33:01
  said about the love of God, like this just unbelievable amount of
• 1:33:05
  love that they felt. So anyway, I, I, there's
• 1:33:11
  probably things that I need to read about and this is gone.
• 1:33:14
  Oh my gosh, I can't believe how long I've talked.
• 1:33:16
  But OK, there's there's questions and answers.
• 1:33:20
  I will get into it just to complete this because we're
• 1:33:23
  wrapping up this book of Joel. But we need to be watchful.
• 1:33:27
  We need to be in a good relationship of God.
• 1:33:30
  And here's the last of the questions and answers.
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  What had Tyre and Sidon done? They had invaded and plundered
• 1:33:37
  Judah repeatedly, taking Israelites captive and selling
• 1:33:40
  them in Greek slave markets across the Aegean Sea.
• 1:33:43
  They treated their captives inhumanely, holding them in in
• 1:33:47
  the bellies of the overcrowded ships and selling them like
• 1:33:50
  cattle to the highest bidder. Did God challenge the nations to
• 1:33:54
  battle? In a sense, yes.
• 1:33:56
  The theme is still judgement. But now Joel's prophecy extends
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  far into the future. As the great final battle, all
• 1:34:04
  the armies of darkness, according to Revelation 1919,
• 1:34:09
  will March against God and his armies of righteousness.
• 1:34:13
  In the end, there will be utterly crushed by God's total
• 1:34:17
  final victory. What kind of harvest does God
• 1:34:20
  intend to take? Soldiers, or perhaps nations
• 1:34:23
  will be mowed down as grains cut down by a sickle.
• 1:34:26
  The harvest is the. Slaughter.
• 1:34:28
  Those cut down by God's judgement in the final battle
• 1:34:31
  between good and evil. What is the Valley of Decision?
• 1:34:35
  The Valley of Jehoshaphat, where the final battle will take
• 1:34:39
  place. The decision may reflect the
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  outcome of the battle God will win decisively.
• 1:34:46
  On the other hand, this may speak of God's judgement as a
• 1:34:49
  decision handed down by a judge. What is the day of the Lord?
• 1:34:53
  This refers to any time God deals with a nation or
• 1:34:57
  generation so that it will return to its spiritual senses.
• 1:35:02
  The final day of reckoning, however, will be when Jesus
• 1:35:05
  returns. How will the sun, moon, and
• 1:35:09
  stars be darkened? We can only guess, but it seems
• 1:35:12
  that Joel was describing a cataclysmic event that will
• 1:35:16
  obscure the skies and contaminate the atmosphere.
• 1:35:19
  When will Jerusalem finally be holy and safe?
• 1:35:24
  Some say Jerusalem's security will occur as soon as Jesus
• 1:35:28
  returns to route Satan and his evil armies.
• 1:35:32
  Others, those who believe in a literal 1000 year peaceful reign
• 1:35:36
  of Christ on earth according to Revelation chapter 20 verse 4,
• 1:35:41
  think Jerusalem will be secure in the end.
• 1:35:44
  So I don't know. In Matthew 24, verses 30 through
• 1:35:50
  31 is when Jesus returns to route Satan as armies.
• 1:35:53
  So Jesus is present when peace will be there.
• 1:35:56
  That's bottom line. In summary, what is this
• 1:36:00
  fountain? This is a picture of a flowing
• 1:36:02
  source of freshwater that washes away filth and contamination.
• 1:36:06
  It also depicts a freshwater spring invigorating all who
• 1:36:10
  dwell by it and drink from it. See Ezekiel chapter 47.
• 1:36:15
  And as we mentioned, there's also this temple, there's the
• 1:36:18
  throne of God where the water is flowing from there out of the
• 1:36:22
  Lord's house. And so it's there's a lot more
• 1:36:26
  in the other prophecies that talk about this period of time.
• 1:36:31
  And this is something in our future.
• 1:36:33
  So bottom line is make sure that your relationship is good and
• 1:36:40
  that you've repented for anything that would separate you
• 1:36:43
  from God and ask God for the Holy Spirit if you haven't
• 1:36:48
  already received the Holy Spirit.
• 1:36:49
  If you have the Holy Spirit, stay in the word, stay connected
• 1:36:53
  to God. This is not a time to be quote
• 1:36:56
  backsliding because we don't know when our time is up when
• 1:37:01
  God says that's it. And that's when there's no
• 1:37:05
  change after that, whenever our life is here on earth, if it
• 1:37:09
  ends, I say if it ends because those who are alive when Jesus
• 1:37:15
  is here, when he comes back, they will not experience death.
• 1:37:20
  They'll just be changed into an immortal.
• 1:37:22
  So there's going to be people who don't die, but most people
• 1:37:26
  will have a a death at least one.
• 1:37:29
  And that's what the Bible calls being, you know, falling asleep.
• 1:37:32
  But the second death is when people get thrown into the
• 1:37:35
  burning lake of sulfur. If in judgement, they are judged
• 1:37:39
  that way by God. So anyway, just it's not a time
• 1:37:44
  to play around with your faith with God.
• 1:37:48
  There's too many things that are happening right now that sound
• 1:37:51
  like what's described in this book of Joel.
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  I don't know, what do you think?