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734. Bible Study: Isaiah 46 and 47 (False Religions, Other gods, the Spirit of Babylon) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 46 from the book of Isaiah and we'll probably go
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into 47 because there's not a whole lot in 46.
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But before we get started, let's pray.
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Dear God, please be with us as we read through these chapters
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and give us wisdom and insight and application to our own
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lives. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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Now in this I did pray, read and have lots, not lots, but some
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other scripture to refer to. And in this study we will
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discuss other gods, other religions, other beliefs.
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And this is a warning, but it is also encouragement.
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So it's very important to understand this and to get it
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from the true source. And hopefully the things that I
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found not just this morning, but over time that these will
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become, they will open up your mind to the things I'm talking
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about. And I pray that God will let the
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Holy Spirit remove anything that blinds a person from receiving
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this information. And that I also pray that God
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would would would give you revelation, would open any kind
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of blindness, any kind of blocking that doesn't seem to
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make sense from this just to open your eyes to the reality of
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it that is expressed through the Bible.
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I ask for this in Jesus name. So let's get started.
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The gods of Babylon bell bows down, Nebo Stoops low.
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Their idols are borne by beast of burden.
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The images that are carried about are burdensome, a burden
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for the weary. They stoop and bow down
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together, unable to rescue the burden.
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They themselves go off into captivity.
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So there's a lot in here, but first I'll read what the study
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Bible has to say. Who were Bell and Nebo?
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They were gods of Babylon. Bell means Lord and referred to
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Marduk, the chief God of Babylonium.
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Nebu or Nebo, sometimes called Nabu, was Marduk's son, honored
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in the names of Babylonian kings, for example,
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Nebuchadnezzar. Here the prophet may have been
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seeing a procession of Babylonian refuges be refugees
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being taken into captivity by conquering Persians because
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their idols were unable to save them.
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Ironically, I read these two chapters and I want to do this
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first thing in the morning, but sometimes I get distracted and
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often I get distracted. And ironically, when I was going
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through and I had these discoveries as I was reading
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through this, are these thoughts, I guess coming to mind
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as I was reading through this and I was researching some of
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it, then I happened to look on Instagram in a Bible account
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that I follow and ironically, but not ironic, there are no
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coincidences. There was the testimony of a man
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who was a very loyal Buddhist who became a Christian, and I
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will tell his story at the end because it was so fitting for
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what I'm reading right now, and especially the part unable to
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rescue the burden, this man that I will tell you a story at the
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end. He was seeking Buddha to help
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him, to rescue him, but it didn't happen.
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And So what this these, the first sentence here, it says
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they are beast of burden. The images that they care about
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are burdensome, a burden for the weary.
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They don't do anything good. Now I have a theory, and I think
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it's a little bit more than a theory because it seems to be
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supported by scripture and ancient documents also.
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But I believe that these other religions besides Christianity
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are actually a deception by God's enemy Satan.
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And I don't know if it's he Satan, who is behind every
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single one of these or if he has helpers.
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It does say in the Bible that he there were a certain percentage,
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like a third of the angels were rebelled along with him and came
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to the earth. And then there's also these like
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demons who do exist in the earth and they seek bodies to inhabit.
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And a lot of people who don't, you know, I don't know, people
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who haven't read the Bible probably think, oh, those are
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myths or something, but they're not.
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And they're very much going on today.
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And in fact, there's another thing that I was in searching
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because it talks about Marduk. And when I was searching Marduk,
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supposedly he went by 50 different names.
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And so I was curious what were the different names that Marduk?
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Because I also have thoughts that a lot of these, when you
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start looking into this Babylonian spirit, you start, it
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starts tying to all things, I mean, to lots of different
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religions, like lots of things with Egypt, it ties into it ties
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into, oh gosh, lots of people that are mentioned in the Bible
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and there's just, there's a lot there.
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And what God does say is come out of Babylon, Come out of
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Babylon, and it's a warning to all of us to come out of
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Babylon. And we may not even realize that
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we are in Babylon or we are being affected by the spirit of
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Babylon. I believe that Babylon is a
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spiritual thing, whether it's multiple entities or a singular.
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I have a feeling it's probably more multiple entities but of
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the same spirit. Like united those they are evil
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unison of spirits that are trying to essentially eliminate
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mankind and keep mankind from inheriting the Kingdom of God
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and out of out of their anger out of their that they're not
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going to get it and they know it because the Bible, especially
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for Satan, because the Bible talks about what's going to
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happen with Satan. He will be eternally separated
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and he will be thrown into the burning lake of sulfur.
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And and so his existence is foretold in scripture that it's
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not going to be with God. He's not going to benefit from
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all the things that others will. And Satan is angry about that.
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He has fury. It says that the the Bible says
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it has fury. And he goes after the children
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of God to eliminate them, to deceive them so that they don't
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seek their their father, their true Father, God who created
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them, who created us. And, and it is this spiritual
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war that because we don't see it, we don't, some of us may not
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believe it. And it is something that
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churches don't talk about. So that because it probably it,
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it when you can't see and prove things, then it you get this,
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this wall up from a lot of people that oh, I'm not going to
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believe it unless it's scientific.
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But I kind of look at what is scientific continues to be
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disproved all the time. Now science proves what the
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Bible tells us, but sometimes science gets it wrong and then
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it's retracted and it's restated again or it's changed.
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So there is order from God, and science is, I guess, a
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revelation of what that order is.
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I mean, as people learn more things, you can learn some
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things about cause and effect, but as far as creation goes,
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there's nothing, none other than God who creates.
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And anyway, I'm getting down a, a different path.
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So let's go back to scripture. We're talking about false gods
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and we're talking about Bell and Ebo.
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And they, they are part of, you know, referring to Marduk, but
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he has a lot of different names and, and they are burdens to
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people who submit to that spirit.
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So in reality, we could, and there's really two choices.
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We're either going to submit to evil or submit to God and
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whatever we submit to whatever is Lord over our life will, we
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will have what the Bible refers to as fruit of that.
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We will either be worldly if we submit to evil or we will become
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godly if we submit to God and let the Holy Spirit work in US.
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And in Galatians chapter 5, it tells you if you are curious
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about, well, how can I tell if if I'm worldly or if I'm guided
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by the Holy Spirit? First of all, you will know, but
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if in the very early stages you won't necessarily know.
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So if you look at Galatians chapter 5, it'll describe all
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the attributes or the characteristics of someone who
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is worldly or submitted to natural desires, evil, Sinner
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stuff or someone who is submitted to God and has the
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Holy Spirit operating in them. So there is a difference and it
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it is our choice who do we want to be Lord of our life because
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God will give us our choice. This is not a force thing like
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some religions people get. They are fearful if they want to
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change their religion because there is some sort of punishment
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if they change. But in true Christianity there's
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God will punish in the very end at judgement time.
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But until then we are completely free to to decide what we want
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to do. God doesn't force himself on us,
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and so it's completely our decision.
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So let me read the rest of chapter 46.
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So it's talking about the gods of Babylon.
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Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob, all the remnant of the
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people of Israel, you whom I have upheld since your birth and
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have carried you since you were born, even to your old age and
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Gray hairs. I am He.
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I am he who will sustain you. I have made you, and I will
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carry you. I will sustain you, and I will
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rescue you. So here's a difference right
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there. The other gods will not rescue
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you, but the one true God will rescue people when they turn to
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Him. And again, that man that I heard
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this morning, he attested to that.
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So with whom will you compare me, or count me equal?
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To whom will you liken me, that we may be compared?
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Some pour out gold from their bags and weigh out silver on the
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scales. They hire a Goldsmith to make it
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into a God and they bow down and worship it.
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They lift it to their shoulders and carry it.
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They set it up in its place and there it stands from that spot
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it cannot move. So this is another thing in the
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book of Exodus, Exodus chapter 20, it gives us the 10
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commandments that God gave. And one of them is not to make
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any graven images or statues because apparently people when
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they get statues, they start worshipping him to them, asking
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them for things. And God forbids that because the
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only one that we need to ask of is God, God alone.
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And and so God is spirit. That's what it says in
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scripture, that God is spirit. So we can't see him, although he
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is everywhere and he knows everything about us.
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We don't hide anything from us. He is present everywhere.
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He sees everything. He knows exactly how many hairs
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on each one of our heads, you know, think about billions of
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people and God knows every single hair on everybody's head.
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Like he knows the minutiae detail that we, it wouldn't
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really concern us, but God knows it about us.
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He created us. There's nothing that we do
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that's hidden from him and he is aware of it all.
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But people, we do have statues. Look all over the world, there
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are statues. There are.
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It's almost like praise and glory given to a human being.
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Sometimes it's a deity, sometimes it's, you know,
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whatever it is, it's something a hero.
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But the Bible really says don't make those things because maybe
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there's good intent behind it. But what happens is somehow
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people start worshipping it. They start, you know, elevating
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it to a level that it shouldn't be.
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I mean, he didn't even God said even, you know, don't even make
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the likeness of anything in heaven or on the earth or below
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the earth like nothing. We're not supposed to have any
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of that stuff, but we do around the world everywhere and and
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that's just showing us like how far we are from God when we've
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done that. I don't know who is the 1st to
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make us. Well, I don't know what talks
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about in Israel. I mean right when they got the
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10 commandments from God, when Moses came down, they had
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already melted their gold and created a calf idol, which I do
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think is also symbolic of Baal, which is also symbolic of I
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think Baal is Baal or Baal Baal. I think that's how you say it is
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actually. Satan, really.
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And Satan wanted to be worshipped.
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So he wasn't, he wasn't happy or content with being a created
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being. He wanted more glory.
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He wanted to be just like God. And that's, I think he's done a
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very successful deception with a lot of people and brings people
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to that. Now he has others with him that
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are from the supernatural realm. And I think they they help out
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with that because he is not omnipresent.
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He can't be everywhere at once. So there are entities that are
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in alignment with him that agree with him.
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And so they are influencing people here on Earth, but they
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don't have good plans for the people here on Earth.
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The ultimate plan is for destruction, but they will do it
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in a deceptive way. So they will give people their
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sinful pleasures that they desire.
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And if you look at it, you know, a lot of it had to do with like
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Molech was another one and they used to do child sacrifices.
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There was a lot of sensuality sex.
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They had temple prostitutes. So they appealed to all of the
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things that God, you know, sex was good.
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God made it. God said be fruitful and
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multiply. You know, he, he intended that,
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but there were certain parameters around it.
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It wasn't like with everyone. It was with your, your spouse
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house, with your one person. You were supposed to become a
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couple and then that was part of it.
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So what's the enemy of God does is distorts what God creates,
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what God puts out there as good. And he, the enemy tries to make
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it confusing and tries to change it.
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And that's where I believe that all these like gods, I don't
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believe these people. I've said this before in the
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podcast. I don't believe that these
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people were ignorant or dumb or stupid people, whatever you want
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to call them even today, because people are still worshipping
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this this stuff, which is for me hard to believe, but it's still
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happening today. But I don't think that they just
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did it out of their own imagination.
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I think they had some spiritual interaction which make which
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made them believe that this was something supreme, which it
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probably was because it came from the heavenly realms.
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But it's evil and people who don't know God don't distinguish
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between good and evil. And so if it's something they
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like, of course it's got to be good, right?
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But the Bible tells us what is good and what is not.
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And if you don't know what's in the Bible, you don't know the
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difference between what is good and what is not.
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So except that God writes on our hearts.
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So I think we do have that. That's where that maybe that
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guilt comes in. But there's a certain point
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where we just maybe ignore the guilt that we have.
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And at a certain point, I don't know when that is, but God will,
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it shows in Scripture that He will also allow somebody to have
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that. He'll turn the person over to
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what they desire and let them have it.
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I guess when God sees they're, they're just not changing.
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They keep rejecting him and they keep going back to whatever
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they're going back to. Then he lets them have it.
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So lets them have what they want.
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So let's see. I don't remember where I left
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off. OK.
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So even though someone cries out to it, it cannot answer.
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This is talk about idols. It cannot save them from their
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troubles. So it's completely worthless.
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Like anything any other religion that you're working does.
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I wonder, like, does it ever save you?
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Does it ever rescue you? I mean, I can't answer that
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because I haven't been in another religion, but I did hear
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a testimony this morning about someone who was in another
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religion that wanted to be saved, wanted to be rescued, and
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it didn't happen. So I really kind of doubt that
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any other religion will save a person, but Christianity will,
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because Jesus. Is the one who saved us.
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Remember this, keep it in mind, take it to heart.
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You rebels, remember the former things, those of long ago.
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I am God and there is no other. I am God and there is none like
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me. I make known the end from the
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beginning, from ancient times. What is still to come?
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So God's not hiding himself. If we seek him, He says we will
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find him. I say my purpose will stand and
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I will do all that I please. So no one tells God to do.
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He does what he wants to do. From the east I summon a bird of
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prey, from a far off land, a man to fulfill my purpose.
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Now when I as Isaiah was writing this, he was talking about Cyrus
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who is going to come. So Cyrus from Persia, which is
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modern day Iran was conquered, Babylon.
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So this is what he was talking about, a bird from the east.
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I summon a bird of prey that was Cyrus from a far off land of man
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to fulfill my purpose. What I have said that I will
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bring about, what I have planned that I will do.
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Listen to me, you stubborn hearted, you who are now far
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from my righteousness. I am bringing my righteousness
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near. It is not far away, and my
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salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion,
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my splendor to Israel. Now that's the end of chapter
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46. So I'm going to read the
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questions and answers that I didn't read and then continue on
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to 47. So do we.
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Do we turn gold and silver into gods to day?
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Isaiah was emphasizing the contrast between the one true
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God and the idols made of net of material from the earth, silver
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and gold. We may make idols of what money
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buys, whether they are material things, houses, clothing, cars
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or intangibles, social standing, recognition, attention.
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Idols can be anyone or anything that becomes more important to
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us than God. So when we are deciding on
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things to do or how to spend our time, it's probably important to
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ask our question. Is this thing, whatever it is,
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thing or person, even thing or person or thing, is this more
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important to me than God? And if so, that is showing us
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that's an idol to us. Who was this man?
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From far off land, the bird of prey from the east, Cyrus the
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Great, the ruler of Persia who swooped in to conquer Babylon.
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The Greek historian Xenophon wrote that Cyrus had an eagle
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depicted on his royal banner. That's interesting because I was
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looking up to see what the national bird of Iran was and
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it's actually a Nightingale. So it has nothing to do with an
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eagle. But there are times in the Bible
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where, you know, it talks about a bird of prey and an eagle.
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And an eagle is not always like a, a, a good thing.
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It's you know, something well, something strong and but it's a
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bird of prey. What stubborn hearted people was
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the Lord speaking to God was reminding the Exiles that from
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ancient times he had accurately predicted future events.
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He would use Cyrus to bring about their deliverance.
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Despite their stubborn hearted disbelief.
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It would happen for in this way the Lord would fulfil his saving
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purpose for Israel. Now it talks about the fall of
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Babylon chapter 47. Go down, sit in the dust, virgin
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daughter Babylon. Sit on the ground without a
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throne. Queen City of the Babylonians.
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No more will you be called tender our delicate.
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Take millstones and grind flour. Take off your veil, lift up your
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skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams.
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Your nakedness will be exposed and your shame uncovered.
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I will take vengeance. I will spare no one.
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Our Redeemer, the Lord Almighty, is His name, is the Holy One of
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Israel. So I'm going to read a couple
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questions and answers from the study Bible.
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Why called wicked Babylon a virgin daughter?
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Cities were commonly personified as daughters.
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This chapter is a mocking poem that taunts the Babylonians with
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news of their fall from power and privilege.
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Babylon was like an untouched, pampered Princess in a royal
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palace. Biblical glimpses of Babylon fit
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this picture. The Babylonian leaders seem
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proud of their position and confident of their security, but
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those days of ease were over, the prophet said.
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How would Babylon's nakedness be exposed?
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Similar language is found elsewhere in the Old Testament
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to describe being taken into exile and to describe nations
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who have allied themselves with other nations being mistreated
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by those allies and says, how did How did God desecrate his
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inheritance? Desecrate means to take a holy
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thing and do something unholy with it.
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God's people were his inheritance, and God wanted them
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to live in a holy relationship with him.
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By breaking their covenant with Him, the Israelites had aroused
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God's righteous anger and caused him to hand them over to the
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Babylonians for punishment and discipline.
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I am, and there is none besides me.
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Babylon's haughty attitude set herself up above all others and
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above calamity. God had made a similar claim
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earlier, but He could back it up.
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So let's continue now when I get when I start reading into this,
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I think Babylon is much more than a place.
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I think it's a spiritual thing and I think it is infecting the
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world globally right now and Babylon is referred to as a
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queen. We will see in, in verse 5 is
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when it starts talking about that.
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And then I remembered, you know, in other prophet prophets, I
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think Jeremiah and others where they talked about Tammuz and
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they talk about the queen of heaven and baking bread for the,
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you know, making things for the queen of heaven.
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So there's this queen of heaven and which is also, you know, a
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little bit disturbing too. And so anyway, let me read this
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section 1st and then we'll talk more about it.
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This is the prophecy going out to Babylon.
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Sit in silence, go in darkness. Queen City of the Babylonians.
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No more will you be called Queen of kingdoms.
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I was angry with my people and desecrated my inheritance.
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I gave them into your hand and you showed them no mercy.
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Even on the aged you laid a very heavy yoke.
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You said I am forever the eternal Queen, but you did not
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consider or reflect on what might happen now.
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Then listen, you lover of pleasure, lounging in your
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security and saying to yourself, I am, and there is none besides
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me. I will never be a widow or
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suffer the loss of children. Both of these will overtake you
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in a moment on a single day. Now it talks in Revelation about
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in a single day that Mystery Babylon will be destroyed.
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So I think that's really kind of interesting because here it like
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in a moment on a single day, loss of children and widowhood,
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they will come upon you in full measure.
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In spite of your many sorceries, all and all your potent spells,
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you have trusted in your wickedness and have said no one
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sees me, but God sees everything.
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Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you.
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When you say to yourself, I am and there is none beside me,
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disaster will come upon you and you will not know how to conjure
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it away. A calamity will fall on you that
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you cannot ward off with a ransom.
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A catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you.
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Keep on then, with your magic spells and with your many
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sorceries which you have labored at since childhood.
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So this is a created entity that has been messing with this magic
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stuff. Perhaps you will succeed.
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Perhaps you will cause terror. All the counsel you have
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received has only worn you out. Let your astrologers now.
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God talks in scripture about how astrology is evil and bad and
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let your astrologers come forward.
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Those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let
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them save you from what is coming upon you.
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Surely they are like stubble. The fire will burn them up.
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So I think this is a warning against astrology.
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The fire will burn them up. Destruction.
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So don't get into astrology. There's a lot of people that get
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into that stuff and, and innocently so I know when I was
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a teenager, I found a book on it and it was very intriguing and I
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was very curious about it and I looked into it and I started to
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believe it. I did believe it and until I
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read the Bible and then I got rid of everything because I
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realized that it's just wickedness and you're actually
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seeking knowledge somewhere other than God.
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And I think that does, the way they talk about it, it does it
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creates some kind of opening or access to your life.
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That demonic influence can start working within your life.
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And there's many other people who were probably way deeper
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into it who have expressed that same thing, that things started
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happening in their life and it was like very bad things.
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And, and I think it's something that not everyone probably gets
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to, but there are people who have been involved in that kind
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of stuff that their eyes do get opened and they get away from it
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and then their eyes are really opened about how bad it was when
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they didn't think it was bad to begin with.
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So going back to scripture, they cannot even save themselves from
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the power of the flame. What do you think?
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Maybe that might be the burning lake of sulfur that in the end,
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in judgement, that's where people will go.
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And they don't realize that when they're messing with astrology,
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that's what they're making their destination because we get to
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choose. That's the thing about it.
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These are not coals for warmth. This is not a fire to sit by
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like this is eternal separation from God and eternal torture and
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torment. This is what people who do that
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kind of stuff are choosing for themselves.
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So that's like the warning, like get out of Babylon, get out.
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That's what God says. That is all they are to you.
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The these you have dealt with and labored since childhood.
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So when I read that, I wasn't sure like is, is this mean?
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They target children. These spirits target children at
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a very young age. Or does it mean that since they
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were created they have been at it since childhood?
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I'm not quite sure how to take that sentence.
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But all of them go on in their error.
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There is no one that can save you.
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So the study Bible, it says is it wrong to read your horoscope
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reading horoscopes. I think Study Bible is very
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delicately handling this. But when it talks about, you
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know, people going into the fire to burn them up because of that,
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I think it should be a little bit stronger stance than this.
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But I will read what the Study Bible says.
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Is it wrong to read your horoscope?
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Reading horoscopes seems to satisfy people's hunger for
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knowledge about the future, but people who read them are seeking
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false guidance. Horoscopes offer predictions and
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advice based on the relationships of the planets to
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the signs of the Zodiac. The Bible is clear that we are
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not to look for guidance in magical ways.
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Seeking personal guidance is good as long as you are seeking
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that guidance from God through the scriptures and prayer.
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All the information that we need to be successful is found in
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Scripture and in prayer to God. So we don't need any of that
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stuff. And that's why it's so important
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to get in the Bible and read it because there are a lot of
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answers. So there's a lot to talk about
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here. So as I mentioned before, I
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really do think that this, this queen is, is a spiritual entity
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of some sort. And if you search this queen of
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heaven, the the bad thing, actually, I want to look this up
34:12
because this is something that is also disturbing.
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I mean, the more you start studying this, the more you
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start realizing that there is more to it than you really
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sometimes want to know. So I searched Queen of Heaven
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and here's what came up. The phrase Queen of Heaven most
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commonly refers to Mary, the mother of Jesus, in both
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Catholic and some Protestant Christian traditions.
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However, the term also appears in the Old Testament
34:43
specifically, specifically in the Book of Jeremiah, where it
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is associated with idolatry. In historical and religious
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context, the term can also refer to ancient Pagan goddesses like
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Inanna or Ishtar. There's so much here.
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So I grew up Catholic. So for me to hear that, you
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know, was really shocking because Mary, the mother of
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Jesus, you would always respect. As I've read the Bible more,
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I've realized that my upbringing had a lot more elevation of Mary
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than a than what is in the Bible.
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And there are some just bothersome things that I
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discovered too, was that we can pray directly to God.
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And if we are obedient to God, Jesus said whatever we ask for
35:55
in his name will be given to us. We don't need anyone between US
36:03
and God. Jesus tore the veil between
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humanity and God. He made God accessible.
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Well, God always heard he. He heard people all the time.
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He turned away from them when they were disobedient.
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He, you know, he hears the prayers of the righteous, but
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the ones who are disobedient and rebellious, he at times had
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turned away from until they would seek him.
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They would, they would have some tragedy come up usually and then
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they would start seeking him and, and then he would respond
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to them because he's such a loving God, a loving Father.
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So that was, that's something, you know, that I'm probably
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going to make everybody mad at me during this podcast because
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people don't want to hear these things, but I'm only going to
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speak the truth of what's in the Bible.
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And I was there too. OK, So I messed around with
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astrology. As soon as I read the Bible, I
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realized that is wrong. And I got rid of, I had books on
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it that even got into like what latitude and longitude people
37:05
were in and, you know, all this kind of stuff.
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Well, I threw all that stuff away and I asked God for
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forgiveness and I've never touched it again.
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And I realized that it's something evil, something
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demonic behind it. It's something that leads people
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away from God. And so I'm not saying, I mean,
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the things that I say here are things that I've been affected
37:30
by. So I, I grew up Catholic and
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while I the Catholic faith teaches about Father, Son and
37:37
Holy Spirit, that is all true. But there are some like church
37:42
traditions that go against what the Bible says.
37:46
Like the thing about statues, I find it very odd that there are
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so many statues in Catholic churches.
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And why? Because the Bible tells us in
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Exodus 20 that we're, we're not to make any graven images of
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anything in heaven or on earth. And so I understand the
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reasoning behind it. You know how the tradition
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started? Because I've looked that up.
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But just because a tradition started a certain way doesn't
38:18
mean that you have to continue that.
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Like, that just doesn't make sense.
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If God's word clearly says don't have statues, then why?
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Who is bold enough to challenge the word of God?
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Who wants to break one of the commandments?
38:35
Now here's another thing that I learned only by reading the
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Bible. No one taught this to me, but I
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was making up on my Instagram account called at Faithfish or
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it's at at Faith. FSH is on Instagram and when I
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was making, when I was first reading the Bible, I started to
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make images for each of the 10 commandments.
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And what I realized was that the 10 commandments I learned
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through my Catholic upbringing did not match up with the Bible.
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And the one about the graven images is missing.
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So people who just know the 10 commandments that are taught in
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Catholic school don't know that they're not supposed to have
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graven images because it was removed.
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And then what happened is the last command about coveting your
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neighbor or your neighbor's wife or goods was by the Catholics
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were separated into two commandments rather than as one
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as the way it is in the Bible in Exodus chapter 20.
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So anyone who's Catholic, I encourage you to read Exodus
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chapter 20 for yourself and then take the commandments that you
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know and compare it to the commandments as listed in Exodus
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20, because it will probably shock you like it did me.
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And I get the numbering all messed up because I still today
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because I had it memorized one way and I don't know which
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number is which commandment anymore.
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And I, I'm just, I know what's in there and I don't know what
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number it is, but that's a result of how I was brought up
40:17
so. That is anyway, so this whole
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the the mother or the Queen of Heaven is very concerning
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because nowhere in the Bible does it say that Mary was made
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Queen of heaven. So that is concerning to me.
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And then especially because queen of this, this queen thing
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is brought up in the Bible in reference to idolatry.
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So that is very concerning. And then like in historical
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religious context, it is like goddesses of Inana and Ishtar.
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Well, when you look up this idolatry, Inana, Ishtar,
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Ashtarath, these were all goddesses that were worshipped.
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And then you get in through like Greek to Venus so that Venus
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gets thrown in there too. They were goddesses of
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fertility, end of war. And then you get this Marduk and
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Baal and then you get Jezebel, who, you know, promoted this
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like, like prostitute stuff, sexually immoral stuff.
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This is all like that same spirit and and it's just like if
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you describe a characteristic of something and then all of these
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entities have that they reflect the same character.
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Is it not all the same spirit working in all of them?
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And these and, and people, you know, if they haven't known the
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true God and are introduced to this first and they realize that
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this is something greater than I am, then it would be easy for
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anybody to believe. So I'm not, I'm not saying that
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these people intentionally did anything wrong by believing in
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these faiths. It may have been what they were
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taught from children from their parents, may have been
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culturally what they were taught from their area, wherever they
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lived. But no matter what, if you're
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hearing this podcast today, look into it and pray to the one true
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God that it be revealed whether these are demonic things that
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are taking them you to destruction rather than putting
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you on the path to God's Kingdom, to the inheritance and
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living with God and having Jesus as your brother or you know, or
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as your brother. Yes.
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So anyway, when you, I'm not going to go into all of this,
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but you can look it up yourself if you want to look up Ishtar,
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Inana, Ashtarith, and even Isis. So Isis is like the Egyptian
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form. And that's really interesting
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too, because I was, I just was curious, is Isis the queen of
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heaven? Yes, Isis is considered the
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queen of heaven in ancient Egypt religion she was a major goddess
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and one of the most important deities.
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Her worship spread through the Greco Roman world and she was
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known by this title among many others.
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So isn't that really interesting that all of these things,
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there's lots of different Queens of heaven and I think about I,
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what I says in Isaiah chapter 41, verse 29 about the images.
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See, they are all false. Their deeds amount to nothing.
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Their images are but wind and confusion.
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So it's they they're they're really they're worthless.
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They are but wind, which is also Rua or spirit and emptiness.
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So I think this is a spiritual thing and it's in confusion.
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So it when we talk about confusion, let's see.
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Oh, I didn't look those up. There's there's more things that
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I wanted to share about confusion.
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And so let me go to that. I wanted to read to you one
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Corinthians 14, one Corinthians 14 and let's see what verse it
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was. 33 I think so 33 for God is not a God of disorder or of
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confusion. I guess in the new King James
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Version, I'm going to go to that one because there are different
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words that are used in the different translations.
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But yes, for God is not the author of confusion, but of
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peace, as in all the churches of the Saints.
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So God isn't if it's all confusing, it's not God.
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And that's where I think this like spiritual part comes out is
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that I guess this spiritual confusion.
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And let's see, there's another verse 2 that I wanted to go to,
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which is in James verse 3, verse 10.
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Well, is that what it was? That's what I wrote maybe 16.
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OK, no, it's 16, not ten. I didn't write that real
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clearly. So in James chapter 3 verse 16,
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for where envy and self seeking exist, confusion and every evil
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thing are there. So what does this tell us?
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This tells us that envy, self seeking, confusion, that's all
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evil. To be envious of someone is
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evil, to be self seeking is evil, and confusion is evil in
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So it talks. This is kind of interesting too
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because it talks about heavenly versus demonic wisdom in James
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chapter 3 verse 13. Who is wise and understanding
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among you? Let him show by good conduct
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that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom.
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But if you have a bitter envy and self seeking in your hearts,
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do not boast and lie against the truth.
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The wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual,
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demonic. For where envy and self seeking
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exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.
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But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then
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peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good
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fruits without partiality and without hypocrisy.
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Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who
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make peace. So I think those are some good
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things about words of wisdom. And then the other thing that is
47:55
interesting is found in Ephesians chapter 2 and it talks
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about who Satan is and it talks about all of us, you know, like
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we. So this is not to condemn
48:11
people, but it might be to convict people.
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To convict means to realize that oh, I'm doing something wrong or
48:19
I did something wrong, but that's condemning someone is
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actually sending them to hell. So we are not when we are
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convicted by something, then we have we have a choice.
48:31
We either continue to do it where we can be condemned for
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it, or we ask God for forgiveness and change our ways
48:39
through repentance, through turning to him and receiving the
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Holy Spirit who will help us to stop doing whatever it is.
48:48
So anyway, Ephesians 22 says in which you once walked according
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to the course of this world. The worldly attributes that I
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talked about in Galatians 5 according to the Prince of the
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power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of
49:09
disobedience, so there is a spirit is the Spirit, the queen
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of heaven that's talked about, that works in those of
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disobedience. It says, among whom also we all
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once conducted ourselves in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling
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the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature
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children of wrath, just as the others.
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So we all start in the place where says the wages of sin is
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death. We are all sinners.
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We all start out as sinners. We all start out rebellious to
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God, but one day in our own timing that God knows, He will
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make us aware of that. And when we become aware of
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that, we have a choice. Do you want to continue in that
50:08
path or do you want to change? If we want to change, we can
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turn to God and receive the Holy Spirit when we ask for
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forgiveness and we really mean it.
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And then we can change. We can avoid wrath because when
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we have the Holy Spirit, we are not subject to wrath.
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Wrath is discipline, is punishment for the disobedience.
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So when we surrender to God's Holy Spirit, then we are no
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longer subject to wrath. So that's why it's so important
50:45
to be able to be to submit, to be able to, to have a
50:52
willingness to do that because God longs for us to do that and
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he wants to save us from this corruption that we are under.
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You know, when talking about these Queens of Babylons and all
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these different names and about ISIS being considered the queen
51:09
of heaven also, I just thought, you know, like it's really
51:14
interesting that it's Iraq and Syria that are part of this.
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And Syria is a part of a Syria which is also like part of
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Turkey area. But Iraq is where Babylon was.
51:28
And is it a coincidence or not? And especially because you think
51:34
about this ISIS, what it's called an ISIS being the Queen
51:40
of heaven, and it's Iraq and Syria that are combined that are
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doing terrorist kinds of things. And you look at verse 12, it
51:53
says perhaps you will succeed, perhaps you will cause terror.
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So I mean, this is just kind of like, is it more than a
52:03
coincidence? I don't know.
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So let's see where else was I? Another religion too, all this
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like unfortunately like the dragon and I know that you know,
52:20
that is so an Asian belief about the dragon and it's very
52:29
concerning. I was kind of looking at the
52:30
dragon and there's so many different kinds of Dragons and
52:33
things. And again, people who grew up
52:36
with all only knowing that there's there's no blaming here.
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It's like you didn't have a choice.
52:43
You learned that, but The thing is when you learn what's in the
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Bible is that the dragon is Satan.
52:53
And so that's really concerning when you're in a religion that
52:56
has Dragons and multiple Dragons and the color is red and
53:00
everything in the Bible that's red is like evil or associated
53:04
with the devil, with Satan. It's it's just it's very
53:10
concerning that you know, are you in a worship of Satan with
53:19
all these dragon things? Now it here's where in
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Revelation chapter 12, verse 9, the great dragon was hurled down
53:29
the ancient serpent called the devil or Satan who leads the
53:36
whole world astray. He was hurled to earth and his
53:42
angels with him. So his fallen angels.
53:46
So that is the sentence in Revelation chapter 12, verse
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nine that tells us that the dragon is Satan and he leads the
53:56
whole world astray. And then there's another thing
54:00
that another sentence that made me think of the the Asian
54:08
religion that you know, has the Dragons and everything because
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the Dragons were believed to cause flooding and things.
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So here's a very interesting piece of scripture in Revelation
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chapter 12, verse 16. But the earth helped the woman,
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which is symbolic of Israel, by opening its mouth and swallowing
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the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.
54:36
So this is symbolic, but yet at the same time does it does it
54:44
tie into I really think it does tie into the other religion that
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has all these Dragons in their culture.
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Like is this Satan and they don't even know it that it's
54:56
Satan. There, there are many times
55:00
where a Leviathan, that's another kind of dragon like
55:05
thing. If you read the book of Job, you
55:07
will read about things that don't exist today.
55:11
At least we don't know or they're hidden from us today.
55:14
But things that existed and it talked about like smoke coming
55:18
out of its nostrils and fire and breathing.
55:21
And so I don't think these Dragons were fake.
55:25
I think they were real and they're either hidden or they
55:31
were extinguished by God back at some point.
55:35
But I don't think people just made this stuff up in their
55:38
minds. I think they actually saw this
55:40
stuff. And I don't think it was.
55:44
I don't, I don't think it's, I don't think it's good.
55:46
I think it's something evil. And of course, why would God's
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word equate a dragon with Satan if it was something good?
55:57
So those are just things to ponder on.
55:59
Maybe look into more. The other thing about confusion,
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I think in the spirit of Babylon is this whole trans movement
56:10
that we've had about confusing genders over the last several
56:13
years, that it's become like a lot of people, they're, they're
56:18
mutilating themselves in order to be something that they are
56:22
not. Like God made every person in
56:26
his likeness and image and he has a purpose for every person.
56:31
So he is not upset with how he formed you.
56:35
And you don't need to be different than the way God made
56:39
you. And because of the enemy's
56:43
influences on our mind, we can think that we need to be
56:49
different than what we are. But there is beauty in every
56:52
single person that God creates, and there is something beautiful
56:57
that God can bring forth if we submit to Him.
57:00
And I do believe that this whole trans movement is a result of
57:07
this spirit of Babylon. If I forgot which one of those,
57:12
if it was Inanna or something, but there was, maybe I can find.
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OK, this is it. Although Inana Ishtar is the
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garden's par excellence, the beautiful maiden full of sex
57:27
appeal, she is also depicted as an androgyn having masculine
57:36
features. Example, a beard.
57:40
So where do you think it says in the old Babylonian sources
57:43
Ishtar was given masculinity by her father on so this is
57:52
something like a deity. Do you think this could be one
57:55
of Satan and his fallen angels who are impressing this on
58:00
people who are because they haven't been seeking God or they
58:05
haven't turned to God? And so they this evil spiritual
58:11
influence is convincing people that they need to be something
58:15
different than what they are. And it just seems like it's so
58:20
clear that this Ishtar Inana is an Andrew is androgynous.
58:30
And so it, it seems like, wow, this really, that could be the
58:34
spirit that's influencing these people that are, are doing this.
58:39
And there are people who have tried to D transition.
58:43
There are people who have D transitioned after they've done
58:45
it and they regret it. They were miserable.
58:48
They thought it would bring them happiness, but it isn't.
58:50
There's something inside of us that we do keep seeking
58:54
happiness. We keep seeking different
58:56
things, but we won't find that peace with ourselves until we
59:02
truly find God and we realize who we are in God's eyes and how
59:09
much God loves us and how important we are to Him and to
59:15
what extent He has gone to save us from this evil that is
59:21
present here. And if you think the stuff is
59:25
all from the past, all from 507 hundred BC and it doesn't exist
59:32
exist today, let me tell you otherwise.
59:36
Because in researching this, I was looking for the 50 names of
59:40
Marduk. I found something posted on
59:43
September 15th of 2022 and it was about demons.
59:48
And there was an image that said that says praise Marduk for
59:53
bringing order into my life of chaos.
59:57
It's like this witch wrote it. She's claims herself to be a
1:00:01
witch and. And then it talks about this.
1:00:05
In Mesopotamia mythology, Marduk is considered the most
1:00:08
prestigious God who fought and defeated the mother goddess
1:00:11
Tiamat and her lover Kingu. Marduk is often referred to as
1:00:16
the agricultural and storm God. He is also the Co creator of
1:00:21
humans and the creator of divine order.
1:00:23
After defeating the chaos forces led by Tiamat.
1:00:26
According to the Pneuma Elish, this God holds the power of
1:00:30
lightning and possesses an inner fire, controls the wind of the
1:00:34
four poles north, east, West and South.
1:00:37
The power was given to him by Anu.
1:00:40
He also commands the storm and is said to ride a very terrible
1:00:45
chariot known as the Chariot of the Storm.
1:00:49
So it goes on to say all of these things.
1:00:52
I mean like where people are. Let's see, he was married to the
1:00:56
goddess of fertility. Yeah.
1:01:00
So it's like it took a lot of the things that are in the Bible
1:01:04
and twisted it. And and then under this article,
1:01:08
it says discover Related Top topics Ishtar love spell.
1:01:16
I mean, there's just like there's a whole bunch of stuff
1:01:17
here and it's like witchcraft and all this stuff.
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So there is all sorts of stuff which I don't even I'm not
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getting into all of that stuff, but it's it's going on today and
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God's word is relevant today. It's like come out of Babylon,
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come out of the spirit, come out of letting that spirit take
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control of your life. And all you have to do is seek
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God and speak with your mouth that you want the God, the one
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true God, the the Father of Jesus to bring you away from, to
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remove you from this deception, to protect you, that you
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surrender, you submit to God and that you believe.
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You have to believe in Jesus because Jesus is the one who was
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conceived by his mother Mary through the Holy Spirit.
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That's how he was born, and he came here to break the curse on
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mankind, which would send all of us into the burning lake of
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sulfur if it didn't happen, the burning lake of fire if, if he
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didn't do what he did on the cross, he broke the curse of
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death by being the ultimate, ultimate replacement sacrifice
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that was required. God or the law.
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God created the laws, but the laws allowed for a substitute
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sacrifice, like one could die for another mother.
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And that's what God did with his son Jesus.
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Jesus died for us to break the curse, kind of like witchcraft
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curse thing, if you want to call it that.
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But there were that. It's not really that because God
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said there were blessings and curses that come along with
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obedience or disobedience. So God's not going to have any
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disobedient people in His Kingdom.
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He's looking for people who are willing to be obedient.
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We aren't obedient to start with.
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We're all rebellious to different levels.
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God knows it. When we find out who God is and
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we agree, come into agreement with God that yes, you are holy,
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you are good and I am not, but I want to be in your Kingdom and
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I, I'm willing to be changed by your Holy Spirit.
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When we surrender like that, then God can start doing work in
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our life and we will start to change and we can then be in the
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future Kingdom of God where nothing evil will be present.
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There will be no more death. There will be no more sorrow or
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crying or tears or any of the things that we don't like.
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And I would say as a population, the whole world doesn't like
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that. Even evil people, I think, feel
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pain and suffering and emotional things that they don't like.
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But the source of getting rid of all of that is God.
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God brings true peace and true fulfillment and is love.
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The number one thing that God is is love.
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And I almost forgot because I'm talking so long, but I'm going
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to stop now. But I want to talk about what
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that that man was. If you want to find it on, it
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would probably be better to actually see it for yourself.
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But if you want to, it's the Instagram account called Gospel
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of Love. And it was such a sweet
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testimony from this man who was as, as a 17 year old boy.
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I'm just going, hopefully I get this right.
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He, he and his father were very devout Buddhists.
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And he was very prayerful. Well, he ended up with
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tuberculosis and he was told he had three to six months to live
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from the doctors. And so he was in his bed and he
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was praying to Buddha to come and rescue him, to save him, and
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nothing happened. And then he prayed to if there's
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a God in this universe, something, some, you know, help
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me rescue me. And ironically, and like I said,
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I don't believe in coincidences anymore.
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I used to, but I don't anymore. Some Christian girl happened to
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come by to him and pray with him or tell him about Jesus and she
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brought him a Bible. And so it took him a little bit,
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but he was, he had the Bible there and he actually got into
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it. He started reading it and it
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wasn't all philosophical, but it was more about a person, about a
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love about he read the New Testament about Jesus and the
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Gospels and he, he learned about this.
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And so at some point of his learning, he then prayed to, or
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he said he didn't even know how to pray.
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So he spoke to God and basically said, if you get kind of, I'm
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going to paraphrase, I can't remember exactly what he said,
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but he said, if you Get Me Out of this, then I will basically
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serve you. And so this man that did happen
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to him. He he did pass away in 2021
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because at the very end of the video, it said, you know what?
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His life ended in 2021. It was Pastor David Yonghi Cho,
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and I don't know if I'm pronouncing it correctly, but he
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from the, I don't know, sometime after he was 17 when he had
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tuberculosis, when he finally got to know or was introduced to
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Jesus, his life was extended 68 more years.
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And he did promise that if that happened, he would be of service
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to God. And he was, he was of service to
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God. And it's just such the sweetest
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story because he wasn't doing anything wrong.
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He was, he was doing only what he knew, what he was taught from
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his parents. And he was praying to Buddha.
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But Buddha didn't do anything for him, but Christ did.
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Jesus did. He's real and he will do that
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for all people. It was just such a heart warming
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true story of this man that really did move me.
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And it was interesting that it happened to be seen by me on the
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day that I'm reading chapters 46 and 47 about the gods of Babylon
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and coming to those thoughts as I was reading through.
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So anyway, I think there might be one more, two more questions
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and answers that I didn't cover, so I'm going to touch on that
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right now. What kind of sorcery, spells and
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astrology could be found in Babylon?
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Many ancient writers refer to Babylon as a source of the magic
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arts. Using various charms and
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rituals, incantations, sorcerers sought to manipulate the spirit
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world for their own benefit. We noticed anything that's self
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seeking selfish that is evil like God is selfless.
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He is you know you think about there is no greater sacrifice
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than to give your own life for someone else and that's what
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Jesus did. Jesus is the son of God.
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OK, astrologers charted the the stars and advise kings Daniel
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with God and advise kings Daniel with God as his source of
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knowledge was added to the ranks of Babylonian astrologers.
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The Magi who visited Jesus may have been heir, heir heirs of
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this tradition. So it was very widespread in
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there. And people, you know, if they
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only were taught that they didn't know, but there are,
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there are people who it says in the Bible, you know, like they
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would have been saved, but they chose not to repent.
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Again, it all boils down to our choice.
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God gives us a choice. But when you truly get to know
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God, I can't imagine that anyone would reject the love of God.