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Zechariah Chapter 9. Let us pray.
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Father God, here we are. Lord Jesus, thank you.
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Holy Spirit, come on in. Holy Spirit, fill us up.
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Holy Spirit, teach us your ways. Lord we look at you.
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God we exalt you. God, we are attached to you.
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Father, we just want you to father us.
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Lord, we get out of our own way. Father, we want more of you,
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Jesus Christ. Lord, we are so expectant today
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that you're going to move mightily in the midst of us,
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Lord, that you're going to show us your ways.
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You're going to take us to new heights and new depths today,
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Father. So, Lord, as we read your word,
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as we study your scriptures, as we look upon your face, as we
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listen to the breath, God, that you have written down for us,
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Lord, that has come down through the ages, that has been
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preserved for us, Father, we just look upon you.
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We look upon your face. Father, we thank you for these
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kind words. We thank you for your gentle
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instruction. Lord, we thank You that we can
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be counted worthy. Father, with Jesus, we thank
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you. God, that as we get in line with
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your scriptures, Lord, you are purifying us.
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Lord, you are purging all of the dross and the iniquities out.
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God, you are making us lighter than snow because of the
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sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Thank you for the thorn of
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crowns upon his head. Thank you God for the lashes.
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Thank you God, that he was beaten and by his wounds I am
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healed, and we are healed and we are made complete.
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And Father, we wait, Lord, and help us to wait.
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Well, Lord, we know that we know that you are coming and You are
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coming soon. Lord, we know that.
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We know that we are closer today than we were yesterday.
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We know that we know that everything pertained in these
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Holy Scriptures will come to pass.
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We know that we know that the gates of hell will never prevail
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against the Church. We know that.
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We know that Jesus Christ is Lord, so God teach us, God, show
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us more. God.
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Love on us, Lord, as we love on you.
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Bless us as we bless you. Father, let us in our obedience.
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Father, prove that we are your children.
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Prove that we love you. And we're sold out to the King
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of Kings and the Lord of Lords. God, we are not here for selfish
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gain, God. We are here to honor you, God.
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We are here to bless you, God. We are here to hear from you,
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God. And we know that you're going to
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speak. We know that you're going to
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change the atmosphere all around us.
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We know, God, that you're going to come in, you're going to ride
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in God, and you are going to say what it is that you want to say
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for us today. And Lord, we know that your
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mercies are new every day. And God, we know that you're
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moving everything according to your plan.
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And so God, we are excited, God, we are expecting, God, we know
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that you are going to change this entire globe for the
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goodness and the grace and the mercy and the love that you have
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for us. And so God, we wait for it.
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Help us to wait well, help us to keep our oil filled, help us to
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keep our Wicks trimmed, God. And we like the lamps, Lord, and
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we don't hide them under the bushel, Father.
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And it is you and it is you and it is you, Jesus, Jesus.
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Jesus Christ that we are after and Lord we chase after, we laid
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down every selfish desire God to follow after you and Lord, we
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want to know you more, we want to see you more, we want to love
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you more. So God just increase the tent
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pegs, increase the the tent here, Father.
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Lord, as we go and take back areas of darkness, God, as we
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take back strongholds that the enemy considers his.
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Father, I pray for the children. I pray for the teenagers, I pray
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for the mothers. Lord, I pray for the families.
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God, I pray that men will rise up and be leaders of their
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families. I pray that men in this hour
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will be men, Father, that they will not be boys or animals God,
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or behave like women. Father, I pray in the name of
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Jesus that the husbands will rise up and lead well.
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God, I pray for spiritual leaders to break out in
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neighborhoods, break out over the this land, Father, and over
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this globe. Lord, I pray God that we will
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not shrink back. Lord, I pray that we will put
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our hands to the plow, God, and that we will charge the hill.
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Father and I pray in the name of Jesus that you help us, God,
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give us supernatural zeal, supernatural strength,
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supernatural focus, God, and continue to reveal wisdom to us
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today. Lord, continue to reveal your
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love to us today, Father, and we ask all this in the precious, in
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the holy, the anointed name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, our
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Messiah, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrak and
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Damascus shall be the rest thereof, when the eyes of man,
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as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the Lord.
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So we can see that this is a prophecy against Syria.
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This is a prophecy against the Babylonian nation.
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This is a prophecy against the hostile lands that surrounded
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Israel. And God's going to show them
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what he thinks about their treatment towards the Jews.
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And this is an intelligence indicator for us at this time
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and this hour. Pay attention, friends, lock in.
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We need to be kind to that nation, Israel.
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We need to be found standing with that nation, Israel.
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Don't believe and don't buy into the garbage that is rising up
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saying that God is through with the Jews or that the Jews of
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that land today are not the rightful Jews.
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Don't buy in to that propaganda and that garbage.
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That is just a propaganda that people are propagating in the
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land to get us to fall off of the Lord's true desire for His
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people who are called by His name who He has preserved.
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It is a satanic and demonic attack and people that fall into
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that trap will regret it. Friends, don't be surprised if
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you find yourself eat up with a displeasure whenever you turn
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your backs on God's people. He will bless those that bless
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the Jews and He will curse those that curse the Jews.
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Let's be found standing with them.
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Friends, it's pretty simple and it's outlined over and over and
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over and over and over in Scripture that He is going to
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bring them into the fold. He is going to reveal to the
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Jewish nation that Jesus Christ is their Messiah, praise the
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Lord, and there are many who are coming into that thought process
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and into that reality and into the facts that Jesus is Lord. 2
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And Hamas also shall border thereby Tyre and Zidon through
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it. Be very wise.
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So this Hadrak and Damascus were one in the same.
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This is the only mention in verse one of Hajrak but also
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known as Hamath and we can see it attached to Syria through
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Damascus there. And you remember Tyre here in
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verse 2 was in that was in Isaiah chapter 14, where Satan
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was likened to the king of Tyre. And it is interesting when you
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go back and study a little bit of history of how Assyria and
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Babylon could not conquer them because they had this little
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island out in the middle of nowhere that people couldn't get
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to. And they were so luxurious and
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they reveled in their security and they were so rich that they
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made gold as it was nothing. And then Alexander the Great
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comes in and he topples. Let go and look at history and
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go and look even to this day, go and look at how he toppled the
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city on land and he used all the rubble to make a land bridge
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over to conquer them. And they were brought low and
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God said it, that that's exactly what would happen.
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And all of their pride got them in trouble.
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And that's a word for us today, friends, make sure that you do
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not have pride for where you are.
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Do not have pride and all the guns you've amassed.
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Don't have pride in the gated community you live in.
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Don't have pride in the bank accounts that you possess.
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Don't have pride friends, because God will bring it all
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low. Anytime that we have pride in
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our life, we will be brought low.
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It's like the person who reaches his hand into the pot to grab
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something, but he won't let go of it to get his hand back out
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and it costs him his life. It's a very simple principle,
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friends. We need to be found open handed.
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We need to be found open handed with our time, with our
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treasures, with our talents, with the love that we possess.
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Do not let your love grow cold, friends.
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Keep it hot. Keep your oil lamps full.
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Friends Three and Tired did build herself a stronghold and
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heaped up silver as the dust, fine gold as the mire of the
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streets. You can see their luxurious
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lifestyle. You can see they have their
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stronghold here. You can see that they thought
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that they were impenetrable, untouchable, and that is the
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very thing that got them in trouble.
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Friends 4. Behold, the Lord will cast her
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out, and he will strike her power in the sea, and she shall
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be devoured with fire. He's talking about Alex Xander
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the Great coming in and conquering them, and the way
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that he did that was toppling over all the rubble from the
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town into the water so that he could walk over and take them.
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Five Ashkelon shall see it and fear Gaza also shall see it and
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be very sorrowful Ekron for her expectation shall be ashamed,
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and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ascalong shall not be
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inhabited. So you can see this also in the
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conquest of Alexander the Great and how he conquered these
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cities in this order. And you can see how incredibly
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pinpoint accurate God's message is and how it is trustworthy and
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true. And history proves the Bible and
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and by the way, the Bible is his story.
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Don't forget it, friends. 6 And a bastard shall dwell in ash
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dog. And I will cut off the pride of
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the Philistines. So you can see here again, God
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outlines that He puts the magnifying glass on the pride.
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It is what will get us in trouble.
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And look at what is happening in this land and look at what is
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happening across the world. This pride is ridiculous.
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This pride will be dealt with and we are propagating it and we
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are promoting it at the highest levels and we are trying to
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infiltrate the small children in the school systems with this
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pride and God will deal with it, friends.
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God will overthrow the pride. It is the rebellion of hell that
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pride is in existence and we need to be found humble and
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having humility and counting others as better than ourselves.
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We need to be found open handed. We need to be found trusting in
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the Lord and anytime that there's pride found in us, it is
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because we have made a love decision for this world.
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We have made a love decision against the holy principles of
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God that are outlined and found in this book that you hold in
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your hands, friends. 7 And I will take away his blood out of
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his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth.
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But he that remains even, he shall be for our God, and he
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shall be a governor in Judah and Ekron as a Jebusite.
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So what's he talking about here? He's talking about the burden
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upon the city surrounding Palestine.
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He's talking about all those that are hostile towards the
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Jews here, Friends A and I will encamp about my house because of
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the army, because of him that passes by, and because of him
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that returns, and no oppressor shall pass through them anymore.
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For now have I seen with my eyes?
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So 8 is double fold. The first is talking about
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Alexander the Great. Whenever he was conquering all
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the lands around Jerusalem, and whenever he got there, he was
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met by a procession from the high priest and all the
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inhabitants. And he in history tells us that
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he saw in a dream that this is how he would be met by them, not
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with hostility, but by God's power and by the love.
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And it absolutely made him behave in a way that was
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unbecoming of a conqueror. And he actually gave them the
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ability to continue on in the worship of Yahweh.
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How amazing is our God that he can reveal himself to a Pagan in
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a dream? How amazing is it that God can
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give them the autonomy to continue to worship him in that
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land? This is an amazing book that you
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hold in your hands. This is alive and active and
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sharper than any 2 edged sword. Friends and Word became flesh
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friends and the Word was at the beginning and the Word was with
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God and the Word was God and that's what you hold in your
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hands and it is watching you as you were reading it.
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Don't forget it friends. This book is alive and active
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and we can see it in history. Look at how God revealed himself
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to Alexander the Great about the Israelites and how he was to
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treat them. And that is exactly what has
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happened in this outlined here in the first part of verse 8,
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but then in the second part where it says no oppressor shall
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pass through them anymore. This is talking about the
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thousand year reign of Christ. And it will be a peaceful time
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over the whole earth, and he will govern and he will be the
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king over the entire globe, not just for that land.
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And we are going to be there and rule and reign with him for that
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thousand year reign. Thank you God, verse 9, Rejoice
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greatly, O daughter of Zion, shall, O daughter of Jerusalem,
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behold, your king comes unto you.
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He is just and having salvation lowly and riding upon an ass and
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upon the colt, the foal of an ass.
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He's talking about the donkey here.
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He's talking about Jesus. He's talking about how Jesus
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came in and they all shouted Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest
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in the same ones. Not that long after, a week
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later, they were all crying, crucify him because he was not
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the militant king that they expected.
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But he showed them that when he came in on this donkey, he
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showed them that. And whenever it says it over and
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over, he says riding upon an ass, upon the colt, the foe of
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an ass. This is a purebred.
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This was showing them that he chose the finest, but it was not
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the horse, the War Horse that a general would have rode in that
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a king would have rode in on. This was Jesus, and it's an
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upside down, inside out kind of Kingdom.
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And look at the way that he comes.
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He comes lowly, not prideful, but what does he have?
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He has our salvation. There is no salvation outside of
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Jesus Christ. And look at how he came like a
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boss. He bossed up and He came in.
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He did not need all of the procession and the pomp and the
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circumstance. He did not need the big steed.
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What did he need? He just needed a lowly donkey.
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And they all cried, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest, and they
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had it, they only had it half right.
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They should have known that this was the Son of God that was
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coming to bring them their salvation, not coming to bring
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them the military that they had hoped for to overthrow the Roman
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oppressors. And in the end, his second
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advent, his second coming will be that.
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And they we're looking at it, trying to have their cake and
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eat it too. And it didn't work that way.
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But look at us, we are long-awaited 2000 years.
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We are long-awaited for him to come back and overthrow all the
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evil that is in the world. Go and read Psalms chapter 2 and
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you're going to see what it will look like when God comes back.
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Why do the nation's rage? And then God is in heaven and he
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laughs and he tells Jesus to come and he puts all of the evil
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as a footstool under his feet. It's easy for him, friends.
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And during this time in verse nine, it was prophesied of Jesus
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coming in on the donkey, riding in on what we would call Palm
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Sunday. And they were waving their palms
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and they're all crying out. Hosanna and Jesus as he was
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entering into Jerusalem, if you remember, he wept and he said,
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oh daughter Jerusalem, how I long to gather you like a hand
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gathers her chicks. He knew that seven days later,
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from this point in Palm Sunday, seven days later, they would be
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crying out saying crucify him on that Good Friday.
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So it would have been five days later.
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So they were all crying out crucify him because he did not
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overthrow the Roman government like they had hoped, friends.
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But then Jesus arose with our freedom in hand.
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He snatched the keys to death. He snatched the keys to hell to
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Hades. And oh death, where is your
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sting? Oh hell, where is your victory?
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Now we can stand in his presence, knowing that his
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salvation was wrought for us, and he brought it with him
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during this time, as he's riding in on that donkey, Friends. 10
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And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from
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Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall
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speak peace unto the heathen, and his dominion shall be from
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sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the
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earth. This might sound like a familiar
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phrase here. From the sea to sea, from the
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river to the sea, and from the ends of the earth.
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This is a promise that is attached to King Jesus.
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This is a promise that is attached to the Jewish nation.
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This is a promise that is attached to the Israelites.
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This is a promise that is attached for you, Christian
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brother and sister. He's showing us that for the
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thousand year reign of Christ there will be peace on this
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earth. Friends 11 As for you also, by
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the blood of the covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of
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the pit where there is no water. So he's talking about the people
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that do not have this living water, the people that are in
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despair because they can't see hope, they can't see the peace
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that you and I possess because they're not attached to King
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Jesus. And he's showing them that as
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Jesus comes and as Jesus reveals himself as the King of Kings and
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the Lord of Lords to the entire globe, and it says that everyone
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will see him coming, then they will know what is the true bread
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of life and what is the true living water that we all
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desperately need. And I pray that you have found
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that, Friends. I pray that you are feasting on
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that, Friends, that you are drinking it in Friends 12 Turn
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you to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope.
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Even today do I declare that I will render double unto you, so
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you could see these prisoners that had no water.
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He calls them prisoners of hope. You know what?
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What are you going to do with God's word here?
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Isn't this word such liberty to us who feel as if all of the
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world is against us and everything is pressing in on
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every side? But just remember the pressure
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produces the diamonds, friends. Just remember that if you're
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feeling like you're being opposed, it's probably because
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you're taking back strongholds of darkness that the enemy
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thought was his. When you go and you are the
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light of the world, don't be surprised whenever darkness
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tries to oppose you. But just speak the name of Jesus
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over the circumstance. Speak all of the things that are
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pertained within these 66 books, from Genesis to Revelation.
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Speak these promises over your circumstances and watch the
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enemy flee. Friends, he calls us prisoners
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of hope. Do you have that hope today?
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Jesus Christ is our hope, not some presidential election.
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It is not our hope. Friends, Jesus Christ is our
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hope. He is our only hope for
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salvation. He is our only hope for
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eternity. He is our only hope for
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neighborhoods to become safe again.
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He is our only hope for this nation to be the light of the
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world. 13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with
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Ephraim, and raised up your son's O Zion against your son's
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O Greece, and made you as a sword of a mighty man.
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He's referencing back of how Alexander the Great gave them
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their autonomy, gave them their ability to worship him, to
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worship the one true living God, Yahweh. 14 And the Lord shall be
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seen over them, and his arrows shall go forth as the lightning,
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and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with
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whirlwinds of the South. This is God, this is God putting
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King Jesus on the throne, this is him coming as a lowly baby,
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and this is him coming as the King of kings.
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And this is God showing us that his plans will always come to
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pass. All the prophecies contained in
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this book are trustworthy and true, and he's showing us that
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here. 15 The Lord of hosts shall defend them, and shall devour
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and subdue with slinging stones, and they shall drink and make a
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noise as through wine, and they shall be filled like bowls and
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as the corners of the altar. So what's he talking about?
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He's talking about the thousand year reign of Christ.
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He's talking about how everything is going to be
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peaceful and there will be plenty, and he's going to subdue
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all the enemies that try to come against the Jewish nation.
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We need to be found standing with them friends, and be
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blessed. 16 And the Lord their God shall save them in that day
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as the flock of his people, and they shall be as the stones of a
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crown lifted up as an sign upon his land.
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These are the Jews. These are the ones that he
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loves. He's looking after them, and
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they could have all the atomic bombs pointed towards that
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little lamb the size of New Jersey.
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And what is going to happen? God in He, in his miraculous
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power and His omnipotence. God will be a force field around
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that land. Friends, you can't do anything
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with these people. They will be there with us
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forever more. 17 will end here. For how great is His goodness,
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and how great is His beauty, Praise God for King Jesus.
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Corn shall make the young men cheerful, and the new wine the
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maids. Jesus is the new wine.
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Friends, drink up, drink up to the full.
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There is no lack in His house. He's going to show us that all
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these words are trustworthy and true.
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When we go to meet Him there, when we go to look upon His
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face, all of this will make sense.
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Friends, meditate upon Him today.
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Trust in these words today. Know that God Almighty is moving
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everything according to plan. Rest in that friends.
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Just have your peace in that friends, knowing that God is
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able. God can do anything.
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God is going to bring all of this to light and we will see it
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with our own eyes, friends, he told Thomas.
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He said blessed are you because you see and believe, but how
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much more blessed are they that don't see and they still choose
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to believe? Are you choosing to believe
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today, friends? Do you have the faith of a
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mustard seed? Friends, you can say to the
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mountain move and it'll move. Friends, if you have any
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objections and opposition's to what is contained in the word of
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God, just say to that mountain move, say to the ocean part and
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God will make it plain for you. Friends, ask Him for wisdom, ask
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Him to reveal to you His eternal truths and God will because
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that's His heart. I hope you've been blessed by
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this 9th chapter here in Zechariah.
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I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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of you. I love you, so does God, and
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we'll see you back here tomorrow.
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God bless you.