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722. Bible Study: Isaiah 31 (Jesus the Messiah, Son of God Return prophecy in 700 BC!) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 31 from the book of Isaiah.
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Let's pray. Dear God, please let the Holy
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Spirit reveal to us, give us wisdom and understanding of what
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we are about to read today. We ask for this in Jesus name.
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Amen. Woe to those who rely on Egypt,
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woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on
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horses, who trust in the multitude of their Chariots and
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in the great strength of their horsemen, but do not look to the
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Holy One of Israel or seek help from the Lord.
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So again, God wants to be the source, and this holds true back
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then and today that God wants to be our source, our refuge, the
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one we go to when we need, when we, you know, we need to look to
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him and he wants to be that source of strength for us.
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So when we feel weak, we go to the Lord.
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We don't try to rely on ourself or rely on somebody else.
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We go to God and God will provide a way.
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Yet he OK so or seek help from the Lord yet he too is wise and
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can bring disaster. He does not take back his words
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Now again I think this is about Jesus once again and it's
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written in the seven hundreds BC.
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So this as we read further, I'll show you that it's definitely
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about Jesus. But so I, I do believe this is
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another end time prophecy and it may have alerted the Israelites
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to a disaster that was coming upon them, but it wasn't the
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complete fulfillment. And you'll see why it wasn't the
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complete fulfillment when it happened back then.
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So this is but about a time that's yet to come but is
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prophesied. So it says yet, yet he yet he
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too is wise and can bring disaster.
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He does not take back his words. God doesn't take back his words.
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What what he says will happen. He will rise up against that
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wicked nation, against those who help evil doers.
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This is about Jesus rising up, but the Egyptians are mere
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mortals and not God. Their horses are flesh and not
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spirit. I thought that was interesting
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because just the prior chapter we were talking about how in the
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Book of Revelation and in some of the visions, I think it was
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Zechariah, maybe Ezekiel, to some of the visions that they
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had where there were horses in it.
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The horses are actually spirits. So we made that connection in
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these. Like symbolic.
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In the symbolic sense, these are actual spirits and going to and
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fro upon the earth. And so it's really interesting
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that it says their horses are flesh and not spirit.
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So there's like a clarification of the other ones in the Bible.
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Then the Lord, when when the Lord stretches out his hand,
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those who help will stumble, those who are helped will fall.
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All will perish together. So when judgement time comes,
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it's that's, you know, God's not going to take that back.
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It's going to happen. Those who help will fall.
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I mean, people, there may be some like kindness, they're
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going to try to help one another, but it's going to be a
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futile effort. They didn't rely on God.
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They rejected God. They heard about God and they
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they didn't ever go to him. They didn't ever turn to him.
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They didn't ever repent. And so when judgment time comes
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and that time comes when Jesus returns, when that time comes,
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all the people who haven't repented and repaired their
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friendship with God are going to perish together.
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It says it here and you know it also says the Lord does not take
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back His words. This is what the Lord says to me
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as a lion growls a great lion over its prey, and though a band
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of shepherds is called against it.
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So the shepherds are like religious leaders that take care
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of the sheep, the ones that God appointed to look over his
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sheep, his children, his people, like the Israelites and others.
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And it says, and though a whole band of shepherds is called
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together against it, like it'll, that shows us like, if we are
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not reconciled with God, if, if we're a leader, if, if this OK,
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if a leader of a church, say, or a synagogue, A rabbi, whoever is
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not reconciled with God. And then they, I mean, this is
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the way I'm reading into what I, I'm reading here.
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It's a whole band of shepherds. These are, these are God's
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people, God's leaders, shepherds, leaders of people.
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If they are called together against it, What if they're
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called together against it to play against it?
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Because we see a lot of that today where leaders of churches
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and things, they see disaster coming and they're praying
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against it. Like, don't let this happen,
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Lord. But what if it's God's will?
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All those prayers aren't going to matter if, if and when it's
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time for God's judgement. We're not going to be able to
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pray our way out of it if we haven't reconciled with God.
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It that's it. That's you know, there's,
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there's not, there's not changing that.
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So he's this is I'll read it again.
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This is what the Lord says to me as a lion growls a great lion
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over its prey. And though a whole band of
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shepherds is called together against it, it is not frightened
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by their shouts or disturbed by their clamor.
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So the Lord Almighty will come down to do battle on Mount Zion
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and on its heights, like birds hovering overhead.
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The Lord Almighty will shield Jerusalem.
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He will shield it and deliver it.
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He will in quotations Passover it and will rescue it.
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And that right there is absolutely about Jesus.
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And I will show you like when we'll search Mount Zion and
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you'll see how this is absolutely about Jesus.
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Then the other thing is there is a hint here and it's about
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Exodus. Exodus, it's it's referring to
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Jesus again, he will Passover, the whole celebration.
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I'm going to show you that. And Scripture is all about Jesus
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as well. Jesus rescuing people.
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So we will first let's search about Mount Zion and and I'll
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there's, oh gosh, there's 30 times in nine verses, but
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there's 8 exact phrases. So I'm just going to read the
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eight exact phrases. So Psalm 133, verse 3, it is as
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if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion, for there
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the Lord bestows His blessing, even life forevermore.
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So eternal life, that's where God's going to give eternal life
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to people. So then in Isaiah 818 it said,
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here am I and the children the Lord has given me.
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We are signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord Almighty
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who dwells on Mount Zion. That's where Isaiah was
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referring to himself, but he's saying the Lord Almighty dwells
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on Mount Zion. Isaiah chapter 24 says the moon
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will be dismayed, the sun ashamed, for the Lord Almighty
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will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before its elders
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with great glory. Well, that hasn't happened yet,
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but that is what Jesus is going to do when He returns.
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Then we have the verse in chapter 31 of Isaiah that we
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read that led us to Mount Zion. Then in the book of Joel chapter
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2, verse 32, and everyone who calls on the name of the Lord
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will be saved for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be
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deliverance, as the Lord has said, even among the survivors
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whom the Lord calls. Now this I believe is after the.
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I mean maybe possibly during absolutely during the
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tribulation. So it's definitely during the
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tribulation. I would say probably before
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wrath occurs and so there's survivors out of the tribulation
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because the tribulation is going to be pretty bad.
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And I don't know at what point Jesus returns, but if he didn't
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return at all, everybody would be killed.
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So there's some, there's survivors that don't get killed
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before Jesus returns. So there will be living people.
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So even among the survivors of the, of the tribulation whom the
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Lord calls. So God is still going to be
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calling people to him during this time of trial, testing,
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tribulation, whatever you want to call it.
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But on Mount Zion there will. This is from Obadiah chapter one
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verse 17. But on Mount Zion will be
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deliverance, it will be holy, and Jacob will possess his
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inheritance. So this is when the land will
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actually go to Israel as God had originally said in Obadiah
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chapter one verse 21, it says deliverers will go up on Mount
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Zion to govern the mountains of Esau and the Kingdom will be the
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Lord's. Again, this is future for us.
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Then in the Book of Revelation it says then I looked and there
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before me was the Lamb. That's referring to Jesus
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standing on Mount Zion and with him, 144,000 who had his name
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and his Father's name written on their foreheads.
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Now that happens because in the Book of Revelation it says that
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angels go and seal 144,000 Jewish people 12,000 from each
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of the tribes except from the tribe of Dan, except from the
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tribe of Ephraim. And the angels actually hold
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back the winds of destruction until these people are sealed.
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So, and these are the people who have prepared themselves and
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it's from each of the tribes. So anyway that that's in the
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Book of Revelation and that will be coming.
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So we know that in this Isaiah where it says that he's going
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to, he's going to come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on
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its height and he will shield it and deliver it.
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He will Passover and he will rescue.
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So he's certainly rescuing the 144,000 who were sealed before
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sealed, which is that, you know, may be sealed with the anointing
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of the Holy Spirit perhaps because that's usually what, you
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know, Jesus said that no one can enter the Kingdom of God unless
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they are born of the Spirit. And that's usually something
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that an anointing that happens. So then I want to tell you about
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Passover passing over how because that's in quotation
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mark. So I think it's a good hint for
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us that this is hinting to Jesus once again.
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So let's go back to the book of Exodus chapter 12 and there's 2
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verses. The blood will be a sign for you
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on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood I will
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Passover you. No destructive plague will touch
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you when I strike Egypt. So that's in God was in control
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of that. God was sending warnings to
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Egypt to say let my people go. And this was how the Israelites
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were able to protect themselves by putting the blood on their
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doorpost, their door frame. And that was symbolic of they so
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they sacrificed a lamb and then Jesus is called the lamb in the
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book of Revelations. So it was.
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It was a foreshadowing of the of Jesus, Jesus death on the cross,
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his ultimate sacrifice. So back in the Old Testament,
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the Lamb sacrifice that protected the people by its
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blood is an analogy or a symbol to Jesus actually protecting all
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of us by his death on the cross, his blood that was shed on the
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cross. Because without blood, without
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the sacrifice, there is no forgiveness.
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We learned that from Hebrews, from the book of Hebrews.
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Then in Exodus verse 23, it says when the Lord goes through the
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land to strike down the Egyptians, this is from Exodus.
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He will see the blood on the top and the sides of the door frame
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and will Passover that doorway and He will not permit the
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destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
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See, everything is under God's control.
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So He has a destroyer. He is sent out who has authority
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from him. And you know, the destroyer is
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also the one who rises up from the abyss in the Book of
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Revelation. So God uses evil things for his
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purpose. And if we are not reconciled
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with God, we are subject to judgement.
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We are subject to God's wrath. So that's why it's so important
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to reconcile with God. And then so Isaiah chapter 31,
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what we're that took us to this place says like birds hovering
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overhead, the Lord Almighty will shield Jerusalem.
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He will shield it and deliver it.
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He will Passover it and we'll rescue it.
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So this is this is a hint. This is like this is Jesus.
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And this is probably this may be it's, it's just coming to me
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right now. This may be when all of a sudden
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the Israelites realize, oh wow, the Passover and Exodus, this is
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him, this is the one and and then their eyes will be opened.
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So then continuing on in Scripture.
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I mean, there's I did do a search.
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Actually, we can talk about like the later part of the Bible,
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mostly the New Testament. There is Old Testament obviously
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where God says he will rescue, He will rescue, He will rescue.
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The New Testament talks a lot about Jesus being our rescuers.
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So I'm going to read those references.
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So first of all, people are mocking Jesus and in Matthew 27
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verse 43, this is when Jesus was on the cross and they said he
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trusts in God, let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he
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said I am the Son of God. So they were being very
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sarcastic and mocking him while he was hanging on the cross and
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they didn't realize that what he was doing was essentially in
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secret. It was planned, but he needed to
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die on the cross so that all of us would have the opportunity to
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be in the Kingdom of God. So that's why God didn't rescue
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Jesus on the cross. God prepared Jesus to do that on
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the cross. So why would he go against his
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own will? So that's the thing that the
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people either didn't know, they didn't seek him, they didn't
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listen to him. So all they are is mocking him,
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saying, oh, God would save him on the cross.
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Why didn't God save him? You know, if that's his only
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son, wouldn't you save your son off the cross?
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They're using human logic, but they have no idea of the law of
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sin and death, that if we sin, we are destined to death, but
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the only way there's forgiveness is by a death on the cross.
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And Jesus was the perfect human because because he was the Son
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of God, that's the only way he was perfect.
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And that's how he could be the sacrifice that made atonement
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for our sin, which gave us the possibility to be in God's
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Kingdom. So we have to acknowledge Jesus.
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We have to recognize him for what he did.
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We have to believe that. And we have to receive the Holy
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Spirit too. Because Jesus said that before
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he went on the cross, he told us in John chapter 3, you have to
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be born again, born of the Spirit.
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So we need the Holy Spirit. And Jesus said he would give the
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Holy Spirit when he left. He would give the Holy Spirit to
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be with people forever until to help people until his return.
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So we rely on the Holy Spirit of God and the Holy Spirit will
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come to us when we are sincere in our repentance and we are
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turning away from sin and we want God's help.
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We are relying on God's help. We aren't saying, OK, I'm just
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going to, I'm going to be strong and I'm going to do this myself.
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God doesn't want that. He realizes our flesh is weak,
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the Spirit is strong, our flesh is weak.
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So he wants us to say, God, I can't do this on my own, this is
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too hard. But with your spirit I can
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overcome this. Then we can overcome stuff.
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So OK, talking about rescuing Luke verse or chapter one verse
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74 to rescue us from the hand of our enemies and enable us to
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serve him without fear. That's what God does.
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He rescues us from enemies and enables us to serve Him without
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fear. Acts 725.
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Moses thought that his own people would realize that God
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was using him to rescue them, but they did not.
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So God can use other people to rescue as well, and Moses was an
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instrument. He was called by God to rescue
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the people out of slavery of Egypt in Acts chapter 26, verse
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17. I will rescue you from your own
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people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them.
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So I'm going to go back to see that what what that was, I don't
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know where that was. This was this.
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Oh, this is when, this is when Jesus appeared to Saul and it
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said. He was on his way back from
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Damascus and he said, we all fell to the ground.
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And I, this is Paul talking, heard a voice saying to me in
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Aramaic, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?
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It is hard for you. It is hard for you to kick
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against the goes. Then I said, Who are you, Lord?
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I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
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Persecuting. The Lord replied.
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Now get up and stand on your feet.
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I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as
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a witness of what you have seen and will see of me.
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I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles.
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I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from
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darkness to light and from the power of Satan.
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Satan holds the power of death until Jesus died on the cross
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and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive
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forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified
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by faith in Me. So sanctification happens by the
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Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit starts changing
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us and making us more like Jesus.
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Then Paul says in Romans Chapter 7 verse 21, what a wretched man
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I am who will rescue me from this body that is subject to
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death. That's Jesus.
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So he's kind of using that as a question, but there's more to it
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and it's about Jesus. In Galatians chapter one, verse
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4, Paul says who gave himself the talking about Jesus, who
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gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil
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age according to the will of our God and Father.
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So again, the Son of God rescues us from evil and he's working in
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accordance to the will of God, just like he was on the cross or
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he he was praying before he was crucified and he prayed to God
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and said, if there's any other way, you know, to do this, you
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know, like, let me know. Like he was praying in
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desperation that said he was sweating blood but then he said
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but if not your will be done. That was complete surrender to
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the Father. Like I will go through with it.
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I know what's coming. If there's another way let me
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know. But no there wasn't.
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He had to do what he had to do. In second Timothy chapter 4
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verse 18, the Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and
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will bring me safely to His heavenly Kingdom, to Him be
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glory forever and ever. Amen.
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And second Peter chapter 2 verse 9, If this is so, then the Lord,
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then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and
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to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of
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judgment. So there is a different
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treatment of all the people on the earth.
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The ones who have been reconciled with God are going to
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be rescued. The ones who are rebellious to
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God and rejected Him, rejected the Son of God, are going to be
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subject to judgment. So again, this is Isaiah in 700
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BC warning people about this. So we'll continue on.
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We're almost finished with this chapter.
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I think it's going to be a little shorter than the prior
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ones. So return you Israelites to the
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one you have so greatly revolted against.
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For in that day, the return of the Lord day, everyone of you
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will reject the idols of silver and gold your sinful hands have
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made. Assyria will fall by no human
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sword. Listen to that.
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No human sword. Assyria, that is Turkey, Syria,
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Iraq, Iran, those that's the land that covered Assyria will
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fall by no human sword. So listen to this, a sword not
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of mortals will devour them. So this is Jesus.
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Jesus is going to deliver his people from Turkey, Syria, Iraq,
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Iran. I don't know if all of them, but
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somebody, or maybe all of them, I don't know, will band together
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in an alliance and God is going to rescue.
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Jesus, will rescue the Son of God, will rescue his people.
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This is talking about Assyria. They will flee before the sword
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and their young men will be will be put to forced labor.
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Their stronghold will fall because of terror at the site of
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the battle standard. Their commanders will panic when
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the true God shows up. People will panic.
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It definitely says that in the Book of Revelation as well,
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declares the Lord, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in
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Jerusalem. So the burning lake of fire,
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that's where people who haven't reconciled themselves with God
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go at judgement time when Jesus returns is judgement time, for
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it's a separation of people who have repented and people who
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have not repented. That's what's happening.
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That's the first judgment. There is also a second judgment
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that happens at the end of the 1000 years, and that is when all
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the dead people who rejected God will rise when Jesus returns.
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The people who had reconciled with God, who had repented, or
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you know God has shown mercy to them and they are children of
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God, they will rise when Jesus returns.
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So the dead who are in Christ will rise when he returns.
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But the dead who were not in Christ are not going to come to
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life until after the 1000 years. The ones who rise in the first
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resurrection at when Jesus returns, they are not subject to
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the judgement that comes after the 1000 years and that thousand
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years. That's like considered the
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second death. So they died once on earth, but
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then they are going to be sent to I believe it's the burning
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like a sulfur they will be it says they will be torn.
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I know the Satan and the false prophet are going to be
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tormented forever and ever. I don't, I, I think all the
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other people who rejected God are also going to that same
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place and they will be separated from God forever.
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So that's when final judgement happens.
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And anyway this Assyria will fall by no human sword, but
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they'll fall by the sword of Jesus.
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Now Jesus, the Son of God in Revelation, it talks about the
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sword of his mouth and remember what he said.
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He does not take back his words. So I looked up mouth and sword
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and here's 3 verses that talk about this.
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So in Isaiah chapter 49, he made my mouth like a sharpened sword
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in the shadow of his hand. He hid me.
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He made me into a polished arrow and concealed me in his quiver.
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We haven't gotten to that chapter yet and I didn't really
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read that it's, but it's about the servant of the Lord.
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And I, I believe that that is about Isaiah and I, I believe
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because Isaiah, he said he, he made my mouth sharp like a
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sharpened sword. So it's the words of God, the
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words that are in Scripture that are the sharpened sword.
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The things that God said are the things that you know, we we, I
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mean, that's going to be the sword that comes against us in
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judgement time. And then Isaiah was in the
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shadow of his hand like God in the shadow of his hand.
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He hid me. So God provides A covering for
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the people he uses and he made Isaiah into a polished arrow so
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and concealed me in his quiver. So he the things that come out
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of his mouth are piercing to people.
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They don't want to hear it. They were telling Isaiah don't
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talk about this stuff anymore. You know, give us something our
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ears want to hear. You know, we don't like that.
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There were other prophets that said I don't call on that
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prophet anymore because all he does is say bad things about me.
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So they don't want to hear it. Only if it's good do they want
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to hear it. But Isaiah was called by God to
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call people back to repentance. So in the Book of Revelation,
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this is where the sword, the double edged sword and Jesus tie
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into it. So Revelation one verse 16 in
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his right hand, this is when John sees Jesus and in his right
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hand he held seven stars and coming out of his mouth was a
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sharp double edged sword. His face was like the sun
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shining in all its brilliance. So these are this is symbology,
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but it's, you know, again talking about the sword coming
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out of his mouth. And then in the end, in
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Revelation chapter 19 verse 15, this is talking about Jesus
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again coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to
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strike down the nations. He will rule them with an iron
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scepter. He treads the winepress of the
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fury of the wrath of God Almighty.
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So Jesus is going to bring wrath upon people.
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He is going, He has the authority of it.
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He's going to make it happen just like the Bible said.
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And coming out of his mouth is that sharp sword to strike down
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the nation's. So this again, like I said at
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the beginning, this is Jesus once again in chapter 31.
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So I will read the questions and answers and then we will
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conclude this chapter. What was what was wrong with
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recruiting, recruiting Egyptian support?
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The problem was that the leaders of Judah hadn't consulted God.
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God alone was to be their source of security, but the people
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wanted a backup plan just in case something went wrong or God
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didn't come through. So, so to hedge their bet, they
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made a treaty with Egypt. Is it wrong to have a strong
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National Defense? Ancient Israel had repeatedly
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been told by God not to trust in its own military strength or in
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the military might of other nations such as Egypt.
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There gets a lot of references and Deuteronomy and Psalms and
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Hosea. God wanted to show them His love
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by protecting them so that they would understand that their
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salvation was in Him alone, not in any army or alliance.
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In modern times, no single nation represents God's people.
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God's people were scattered everywhere.
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Rather, His people make up the church, the great assembly of
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all who follow Christ, the church, meaning people who
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follow Christ, who are taught by Christ and live like Christ, you
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know, agree with God and and want to live like Christ.
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The church should not depend on a military force any more than
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ancient Israel was supposed to. So that's interesting for all
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our, all our Christian people is that we don't need to be all
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concerned about our military and everything.
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We just, all we need, not all, I mean everything we need is God.
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And, and we don't have anything to fear because if we are
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reconciled with God, God's going to take care of it.
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Don't worry, no worries, No Fear.
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And that's what God would say all the time.
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Have courage, No Fear. The Spirit, the Holy Spirit
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gives courage. Could Judah rely on God and
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still suffer defeat? No.
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If they had truly trusted in God and obediently carried out His
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covenant demands, they would have been spared.
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However, because they did not, they discovered that God can
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bring disaster. So again, sin has consequences.
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God doesn't like it. He tries to warn us, but when we
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step outside of what he says, don't do this, it's going to
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have consequences. And then we have to bear those
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consequences. And those consequences are not
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necessarily punishment from God. They're just the reality of us
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having to, you know, us having sinned and then having that
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effect on our lives. So why did God judge the
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Assyrians? Punishment of the Assyrians is a
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common theme in Isaiah even though God used the Assyrians to
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accomplish his purposes, God detested their pride and their
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vicious treatment of their victims.
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How did God judge the assyrians? The sword not of mortals
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suggests supernatural judgment. In fact, the Angel of the Lord
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put to death 185,000 assyrian soldiers.
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The Assyrian stronghold could refer to King St.
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Cherub, but probably refers to the capital city of Nineveh
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that's in modern day Iraq, which was was destroyed by the Medes
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that's around today and Babylonians in 612 BC.
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What sort of furnace was in Jerusalem?
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This may refer to the fire that burned continually on the altar
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in the temple courtyard in Jerusalem.
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Some believe Isaiah used the image of a furnace to symbolize
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God's wrath against his enemies. Others believe it symbolizes
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God's glory. And I shared with you my
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thoughts on it. And that is the end of chapter
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31. So hope you come back for
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chapter 32 next time, subscribe, share this if it was meaningful
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to you, if it helped you in any way, because that's what these
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are all about to bring us closer to God.