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828. Bible Study: Ezekiel 6 (Are some Mountains symbolic for Evil Spiritual Entities?) · Faith by annm2705

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  Ezekiel chapter 6. First let's pray.
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  Dear God, please open our minds and our eyes to what we read in
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  scripture so that we understand what you want to communicate to
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  us. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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  So this is called doom for the mountains of Israel.
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  The word of the Lord came to me. Son of man, set your face
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  against the mountains of Israel, prophecy against them, and say,
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  you, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the sovereign Lord.
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  This is what the Sovereign Lord says to the mountains and hills,
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  to the ravines and valleys. I am about to bring a sword
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  against you, and I will destroy your high places.
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  Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be
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  smashed. And I will slay your people in
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  front of your idols. I will lay the dead bodies of
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  the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your
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  bones around your altars wherever you live.
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  The towns will be laid waste and the high places demolished so
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  that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols
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  smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you
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  have, what you have made wiped out.
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  Your people will fall slain among you, and you will know
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  that I am the Lord. But I will spare some, for some
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  of you will escape the sword. When you are scattered among the
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  lands and nations, then in the nations where they have been
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  carried captive. Those who escape will Remember
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  Me, how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts which
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  have turned away from me, and by their eyes which have lusted
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  after their idols. They will loathe themselves for
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  the evil they have done and for all their detestable practices,
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  and they will know that I am the Lord.
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  I did not threaten in vain to bring this calamity on them.
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  This is what the Lord, the Sovereign Lord says.
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  Strike your hands together and stamp your feet and cry out.
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  Alas, because all of because of all the wicked and detestable
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  practices of the people of Israel, for they will fall by
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  the sword, famine and plague. One who is far away will die of
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  the plague, the one who is near will fall by the sword, and
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  anyone who survives and is spared will die of famine.
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  So I will pour out my wrath on them, and they will know that I
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  am the Lord when their people lie slain among their idols,
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  around their altars, on every high hill and on all the
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  mountain tops, under every spreading tree and every leafy
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  oak, places where they offered fragrant incense to all their
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  idols. And I will stretch out my hand
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  against them and make the land a desolate waste from the desert
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  to Dibla, wherever they live. Then they will know that I am
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  the Lord. That's the whole chapter 6.
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  So I'll read what the study Bible says.
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  And I've done some research on this too.
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  So I think this is going to be a short one for today, for this
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  chapter. So why did Ezekiel prophecy
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  against the mountains? Worshipping idols?
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  The standard form of worship in ancient cultures was practiced
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  mostly on hilltop shrines or high places.
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  Speaking toward the mountains was a symbolic condemnation of
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  Israel's idolatry. Now I'm going to add more to
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  this because I agree with what the study Bible said, but I
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  think it's actually more than that.
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  I think metaphorically the mountains represent a spiritual
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  entity. And I will prove that from
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  Scripture after I get through these questions and answers.
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  But I wanted to just mention that.
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  So there's there's a little bit more research that's coming up
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  on this one about who the mountains are.
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  Now, sometimes they're literal and sometimes they're symbolic
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  and sometimes they're both. And that's the way a lot of
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  scripture is. It can have literal A symbolic
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  and spiritual significance. And so let's go to the next
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  question in the study Bible. Why did God call the people
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  adulteress? Because they were unfaithful to
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  him just as an adulterer is unfaithful to a spouse.
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  And the marriage vow, the Israelites violated the covenant
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  they had made with God when they walked away from him to worship
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  idols. The charge of adultery described
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  physically what they had done spiritually.
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  So that even explains it even more like, you know, these
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  metaphors for adultery, they have a spiritual significance.
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  So that's the way a lot of the Bible and the prophecy is
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  written is it does have like a dual meeting meaning.
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  And sometimes it has a near present prophecy and then
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  sometimes it has a far distant future prophecy.
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  And it can be both in one where I believe that what Ezekiel is
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  talking about has like a double fulfillment for this prophecy.
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  And especially when we get into Chapter 7 there, it's very
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  obvious that this is end times related in addition to probably
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  a partial fulfillment of it early or, you know, in the past.
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  So next question from the study Bible, Why clap, stamp and
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  shout? Usually this kind of behavior
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  shows great pleasure, like applause.
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  But God was not happy about their wicked and detestable
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  practices. It may be that Ezekiel was
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  enacting the taunts of enemies who would later cheer Israel's
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  defeat. His shouts of anguish, however,
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  suggest that clapping, stamping, and shouting could represent any
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  intense emotional outburst, joyful or distressed.
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  One last question. Why use dibla to describe a
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  desolate waste? This probably refers to Ribla, a
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  city in northern Syria. God used this familiar image of
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  a barren desert to describe in an exaggerated language the
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  desolation that would come to Israel.
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  So that I'm going to read that verse again because now with
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  this in mind, it's a city in northern Syria.
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  So and I will stretch out my hand against them and make the
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  land a desolate waste from the desert to the city in northern
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  Syria where they wherever they live.
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  Then they will know that I am God.
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  OK, so that's that concludes everything that's found in the
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  study Bible. There is something also that I
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  should read from Amir's book that is so true and applicable
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  to us today and the what we need to keep in mind.
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  And he says this in in regards to the devastation that was
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  coming on Israel. His comment says when you keep
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  your back turned to God, there is no point.
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  When you there is no point. When you will experience a
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  genuine turn around in your circumstances, there will always
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  be something remaining to bring you down.
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  So if somebody is connected to God and you turn your back on
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  God, there will come about a series of things that will be,
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  if you want to call it misfortunes in your life.
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  Because if you had some sort of connection with God and you are
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  like pulling away from God, he's going to do that to discipline
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  you, to bring you back to him. And that's exactly what is
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  happening and will happen to Israel.
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  There's still people in Israel who don't acknowledge the
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  Messiah as Jesus and don't realize that Jesus is the one
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  who atoned for their sins and that all the different rituals
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  that they have are not going to get them into the Kingdom of
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  God. But Jesus has done that for
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  them. And eventually they will see
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  this. That's what Bible prophecy says.
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  But for right now, they are blinded to this.
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  And it's going to be very interesting how the Bible
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  prophecy unfolds because there's a couple things that I know.
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  Actually, I think one of the things I wanted to talk about
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  right now is actually, yeah, it's in Chapter 7.
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  There's a lot more that I have to talk about in Chapter 7.
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  So I'm going to, when I was, I'm going to read what I researched
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  for this chapter 6. I was just curious like I've had
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  this feeling myself when I've read through the Bible and I
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  just had this feeling that the mountains are more than just
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  mountains. And so I searched all of the
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  entries in an in blueletterbible.org and I
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  searched mountains and a lot of them are just generally the
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  mountain. You know, there's nothing
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  significant about it. It's just a literal mountain.
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  But then you get to a few verses where it explains and and just
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  trying to find some resources for this just to see if anybody
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  else had the same thought that mountains were actual spiritual
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  entities. I did search that just in a
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  Google search. I said, are mountains in the
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  Bible symbolic for spiritual entities?
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  The result said yes. Mountains in the Bible are both
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  literal places and powerful spiritual slash symbolic
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  entities representing divine presence, revelation, covenants,
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  kingdoms, strength, and spiritual ascent slash
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  challenges serving as sites where heaven meets earth for
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  transformative encounters with God.
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  From Sinai the law was given to Zion, where the Temple and New
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  Jerusalem will be, to the Sermon of the Mount where Jesus's
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  teachings occurred. So here are key symbolic
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  meanings. Divine encounters are
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  theophanies. God often appears to prophets
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  and patriarchs on mountains like Sinai, Horeb, Olives, Covenant,
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  and Law. Mount Sinai is where Moses
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  received the 10 commandments symbolizing God's covenant
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  kingdoms and authorities. Mountains can represent earthly
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  kingdoms, Babylon as a ruinous mountain or God's eternal
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  Kingdom. Daniel's vision of a great
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  mountain. So then it talks about spiritual
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  height and purity. High places signify closeness to
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  God, a space, a place for revelation and spiritual
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  elevation, contrasting with the valleys of hardship, stability,
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  and permanence. Like mountains surrounding
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  Jerusalem, God's protection is seen as enduring Jesus's
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  ministry. The Sermon on the Mount and the
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  Mount of Olives are key New Testament settings for Jesus's
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  teachings and prayers. So there are there are lots of
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  different meanings and significance of mountains, but
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  the kingdoms and authority is what I was kind of zeroing in on
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  for this conversation. Mountains can represent earthly
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  kingdoms. Babylon as a ruinous mountain or
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  God's eternal Kingdom, Daniel's vision of a great mountain.
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  So where does Scripture back this up?
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  Well, we can look at chapter 68 in Psalms where it talks about
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  this and specifically verse 15 it says Mount Beshan, majestic
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  mountain, Mount Beshan rugged mountain.
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  Why gaze in envy, you rugged mountain, at the mountain where
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  God chooses to reign, where the Lord himself will dwell forever.
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  So think about that like he is in this Psalm.
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  And of course a Psalm is a song. But what I've realized is that
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  the Psalms, not all of them but some of them are actually
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  prophecy and there is like hidden information in there.
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  So yes you can. When you write songs and lyrics,
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  you can use symbolic things to express and it doesn't always
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  mean literal things. Where I believe this is talking
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  about like Mount Bashan is a majestic mountain.
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  It's some spiritual entity, you know, I guess personification
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  gives inanimate objects living qualities.
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  So granted, yes, that could be the poetic sense of it all.
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  But when you read this, I think with the Holy Spirit helping,
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  then you can see that this is something more than that.
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  Like God chooses a mountain. He's choosing, you know,
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  Jerusalem as the at Mount Zion. That is his mountain that he's
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  claiming and where he will rule from.
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  But the other mountains, the other spiritual entities, they
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  want to rule. And so within this, it's kind of
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  like, it's interesting, this Mount Bichon, I forgot where I
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  had looked this up before. I want to see where this is,
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  where this is located, because maybe that'll have some
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  significance. The mount Mount Bichon refers to
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  the mountains fertile volcanic plateau in ancient Transjordan
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  encompassing today's Golan Heights, known in the Bible for
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  its rich pastures, strong cattle, oak forest and powerful.
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  Amorite King Ogg, often described as a mountain of many
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  peaks or a mountain of God symbolizing God's power
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  contrasted with Zion. This is interesting because the
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  Amorite King Ogg. I believe he was also.
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  I don't know if he's the one who had the 13 foot bed or
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  something, but he was one of the I got a Raphaim or the maybe the
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  Nephilim. But I believe that he was one of
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  those, if you really do a deep dive into Scripture, because
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  I've looked at it, because it's King Ogg and also King of Sihan,
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  both of them. And they were, I think
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  descendants of, and this is going to throw a lot of people
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  for a loop, but it's in the Bible, descendants of fallen
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  angels who had sex with human women and produced offspring.
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  And these were the quote giants of the Bible.
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  They were called Raphaim Zuzum. There's like another name for
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  them as well. I think it, I don't know if it's
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  the Amalekites or something similar to that, or are they?
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  I don't, I'd have to look it up to confirm, but there's multiple
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  names and go to the Hebrew version of the Bible because
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  you're not going to figure it out.
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  If you're just trying to go through NIV version or something
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  like that, you're not going to see this.
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  But when you dig deep into Scripture, I mean, just read
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  about AOG and figure out like where he came from, what were
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  his people like? He was the king of this just
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  like Goliath, who is in the Philistines in the current area
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  of Gaza. He was this giant.
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  And they were saying they were probably like 9 feet tall to 13
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  feet tall. Now this stuff is in the Bible.
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  And so now, I mean, I didn't realize like Mount Bashan.
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  Now there's some connection here to King Ogg and, and maybe the
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  oak forest because I know God talks about trees and are the
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  prophets do talk about different kinds of trees.
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  And that's another kind of symbolism.
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  And I don't want to get too far off the track, but so this Mount
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  Bichon, this is, you know, basically here, I'm just going
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  to sum it up to what I've found and you can challenge me on
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  this. Look it up for yourself,
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  research it because that's the only way you're going to find it
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  is these do seem like this was fallen angels who wanted to be
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  God that are threatened by God and when want to like they want
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  to establish their Kingdom here on earth.
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  It does say that Satan is the ruler of the air.
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  And so when Satan brings it, it says in the Book of Revelation,
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  the dragon who is Satan takes his tail and sweeps 1/3 of the
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  stars out of heaven. The stars are symbolic of
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  angels. So those are the fallen angels
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  and they wanted to come to earth to, you know, it says within the
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  Bible they weren't. I forgot which book it was that
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  talks about like Lucifer or Satan, how you've fallen and
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  that he he just wasn't satisfied with having all of these
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  wonderful attributes that God gave him, wisdom, appearance,
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  all these things like he was a very highly decorated, highly
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  created, you know, perfectly created Angel, but he wasn't
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  happy with that. He wanted to be equal to God and
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  he but he was a created being. He was and is a created being
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  and he is not God, but he wants to have that worship.
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  He wants people to worship. That's exactly what he did to
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  Jesus right after he got baptized.
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  And Jesus was out in the wilderness for 40 days and Satan
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  was tempting him and Satan stood on the top of a mountain again.
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  And then say, hey, I can give you all this Kingdom if you just
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  bow down and worship me. But Jesus came back to him with
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  Scripture and he resisted him, and then the devil left.
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  Satan left because Satan's, you know, Satan does have some
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  authority that's been given to him by God.
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  And I believe, just like it says in Ephesians 6 verse 12, that
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  there's all these principalities.
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  And it seems like, I guess it's a conclusion from Scripture, is
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  that God assigned certain entities some sort of ruler.
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  They become rulers over certain geographical areas.
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  It really does seem like that when you look at the Bible and
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  you see how these specific lands have always operated in a
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  certain way. Look at how they react to Israel
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  for example. The different lands, the
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  different people like today who are against Israel, they were
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  like always against Israel in Scripture.
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  And you know, the, this whole land of Gaza, I mean, that's was
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  the Philistines. Those were the giants.
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  Those were the ones that were that Israel was battling all the
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  way from the beginning in the land of Canaan, where all of
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  these Raphaim that lived there, the giants lived there.
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  God said they're going to get out, you're going to go there.
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  And so when you read the Bible, it really gets interesting.
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  But these these things that people don't often talk about
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  are pretty fascinating. Maybe it's because a lot of
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  people don't talk about them, but when you really get into
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  Scripture, you notice these things.
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  So anyway, the mountains, I believe, are symbolic of
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  spiritual entities who have some sort of power, spiritual power
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  over certain lands. They're associated with certain
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  lands. And this will be that way.
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  That's why in the Book of Revelation it says when Jesus
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  returns, the mountains crumble. Did you ever think about that?
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  Maybe it'll be a literal thing, but maybe it's going to be the
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  symbolic mountain that crumbles the spiritual entity.
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  Just like Daniel's dream where he talked about a rock that was
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  cut that will smash all the kingdoms in the end.
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  So these kingdoms that are being built up, the mountains that are
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  being built up the toes of the statue that was in the dream,
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  those will be crushed by the rock that was cut, but not from
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  human hands. That the rock is Jesus who came
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  from God the Father, and he will crush all of these kingdoms that
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  have been set up here on earth. That's why I think in the Book
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  of Revelation, it talks about these mountains crumbling down
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  like everything will be layered when leveled when Jesus returns
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  because he will establish his Kingdom here on earth and the
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  other kingdoms will be flattened.
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  They will have no power no longer.
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  They currently have power right now, but it will not be that way
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  forever. So there's another place where I
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  think I well, I read Psalm about Mount Bashan and that's how it
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  got to the the giants. But then there's also Jeremiah
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  chapter 51. Let's see, OK, this is 1 I wrote
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  was actually Jeremiah. Let's go to Jeremiah 50 verse 2.
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  This is interesting. He says announce and proclaim
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  among the nations, lift up a banner and proclaim it.
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  Keep nothing back but say Babylon will be captured, Bell
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  will be to shame, Marduk filled with terror, her images will be
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  put to Shane shame and her idols filled with terror.
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  So this is it says this is the first statement above that was
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  this is the word of the Lord spoke through Jeremiah the
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  prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians.
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  So the land of the Babylonians is like Iraq was the primary
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  place, but it also had parts of I think Syria and parts of
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  Turkey and parts of Iran. It was kind of that area in
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  there and and I know this doesn't talk about a mountain,
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  but when we get to Jeremiah chapter 51, it'll relate back to
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  this. So look at these names though
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  Babylon will be captured, Belle will be put to shame.
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  Belle is bail. Bail is what they they
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  worshipped. Marduk is another one.
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  Babylon, Belle and Marduk are all connected together.
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  Whether they are three separate entities or whether this is a
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  sentence that saying they're all one in the same, I don't know
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  it. It kind of seems like, well,
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  they're all one in the same spirit.
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  Whether they are different entities, I guess we won't know
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  until God lets us know. But here's what it says.
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  This is how it ties to a mountain.
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  So listen to this in Jeremiah 51 verse 25, I am against you, you
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  destroying mountain, you who destroy the whole earth,
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  declares the Lord, I will stretch out my hand against you,
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  roll you off the cliffs and make you a burned out mountain.
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  Now he's not talking about his creation.
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  He's not talking about a literal mountain.
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  He's talking about something spiritual and the preceding
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  statement says before your eyes, I will repay Babylon and all who
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  live in Babylonia for all the wrong they have done in Zion,
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  declares the Lord. And then after that verse about
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  what he will come against you destroying mountain, it says no
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  rock will be taken from you as a cornerstone nor any stone for a
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  foundation for you will be desolate forever declares the
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  Lord. That means there's not going to
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  once Jesus returns. Jesus is the cornerstone and
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  he's he was, you know, cut from the rock, but not by human hands
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  and he is the foundation. So once he is here on earth
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  ruling this Babylon Spirit is not going to have a foundation,
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  is not going to have something that comes up again.
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  I think historically, year after year, maybe not every year, but
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  generation there were there were the spirit influenced people,
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  people who were not submitted, surrendered to God, who had the
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  Holy Spirit are who the evil spirits look for.
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  And there's, you know, you get into the spiritual stuff, which
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  people don't. It makes people uncomfortable.
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  But there is, and I don't know if this is correct or not, but I
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  did find this in research, was that there was a statement made
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  that demons were actually the spirits of the Nephilim who were
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  killed. And I don't know if demons are
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  something it doesn't really matter where they're sourced
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  from. But the point that this person
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  was making was that demons and angels are different from one
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  another. And so I don't know if they
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  should be called demons or just evil spirits.
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  Maybe that's a better word to use rather than demons because I
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  don't really know what demons are.
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  But evil spirits throughout the Bible, it talks about evil
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  spirits. In fact, when Saul kept
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  disobeying God, didn't listen to him, wanted to do things his own
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  way. Saul had been anointed by
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  Samuel. He had the Spirit of God with
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  him. It clearly says in Scripture
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  that God's spirit left him and an evil spirit came and
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  tormented him. Now God is sovereign over all
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  the spirit, you know, like, well, the Holy Spirit is God,
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  but God is, you know, the Holy Spirit is over all these like
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  evil spirits, whatever they are, whatever their label is, God is
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  higher and more powerful than that.
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  But because of Saul's disobedienced, I mean, is that
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  what it means like to grieve the Holy Spirit?
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  It says do not grieve the Holy Spirit, you know, did he like
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  get his protection from God removed because of his
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  disobedience? And this evil spirit came and
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  tormented him. These are spiritual things that
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  people don't talk about, but they haven't gone away.
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  Like spirits are beings that have existed way in the past.
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  Like think about this, like Satan was way back in the
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  beginning in the book of Genesis.
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  And he's still, he's still like alive today.
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  And he was created by God and he was given free will just like
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  all of us. And he chose evil as opposed to
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  submission to God. And so he is still alive.
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  And I, I believe he, I, I actually believe that we were
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  all created to live forever. Like that's the way God created
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  us. The time that we're here on
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  earth is determining where we are going to live in the future.
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  But once God created us, He created us to be eternal.
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  And so Satan will be eternal, but he's just going to be
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  separated from God and will be thrown into the burning lake of
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  sulfur, as it says in the Bible at the end.
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  First he's going to be locked up for 1000 years, then he's going
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  to be loosed. For what reason, I have no idea,
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  but that's what the Bible says. But then he will be thrown into
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  the burning lake of sulfur. So that's what the Bible tells
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  us is the final end result was Satan.
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  So anybody who's following Satan or doing a cult practices or
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  anything, you're not going to have a good future.
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  So you might want to wake up now and get on God's team as opposed
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  to the one that this Babylon spirit who is misleading the
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  whole world. In fact, we'll probably talk a
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  little bit about that in Chapter 7, because in Chapter 7 it says
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  flee from her. Just like in Revelation, it
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  tells people to get out of Babylon.
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  I believe that Babylon is a spiritual entity that will
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  affect and maybe even inhabit or maybe even possess people.
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  I don't know to what degree. When we see some of the terrible
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  things that some people are capable of, it could very well
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  be a possession. If it's not a full, full
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  possession, it's certainly an influence.
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  And there's a lot of things that come out of this Babylon spirit
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  and people probably won't like it.
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  But like the sacrifice of children like Molech, like
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  Molech, Baal, all of these entities.
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  Marduk, I think Marduk was actually an A fallen Angel.
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  I mean, you might want to look that up, but it's it's something
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  that the Babylonians believed in.
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  But again, these spiritual things are still out there.
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  They're still here and they're still interacting with human
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  beings. And but I think also maybe
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  unknowing, like people are not really, they think they're
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  interacting with God or a higher, higher power.
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  And it is a higher power than a human being that they're
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  interacting with, but they just don't know that it's evil.
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  Maybe because a lot of people are deceived and think they're,
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  you know, messing around with something that is ultimately
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  good, but it turns out to be something that's really bad.
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  People who have been in the occult and have testimonies
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  about their life changing after they got to know who Jesus was
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  and put their faith and trust in Jesus and made Jesus Lord over
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  their life. They testify to these kinds of
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  things that this is real. This does happen.
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  There are actually even like musicians and singers and stuff
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  that say that when they perform something takes over them.
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  Little do they know that this is some evil spirit.
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  When you look at the, the fruit of what is coming out of them,
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  that what they are saying, what they are doing, it's not of God,
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  it's something evil and they are completely blinded, but realize
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  this is some higher power taking over them.
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  I Beyoncé is one of those people.
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  And so she, she has no idea or maybe she does has no idea.
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  She's being, being influenced by evil spiritual forces.
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  So Bible's very interesting and I hope this intrigued you and,
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  and check out everything I'm saying, you know, look it up for
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  yourself and research it. You should always test what
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  people are saying. I'm not trying to be a
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  sensationalist, but I'm just trying to point out there are
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  spiritual powers that are influencing our lives.
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  And unless we're submitted to God and have the Holy Spirit
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  with us, we are not protected. And we are, we can be affected
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  by these things. And so it's kind of a warning
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  to, you know, to get close to God because it's not going to
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  get less. It's going the way the Bible
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  prophecy states. Things will get worse before it
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  gets better. Eventually it will get better.
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  So I don't want to leave people with a bad feeling about this
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  because once Jesus returns, that's when things will get
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  better. It's going to the people who are
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  not in alignment with God will actually suffer because the
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  wrath of God is coming with Jesus.
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  But the people who have surrendered to God and have the
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  Holy Spirit, there's nothing to fear because God provides it.
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  There's many times throughout Scripture that God provides.
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  We don't have to worry about that.
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  Whatever is needed, we can rely on God for it to get through it.
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  So that's about enough for Chapter 6.
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  about. Thank you.