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851. Bible Study: Ezekiel 28 ("Mystery Babylon?", King of Tyre, Satan) · Faith by annm2705

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Continuing with Ezekiel chapter 28, this is called a prophecy
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against the king of Tyre in Lebanon, of course.
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So the word of the Lord came to me, son of man, say to the ruler
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of Tyre. This is what the sovereign Lord
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says in the pride of your heart. I you say I am a God.
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I sit on the throne of a God in the heart of the Seas.
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But you were a mere mortal and not a God, though you think you
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are as wise as a God. Are you wiser than Daniel?
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Is no secret hidden from you? By your wisdom and
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understanding? You have gained wealth for
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yourself and amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.
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By your great skill in trading, you have increased your wealth,
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and because of your wealth, your heart has grown proud.
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Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says.
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Because you think you are wise, as wise as a God, I'm going to
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bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations.
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They will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom
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and Pierce your shining splendor.
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They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die a violent
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death in the heart of the Seas. Will you then say, I am my God
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in the presence of those who kill you?
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You will be but immortal, not a God.
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In the hands of those who slay you.
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You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of
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the foreigners. I have spoken, declares the
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Lord. The word of the Lord came to me.
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Son of Man, take up a lament concerning the King of Tyre and
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say to him, This is what the Sovereign Lord says.
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You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in
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beauty. You were in Eden, the Garden of
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God. Every precious stone adorned
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you. Carnelian, crystallite and
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emerald, Topaz, Onyx, Jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise, and
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Beryl. Your settings and mountings were
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made of gold on the day you were created.
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They were prepared. You were anointed as a guardian
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cherub, so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of
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God. You walked among the fiery
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stones. You were blameless in your ways
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from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you
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through your widespread trade. You were filled with violence
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and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from
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the mount of God, and I expelled you, guardian cherub, from among
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the fiery stones. Your heart became proud on
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account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of
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your splendor. So I threw you to the earth.
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I made a spectacle of you before kings.
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By your many sins and dishonest trade, you have desecrated your
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sanctuaries. So I made a fire come out of out
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from you, and it consumed you, and I reduced you to ashes on
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the ground in the sight of all who were watching.
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All the nations who knew you are appalled at you, and you have
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come to a horrible end and will be no more.
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The word of the Lord came to me. Son of Man, set your face
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against Sidon, which is in Lebanon, prophecy against her,
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and say this is what the sovereign Lord says.
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I am against you, Sidon, and among you I will display my
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glory. You will know that I am the Lord
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when I inflict punishment on you, and within you am proved to
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be holy. I will send a plague upon you
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and make blood flow in your streets.
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The slain will fall within you with the sword against you on
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every side. Then you will know that I am the
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Lord. No longer will the people of
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Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful breers and sharp
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thorns. Then they will know that I am
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the Sovereign Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord
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says. When I gather the people of
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Israel from the nations where they have been scattered, I will
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be proved wholly through them in the sight of the nations.
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Then they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant
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Jacob. They will live there in safety
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and will build houses and plant vineyards.
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They will live in safety. When I inflict punishment on all
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their neighbors who Mal aligned them, then they will know that I
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am the Lord their God. So this is kind of the
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introduction of what's coming. And after these next chapters,
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there's a prophecy against Egypt, then the leadership of
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Egypt just talked about, and there's a lot of things that
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come up in here. So anyway, God is saying that
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He's going to show everybody. Now here's another reason why I
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think this prophecy is future, and it's because of verse 24.
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This has not happened yet. This is what verse 24 says no
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longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are
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painful breeders and sharp thorns that you know is Israel
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at peace with every single nation surrounding them not by
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any means. They have enemies everywhere
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around them. People that, I mean, if you just
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look at what's happening in the, I don't know if the United
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Nations, I guess when all of the votes that come upon so many
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nations, there are very, very few nations that stand by Israel
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and this is what is prophesied. It's not a surprise to anyone.
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If you know Bible prophecy, you'll see that this is what God
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said would happen. These, these enemies of Israel
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are going to be all around them. And that just means we're
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getting closer to the return of Jesus when we see this, these
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things happening. Ezekiel, oh gosh, how long ago
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was Ezekiel written? Ezekiel's ministry was from 593
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to 571 BC, and the book of Ezekiel was written about 571 BC
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at the end of his ministry. So we're talking thousands of
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years ago. The end was just like it says in
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Scripture that I'm the Lord tell you the beginning from the OR
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tell you the end from the beginning.
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This goes all the way back to the book of Genesis in the
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Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve decided that are were were
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deceived by the serpent Satan and doubted God.
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And, and so then because God had given them dominion, then they
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sinned against God. And then apparently there was
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some transfer of power at that point to the enemy Satan.
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And he's maintained that power for all of these thousands of
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years. But it's not going to be forever
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because when Jesus returns, first of all, Jesus broke the
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power. But there is still like this
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transitional period that has to happen according to Bible
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prophecy. So when Jesus returns, then
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things will be established. Jesus will then become king
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again after all this time, after thousands of years.
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And so right now we are in this time frame where God is looking
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at the people and letting the people decide.
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Whose Kingdom do you want to serve?
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Whose Kingdom do you want to be under?
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Do you want to be in God's Kingdom or do you want to be
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aligned with the enemy? And if you choose the enemy,
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here's what your future is. If you choose God, here's what
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your future is. So it is a very black and white
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decision. You're either with God or you're
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against God. And you can't be half and half
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you. If you're half and half or you
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have well, some I'm aligned with this, but this I'm against, then
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you're still not on, you're still not in alignment with God.
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You're still going against God's will.
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So through reading the Bible, we know what God's will is.
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And that's where we have to decide, are we going to side
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with the world or do we side with God and say, I agree with
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you. You know, like, think about
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this, you know, in a Kingdom you are going to, you should except
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the laws of the king. You don't want to live in
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rebellion. In fact, Jesus said he's going
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to separate the sheep and the goats.
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So when he, when he returns, there's a separation of the
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sheep and the goats and those who are a part of God's Kingdom
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are called the sheep. And it's it's kind of like, and
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I guess those who are against are called the goats.
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And that's another interesting symbolism, but I won't digress
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into that side of it all. Anyway, let's go to the prophecy
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against the King of Tyre. This certainly seems like both
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human and, and, and Satan, honestly.
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And, and so like the very first one, I mean, there's this pride
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of a, of a person who is A at least immortal, I guess, and not
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a God. So even, I guess someone Satan
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would also be considered that. But he's, he's, he's spiritual.
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I mean, he's in a different realm than us, like because he's
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been around for thousands and thousands and thousands of years
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and has been interactive with the world for thousands of
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years. When people die, we're not
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interacted with the world anymore.
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If we have chosen to have a relationship with God, we will
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be in God's Kingdom. If we've repented of our sins
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and we are in agreement with God's laws and we accept his
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laws and we have the Holy Spirit, we will be in God's
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Kingdom. And we can know that before we
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ever die. So that's I don't know where I
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was going with that. OK, anyway, let's go back to
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chapter 28. This this description, obviously
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he's talking about a pride. The Sovereign Lord is talking
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about a prideful person, immortal or maybe it is Satan
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and it says like is no secret hidden from you by your wisdom
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and understanding you have gained wealth for you.
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I just think that these are like, this is like a spiritual
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influence and we, like I said, I'll do a separate podcast that
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just talks about Satan and the devil and what he does and how
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he effects basically humans on earth.
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Because that I think is really important for people to know so
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that you can know when it's the voice of Satan, voice of the
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enemy. And you can defeat it by
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praying, by having the Holy Spirit, the power in the name of
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Jesus will defeat any of these things that come against you.
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And as the authority that Jesus has given, I don't think a lot
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of Christians are actually living their lives in that
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authority, but Jesus wants us to.
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So we'll talk about that in the next podcast.
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But for right now this this one, so this ruler of Tyre, I do
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think is somewhat spiritual because as you get down it just
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it continues on and says re regarding the king of Tyre.
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Now Amir's book and I did not look this up.
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And so I, I guess I want to do that right now to just double
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check this on the words that are used because when we get
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translations from the Bible, they, you know, they're
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translators best effort at making language translated
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accurately. But we will see occasionally
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that there would have been a better choice of words that
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could be used. Now this is what OK, Ezekiel 28
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verse. Let's see verse 2, let's look at
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that. So in Ezekiel 28, verse 2, it
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says Son of Man say to the the leader, it's the nagid and that
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is the leader, ruler, captain or Prince, a ruler or Prince, a
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Prince or an overseer or ruler in other capacities or princely
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things. So it's a commander, civil,
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military or religious, generally abstractly plural, honorable
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themes. Captain, chief, excellent thing,
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chief, governor, leader, noble, Prince, chief ruler.
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So those are the words he's he's that that I guess the Hebrew
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words and the definitions of the Hebrew word that was used in
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verse 2. But then later in verse 11.
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Let's look and see what verse 11 says, because this is another
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thing that's really, let's see, verse 11 says not, not 11.
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Verse 12, if we look up this, and I am looking this up through
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blueletterbible.org and you click on whatever version,
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whatever translation you're using, and then you click on the
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toolbar to the left of the verse and it will give you the actual
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Hebrew words. And so that's what I'm looking
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up. So yes, there is a difference.
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It's not the ruler. There's a difference in it's
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called the king or Malik, which is King royal Hamalek, Malcolm
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Molek King. That's interesting.
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Molek is one time, and it's referred to this because again,
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my theory about all of these ancient deities, either there
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are fallen angels that Satan took out of heaven, or they're
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actually Satan himself disguising or masquerading as
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something good. But this is Malik is from.
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It's a king, it's a royal. So you have two different
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entities or descriptions here, but maybe not all Bibles have
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the same translations. So the ruler of Tyre in the
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beginning of chapter 28 is a Prince or a ruler or something
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like that. But then we get to 11 and it
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talks about the king of Tyre, which is, you know, someone who
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is above a Prince. So this is where you know, when
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you read some of these, like that's why it's really important
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to go back to the Hebrew words because there is often a clearer
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understanding of what is in the Scripture when you go back to
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the Hebrew words. So anyway, the first part of it,
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I guess verses 2 through 10 are the words that are the prophecy
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against the Prince or the ruler of Tyre.
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And perhaps this is a person. And again, I'm not quite sure
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whether this is a person of the past or a person of the future
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because of other things that sound like they're future
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oriented. It seems to me like, well, it
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could be. It actually could be both.
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And just because of that, verse 24, where it said that there's
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no longer Israel will have malicious neighbors, that hasn't
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happened. Verse 24.
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So does this refer to a particular king at the time or a
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particular Prince at the time at Ezekiel's time?
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So Amir's book does kind of suggest that.
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And so here's where I I will read from Amir's book because
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he's the one where I didn't pick up on this and I wanted to check
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on it, but he talked about the actual words that are being
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used. So here's what Amir's book says.
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This is exploring Ezekiel, written by Amir Sarfati with
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Doctor Ricky on So 2 Songs for the rulers of Tyre.
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The first ruler, lament, is addressed to the Nagid of Tyre.
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That Hebrew word is interesting because it means ruler.
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Most versions translate it as Prince to distinguish it from
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the man who will later be addressed in verse 11.
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The ruler of Tyre at the time of this prophecy was Ithabal 3, who
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apparently was pretty impressed with himself.
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This king reveled in his power and his wisdom.
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God, however, was having none of it.
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You are a man and not a God, though you set your heart as the
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heart of a God, the Lord told him, before adding
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parenthetically and quite sarcastically.
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Behold, you are wiser than Daniel.
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There is no secret that can be hidden from you.
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I love the reputation of the wisdom of Daniel.
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An exiled eunuch. Hebrew in the court of
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Nebuchadnezzar was widespread enough that a Pagan king entire
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around 1000 kilometers or 600 plus miles away knew he was
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getting slammed by God invoking the prophet's name.
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You think you're smart, but are you Daniel smart If the ball?
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A third could make all the godhood claims he wanted, but
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there was 1 sure way to discover whether he really was a God.
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Just like when Jesus said that wisdom is justified by her deeds
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in Matthew Chapter 11 verse 19, a King's deity is proven when
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his divine qualities are tested according to the Lord.
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If the balls would be tested and they would fail, will you?
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Will you say before him who slays you, I am a God?
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But you shall be a man and not a God in the hand of him who slays
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you? From Ezekiel verse. 9 and
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chapter 28 As Lord Acton said, power tends to corrupt and
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absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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It the ball if it. The bail I guess, was one more
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man who let his psychoplants convince him that he was a God
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until his enemies proved he was just another mortal man.
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The second ruler lament is more interesting.
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Unlike the previous song, which was addressed to the nagid or
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the ruler, this song is sung to the Malik or King.
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Malik is a term that Ezekiel uses sparingly, and as we listen
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to this lament, it becomes clear that unless this passage is just
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a bunch of allegorical mush, the Lord isn't singing to any
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ordinary man, or more likely, not even to a man at all.
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Thus says the Lord God. You were the seal of perfection,
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full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
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You were in Eden, the garden of God.
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Every precious stone was your covering.
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You were. You were the anointed cherub who
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covers I established you. You were on the holy mountain of
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God. You walked back and forth in the
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midst of fiery stones. You were perfect in your ways
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from the day you were created till iniquity was found in you.
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Unlike the disdainful sarcasm directed at the Prince of Tyre,
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there is a genuine appreciation in the words we read here.
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The Creator is extolling the exquisite flawlessness of His
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creation. The recipient of these words is
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supernaturally outside of time, allowing him to have been active
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in the Garden of Eden as well as in Tyre.
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He is He is an angelic being, having been identified as a
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cherub. He carried out heavenly duties
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on the mountain of God. He was a joy to the Lord's
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heart. Till in that same way but is a
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biblical turn around word, so is Till everything was great, till
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there was sin and that sin changed everything.
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Instead of loyal service, there was animosity.
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Instead of fellowship there was banishment.
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The Lord said your heart was lifted up because of your
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beauty. You corrupted your wisdom.
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For the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground.
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I laid you before the kings, that they might gaze at you.
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Who is this perfectly imperfect cherub?
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Some say he is the ideal man, others that he is a false God.
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However, I'm thinking that you and I are on the same wavelength
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as Doctor Charles Dwyer who wrote.
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The best explanation is that Ezekiel was describing Satan who
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was the true king of Tyre in quotations, the one motivating
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the human ruler of Tyre. Satan was in the Garden of Eden
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in Genesis chapter 3 verses one through 7, and his chief sin was
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pride. Read First Timothy chapter 3,
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verse six. He also had access to God's
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presence in Job chapter 1, verses 6 through 12, Speaking of
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God's judging the human quote ruler of Tyre for his pride.
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From Ezekiel 28 verses one through 10, the prophet lamented
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the satanic quote king of Tyre, who was also judged for his
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pride. Tyre was motivated by the same
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sin as Satan and would suffer the same fate.
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Can I be dogmatic about my belief that this gives us
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insight into the transition of the anointed cherub Lucifer to
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the fallen Angel Satan? I can't, but I'd put this one at
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about an 8 out of 10. But Amir, what about the
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abundance of your trading and the defiled sanctuaries and
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other stuff that doesn't really fit the devil?
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You're exactly right. There are some things that don't
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fit. That is why I see this passage
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as both slash and there were qualities of the King of Tyres
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character and his living situation that they were
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luciferic enough to the Lord to use him as a teaching tool.
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It's like what we find with Antiochus the 4th and the
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Antichrist in Daniel 1121 through 35.
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We don't go in with the expectation but the actions of
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both will be exactly alike. Instead we say similar to
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Antiochus the Antichrist will dot dot dot in Ezekiel 28.
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We can ask, do you see how the King of Tyre had an extremely
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bloated view of his important importance?
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It was pretty much like that before Satan's great fall.
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Numerous other similarities exist.
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Then Amir writes this again. Continuing.
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By the way, Speaking of the Antichrist, Ezekiel 28 has
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nothing to do with the future tribulational leader.
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Still, I regularly receive questions asking if quote this
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anointed cherub refers to him. Trust me, there are enough
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passages in the scripture that give us insight into the
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character of the Antichrist in his activities without having to
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shove his square peg into this round hole.
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So that was from Amir's book. So I initially when I read this,
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I was thinking about the Antichrist too.
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And again, I think this could also be a both thing.
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This could be that leader that Ezekiel was prophesying about.
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But because of the the way that this part ends it, it's kind of
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talks about there's no other enemies around, malicious
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neighbors around Israel. It certainly seems like it's a
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future thing. So what I've learned from
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reading and studying Bible prophecy is that it can have a
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partial fulfillment, but not the full fulfillment.
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And they're, you know, it's, it's just very fascinating.
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And I don't think any of us really have the, the none of us
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can say we know what it means. No one, no matter how
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intelligent anyone is, they can't say they know because we
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will only see. It could be a very good theory,
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but until it actually happens and we see how it unfolds, we
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aren't going to know. So it's everyone's kind of best
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guess. But we can learn from others who
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see things that maybe we don't, we don't.
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And then we can test it against Scripture.
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So here's what I would say about, you know, how this, you
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know, Satan wasn't a traitor with people.
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Yeah, you could say that. But what about all these people
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who are in a cult? And what about like even
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Hollywood? Not everyone in Hollywood, but
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some. And there are people who have
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been, if you say whistleblowers that say that there is some sort
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of a, an occult practice and, and people who are more
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concerned about money and power, who reject God and who live
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their lives. You know, if if you see someone
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who is living by the fruit of the spirit from found in
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Galatians chapter 5 and they have those characteristics, you
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know that the Holy Spirit of God is within them.
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Now, On the contrary, if somebody is living according to
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the worldly, they haven't yet become, they haven't yet
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received the Holy Spirit if they're still living like that.
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And and so they if if you don't have the Holy Spirit, you are
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under the power and the control of the enemy of God.
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Scripture tells us that and people do not like to hear that
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at all, but that's what Scripture says.
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So I believe it and I'll probably get to that in the next
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podcast that I do. So that's why I want to call it
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to people's attention too, because it it will offend people
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if they think, well, I don't, you know, have the Holy Spirit
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yet. So you're saying I'm controlled
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by the enemy, I'm controlled by Satan.
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Yeah, Yeah, pretty much. So because it says that, you
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know, that's what he does. He, you know, if we don't have
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the Holy Spirit, we're. Yeah, we're listening.
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I mean, what is our natural self when we're born?
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We're selfish. We just, it's all about me.
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Think about like, well, you know, babies that can't talk,
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but they can. All they do is cry, not all,
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but, you know, for what they need.
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And then as toddlers, they get upset if they're told no, you
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can't have that right now. They don't just accept it and
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say, OK, you're my parent and I'm just going to obey you and
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I'm not going to take whatever I want.
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If I want that 50th cookie or something like that.
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You know, that's just not the way.
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That's not the way toddlers are. That's not the way each one of
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us was. We were extremely selfish in our
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when we came to earth. And then over time and with the
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Holy Spirit, that selfishness turns it, it goes away.
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The Holy Spirit will change us and because God is love and love
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is selfless, it is thinking of others more than ourselves and
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that doesn't come natural to us. We think of ourselves first in
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most cases and the Holy Spirit though does change that within
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people. So anyway, I'm kind of getting
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sidetracked again. I'm going to go back to chapter
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28 and I'm, I will read the study Bible questions and
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answers. I'll kind of go back and forth
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because there's some things actually, I'll talk about my
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notes that I wrote on here. And again, like I said, I, I
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think this could be, maybe this was a ruler from the past that
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is talked about, but maybe it's also reflecting the Antichrist
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because he claims to be God. He sits on a throne of God.
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And so perhaps it could be that, I don't know, it could be both.
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And then there's a a violent death that of this they will
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bring you down like nations come against this person.
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So I don't know who the maybe it'll answer it in the study
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Bible, because I didn't read those questions.
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But the eventual destruction of this ruler is they will bring
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you down to the pit and you will die a violent death in the heart
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of the Seas. So could that be the lake of the
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fire? Because we know that the
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Antichrist would be thrown into the lake of fire.
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And I don't know, we'll find out.
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And or maybe this was just in the past, or maybe it's both.
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Or maybe it's just a pattern of people who come against God, who
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rebel against God and think they are great and think that they
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have accomplished everything that is not a gift from God.
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Or they use the gifts from God and then they use it to
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accumulate wealth and they do it in an unjust way where it harms
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other people. So God has sometimes blessed
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people with wealth. This isn't against wealth.
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It's what you do with the wealth, with the resources that
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God gives you. So that's that's the key point
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about the about money. So why would God or why would a
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human call himself a God? The Phoenicians, like most
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ancient peoples who believed in many different gods, believed in
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a hierarchy of gods, some having more power, some having less.
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Apparently the arrogant king of Tyre viewed himself as equal to
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at least some of the gods. The worship of kings and
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emperors as gods was common in such cultures according to
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Daniel chapter 3. And I think there was some,
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yeah, there was a Roman ruler who also claimed he himself, I
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guess that was Antiochus, who claimed to be God.
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So we do see a pattern of these people, and who are they
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influenced by? Perhaps.
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Perhaps they're influenced by Satan, which is what I think
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this is actually telling us. There's this king of Tyre, and
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he starts to think he's God, but he's not.
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He's just a human being. So this is also another thing
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that repeats over not year after year, but time after time.
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There's someone who gets a big head and they're being
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influenced because they really have a king over them, which is
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Satan, and they don't even know it.
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So why compare the ruler of Tyre to Daniel?
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Daniel's reputation among the Exiles of Babylon was marked.
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He rose to the top of the Royal Court on the basis of his
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God-given wisdom. Here the king of Tyre is praised
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for his wisdom. It even exceeded Daniel's.
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But the king of Tyre was not satisfied with this.
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He wanted to be God as well. God's point regarding the king
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of Tyre. You may be extremely wise and
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crafty, but you are no God. So what is the pit?
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This suggests an end to life, perhaps referring to hell.
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Although our Christian concepts of hell generally stem from the
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New Testament and contain the idea of perpetual punishment,
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the pit may be better understood to mean the final destruction of
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the city, not the personal fate of its citizens.
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The pit is also called the Abyss in the Old Testament and was a
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place where I think I talked about this in the prior podcast,
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where this was where demons and Satan would go to.
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And So what is the death of the uncircumcised?
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The term uncircumcised was a typical Jewish way of speaking
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about those who did not have a covenant relationship with God
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to die. The death of the uncircumcised
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was to die separated from God, cut off for eternity.
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So the king of Tyre, who thought himself to be a God, would die
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without God. What is the lament?
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This suggests 2 ideas. 1A. Musical or poetic dirge, A song
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of sorrow. A recognition of judgement.
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The second one is a recognition of judgement, which seems to be
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primarily implied here. Is this a picture of Satan?
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Although this is a description of the king of Tyre, a human
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being, the poetic language used by Ezekiel goes far beyond the
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scope of the king of Tyre. When was this man ever in Eden?
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When was he anointed as a cherub?
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When was he on the holy mount of God?
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These extreme statements lead some to believe that the fall of
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the wicked king of Tyre paralleled the fall of Satan
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from the heavenly realms. Others think this is figurative
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language should not be used in a literal sense to discover
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Satan's past. So I agree with Amir's book and
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what I read earlier that I do think this is Satan.
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I think there's even more things that are really interesting here
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that I think it's his influence and the king of Tyre, the one
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that's overseeing these these areas.
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Here's an interesting thing. Like it didn't even talk about
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that. It says the precise, Well, let
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me read what I'm going to. I'll read the footnote next.
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OK, so this is about the second one, the king, OK, of Tyre,
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which I think is Satan. This is what the sovereign says.
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You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in
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beauty. You were in Eden.
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Well, if we have to go back to the Bible to see who was in
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Eden, it was the ones that were mentioned.
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There was probably more. There were creatures, obviously,
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but it started with Adam and Eve and Satan the serpent and God.
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And so he was it. He was there.
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So it wasn't Adam and Eve because they were mortals, they
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were human beings. It certainly wasn't God.
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So who else does it leave? You were in Eden, Satan, the
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serpent, the garden of God. Every precious stone adorned
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you. So then it lists these stones,
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and I read the footnote in a study Bible.
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It says the precise identification of some of these
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precious stones is uncertain. So what I, I don't know, like
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this was digging a little bit deeper and it's, there are 9
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stones, this is verse 13 of chapter 28 that are mentioned.
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And you know, it probably does matter.
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And it doesn't matter what the stones were named because the
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overall point is, as soon as I read that, I have a little note
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that I wrote breastplate like a high priest with a question
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mark, because that just came to mind when I was reading it.
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So then I dug a little bit deeper.
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And then in Exodus chapter 28, God had this or the high priest
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had a breastplate and there were 12 semi precious stones that
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were on this breastplate. I'll read about it.
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The 12 Stones on the high priest breastplate represented the 12
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tribes of Israel arranged in four rows of three with each
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stone like sardius, Topaz, emerald, sapphire, diamond,
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Jason, agate, amethyst, Beryl, Onyx corresponding to a tribe
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and its banner symbolizing unity and God's people carried on the
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priest heart into his presence. So the high priest is the one
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who could go beyond the the curtain.
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And so it says, here's a common listing of the stones from
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Exodus 28 and 4 Rose. And again it repeats all of
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these different stones and different names that are used
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for each of them. Each stone bore the name of one
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of Jacobs or Israel's twelve sons, linking the priest service
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directly to the whole nation. So that's very interesting when
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you look at this one, if this is Satan, because he was in the
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Garden of Eden, he does not have 12 Stones.
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He wasn't adorned, he wasn't decorated with 12 Stones, but
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there are 9 here. There are three that are
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missing. So I compared that.
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I went to Exodus 28 verse 17 and I cross referenced what are the
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stones that are listed in Ezekiel 28 on the king of Tyre
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and how are they? How do they compare with Exodus
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that had 12 Stones? And I found something
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interesting. There are three stones that are
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missing. And I also looked up, you can
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find this online, like what tribe represents which stone?
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So I actually found an image too that was really nice and and
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making this clear. So then I had to figure out so
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who is missing from these nine that are on there?
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And it was actually the third row of the high priest
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breastplate from Exodus 28, verse 17.
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That was the Jasonth, a Gate and Amethyst.
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And these tribes that were represented in the third row
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were Dan, Naftali, and Gad. So I thought that's really
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interesting. Dan, Dan.
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OK in the Book of Revelation it talks about the angels sealing
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12,000 from each tribe but the tribe of Dan is not listed and
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Joseph is there but then his children Ephraim or Ephraim and
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Manasseh are also there. Now they weren't the originals.
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So it's kind of like the nephews got on the list of 12 but there
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were certain ones that were missing.
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And NAFTA, Lee and Gad are sealed, but Dan is not.
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OK. So that's something that's just
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interesting. And people have have noticed
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this in the Book of Revelation. So there's something up with
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Dan, with the tribe of Dan. And then so I wondered what is
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the other significance or what is the correlation between the
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different tribes? Well first I asked like what
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happened to the tribe of Dan? The tribe of Dan largely
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disappeared from historical and biblical records after the
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Assyrian conquest, primarily due to migrating N falling into
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significant idolatry established, establishing a
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major Pagan worship center, and eventually assimilating into the
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surrounding cultures like the Phoenicians, leading to their
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status as one of the lost Tribes of Israel.
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Famous famously absent from the list in the Book of Revelation
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Initial land. These are key events in dance
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history initial land issues dissatisfied with their assigned
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territory near the Philistines or that's where Gaza is, they
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migrated N conquered the city of Leish, renaming it Dan and
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established it as a key city, creating a lasting phrase from
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Dan to Beersheba. So here's you know God told them
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what areas and territories they were going to have.
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But then this is kind of like what happened with with us all.
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The one of the first, well, the first king of Israel, where he
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did part of what God said by conquering a land, but he didn't
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do it all. He kind of let his own ideas
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filter in there. So that's kind of what Dan is
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doing here. Rise of idolatry.
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They established idol worship, including a golden calf, making
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Dan a notorious Center for paganism within Israel, which
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many commentators see as the reason for their later
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disappearance. Assyrian exile In 722 BCE, as
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part of the northern Kingdom of Israel, the Danites were
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conquered by the Assyrians, leading to the exile and
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assimilation, making them part of the 10 lost tribes.
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So this is kind of interesting. So it sounds like the Danites
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were absorbed into the Assyrians and became part.
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Now, Assyria is an interesting person because and that person,
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but group of people because there are some references to the
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Antichrist, which seems like it ties that to the Assyrians,
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which would come from Turkey and Turkey.
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And it was part of Syria. It sounds like Syria.
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So I used to think it was Syria, but it's a part of Turkey and a
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part of Assyria, as well as where the Assyrians were
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located. And and again, this ties a lot
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to the Antichrist or the lawless 1 and is referenced as the
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Assyrian, this vague reference. So there is some speculation
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that the Antichrist, you know, maybe comes from Dan's tribe.
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We shall see in the future. We're not going to know in the
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end. But, and maybe he is a Syrian,
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but maybe he has a rooted history from the tribe of Dan.
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Because why would Dan's tribe not be listed in the Book of
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Revelation? Why would Dan's stone not be on
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the high priest breastplate in in the Garden of Eden?
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So kind of interesting assimilation.
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Some intermarried with Phoenicians, further eroding
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their distinct identity. So then I looked up what is the
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connection between Dan, Naftali and Gad.
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Dan, Naftali and Gad are connected as the sons of the
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patriarch Jacob through his wives, maidservants.
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Now this is another interesting. So Dan and Naftali via Bill Ha
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who was Rachel's maid and Gad via Zilpah who was Leah's maid.
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Now Leah also had another child named Asher and Asher is
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included in the breastplate. So that was kind of interesting.
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I don't know this, I mean, I just don't know the significance
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of it, but I noticed that Asher is the crystallite and it's like
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the first, it's the first line of stones of the first 3.
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So somehow Asher made it onto the breastplate from the Garden
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of Eden. So I in the end, we'll probably
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figure this out later as time goes on, but I don't quite have
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a thorough understanding of this.
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But this is very, this shows to be very repetitious of other
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things. Think about Abraham, God, I
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think it was Jesus himself told Abraham, Abram and his wife
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Sarai that they were going to have a son about a year later
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before Sodom and Gomorrah, a year after I guess Sodom and
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Gomorrah was destroyed and they didn't believe him because they
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were older, I think 90s and 100, and so because of their
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disbelief in God. Actually, it was Sarai who had
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her maidservant sleep with Abram and they had Ishmael.
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Well, then Ishmael and I guess her servant also started
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taunting Soraya and making her life miserable.
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And so that's when Sarah was like, I'm not going to have this
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anymore and told Abraham send her away.
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And and so I think he said, she's your servant.
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You do that or I don't, I think that's how it went.
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So she got sent away. But Ishmael is now it's it's
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Ishmael has its own lineage. And and this is where we get
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again into another interesting thing about Islam, where that's
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where they say, well, he was the first born.
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So that's who was supposed to, you know, that's that's God's
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chosen. But the Bible tells us that even
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though he was the first born, that he wasn't the chosen one
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that God was telling them It was through disbelief that Ishmael
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came about. But then God gave Isaac to Abram
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and Sarah and that is who and it says repeatedly chapter after
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chapter after chapter, it says Abraham, Isaac, Jacob.
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And it also gives you as you read through the Old Testament,
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it shows how each one that passed away or passed on passed
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on the blessing to the next line.
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So it shows the whole transition and these these were written
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thousands and thousands of years ago and they were in the BC time
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frame when you get to Islam. Islam was written AD after Jesus
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death. I know that's not what AD stands
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for, but that's what I always refer to refer to it as.
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So that was like around 637 is when Muhammad started having
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these dreams and an Angel, which I think might be Satan
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masqueraded as an Angel of light, came and told him a
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different story and then created this rivalry, this hatred
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between the people who follow Muhammad and the Jews.
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And that is alive and strong today.
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There is so much hatred between Islam and Israel, the Jews of
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Israel. So there's there's a lot of
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that's never gone away. And it goes all the way back to
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Abraham and his wife and her servant and, and her servant is
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who, who was the mother of Ishmael.
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So that happened. So now when we're talking about
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the 12 tribes, these are Jacob's children.
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His wives also had servants. And he had children with his
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wives, servants, and those except for Asher.
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Those handmaid's children are not, we're not on this
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breastplate like a high priest. So I just find that interesting.
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It's kind of like another affirmation from God, like when
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God says something. And it also affirms about how
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God's intention through marriage was for one man and one woman to
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come together. And when people do things
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without God, there are consequences.
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There are bad things that come from it and we can see how even,
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you know, somebody as as special as Abraham was that there were
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times where he didn't listen to God and he did human things.
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So he wasn't perfect, just like no one's perfect.
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But if he would have just waited, and I can understand if
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you're your wife is 90 and you're 100, you're thinking
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we're we're way past, you know, childbearing years.
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But that's not what happened. God does the impossible here.
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And it's about trusting God. And even in our own
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circumstances, we have a timeline maybe that we think of
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and we think that, oh, it needs to happen by this time.
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But is that God's will or is it just what we want?
51:35
And does God know better? Do we need to push back our
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expectations and say, just wait on God?
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Just wait and let God do what God does best when he guides us.
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So this is just again, another interesting find that I just
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discovered this morning doing this study.
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And so I thought I would share that and let's see what else.
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There's another part in Scripture where we see that this
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trade making money became more important.
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And I think that is where we need to rightfully look at what
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money is. Money is a resource, and we may
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accumulate money in a fair and just manner using the abilities
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that God gave us when He created us, and we can use that money
52:39
for good. But if we let that money become
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our God, and if it becomes about selfishly using it to where
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we're not thinking of others, we are using it for our own
52:54
benefit, for our own, for our own glory, to establish
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ourselves, then we are wrongfully using a resource that
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God gave us and it's become an idol to us.
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If everything is about prestige and honor and what I look like
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because of money, money has become an idol and it needs to
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be dealt with. And that would be something to
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pray to God about to let the Holy Spirit reveal this bad
53:25
relationship with money. So the Bible talks about the
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love of money, and in First Timothy 6 verse 10, it says for
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the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
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So it's the love of money, not money.
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Says some people eager for money have wandered from the faith and
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pierced themselves with many griefs.
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So have you ever paid attention to some extremely wealthy people
53:58
who have made it in life, who are success but their life ends
54:02
in suicide? Have you ever noticed that?
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Well, that's because what they were thinking they were getting
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by achieving through money didn't satisfy them.
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It was a lie of the enemy. Money became an idol and the
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enemy had a foothold and the enemy seeks to destroy and kill.
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And I think that's what suicide is.
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It's the enemy. It's the voice of the enemy.
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And even if in in this moment, right now, money has become an
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idol to someone you're living, which is good.
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And God can change that. God can change your heart.
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If you really want to not have money be an idol, just pray to
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God, confess it and just admit if it is.
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And then God can start changing that.
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And, or if you don't, and if you claim to be a child of God, God
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can humble you. And I think that happened to me
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so early on because I had a distorted view of everything
55:08
before I read the Bible. And then, then I, I got humbled.
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And, and so I don't place, I, I really don't think of money like
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I, I used to think about it. So Hebrews 13 five says, keep
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your lives free from the love of money and be content with what
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you have because God has said, never will I leave you, never
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will I forsake you. So again, that is showing us
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the, the value like God is more valuable than money.
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So just be content with what you have because the most important
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thing to have is God, a relationship with God and God
55:54
will never leave and he will never forsake.
55:57
Money is not certain. Money can come and go and we
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don't take it with us when we leave.
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Like one of the, I think, I don't know if it was Job or
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someone else, but says naked eye or maybe it was Ezekiel, I don't
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remember, but naked eye came into the earth and naked I will
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leave. Or maybe Isaiah, I can't
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remember who said that, but I always think that's true.
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It's kind of funny, like, yeah, we came into it naked and we're
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going to go out naked. We're not taking any money with
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us. So Jesus talks about this and
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and it's documented in Matthew chapter 6 and Luke chapter 16.
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So Matthew 6 verse 24, no one can serve 2 masters.
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Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be
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devoted to the one and despise the other.
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You cannot serve both God and money.
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So we have to know who we're serving.
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Are we serving money or are we serving God?
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In Luke 16, the same thing as stated is restated.
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No one can serve 2 masters. Either you will hate the one and
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love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise
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the other. You cannot serve both God and
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money. So those are Those are important
57:12
things to keep in mind about money because money can become
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an idol and what, you know, maybe we're not worshipping
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little statues of little gods, but maybe money is our idol.
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And so we have to consider that. Then also in this verse when it
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talks about like, I really think this is Satan because God is
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saying, so I threw you to earth. That is in verse 17 and where we
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can God always gives 2 witnesses.
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So when we find the answer in scripture it it helps us
57:52
understand. So Revelation chapter 12 verse 9
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says the great dragon who was hurled down that ancient serpent
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called the devil or Satan who leads the whole world astray.
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He was hurled to the earth and his angels with him.
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There's another verse too that Jesus says I saw Satan fall from
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heaven like lightning. So there are like 3 witnesses.
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We have Ezekiel, we have Jesus and I guess this is also Jesus
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or I think it's Jesus who was telling John this in the vision
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or it was an Angel, I'm not sure which.
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But anyway, it was. So there is multiple times in
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the Bible where it tells us Satan was thrown to earth.
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So again, this I think affirms that the latter part of Ezekiel
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chapter 28 is about Satan and, and people who align themselves
58:58
with Satan. He can, you know, he can
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influence people, which I said I'll talk about in the next
59:04
podcast. So he can make people wealthy,
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he can make introductions between people, ungodly people,
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and can make things happen. So just because somebody has
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money doesn't mean that they are blessed by God.
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They may have rebelled against God and God's allowing them that
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rebellion, but they are actually being influenced by Satan and
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it's going to lead to their eventual destruction.
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Just like I talked about, some wealthy people end up committing
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suicide, which is, you know, letting the enemy's voice over
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power and them taking their their own lives because God is
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God is the God of life. And he says like choose, choose
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life, don't choose death and the enemy is death.
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Another point about religions, Christianity is about choosing
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life. Islam is about death.
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So there's there are significant differences and to be aware of.
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Then when the prophecy talks about Sidon, it talks about
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sending a plague. We have no idea if this plague
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came or I mean, there's so many times where plagues have come
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across the earth. But, and these are things that
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God allows and that are judgments from God.
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So, but again, that verse 24 that says no longer will the
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people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful
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breeders and sharp thorns, that has not happened yet.
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So again, I really do feel like or think that this is a prophecy
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about the future. So what kind of glory comes from
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punishment? When God punishes sin, He is
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shown to be holy far above all who tolerate sin.
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God's glory is revealed when he deals with evil and removes it,
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for He is shown to be holy, righteous, and just.
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What plague hit sight on? This might refer to the violence
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that the powerful city would experience at the hands of the
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invading Babylonians. It could also refer to an
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infectious disease that would strike the population.
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How does God prove himself holy? God proves His Holiness in many
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ways. Punishment for sin, for example,
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shows God's holy, righteous nature.
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We can also see His Holiness when we experience His blessings
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for obedience. And I think that is I I did have
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a lot more that I had. OK, here's I guess I'll read
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through these things too. So I don't let's see Babylon.
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I guess when you talk about Babylon, you could read
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Revelation chapter 17. That's where Babylon the
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prostitute on the beast. So note that Babylon is
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controlling the beast, which is an interesting point there is
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you could really get into deep and actually, because this
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podcast is already long, Oh my gosh, it's already an hour.
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So I'm not going to go over the Book of Revelation, but there
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are similarities to the fall of Babylon and the fall of Tyre.
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So you can look at the lament over Babylon.
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That's Revelation chapter 18. You can read that.
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Maybe I'll do this in another podcast where we talk about it
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and that that would probably work a lot better.
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So anyway, I'm going to wrap this one up because it's already
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way longer than I intended it to be.
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And if you're not subscribed, subscribe because some of these
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are really interesting when I find these little interesting
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facts that were not there. I'm, I'm hoping this is all from
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the Holy Spirit that the Holy Spirit is bringing these to mind
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or influencing me to search something so I can find out
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little details that support it through scripture.
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So it's always, it's like the Bible describes how there's a
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treasure, like God's word is such a treasure and what every
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day you open his book, you don't know what you're going to find.
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And that's how I feel so many times.
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Some days there's not much new, but then other days you find
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these little Nuggets of gold that are little treasures that
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that help us understand God better and understand what God
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says about the future.