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859. Bible Study: Ezekiel 34 and 35 (Warning to Leaders and Edom -modern day Jordan) · Faith by annm2705

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Ezekiel chapter 34 Dear Lord, please open our eyes, our ears
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and our hearts to what you have to say.
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We ask this in Jesus name. The word of the Lord came to me,
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Son of Man, prophecy against the shepherds of Israel prophecy and
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say to them, this is what the sovereign Lord says.
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Woe to you, shepherds of Israel who only take care of
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yourselves. Should not shepherds take care
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of the flock? You eat the curds, clothe
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yourself with the wool, and slaughter the choice animals,
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but you do not take care of the flock.
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You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound
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up the injured. You have not brought back the
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strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and
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brutally so. They were scattered because
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there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered, they became
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food for all the wild animals. My sheep wandered over all the
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mountains and on every high hill.
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They were scattered over the whole earth and no one searched
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or looked for them. There's a lot of symbology in
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here, and the shepherds of Israel are the leaders.
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The sheep as consistently applied throughout the Bible,
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are the followers, actually the followers of Christ, the
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followers of God, God's God's sheep, you know, he, Jesus is
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called the Good Shepherd. But right now in this time, in
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Ezekiel's time, there were leaders of Israel and they were
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probably the kings as well as the priests because there were
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both of them that were ruling the up until the Jerusalem was
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destroyed. So maybe it's just the priest at
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this time since they were taken into exile to Babylon and Judah
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was the last one since the 10 tribes of Israel were already
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take taken over by Assyria and scattered.
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So God is, you know, he's speaking to Ezekiel and he's
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telling him it's about the shepherds of Israel.
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Those are who are supposed to take care of the sheep, take
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care of his, his flock. And they're only taking care of
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themselves. They're not taking care of the
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flock. They're OK, let's just use the
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words of what it symbolizes. They're only taking care of
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themselves. They're not taking care of the
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people that are entrusted to them.
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And they're not strengthening those who are weak, perhaps weak
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in faith, not healing the sick or taking care of those injured
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and not bringing back those lost, those who have strayed
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away from the faith, those who have strayed away from the
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truth, from what all of the ancestors knew of God.
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Nobody's going to search for them.
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Instead, they are ruling them harshly and brutally.
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So it sounds like there's just giving judgement on them and
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that they're not, they're not doing anything to help them.
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They're just judging them. And that's something that we can
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all relate to. We can learn from this that we
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are not in a placement of judgement of others.
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That is what Jesus will do when he returns.
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We all of us, I think have a responsibility as Jesus
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commanded, to make disciples of others to share the news of the
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Kingdom of God so that people can make their choice and decide
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whether they are going to choose, choose it, choose to
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abide in Christ, or if they're going to reject it.
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But that's kind of what everyone has been the purpose everyone
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has been given who becomes a believer.
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Any believer is called to do that.
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So he's he also says that they're scattered, like all the
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people are scattered and they because they don't have a
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leader. And when they don't have a
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leader, then the enemy of God, or if you call it the wild
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animals here, the enemy of God swoops down and takes them,
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takes them away. So they're not going to be in
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the Kingdom of God because they're now enslaved by God's
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enemy. And he says that his people
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wandered all over the mountains and on every high hill.
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It's my sheep. That's what he said.
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But I believe this is a reference to all the altars that
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they pushed up on all the high hills to worship other deities.
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And because they didn't have a strong leader that was keeping
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them grounded in their faith of the one true God, they got
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absorbed into the enemy and started sacrificing on high
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hills all around. That we're not God.
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But God is looking to the leaders of Israel to say this is
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not what I wanted you to do. They were scattered all over the
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whole earth and no one looked for them.
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Nobody cared about them, says, Therefore you shepherds, hear
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the word of the Lord. As surely as I live, declares
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the Lord, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been
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plundered and become food for the wild animals, and because my
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shepherds did not search for my flocks, but cared for themselves
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rather than for my flocks, therefore you shepherds hear the
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word of the Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord
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says. I am against the shepherds and
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will hold them accountable for my flock.
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I will remove them from tending the flock so that shepherds can
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no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my I think it says
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like I will rescue my flock from their mouths and it will no
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longer be food for them. For this is what the Sovereign
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Lord says. I myself will search for my
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sheep and look after them. As a shepherd looks after his
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scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my
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sheep. I will rescue them from all the
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places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.
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That sounds like Judgement Day to me.
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When Jesus is going to do this, when he gathers his people,
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gathers his flock, I will bring them out from the nations and
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gather them from the countries. I will bring them into their own
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land. Now this is, you know, spoken to
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Israel and there's going to be a time where they are out and, and
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some say that this already has happened prior to 1948 when
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Israel became a nation and people look to 1948, Israel's
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becoming a nation. Is this happening?
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And I see it as a precursor or a foreshadowing of what is yet to
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Gump to come. Because I believe that this is
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what scripture is telling us as we get into it further, that
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this is this is a future statement of what it's going to
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be because people are still just dispersed.
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I mean, there are Jews all over. In fact, I heard a statistic
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recently that said New York had the highest percentage or the
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highest number of Jewish people, even greater than Israel.
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I don't know if it was just by city, by city, or entire
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population. I don't recall what that was.
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But I was surprised when I saw that.
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And I didn't verify that. So somebody might need to verify
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that. So I probably shouldn't have
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even said that since I didn't verify it myself.
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But anyway, it's, it is true that people are still spread.
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Jewish people that have a Jewish heritage, that are descendants
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are spread all over. And so therefore, as and as more
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as stated in this chapter, I do believe that there is a future
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fulfillment of this. Maybe it's partially fulfilled
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in 1948, but it's not the full completion of it.
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Verse 13 I will bring them out of the nations and gather them
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from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land.
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I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the
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ravines and in all the settlements in the land.
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I will tend them in a good pasture, and the mountain
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heights of Israel will be their grazing land.
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There they will lie down in good grazing land, and there they
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will feed in a rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.
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I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the
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Sovereign Lord. I.
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I will search for the lost and bring back the strays.
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I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak.
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But the sleek and the strong I will destroy.
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I will be. I will shepherd the flock with
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justice. As for you my flock, this is
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what the Sovereign Lord says. I will judge between 1 sheep and
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another, and between Rams and goats.
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Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture?
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Must you also trample on the rest of your pasture with your
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feet? Is it?
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Is it not enough for you to drink Clearwater?
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Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?
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Must my flock feed on what you have trampled, and drink what
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you have muddied with your feet? Therefore this is what the
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Sovereign Lord says to them. See, I myself will judge between
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the fat sheep and the lean sheep, because you shove with
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flank and shoulder, butting all the weak sheep with your horns
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until you have driven them away. I will save my flock, and they
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will no longer be plundered. I'm going to pause there because
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sounds like, you know, there's no leader, but the sheep are,
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you know, battling it out with one another.
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This seems very familiar to me, too.
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This is obviously written to Israel, but it does seem
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applicable in the world when we look at Christians and division
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among Christians that, you know, sheep are butting against sheep.
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And there needs to be care in that, that people are not driven
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away in that process. Because while there are
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disagreements among people, it's important from God's perspective
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that we're not driving away sheep from differing opinions.
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Just like God also said, Jesus said that a Kingdom divided will
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not stand. And so we have to remember those
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words of God and remember them in our daily lives.
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I will save my flock, and they will no longer be plundered.
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I will judge. See, I will judge this the Lord
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saying that between 1 sheep and another, I will place over them
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one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend them.
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He will tend them and be their shepherd.
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I the Lord will be their God and my servant will be Prince among
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them. I the Lord have spoken.
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So here's another reason why I believe this is future because
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Ezekiel was written, you know, hundreds of years probably after
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David was king because the sequence of his David and then
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his son and then a whole bunch of kings came after a divided
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Kingdom. The northern was Israel and the
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southern was Judah. And so first the then the 10
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tribes of Israel were defeated by Assyria, and then the 2
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tribes of Judah and Benjamin were defeated by Babylon.
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So now to say to Ezekiel that my servant David will be their
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Prince. How does that work?
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Well, if we've read the New Testament and we've read the
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rest of Ezekiel, you can see that there is a resurrection
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that happens when Jesus returns. And, and, and there's actually a
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couple questions that I have and I don't have the answer and but
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it's something interesting. There's one of the gospels, and
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I forgot which one, if it was Matthew or Mark that talks about
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when Jesus died, the graves were open and people were seeing the
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dead were walking around Jerusalem.
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And there's nothing more after that.
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Like we don't know what happened to them after that.
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It that's all we know. And so I thought, wow, that's
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pretty significant. Like why is there not more
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written about that? And I don't have the answer to
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that. But you know, of course there's
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speculation. You know, what happened Were
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these with Jesus? The first fruits did was someone
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like David raised at this point? I don't know.
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I don't know. Or will David be resurrected
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when Jesus returns? And is he still in the grave
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today? We don't have the answers to any
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of that. But we do have a prophet,
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Ezekiel, who's saying my servant David.
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Now some may say, oh, that's, you know, talking about the
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David's line, but it doesn't say that.
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And it says my servant David will be Prince.
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Jesus is going to be King David. It would make sense that he
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would be Prince and and maybe there was more to, you know,
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there will forever be a throne, you know, like he will ever,
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forever be on a throne in some manner.
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So I just think it's interesting and there's further on.
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I mean, when you get into the Ezekiel's prophecy about the
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temple, it does talk about the Prince.
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And when I was first reading that, I was like, who is this
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Prince? And I started searching and I
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did come to the conclusion that it was David.
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And I don't know if it was actually this chapter that
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helped me get to that conclusion.
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But like later on, and I know I'm jumping ahead and we haven't
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even read it yet, but in the future temple, there's
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sacrifices that are being made and it says the Prince does it
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and he does it for the people of Israel and for his own sins.
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So I don't quite comprehend why sacrifices are I I don't know.
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I don't understand that yet because we know that Jesus was
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the final sacrifice that was required.
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And I don't know if it's a teaching process for Jesus with
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his people, if that's what occurs in the Millennium.
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I'm not really sure why this happens.
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And maybe, well, I guess when it happens, we'll understand.
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But anyway, I just thought this was really interesting because I
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do believe that David will be resurrected and will be a Prince
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over Israel. So verse 25, I will make a
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covenant of peace with them and rid the land of savage beast so
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that they may live in the wilderness and sleep in the
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forest in safety. I mean, this has not happened
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yet where you could where you could have, especially in
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Israel. I mean, we all know that the
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Middle East has, is a source of major conflict that has never
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ceased. Ever since biblical days, it's
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been in conflict. I remember it as a child first,
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like hearing about conflict in the Middle East.
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And I thought, what is wrong with those people?
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Why are they always fighting? And I didn't quite understand
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until I finally read the Bible. And then I'm like, oh, now I
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understand. And this is a spiritual battle.
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It's nothing less than that and it's a battle over territory and
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God said Jerusalem is going to be where he reigns from, where
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Jesus reigns from as king. And the enemy doesn't doesn't
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want that to happen. So verse 26, I will make them
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and the places surrounding my hill a blessing.
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I will send down showers in season.
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There will be showers of blessing.
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The trees will yield their fruit and the ground will yield its
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crops. The people will be secure in
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their land. They will know that I am the
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Lord. When I break the bars of their
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yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved
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them. They will no longer be plundered
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by nations. Well we already know like
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October 7th 2023 they were plundered but it says they will
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no longer be plundered. So this is future.
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Nor will wild animals devour them.
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They will live in safety. Israel does not live in safety.
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So this is future also and no one will make them afraid.
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You can't say that of Israel right now.
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I will provide for them a land renowned for its crops, and they
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will no longer be victims of famine in the land or bear the
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scorn of the nations. Then they will know that I the
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Lord their God and with them, and that they, the Israelites,
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are my people, declares the sovereign Lord.
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You are my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, and I am your God,
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declares the sovereign Lord. So this is God again, affirming
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his covenant with the Israelites.
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And that should be something that all of us should pay
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attention to today when people are saying, you know, that the
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Israelites aren't God's chosen and all of this, like that's
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contradictory to the Bible and the Bible is truth.
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So no one who calls themselves a Christian can say that because
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if you do, you're saying that your opinion is greater than
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God's Word. So anyway, I will read the
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questions and answers for this chapter 34 and then probably go
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into chapter 35 because it's very short.
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So who were the shepherds of Israel?
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They were Israel's spiritual and political leaders.
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A shepherd responsible for a flock of sheep was a common
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sight in Ezekiel's time. It was an image the people
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associated with leadership. Our spiritual leaders held to a
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higher standard of responsibility.
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Without question, God has given them gifts to lead, and He has
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called them to provide for His people.
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Leaders must govern wisely, ensure that God's plan is
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carried out, and give people every opportunity to worship
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God. When leaders fail, they must
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shoulder the blame for their people's spiritual distress.
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How did the Lord intend to be Israel's shepherd?
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Since Israel's leaders had failed to care for the people,
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God declared that He would again lead them himself.
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Israel had earlier been ruled by God's direct decree, not by
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kings. Following their return from
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Babylonian captivity, the Israelites again would have no
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king, but only leaders raised up by God.
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This prophetic word found ultimate fulfillment in the
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coming Messiah, the Good Shepherd.
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Why would God destroy the best sheep?
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The sleek and strong sheep were not the best sheep in God's
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eyes. They were the opposite of those
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described as weak, sick, injured, and lost.
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The shepherds of Israel or the spiritual and political leaders
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of Israel, had catered to the wealthy and privileged and had
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despised the scattered sheep of God.
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God was warning them here that after He gathered His remnant,
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He would destroy those who had acted unjustly toward His flock.
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So the remnant that I believe they're talking about in the
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study Bible question and answer is the 12,000 from each tribe.
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Whether that's a literal 12,000 or a figurative one or symbolic
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one, we'll we don't know. But the Bible says 12,000 and it
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lists each tribe and they were sealed.
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An Angel seals them on their head, anoints them, I guess,
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perhaps sealed, maybe with the Holy Spirit, so they are given
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protection and they are the remnant.
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But destruction is going to come upon the others, the wrath of
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God. So anyway, that's in the Book of
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Revelation. How could David, long dead, lead
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Israel again? The people of Ezekiel's day had
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no trouble recognizing that this was not a promise that Kim, King
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David himself, would return from the dead.
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It was clear to them that this was a promise of the coming
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Messiah, a descendant of David. To them, a person's name was an
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expression of character, perhaps more so than identity.
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David's name in this prophecy indicated not only his
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descendant, but also someone who would be, like David, a man
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after God's own heart. So I disagree with the study
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Bible here because of the things I said already about the Prince
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sacrificing it says for himself. Because at one point I did
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consider that the Prince that they talk about in the temple
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was Jesus because I followed that same train of thought.
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But then I was like, no, Jesus wouldn't be sacrificing for his
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own sins because it says that's what the Prince does.
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So that's clearly not Jesus that's being talked about
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anyway. So when we get to that chapter,
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we can talk more about it. So now I'm going to read chapter
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35. The word of the Lord came to me.
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Son of Man set against what? Set your face against Mount
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Sier, prophecy against it, and say this is what the sovereign
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Lord says. I am against you, Mount Sier,
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and I will stretch my hand against you and make you a
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desolate waste. I will turn your towns into
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ruins and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the
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Lord. So this land that's being
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referred to as the land of Edom from back in Ezekiel's day, it's
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the current land of Jordan. So it's here's the reason why.
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So God does, when he gives these prophecies, he does say like why
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this is going to happen. So he just said that Edom or
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Jordan is going to become desolate.
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And why is he doing this? Here's why.
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Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the
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Israelites over to the sword at the time of their calamity, the
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time their punishment reached its climax.
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Therefore, as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will give
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you over to bloodshed, and it will pursue you.
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Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue
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you. I will make Mount Sier A
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desolate waste. Cut it off, or cut off from it
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all who come and go. I will fill your mountains with
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the slain. Those killed by the sword will
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fall on your hills and in your valleys and in your ravines.
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I will make you desolate forever.
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OK, when you see forever, it says your towns will not be
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inhabited, then you will know that I am the Lord.
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So I think there's a lot of things that point to the future.
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First of all, forever that hasn't happened yet, then you
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will know that I am the Lord. I don't think the majority of
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people in this area that we're talking about are Christian.
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So if they're not Christian, they don't know that he is the
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Lord. So again, the other thing that
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it says, the time their punishment reached its climax.
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So we know from these prophecies that there is a time that people
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do refer to as Jacob's trouble. And I believe that's what the
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great tribulation is, or the wrath of God.
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It's for all of those who are unrepentant, who stay in their
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sin, who don't acknowledge Jesus.
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And this is a word of warning. And right now, while we have
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time, there's time for people to learn more about God, about
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Jesus, who he is, what he did come to faith and, and we have
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that time, but there's going to come a time when God says, OK,
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this is it, time's up. All who have done it, you know,
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you're, you're protected. But all who are who have
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rebelled against me and reject, reject my son, It's it's time
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for judgement and wrath or wrath, I guess.
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And and so that's yeah, that's what it's talking about here,
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verse 10, because you have said these two nations and countries
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will be ours and we will take possession of them.
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Even though I the Lord was there.
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I'm going to pause there. So when I read this, I thought
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God always, Jesus, God, you know, the Lord always said I'm
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going to rule from Jerusalem. So he's claimed that territory.
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And over all these years there is a battle between Jordan and
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Israel over who controls the Temple Mount, who can be on
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there, who can worship, what can be done?
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All those things are happening today and there is not.
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I mean there's some talk about a two state solution that would be
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dividing the land. And it's interesting here
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because the Lord is prophesying through Ezekiel about Jordan and
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saying these two nations and countries will be ours and we
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will take possession of them. So somebody is claiming
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territory that is not theirs. Like God said, it was his.
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And here's another interesting thing that just popped into my
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head just because of what's going on in Gaza right now and
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all the different nations that are there.
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And they're talking about like building up Gaza and making it
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into this city. And, you know, they, they have
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all these plans and there's some, you know, they're taking
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control of Gaza and, you know, making nice plans for buildings
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and, you know, businesses and things like that, that that's
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all good. But did anybody consult God
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about that? Because that's part of God's
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territory. God's territory does go from the
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rivers to the sea. That's God's land.
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And so I think this might, you know, could this perhaps be
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talking about the Temple Mount and Gaza?
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I don't know. These two nations and countries
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will be ours, and we will take possession of them even though
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I, the Lord, was there. Therefore, surely, as I live,
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declares A sovereign Lord, I will treat you in accordance
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with the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred of them,
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and I will make myself known among you among them.
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When I judge you, then you will know that I, the Lord, have
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heard all the contemptible things you have said against the
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mountains of Israel. You said they have been laid
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waste and have been given over to us to devour.
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So it sounds like there's a future calamity ahead for Israel
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that's going to happen. And then sounds like Jordan is
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going to say, OK, this is our time to take this land.
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But God has the last word. You boasted against me and spoke
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against me without restraint, and I heard it.
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This is what the sovereign Lord says while the whole earth
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rejoices. That sounds like close in our
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time because while the whole world rejoices, think of all the
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people right now that do not like Israel.
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And if Israel is removed from their land, there'd be a lot of
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cheering. I mean, there's a lot of like
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protesters, probably paid protesters who are, you know,
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saying free, free and all this stuff.
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And and so you can, you could see how if this would happen in
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our day, that there would be cheering and rejoicing saying,
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yeah, we got, we got rid of them.
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We, we got this, we got this land, this is ours now.
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But God's going to say, uh huh, nobody, it's not yours because
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you rejoiced when the inheritance of Israel became
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desolate. That is how I will treat you.
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You will be desolate. Mount Sier, you and all of Edom,
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then you will know that I am the Lord.
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So that's the outcome of them thinking they know.
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What is the final outcome? God's not going to let it
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happen. So what is?
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These are questions and answers and then I'll wrap this up.
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What is Mount Seir? Mount Seir is the country of
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Edom where the descendants of Esau lived.
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So this is the long time and it's also modern day Jordan, but
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it's the long time animosity. Esau and Jacob were brothers and
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Esau cared more about, if you want to call it like fleshly
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desires, worldly desires. He was hungry, he was out
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hunting, he was hungry, he wanted food and he was so hungry
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that he he was like that Jacob, you know, said had Stew and
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said, well, I'll give you this if you give up your first, your
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rights as the first born and Esau did, it wasn't that
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important to him. And so I think that's a
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principle that we can all apply to our lives.
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Like where is is God our as our priority?
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Like there are certain promises that God has made to his
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children and, and warnings and guardrails and all these
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different things that God has given us in his word.
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And do we just dismiss them? And do we just live for today
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and live for our own desires? Or do we consider what does God
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want and are we obedient to God? And do we seek God and do we do
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we put God as a priority? And those are all questions that
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we all have to answer for ourselves and, and consider when
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we think about eternity. Because a lot of these people in
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the Bible, I think are given to us documented so that we can
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learn from others mistakes. Like Esau made a mistake.
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He didn't think so much about his being first born and his
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inheritance and he gave it away for momentary satisfaction.
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I would certainly, if I was Esau, I would regret that
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because to have one meal and to give away your inheritance for
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all of that. And anyway, it's we should, we
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should think about, you know, like do we go after a fleshly
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desire and give up our inheritance?
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That would be our question today.
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And do we choose sin over obedience to God?
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That's a question that we have to ask ourselves anyway.
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Then the next, the last question and answer says what caused
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their grudge against Israel? It started when Jacob tricked
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his brother Esau out of his birthright.
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You can read about that in Genesis chapter 25, verses 29
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through 34. And then cheated out of his,
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cheated him out of his blessing as the first born.
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That's in Genesis chapter 27, verses 35 through 36.
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Since that time, their descendants had been at odds.
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This ancient hostility kept the Edomites from coming to Israel's
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aid during the Babylonian invasion, and you wonder if that
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still perpetuates today. So anyway, these are things to
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consider, to think about. And that's the end of chapters
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