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849. Bible Study: Ezekiel 25 and 26 (Prophecies against modern day: Jordan, Gaza and Tyre, Lebanon) · Faith by annm2705

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  Ezekiel chapter 25. Dear Lord, please help us have
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  wisdom and insight from what we read.
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  We ask this in Jesus name, Amen. So this is a prophecy against
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  Amon. The word of the Lord came to me.
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  Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and
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  prophecy against them. Say to them, hear the word of
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  the Lord, of the sovereign Lord. This is what the sovereign Lord
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  says, because you said aha, over my sanctuary when it was
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  desecrated, and over the land of Israel when it was laid waste,
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  and over the people of Judah when they went into exile.
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  Therefore I am going to give you to the people of the East as a
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  possession. They will set up their camps and
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  pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and
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  drink your milk. I will return, or I will turn
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  Raba into pasture for camels, and Ammon into a resting place
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  for sheep. Then you will know that I am the
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  Lord. For this is what the sovereign
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  Lord says, because you clapped your hands and stamped your
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  feet, rejoicing with all the malice of your heart against the
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  land of Israel. Therefore I will stretch out my
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  hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations.
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  I will wipe you out from among the nations and exterminate you
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  from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will
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  know that I am the Lord. The area that He's talking about
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  is in modern day Jordan and Ammon and Moab.
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  Those were the children of Lot's daughters with Lot when Sodom
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  and Gomorrah was destroyed. So then there's a prophecy
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  against Moab. This is what the Sovereign Lord
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  says. Because Moab and Seer said,
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  look, Judah has become like all the other nations.
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  Therefore I will expose the flank of Moab, beginning at its
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  frontier towns, both Joshimoth, Bail Mayon and Curiatheum, the
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  glory of that land. I will give Moab along with the
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  Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, so that
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  the Ammonites will be remembered among the nations, and I will
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  inflict punishment on Moab. Then they will know that I am
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  the Lord. Prophecy against Edom.
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  This is what the sovereign Lord says, because Edom took revenge
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  on Judah and became very guilty by doing so.
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  Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says.
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  I will stretch out my hand against Edom and kill both man
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  and beast. I will lay it waste from Timon
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  to DDN. They will fall by the sword.
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  I will take vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel,
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  and they will deal with Edom in accordance with my anger and my
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  wrath. They will know my vengeance
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  declares the sovereign Lord. OK, this is the point where it
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  prophecy gets so hard to understand, like if something
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  happened or if it's a prophecy for the future.
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  And this one is one of those specific ones because it says
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  here that I will take vengeance on Edom by the hand of my
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  people, Israel. And they will deal with Edom in
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  accordance with my anger and my wrath.
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  They will know my vengeance. Yeah, they will know my
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  vengeance, declares the Lord. So Israel hasn't come against
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  Edom in the Bible and Israel hasn't come against Jordan.
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  It hasn't happened yet. So I would see this as a
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  possibility that it could be yet to be fulfilled.
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  I did look at Amir's book and he referenced a Doctor Who had a a
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  theory on it, but I don't know that I necessarily it doesn't it
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  doesn't solve it for me. Actually, I'll read that too.
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  So it doesn't seem like it is. It seems like a very circuitous
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  way to say that it was fulfilled.
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  To me, it seems like this is something that will be fulfilled
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  in the future. OK.
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  And then there's another prophecy, A prophecy against
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  Philistia. This is the land of Gaza.
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  This is what the Sovereign Lord says.
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  Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with
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  malice in their hearts and with ancient hostility sought to
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  destroy Judah. Therefore this is what the
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  Sovereign Lord says. I'm about to stretch out my hand
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  against the Philistines, and I will ripe out the Kerathites and
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  destroy those remaining along the coast.
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  I will carry out great vengeance on them and punish them in my
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  wrath. Then they will know that I am
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  the Lord when I take vengeance on them.
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  So that is the end of chapter 25 and I will read the questions
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  and answers from the study Bible.
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  What does the expression aha mean here?
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  This term can denote delight over some person or thing.
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  Here the term aha is used as a verbal expression of malicious
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  delight. The Ammonites would have been
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  would be delighted in a deviant way that their neighbors,
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  sanctuary and land had been desecrated.
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  Who were the people of the east? This is probably a reference to
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  the invading Babylonian army. The invaders would capture
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  Judah, but also Ammon, part of modern Jordan and the land or
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  the land just east of Israel. So I guess the overall theme
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  that we would learn from this would be that rejoicing in God's
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  chosen's punishment will have consequences.
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  So God chose Israel, and even if he allows Israel to be attacked
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  by other nations as discipline, he will still make those other
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  nations who attacked Israel accountable for that.
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  And that's what he's showing here.
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  And it's not even that these nations attacked Israel, it's
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  that they were laughing and making basically rejoicing over
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  Israel's troubles that they had. So it's never good to go against
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  Israel. We can see that in the Bible.
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  And so I will read that theory that for chapter 25 from Amir's
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  book exploring Ezekiel, the one he references, it says how
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  Doctor Charles Dwyer postulated Edom was conquered by the
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  Nabatians. During the intertestamental
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  period. The remnant of the Edomites,
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  also called Idumians, moved West to the Negev.
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  Later they were forced to become Jewish converts.
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  Josephus the Antiquities of the Jews and it says 139 and 1.
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  Thus the Edomites lost both their country and their national
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  identity. So the only question that I have
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  on it is from what I just read it sounds like they were forced
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  to become Jewish converts. That means they weren't natural
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  born Jews. So I wouldn't know that back at
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  this time that they would have actually.
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  I mean, of course later there is a grafting in of other nations
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  into the into Israel. But at that time was there a
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  grafting in to those people or or not?
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  I don't know. I guess if there was a grafting
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  in it could be considered. But this is the, I guess the
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  thought I have is that it's uncertain whether this has been
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  fulfilled or it is yet to remain.
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  And the same goes for the next chapter, 26.
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  So I'll keep going because we're only about 8 minutes in.
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  That's all the questions and answers for 25 on this.
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  Oh, actually, there's one more Did God want to get even?
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  This was judgement, not revenge. Revenge contradicts God's
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  nature. Judgement does not.
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  In fact, the holiness of God requires that justice be done
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  and judge judgment be rendered. If God neglected justice by
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  overlooking sin, He would not be a holy God.
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  No, God did not want to get even.
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  He was simply being holy by punishing sin.
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  But even God's punishment can be considered an expression of His
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  mercy. His judgement in the Old
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  Testament typically halted the the slide into further sin.
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  Left unchecked, sin violates the order God planned for creation
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  and would eventually cause the destruction of the world and
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  humanity. Judgment mercifully halts that
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  process. Before Jesus Christ took the
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  punishment for sin by dying on the cross, judgment fell on
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  sinners. Old Testament sacrifices
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  provided pardon, but no sacrifice was sufficient to
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  completely and permanently satisfy the requirements of
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  holiness. Only through the cross of Christ
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  did mercy triumph completely over judgment.
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  OK, so that's the end of chapter 25.
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  I'll go into chapter 26, a prophecy against Tyre in the
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  11th month of the 12th year, on the first day of the month, the
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  word of the Lord came to me, Son of Man, because Tyre has said of
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  Jerusalem, aha, the gate of the nations is broken, and its doors
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  have swung open to me. Now that she lies in ruins, I
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  will prosper. Therefore, this is what the
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  Sovereign Lord says. I am against you, Tyre.
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  I will bring many nations against against you.
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  Like the sea casting up its waves, they will destroy the
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  walls of Tyre and pull down her towers.
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  I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock.
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  Out in the sea, she will become a place to spread fishnets
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  before I have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord.
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  She will become plunder for the nations, and her settlements on
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  the mainland will be ravaged by the sword.
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  Then they will know that I am the Lord, for this is what the
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  sovereign Lord says. From the north I'm going to
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  bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.
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  There's a footnote here that says Nebuchadnezzar, of which
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  Nebuchadnezzar is a variant here and often in Ezekiel and
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  Jeremiah. OK, so Nebuchadnezzar, king of
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  Babylon, king of kings, with horses and Chariots, with
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  horsemen and great a great army. He will ravage your settlements
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  on the mainland with the sword. He will set up siege works
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  against you, build up a ramp against your walls and raise his
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  Shields against you. He will direct the blows of his
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  battering Rams against your walls and demolish your towers
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  with his weapons. His horses will be so many that
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  they will cover you with dust. Your walls will tremble at the
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  noise of the war horses, wagons and Chariots when he enters your
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  gates as men enter a city whose walls have been broken through.
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  The hooves of his horses will trample all your streets.
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  He will kill your people with the sword and your strong
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  pillars will fall to the ground. They will plunder your wealth
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  and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls
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  and demolish your fine houses and and throw your stones,
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  timber and rubble into the sea. I will put an end to your noisy
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  songs, and the music of your harps will be heard no more.
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  I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to
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  spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt, for
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  I, the Lord, have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.
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  This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Tyre.
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  Will not the coastlands tremble at the sound of your fall, when
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  the wounded groan and the slaughter takes place in you,
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  when all the Princess of the Coast will step down from their
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  Thrones and lay aside their robes and take off their
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  embroidered garments? Clothed with terror, they will
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  sit on the ground trembling, every moment appalled at you.
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  Then they will take up lament concerning you and say to you
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  how you are destroyed City of Renown people peopled by men of
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  the sea. You were a power on the seas,
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  you and your citizens. You put your terror on all who
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  live there. Now the coastlands tremble on
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  the day of your fall. The islands in the sea are
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  terrified at your collapse. This is what the Sovereign Lord
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  says, when I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer
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  inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths over you and it's
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  vast waters cover you, then I will bring you down with those
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  who go down to the pit, to the people of long ago.
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  I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient
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  ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not return
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  or take your place in the land of the living.
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  I will bring you to a horrible end, and you will be no more.
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  You will be sought, but you will never again be found, declares
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  the Sovereign Lord. OK, this is another
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  controversial 1 so I will just read what the study Bible says
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  first and then talk a little bit more about it.
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  So why call Nebuchadnezzar king of kings?
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  Because God wanted to speak in terms of the people could
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  understand he took the human limitations of his listeners
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  into account. Since Nebuchadnezzar was the
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  greatest king the people of that day had ever known, and since
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  other kings served him, Nebuchadnezzar was viewed by
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  people as the as the quote king of kings.
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  God alone, of course, is the true King of kings.
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  What's left of Tyre today, never to be rebuilt, is best
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  understood to mean that tyres glory and prestige would never
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  be restored. Nebuchadnezzar took the mainland
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  portion of the city in 572 BC, but the people retreated to the
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  island portion of the city and remained there until the
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  Babylonians left thirteen years later.
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  For the next 2 1/2 centuries the city endured continuous hardship
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  until Alexander the Great devastated it in 332 BC.
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  Today Tyre exists as a small town of 5000 people.
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  And that's let's see, did these Princess abdicate their Thrones?
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  In essence, yes. But this is really a picture of
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  surrender, not abdication. Surrender being the only way to
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  survive the invasion. Ezekiel prophesied that the king
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  of Babylon would completely humiliate the area's rulers,
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  called kings, in 27 verse 35. Biblical prophets often painted
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  vivid word pictures like this. And what is a lament?
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  This suggests 2 ideas #1A musical or poetic dirge, a song
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  of sorrow or two. A recognition of judgement would
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  seem to be primarily implied here.
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  And does this verse foretell a flood?
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  The foretelling here of a coming tidal wave could be literal or
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  figurative. If it is literal, just as God
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  would use Nebuchadnezzar as an instrument of divine wrath
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  against the the port of Tyre, so he would also bring a flood to
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  decimate the city. If it is figurative,
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  Nebuchadnezzar would serve as, quote, the water that would
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  overwhelm Tyre. 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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  So there's a lot there. So let's see, where do we start?
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  OK, there's something that I've noticed as I've read a lot of
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  prophecy and and if if you think about it, just just think back
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  to when God first was aggravated with people when they started
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  building the Tower of Babel. And so it seems like Babylon
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  comes up over and over. It just keeps reoccurring.
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  There's just like this idolatry and significance.
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  And so it happened with the tower of Babylon, Babylon or the
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  Tower of Babel. And then there's also Babylon.
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  But then again, in the, in the very end of the Bible, in the
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  Book of Revelation, there's Mystery Babylon and it, there's
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  a lot of symbology obviously in Revelation.
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  So it's really, some parts are very hard to know for sure what
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  they mean. Other parts are explained within
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  the actual book. But what I was starting to get
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  to was that there seems to be some spiritual significance with
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  Babylon. It just, Babylon just keeps
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  emerging. And so I've, I've looked up a
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  lot of stuff about these ancient beliefs and all these
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  neighboring towns or neighboring nations and what they believed.
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  And I have mentioned this on prior podcasts, but Mystery
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  Babylon could be spiritual because there's Ishtar who is
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  called the quote Queen of Heaven.
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  And and then there's Inanna also.
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  And these are like ancient Mesopotamium gods.
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  And so I think there may be some significance to it.
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  So I'm going to just go through, I've opened a whole bunch of
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  tabs, some things that I looked up.
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  And so I will, I will read what it it says here.
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  So. Just in searching Google I said
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  what what does the Bible say will happen to Tyre Lebanon and
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  talked about the prophecies of destruction.
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  Ezekiel 26 describes God bringing quote many nations
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  against Tyre similar to the sea waves in Ezekiel 26.
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  Three, the mainland city would be destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar,
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  and the island city would later be ruined with its stones and
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  timber thrown into the sea. Never to be rebuilt or never be
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  rebuilt. Ezekiel 2614 and 21 state the
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  tire would become a place for the spreading of Nets and that
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  would never be rebuilt or found again.
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  Interpretation of Never be never rebuilt by scholars debate this
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  as a city exists there today. However, many interpret this as
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  a prophecy that Tyre would never again regain its former glory as
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  a commercial superpower and maritime trade monopolizing
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  empire. Historical fulfillment.
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  Critics argue that Nebuchadnezzar did not fully
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  destroy the city, but proponents point to Alexander the Great's
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  complete destruction in 332 BC, using the debris to build a
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  Causeway and subsequent repeated destructions as fulfillment of
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  the prophecy. While Tyre exists today as a
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  city in Lebanon, the biblical prophecy focused on the total
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  destruction of the ancient Phoenician power structure and
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  its enduring, never to be restored status as the dominant,
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  opulent and secure commercial center of the ancient world.
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  And then alternatively, it could be fulfilled in the future.
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  And there's a lot more about Tyre that's really gets
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  interesting that we'll get on get to later.
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  So Inana and Ishtar, this is very interesting.
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  So Inana and Ishtar are essentially the same powerful
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  Mesopotamium goddess, with Inana bringing her Sumerian name.
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  Or Inana was the Sumerian name, and Ishtar was the Acadian or
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  Babylonian name, representing a complex deity of love, sex,
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  fertility, and war, often identified with the planet
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  Venus. While originally distinct, they
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  were syncretized or merged by the Akkadians, but Inana's
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  origins are Sumerian Lady of Heaven, daughter of Moon God
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  Nana. While Ishtar's roots are
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  Semitic, she's a major figure in myths like the Epic of
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  Gilgamesh, known for her passionate dual nature as both
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  bringer of desire and destroyer in battle.
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  So I just think this is, it's very interesting when you see
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  the depictions of it and where it's been found and what they
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  worshipped. And you keep seeing Babylon over
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  and over again. And especially this part of the
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  Lady of Heaven or the Queen of Heaven that Ishtar was called
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  like the queen of heaven. And, and I think that's also
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  referenced here. Again, this is idolatry that God
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  forbid. And I don't know what these
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  entities are. And it could be something
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  spiritual. I I'm not really sure, could be
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  fallen angels, don't really know.
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  But it just seems like over and over again, there's like a
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  spirit of Babylon and that's just something that I was
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  noticing. And then there's a lot of things
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  that I had looked up about Babylon and and tired too.
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  But there's going to be something else.
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  Let's see something else. That was really interesting.
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  I might read that later. OK, this this kind of was
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  interesting to me and I just kind of stumbled on it.
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  The Crescent, star and symbol now commonly associated with
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  Islam has distinct roots in ancient Mesopotamium, Sumerian,
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  and Ottoman culture, where the Crescent represented the moon
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  God sin and the star symbolized the goddess of love and war,
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  Ishtar. Isn't that weird?
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  I didn't know this but I just looked it up that this Crescent
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  moon with the star was tied to the Pagan deity Ishtar.
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  And like I said, it seems like there's Ishtar and Inana.
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  It's very much tied to Babylon and it's also a false religion.
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  And so this is very interesting. So let's see when it says Ishtar
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  in context with Islam symbolism. While the Crescent and the star
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  are iconic to Islam, their origins are traced back to the
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  Sumerian, Byzantine and Roman eras, where eras where they were
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  associated with the deity Sin and Ishtar.
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  Let's see, paganism in Islam. The Arab Institution for Studies
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  and Publishing explains that Ishtar represents a Pagan pre
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  Islamic concept and the use of the name is prohibited in Islam.
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  I wonder if it's prohibited why they would actually use the
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  symbols though on a flag? That just seems where very
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  strange historical connection. Some theories suggest that the
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  pre Islamic S Arabian and Yemenite idolatry involved
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  figures like Aftar, an Arabic name for Ishtar.
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  And that's another one that was really interesting.
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  And this, this gets really deep when you think about it, because
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  so Yemen today is, I looked this up earlier and found out that
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  Sheba is modern day Yemen. And think about this, Solomon
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  was visited by the Queen of Sheba and she was impressed by
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  him. And she, it was just, is this a
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  coincidence or not? But she would paid him a certain
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  amount of money or a certain amount of I, I don't know what
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  the units were, but I think it was, I don't know if it was the
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  weight of them or if it was the number of them.
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  I, I looked it up earlier, but I don't.
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  But it's, I think it's like 666 talents was what Solomon was
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  received from the Queen of Sheba.
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  And so now we're seeing the Queen of Sheba connected with or
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  Sheba is Yemen. And then Yemen is Islamic and
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  the Islamic flag has a Crescent moon and a star which came from
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  Pagan deities and ties to Ishtar and Ishtar seems to tie to
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  Babylon. So this is just very strange.
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  Are all these coincidental or not religious differences?
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  The Quran and some interpretations condemns the
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  work worship of daughters of quote daughters of God Key
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  aspects of Ishtar identity. Ishtar was the Akkadian Assyrian
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  Babylonian goddess of love, war and fertility, often associated
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  with the Sumerian goddess. Inana titles she was known as
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  quote Queen of Heaven for the universe attributes she was
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  associated with the planet Venus as well as with lions and
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  storehouse gates cult. Her worship was widespread in
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  the ancient Middle East. So just something very
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  interesting that I came across. So when we talk about the in in
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  this chapter 26, it was talking about going down to the pit.
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  So I wanted to know like, is the pit the same as the abyss?
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  And it is believed that that it is so because it's also called
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  the bottomless pit. So the abyss.
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  The abyss, interestingly enough is where the beast comes up out
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  of the abyss in the Book of Revelation.
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  So I think this is interesting. So anyway, there's a good
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  summary that I found searching. This was in the Bible.
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  The abyss or bottomless pit and the lake of fire are distinct
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  locations, not the same place. The Abyss is a temporary prison
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  for demons and Satan according to Revelation chapter 20 verses
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  one through three, while the Lake of Fire is the final
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  eternal destination for Satan, demons and the wicked,
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  representing the second death. You can read about that in
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  Revelation 20 and 14 through 15. So the key differences between
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  the Abyss and the Lake of Fire. The Abyss is a bottomless pit,
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  often viewed as a temporary holding place or prison for
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  fallen angels and demons. Revelation describes Satan as
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  being bound there for 1000 years before being released.
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  That happens during the reign of Christ, the Lake of Fire,
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  described as a place of eternal punishment, burning with sulfur.
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  It is the final destination for the devil, his angels, the
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  fallen angels, the beast, the false prophet, and those not
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  found in the Book of Life. Timing.
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  The abyss is used before the final judgment during the
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  Millennium, whereas the lake of fire is the final judgment.
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  So both places represent places of punishment.
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  The Bible distinguishes them in function and timing.
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  And let's see if there's anything more that I've had so
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  many tabs open. I think I'm going to wrapped
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  this up. But that pretty much concludes
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  we're going to get to another really interesting chapter 27
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  because it it is another one that seems like and maybe
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  crossing back. I'm going to well, I'm going to
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  go back a little bit. Revelation 18 sounds like what
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  it verse or what chapter 26 talks about.
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  Let me just go to that because that was that was kind of
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  interesting. So it says they will take up a
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  lament concerning you and say to you, you were destroyed city of
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  renown people by men of the sea. You were a power on the seas,
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  you and your citizens you were. You put your terror on all who
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  live there. Now.
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  The coastlands tremble on the day of your fall.
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  The islands in the sea are terrified at your collapse.
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  So on the day, sometimes you know, the day of the Lord, I
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  think about that. But let's see here I'll read a
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  couple of verses from Revelation 18.
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  Verse 17 says in one such in one hour such great wealth has been
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  brought to ruin. Every sea captain and all who
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  travel by ship, the sailors and all who earn their living from
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  the sea will stand far off when they see the smoke of her
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  burning. This is talking about Mystery
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  Babylon. They will exclaim, was there
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  ever a city like this great city?
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  Now, great city is referred to as Babylon.
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  It's also referred to as Jerusalem.
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  It is called great city in the Book of Revelation, and it's
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  calling it similar to Sodom and Egypt, where we know that Sodom
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  was more like sexual immorality and Egypt was idolatry or false
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  gods. So you're having basically sex
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  and false gods, and that's what God was repeatedly upset with
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  his people for getting involved with that.
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  That's exactly how Balaam originally figured out how to he
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  couldn't curse the people of Israel.
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  So instead he suggested to Balak the king, the king of the
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  Ammonites, I think it was. This is from memory so I could
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  be very wrong on this but I did I have looked this up not too
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  long ago, but I I just I get names mixed up sometimes.
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  But anyway he Balaam then said to the king after he couldn't
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  curse the Israelites. He said, well, here's what you
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  can basically do. And he basically tempting them
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  with seduction and probably like temple prostitution.
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  And that's how he was able to get them to sin, get them to
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  into idolatry. So which again ties to this
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  goddess Ishtar Nainana, because she's with love and she's with
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  war and she's with destruction and could she be a spiritual
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  entity? And could she be something more
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  spiritual where she has places and it even says something about
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  her. In fact, maybe I should just
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  read Mystery Babylon, but I think it's going to it's going
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  to hit a little bit more in chapter 27.
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  So I might just save that for chapter 27 to talk about Mystery
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  Babylon because I think I'm a little bit tired tonight.
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  So anyway, I think I will wrap this up now because I'm
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  babbling. So anyway, we'll catch up on the
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  next chapter 27. Thank you.