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884. Bible Study: Zechariah 6 (Mountains of Bronze, Red, Black, White and Spotted Horse "Spirits", Joshua/Yeshua symbolism) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 6 from the book of Zechariah.
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This one probably has more questions than answers, but
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there are ties throughout the Bible, so I'll point those out
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as we get through. It's a short chapter, but
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there's a lot of talk, a lot to talk about.
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So let's get started with the prayer.
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Dear Lord, please let the Holy Spirit open our eyes and ears
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and give us wisdom and understanding from the vision
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that Zechariah saw and documented and let us learn from
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it. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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So this is titled 4 Chariots. I'm going to just read it all
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because it's a pretty short one, and then I'll come back and talk
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about each area. So I looked up again and there
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before me were 4 Chariots coming out from between two mountains,
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mountains of bronze. The first chariot had red
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horses, the second black, the third white, and the 4th
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dappled, all of them powerful. I asked the Angel who was
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speaking to me. What are these my Lord?
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The Angel answered me. These are the four spirits of
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heaven going out from standing in the presence of the Lord of
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the whole world. The one with the black horses is
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going toward the North Country, the one with the white horses
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toward the West, and the one with the dappled horses toward
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the South. When the powerful horses went
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out, they were straining to go throughout the earth, and he
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said go throughout the earth. So they went throughout the
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earth. Then he called to me, Look,
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those going towards the North Country have given my spirit
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rest in the land of the North. The next section is titled A
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Crown for Joshua. For understanding purposes, I
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guess the word of the Lord came to me.
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Take silver and gold from the Exiles Heldea, Tobaja and Jediya
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who have arrived from Babylon. Go the same day to the House of
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Josiah, son of Zephaniah. Take the silver and gold and
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make a crown and set it on the head of the high priest Joshua
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son of Josadac. Tell him this is what the Lord
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Almighty says. Here is the man whose name is
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the branch, and he will branch out from his place and build the
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temple of the Lord. It is he who will build the
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temple of the Lord, and he will be clothed with majesty and will
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sit and rule on His throne, and he will be a priest on his
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throne and there will be harmony between the two.
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The crown will be given to Heldaya Tobajaya Jedediah and
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Hen son of Zephaniah as a memorial in the temple of the
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Lord. Those who are far away will come
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and help to rebuild the temple of the Lord, and you will know
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that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you.
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This will happen if you diligently obey the Lord your
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God. And that's the end of chapter 6.
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So let's talk about it. I'll go through the study
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Bibles, questions and answers 1st.
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So chapter 6, the Do the colors of these horses have special
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meaning? The colored horses pulling the
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Chariots, which are symbols of power, suggest the powerful
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forces through which judgment comes Red for war, black for
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famine, white for triumph, and dappled for plague.
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And it's referencing Revelation 6 verses one through 8.
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And I want to pause right there because it could be and, and
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scripture does interpret scripture, but I also think
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that, you know, it's, we need to make sure that we understand
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this is an assumption. It's trying to make sense of
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what these are. The scripture clearly says that
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these Chariots of horses are four spirits of heaven.
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And multiple times we've seen spirits, horses being symbolized
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as spirits. In the 1st chapter of Zechariah,
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it talks about these horses and the man in the Myrtle, Myrtle
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trees. And those horses were the
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spirits that roamed the earth and report saw everything was at
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peace at that time. And, and then we see the four
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horses in the Book of Revelation that are tied to the four
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initial seals of Revelation and they are in a different order.
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So there's similarities and there's differences and, and
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there, yeah, there's lots of differences.
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So and the same thing for the book of the chapter 1 of
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Zechariah, because it said in Zechariah chapter one that the
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horses were, I believe read. Oh gosh, now I can't remember.
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I think it was sorrow colored and red.
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So they didn't match up with Revelation is the point I'm
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getting to and nor does this one match up with the Book of
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Revelation. So there are three that match
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up. Three that match up are red,
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white and black. But this 4th one in Zechariah 6
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is dappled or spotted, which is another interesting thing that
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I'll talk about a little bit more.
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But the one in the Book of Revelation is called a chloros
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color, which is like a lime green or a light green color, a
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green color, chloros meaning green.
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So it, it's different from the Hebrew word here that is used
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for the 4th horse, which is spotted and I'm going to talk
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more about that later. So again, it's, it's nice to
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have there's some similarities. The one thing we can say for
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sure based on Scripture is that these horses represent spirits.
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That's what we can say for sure what these spirits are.
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The meaning, obviously that this question and answer derived the
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meaning from is from the Book of Revelation because it says, you
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know, like the first, the White Horse goes out to conquer, then
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the red horse goes out in the seals.
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The red horse represents war, and then the Black Horse
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represents famine, according to this.
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But it's also like scarcity. It's just saying that things are
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super expensive. Like high inflation is the way I
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look at it, and scarcity does that.
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But it seems to me that it's really talking about inflation,
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like inflated prices for everything, because it's talking
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about how much of the transaction medium is required
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for something very basic. That's what it talks about in
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the Book of Revelation. So yes, scarcity leads to high
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prices at supply and demand, but ultimately it seems like it's
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inflation more so than famine. It doesn't talk about like
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starving people in that chapter, just talks about how expensive
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things are. And, and so again, this is just,
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you know, we should really carefully read Scripture and be
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careful about what has been, what is being taught or from
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people throughout the ages. It's, it's good to hear what
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they have to say and then compare it to Scripture and make
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sure that their assumptions match up with Scripture because
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we can learn a lot from that. It'll save us time and we'll
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say, oh, OK, that makes sense. But then there's other times
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where I think we can be LED astray.
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If we just listen to somebody's summation of what's going to
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happen and we're not looking at the actual word of God, we can
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miss it. We can see something that's not
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there or our minds, you know, will believe something that
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somebody told us rather than what's in literally in the
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Bible. So again, there's different
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horses that are in Zechariah 1, Zechariah 6, and the Book of
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Revelation, but there's similar horses that are in all three
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also. OK, so then what are these four
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spirits of heaven? The word translated spirits also
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means wins, perhaps suggesting that God's judgment will cover
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the whole world. Again, that's somebody's
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interpretation because when it talks about going out throughout
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the earth, that's what the translation, the NIV
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translation, says. But if you look at the Hebrew
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word, it's eris, which means it could mean the earth, but it
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could also just mean the land. So it could be a smaller scale
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or a broader scale, and Scripture doesn't really clarify
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that yet. It just says over the land.
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So this could be localized. We don't know.
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All right, what happened to the red horse?
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We don't know. It may be that God is holding
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some judgement in reserve, or it could be that when symbolism is
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used, all details do not necessarily have to fade
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together logically. Well, I think God is a God of
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order, and I think that maybe he just didn't.
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It wasn't part of what he was expressing to them at that time.
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And I don't, I don't know, but we can't make assumptions on
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God. When the powerful horses went
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out, they were straining to go throughout the earth.
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Actually, I don't know why I started reading that.
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Why did God's Spirit find rest in the north?
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The North Country speaks of Babylon.
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Again, this is an assumption in the Bible because of the way.
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Well, here in the Bible, Babylon often represents the rule of
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evil. This may mean that God's Spirit
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found peace because Babylon was finally judged.
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OK, that's an interpretation. Again, the assumption that this
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is Babylon. Babylon was actually to the east
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of Israel, I guess the northeast.
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But the way that the landscape, the way that the earth is
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formed, they always had to come down through the north, just
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like Assyria came down through the north.
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So it's like the enemies came to attack Israel from the north,
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typically because of the way the land is structured.
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And that was the way they came in.
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So it, it could be that, but it could also mean literally what
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it says. Now, why wouldn't it necessarily
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mean that? It could be the I'll give you
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some reasons why too. Why, why is it not that it's
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thought to be either somewhere in the Mediterranean and perhaps
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Turkey that's coming. I don't know.
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Just a thought that needs to be explored.
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So don't automatically think it's Babylon.
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Consider that it might be a Syria and part of Assyria.
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Ancient Assyria was Turkey. So we just need to keep our
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minds open because I think that's what happened when Jesus
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arrived the first time is that the teachers were teaching
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something and therefore the people didn't see the truth when
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he actually arrived because the teachers were saying, no, that's
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not it, He's not the Messiah. All this stuff.
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Well, we don't want to have teachers telling us things that
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make us miss the truth about God.
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So that's another reason why it's important to be in the Word
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and to also do a deep dive, especially when it comes to
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prophecy, into the original Hebrew, to really understand it
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and also looking throughout the Bible to see where there's some
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similarities or something. So who were Heldaya, Tobajaya,
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and Jediaya? These men were presumably envoys
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from the Jews who had remained in Babylon.
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We know nothing else about them. Who is the branch?
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The Messiah, the servant of God, called the branch to suggest the
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fruitfulness of his life. The same analogy for the Messiah
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was used by other prophets as well in Isaiah chapter 4 verse 2
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and Jeremiah chapter 23 verse 5. How or could a priest also be a
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king in Israel? Priest had to belong to the
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tribe of Levi. Kings were to come from the line
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of David, from the tribe of Judah.
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A priest, therefore could not also be a king.
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This was apparently a symbolic statement that pointed to the
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Messiah. Who was It says who was prophet,
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priest and king. I'd say who is prophet, priest
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and king? So why give the crown to four
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men? This was a symbolic action.
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The crown was given in their name to be put on display as a
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memorial in the temple, a sign of their alliance with the Jews
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in Jerusalem. Perhaps this also implies that
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everyone near and far can participate in the blessings of
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the Messiah. And the reference for that is
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Genesis 12 verse 3 and Matthew 28 verse 19.
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So that is the summation of everything that's in the in the
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study Bible for this particular chapter.
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Now we'll get into things that I've discovered in reading this.
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So we'll go back to the very first verse, which says there
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were 4 Chariots coming out from between two mountains, mountains
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of bronze. Well, as far as we know, there
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aren't any solid bronze mountains out there.
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So again, this is a vision and it's probably symbolic.
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And then we can look in the Bible and say like where was
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bronze talked about before? And we go back to Daniel, who
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was another prophet in chapter 2.
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Verses 35 and 45 talk about this.
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This happened to be King Nebuchadnezzar's dream that
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Daniel asked God for the interpretation of it and found
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out that the bronze was representative of a Kingdom.
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So we know that it was like the, the, I think it was the 3rd
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Kingdom that was shown to Nebuchadnezzar in his dream.
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And, and that's significant. I'm going to go back to a sketch
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that I have in my study Bible, which is helpful.
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So it's the yes, it's the third Kingdom.
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And in vision 2, it's the belly and thighs of bronze.
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So that is like the third Kingdom.
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And, and that was a clarification.
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So we know that bronze represents a Kingdom in Daniel's
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vision in Chapter 7, this third, the beast that is shown is a
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leopard. Now that's really interesting
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because it's a leopard is spotted.
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OK. And then we get to a vision in
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chapter 8, which is a ram and a goat.
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And this is talked about like a lot of people talk about this.
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Oh gosh, I forgot the name of him that Alexander the Great and
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everybody says it's Alexander the Great.
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Well, Alexander the Great could have been a foreshadowing of the
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future because it does say that the, I guess it's the Angel
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explains to Daniel that don't worry about this right now.
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This is this is, you know, at the time of the end.
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So it talks about this battle between the goat and the ram.
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And if then if we look at the empires that were connected with
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these, we see that the Ram represents Iran.
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And it also within that vision it was explained that the Ram
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represented the Medes and the Persians.
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And maybe that's why there were the two horns.
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It was the Medes and the Persians combined together
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perhaps, and that was a Kingdom that reigned between 6539 BC to
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330 BC. Then after that, the one who
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succeeded, and that's why Alexander the Great gets brought
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into was the goat. The goat triumphed over the land
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and Alexander the Great made a lot of progress.
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And and so that does support this, this thought because this
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was the Kingdom and he and they reigned from 3:30 BC until 146
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BC. And it's often called the
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Grecian Empire. But if you look at the Bible, it
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talks about Yavon and that's the name of the area.
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And Yavon is actually a modern day Turkey and Greece, the
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Mediterranean, the Mediterranean area, like all of the coastal
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lands of the Mediterranean were included in that territory of
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Yavon. And, and The thing is that I, I
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just wonder why, you know, Turkey gets left out because
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everybody thinks about Greece instead of thinking about, well,
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Turkey, the land of Turkey was part of that Anatolia.
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And so it's, I think it's very important that we remember that,
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that Turkey is part of this. So if we have a, a side, if we
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just compare these, the 3rd Kingdom, could you know, it's a
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combination of Greece and Turkey, modern day.
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And this represents the bronze and it's the leopard and it's
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the goat. And and then we can see that the
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bronze is a mountain. Now a mountain is a literal
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mountain often in the Bible, but then in prophecy, it's often
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significant of something strong. And I, I believe this is my
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interpretation that it's something spiritual that there
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is, you know, in fact, I think at one point it was talked about
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Satan himself. And then it's also talking about
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that Jesus will be the final mountain, like he is going to
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succeed over everything, have victory over everything.
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And so I think it's like it's something spiritual and it could
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also be tied to different lands. In fact, this just came to my
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mind as I'm talking. I'm thinking about the
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description of Mystery Babylon and it says she sits on 7
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mountains and they talk about hills.
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Well, what if it's like 7 spirits?
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What if there are 7 spiritual things?
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And what if those seven spiritual things are those seven
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nations that we just talked about in the last chapter, like
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the Hivites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, all
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of those ites? You know that that we reference
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because it was this is when God let Israel triumph over them and
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he said Israel triumphed over them.
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They were seven nations that were stronger.
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So does this tie back? Is there symbolism?
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Is there a spirit behind those seven different countries that
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were referenced a long time ago? And could that be this like
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Mystery Babylon prostitute that sits on these hills like that
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she is like over somehow, like, you know, overseeing these
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different entities Because Paul talks about in Ephesians chapter
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6, verse 12, about how our Russell is not against flesh and
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blood, but it's against the powers and the principalities in
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the heavenly realms, the powers of darkness in the heavenly
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realms. And and so they have.
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And again, the Book of Enoch, which we can't rely on fully,
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but it does say that there were angels who disobeyed God and
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interacted with human beings and created the Nephilim, which were
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the people of these seven nations.
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Because it talks about that's where the giants were.
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The Nephilim were these things. And that's when that's why God
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said, wipe them out. Everybody says, well, why would
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a God, you know, of love tell somebody like Saul wipe out
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everybody? Well, it's because they were the
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offspring of the fallen angels. That's why the flood happened,
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happened because of the fallen angels that were corrupting
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mankind, making it impossible for people to be in God's
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Kingdom in the future. Because they were corrupted even
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more than sin. They were corrupted by angelic
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beings and they were kind of deformed.
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They were giants. They were unusual people.
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They were, there was something wrong with them.
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They had one said it had, they had six fingers.
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So there was not, it was probably like an abomination to
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God. This is not what God created.
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This was a, a mixing of genetics that should have never happened.
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It was never God's intention. And yet the evil ones thought
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we're going to destroy mankind. So God put an end to it.
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And that's why the flood happened.
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He's like, I'm going to wipe out all of the these evil plans, yet
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my, my will prevails. And I'm going to do it this way
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through Noah and his family. So evil is always coming against
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God and thinking that it's going to succeed, but it's not because
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God is God. He's the creator.
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He is the most powerful and these this is deception.
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I don't know if why it seems so stupid.
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It seems like there's no wisdom here why anyone would even ever
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try that. So anyway, let's get back to the
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scripture bronze. So bronze could very well
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represent, and again, this is an assumption, it's just based on
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scripture, based on Daniel's visions, but it could perhaps
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represent Turkey or Greece or something in the Mediterranean.
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And this is very similar to what Daniel, I'm going to read
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something that Daniel 2:45. This is the meaning of the
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vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human
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hands. A rock that broke the iron, the
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bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold. 2 pieces.
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The great God has shown the king what will take place in the
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future. This dream is true and its
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interpretation is trustworthy. So this is about Jesus.
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Jesus is the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human
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hands. The rock that broke the the rock
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that had victory over the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver
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and the gold. All of those materials were in
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that statue that Nebuchadnezzar dreamed of, but it was this rock
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that just shattered them to pieces and this will be the
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final Kingdom. So in Daniel chapter 2 verse 35,
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it says then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the
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gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a
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refreshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without
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leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the
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statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.
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That's Jesus. He became the huge mountain, the
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huge spiritual strength that filled the whole earth.
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So it it seems to me that the book of Daniel chapter 2 and
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other chapters of visions makes helps us understand this
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perhaps, but we just have to remember exactly what the
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scripture says in chapter 6 and and then, you know, just keep
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our eyes open and watch for these things.
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So it says that there were these Chariots, which we know that the
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those are actually the four spirits of heaven, because the
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Angel clarifies that in this chapter.
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So these are spirits and they come out between the two
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mountains, the mountains of bronze.
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So what does that mean coming out between?
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I don't know. I don't know.
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It's just that's what it says. Right in the middle of those
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mountains comes out these Chariots, and these are the four
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horses, chariot horses, and they're red, black, white, and
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dappled. So red, black, and white match
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up with the Book of Revelation, but they are not in the same
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order. So in this one there, the
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chariot had red horses, and that typically represents war from
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Revelation. It does not typically, but
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that's where you find war. The second black, and again I
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think it's scarcity or inflation.
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This talks about famine. The third is the white, which
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the Book of Revelation talks about a conquest.
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So it seems like war and then scarcity or inflation and then
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the conquest. So that would make sense if you
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would go out in that order, first you'd have war, the war
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would create the scarcity, make everything very expensive, and
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then third, you would be able to conquest.
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Now the 4th, the dappled is, is something that we learned about
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the only other time where this word is used because I looked it
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up in the Hebrew and it is used four times in the Bible.
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And this references Jacob in a dream.
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So I want to read that to you like Genesis 31, chapter 31 in
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breeding season. I once had a dream in which I
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looked up and saw that the male goats mating with the flock were
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streaked, speckled, or spotted. So the male goats mating with
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the flock. So that's kind of interesting.
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And maybe there's some symbolism.
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Often times I've found that a literal story has symbolic
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meaning because this actually a multiple symbolic meaning.
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So and then in verse 12 it says, and he said, look up and see
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that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked,
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speckled or spotted. For I have seen all that Laban
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has been doing to you. Now this is God talking to
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David. And I'll just give you like a
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summary of what that story was about.
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South Jacob's dream in chapter 31, verses 10 through 13
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signified divine intervention to ensure his prosperity despite
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Laban's repeated attempts to defraud him of his wages.
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The dream revealed that God not just peeled Roz, not just the
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peeled rods, because that's what he thought.
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He, I think he put some sticks in their feet or something like
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that, caused the spotted, speckled and streaked animals to
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mate, demonstrating God's sovereignty, faithfulness to His
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promise, and protection over Jacob.
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So divine intervention versus human effort.
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While Jacob used striped branches to influence the
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breeding, the dream confirms that God was the true 'cause of
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the increase in livestock protection against injustice.
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God used the dream to show how wait to show He saw how Laban
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had mistreated Jacob and was correcting the injustice.
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Fulfillment of the covenant The dream confirmed God's promise to
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bless Jacob, similar to the covenant made with Abraham and
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Isaac. Guidance to return.
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The dream was part of a message directing Jacob to return to his
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homeland. Theology of the unwanted.
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The spotted and speckled animals were considered less desirable,
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highlighting how God blesses what is overlooked or rejected.
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I mean that just shows the the how beautiful and loving God is
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and the sovereignty of God as well.
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So here we see that this horse is dappled.
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It's spotted. So you know, what is the
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significance of that? The only thing that we see is
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that, you know, the 4th horse. I mean that just shows God's
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sovereignty like God is God is behind this.
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That's what the way I interpret it.
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So all of them powerful. And so we know that these are
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spirits and they come from the presence of the Lord.
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That's confirmed in verse 5. Then we just have those colors
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now, the black ones. If that's scarcity, if that's
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inflation, that's going towards the North Country.
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Now it says country here. So it doesn't say like the
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entire earth. So I think that the the way the
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NIV interprets it when it says they're going out through all
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the earth, it probably means the land.
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So this is probably more localized than global.
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And and then we have the white going towards the West and the
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dappled towards the South. Now the red is not mentioned.
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So don't really know what is happening there.
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But it's it's kind of like, is this referring because of the
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bronze mountains? Is this referring to Greece and
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Anatolia or modern day Turkey? Is it referring to that?
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And if they come from between those two mountains and they go
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north, is that talking about like Russia or something further
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north where there's going to be scarcity or famine or something
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like that? I don't know.
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Like we just have to be aware of what Scripture says.
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And then the white horses going towards the West so that again,
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you know, you need to is, is this talking?
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Is this using Israel as the basis point?
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And if so, the land of the north could be the Mediterranean,
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could be Turkey if if we're starting from Israel, but I
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don't know. And then going towards the white
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horses, going towards the West, would that be like, you know,
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what areas geographically? So I don't know.
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But it, it, I think we have to look at a map and then also
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figure out if this was something that has multiple fulfillments
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or, you know, what countries were actually involved.
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But what we do know is there's something spiritual happening
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from the text and there's multiple horses that represent
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different things in the Book of Revelation that are going out.
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And this was a vision that was given to Zechariah.
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So then we get to the part about Joshua.
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And even though this is a chapter 6, this is not like this
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is a continuation of chapter two, I think, or Chapter 1
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maybe. Yeah, Chapter 1, because this
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like, is a very long vision. And then I looked up and then I
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saw this, and then I saw that and it.
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So this goes all the way back to Chapter 1 and and we're on
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chapter 6. So these are all the things he
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saw in that vision. And if we remember back in the
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earlier chapters, it said that Joshua and Zerubabel, Joshua was
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the high priest, Zerubabel was the governor.
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They were symbolic of things to come.
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So they were they were literal men at that time, but they were
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symbolic of things. So that's how we get the
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interpretation that the branch is the Messiah is Jesus.
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And again, Joshua in Hebrew is Yeshua.
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Jesus's name is Yeshua. The name Jesus came because of
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phonetics and it should have just been translated Yeshua, but
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it wasn't. So we we get misunderstandings
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or we lack the comprehension when translations are a bit off.
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Like people are doing their best to translate into multiple
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languages, but there's a little bit something missing.
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So that's why it's so important to go back to the original
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Hebrew or Greek. I mean, it would be great to go
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back to the original Hebrew, but I think a lot of those were
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destroyed for the New Testament. However, I believe some recently
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have been found and some are going through the New Testament
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to see if they're, you know, testing them to see if they're
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originals or if they're maybe copied from Greek and then
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translated back to Hebrews. So there's questions about that
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too. But what most of the Bibles are
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based on is Hebrew and Greek. Greek for the New Testament and
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Hebrew for the old. But blueletterbible.org is a
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great resource to explore deeper in Scripture so where you can go
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back to those original translations or not
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translations, but original languages.
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So anyway, this crown, you know it for it tells about like
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what's going to eventually happen with Jesus when he
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returns. He's going to be crown king over
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the entire world, though, not just an area over the entire
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world. And and so I see why, because
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this was a, you know, a was symbolic of things to come.
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I see why the Jewish people believe the Messiah is going to
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build the temple because that's what chapter 6, verse 12 says.
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Here is the man whose name is the branch, and he will branch
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out from his place and build the temple of the Lord.
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It is he who will build the temple of the Lord, and he will
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be clothed with majesty and will sit and rule on his throne, and
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he will be a priest on his throne now and he will be
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crowned. So this is a priest who is going
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to, you know, be crowned. And but we had during that time,
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we had Joshua and Zerubabel. Zerubabel and Joshua was the
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high priest and Zerubabel was more like the king.
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And as we read in the questions and answers, there's two
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different lines. There's the Levitical line and
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there's the tribe of Judah. Now, what's interesting in my
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mind is how maybe they can be both and I haven't researched
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this, but the Levites were allowed to live within each of
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the 12 tribes. They didn't have their own land,
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so they were dispersed. So there were Levites in the
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tribe of Judah. So perhaps that's how Jesus, I
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don't know. I mean, like, just curious if
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that, you know, he was certainly from the the line of David, but
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was he also from the line of the Levites?
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Just a question that popped into my head right now while I'm
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talking about this. But anyway, so David was the
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king, the king, the kingly line, which would be like the
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Zerubbabel, the governor of the government.
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But then we also have to remember that he was, he was
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Incarnate from the Holy Spirit. So there's, there's no higher
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priest than that, there's no higher anointing than the Spirit
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of God. So that could be what the
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blending is of the true Messiah, Jesus, Jesus Christ.
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So anyway, I think that wraps it up for what we were going to
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