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688. Bible Study: Hosea 12 (Israel's sin, Syria, Egypt) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 12 from Hosea. Dear God, please be with us as
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we read through this chapter and give us wisdom and insight in
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Jesus name, Amen. Ephraim feeds on the wind.
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He pursues the east wind all day and multiplies lies and
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violence. When I read through this I
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thought about Ephraim feeds on the wind.
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Now the Study Bible has commentary on it, and it does
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makes sense what the study Bible says, but I also wonder
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sometimes when we read these things, if we have the
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translations right, because Ephraim feeds on the wind.
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The wind in Hebrew is Rua, which can mean air, and it can also
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mean the Spirit. So a lot of these things are
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metaphors like Ephraim feeds on the wind or Ephraim feeds on the
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Spirit. And I don't, you know, it's not
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God's Spirit because this is like idolatry that Ephraim's got
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become wrapped up in. And I also think it's
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interesting and it's speculation to bring this up, but if you
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take a, you know, you trace Ephraim back where Ephraim came
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from. Now Ephraim is a tribe of
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people, but if you trace it, trace it back to the beginning.
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We go all the way back to Joseph, who was a son, one of
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the 12 tribes. And then Joseph had two sons,
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Ephraim and Manasseh, Joseph's wife, the mother of the two
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sons, was the daughter of Potiphar of the city of On.
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The city of On is also called Heliopolis and it is in Egypt.
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And Joseph had he was at that time, he was like second in
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command to the Pharaoh and he ended up saving his the rest of
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the family in a famine. I mean, it goes into a long
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story, but if we trace it back to Joseph, he was one of the
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original 12 sons that created the tribes.
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Now on his father's deathbed, he then gave so Jacob, who was
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changed his God changed his name to Israel.
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So on Jacob or Israel's deathbed, he gave the
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inheritance of Joseph to his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh.
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And so they kind of took the place of Joseph for some reason,
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and I don't really understand why.
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I probably will have to read that again to find out why.
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But Ephraim in the in this part of Hosea is really the one.
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I mean, it just, it says Ephraim so often.
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I mean, there's a lot of like, I don't know if anger's not the
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right word, but a lot of disappointment maybe in what
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Ephraim does. And it says Ephraim feeds on the
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wind. He pursues the east wind all day
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and multiplies lies and violence.
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He made makes a treaty with Assyria and sends olive oil to
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Egypt. Now, is this a spiritual thing?
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Is it more of a spiritual implication or I think it also
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has has a basis in reality as well.
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So it's he sends olive oil to Egypt.
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Well, it's kind of interesting because his mother was from
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Egypt. So you could see how the tribe,
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you know, like there would be that familiality, that familial
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status, I guess with some of the people of Egypt, there's there's
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ancestry there. There's a connection there to
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the people of Ephraim it as there is to the people of
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Manasseh, because they were brothers and they were born from
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an Egyptian mother and the the her father who was the priest of
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on it wasn't a God fearing priest.
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He worshipped so I think Asura astronaut.
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I forgot I forgot her name now Anyway, the mom, she her father,
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who was the priest of an or Heliopolis.
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They they worshipped the sun God RA and he was supposedly the
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creator. So it's like a demonic entity is
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what I, what I draw from other parts of the Bible that all of
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these like false gods are actually, you know, other
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entities that are claiming to be God and deceiving people.
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So they are teamed up in my mind with Satan.
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Maybe they are Satan who Satan can take on.
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You know, Satan can appear as an Angel of light as something
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good, but he's really darkness and he wanted to be worshipped.
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So when God allowed him authority to some degree over
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the earth for a period of time, it seems like he really took
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advantage of that and is making people worship him like Baal and
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all of these other things. In fact, what they worshipped in
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in I guess what they worshipped in Assyria was Asher, Ishtar,
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Inanna, Marduk. These are all different gods
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that they worshipped. And I just speculate and wonder
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if the Book of Enoch is true. And these watchers who were
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supposed to look over mankind, but then decided to do their own
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thing rather than listen to God. And they taught humans different
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things they were supposed to do. Their fallen angels, they're
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being punished for that, you know, did they, did they teach
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angels that they were gods? You know, I mean, did they teach
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people that they were gods? Did these angels, these fallen
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angels? Again, that's just speculation,
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but there was some some interaction with heavenly angels
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that were disobedient to God and human beings.
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And we can go back to Genesis. I think it's chapter 6 where it
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talks about them actually having relations, like sexual relations
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and their offspring were called Nephilim.
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And those were the giants of the old of the old days, like one
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that talks about David fighting the giant Goliath.
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I mean, these were people that were I think like 13 feet tall
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like that and they had like there was some deformities about
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him, like they had multiple more fingers or this one, that
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Goliath that he was in a battle with had more fingers than
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normal or something. I think that was noted in the
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Bible. But anyway, these were like
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literal things that happened. It wasn't just a story.
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This was actually an anomaly because they weren't really
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fully human. They were part angelic being.
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And the Bible does say that it's not just a made-up story.
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It's it's found in Genesis 6. So I wonder if you know, the
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spiritual realm, we just don't fully understand and it's
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invisible. We don't see these things taking
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place. But however, angels can also
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appear. So there's like spirits and then
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there's angels who can appear like human beings.
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They aren't like what we see depicted.
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Angels are mostly when I see them in the Bible, they are
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meant they are male. They are not female and they
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don't have wings necessarily, I guess unless you're talking
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about cherubim. I think those are a type of
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Angel that have wings. But often it talks about these
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people. I mean, they just look like
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people and, and, and I think it's the book of Hebrews, but
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I'm not sure where it says to essentially be kind to strangers
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or show hospitality to strangers.
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Because in doing so, you may have actually entertained an
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Angel and didn't even know that you did.
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So angels can appear like human beings and of course, the way
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they're drawn or illustrated, it always shows them like we'd
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really know what an Angel was because it had wings and it was
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all, you know, it looked like a female and it was in this like
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Romanesque looking, you know, dress thing.
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That's not what the Bible describes at all.
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And and so anyway, there's there's a lot of mystery that is
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about the spiritual realm. But the weird thing that I see
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is that these certain land areas do seem to be controlled to some
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degree by spiritual entities. And when the Bible says we
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wrestle not, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
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against the principalities of the spiritual realms and the
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darkness. And I don't know, I need to
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memorize that verse, but essentially it, it sounds like
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there's certain principalities are divided up lands that are
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governed by different authorities.
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Even Daniel in his, one of his one of the chapters of the book
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of Daniel, he said that this Angel comes to, I think it's the
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Angel Michael comes to him and says word was sent to you right
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away. But I was held up by Persia and
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that nobody is fighting for Israel essentially except for
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Michael. Michael is their Angel, is their
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Archangel. I don't know their Angel who
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supports them, but he's like in the spiritual realm battle with
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these other entities. And Persia was named.
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And so Persia is modern day Iran.
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And we think about Israel and Iran relations, you know, and
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it's Michael and the the spiritual entity over Persia.
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So it seems like there are these like God gives authority, he is
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very orderly. It seems like he does have some
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spiritual principalities that are in control over certain
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areas for a period of time. And, and God appoints leaders
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and he takes them away and sometimes he uses them for
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discipline on his children, to discipline the those he loves so
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that they turn in repentance and they don't stray from him.
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However, he doesn't force them to do that because everybody
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still has free will and can choose what they ever whatever
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they want to choose. So God, and that's what you
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would have to do with love. You can't force somebody to love
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you. So God can't force us to love
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him. It has to be our own choice to
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do that. So here's what the study Bible
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says about. How did Ephraim feed on the
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wind? Hosea was using imagery to point
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to illusion, emptiness, or something without a purpose.
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The. The reference to east wind has
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two meanings #1A desert wind of very little value, and two, an
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allusion to Israel's desire to petition Assyria rather than God
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for help. Instead of feeding on her
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covenant with the Lord, Israel turned away and fed on a
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covenant with the Syria and Egypt, a decision that was
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doomed to fail and would lead to punishment, especially because
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they were worshipping other entities, not gods.
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OK, the Lord has a charge to bring against Judah.
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So now they're talking about the tribe of Judah.
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He will punish Jacob. Now Jacob is really like both of
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the tribes according to his. When I say both of the tribes I
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mean both of the kingdoms North and South Kingdom according to
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his ways and repay him according to his deeds.
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In the womb he grasped his brother's heel.
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Now this is actually referring to Jacob.
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So in the womb he grasped his brother's heel.
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That was Esau and as a man he struggled with God, He struggled
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with the Angel and overcame him. So that was on this.
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He did have a that's when his name was changed to Israel.
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Jacob met some and I guess messenger of God and wrestled
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with him and he, his like hip was injured as a result of that.
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But he wouldn't let go until he was blessed and then his name
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became Israel at that point. That's when his name became
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Israel. And I didn't look up to see
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where there was. That has to be in Genesis.
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So and then it says he wept and begged for his favor.
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That's what I was just talking about.
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He found him at Bethel and talked with him there.
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The Lord God Almighty, the Lord is his name.
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So I wondered, when did Jacob, you know, meet God there?
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And so that's also where that Angel comes into play.
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Like, is it an Angel? Is it actually Jesus?
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I don't, I don't know because sometimes Jesus is referred to
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as the Angel of God, but he's not the Angel.
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I don't know. It's just like the the
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messenger. I guess the way it that has to
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do with the translations. The messenger, messenger of God.
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So anyway, in Genesis chapter 28, verses 10 through 22, Jacob
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has a dream of a stairway and God reaffirms his covenant with
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Israel at that point. So that's where it talks about
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he found him at Bethel. That's where it happened.
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That's where he had that dream. He set his head down on a rock
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and then had the stream and saw angels ascending and descending
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on the stairway that was going into heaven.
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So then going back to Scripture. But you must return to your God,
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maintain love and justice, and wait for your God always.
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So scripture often tells us to wait for God.
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And we as human beings tend to be impatient and we want what we
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want as soon as we can get it. We are not patient.
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We want it now, even as as little kids we're really bad.
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And I guess over time we, we get a little bit more patient.
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But that's a really hard thing to wait on God, especially when
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you feel like you've been waiting a long time and it's not
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happening. But the Bible does tell us to
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wait on God, and it also gives us examples of bad things that
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happen when we don't wait on God.
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One of those things was Sarah, who God told her the Angel, and
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it might have been even Jesus actually, who was there because
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it was the Lord and two angels that were present before that
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came to visit to look at Sodom and Gomorrah and see if it was
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as bad as it was. And during that time, Abraham
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and Sarai were there and he shared with her that within a
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year's time, I think it was within a year's time.
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Now I'm getting a little bit confused on the details, but he
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had at one time told them they were going to have a child.
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And I think Sarah might have been like 90 or eventually when
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she did have a child and she didn't believe him.
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And because it had taken so long, she had offered her, her
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assistant Hagar to and, and thought, OK, God's taken a long
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time. Maybe it wasn't meant.
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Maybe Abraham, you know, he's supposed to have these
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descendants as numerous as the stars.
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Then perhaps maybe I need to have a substitute to, you know,
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get the babies coming. And, you know, that's just
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really strange that she would think that.
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And maybe there was some spiritual influence there, too,
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where she wasn't going to wait on God.
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And so then she offered her servant Hagar, who slept with
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Abraham and had a child. And that child was Ishmael.
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And actually, that is what has been causing all of this turmoil
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in the Middle East because there is a, you know, there is a
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struggle with Ishmael being quote, the first born, but that
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wasn't God's intention. That was human beings taking
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things into their own hands. And it does in the Bible.
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It clears it up later because the blessing was given to
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Abraham's descendants. And then if you search in the
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Bible, it specifically says that it was given to Isaac and not to
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Ishmael. However, Ishmael was going to be
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made a mighty warrior, but he was going to live in hostility
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to his brother all the time. So there there is that that
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hostility that continues between Ishmael and Isaac and the
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descendants of them. So I mean this, if you want to
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know everything about what's going on in the Middle East,
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just study the Old Testament and you'll see why.
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And this is perpetuated forever. It really has.
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Since this is never ended, we will not have peace in the
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Middle East until Jesus returns. There's going to be a fake
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peace, but it's just not because the Bible prophecies that there
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is going to be a fake peace. People will think they are is
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safe in safety and security and then will come sudden
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destruction. So that's what Bible prophecy
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tells us and people will think that it's going to happen.
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But again, let's get back to waiting on God because that
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applies to us today, that we should wait on God.
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Wait for your God always. And in fact, if somebody has
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done wrong to you, God says the vengeance is mine.
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We don't need to provide vengeance on anybody else.
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We don't need to do that. That is just wait on God, pray
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about it, wait on God. And if we don't, things don't go
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well typically. And look at the turmoil that
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it's caused in this world. Look at all the wars, all the
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conflicts that have been caused because of Ishmael and Isaac.
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That's all that's that's the rooted the root of all of what's
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happening in Israel can be traced back to that.
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There is that that conflict, the disagreement by there.
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But if the Word of God is studied, it's very clear where
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God said it was to Isaac, and then it was passed on from Isaac
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to his descendants. And it's Jacob.
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You know, Jacob received the blessing, and Jacob was named
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Israel. So it's Israel who received the
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blessing in accordance with the Bible that was written thousands
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of years ago. OK, so let's go back to the
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scripture. The merchant uses dishonest
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scales and loves to defraud. Ephraim boast.
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I am very rich. I have become wealthy with all
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my wealth. They will not find in me any
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inequity or sin. I have been I have been the Lord
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your God ever since you came out of Egypt.
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So this is talking about, you know, Ephraim, that you know,
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God has been when they came out of Egypt, they came out of
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slavery and he was the Lord their God at that point.
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I will make you live in tents again as in the days of your
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appointed festivals. So when I read that, I was
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thinking, I wonder if this is what he they're talking about.
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I mean, it could have a different meaning.
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But what about Sukkot like Earth Feast or the Festival of
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Tabernacles? That's when the Israelites, you
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know, camp out in tent structures or they have like
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different structures that they use to commemorate this time
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period when they were wandering around in the wilderness for 40
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days and nights. And God provided them before
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they reached the promised Land, and they were in that land for
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40 years because they kept disobeying God.
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So it was kind of like a testing period, a training period when
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God was trying to reach them, when he was trying to do
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something with them. And, and I think that's
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something else that we should remember is that when our
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delayed blessings happen, it's probably because we are not
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ready for them, that God needs to do more work within us.
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So when we are not getting what we want, then that means there's
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something else that has to happen before that occurs.
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Because God is a good God and he's a good giver and he wants
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to bless, He wants to give us things.
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But sometimes maybe we are not ready for those things.
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And God needs to do some work in us.
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The Holy Spirit needs to do some work in us, or the Holy Spirit
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needs to do some work elsewhere. And so that's why there is a
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delay. OK, going back to Scripture
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again, let's see. So we talked about I will make
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you live in tents again, as in the days of your appointed
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festivals, I spoke to the prophets, gave them many visions
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and told parables through them. So throughout this time, God,
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throughout all of the Bible, God uses visions and prophecy and
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dreams for in communicating with various people.
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And usually when this happens, there is a common message.
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And the common message is turn to God, turn away from sin, turn
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to God. You see that repeated over and
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over and there's usually warnings and then there's also
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encouragement of blessings that will current come if you do what
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God wants you to do, that there's a promise of goodness if
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you can turn to God, if you can repent.
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So is Gilead wicked? It's people are worthless.
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Do they sacrifice bulls and gilgal?
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Their altars will be like piles of stone on a plowed field.
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Jacob fled to the country of Arum.
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Aram is also a Syria. Like I'm not a Syria, it's a
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part of Syria. And Assyria is also a part of
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Syria or some part of Turkey too.
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It was a much larger land area back in the time.
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But Jacob fled to the country of Aram, which is modern day Syria.
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Israel served to get a wife and to pay for her.
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He tended sheep. So as the custom was, he did
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this for Rachel. He actually worked for 14 years.
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He worked seven years to get Rachel, his wife.
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But then her father slipped in the the older daughter.
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And then he had to work another seven years to get Rachel.
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So Leah was slipped in first and then Rachel.
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I mean, talk about family drama. That was, you know, again, that
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wasn't God's will because God pointed out that Rachel was
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supposed to be his wife. And I think it was Rachel.
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I'm getting, I get these stories about Rachel and Rebecca mixed
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up all the time. I don't know if it's because
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they're ours. And then also Isaac and Israel.
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I do get their stories mixed up and and I think maybe I can't
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remember who was the one that had the those watering was at
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the, you know, watering at the watering hole.
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I think it was Isaac sent for his son Jacob to have a wife.
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So I think it's Jacob and Rebecca and or Rachel.
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Sorry, Rachel, I did it again. So Jacob and Rachel.
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So I, I believe Rachel was the one at the watering hole and a
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servant went out and he asked God to identify the woman who
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should be Jacob's wife by having her offer his camel water in
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addition to him because she was at the well.
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And that's what happened. So that's how the servant knew
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that Rachel was the one that God intended.
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So again, human beings kind of messed this all up.
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But God works with the things that people do.
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So it was intended that Jacob and Rachel would be married.
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God didn't intend multiple wives.
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But what happened was the father of Rachel, if I were Rachel, I'd
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probably be upset with the father also.
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But the father threw in Leah because she was the older one
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and she wasn't married yet. So she needed by custom I guess,
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to get married first. So then he's and then the father
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says, well, you, you can work another seven years and then you
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can have Rachel. So he ended up with two wives
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and but God still and poor Leah, she was just really unloved.
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Jacob really didn't love Leah. It it's really terrible in the
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Bible. You see it throughout, like when
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they're going out where somebody might be attacked, even he puts
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Leah before Rachel. Like if something happened to
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the first person in the front, it wouldn't happen.
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Like he was protecting Rachel. I mean, it's just, you see these
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little things and and Leah was very distraught about, you know,
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not being loved and but God yet he blessed her with many
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children, a lot of the tribes and one of the tribes of Leah's
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was Judah. And that's the tribe that Jesus
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eventually came from. So you can, he took God is so
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merciful and loving that he took the wife that Jacob had that he
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didn't even choose and God didn't even choose, but God
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heard her and he responded to her and he made her offspring
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significant. So that's why, you know, we just
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look at, I mean, I think it was because Aaliyah's, you know, he,
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he has empathy. God has empathy for people.
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He sees people when they're in hurting places and he does
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respond to that. But again, we just have to wait
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on God's time when things are happening like that, because God
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did bless Leah. Let's see, let's go back to.
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So anyway, Israel served to get a wife and he had to pay for and
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to pay for her. He tended sheep for Laban.
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The Lord used a prophet to bring Israel up from Egypt.
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So he used Moses to bring Israel up from Egypt by a prophet.
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He cared for them. So God uses people who are
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willing, who are willing to submit to him, willing to obey
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God. God will use a person like that,
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and that's what he did with Moses.
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So he took a person. Now, Moses wasn't perfect
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because when Moses was in Egypt, he had an anger issue and he saw
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an Egyptian mistreating an Israelite and ended up killing
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the Egyptian. And then he fled because he knew
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what he had done. And but yet he is like one of
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the most famous people in the Bible.
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So we see that God uses regular people.
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Every person who is significant in the Bible had some really you
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God exposes or the Bible exposes their sinfulness.
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And yet he still uses these people.
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And Moses also said he couldn't talk very well.
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And God was like, well, I'll send Aaron with you and Aaron
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can talk for you. And then even with Jesus, he,
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his disciples, he said, don't worry about what you're going to
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say because the Holy Spirit will will give you the words to use.
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So God, this is an example, I think of grace, where the power
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of God in our weakness then comes forth when we are
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submitted to God, Like it's not by our power, but by God's
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power. When we are submitted, when we
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are obedient to Christ, when we are obedient to God, then he can
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use us. And then if we have weaknesses,
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his the Holy Spirit can provide in that sense in our weakness.
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So but Ephraim has aroused his bitter anger.
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His Lord will leave him on the guilt of his bloodshed and will
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repay him for his contempt. And that's the end of chapter
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12. And so I will just read.
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Let's see. I think why, OK, Why did Hosea
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use Jacob as an example? Jacob, later called Israel, was
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known for his deceit. He was the father of the 12
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tribes of Israel. Like their ancestor, the people
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of Hosea's day were deceitful, but Hosea wanted them to follow
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Jacob's example further. Jacob had searched for God and
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allowed God to transform him. So the transformation actually
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comes from the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, that who
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transforms. He had cleansed himself and his
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household of idol worship and had received God's blessings.
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So see, when we submit to God and God wants to bless us, but
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he's not going to bless us when we are in the middle of sin.
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He's, you know, he that's he doesn't want to encourage that.
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Now Satan, on the other hand, if we're sinning, he can make life
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kind of fun for a while, but it eventually leads to destruction
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because he's deceitful. He's going to make you think
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like you're getting all this stuff, but it'll all get taken
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away at some point. It will.
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So it never pays off. If it takes till Judgement Day,
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it won't be pretty because that's going to be an internal
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consequence rather than a loss here and now on the earth.
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So it's much better to receive a loss here on earth than to be
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eternally separated from God. So the time right now is, well,
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we have the opportunity is to turn to God.
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I mean, this is what God wants. He's what he's wanted throughout
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history. And with that does come
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blessings. So to read about Jacob, seven
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years of service to Laban as payment for his wife, Rachel C
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Genesis 29 versus 14 through 30. I think I explained a lot of
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that already, if I didn't confuse everybody.
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So how did Ephraim make God so angry?
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Ephraim indulged in the same idolatry as other tribes.
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So I'm going to end chapter 12 there.
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We only have two more chapters. I'd really like to finish this
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chapter and move on to the next prophet, but two more to go.
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So I hope you maybe follow this podcast.
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And I try to stay in the word every day and try not to make
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these two very long. Sometimes they do get long
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though. So come back the next time for
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Chapter 13.