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Few every Bible Hebrews chapter 12.
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This our last sermon in the 12th chapter and next week will begin
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chapter 13 and finish this long journey through the book of
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Hebrews. And today we're going to look
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one more time at that Fifth and final warning that the writer of
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Hebrews gives to the audience. And whom he is writing.
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And so, we need to understand that.
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As he writes this letter, he does not know who in the
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congregation truly is a possessor of the Messiah, or
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just one who professes his commitment to the Messiah, he
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doesn't know that. And so all throughout the book,
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he gives these different warnings five of them in
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particular in this is the fifth one.
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And with each warning grow with each, Each warning comes a
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growing intensity about what's going to happen to those who
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refuse to follow. What the Lord God says.
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And in this warning, he wants them to understand that they
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need to come to the all sufficient all Supreme King of
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the universe because everything about the book of Hebrews said,
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us around the supremacy and the sufficiency of Jesus Christ, Our
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Lord And so because he is so Supreme and so sufficient, you
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need to give your life to him and follow him.
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In fact, he says, in verse number 25, see to it that you do
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not refuse him, who is speaking. And so all throughout the book
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he wants the hearers to examine their lives examinations very
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important. He wants them to examine whether
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or not. They truly are followers of
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Christ, if not, they need to come and follow him.
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And in this last warning he makes a contrast between two
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mountains. One is Sion, I in one is Zion
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Sion, I represents human achievement, Zion represents
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Divine accomplishment Sian, I represents man's work, Zion
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represents God's work. Sinai is all about the law.
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Zion is all about Grace and so he compels them to come to leave
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the old Covenant and embrace the New Covenant do not refuse.
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The one who is speaking and as he gives These Warnings all
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throughout the book, he also helps them understand.
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Not just that they need to examine their lives, but their
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lives need to be lived in expectation of what's going to
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happen. Next, that is so important.
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In fact, in chapter 1 of Hebrews, the second verse he
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says, Christ is the air of all things because we are joint
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heirs with Christ. We then become Heirs of all
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things of his. He also says, in chapter 2,
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verse number 5, that there is a world that's going to come, what
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world is that? And then he says, in chapter 9
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verse number 15 that there's a promise of an eternal
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inheritance to get the listeners to realize that there's an
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inheritance that's going to come in at lasts forever.
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But what is that inheritance? And then in chapter 11, he talks
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about Abraham, how he was looking for a city whose Builder
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and maker is god with city. Is that, And then a Chapter 13
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and verse number 14. He says we are seeking the city,
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which is To come. so the book of Hebrews is not just about
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examination, it's about expectation, living in
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expectation of what God's going to do next, This is absolutely
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incredibly important. And so the writer of Hebrews
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says, very clearly these words see to it that you do not refuse
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him. Who is speaking for those who
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those did not Escape, when they refused him who warned them on
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Earth, much less, will we escape?
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Who turn away from him, who warns from heaven?
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And his voice shook the Earth then.
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But now he promised saying, yet once more, I will shake, not
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only the Earth. Earth.
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But also the heaven. This expression, yet once more
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denotes, the removing of those things which can be shaken.
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As of creative things, said those things which cannot be
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shaken May remain. Therefore since we receive a
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kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude by which
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we may offer scuse me to God and acceptable service with
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reverence at all. For our God is a consuming.
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Fire. He warns them of the Judgment of
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God. That that judgments going to
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come. And therefore they need to be
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able to embrace that, which is unshakable versus that, which is
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shakeable. Now all of us know about the
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earthquake. The 7.8 earthquake in turkey and
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Syria. That as of this morning has
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killed over 29,000 people, And probably, it will grow even
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larger as the day's progress. Almost 100,000 people have been
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injured. and I thought about that, and I thought about, The
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number of earthquakes that happen around the world every
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year. And there are 500,000
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earthquakes that happen every year.
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On the planet. 100,000 of them can be felt quite readily. there
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are 10,000 earthquakes in Southern California, every
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single year. Some of them.
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We feel others. We don't.
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But isn't it interesting that as the Earth?
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Orbits around the sun, it's spinning on its axis.
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And as it spins, it always is trembling and shaking.
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The second law of Thermodynamics is very important because it
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tells us that everything is degrading.
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Everything is getting worse, it's not getting any better.
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And it's leading to something that's very, very significant as
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it comes to our text and Hebrews chapter 12.
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And you think of the earthquake in turkey and Syria in realize
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how severe it was. And people, always ask the
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question. Well, where was God?
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When that happened? How come those kind of things
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take place? Whether there's an answer in the
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scriptures to that that's very very important.
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Is found in the 13th, chapter of Luke.
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And the Lord says these words in Luke Chapter 13, He says, now on
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the same occasion, there were some president who reported to
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him about the galileans. Whose blood pilate had mixed
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with their sacrifices. That's a question.
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That arose that says, why is it these galileans were going to
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worship and pilot would would cut them up and offer them along
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with their sacrifices? Why was something like that
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happened? And Jesus said to them, do you
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suppose that these galileans were greater Sinners than all
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other galileans? Because they suffered this fate,
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they were sinners. With either worst of any kind of
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Sinner that's ever lived as to why they would suffer this fate
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while going to worship. He says, I tell you know, but
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unless you repent, you will likewise perish.
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This is this. What do you suppose that those
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eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them were
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worst culprits than all the men who live in Jerusalem.
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I tell, you know, but unless you repent, You will all likewise.
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Parrish. The Lord takes two specific
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examples that everyone would know.
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One was a natural disaster. a Tower falling over killing 18,
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people who just happened to be walking by The other was a plan
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to Massacre of those who went to worship.
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In the Lord's, answer is quite remarkable.
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He never says, you know, you probably need to pray for those
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who lost their loved ones. Because I'm sure they're really
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suffering right now. Or maybe we should gather some
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money together to help those who are suffering.
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Is it mean that we should do? Those things understand?
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It's very interesting how he answers it.
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He answers it from an eternal perspective.
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Not he's physical perspective. You see, we look at things on a
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natural plane on a temporal plane.
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God looks at them from Eternal plane.
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We look at physical suffering, he looks at Eternal suffering,
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we look at physical pain, he looks at Eternal pain, he weighs
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everything in light of Eternity, we weigh everything in light of
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what's going to happen to be physically, my loss, my pain. in
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Christ, directs them above to help them understand that when
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judgment comes. When Calamity comes when
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disaster comes as Isaiah 26. Verse number 9 says, God is
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known. In his righteousness.
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The only way to know the righteousness of God is within
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the framework of his judgments. We forget that.
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We must understand that. It's a, what the warning is
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about, is very significant to us today.
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When we look at Hebrews chapter 12 because he says in Hebrews
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chapter 12, the expression, yet once more denotes, the removing
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of those things, which can be shaken.
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As of creative things, said those things which cannot be
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shaken May remain. In other words, there's going to
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be a shaking There's going to be a shaking unlike the world has
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ever seen. And you need to be aware that
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the shaking is going to come. Now he quotes from the book of
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haggai, that's very important. Remember, he's writing to a
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Jewish audience. Very familiar with the Old
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Testament. That's why he doesn't say.
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Remember the prophet haggai or remember when the psalmist said
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didn't say that. All throughout Hebrew Jesus
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quotes. The verse why?
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Because they're well-versed in the Old Testament.
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They know what it says. And they would know about the
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shaking of the earth, that's going to come.
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They would know that. and so, in the book of haggai, The second
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chapter the sixth verse haggai. Along with Zachariah.
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Is encouraging the Jews. To begin to rebuild the Temple.
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The first temple as you recall was destroyed, when
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Nebuchadnezzar came in and 586 BC.
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And so he's encouraging them to rebuild that Temple.
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As he does verse 6, says, chapter 2 for thus, says the
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Lord of hosts. Once more in a little while, I
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am going to shake the heavens and the Earth.
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That's where the writer of Hebrews gets it the see also in
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the dry land. I will shake all the nations.
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And they will come. To the desire of the Nations,
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and I will fill the house with Glory says, the Lord of hosts.
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Who's the desire of the nation's?
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Well, that's the Messiah. Malachi 3:1 calls him the
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messenger in whom the Nations Delight.
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It's so the prophet haggai is prophesying about this great
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shaking, that's going to take place.
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When it does, it says, I will fill this house with Glory.
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Now, that's very important. Why?
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The Book of Ezekiel chapter 43, Ezekiel says the spirit and the
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spirit lifted me up, and brought me into the inner court and
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behold the glory of the Lord filled the house very important.
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Because earlier, in Ezekiel, 8 to 11, he saw the glory of the
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Lord. Depart, he saw the glory of the
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Lord rise up, move outside the Eastern Gate.
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Cross over the Kidron Brook, rise and rise up the Mount of
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Olives go over toward Bethany. And depart.
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Interesting, quite ironic. That when our Lord came.
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And the glory of the Lord dwelt among us, he would leave
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Bethany. Descend, the Mount of Olives.
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Crossover the Kidron book. Enter the Eastern Gate.
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For the king of glory had arrived.
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But they didn't recognize the king of glory. and because the
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recognizing, the crucified him, Which, of course was a part of
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the plan of God anyway. But Ezekiel sees the glory of
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the Lord filling the house of the Lord.
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It says in verse number 7 of his equal 43.
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He said to me, son of man, this is the place of my throne and
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the place of the soles of my feet were.
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I will dwell among the sons of Israel.
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Forever. So Ezekiel knows about the glory
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of the Lord returning to the temple.
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Haggai is encouraging them to build the second temple so that
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the glory of the Lord will fill the house.
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And God's presence will be there. but he says, I'm going to
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shake the heavens and I'm going to shake the Earth, but what is
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that? When does that happen?
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How do we know about this? well, the Book of Joel teaches
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us, Joel chapter Two. Joel chapter 2.
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Says verse number one blow a trumpet in Zion and sound an
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alarm on my Holy Mountain that the inhabitants of the land
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tremble for the day of the Lord is coming.
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Surely it is near. What is the day of the Lord.
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It's a phrase. Use 19 times in the Old
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Testament, six times in the New Testament.
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It's an eschatological term and in X term referring to a
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specific time in which God intervenes in human history.
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For judgment. And Joe tells us.
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Today of darkness and Gloom a day of clouds and thick darkness
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and verse 10. He says the earth quakes and the
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heavens tremble, the Sun and the Moon grow dark and the Stars
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lose their brightness, the Lord utters his voice.
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Before his army, surely is Camp, is very great for strong.
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Is he who carries out his word? The day of the Lord is indeed
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great and very awesome who can endure it and other words.
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It's a rhetorical question, answer, no one. but it's coming
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the day of the Lord when the Lord himself will shake the
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Earth, The writer of Hebrews is referring to the book of haggai,
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knowing that there's going to come this shaking of just not
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the Earth, but the heavens as well.
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The prophet Isaiah would speak about this.
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Isaiah chapter 13. Isaiah Chapter 13.
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Verse number 6, whale for the day of the Lord is near the day
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of the Lord. Time to which God intervenes in
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human history for judgment. It's different than the day of
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God. It's different than the day of
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Christ. It's the day of the Lord.
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He says you will come as destruction from the almighty.
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Therefore, all hands will fall limp in every man's heart will
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melt. They will be terrified.
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Pains that anguish will take hold of them.
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They will rise, like, a woman in labor.
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They will look at one another in astonishment, their faces, the
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flame, behold, the day of the Lord is coming cruel with Fury
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and Burning Anger to make the land a desolation and he will
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exterminate it. Sinners from it for the stars of
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heaven and their constellations will not flash.
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Fourth, their light, the sun will be dark when it rises in
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the moon, will not shed, its light.
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Thus, I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for
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their iniquity. I will also put an end to the
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arrogance of the proud and The Bays, the haughtiness of the
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ruthless. I will make Mortal man.
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Scare sir than pure gold and Mankind and the go The fear.
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Therefore I will make the heavens tremble and the Earth
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will be shaken from its place at the fury of the Lord of hosts in
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the day of his Burning Anger. Just coming today.
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In which the writer of Hebrews refers.
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There's coming a day in which the heavens and the Earth are
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going to shake. Because God's judgment is going
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to come and be poured out on mankind.
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And all throughout the Old Testament, God gives warning
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after warning after warning. Now, the listeners in the book
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of Hebrews. would understand These Warnings, they would
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understand Isaiah chapter, 23 when it says, Verse number one,
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I'm sorry as he had 24 verse. Number 1, behold, the Lord lays
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the Earth, waste devastates, it distorts, it, it surfaced and
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scatters, its inhabitants verse 19, the Earth is broken asunder.
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The Earth is split through. The Earth is shaken, violently
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the Earth reels to, and fro like a drunkard, and it tatars, like
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a shack for his transgression is heavy upon it and it will fall
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never to rise again. So what happened in that day?
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The day of the Lord, that the Lord will punish the host of
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heaven. And I, and the kings of the
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Earth on the earth, they will be gathered together like prisoners
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in the dungeon and will be confined in prison.
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And after many days, they will be punished.
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Then the moon will be abashed in the sun ashamed.
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For the Lord of hosts will rain on Mount Zion in Jerusalem and
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His glory will be before his elders. so, all throughout the
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Old Testament because Zechariah haggai Joel.
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Isaiah. Jeremiah the prophet sworn
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concerning the day of the Lord. It's also called the day of
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vengeance. To call the day of Wrath, that's
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going to come upon the nation. I'll go up on the world upon the
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heavens. And so when the writer of
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Hebrews says there's coming a time, if you think the shaking
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at Mount Sinai was bad, that caused everybody to tremble and
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to live in fear, you just wait there's coming a shaking that is
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so severe it shakes both the heavens and the Earth.
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Now, it's important to realize that when before that happens,
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there is a progression of shaking on the planet.
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Revelation chapter 6, says it this way.
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Verse number 12. Remember there are six seals
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that span The Book of Revelation or the day of the Lord or the
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tribulation. Those Seven Seals span the
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entire time when the 7th seal is broken, seven, trumpets, blow
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when the seventh trumpet, blows seven bowls are poured out upon
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the Earth. They happen in Rapid succession
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at the end. but the seventh seal spanned, the tribulation period,
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very important to realize that it says that in verse 12 of
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chapter 6, I look when he broke the Sixth Seal and there was a
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great earthquake and the sun became black, as sackcloth made
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of hair in the whole Moon became like blood and the stars of the
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sky fell to the Earth as a fig tree casts.
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Its unripe figs when shaken by a great win the sky, it was split
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apart like a scroll when it is rolled up and every mountain and
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Island. Moved out of its place.
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Every island Every Mountain. Is moved out of its place.
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Then the kings of the earth and the great men, and the
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commanders, and the rich, and the strong, and every slave and
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free man, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks.
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The mountains. And they said to the mountains
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and to the Rocks, fall on us and hide us from the presence of him
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who sits on the throne and from the Wrath of the Lamb.
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For the great day of their wrath is come, and who is able to
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stand quite interesting that they know The kings of the
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world. Every slave, man.
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Every free man. Everyone who exists knows it's
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the Wrath. Of the Lamb.
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How do they know that? Simply because there are no
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atheists have ever existed. They don't exist.
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Everybody knows. There's a God.
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And they live in fear. you go over to Revelation chapter 8, it
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says When the lamb broke the seventh seal, verse number one,
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there was silence in heaven, for about a half an hour.
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And I saw the seven angels who stand before God and seven
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trumpets were given to them. Why was the silence in heaven
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for about a half hour? Because nobody could believe
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what was about to happen next. Another angel came and stood at
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the altar holding a golden censer and much incense was
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given to him that he might add to it.
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The prayers of all the Saints on the golden altar, which was
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before the throne. the smoke of the incense with the prayers of
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the saints went up before God, out of the Angels hand, then the
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angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the Altar
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and true it to the Earth and there followed peals of thunder
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sounds and flashes of lightning and A shaking, an earthquake.
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When you come to chapter, 16. Chapter 8.
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You have the 7 trumpets that blow and when you come to
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chapter 16, you have the bowls that are poured out upon the
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Earth. It says these words.
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In verse number 8, the fourth, Angel poured out his bowl upon
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the sun and it was given to it to Scorch men with fire men were
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scorched with Fierce heat and they blaspheme the name of God,
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who has the power over these plagues and they did not repent.
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So, as to give him glory, then the fifth, angel poured out, his
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bowl on the throne of the Beast and his kingdom became darkened
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and they gnawed their tongues because of pain and blasphemed
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the god of Heaven because of their pains and their sores And
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they did not repent of their deeds.
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Play psalmist said that. God is known by the Judgment.
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He executes. God is best known in his
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judgments. And so sure enough they
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blaspheme the name of God. Why?
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Because he recognized? Who it is?
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Who's doing this? Says in verse number 18, and
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there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder
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and there was a great earthquake such as there.
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Had not been since man came to be upon the Earth so great an
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earthquake was it. And so mighty that the great
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city which is Jerusalem was split into three parts and the
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cities of the nation's fell Babylon.
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The great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the
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wine of his Fierce wrath and every island fled away.
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We're in the mountains were not found. in Revelation 6 every
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island moved every Mountain, moved In Revelation 16 every
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Island. Fleas away.
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That means, it's out of existence and not one mountain.
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Was left to be found. A great shaking.
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Huge hailstones about 100 pounds each came down from heaven upon
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men and men, blasphemed God, because of the plague of the
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hail because it's plague was extremely severe.
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God is warning, man. About the ultimate shaking.
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That has yet to happen, but it's coming.
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And he does it through series of earthquakes and trembling and
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shaking upon the Earth. Helping them realize that
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judgment is going to come like Christ in.
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Luke 13, unless you repent you will all likewise perish.
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You see, it's God's grace that gives us warnings about his
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impending judgment. He didn't have to give us a
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warning. He had to give 120 years warning
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to the citizens of Noah's day. But it gave him 120 years of
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warning before the floods came. and so, when you come to Peter's
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epistle, second Peter chapter 3, he's talks about.
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The day of the Lord again. Oh, by the way, did you know
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that there are 27 New Testament books?
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I'm sure you knew that, right? Of the 27, New Testament books.
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23 emphatic, Lee speak about the return of the Messiah. 23:27.
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Two of the remaining four. Speak about it in directly.
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The only two books in the New Testament that don't speak about
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the return of Christ, Philemon. And second John R, CB third job.
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Way to books. Now, think about that. 25 of 27,
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New Testament books, speak about the second coming and people say
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that eschatology is not that important.
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It's all going to end the way God wants the.
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It's not that important. If it wasn't that important. 25
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of the 27, New Testament books would have said anything about
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it. Oh, by the way, just for
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reference sake of all the questions asked of Jesus, of all
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the questions asked of Jesus that are recorded in the Bible.
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There is one. That has the longest answer.
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And that one that has the longest answer.
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Deals with the second coming. You tell me the second time he's
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not important. Of all the answers you could
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give. He could say it very quickly
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just run right through it but no.
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The Olivet discourse is the longest answer given to any
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question asked by the Lord because the end is as important
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as the beginning. In Genesis 1 is important.
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The Book of Revelations important.
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If Revelations not important, Genesis 1 is not important.
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You can't see what is important. In one's is not or you can't say
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one is literal and one is not. You can't do that.
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Because that means you're inconsistent and you've got to
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be consistent throughout your biblical hermeneutic in terms of
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how you interpret scripture. If there are 24 literal days in
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the Book of Genesis, which there are not 24, six periods of Ages,
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there are six literal days. so, to the Book of Revelation is
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literal, meaning that all 254 usages of numbers in the Book of
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Revelation are all literal, none of them are symbolic.
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Very important why? Because Jesus wants you to know
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he's coming again and he wants you to know the events
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surrounding his return. And all that's going to take
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place, why? Because it's all about the
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warning of impending judgment. Because unless you repent, you
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will all likewise perish. You need to know he's coming
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again. And so Peter says that this way.
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The day of the Lord verse 10 is second.
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Peter 3 will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass
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away with a roar in the elements will be destroyed with intense
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Heat and the earth and its works.
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Will be burned up since all these things are to be destroyed
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in this way. What sort of people ought you to
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be in holy conduct and godliness looking for, and hastening the
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coming of the day of God's different than the day of the
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Lord? Man has his day.
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Satan has had his day. Now, God will have his day.
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In the Eternal state. Looking for, and hastening the
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coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens
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will be destroyed by burning. And the elements will melt with
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intense heat. But according to his promise, we
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are looking for a new Heaven and a new Earth in which
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righteousness dwells Matthew chapter 24. which is that long
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answer to the one question asked by our Lord He says immediately
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after the tribulation of those days, Matthew 24 do not happen
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in 70 AD, it's impossible for that to take place.
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How do we know that? Because the events parallel with
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Revelation chapter 6 and following throughout the Book of
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Revelation, And because Revelation was written in 96
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a.d., not before 70 AD, how do we know that?
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This is where my replacement theology, guys.
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Get it all wrong. You don't know the history.
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Very important. John was exiled under the reign
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of domitian. He ruled between 81.
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In 98 ad. It was Vespasian who ruled
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before 70 AD. So you have to understand the
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history of when John was exiled to Patmos to realize that
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Revelation is a leader writing. Not an earlier writing so,
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Revelation, Matthew 24 could not have taken place before 70 AD
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because all that parallels with the events of Revelation 6
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through 19, So says the first number 29, but immediately after
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the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and
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the moon will not give its light and the Stars will fall from the
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sky. The powers of the heavens will
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be shaken and then the sign of the son of man will appear in
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the sky and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn.
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And they will see the son of man coming on the clouds of the sky
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with power and great glory. And he will send forth his
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angels with a great trumpet. And they will gather together
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his elect from the Four Winds from one end of the sky.
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By to the other. Here is coming is shaking.
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In which the writer of Hebrews. So eloquently States.
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Yet once more, I will shake, not only the Earth, but also the
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heaven. This expression yet once more
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denotes, the removing of those things, which can be shaken.
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As of creative things, said those things which cannot be
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shaken May remain. In other words, there's coming
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today. It's called the day of the Lord.
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In which there will be many shakings that take place.
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Could include the islands, being removed, the mountains being
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removed and people dying. Indeed, there's coming one great
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shaking at the end of that time at the end of the tribulation,
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at the end when Christ comes in all of his glory.
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And by the way, the glory of the Lord will fill the house.
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And the glory of the Lord will reign on top of Mount Zion.
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Why? Because Zacharias, 6, 12 or 13,
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says that the Messiah will build his Temple?
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Messiah is going to build this Temple.
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The Jews believe today that they're going to build the tent,
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the Third Temple, right? And they are but then I going to
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build it for the Messiah, they're going to go there for
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the antenna sign. Zacharias, sixth is the fourth
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temple, verses 12 to 13, which the Lord himself will build, and
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His glory, would dwell in that Temple.
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And his feet as he says, in the book of Isaiah, will dwell, the
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soles of his feet will. I'm sorry, Ezekiel 43, the soles
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of his feet will stand on top of Mount, Zion in Rule and Reign
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Over His People Israel. it's a promise that God has given and
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after he does that, after the millennial reign of Christ will
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come and shaking that will destroy all heaven and all
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Earth, and they'll be a new Kevin and a new Earth.
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Where righteousness dwells But it's interesting to note.
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That part of Israel's worship centered around the belief.
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In the god of the universe. Which establishes their
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well-being. So they will never be shaken. it
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says, in Psalm 16 these words, I Will Bless The Lord who has
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consoled me and deed my mind instructs me in the night.
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I have set the Lord continually before me because he is at my
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right hand I will not be shaken. I will not be shaken.
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Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices, My Flesh.
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Also will dwell securely. And then over in chapter 55,
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verse number 22, cast, your burden upon the Lord.
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He will sustain you, he will never allow the righteous to be
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shaken. Over in chapter 62 it says my
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soul waits in silence for God Only from him is my salvation.
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He only is my rock and my salvation.
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My stronghold. I shall not be greatly shaken.
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He repeated again down in verse number 6, he only is my rock and
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my salvation, my stronghold. I shall not be shaken.
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I'm gone. My salvation and my glory rests,
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the rock of my strength, my refuge is in In God.
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So important. Psalm 1 says in Psalm 112,
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praise the Lord. How blessed is the man who
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fears? The Lord who greatly Delights in
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his commandment 46? He will never be shaken.
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The righteous will be remembered forever.
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Proverbs chapter 10 verse number 28, the hope of the righteous is
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gladness, but the expectation of the wicked perish has the way of
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the Lord is a stronghold to the upright, but ruined to the
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workers of iniquity. The righteous Will Never Be
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Shaken. So the Hebrew audience, reading
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the letter, written to them by the writer of Hebrews.
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Understands what it means to Never Be Shaken.
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Because of the Old Testament. They understand of a great
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shaking that's going to come because the profits that
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prophesied about that. So they would know these things
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you see. So, it's important for us to
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realize that that God has a progressive amount of judgments
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that will come. They happen today.
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Sporadically, there are hurricanes.
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There are tornadoes, there are earthquakes.
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There are fires and their judgments that come from God to
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warn you of the impending judgment.
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That's going to come to help you understand that the physical
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suffering is not near what you need to worry about, but the
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Eternal suffering of Lost Souls. To get you to think about your
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Eternal Destiny. Not be preoccupied with your
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physical opportunities. And as a day, the Lord draws
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they will be Progressive shaking and fire and earthquakes the
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judgments of God upon the Earth, why?
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So man will begin to realize the Indus coming.
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We read in Revelation 6 as well as Revelation chapter 16 that
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they would blaspheme the name of the Lord.
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They would not repent even though they knew it was the god
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of the universe, the lamb in his wrath, they knew that But it
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would not repent. But the king is going to come.
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Instead of his kingdom, and they will be shaking.
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So he says, the writer of Hebrews.
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Since we receive a kingdom, which cannot be shaken which is
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Mount Zion, it cannot be shaken. It's a study of the of the great
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king. Zion represents that we told you
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the authority in glory of the Messiah.
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Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom, which
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cannot be shaken. Let us show.
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Gratitude, let's be thankful that were part of an unshakable
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Kingdom, by which we may offer to God, acceptable worship with
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reverence and awe for our God is a consuming Fire.
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What he is? A consuming fire.
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And that's how he ends his Fifth and final warning to his
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audience. He wants them to know that this
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is going to happen. They would know because they
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read the Old Testament. We know because we can go back
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and read the Old Testament and we have the Book of Revelation
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that explains to us the coming in and how it all unfolds before
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us, we can see those things we can read about them.
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Somebody might say, but I don't want to be a part of the
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shakeable Kingdom. I want to be a part of the
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unshakable Kingdom. How do I do that?
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You can't stay at Sinai. Can't climb the mountain on
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human achievement. You got to go to Mount, Zion.
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Mount Calvary Mount Moriah. The mount where Christ's work
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was accomplished for you that you might Embrace what he did
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his finished work on Calvary cross.
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And come to him and balance the mission to his lordship.
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We follow him. Because our God is a consuming
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fire. Let's pray.
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Father, we thank you for today and the opportunity to give us a
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study your word. How great it is to know.
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That you so clearly. Map out the future.
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It's not ambiguous. It's very clear.
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It's very concise. You wanted to make sure we
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understood it. Because Lord, at the Apostle,
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Paul said, knowing the terror of the lord we persuade men.
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He knew. He knew the fierce anger of his
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God. He knew the coming wrath of God.
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He did all he could to persuade men to give their life to Christ
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today. They're beating one Among Us.
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Lord. We persuade them, come to come
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today to the king. Come to Mount, Zion the city of
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the Living. God the place where Jesus is for
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God. The judge is that will forgive
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you of your sins. And take you into his kingdom.
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The unshakable kingdom of God. Pray this in Jesus name.
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Amen.