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724. Bible Study: Isaiah 33 (Is this about Jesus: the 1000 year reign of Jesus Christ) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 33 of Isaiah and this one let's first pray like we
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always do dear God, please let the Holy Spirit give us insight,
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wisdom, revelation and understanding for this chapter.
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We ask for this in Jesus name so that we may get the message that
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is being relayed here. So in Isaiah, it's this is
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another one of those chapters where I see things a little bit
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differently than the study Bible does.
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So I will read both of them. And also I and I have lots of
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scripture to back it up too. So I see this chapter once again
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as the return of Jesus, the coming of the Messiah, the
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second coming. That's what I see this as
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talking about. And prophet prophecy that's
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written in the Bible is often there's like a double meaning, a
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literal meaning, and then a symbolic meaning.
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And sometimes there is a partial fulfillment, but it's not
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completely fulfilled. So these are, you know, visions
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and words from God through a prophet.
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And whether it applies to the immediate or the future is
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really hard to determine. And it could be both, but it
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absolutely refers to the future. When I read through this, I'll
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show you where and why it absolutely points to the future.
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But you know, it also could have had a meaning of their time as
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well, but it wasn't fully fulfilled.
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Like you can't say it was fulfilled.
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And in the future though, it will be completely fulfilled.
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So anyway, let's get started on it.
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Woe to you, destroyer, you who have not been destroyed.
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Woe to you betrayer, you who have not been betrayed.
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When you stop destroying, you will be destroyed.
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When you stop betraying, you will be betrayed.
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Obviously there are a lot of people are a lot of nations that
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could be called destroyers by God, and God uses destroyers to
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bring judgment upon rebellious people, people who are in
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opposition to God. And so he will use everybody's
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free will to accomplish his own will and purpose in this world.
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And the study Bible says, who was this destroyer and betrayer?
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Most likely Assyria. Up to this time, the Assyrians
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had always been victorious. That was about to change.
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The emphasis on betrayal suggests that the specific
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occasion for this woe may have been when Sina Cherub, king of
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Assyria, accepted payment from Hezekiah, king of Judah, to
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break off his attack on Judah, but then did not break off the
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attack. So he broke this agreement with
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Hezekiah. And that all makes sense.
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But is that just a foreshadowing of the future for for us that
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there is going to be this lawless man who breaks a
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covenant and turns things around and starts going after all of
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the people of Israel? And we'll read about that, you
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know, from the book of Daniel is what I'm talking about.
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Like that's something future. And this seems like a
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foreshadowing of it and not only a foreshadowing of it.
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I don't even know if it really meant anything for that time
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that the people heard it, because although it did kind of
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play like that paragraph just said, the rest of it, when you
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start seeing this, the rest of this really sounds like when
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Jesus returns. I mean, there's some things that
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that just it, it can't be any other time except the very end
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when Jesus returns. So we'll just read through it.
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Lord, be great. OK?
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This is from Isaiah verse 2. Lord, be gracious to us.
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We long for you. Be our strength every morning.
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I want to pause there because that's something that we can all
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learn from. And Isaiah is praying, talking
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to God, and he's saying be our strength every morning.
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That's what we should have that same kind of relationship with
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God, that he is our strength every morning and it says our
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salvation in time of distress every morning.
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That doesn't mean like once a week when we go to church or you
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know, a couple times a year on special holidays, if we go to
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church, then it means like every morning despite church.
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We need to have that relationship with God that we
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talk to him every morning, that we are in his word, that we're
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seeking him in some way. We're praying to him, we're
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letting him speak to us. We're letting, we're giving him
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that quiet time that we can just focus on him and let the Holy
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Spirit speak to us in that, not, not in an audible voice.
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Sometimes that does happen to people, but it's, it's mainly, a
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lot of people say it's mainly a thought that just comes into
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their mind that it's not their own, like they know it's not
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their own. And that's when God speaks to
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people. So if we're in communication
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with him every morning and we give him some quiet time to
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speak where we're not just the one talking, then he can't speak
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to us. At the uproar of your army, the
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peoples flee. When you rise up, the nation
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scatter. Your plunder, O nations, is
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harvested as by young locust. Like a swarm of locust, people
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pounce on it. So I'll read what the study
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Bible says about this. What was so bad about the swarm
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of locust? Locust swarms can occupy
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hundreds of square miles, with billions of insects eating
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several times their body weight in crops daily.
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After a locust swarm moves on from an area, the land is
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stripped bare of all its vegetation, and people who live
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there are left and want because of its severity.
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Isaiah was probably comparing the Assyrian devastation to the
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devastation caused by locusts. I think this also applies in the
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Book of Revelation as well, that some of the things that are
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given there, the Book of Revelation is very symbolic.
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Almost everything in it is symbolic, and that's what it
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takes. It takes wisdom to understand
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what's a symbol and what's literal and some of the things
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we probably won't even know until they actually happen.
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And then we'll see how God actually has it play out.
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But just like these locusts, I mean, because there's something
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like these, this description, like I think it's during the
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trumpets or the seals, I can't remember which, where they,
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there's some strange things that happen.
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And I think it's a trumpets might be around the 6th trumpet
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or so and just a strange description, which is probably
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is it's definitely symbolic, but what it actually means,
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everybody keeps guessing. So going back to Isaiah, the
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Lord is exalted for he dwells on high.
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I'm thinking this is about Jesus.
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He will fill Zion with his justice and righteousness.
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He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of
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salvation and wisdom and knowledge.
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The fear of the Lord is the key to this treasure.
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So definitely Jesus brought about salvation.
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And when there's a book, I don't know if it's in Proverbs or
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Ecclesiastes, but it talks about wisdom.
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And when I read it, it's very poetic.
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And when I read it as I was reading it, I was like, this
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sounds like Jesus. This sounds like it's talking
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about Jesus. So it's, it's very interesting
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to read that. And then so it talks about
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salvation, wisdom, and then knowledge.
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Jesus obviously brought about knowledge.
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He gave people knowledge when he was here on earth.
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That was documented in the scriptures.
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People didn't know about the Kingdom of God.
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They didn't know how God operates and Jesus was revealing
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a lot of this to people when he was here on earth.
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So and then I want to talk about the fear of the Lord, 'cause it
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says the fear of the Lord is the key to this treasure.
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And that's a highly debated or talked about subject with
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people. And, you know, 'cause it's a,
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it's a different kind of fear. And I think the only way that
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you get an idea of the fear of the Lord and what that is, is by
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searching that in Scripture where it's defined.
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And so that's what I did is I searched it.
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This is the new international version.
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But these words fear and Lord occur 453 times in 67 verses.
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So it's referenced quite a bit in the Bible.
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And then it says including 21 exact phrases shown first.
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So I'm just going to read the exact phrases about the fear of
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the Lord because I think 21 of them probably gives us an idea.
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So the fear of the Lord fell on this is from Second Chronicles
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chapter 17, verse 10. The fear of the Lord fell on all
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the kingdoms of the lands surrounding Judah so that they
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did not go to war against Jehoshaphat.
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So this is something that God can do.
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He can cause enemies to have fear to not pursue His chosen.
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So that's what the fear of the Lord.
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It's something that he can put on people.
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He can maybe open their eyes to where they would fear the Lord.
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So Second Chronicles chapter 19, verse 7, it says, now let the
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fear of the Lord be on you. Judge carefully for with the
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Lord our God, there is no injustice or partiality or
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bribery. So we anyone who judges and
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we're not supposed to judge, but I mean, God does put people in
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positions of power. There are judges on earth for
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different things and in communities and governments.
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And this is, you know, let the fear of the Lord, like don't try
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and appease people, but judge in the way that God would.
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Because while there are Gray areas for people and we might
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see, well, you know, we just, we have differing opinions about,
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you know, is something black or white or is there a Gray area
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when a judgement is being made? But for God, there's no
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injustice or partiality or bribery.
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So it's very like whatever judgement God brings about is
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just, it's not like, oh, it could go either way.
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Like, no, God knows a lot more than what we can do.
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We can't see into people's minds.
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So we're at a deficit of trying to judge between people if we
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are a judge in that position because we can't read people's
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minds. God knows people.
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God knows what they've done in the past.
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He knows what their heart is like.
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God is the perfect judge. So whenever God places a
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judgement on someone, we can't say that, look, that was unfair.
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No, it wasn't. Because here's the other thing
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is that Jesus even said no one is good but God.
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So how can we say that, oh, we're really good, we shouldn't
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have any judgement on us? Well, we're lying to ourselves
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because we're not really good and we do things.
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So whenever judgement comes from God, it's it's justified.
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So in Second Chronicles chapter 19, verse 9, he gave them these
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orders. You must serve faithfully and
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wholeheartedly in the fear of the Lord.
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Again, you know, you just think about like what's God going to
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say about how you are serving or what you're doing, You know,
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have the fear of the Lord because the Lord has the final
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judgement of us. And I think that's what the fear
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of the Lord is, is knowing that there is going to be a judgement
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day and that we are going to stand before the Lord.
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So in the book of Job, Job chapter 28 verse 28, and he said
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to the human, human race the fear of the Lord that is wisdom
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and to shun evil is understanding.
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So the wisdom is having the fear of the Lord.
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If we don't fear God, we will probably do whatever we want.
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But if we fear God, then we will shun evil.
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We will avoid evil. That's the understanding, that's
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our reaction to the wisdom that we have about what the fear is.
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If, if we fear God, we will stay away from the things that God
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calls evil. If we don't fear the Lord, we'll
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do whatever God calls evil and not have not have any fear of
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the Lord. But that's saying that's not
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wise. It's wise to have the fear of
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the Lord because that's what helps us from staying away from
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evil. And then in Psalm 19, verse 9,
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it says the fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever.
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The decrees of the Lord Lord are firm, and all of them are
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righteous. So God doesn't make mistakes.
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If He makes a decree, it stands and they're all righteous.
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Even if we don't necessarily, we don't, well, I don't like that
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one or I don't think that should be that way.
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That's too bad. We are not God.
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We have to humble ourselves and realize who God is.
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And it's kind of like in Job when it was when Job and God
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were having this dialogue and God was saying, well, do you
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know how to do all this stuff? Like who are you?
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Are you the clay telling the Potter to do something a certain
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way? I think that's in Jeremiah where
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it's referred to clay and Potter.
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Like God is the maker and we are the thing he made, the person he
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made. So we're not above God.
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We can't do what God can do. I mean, our world tries to, we
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try to get to be into the that capacity with technology, the
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use of technology, but we are not God.
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And the things that humans create will fail.
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But with God, he will not fail. In Psalm 34, verse 11, it says,
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come, my children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of the
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Lord. So this is like a good thing,
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like to have the fear of the Lord.
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I think a lot of people think about fearing somebody as having
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somebody like abusive coming after them.
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That's not what God is that and that's what we have to remember
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about God. If God ever does judgement on
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someone, it's deserved judgement.
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He doesn't, he's not a, an abusive father that comes and
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tries to, you know, abuse his children or anything that is,
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that's not God. But we need to have a respect
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for God that we, if he tells us this is the way I want you to
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live, then we need to respect that.
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And that's how we need to live now.
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We're not going to, I guess we are not perfect people and we
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might slip up at times, but that's why the Holy Spirit is
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given to people so that you can overcome those things.
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Because it says that God never gives us a temptation that is
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beyond what mankind can endure. And in doing that also He gives
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us a way out. So we really don't have any
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excuse. There might be some weakness in
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us, but that's something that we just need to overcome with the
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Holy Spirit and we just need to pray to God and then he will
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help us with whatever our stumbling block is, whatever our
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weaknesses, that's where where we are weak, He is strong.
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So the things that we are weak and we have to rely on the Holy
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Spirit to deliver us from that basically.
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So in Psalm chapter 111 verse 10, the fear of the Lord is the
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beginning of wisdom. All who follow his precepts have
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good understanding. To Him belongs eternal praise.
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So again it says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
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So if you want to be wise, you should have the fear of the
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Lord. In Proverbs chapter one, verse
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7, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
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But fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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So we are a fool if we think that we don't need wisdom, we
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don't need instruction, we've got it.
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We're foolish because the fear of the Lord is the beginning of
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knowledge. In Proverbs chapter 2 verse 5,
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then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the
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knowledge of God. So I'll have to read the first
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verse on that. The preceding verses.
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This is talking about the moral benefits of wisdom.
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And I think this might Maybe it's David talking to Solomon.
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I don't know, my son. If you accept my words and store
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up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and
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applying your heart to understanding.
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Indeed. If you call out for insight and
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cry aloud for understanding. And if you look for it As for
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silver and search for it As for hidden treasure, then you will
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understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
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For God gives wisdom from his mouth come.
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For God gives wisdom from his mouth come knowledge and
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understanding. He holds success in store for
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the upright. He is a shield to those who
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walk, whose walk is blameless, for he guards the course of the
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just just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
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And it continues on further. So the Proverbs 9, verse 10.
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Now Proverbs is all about wisdom, the book of Proverbs.
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So I'll read that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of
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wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
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So when we have knowledge of the Holy One, we understand what the
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fear of the Lord is. Proverbs 10 verse 27 The fear of
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the Lord adds length to life, but the years of the wicked are
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cut short. Proverbs 14 verse 27 The fear of
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the Lord is a fountain of life, returning a person from the
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snares of death. So if we have the fear of the
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Lord, it will bring about life. It turns people from what
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captures people into death or you know, eternal separation
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from God In Proverbs 15, verse 16 better a little with the fear
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of the Lord, then great wealth with turmoil.
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So better, I guess we're better having a little wealth with the
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fear of the Lord, then great wealth with turmoil that it
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brings about Proverbs 16, verse 6 through love and faithfulness,
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sin is atoned for through the fear of the Lord, evil is
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avoided. So here gives you insight to if
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we have fear of the Lord, evil is avoided.
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In Proverbs 19 verse 23, the fear of the Lord leads to life.
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The one then one rests content, untouchable by trouble.
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That's how people can have peace in all circumstances.
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When they have the fear of the Lord, they know they're living
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life the way God wants them to live.
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It leads to eternal life basically.
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And then when you know you have eternal life, you're content
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because you know this is just a transition.
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This is just a phase, if you want to call it, of our life.
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And there is yet another phase of our life to come.
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In Proverbs chapter 22, verse 4, humility is the fear of the
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Lord. It's wages, our riches and honor
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and life. So God loves the humble, He
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hates the proud. So when we humble ourselves and
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have the fear of the Lord, it says it's wages are riches and
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honor in life. There's good thing that's that
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come about when we are humble in Proverbs 23 verse 17.
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Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous
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for the fear of the Lord. So I guess that is just, you
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know, the fear of the Lord is more important then envying what
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the sinners are getting away with, what the sinners have, but
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just always have the fear of the Lord.
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Think about things from an eternal perspective, not an
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immediate like, oh, they're having all this fun and I'm not
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having this fun. Well, things are going to turn,
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the tables are going to turn and eternity when it comes forth,
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when we go into eternity, what they were enjoying and if they
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never repented, they are just they're going to be suffering
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for eternity where the people who have the fear of the Lord
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will be living life in what God is creating for the future, for
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our future. Isaiah Chapter 11, verse 2, the
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Spirit of the Lord will rest on him, the spirit of wisdom, of
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understanding, the spirit of counsel and of might, the spirit
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of knowledge and fear of the Lord.
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I believe that's actually, I want to look at that because I
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think that's yeah, that's actually talking about either
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that's maybe talking about David, but also I think he, it
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may talk about Jesus, but because it's talking this is
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about the branch from Jesse, a shoot will come up from the
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stump of Jesse, from his roots, a branch will bear fruit.
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So I think the shoot might be David, and from his roots a
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branch that's Jesus will bear fruit.
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So the Spirit of the Lord will rest on him, the Spirit of
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wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and of might,
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the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
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And he will delight in the fear of the Lord.
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He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes or decide by
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what he hears with his ears, but with righteousness He will judge
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the needy. With justice he will give
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decisions for the poor of the earth.
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He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with
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the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.
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Now that sounds like Jesus righteous will be his belt and
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faithfulness. The sash around his waist.
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That's kind of, I think the description that it gets into
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about what Jesus is wearing when he returns.
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The wolf will lie, will live with the lamb, the leopard will
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lie down with the goat and the calf and the lion and the
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yearling together and a little child will lead them.
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The cow will feed with the bear. Their young will lie down
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together. I mean, this is all about that
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piece during the Millennium time frame when Jesus is ruling.
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So again, this could be like a double meaning.
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Now Jesus, when he died on the cross, he submitted to the
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Father and he said, you know, not not my will, but yours be
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done. He was asking if there is
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another way that this could happen without him basically
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going through what He knew he was going to go through on the
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cross. So then in Isaiah 11, chapter 3,
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we did. Yeah, we read that already.
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Isaiah chapter 33, verse six. He will be the sure foundation
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for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and
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knowledge. The fear of the Lord is the key
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to this treasure. Well, that's the chapter that
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we're on. And then in Acts Chapter 9,
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verse 31, then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and
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Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened living in
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the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit,
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it increased in numbers. So look at the positive that
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happens in a society when there is fear of the Lord and
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encouragement by the Holy Spirit.
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It's a different, I guess that was right after the Holy Spirit
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came on. The disciples and there were
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different, I mean, they were just amazing things that were
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happening during the book of Acts.
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But fear of the God, fear of God, fear of the Lord is the key
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to this treasure. That's where chapter 33 of
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Isaiah, verse 6 and saying the fear of the Lord is the key to
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this treasure. Now continuing on verse 7, look,
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they're brave men cry out aloud in the streets.
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The envoys of peace weep bitterly.
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The highways are deserted. I want to read this because I'm
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in the New International Version and I went to look into this
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deeper and when you get into what the actual words were for
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this sentence, I guess sentence 8, it is very different in the
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actual translation in the original Hebrew.
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And so I want I'll read what it says here, but when you read
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this, you get one impression. But then when you look deeper
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into Scripture, you're like, well, it doesn't quite, it's a
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bad translation is what it seems like to me are somewhat of a bad
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translation. I don't even know if I have that
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called up. I think I need to get that one
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located before I try to read that Isaiah verse.
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I guess 30 or chapter 33, verse 6, verse 8.
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I'm sorry. OK, so here's what it says.
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In the New International Version, the highways are
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deserted, no travellers are on the roads.
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The treaty is broken. Its witnesses are despised.
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No one is respected. So you read that and there were
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several things that came to mind when I read that.
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I thought about the treaty being broken and I thought about the
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treaty is actually Barrett or Beret and it's made me think
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about the covenant that Daniel talks about in Chapter 9 verse
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27. But of course you don't get to
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when you say the treaty because is broken.
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That's what made me think about Daniel 927 and, and I think what
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Daniel 927 says, I don't know if I had that one too, because I, I
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got to call that one up too. I thought I had these verses
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here. I don't know, maybe I switched
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over from some. I'm looking through what I had
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searched because I I know I had these called up and I think I
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may be Yeah, OK, I'll go back to that too.
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All right, let's see, getting back to the what it actually
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says. So if you go to
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blueletterbible.org and you get it to the chapter Isaiah 33 and
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you get to verse 8, on the left hand side, there's a tools
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button that you can press. And when you do, it shows the
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Masoretic Text. It shows the English, it shows
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strongs, it shows the Hebrew, the actual Hebrew word.
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So this is the let's see the I don't know what version that is.
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OK, this is an English NASB is what it's is what it comes up on
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the left. And so here's what it says on
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the translation for that sentence that I just read.
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The highways are desolate. The traveler has ceased.
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He has broken the covenant. He has despised the cities.
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He has no regard for man. So it, it kind of, you know, it
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doesn't say it's witnesses. It says, you know, this says no
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regard for man. And so it, it, it kind of says
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the same thing, but it's kind of different.
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Let me read both of these things in one after the other.
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The highways are deserted, no travellers are on the roads.
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The Treaty is broken, its witnesses are despised, and no
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one is respected. The other one says the highways
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are desolate. The traveller has ceased, He has
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broken the Covenant, He has despised the cities.
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He has no regard for man. So the interesting thing about
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that when it says he has broken the covenant.
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So what I did is I searched where how many times is covenant
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used? And I don't want to lose my
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place again. But I just looked through pages
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and pages in the Blue Letter Bible where it will show you
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every time that word beret is used and we get a lot of
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insight. I don't know how long this
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podcast is all right already, but yeah, it's already 32
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minutes. So I'm not going to to go into
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all of the verses because there's several pages, but it
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would be something if you're more interested in that to
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search, you know, find the word covenant or go to Daniel 927, it
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says covenant in there. Click on that word and then
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it'll show you all the places where covenant is used.
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Because that gives us an understanding because there were
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a lot of covenants that were made.
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But like one of the covenants is that God will be the only God,
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will be the one true God. And I think that's probably the
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most important. Just like Jesus said, you know
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that when someone asked him, like what are the most
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important? Love God and love your neighbors
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as yourself. So that that seems like the
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covenant, probably the most important covenant of all is to
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put God first. And and then there's other
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covenants like God made a covenant that he would never
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flood the earth again. And the rainbow is symbolic of
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that. He also made a covenant with the
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people of Israel that they would have this land that had certain
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boundaries that he gave early on.
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That's another covenant. And then maybe there's more
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covenants that God made with mankind, but those are the 2
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that are standing out to me right now in my mind.
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But then this, this other covenant, it says the treaty or
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if you want to say the covenant is broken, you know, I wanted to
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know what does that mean? Does that mean, you know, what
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is that referring to? And I don't know that I
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necessarily have the, the correct answer for that.
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But when I when I was reading it, it made me think about
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Daniel 927 and what Daniel 927 says.
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He will confirm a covenant notice.
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He will confirm so the covenants already made.
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He will confirm a covenant with many for 1/7.
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In the middle of the seven he will put an end to sacrifice and
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offering. And at at the temple he will set
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up an abomination and in actually it says at the temple.
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But again, that's a translation issue because the sutuigent and
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Theodosian Hebrew says wing and at the wing.
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So that's on the end. So a lot of people say the
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temple has to be prepared first. It doesn't have to be prepared
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first that an end to the sacrifice and offering could
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happen without the temple, because all this says is is the
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Hebrew word is wing. So on a certain end or a certain
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portion of the area, he will set up an abomination that causes
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desolation until the end, that is, that is decreed is poured
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out on him. So again, let's read this again.
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He will confirm a covenant with many for 1/7.
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In the middle of the seven he will put an end to sacrifice and
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offering, and at the wing he will set up an abomination that
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causes desolation until the end that is decreed is poured out on
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him. And this is what Jesus talks
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about. Like when he was giving in
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Matthew chapter 24, he gives you the list of all the things that
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will happen at the end times. And he said he talks about this
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when this abomination of desolation happens for people to
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flee, he said, let the reader beware.
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And, you know, reflect on what was said in Daniel in, in in the
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book of Daniel. And so I think it's this is what
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it's talking about that midway through this agreement, he
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thinks are, you know, the the covenant that was signed is
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going to not prevail and it's going to cause a lot of
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problems. So in Daniel 11 chapter 22, it
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says then an overwhelming army will be swept away before him.
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Both it and a Prince of the covenant will be destroyed.
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So I think there's multiple people who are involved in this
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covenant. And I don't, I don't know what
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all of you think, but from this description, it seems like the
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Abraham Accords would be a very, it would fit this type of a
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covenant because it, it's made-up of many people and all
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of these new nations are coming into this agreement with the
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covenant. And, and because it's called the
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Abraham Accords, the Abrahamic aggrievement, and it's a, you
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know, a covenant with them. And this started out, I guess it
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started out in 2020. So in the middle, which we would
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be probably past the middle at this point, I would say if
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that's the covenant, you would put an end to the desk or end to
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the sacrifice and offering. That's what everybody's kind of
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looking for. So again, people always have
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been guessing for years of what the covenant is.
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And, and it's just, there's going to be an 7A block of
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seven. A lot of people, I have a lot of
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scholars have suggested this is a grouping of seven years to
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confirm a covenant. And we may all have this
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understand like a bad understanding of this.
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But anyway, this is we're talking about the covenant and
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that word beret in Daniel 11 verse 28, The king of the north
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will return to his own country with great wealth, but his heart
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will be sent set against the holy covenant.
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He will take action against it and then return to his own
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country. So the holy covenant, his heart
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will be set against the holy covenant.
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What covenant is that? Is that the covenant?
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But actually, I mean, what it seems to me, and I this came to
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me before, was that this holy covenant is that the one true
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God is the God of the people. And just like this, this Lawless
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1 proclaims to be God. He wants to be God.
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Like this is probably Satan possessing a human being, if not
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Satan himself. But it's probably a human being.
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I don't know. Maybe it's Satan himself, who
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knows he can appear as an Angel of light.
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Maybe it is Satan that will actually proclaim to be God.
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It doesn't say that in Scripture.
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It just talks about a man. So just like Satan possessed
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Judas, it said that I think Satan left him to So there's
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something spiritual that can happen through Satan.
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He's not, I guess he's a, he's a fallen Angel as I understand,
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but he it does in the Gospels. It really does seem like he
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possessed Judas. Like I think there was something
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about Satan having possessed him, like he was at the table
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having dinner with the Lord and that's when Satan had already
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like entered him. I think that's what it was like.
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He can enter somebody. So I think maybe Satan will
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enter this lawless man, this one who claims to be God, because he
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will be basically having this person do what Satan has always
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wanted, to be worshipped as God. And that's where Satan's getting
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his, you know, one day of fame here.
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So maybe he's a king out of the North and he you know, he's his
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hardest sent against the holy covenant, like the people have
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the one God and he wants to be that.
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In Chapter 11, verse 30, it says ships of the western coastlands
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will oppose him and he will lose heart.
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Then he will turn back and vent his fury against the holy
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covenant. He will return and show favor to
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those who forsake the holy covenant.
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So maybe those who worship him rather than God.
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And it's just like this is the also makes me think about the
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mark of the beast, where when the mark of the beast is rolled
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out, it's can buy or sell. They can't do anything.
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So you're, they're forced to worship the beast and and you
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give up your worship of God. So this is where, you know, I
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guess that's why people cannot be forgiven if they make that
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choice to get whatever this mark of the beast is that will be
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required for people to buy and sell.
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Because you're basically saying you're turning over your
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alliance, you're no longer worshipping God, but you're
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worshipping this other beast like you're trading.
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You're those who want to save their life will lose it.
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So we have to remember that verse from Scripture too, is
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that if we turn against God and we accept this mark of the beast
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so that we can buy and sell and live like everything everyone
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will be doing, that's going to be short lived because those,
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all those who take the mark of the beast will be subject to
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God's wrath. And we have to remember that.
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So in Daniel Chapter 11, verse 32, with flattery, he will
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corrupt those who have violated the covenant, but the people who
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know their God will firmly resist him.
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So somehow he's going to flatter people and the ones who have
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violated the covenant, the ones who maybe worship him as opposed
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to God, like they turn away from God and they're worshipping that
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person instead of the one true God.
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And this is where people need to know their God.
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We can't just have like know of him, but we have to know him
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because there's going to be a very great deception that if
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people don't know God, truly know God, we will be deceived.
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It says that there will be a exception if possible, even the
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elect could be deceived by it. And then in Hosea, it says in
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that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the.
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I mean, this is talking like a negative thing, a covenant of
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them with the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky and
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the creatures that move along the ground.
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This is everything wicked bow, bow and sword and battle I will
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abolish from the land so that all may lie down in safety.
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So there's there's a point where people are going to get what
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they've done to others and evil is going to be the food for the
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beasts and the birds during at this particular time.
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But they're in Hosea chapter 6, verse 7, as at Adam or like
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human beings, they have broken the covenant.
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They were unfaithful to me there.
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I think this is all about worship.
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And then in Hosea chapter 8, verse one, it says, put the
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trumpet to your lips. An eagle is over the House of
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the Lord because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled
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against my law. So an eagle is usually depicted
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as an unclean bird in, I guess Leviticus, where there's clean
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and unclean animals. And you know, it's interesting,
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put the trumpet to your lips. An eagle so that something
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unclean is over the House of the Lord because the people have
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broken my covenant and rebelled against my law like the 10
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commandments. So anyway, there's a lot in
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there about covenant, but that's all that I'm going to cover
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right now and go back to Scripture.
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Oh, the thing about Isaiah 33 where the verse 8 where the
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sentences sound, you know, they sound similar but different, but
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it says like he has no regard for man.
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I looked up what man was in this verse and it's something
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different which gives a little different interpretation of it.
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So the outline of the biblical usage, it's Enos or Enos.
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I don't know how to say that actually.
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Enosh. It looks like enosh and it's the
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Hebrew word Enos and it's a man, a mortal man, person or mankind.
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So what that sentence says basically, if you think about
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it, what if this is referring to Satan and referring to mortal
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men, because Satan is not mortal, but mankind is.
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So let me read the verse again. The highways are desolate.
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The traveller has ceased. So there's going to be a a
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strange time. He has broken the covenant.
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He has despised the cities. He has no regard for man.
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But this isn't just any man. This is about mortal men.
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So it seems like this could very well be about Satan and whether
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or not he possesses the man who's going to be the lawless 1
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who claims to be God on the temple.
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I mean, that would be, you know, giving Satan what he wants.
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So that's perhaps what it is. And perhaps when people take the
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mark of the beast, they're actually taking the mark of
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Satan. So all right, let's go back to
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Scripture. The land dries up and wastes
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away. Lebanon is ashamed and Withers.
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Sharon is like a raba and Bashan and Caramel dropped their
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leaves. So what was Sig?
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What was the significance of Beshan and Carmel dropping their
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leaves? Beshan was northeast of the Sea
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of Galilee, east of the Jordan, and Carmel was West of the Sea
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of Galilee on the Mediterranean coast.
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Both regions were known for their trees and less vegetation.
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For them to drop their leaves meant a time of terrible
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bareness for the whole land, A figurative but sure sign of
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God's judgment against His people.
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Then it says on verse 11, you conceive chaff, you give birth
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to straw, your breath is a fire that consumes you.
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The peoples will be burned to ashes like cut thorn bushes.
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They will be set ablaze. So that's almost like the
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burning lake of sulphur when they're going to be set ablaze.
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And it also reminded me of what was left after the the wheat
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harvest. When you get into the wheat and
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the tares it talks about in Matthew chapter 13, it says
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while everyone was sleeping, his enemy or Satan came and sowed
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weeds among the wheat and then went away.
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When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds
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also appeared. And that's in verse 26.
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Verse 30 says let both grow together until the harvest.
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At that time, I will tell the harvesters first collect the
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weeds and tie them into bundles to be burned.
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Then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.
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So there's a separation of what Satan has sown and what God has.
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And at this time we all look similar.
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But at the time of the harvest, that's when people are going to
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really know who is aligned with whom.
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And that's Matthew chapter 13, if you want to read that whole
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thing. But again, we have in this
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little fact, even the people that you hear themselves call
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themselves Christians because there's a lot of people that
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call themselves Christians, but they don't live like Christ.
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They haven't made Christ Lord of their life.
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They rebel against God. They live however they want to
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live and they call themselves a Christian.
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Well, that's going to be known. We're not to judge other people,
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we're to warn them. But at the time of the harvest,
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when Jesus returns, we're going to know who is actually the
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wheat and who were the weeds. The people that do not go with
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Jesus when he comes to gather are going to be the weeds.
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They're going to be the ones who will be burnt, the ones who will
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be subject to the wrath of God. So then it says in chapter verse
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13, you who were far away, hear what I have done.
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You who are near acknowledge my power.
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The sinners in Zion are terrified again when the Lord
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returns the sinners. So again, this whole chapter, I
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don't think it was really back in that time unless it had a
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double meaning and some of it wasn't fulfilled.
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But the sinners in Zion, why would the sinners, what you
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know, like if it's Syria is coming on all these people,
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wouldn't everyone in Zion be terrified?
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But it says the sinners in Zion are terrified because God's
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coming back for wrath when he comes.
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Jesus is coming back for wrath when he returns.
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It's not going to be but he's also gathering his people.
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So if you are have a good relationship with him, you're
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not feared about when he returns because you know that he's there
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to gather. Just like it talked about the
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wheat and the tares or the wheat and the weeds.
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The wheat will be gathered and put into his barn into his
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storage. Maybe I, I'm thinking somewhere
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we're going to the place. Maybe it's in the heavenly
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realms away from everything that's happening on the earth,
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but in some way we will be protected at that point when
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before the wrath of God occurs. But the sinners, those who have
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rejected God, the sinners in Zion are terrified, Trembling
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grips the godless. So they are without God.
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They don't. They rejected God and they see
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that oh, this is real, it's coming, He's coming, this wrath
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of God that these people have been talking about.
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Because remember also there were these two witnesses.
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Now whether they are literally 2 people or they are symbolic of
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multiple peoples doing this, which we'll find out in the end,
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right? But everybody's having the
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opportunity to hear about God these days.
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And because of the Internet is spread all over.
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I mean, it's amazing how far a podcast, a website, whatever can
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go, like how many people will hear the same message.
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So we are not without warning, we all get warning, but do we
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heed to it? Do we have the fear of the Lord,
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and do we then take actions by it?
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Who of us can dwell with with the consuming fire?
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Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?
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Those who walk righteously and speak what is right.
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These are saved who reject gain from extortion, so we're not
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doing evil things and keep their hands from accepting bribes.
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You know, the love of money is the root of evil.
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If we love money more than we love God, who stopped their ears
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against plots of murder. If we don't participate in evil
52:43
things or listen to that and shut their eyes against
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contemplating evil like we don't, we're not behind creating
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evil plans. They are the ones who dwell on
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the heights, whose refuge will be the mountain fortress.
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So maybe that's we're going to be with God at that point.
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It says their bread will be supplied and water will not fail
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them, so God provides. Then it says, your eyes will see
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the king in his beauty and view a land that stretches afar.
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So this reminded me of Revelation chapter one verse 7.
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It says, look, He is coming with the clouds and every eye will
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see him, even those who pierced him, and all the peoples on
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earth will mourn because of this.
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So shall it be. Amen.
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So this is talking about the return of Jesus, and it says
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your eyes will see the King in his beauty and a view of land,
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of a land that stretches afar. In your thoughts you will ponder
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the former terror. Where is that chief officer?
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Where is the one who took the revenue?
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Where is the officer in charge of the towers?
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You will see those arrogant people no more people whose
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speech is obscure, whose language is strange and
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incomprehensible. When I read this verse 19, that
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1 is really an interesting one to me because I don't think I
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really comprehend that. And today when people today when
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people know so many different languages, like what is this
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actually talking about in in verse 19?
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I don't I don't have the answer to it.
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And I just, I, I don't know, I don't know who it could be
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referring to because it's the people whose speech is obscure.
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It's definitely something foreign that it's talking about.
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And I think this is what brought what brings on the, the
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devastation of the land. And if it is, you know, Satan
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and his people, it just says whose speech is obscure, whose
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language is strange and incomprehensible.
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So here's what another version says.
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You will no longer see a fierce people, a people of
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unintelligible speech which no one comprehends, or a stammering
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tongue which no one understands. So when it talks about people, I
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don't that word is AM and it's a nation, people, people, persons,
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members of 1's people, compatriots, countrymen,
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kinsmen, kindred. I don't know it.
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I'm not sure who this might be, given the fact that so many
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different languages are known today, international languages.
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So I don't know who this you will never see this arrogant
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people, the people whose speech is obscure, whose language is
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strange and incomprehensible. And you just wonder, is there
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anything? Is there another language or
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some foreign thing that's really are these?
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Is this from the abyss? Is this like some evil, like
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angelic beings that come up from fallen angels that come up from
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the abyss? Because there's that key at the
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midpoint that it opens up the abyss and there's this great
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smoke. And is, is that why it's
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incomprehensible, because it's actually something demonic?
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I don't know. I mean, who knows, maybe we'll
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find out someday. Look on Zion, the city of our
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festivals, your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful abode.
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So after all that happens, there's a peaceful abode, a tent
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that will not be not be moved. Well, I don't know if this has
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ever been the case, that it's been like a peaceful place
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that'll never be moved. Its stakes will never be pulled
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up, nor any of its ropes broken. There.
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The Lord will be our mighty one. It will be like a place of broad
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rivers and streams. No galley with oars will ride
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them. No mighty shape will sail them.
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For the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver.
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The Lord is our King. It is He who will save us again.
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Jesus, your rigging hangs loose, the mast is not held secure, the
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sale is not spread. Then an abundance of spoils will
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be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.
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God's going to redistribute the land.
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He does. He does talk about that division
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when he returns and where everything will be.
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I think it's in Ezekiel, like the last chapters of Ezekiel, it
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talks where the Prince will be and where the different tribes
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will be and that there will be like foreign people who are
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survivors that will be dispersed.
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Wherever they end up, they will be a part of that tribe or
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something to that effect. So I'm going to read what
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remains from the questions and answers and then end up this
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chapter. So why this talk of chaff, straw
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and fire? The Lord was addressing the
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enemy, Assyria. All that the destroyer has
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achieved plundering the nation's was to fill his storehouses with
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dry chaff and straw. What was left after the grain
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had been harvested and threshed A tinderbox?
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His own breath would with light a serious started a fire
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sweeping across the ancient world with his imperial
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aggression with and oppression. And Isaiah said that one day God
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would bring that fire back on the one who started it.
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Is consuming. Is consuming fire a reference to
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hell? No, it's a reference to God.
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God's presence, especially when judgement is involved, is also
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often associated with fire. How will the innocent in
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Jerusalem escape judgment? Those who live righteously dwell
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on the heights, a symbol of the security found only in God.
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While sinners in Zion are terrified, the righteous enjoy
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refuge. This May primarily.
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This may refer primarily to spiritual security, since the
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atrocities of war inevitable inevitably cause innocence to
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suffer. Though Isaiah may have been
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promising the people of Judah protection if they would trust
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God rather than Egypt, when would Judah enjoy this time of
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peace? The King is either God himself
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or the future Messiah. Though this prophecy appears to
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describe the coming of the Messianic Age, when God's people
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will be safe at last, it must have provided great comfort to
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those facing the immediate threat posed by Assyria.
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The clear message is that no matter what happens, God is in
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control. What ships are being described
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here? The they are warships and the
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promise of the passage is that God's people will one day enjoy
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abundance and safety. And then it says, what does this
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vision describe? This is a wonderful picture of a
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new Jerusalem with a peace filled future that includes both
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spiritual and material blessings.
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In contrast to the impending judgment and destructive day,
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God's holy city will be safe and secure in the coming Messianic
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age. That's the thousand year reign
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of Christ. It will be restored to a
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peaceful place of celebration. Knowing their city would one day
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be like a tent that will not be moved must have comforted the
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people who were threatened with being uprooted.
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Though Jerusalem wasn't protected by broad rivers and
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streams, it would soon be as safe as a city that had such
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protection. Wide rivers, which are usually
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shallow and slow, made cities unreachable to warships and
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helped protect against land attack.
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God would be more than a protector.
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He would also govern the city as judge, Lawgiver, and king.
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Verse 23 seems to be parenthetical, focusing on the
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immediate historical context. Some think the ship being
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addressed here refers to Assyria, which would try to sail
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against Zion, but it would come up against a greater enemy than
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it had planned of the Lord. Others think the ship refers to
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Judah or Jerusalem, which was unprepared to sail into battle
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against Assyria, yet God would strike down the Assyrian
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invaders. Verse 24 shifts again to the
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future, a time when sin and sickness would be removed.
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For a New Testament prophecies about the New Jerusalem, see
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Hebrews chapter 12 verse 22 and Revelation chapter 3 verse 12,
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chapter 21 verses one through 5. I think I forgot to read this
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one verse. No one living in from Isaiah, no
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one living in Zion will say I am ill and the sins of those who
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dwell there will be forgiven. So that's the final word of
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encouragement that nobody's going to be ill and the sins of
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those who dwell there will be forgiven.
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Something to look forward to.