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889. Bible Study: Zechariah 12 (The Day of the Lord, On that Day) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 12 from the book of Zechariah.
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First, let's pray. Dear Lord, please be with us as
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we go through this. Chapter 12.
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Open our minds and our hearts to what you have to say.
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We ask this in Jesus name, Amen. A prophecy, the word of the Lord
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concerning Israel. The Lord, who stretches out the
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heavens, who lays the foundations of the earth, and
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who forms the human spirit within a person, declares I am
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going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding
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peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well
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as Jerusalem on that day when all the nations of the earth are
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gathered against her. I will make Jerusalem an
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immovable rock for all the nations.
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All who try to move it will injure themselves.
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On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider
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with madness, declares the Lord. I will keep a watchful eye over
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Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations.
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Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, The people of
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Jerusalem are strong because the Lord Almighty is their God.
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On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in
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a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves.
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They will consume, they will consume all the surrounding
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peoples, right and left, but Jerusalem will remain intact in
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her place. The Lord will save the dwellings
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of Judah first, so that the honor of the House of David and
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of Jerusalem's inhabitants may not be greater than that of
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Judah on that day. The Lord will shield those who
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live in Jerusalem so that the feeblest among them will be like
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David and the House of David will be like God, like the Angel
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of the Lord going before them on that day.
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I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack
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Jerusalem. I think chapter 12, verse 9 of
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Zechariah needs to be spoken to all the nations today and all
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the people who are having a an issue with Israel today.
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Remember this verse, Zechariah chapter 12, verse 9.
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On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that
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attack Jerusalem. Quite a bit of a word of warning
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here for for all the nations of the world actually, verse 10.
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And I will pour out on the House of David and the inhabitants of
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Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication.
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They will look on me the one they have pierced.
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And they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child,
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and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a first born son
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on that. And I'm just, I guess I'm going
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to pause right here because that's, that's Jesus right
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there. They will look on me the one
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they, they have pierced. Jesus's side was pierced while
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he was on the cross. Also his wrist and his feet were
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pierced by the stakes that held him to the cross.
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And they, the people of Jerusalem, will mourn for him.
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As one mourns for an only child, so Jesus is the Son of God, the
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only child. Jesus is the Son of God and
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grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a first born son.
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Jesus is considered the first fruits.
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When he resurrected and resurrected and returned to the
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Father, he was considered one of the first fruits.
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Paul talks about that. I think it's in Thessalonians.
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On that day, the weeping in Jerusalem will be as great as
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the weeping of Haddad Rimman in the plain of Megiddo.
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The land will mourn each clan by itself, with their wives by
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themselves, The clan of the House of David and their wives,
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the clan of the House of Nathan and their wives, the clan of the
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House of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their
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wives, and all the rest of the clans and their wives.
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That's the end of chapter 12. I will read the the study
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Bibles, questions and answers for chapter 12.
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Now how would Jerusalem be like a cup that sends others reeling?
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This metaphor is similar to our expression of take your
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medicine, also found, I guess in Isaiah 5117.
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In this case, the nations opposed to Jerusalem will be
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sent reeling when they drank God's judgments.
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This this cup was, if you look throughout the prophecies that
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Zechariah has, when you search for the cup, there's quite a bit
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about the cup. Just like Jesus drank the cup of
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wine at the Passover and said this was the blood of the new
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covenant, it's also the wrath that came upon Jesus, the blood
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that came upon Jesus when he died on the cross and in And
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then God sends the cup of wrath against many in the Book of
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Revelation. So there's a lot about drinking
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this cup and the. The drinking of a cup of wine
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was also symbolic of a covenant relationship as well, like the
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in a marriage where the, the man would offer the woman a, a cup
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to drink and if she would drink from it, that means she would
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essentially accept, accept his proposal.
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And Jesus did this with all of his disciples at Passover that
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they all drank from the cup and they were all like in agreement,
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I guess in the covenant with Jesus.
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So there's there's a lot to the cup and the cup of wrath is
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talked about quite a bit in the Book of Revelation.
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OK, so why would all the nations of the world attack Jerusalem?
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I mean, maybe when this book was written, there's a question
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about that. But today, in 2026, I don't
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think we'd have to say like, why would all the nations in the
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world attack Jerusalem? The only one who seems to be
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standing by Jerusalem at this time is the United States.
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I maybe I'm overstating that, but for the most part, there's
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not a lot of countries that support Jerusalem.
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Actually, there might be a little bit now because Iran has
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been targeting their Muslim brothers with missiles and
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they're starting to get upset about that.
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So that could be changing the alliances that that were almost
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natural because of their relations.
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But anyway, this is the study Bible says some think this
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refers to Armageddon, the last major battle predicted in
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Revelation. Others see this figuratively as
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referring to the church, which is constantly besieged by
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enemies but never overthrown. Yeah, it's this is.
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I mean, that doesn't seem to be an accurate response to this
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because it says in the very beginning, it says this is a
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prophecy about Israel. So it seems like Israel is the
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is the focus here. What kind of battle is this
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describing? Since calvaries no longer play a
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major role in war today, the horses here must either refer to
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an event in the past or in a symbolic way to some future
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event, perhaps Armageddon. Well, horses, I mean, that's
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maybe the way the Lord communicated to the people.
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Horses also were spiritual. We've covered that in other
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Bible studies where the like the horses of in the Book of
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Revelation, the horses in the the book of Zechariah, the first
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chapter, it talks about them being the spirits that roam
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throughout the earth. So they are symbolic and they
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maybe this is the way God gave Zechariah the prophecy or the
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word by talking about horses, something Zechariah was familiar
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with. I don't know.
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So why prioritize who would be saved?
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The phrase dwellings of Judah probably refers to the
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undefended areas of the land as opposed to the fortress city of
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of David, Jerusalem. The point?
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The Lord will not allow those living in the city to think they
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are safer than those living outside the city.
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Who was the one they have pierced?
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This is a prophecy of the Messiah, this time shown as the
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one who suffers undeservedly. This predicts the anguish of
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those in Jerusalem who saw Jesus nailed to the cross.
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How did had Haddad Rimmon weep? This may refer to the time when
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the people mourned for King Josiah found in Second
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Chronicles chapter 35 verses 22 through 27.
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It may also have been a comparison to weeping performed
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in worship to a false God. And that's referencing Ezekiel
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chapter 8 verse 14. So that concludes all of what
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the study Bible has to say. So the a few things that I paid
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attention to and here was verse 3 it says on that day and then
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verse 6 it says on that day and verse 8 it says on that day and
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verse 9 it says on that day and verse 11 says on that day.
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I mean getting the point here that on that day.
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So what day is this being talked about?
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And if you search for on that day or if you search for the day
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of the Lord, that's what's typically called in the
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prophetic books and using the NIV translation, there are 19
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exact phrases. So in Isaiah chapter 13, verse
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six, he says wail for the day of the Lord is near.
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It will come like destruction from the Almighty.
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Isaiah 39 says, see the day of the Lord is coming, a cruel day
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with wrath and fierce anger to make the land desolate and
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destroy the sinners within it. We should probably pay attention
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to that. These are unrepentant people
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doesn't mean every single person.
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It means those people who are unrepentant, who have not turned
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to the Lord, who have not kind of gotten out of slavery, of
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sin, those that are rejecting sin of and have turned to God
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will not be the ones that are destroyed here.
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This is talking about those who are rejecting God.
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Ezekiel 13 five, you have not gone up, gone up to the breaches
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in the wall to repair it for the people of Israel so that it will
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stand firm in the battle on the day of the Lord.
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That's an Ezekiel. Now that was that kind of almost
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a double fulfilled prophecy because there it had an
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immediate, I mean, it was an immediate warning, but also a
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future warning to the people of Israel is that they have like
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these breeches in their their faith and their protection.
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They have the breeches they are they are turned against the
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Lord. They haven't repented to him and
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they need to repair that so that they can stand firm in the
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battle on the day of the Lord. Ezekiel 30, verse 3 for the day
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of the Lord is near. The day of the Lord is near, for
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the day is near. The day of the Lord is near, a
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day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
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Joel chapter one verse 15 says, Alas for that day, for the day
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of the Lord is near. It will come like destruction
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from the Almighty. So that is a it's almost exactly
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like what Isaiah said in in chapter 13 verse 6.
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It said Isaiah said, well, for the day of the Lord is near.
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It will come like destruction from the Almighty.
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I mean that second part of it is the same.
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So these are both hearing from God.
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These are prophets that are saying this to the people of
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Jerusalem and warning them over and over again.
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This is where Jesus talks about, you know, the prophets.
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He came to fulfill what the prophets had said.
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The prophets are talking about something that still is yet to
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come. The day of the Lord has not come
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yet, but this is the day that Jesus returns, the second
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coming, and it's the wrath of God.
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So all this time, these thousands of years, people,
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mankind has had the opportunity to get right with God, to
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reconcile with God, and those who choose not to will undergo
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the wrath of God. So Joel 2 verse one, blow the
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trumpet in Zion, sound the alarm on my holy hill.
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Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the Lord
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is coming. It is close in hand at hand.
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Joel 211. The Lord thunders at the head of
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His army. His forces are beyond number,
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and mighty is the army that obeys His command.
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The day of the Lord is great, it is dreadful.
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Who can endure it? Joel 3, verse 14 Multitudes,
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multitudes in the valley of decision.
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For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
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I think there's a little bit to this that you know, the the
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decision is today. What is your decision?
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There's and and at this time, you know, there's multitudes in
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the valley of decision people aren't you know, what are they
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going to decide? Are they going to be with God or
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against God? The day of the Lord is near and
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and then the other part is like if we die unexpectedly, if we
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were not anticipating going sooner than we thought, what
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decision have we made? Are we ready to come face to
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face with God? Have we reconciled with him?
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Amos chapter 5 verse 18 says woe to you who long for the day of
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the Lord. Why do you long for the day of
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the Lord? That day will be darkness, not
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light. So there is, you know, Jesus
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came like the silent lamb the first time because he had a
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purpose. He had a purpose to die on that
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cross so that all of us could enter, could have the
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opportunity to enter into the Kingdom of God.
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But when he turns again, it actually it'll be a 2 fold good
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and bad day. It'll be good for those who have
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reconciled with God because it says in Scripture that Jesus
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will send out his angels with the sound of a trumpet who will
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gather his elect has chosen the ones who have prepared
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themselves and gather them to him in the sky.
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So that's, that's one aspect. But right after that, and those
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are the people who have prepared themselves.
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And it says that those who have prepared are not subject to the
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wrath of God. They will go through
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tribulation, but they're not subject to the wrath of God.
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So that's the wrath of God comes at the 6th seal when everybody
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says fall on us and try and cover that.
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You know, I guess it's all these people going into their bunkers
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that they think are going to save them, but they don't know
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who they're dealing with. They're they're they are trying
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to hide from the creator of the universe.
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It's not going to go well. I mean, think about like
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military and advanced military and how with all of our
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technology today, how people can be found and that's something
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that was made by humans. What about the creator?
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You think you can really hide from the creator?
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The creator who knows every single hair on your head, who
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knows everything, every single thought in your mind.
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There's no hiding from him. I mean, they, I think David said
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that many times. I could go here, I could go
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there, but there's no getting away from you.
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You know everything. And this is who we are going to
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come face to face with someday, either when we die or when Jesus
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returns, whichever comes first. And are you prepared for that?
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Are you ready? Amos 520?
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Will not the day of the Lord be darkness, not light, pitch dark
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without a ray of brightness? When I read this, this is really
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interesting because when I came was on my faith journey.
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That's the only way I can think of to call it because things
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started changing in my life. And at the point where I, this
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is where everything changed for me is when I decided to get
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baptized, full immersion baptism.
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I was baptized as an infant, but as an adult, I decided that I
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would do this. I wasn't sure if I needed to or
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not, but to me it was a sign to God that OK, I'm, I don't want
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to be a hypocrite. I don't want to be calling
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myself a Christian, but not living like you want, like you
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show Christians to live like that's, you know, not
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continuing. There's a there's a changed
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life. Like I really truly wanted my
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life to change. And I wanted to be obedient to
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God. And that baptism was symbolic of
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that. And interestingly, that very
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night I started having dreams, I think, right?
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And that was in 2021 that this happened.
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And I've and they were dreams about Jesus, power in the name
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of Jesus. They were things about, they
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were encouraging things, they were warnings, they were things
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about other people. I've had 103 dreams to date
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since then and they are biblically related and I never
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had dreams like this before. They started on that very night
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and I don't ever know when they're coming, but all of a
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sudden they come and, and then there's things that are in those
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dreams that then happen in real life.
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For example, recently in 2023, I had a dream.
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I just, I mean like a, a word that came to me was Maven.
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I didn't even know what it was. I never heard that word before
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and just recently I was looking and this is like, I guess Plant
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Air is has this project maven and this maven is actually being
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used in this Israel, US, Iran war right now.
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It's like AI warfare. I didn't even know what that
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was. But these are the things that
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have happened in my dreams where I'll dream about something and
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then all of a sudden it shows up in my dream and not shows up in
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my dream, shows up in real life. And the connection is made into
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the dream. There's been words of God that
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anyway, not about that, but anyway, here's what I wanted to
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say. What triggered it?
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Amos 520 says Will not the day of the Lord be darkness, not
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light, pitch dark without a ray of brightness.
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My 7th dream that I had was about the rapture and I was, I
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didn't come from a religious background that ever even heard
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of the rapture. Like I didn't hear about it
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until I started studying the Bible and then started here.
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I heard it from other people and I didn't even know what this
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rapture was. I didn't even know Jesus was
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coming again to be honest. And and so anyway, I set my 7th
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dream was a rapture dream. Now this was not something that
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I like super focused on because it was just something brand new
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to me. And I had this dream and then I
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had, I've had three dreams. And that's interesting too
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because I know in scripture that God emphasizes 3 things three
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times. And I had I think the second
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rapture dream was like a week later.
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And then the third rapture dream was almost like nine months
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later or something like that. So I had these multiple dreams
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and they were slightly different from one another, but there was
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1 consistent thing that happened.
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Everything went black before the light came, and that's when the
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rapture occurred. And, and so when I had those
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dreams and I noticed like the first one that I had, it scared
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me because everything went black and I didn't know what was
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happening. And then all of a sudden I in
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the dream there was something symbolic that showed me it was
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the rapture. My second dream that I had was
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the same thing happened. It was a different scene, but
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the everything went black and I was with some other people and I
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said don't worry, I've already seen this.
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Like I was recalling my prior dream within my dream and I
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said, don't worry about it. The rapture's coming next.
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You don't have anything to fear. So I was like warning other
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people, it's OK. And then my third dream was, was
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interesting, especially with the timing.
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And I think this dream was in 2023.
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And my dream actually involved a like a storm siren that went
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off. And and so it was like a one of
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those public address sirens that give you a warning about a storm
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coming up. And I remembered that it was it
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was light outside, but the storm siren went off and then
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everything went black. The electricity, everything went
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off. I could not see.
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So this was my third dream that had everything going black.
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And then also again, I started rising from the ground and I
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could at this time I could see myself and, and it was kind of
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different from the other two dreams because it was like, did
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I just witness my death? I don't know, you know, So but
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the consistent thing in all three dreams was everything went
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black. So then I started searching
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scripture, like what does it say?
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Does it say this in scripture? You know, what is this?
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I, I remembered this pitch black right before the rapture
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happened and, and I just, I wanted to see if that was in
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Scripture and it was, of course. So like when I'm reading Amos
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520 right now, will not the day of the Lord be darkness, not
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light, pitch dark without a ray of brightness.
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It just ties into scripture. I mean, these are different
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experiences. I never expected that to happen,
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but I, these dreams made me really believe this.
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I, I don't, you know, like when it was when it was, I guess
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affirmed in scripture. Then I believed I was like, wow,
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this is real. And, and I believe like God was
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showing me something was part of my faith journey.
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So OK. Obadiah 1:15 The day of the Lord
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is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be
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done to you. Your deeds will return upon your
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own head. I've heard people talk about
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this, people who've had like near death experiences and some
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of them got visions of hell and some of them got visions of the
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Kingdom of God. And, and the ones who saw hell
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made this verse really memorable for me because they said like
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the things that they did to other people then happened to
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them in a way that even if it was something that they had fun
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doing, it was no longer fun. Like all the fun was gone out of
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it. And it was just, it became a
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burden, but it was just whatever they did to someone else came
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back to them. And these were people's
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experiences that they had. And after they had these near
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death experiences, their lives turned around and they repented
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and they turned towards God. I think God was showing mercy on
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them and giving them a, a, a scene of look into what their
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future was if they did not repent.
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These people had done lots of really horrible things, but then
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they saw this is what's going to happen to you.
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Like what you've done is going to come back to you and and so
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it's it's not something to play around with Zephaniah one verse
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7 be silent before the sovereign Lord for the day of the Lord is
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near. The Lord has prepared a
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sacrifice. He has consecrated those he has
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invited. Here's another thing.
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The Lord has prepared a sacrifice.
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So this is this is coming. But then it says he has
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consecrated those he had has invited.
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He has made holy some. The Zephaniah 114 The great day
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of the Lord is near near and coming quickly.
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The cry on the day of the Lord is bitter.
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The mighty warrior shouts his battle cry.
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Then you get into the New Testament, 1 Corinthians 5 verse
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5, this, this is like the second day this verse showed up.
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All I was searching for was the day of the Lord and this shows
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up. So hand this man over to Satan
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for the destruction of the flesh so that his spirit may be saved
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on the day of the Lord. To tell you what that story was.
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If you listen to the prior podcast, I did go over that.
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So just I won't do it again. But this is, you know, I guess
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Paul's way of just saying so that his, that his spirit may be
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saved on the day of the Lord like Satan will.
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That's part of the reason for people having tribulation,
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people having things going wrong in their life is to humble them,
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to destroy their flesh, to get them to focus on God when
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they're in a sinful state. These things keep coming on them
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like God disciplines his children, and we're going to
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keep getting discipline until we finally wake up and see that
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what God's doing. 2nd Corinthians 114 as you have
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understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that
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you can boast of us just as we boast of you in the day of the
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Lord Jesus. And then 1st Thessalonians 5
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verse 2 For you know very well that the day of the Lord will
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come like a thief in the night when Jesus returns.
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It's going to surprise people. People will not be expecting it.
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Not that very not the very moment that it happens.
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It will come like a surprise. People will know the season, but
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they will not know the exact day or hour as the way Scripture
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says. 2nd Thessalonians 2 too, not to be come easily unsettled
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or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us, whether by a
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prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter, asserting that the
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day of the Lord has already come.
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So people were saying that the day of the Lord had come, but
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Paul was writing to them and he's like, no, you know, like
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this is a rumor. It has not happened.
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And it obviously hasn't happened because we're still here on the
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earth and Jesus is not reigning as king.
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So after Jesus returns, he will reign as king.
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So then we will know the day of the Lord has come.
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So second Peter 3 verse 10. But the day of the Lord will
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come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with
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a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire and the earth
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and everything done in it will be laid bare.
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I mean, that's, that's going to be so people aren't going to
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miss the day of the Lord because this is talking about the whole
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earth and and fire and this is this is not going to be missed.
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People will not question did that happen yet?
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I mean, that's not going to happen.
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Not the way Scripture talks about the day of the Lord.
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Then in the book of Zechariah, he mentions on that day, which I
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believe is the day of the Lord when you start reading all the
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things that he says. So I'm going to read through the
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verses which it starts really in Zechariah 12 verse 3.
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But once he starts in this chapter on that day, just listen
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to this because these are multiple verses that reference
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that day, and I believe that day is the day of the Lord.
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So Zechariah 12 verse 3, on that day when all the nations of the
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earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an
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immovable rock for all the nations.
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All who try to move it will injure themselves.
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Verse 4:00 On that day I will strike every horse with panic in
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its rider, with madness, declares the Lord.
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I will keep a watchful eye over Judah, but I will blind all the
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horses of the nations. Verse 6:00 On that day I will
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make the clans of Judah like a firepot on a woodpile, like a
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flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume all the
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surrounding people's right and left, but Jerusalem will remain
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intact in her place. Then in verse 8, on that day the
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Lord will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the
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feeblest among them will be like David, and the House of David
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will be like God, like the Angel of the Lord going before them.
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Verse 9:00 On that day I will set out to destroy all the
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nations that attack Jerusalem. Verse 11.
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On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be as great as
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the weeping of Haddad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
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Then chapter 13 he talks about it more.
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Verse one. On that day a fountain will be
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opened to the House of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to
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cleanse them from sin and impurity.
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Well, that hasn't happened yet either.
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Again, This is why I believe this is the day of the Lord the
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people. As it says here, the House of
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David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will be cleansed from
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sin and impurity on that day. I will ban verse 2 of chapter
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13. On that day I will banish the
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names of the idols from the land, and they will be
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remembered no more, declares the Lord Almighty.
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I will remove both the prophets and the spirit of impurity from
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the land. So there's going to be a, you
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know, this is the wrath of God is going to take care of this.
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This is the separation between good and evil before Jesus
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reigns here on the earth. Verse 4 On that day, every
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prophet will be ashamed of their prophetic vision.
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They will not put on a prophet's garment of hair in order to
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deceive. So there are these false
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prophets who are saying peace, peace, nothing's going to happen
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to Jerusalem. We're we're all fine and you
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know, giving these false visions that we're not from God and this
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is God's going to deal with them.
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In then in chapter 14, verse 4, it says on that day, his feet
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this is talking about Jesus will stand on the Mount of Olives
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east of Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives will be split in two
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from east to West, forming a great valley with half of the
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mountain moving north and half moving South.
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Verse 6. On that day there will be
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neither sunlight nor cold, frosty darkness.
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On that day, living water will flow from Jerusalem, half of it
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east to the Dead Sea and half of it West to the Mediterranean
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Sea. In summer and in winter, Jesus
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has the living water. I mean, this is probably, I
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don't know if this is going to be sounds like it's going to be
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literal and but it could also be symbolic too, about Jesus
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bringing the living water to people.
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The living water is the Holy Spirit.
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That's how people become sanctified.
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That's how people become cleansed.
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That is the fountain Jesus talks to you.
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If you drink from the fountain that I give, you will never
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thirst again. That's what he says to the woman
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at the well. This is about what Jesus does.
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So on that day water will flow for out from Jerusalem,
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Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea and half of it West
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to the Mediterranean Sea in summer and in winter.
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That's Zechariah chapter 14, verse 8, verse 9.
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The Lord will be king over the whole earth on that day.
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There will be 1 Lord and His name, the only name, and that
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name is Jesus. Zechariah 4I added that name is
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Jesus. But yes, that's who this is.
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Zechariah 14 verse 9, verse 13. On that day people will be
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stricken by the Lord with great panic.
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They will seize each other by the hand and attack one another.
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In verse 20 it says on that day holy to the Lord will be
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inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in
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the Lord's house will be like sacred bowls in front of the
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altar. 21 Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the
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Lord Almighty, and all who come to sacrifice will take some of
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the pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no
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longer be a Canaanite in the House of the Lord Almighty.
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Now Jesus talks about on that day, which is kind of
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interesting. Yeah, it's, it's interesting to
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read these things. So in Matthew I, I think I want
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to read these things that Jesus said Matthew 722 Many will say
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to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophecy in your name
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and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform
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many miracles? This is the this is the part
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that most people don't want to hear because Jesus's response to
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them, then I will tell them plainly, I never knew you away
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from me, you evil doers. I think this really is about
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whether people have made Jesus the Lord of their life, because
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these people are saying Lord, Lord, did we not?
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And he's like, what do you mean? I haven't been your Lord.
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You're your own Lord or somebody else's or you know, he doesn't
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stop them from driving out demons.
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But often he will say like even to the Pharisees and the
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hypocrites, he said, you know, when I looked up cup, this came,
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this came up like the cup. You clean the cup on the
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outside, but the inside is filthy.
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And that's what Jesus talks about people like it's not what
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they eat that defiles them. It's what comes from inside
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them. Like our inner, our inner being,
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our inner motivation, what we do like are we obedient to Christ?
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Is he Lord of our life? Or do we say, no, I want to do
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what I want to do like that's great that you died on the cross
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for me. You saved me, but I don't know
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that I want you to be Lord over my life.
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I mean, who's saying that right now?
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Because I think that could be the person that Jesus says this
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to. I think it's a warning that, you
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know, if Jesus is not Lord of your life, if you are not in
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obedience in submission to Christ, you might want to
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rethink and reflect on this and pray to pray to Jesus about and
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ask Jesus, you know, am am I OK with you?
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Are you, am I going to hear this from you?
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I think it's, it's a good time to do that right now for all of
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us to, to ask God and to make sure that we have Jesus as Lord
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of our life. Everybody loves his sacrifice,
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but do they love it if he's Lord, if he guides them, if he,
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if we live by his rules? Do you like that or do you
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reject that? Something to seriously think
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about. Let's see Mark chapter 2, verse
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20. But the time will come when the
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bridegroom will be taken from them.
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And on that day they will fast. So that's a different day
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because that was when Jesus died on the cross.
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And they were fasting. You know, they were celebrating
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with Jesus when he was there. But then when he goes away,
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yeah, that's a fasting and mourning.
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Luke 10 verse 12 I tell you it will be more bearable on that
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day for Sodom than for that town.
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So this is when Jesus told his disciples to go out and go.
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It says when you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is
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offered to you, heal the sick who are there and tell them the
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Kingdom of God has come near to you.
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There's a healing in that. But when they when you enter a
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town and are not welcomed, go into the streets and say even
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the dust of your town we wipe from our feet as a warning to
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you. Yet be sure of this.
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The Kingdom of God has come near, says, I tell you it will
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be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
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People who reject Jesus, that's what he's talking about.
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Towns that reject Jesus. Sodom was destroyed and he said
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it'll be more bearable on that day for Sodom, which got
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destroyed, than for that town. Isn't that interesting or
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something to think about? Luke 1731.
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On that day, no one who is on the housetop with possessions
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inside should go down to get them.
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Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.
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This is talking about when Jesus returns and and there is this
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abomination of desolation that is seen by everyone and.
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There when they see this is it says Jesus said it in Matthew
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24, he says when you see the abomination of desolation that
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was spoken about through Daniel, the prophet let no one enter his
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house, but they must flee. And so Luke 1731 says the same
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thing. On that day, no one who is on
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the housetop with possessions should go down to get them.
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Likewise no one should in the field should go back for
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anything. And he said, remember Lot's
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wife, whoever tries to keep their life will lose it and
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whoever loses their life will preserve it.
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And this is he also tells you, I tell you that on that night, two
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people will be in one bed, one will be taken and the other
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left. Two women will be grinding grain
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together, one will be taken and the other left.
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So is that the gathering when Jesus returns and he sends his
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angels out with a with a trumpet sound and a loud shout for his
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angels to gather the elect, those who are prepared.
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John 14, verse 20. On that day you will realize
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that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.
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This is like something this is something that Jesus prayed to
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the Father before he died on the cross.
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He said to make them one as we are one.
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The only kind of one that God had talked about in Scripture
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that I recall is like in a marriage, when a husband and a
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wife to come together, they the 2 become one.
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Actually, when somebody has sex with somebody, the 2 become one.
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And it's clear throughout Scripture about that as well.
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And but there is, there's the right way and the wrong way.
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Like Satan, you know, lures people in with that where
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there's like indiscriminate sex and it it says that all other
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sins are outside your body, but that one sin is not, it affects
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your innermost being. And it's something that has to
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be dealt with with with God. And anyway, there is a good
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sight of it all, and that's what Jesus prayed for is that we all
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become one with Him and the Father, and that's what he
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wanted. And He has perfect love with the
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Father, and that's what He wants for all of us, to make them one
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as we are one. That's what He said to the
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Father in prayer. And so now he's telling on that
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day you will realize. So let's see, He's comforting
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his disciples and he's telling them on that day you will
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realize that I am in my Father and you are in me, and I am in
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you. I mean, that would be like, what
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are you talking about? But then he says next, whoever
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has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.
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The one who loves me will be loved by my father, and I too
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will love them and show myself to them.
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So the thing about being obedient to God, it doesn't gain
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us anything. But what it does is it shows God
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that we love him, that we respect him, that we respect his
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commands and we live by them. We're willing to live by them
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even though the world doesn't live by them and the world makes
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fun of people or ridicules people or, I don't know, makes
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it challenging for people to live in obedience to Christ then
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but but God sees it as this person loves me.
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That's what he says. If you obey my commands, you
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love me. Let's see what else then I'm
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going to skip the one that acts, one that's not talking about the
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day of the Lord, but then may the Lord in Second Timothy 118,
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it says may the Lord grant that He will find mercy from the Lord
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on that day. You know very well and how many
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ways He helped me in Ephesus. So I don't know about that day.
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That is probably a different day that's being discussed now.
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This is second Timothy 4 verse 8.
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Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which
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the Lord, the righteous judge will award to me on that day,
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and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his
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appearing. So this is this is Paul talking
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about like the prior sentence says, I have fought the good
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fight. I have finished the race, I have
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kept the faith. So he's he knows that there are
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rewards in doing this and and Paul got his revelations
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directly from Christ in his teachings.
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So anyway, the day of the Lord and on that day there's you can
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probably see that there are, you know, I guess blessings for
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those who are connected, who are reconciled with Christ, but then
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not so great for those who are against Christ.
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Let's see the cup. He does talk about the cup here
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and I you can probably search it and look through because this
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has already got become pretty long.
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But, and this is interesting, the last one in this first
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section, it says First Corinthians 10/21.
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You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too,
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you cannot have a part in both the Lord's table and the table
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of demons. Very interesting, and let's see
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also about drinking the cup of, you know, at Passover.
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In First Corinthians 11/27 it says so then whoever eats the
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bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will
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be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.
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Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat the
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bread and drink from the cup. And then in Revelation, pretty
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much everywhere it talks about the cup refers to the wrath of
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God. So you'll find that in
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Revelation 1410, Revelation 16, Revelation 17, and Revelation 18
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where it talks about the Cup of Wrath.
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And so anyway, I think I'm going to just wrap it up and you can
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search the cup and read the verses that go along with it
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since this this already has become another long podcast.
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