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The Rapture Revealed (Pt 2) | The 70-Week Countdown Toward the Messiah's Return (Oct 14) · 1 Year Audio Bible Podcast

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  In the first year of his reign, I Daniel understood
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  by the books the number of the years specified
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  by the word of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet, that he
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  would accomplish 70 years in the desolations of
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  Jerusalem. Then I set
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  my face toward the Lord God to make requests by prayer and supplications
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  with fasting sackcloth, and ashes.
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  What was it that Daniel understood?
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  What was the flash of insight, the light bulb that
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  went off, that drove him to prayer
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  and repentance on behalf of his nation and his people?
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  What was it in Jeremiah that he learned?
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  In this chapter, chapter 9 of Daniel, it is a huge
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  key to unlock many other prophecies throughout the Bible concerning
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  the end of days. What did Daniel understand?
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  Listen in as we unpack this today. Welcome to
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  the One Year Audio Bible Podcast. Today is October
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  14th. Now let's continue our journey reading through the entire
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  Bible in one year. This week we are reading from the Israel Bible
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  for the Hebrew Scriptures and from the King James for the New
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  Testament. Numbers 29:17-25.
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  Second day: 12 bulls of the herd, 2 rams,
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  14 yearling lambs without blemish, the meal offerings
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  and libations for the bulls, rams, and lambs in the
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  quantities prescribed, and 1 goat for a sin offering in addition
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  to the regular burnt offering, its meal offering, and libations.
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  3rd day: 11 bulls, 2 rams,
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  14 yearling lambs without blemish. The meal offerings
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  and libations for the bulls, rams, and lambs in the quantities
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  prescribed. And 1 goat for a sin offering in addition to
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  the regular burnt offering, its meal offering and libation.
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  4th day: 10 bulls, 2 rams, 14 yearling lambs
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  without blemish. The meal offerings and libations for
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  the bulls, rams, and lambs in the quantities prescribed,
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  and one goat for a sin offering in addition to the regular burnt
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  offering, its meal offering and libation.
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  Jeremiah 23:21-25,
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  38. I did not send those nevi'im, but they rushed
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  in. I did not speak to them, Yet they prophesied. If they
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  have stood in My counsel, let them announce My words to My people and make
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  them turn back from their evil ways and wicked acts. Am I only
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  a Hashem near at hand, says Hashem, and not
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  a Hashem far away? If a man enters a hiding
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  place, do I not see him, says Hashem? For I fill
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  both heaven and earth, declares Hashem. I have heard
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  what the nevi'im say who prophesy falsely in My name.
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  I had a dream, I had a dream. How long will there be in
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  the minds of the nevi'im who prophesy falsehood, the nevi'im
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  of their own deceitful minds, the plan to make people forget my name
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  by means of the dreams which they tell each other,
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  just as their fathers forgot my name because of Baal?
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  Let the navi who has a dream tell the dream, and let him who has
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  received my word report my word faithfully, How can straw
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  be compared to grain? says Hashem. Behold,
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  My Word is like fire, declares Hashem,
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  and like a hammer that shatters rock.
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  Assuredly, I am going to deal with the Nevi'im, declares Hashem,
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  who steal My Words from one another.
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  I am going to deal with the Nevi'im, declares Hashem, who wag
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  their tongues and make oracular, Utterances.
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  I am going to deal with those who prophesy lying dreams,
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  declares Hashem, who relate them to lead My people astray
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  with their reckless lies, when I did not send them or command them.
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  They do this people no good, declares Hashem.
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  And when this people, or a navi or a kohen, asks you,
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  What is the burden of Hashem? You shall answer them, What is the burden?
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  I will cast you off, declares Hashem. As for the Navi
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  or Kohen or layman who shall say, the burden of Hashem,
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  I will punish that person and his house.
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  Thus you shall speak to each other, every one to his fellow,
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  what has Hashem answered? Or, what has Hashem spoken?
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  But do not mention the burden of Hashem anymore.
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  Does a man regard his own words as a burden,
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  that you pervert the words of the living Hashem, the LORD of Hosts,
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  our God? Thus you shall speak to the Navi, What did Hashem
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  answer you? Or, What did Hashem speak?
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  But if you say, The burden of Hashem, assuredly, thus said Hashem,
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  Because you said this thing, The burden of Hashem,
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  whereas I sent word to you not to say,
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  The burden of Hashem, I will utterly forget you,
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  and I will cast you away from My presence,
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  together with the city that I gave to you and your fathers.
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  And I will lay upon you a disgrace for all time,
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  shame for all time, which shall never be forgotten.
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  Hashem showed me 2 baskets of figs placed in front of the Temple of Hashem.
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  This was after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had exiled King Jehoiachin
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  son of Jehoiachin of Judah and the officials of Judah
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  and the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem and had brought
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  them to Babylon. One basket contained very good
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  figs, like first-ripened figs, and the other basket
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  contained very bad figs, so bad that they could not
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  be eaten. And HaShem
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  said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? I answered, Figs.
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  The good ones are very good, and the bad ones are very bad,
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  so bad that they cannot be eaten.
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  Then the word of Hashem came to me. Thus said Hashem, the God
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  of Israel: As with these good figs, so will I single out for
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  good the Judean exiles whom I have driven out from
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  this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
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  I will look upon them favorably, and I will bring them
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  back to this land. I will build them and not overthrow them.
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  I will plant them and not uproot them. And I will give
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  them the understanding to acknowledge Me, for I am Hashem.
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  And they shall be My people, and I will be their God, when they
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  turn back to Me with all their heart.
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  And like the bad figs, which are so bad that they cannot be eaten,
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  thus said Hashem, so will I treat King Zedekiah
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  of Judah and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem that
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  is left in this land, and those who are living in the land of Egypt.
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  I will make them a horror and evil to all the kingdoms
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  of the earth, a disgrace and a proverb, a byword and
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  a curse, in all the places to which I banish them. I will
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  send the sword, famine, and pestilence against them,
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  until they are exterminated from the land that I gave to them and
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  their fathers. The word which
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  came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the 4th
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  year of King Jehoiakim, son of Josiah of Judah,
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  which was the first year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
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  This is what the Navi Jeremiah said to all the people of Judah
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  and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: From the
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  13th year of King Josiah son of Amon of
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  Judah to this day, these 23 years, the word of Hashem has
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  come to me: I have spoken to you persistently, but you would
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  not listen. Moreover, Hashem constantly sent
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  all His servants the Nevi'im to you, but you would
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  not listen or incline your ears to hear when they said, Turn back,
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  everyone, from your evil ways and your wicked acts, that you
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  may remain throughout the ages on the soil which Hashem gave to
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  you and your fathers. Do not follow other gods to
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  serve them and worship them. Do not vex Me with
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  what your own hands have made, And I will not bring disaster
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  upon you. But you would not listen to Me,
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  declares Hashem, but vexed Me with what your
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  hands made to your own hurt.
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  Assuredly, thus says the Lord of Hosts, because you would not listen to
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  My words, I am going to send for all the peoples of
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  the north, declares Hashem, and for My servant King Nebuchadnezzar
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  of Babylon and bring them against this land. And its inhabitants,
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  and against all those nations round about. I will exterminate
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  them and make them a desolation, an object of hissing,
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  ruins for all time. And I will banish
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  from them the sound of mirth and gladness, the voice
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  of the bridegroom and the bride, and the sound of the mill and the light
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  of the lamp. The whole land shall be a desolate ruin,
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  and those nations shall serve the king of Babylon 70
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  years.
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  When the 70 years are over, I will punish the king
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  of Babylon and that nation and the land of the Chaldeans for their sins,
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  declares Hashem, and I will make it a desolation for
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  all time. And I will bring upon that land
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  all that I have decreed against it, all that is recorded in this book,
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  that which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
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  For they too shall be enslaved by many nations and great kings,
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  and I will requite them according to their acts and according to
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  their conduct. For thus said Hashem,
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  the God of Israel, to me: Take from my hand this cup
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  of wine of wrath, and make all the nations to
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  whom I send you drink of it. Let them drink
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  and retch and act crazy because of the sword that
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  I am sending among them.
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  So I took the cup from the hand of Hashem and gave drink
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  to all the nations to whom Hashem had sent me: Jerusalem
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  and the towns of Judah and its kings and officials, to make them a desolate
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  ruin, an object of hissing and a curse, as is now
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  the case; Pharaoh, king of Egypt, his courtiers,
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  his officials, and all his people; all the mixed peoples,
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  all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the
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  land of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron,
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  and what is left of Ashdod, Edom, Moab, and Ammon,
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  all the kings of Tyre and all the kings of Sidon and all the kings
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  of the coastland across the sea, Dedan,
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  Tema, and Booz, all those who have their hair clipped,
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  all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed peoples who live
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  in the desert, All the kings of Zimri and all the kings of Elam and
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  all the kings of Media, all the kings of the north,
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  whether far from or close to each other, all the royal
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  lands which are on the earth, and last of all the king of
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  Shishak shall drink. Say to them, Thus said the
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  LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink and get drunk and
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  vomit, fall and never rise again!
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  Because of the sword that I send among you.
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  But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink,
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  say to them, Thus said the Lord of hosts,
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  You must drink. If I am bringing
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  the punishment first on the city that bears my name, do you expect to go
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  unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am summoning
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  the sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the Lord of
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  hosts. You are to prophesy all those things to them and then
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  say to them, Hashem roars from on
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  high. He makes His voice heard from His holy dwelling.
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  He roars aloud over His earthly abode.
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  He utters shouts like the grape treaders against
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  all the dwellers on the earth.
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  Tumult has reached the ends of the earth, for Hashem has a
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  case against the nations. He contends with
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  all flesh. He delivers the wicked to the sword,
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  declares Hashem. Thus said the LORD of hosts: Disaster
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  goes forth from nation to nation. A great storm is
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  unleashed from the remotest parts of earth.
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  In that day the earth will be strewn with the slain of Hashem from
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  one end to the other. They shall not be mourned
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  or gathered and buried. They shall become dung upon the face of
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  the earth. Howl, you shepherds,
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  and yell! Straw dust on yourselves, you lords
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  of the flock, for the day of your slaughter draws near.
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  I will break you in pieces and you shall fall like a precious vessel.
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  Flight shall fail the shepherds and escape the lords
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  of the flock. Hark, the outcry of the shepherds and the howls of the lords
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  of the flock, for Hashem is ravaging their pasture.
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  The peaceful meadow shall be wiped out by the fierce wrath of Hashem.
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  Like a lion, He has gone forth from His lair.
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  The land has become a desolation because of the oppressive
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  wrath, because of His fierce anger.
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  2 Thessalonians 2:1-17.
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  Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus
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  Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him,
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  that you be not soon shaken in mind or be
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  troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by
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  letter as from us, as that the day
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  of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive
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  you by any means, for that day shall
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  not come except there come a falling away first,
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  and that man of sin be revealed, the son
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  of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself
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  above all that is called God or that is worshiped,
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  so that he as God sits in the temple of God,
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  showing himself that he is God.
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  Remember not that when I was yet with you I told you these things?
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  And now you know what withholds that he might
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  be revealed in his time. For the
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  mystery of iniquity does already work.
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  Only he who now lets will let only until
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  he be taken out of the way, and then shall
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  that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall
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  consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall
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  destroy with the brightness of his coming.
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  Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan
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  with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with
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  all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them
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  that perish, because they received not the love
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  of the truth, that they might be saved.
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  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,
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  that they should believe a lie, that they all might be
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  damned who believed not the truth,
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  but had pleasure in unrighteousness. But we
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  are bound to give thanks always to God for you,
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  brethren beloved of the Lord, Because God
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  has from the beginning chosen you to salvation
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  through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of
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  the truth, whereunto He called you by our gospel,
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  to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus
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  Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the
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  traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or our
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  epistle, Now our Lord Jesus Christ
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  himself, and God, even our Father, which has loved us,
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  and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope
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  through grace, comfort your hearts, and establish you in
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  every good work and word.
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  Psalm 84:1-12.
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  How amiable are Your tabernacles,
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  O Lord of Hosts. My soul longs, yes, even faints
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  for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh cry out
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  for the living God. Yes, the sparrow has found a house,
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  and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young,
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  even Your altars, O Lord of Hosts, my King and my
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  God. Blessed are they that dwell in Your house. They will be
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  still praising You. Selah. Blessed is the man
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  whose strength is in You, in whose heart are the ways of
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  Them, who passing through the Valley of Baca make it a well; the
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  rain also fills the pools. They go from strength
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  to strength, every one of them in Zion appears before God.
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  O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear,
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  O God of Jacob. Selah.
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  Behold, O God, our shield, and look upon the face
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  of Your Anointed. For a day in Your courts is better
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  than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper
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  in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of
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  wickedness. For the Lord God is a sun and
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  shield. The Lord will give grace and glory; no
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  good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.
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  O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in
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  you.
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  Proverbs 25:15. By long forbearing
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  is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaks the
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  bone. I want to speak to you today from our reading from Jeremiah
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  chapter 25, and then we're going to jump into 2 Thessalonians chapter 2.
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  And in Jeremiah chapter 25, there's a really fascinating
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  verse. And it
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  says in chapter 25,
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  starting in verse 10, I will banish them from the sound of mirth and gladness,
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  the voice of the bridegroom and the bride, and the sound of the mill and
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  the light of the lamp. This whole land shall be a desolate ruin,
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  and those nations shall serve the king of Babylon.
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  70 years. This is a prophecy that
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  Jeremiah is giving to the nation of Israel saying
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  because of all of their sin and their idolatry and their
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  worship of other gods and of their out-and-out
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  rebellion against the God of Israel, he's basically letting them
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  know and giving them a heads up, you're going to go into exile.
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  You're going to be kicked out of the land. It's like the land is vomiting
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  you. And you're going to be in exile for a very
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  specific amount of time, 70 years. Now this is speaking
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  to the nation of Judah, the southern kingdom,
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  um, and that they would be sent to Babylon.
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  And so that verse, verse 11, you shall serve
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  the king of Babylon 70 years. So it's very specific. He didn't just
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  say you're going into exile. He said where you're going, to Babylon. And not,
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  you know, he didn't say he was— how long would
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  they be in Babylon? 70 years. And then in verse 12,
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  when the 70 years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and
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  that nation and the land of the Chaldeans for their sins,
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  declares Hashem, and I will make it a desolation for all time.
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  And then the end of the exile will be
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  complete and you will be allowed to return. Back to
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  the land. So this is
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  incredible. This is in chapter 25, verses 10 to 12.
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  And one day, Daniel, who's now living in
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  Babylon in exile, is studying
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  the word of God, and he's reading in
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  Jeremiah that very chapter, chapter 25, those verses
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  I just read to you. And all of a sudden, ding,
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  ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, light bulb goes on,
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  flash of insight happens. And in Daniel chapter 9,
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  it tells us that I, Daniel,
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  chapter 9, verse 2, understood by the books
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  the number of the years specified by the word
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  of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish 70
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  years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
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  And why it was such a big deal was because he understood,
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  oh, our time of exile is almost up.
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  The 70 years are almost completed. And if we repent,
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  and if we return to the Lord, then our people will
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  be released from captivity, and we will be allowed to go back home
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  to the land to rebuild Jerusalem and to rebuild
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  the temple. And so understanding all of this, therefore,
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  in Daniel 9:3, then I set my
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  face toward the Lord God to make requests by prayer and supplications
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  with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. And he begins
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  this incredible prayer of repentance,
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  standing in prayer, repenting for his people,
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  for the nation of Israel. And, um,
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  The rest of the chapter goes on with this repentance prayer. And then at
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  the very end of this chapter, a tremendous
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  revelation is given to him. An angel comes to him and says, I've heard
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  your prayers. We've heard your repenting. And now we're going to reveal to
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  you things about the end times. And this
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  whole chapter is a key, a master key to
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  unlocking many, many other prophecies in
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  the Bible about the end times, especially concerning the
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  Book of Revelation and the Second Coming of Christ. This book really opens
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  that up. It's like a master key. But it all began
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  with Daniel studying Jeremiah chapter
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  25 and then understanding— it's kind of like if you were in prison
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  and you were sentenced to 70 years in prison and maybe you were only 10
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  years old, And now you're 79 years old and you've been
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  in prison for 69 years.
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  And you understand, oh, I only have one more year to go and then I'm
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  going to be released. I'll be a free man. I'll be a free woman.
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  I'll be out of here. That's what it was for Daniel
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  of understanding our time of exile is
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  almost complete. We better hit the deck. We better repent.
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  And cry out and return to the Lord so that
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  He will bring this prophecy to pass.
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  Now continuing on in Jeremiah 25,
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  in verse 15 it says, for thus says Hashem, the God of Israel,
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  to me, take from my hand this cup of wine of
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  wrath and make all the nations to whom I send you drink
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  of it. And it goes on to say in verse 17,
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  so I took the cup from the hand of Hashem and gave drink to all
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  the nations to whom Hashem sent me. Now this picture
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  that's being painted here about this cup of wine of
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  wrath, that it's going to go to all the nations,
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  that they're to drink and get drunk and fall and never rise again
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  because of the sword that God is going to send among them,
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  And this has a real
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  clear connection into the Book of Revelation.
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  And in Revelation chapter 17, we are introduced to
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  the Mystery Babylon Harlot Woman.
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  And in chapter 17, verse 1, it says, then one of the 7 angels
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  who had the 7 bowls came and talked with me, saying, come,
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  and I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many
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  waters. With whom the kings of the
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  earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of
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  the earth were made drunk with the wine of
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  her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into
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  the wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was
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  full of names of blasphemy, having 7 heads and 10 horns.
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  The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious
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  stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full
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  of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.
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  And on her forehead a name was written: Mystery Babylon the
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  Great, the mother of harlots and of abominations of
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  the earth. Verse 6: I saw the woman drunk
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  with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
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  And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.
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  So this cup that she carries full of abominations,
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  the nations and the kings of the earth have drunken
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  from this cup, this wine of abomination.
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  And it's closely connected to what we just read in Jeremiah
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  25. Basically, we're kind of looking at
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  2 different camera shots of the same events happening in
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  the end of days. Back in Jeremiah
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  25:30, God is telling Jeremiah
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  to do this. You are to prophesy all those things to them
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  and then say to them, Hashem roars from on
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  high. He makes His voice heard from His holy
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  dwelling. He roars aloud over His earthly abode.
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  He utters shouts like the grape treaders against
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  all the dwellers on earth.
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  So there's a time of judgment coming, a time of
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  judgment against the nations that have allied themselves
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  with this Mystery Babylon Harlot Woman,
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  and the nations will be judged. So we've
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  seen it pictured here in Jeremiah, and then of
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  course it is repeated with greater detail and Revelation.
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  Now let's go into 2 Thessalonians chapter
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  2. And if
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  I could summarize this book or give it like a chapter title, if I
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  could summarize the whole chapter in just one sentence, I would say what this is
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  about is we are to be a lover of truth.
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  Okay, so what is the restrainer that is mentioned
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  here in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2? The restrainer
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  is the Holy Spirit, the church. And so
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  you and I, if we are born again, we are indwelled
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  by the Holy Spirit. And when the restrainer is taken away,
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  then the Antichrist is revealed.
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  So in a way, I heard this analogy from
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  John Barnett. He's a really great Bible teacher.
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  And in a nuclear reactor, you have these control rods,
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  and the control rods, as long as they are in place, they keep the nuclear
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  reactor stable and it doesn't
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  overheat. But as soon as you take the control rods out
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  and they are lifted up, then the nuclear core begins
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  to go into meltdown and it becomes highly, highly toxic
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  and it it goes nuclear. So in
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  a way, we are like those control rods. As long as the control rods,
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  the restrainer, is present on the earth,
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  it restrains and holds back the
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  effect of the Antichrist and the evil and all of the evilness
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  of the Antichrist. But as soon as the Holy Spirit,
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  as soon as we the church are taken up and caught up
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  in the clouds with Jesus to meet Him in the air,
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  when that harpazo, that second, that rapture happens,
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  that's the control rods being taken out of the nuclear reactor, and the Earth really
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  goes totally full down the path of evil.
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  So he also tells us in this chapter that there will be
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  a great falling away and a great apostasy,
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  that this is a huge sign that we are getting close to the end of
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  days, and that we must not just be knowers
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  of truth, But we must be lovers of
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  God's Word. Not just knowers of God's Word, but lovers
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  of God's Word. A strong deluding
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  spirit will come, and those who don't love the truth will
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  be deceived. So our protection from
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  being deceived, from coming under that delusion, is that
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  we must love the truth and that we
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  are to stand firm and hold on to the truth. And truth
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  is a person. Truth is Jesus Christ.
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  So the restrainer is the Holy Spirit, the church. We are like
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  the control rods of the nuclear reactor, and once the restrainer,
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  the control rods, are removed, then the Antichrist
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  is revealed and we are removed when the
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  Rapture occurs. So Father, I pray that You will
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  help each and every one of us to be lovers of Your truth,
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  of Your Word. May our love for Your truth grow
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  more and more. Increase our appetite and
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  our hunger for the Word of God. Help us to share
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  the Gospel with others and to take people with us to heaven.
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  Help us not to come under that spirit of deception
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  and delusion. May we return to
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  You with all of our heart, and may You stir afresh in our
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  heart our first love for You,
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  Jesus. We ask it in the name of the Lord.