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883. Bible Study: Zechariah 5 (The Scrolls, A curse, Babylon symbology!) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 5 from the book of Zechariah.
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First let's pray. Dear Lord, please let the Holy
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Spirit give me the right words. Give us wisdom, understanding of
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the words that you gave to Zechariah.
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We ask this in Jesus name, Amen. So this is titled the Flying
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Scroll. It's a very short chapter, but I
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don't think we're going to be able to get into chapter 6 yet
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because there's so much in this chapter.
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I'm going to read through it first and then I will go through
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the commentary. So chapter 5 I looked again and
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there before me was a flying scroll.
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He asked me, what do you see? I answered.
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I see a flying scroll 20 cubits long and 10 cubits wide.
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So it is that measurements about 30 feet long and 15 feet wide.
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So this is huge. And he said to me, this is the
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curse that is going out over the whole land.
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For according to what it says, on one side every thief will be
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banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone
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who swears falsely will be banished.
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The Lord Almighty declares I will send it out, and it will
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enter the House of the thief and the House of anyone who swears
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falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and
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destroy it completely, both its Timbers and stones.
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I think there's a lot of symbolism here.
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Then there's another segment called the Woman in the Basket.
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Then the Angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to
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me, look up and see what is appearing.
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I asked what is it? He replied it is a basket.
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And he added this is iniquity of the people throughout the land.
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Then the cover of lead was raised, and there in the basket
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sat a woman. He said, this is wickedness.
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And he pushed her back into the basket and pushed its lead
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cover. Oh, down on it.
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Then I looked up, and there before me were two women with
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the wind in their wings. They had wings like those of a
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stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.
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Where are they taking the basket?
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I asked the Angel who was speaking to me.
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He replied to the country of Babylonia to build a house for
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it. When the house is ready, the
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basket will be set there in its place.
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And that's the end. So 3 minutes.
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But there's so much to talk about, so let's start back up at
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the top. Actually, maybe I will read
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Chapter 5's Bible commentary first and then I'll get into my
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reflection on it. So let's see.
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The questions and answers are what is the meaning of this
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flying scroll? This vision suggests that the
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news of God's coming judgement was for all to see and hear.
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Like a huge billboard in the sky, God was announcing swift
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and certain judgement. Which land did God curse?
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The land of the Israelites. It's possible to see this as a
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judgement not only on Zachariah's contemporaries, but
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also on all those who break God's law, according to
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Galatians chapter 3, verse 10. Why pick?
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Why picture wickedness as a woman?
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The people of God are often portrayed in the feminine
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gender, particularly in their relationship to God, so it is
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not surprising for their unrighteousness to be
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personified here as a woman. This was a literary tool meant
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simply to illustrate the wickedness of the people, both
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men and women. OK, I have a different
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interpretation of it and I will give you supporting
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documentation for why I believe it's different.
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I believe this is this is spiritual.
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It's not just that it's a feminine gender.
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There's more to it than that. So then the question is, who
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were these two women? That these these women had wings
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suggest that they were angelic beings.
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Human agents such as the Babylonians were not the only
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ones carrying out God's purposes.
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There were also divinely chosen agents involved.
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OK, then another question. Why set the basket down in
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Babylonia? The Hebrew word translated
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Babylonia is shinar, the area where the human race had proudly
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rebelled against God at the Tower of Babel from Genesis
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Chapter 11 verses one through 9. Taking the wickedness back to
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its roots may suggest that sin will finally be banished so that
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righteousness can reign. Yes, I agree with that.
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So that covers everything that the Bible, the study Bible has.
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Now let's get into a lot more. And so first of all, it's a
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scroll that's going about the in the air and it has judgments on
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it. There's two judgments basically.
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And it's it's, you know, a a it's a curse.
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It's called a curse. In verse 3, it says it's a curse
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and and it's going to the people basically who steal and lie.
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And it says like, let's see, for every thief.
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OK, so the thief comes to kill and destroy.
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Think about that. Satan.
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OK, so Satan is the ultimate thief coming to kill and
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destroy. So this is the curse out of
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everybody who's connected with the enemy of God.
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It's those the curse is going out over the whole land.
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Every thief will be banished. So anyone who is supporting the
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enemy will be banished. Then anyone who swears falsely,
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it says by my name. And if you look up like by my
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name, it's, you know, it's considered blasphemy, but it's
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also a designation of God, but not God.
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Think about that. If someone is swearing falsely
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by my name, they're using the name of God, but it's not really
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God. It's a fake God.
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It's something that they are deceived by the enemy who is
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putting forth a God who isn't a God.
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So this is saying that those people, false religions that
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believe in a false God will be banished.
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And they are connected with the thief, the enemy.
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So this is something from the evil ones who rebelled against
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God. And that's what this curse is.
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This flying scroll is saying that these people will be
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banished, those under idolatry. Over and over and over again in
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the Bible, it tells us about worshipping false gods.
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And we're going to get into even Jesus's words about this too.
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So not only is the scroll referenced here, but it's also
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referenced in Ezekiel and it's also referenced in the Book of
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Revelation. Now the scroll is a curse here
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and this specific curse is about two, it's against two different
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things, unlike the scrolls that are in Ezekiel and Revelation.
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So this is just a, this is like false.
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It's basically false gods, like anybody who worships false gods.
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This is judgment that's coming on those people, though.
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In the book of Ezekiel, they, he's given a scroll and he's
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told to eat it and then he's told to speak to the Israelites
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about this. John in the Book of Revelation
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is also given a scroll, but he is told to speak to all others
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besides Israel. So they are each given different
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communities that they are supposed to speak to and they
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are supposed to share the prophecy with with those.
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People. So the book of Ezekiel delivers
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A2 part message during the Babylonian exile, initial
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dramatic prophecies of impending doom and the destruction of
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Jerusalem due to idolatry and social injustice like not doing
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the right thing. So again, idolatry is key if
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you. Look, if you like comprehend
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what's in the Bible all over, I mean that's like do not worship
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other gods and there are other fake gods that are called.
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God, but are not God. And that is still happening
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today. Believe it or not, we we think,
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oh, everybody worships the same God.
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No, they don't. And This is why it's so
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critical, because this is a message for the whole entire
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world. It is.
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It is written to Israel specifically, but this applies
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to all over because it says here the curse is well the curse is
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going out over the whole land so that every thief will be
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banished. Specifically to the land of
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Israel, but ultimately that's where God's going to reign from.
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So that means that those. Who worship the false gods are
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not going to be part of God's Kingdom.
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That's why it's so important. So anyway, the book of Ezekiel,
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it, it's talking, it's after it talks about the doom and
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destruction of Jerusalem due to idolatry.
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It's followed by promises of future restoration, hope, and a
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new covenant, which ultimately is Jesus is that new covenant
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that will enable all people to reside if they accept Jesus to
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reside in God's Kingdom. It emphasizes personal
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responsibility, God's holiness, and the eventual return of his
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glory to a restored temple. So in chapters one through 24,
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Ezekiel is called to be a watchman, using symbolic actions
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such as lying on a side for over a year and shaving his hair to
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illustrate the coming destruction of the temple in the
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city. Then in chapters 25 through 32,
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prophecies of judgment against surrounding nations such as Tyre
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and Egypt for their pride and for misleading Israel.
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Now this is important. The surrounding nations that God
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had told Israel to destroy when they moved into the land, they
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were told to destroy these people because these people
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worshipped other gods. God also told the Israelites,
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don't intermarry with them because they will lead you
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astray, which did happen. So there was a warning from God.
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It it wasn't anything that had to do with racism like people
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like to talk about today, but it had everything to do with
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idolatry. Worshipping another God.
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That's not going to bring them anything good.
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It was a loving warning from God.
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Don't mess with these people. They're worshipping other gods.
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They have idolatry. It, it will just, it'll be bad
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for you, basically. I mean, it was a word of
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warning. So in chapters 33 through 48,
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following the news of Jerusalem's fall, the message
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shifts to comfort. Highlights include the vision of
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the Valley of Dry Bones, the restoration of Israel, the
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promise of a new heart and spirit, and a detailed vision of
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a future restored temple. Now this is where God talks
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about the resurrection, where God reveals the resurrection to
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Ezekiel and then symbolic and the the symbolic imagery.
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The book is noted for its vivid symbolic language, including the
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throne chariot vision, which highlights God's power and
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omnipresence. The ultimate message is that
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despite Israel's rebellion, God will restore them to their land,
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renew their hearts and dwell among them.
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So that's the summary of the Ezekiel prophecy.
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And Ezekiel, this was all on a it started with the scroll.
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Like he said, you have to tell this prophecy to the people of
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Israel and it's because of Jerusalem.
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That's it was. Relevant to them.
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So then John gets another vision that's very similar, and there's
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a scroll, and he's told to eat it too, and he's told to tell
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all people about it. So they had different audiences.
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So the Book of Revelation is also an apocalyptic prophecy
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written by John while he was on the island of Patmos, detailing
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Jesus Christ, ultimate victory over evil, the end of human
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corruption, and the establishment of a new heaven
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and earth. It features symbolic visions of
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the tribulation, the return of Christ, the final judgement, and
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the new Jerusalem. So again, there is, it's almost
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like there's a curse that comes out because as Jesus opens up
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the scrolls, opens up the seals, each seal that he breaks, Jesus
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is doing it. The lamb is breaking the seals.
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There is judgement that comes along with that.
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There is like a curse that comes along with it.
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It's not a good thing when those seals are broken, but it has
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those seals have to be broken and no one but Jesus could do
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that. So he's breaking the seals for
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essentially for the freedom and the restoration because because
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of sin. I believe this was this curse
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happened because if you go back to the Old Testament in
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Leviticus and Deuteronomy, you will find that there were
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blessings and curses that were set out for the people of
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Israel. Blessings if they were obedient
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to God and curses if they were disobedient to God.
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And it spells out, if you look carefully at that, it matches up
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with what's going to happen in the Book of Revelation on the
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final judgement, when it's like everything God said is going to
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happen. It talks about boils festering
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on people. This is all the way back in the
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book of Deuteronomy and Leviticus.
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So God has. Has.
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Forewarned everybody a long time ago.
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So people who Jewish people who don't read the New Testament,
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they. They still have this.
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Information, they know the consequences because God gave it
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to him in the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy.
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And so they know that they know what the repercussions are for
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their, their actions. And they Book of Revelation,
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which is in the New Testament, all the Christians who sometimes
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they just read the New Testament, they know now they
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know when they read the Book of Revelation.
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Here's what's going to happen. And then when you read both,
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then you see, OK, God's consistent, he said the same
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thing from the beginning to the end.
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So the key aspects of Revelation prophecy, the seven churches,
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Jesus gives messages of encouragement and warning to
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seven specific churches focusing on faithfulness.
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Well, I will. Add to that that when we went
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through that just last chapter of Zechariah, it was.
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There were two different. Things one of one of the main
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messages was. Repentance for many of them.
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I mean, he was, he said good things.
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So we want to focus on the good things, but I think the
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important part is focusing on the repentance.
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It's great that we do good things, but we need to get rid
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of the other stuff too. And, and if we don't focus on
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repentance, on restoring our relationship, turning to Christ,
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if we don't focus on that, we can't just leave.
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God doesn't leave that in US. God doesn't leave sin
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unaddressed in us. He gives us the Holy Spirit to
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overcome sin. The power of God is stronger
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than the power of sin. The power of God through the
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Holy Spirit can defeat sin, but we have to recognize it and we
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have to repent from it. We have we have free will so
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that. We need to, we need to let God
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know in our hearts we want it out of our life.
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We are willing to do that. Sometimes people just want to
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hang on to it. They want, they know that God is
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not happy with it, but they want to keep it.
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Well, that's unrepentance. And if we look at what Jesus
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warned was repent. Or there's consequences.
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So that's the same thing. And that's what Ezekiel was told
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everybody. I mean, the consistent message
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throughout the Bible has been repent, turn away from.
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Sin, don't leave it in your life.
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And God gives us an advocate to help us get it out of our life.
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And God says be holy because I'm holy.
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And anyway, OK, so symbolic judgments.
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The prophecy describes unfolding judgments on the world,
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including the seven seals, 7 trumpets and seven bowls of
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wrath representing. God's.
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Justice. It's justice being served like
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he is going to separate good from evil.
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He disciplines those he loves with the hopes that they will
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repent, that they will turn to him.
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The Book of Revelation talks about the Tribulation and the
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Antichrist, a period of intense suffering.
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Is described featuring the rise of the.
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Beast or the Antichrist and a counterfeit Trinity that opposes
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God. Now what?
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We have to be aware of that if we are unrepentant, if we don't,
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you know. Ask God.
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For help for. Forgiveness because we can't do
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it on our own power. It is true we cannot get rid of
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sin on our own. Our natural fleshly self is will
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be defeated if we rely on our own strength.
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What we need to rely on is the power that was given to us
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through Christ. Jesus gave us the Holy Spirit
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for a reason, and the reason is to overcome and eventually when
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Jesus returns, the Spirit within us will cause us to rise to meet
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him in the air because the. At the resurrection, that's the
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way Jesus rose from the dead. It was the Spirit of God that.
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Rose him from the dead because he died.
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He needed something to raise him from the dead, and it was the
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spirit within him that rose. Rose him from the dead.
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So that's God's Spirit, the connection, that's what we
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that's the the beautiful thing. I don't.
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Know that we all fully comprehend.
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I know I don't fully comprehend, but I get a little bit, I
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understand a little bit of it. When we have the Holy Spirit
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within us, we are connected to God.
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We have that supernatural connection where God can work in
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our lives and it's such a beautiful thing.
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That's what Jesus prayed for before he went on the cross.
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He said Father. I pray that they, they are one
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in spirit as you and I are one in spirit.
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See, there's something supernatural about this.
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Like God in US, you know, like they there is, there is
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something spiritual in it. It's not.
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And it is effective too. The Holy Spirit is powerful.
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I mean, we are talking about the power of God.
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To deny that God's power cannot change lives is absolutely
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That's unbelief. If you don't believe the Holy
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Spirit can change your life and can take sin out of your life,
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that means you. Are not a believer.
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You're not believing in the power of God if you believe this
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will happen. But you have to surrender your
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free will to it. Sometimes people don't want to
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give up the stuff they like. That's sinful.
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And you just have to be willing to give it up.
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You, you have to be willing like God.
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I, I give you, you know the access.
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You know, I'm I'm, Yeah. I mean, God could take the ask
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access, but he doesn't force himself on anyone.
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He wants us to want that. He's not going to go against our
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free will. That's the beauty of what he how
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he designed us. He designed us so that we can
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choose. To love him or not.
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And he's not going to force us to that.
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He's not going to force anybody to love him.
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He's not going to force anybody to obey him.
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It's up to us. That's why we can't do it.
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As much as we may want to do it for someone else, we can't.
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It has to be in an individual decision with God about this.
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So let's go on to more about the Book of Revelation, the Second
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Coming. Jesus returns in power and
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glory, not as a humble servant. But as a warrior.
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King to defeat evil and judge the.
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World, I've heard a lot of people say, well, the God of the
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old. Testament was very.
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Wrathful, but Jesus is all about love.
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And that is true, He came for the sinners.
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But. People are going to be.
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Shocked when Jesus returns because that that he's still the
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Lamb, but he's not coming with. I mean he.
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Still is love, but it's. Love and righteousness he's
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coming to defeat evil and judge the world, so we should have a
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very. Correct.
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Understanding of God and not, you know, just think, well,
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Jesus is is a teddy bear and he's not going to, you know, go
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again. You know, he's not going to go
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against me. Well, if I have an unrepentant
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heart, he will judge that. So it's it's important to get
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right with God final victory and new creation.
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Satan and his followers are defeated.
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So we know in advance that everyone who relies on Satan and
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all these like Satan worshippers, I can't even
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believe that people worship Satan today, but they do.
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But they are going to be defeated.
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Like we may see them active right now and it seems like
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they're not, you know that they're fine and they can have
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whatever powers. They have because they do have a
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certain. Level of power, but ultimately
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they're going to be defeated. So these poor people are
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deceived by the enemy and they don't realize the destruction
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that they are facing and the the agony and the torture that will
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be coming if they don't. Turn to God before.
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Jesus returns, but Satan and as follows are defeated leaning
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leading to the millennial reign of Christ.
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That's that thousand years, the great white throne judgement and
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the creation of a new heaven and a new earth where God dwells
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with humanity. That's the ultimate right there
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is we will be at the end of all of this.
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We definitely have 1000 years to go, but at the end of all that,
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after judgement, we will be living forever in the presence
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of God on a new heaven and a new earth.
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A lot of people just talk about going to heaven.
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Well, that's kind of like the interim stage, but the eventual
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outcome is a new earth. It's going to be like this, but
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not broken and there's no death. It's going to be lush.
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It's going to be like the Garden of Eden was described.
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We only have glimpses of this. There's going to be this like
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New Jerusalem that comes down. Just the city itself.
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I've talked about this before, but it's about 1600 feet wide,
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1600 feet tall. It's about, if you want to get
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an idea of it, that's about half the size of the United States
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from east to West. This is going to be the New
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Jerusalem, the city of Jerusalem, and it's going to be
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as tall as it is wide. This is going to be something
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like we have never seen before. And they're the only way that
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John described it was with precious semi precious jewels
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are precious stones. And I don't know if that's
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literal or if that was the only way that he could describe how
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glorious and beautiful it was. But that is what God has in
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store for his children, His children who turned to him and
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say, I reject the enemy. I reject your enemy.
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I don't want any of that enemy in me.
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I don't want that sin in me. I want, I want your Kingdom.
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I want to be with you in the future.
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I mean, that is what God is looking for.
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He is looking for who loves him back.
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He, Jesus, sacrificed his own life so that we could be in the
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Kingdom. But in Jesus, sacrifice was for
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all people. It doesn't matter if you're an
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Israelite or if you're some other from some other nation.
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His sacrifice is for all the people who died from the
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beginning of creation, all the people who died today, all the
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people who die in the future. Jesus is sacrifice because he is
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the Son of God. He was the only one who could do
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that for us because he was sinless.
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Everything else is sinless. Just like Jesus said.
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Why do you call me good? He was talking to the Pharisees
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I believe, and he said the only one who's good is God.
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So Jesus is the Son of God. He was good, you know, and he
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was the only one who could do that for us.
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So that's why people are thankful to Jesus, because he
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did that. But we have to think about this
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couple things that I think sometimes churches don't
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mention. That does not mean that everyone
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is going to be saved. So why?
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Because Jesus did it for everyone.
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Well, because of our response. How do we respond to it?
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We can reject that and we can say I, I don't need you and we
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can just go on our own way completely with lacking in power
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and to overcome anything like we will just be defeated.
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If we rely on ourselves, we that we essentially are making
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ourselves a God. Like we're saying we don't need
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God. We don't need the creator.
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We don't need the one who made the earth.
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I mean, that's ridiculous when we're talking about these
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spiritual things. The only way to overcome this is
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through Jesus. Jesus said I am the way, the
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truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father except
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through me. So if we reject the Son of God,
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we do not get into the Kingdom. So all of the religions who
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reject the deity of Jesus Christ, all people who reject.
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The deity of Jesus. Christ will not be in God's
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Kingdom. It was stated from I mean all
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throughout the Bible. And I know this is uncomfortable
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for people, but see, God says, see if you seek me, you will
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find me. So if, if this is concerning to
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you or to anyone you know, seek God.
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He will be found. He's not trying to hide from
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anyone. He's right there, but you have
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to want. To.
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To get to know him, you have to want to be in his Kingdom.
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There's it just, I don't even know how to better say it, but
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it is. It's very concerning because
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there are these like angelic beings like this chapter talks
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about that mess with people's mind that tell people that
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there's another way besides Jesus and there isn't and it.
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It it it's. Concerning that people don't
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don't take this seriously and I need to move on because I I
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don't know where I'm going with this, but.
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Anyway, let's get back to the scripture.
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So there's these, there's these flying scrolls, there's curses.
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And it's like I said, this is about idolatry and.
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Swearing falsely. There's a lot of people who
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will, you know, swear by the name of God, but they're not
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talking about the true God. And God also said, you know, not
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to ever swear by his name. Either that all we should do is
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answer yes or no. Anything else is is something
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from the Evil 1 I believe. So this woman in the basket was
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very interesting because and being sent to Babylon Babylonia
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because I believe that this woman in the basket is actually
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Babylon the prostitute on the beast in the Book of Revelation
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in chapter 17. There is.
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It talks about Babylon again and it talks, it talks about her as
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a woman, and I believe that this is, it says the name Revelation
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17, five says the name written on her forehead was a mystery
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Babylon the Great, the mother of prostitutes and of abominations
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of the earth. That's what Babylon is the great
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mother, so that she has this female personification.
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Like I said, I you know, the study Bible said just said like
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they were a lot of cities were talked about in a feminine
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gender, which is true because they talk about like virgin
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Israel and virgin, you know, like daughter.
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I mean, it talks about that, you know, in a it throughout
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Scripture. I agree with that.
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However, I think there is more to this.
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So Babylon is considered the mother of prostitutes.
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I'm going to make a connection that has existed from ancient
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civilization and might be very interesting to you if you have
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not heard this before, but the great mother of prostitutes.
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So what does a prostitute do? She is not married to a husband.
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She has multiple partners. So this is.
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Symbolically idolatry. So God is the husband and this
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is the great mother of prostitutes.
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So all people who who are in idolatry, who believe other
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religions, they are the prostitutes, they are seeking
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other gods and they are considered the abominations of
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the earth. It's a pretty strong language.
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It's not my language. It is God's language.
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Then the other thing is the basket.
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So obviously putting a woman in a basket, that's kind of like
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it's all symbolic, right? And at the same time there are
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these angelic beings are these quote women with wings.
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Now usually angels are described as men, but and I didn't look.
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Up the actual Hebrew to see if this was correct or if it was a
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translation issue. I don't know if it's that
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significant anyway, maybe it is. So there were two women with
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wind in their wings. Now usually angels are referred
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to as men throughout the Bible. Only in our depictions are they
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most oftenly shown as women. But in this?
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Chapter which I probably. Need to to look at it.
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So that's going to take me a second just to look up to see
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the original Hebrew word. For this because I want to make
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sure it does say women and because it I think it is.
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Probably significant and I can understand why it would be women
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when and you will probably see two, but I just want to make
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sure that it says there were two women and I looked and there
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were two women and it's Isha which says the OK according to
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Strongs. It's it's Issa and it's
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pronounced. I'll give you the pronunciation.
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Strongs H8O2 is Shah is Shah. And the translation of that is
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wife, a woman, 1, married, female or miscellaneous.
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So it's a woman, a wife or a female.
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So it is talking about two women in this vision.
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So there's. Two women with wind in their
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wings and like the study Bible says I I agree with this part
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that I think it is probably angelic beings and it is
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symbolic because. This is a vision that he's
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seeing, and there's a woman in a basket.
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Like I said, I think it's probably Babylon the woman and
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that gets taken to Babylonia. That makes sense.
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I mean, doesn't it? And let's see.
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So this basket, So what is a basket?
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A basket typically holds something and often in the Bible
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a basket holds bread. What is bread symbolic of?
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Jesus, the word of God, the the nutrition, the spiritual
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nutrition that we get through bread, the symbol symbolic, I
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mean bread gives us nutrition. And if Jesus is the bread of
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life, then when we like Jesus said eat, eat my flesh and drink
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my blood, was talking about the bread, the bread of life when
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you do that. So there is a spiritual
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significance of that. And so there's this woman in a
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basket. So could perhaps this is my own
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theory or understanding of this, could this woman be, it's, it
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says in here that this is iniquity, that this is
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wickedness, but she's personified.
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It's personified as a woman. And bread is usually in a
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basket, but instead of the bread of life, there's wickedness in
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this basket. So I think this is this is the
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symbolism that I'm seeing at least is that this bread with
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the woman in there is iniquity is sin is all these things
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opposite of the bread of life. And it's being taken away to
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Babylonia and and I do think it's probably the Mystery
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Babylon is this this woman in the basket?
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And then here's why. Here's another thing in
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Revelation chapter 17, verse 16. Now this is a all symbolism
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again. It says the beast and the 10
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horns you saw will hate the prostitute.
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Now the prostitute is Mystery Babylon.
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Remember, she's the mother of all prostitutes.
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So the beast and the 10 horns you saw will hate her.
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They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked.
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They will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
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So wickedness, I mean, the beast is wicked, but, and, and just
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like Jesus gives us the bread of life and says to eat it.
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This, on the other hand, is eating her flesh wickedness and
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iniquity. And but they're turning against
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her like they eat from the same basket, but they are turning
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against her and they are going to burn her and destroy her.
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So eventually, I mean, this is all symbolism, but this beast
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is, is Satan driven. The 10 horns are powers of
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people on the earth at that time.
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There's like kings or rulers or strengths or powers.
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So it's, it's a Satan empowered a, an alliance of rulers on the
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earth that will hate whatever this prostitute represents.
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And that talks about a city. There's a certain city that they
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hate and they're going to destroy because it is also, it
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is, I think it's, it's spiritual.
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It's a city and it's more than a city.
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It's a spiritual entity. And I'm going to get into that
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now. That comes back from the
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beginning of creation. So again, why are women used in
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this? Well, we have to go back to
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ancient civilization and let's look up Ishtar, Inana Ashira
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commonalities. Now this is from the Bible.
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I'm not making this up. Ishtar is is is about is written
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in about the Bible. Inana is written about the
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Bible. Ashira is also written about in
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the Bible. Remember there were Ashira polls
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that people set up and started worshipping this.
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Now I'm going to read about them and and then maybe you will you
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will like make the connection here.
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But that's this is again, I think this is spiritual.
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So Ishtar was an Akkadian or Babylonian goddess and Inana was
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the Sumerian goddess and they are essentially the same deity,
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the primary Mesopotamian goddess of love, sex, fertility and war.
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While Inana or Ishtar Tar focuses on passionate duality,
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love and war, Ashira is a broader W Semitic mother
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goddess, yet all three share roles as powerful.
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Wait till you hear this quote. Queen of Heaven figures so queen
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of heaven. If you recall in the Bible it
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talks about people baking goods for the Queen of Heaven.
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Tammuz, I mean Tammuz is mentioned in God's temple where
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he gets really upset. I think that might be in the
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book of Ezekiel where he shows them that.
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But there is like there are offerings you can probably
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search queen of heaven and find it in the Bible.
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So is this because they were defined these, these entities
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which I believe are fallen angels that are, that are liars.
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They are the thief. They are liars saying they are
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God and appearing to people, ancient people and deceiving
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them. The thief comes to destroy.
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That's what I believe these things are, are spiritual
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entities that are responsible for all these different
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religions that are not the true religion.
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And they are spiritual entities that come from the heavenly
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realms, just like Ephesians 612 says that we wrestle not against
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flesh and blood, but against the powers and this spiritual, the
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principalities in the heavenly realms and the dark forces.
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So it's these things in the heavenly realms that rebelled
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against God. They were created beings, but
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they wanted to be God. Therefore, when they came to
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earth, they deceived human beings to to hurt God.
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I mean, essentially to hurt God. They wanted to be worshipped,
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but also they just wanted to destroy what God loves.
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And God loves people and God wants people in his Kingdom.
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And so they're coming to separate us from God.
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So going back to this, Queen of Heaven is written in the Bible.
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So it's not mythology. This is written in the Bible.
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Key commonalities between Inanna, Ishtar and Ashira, Queen
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of Heaven slash divine power. All three hold immense power in
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their respective pantheons. Inanna or Ishtar is explicitly
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called quote the Queen of Heaven and Ashura held a high
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foundational status as mother of the gods.
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Fertility in life. They are all associated with
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fertility, life and the protection of civilization.
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Deception complex dual nature. Inana Ishtar famously combines
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the contradictory roles of love, sexuality with warfare and
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destruction. While as Shira is more motherly
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she is often linked to the protective and life giving
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powers associated with nature. How many people do we have that
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worship nature but they don't don't worship the true God.
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Think about that. So Ashira is probably behind
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that connection to nature slash symbols.
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They are closely connected to the natural world.
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Inana or Ishtar is symbolized by the lion.
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Is that kind of a mock to Jesus? Venus or morning or evening
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star? So and the 8 pointed *.
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So those are the connections to Ishtar and Inana Central fusion.
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Inana is Sumerian and Ishtar is Akkadian were merged as they
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represented the same functions in different cultures.
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So you have to ask yourself, different cultures started
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seeing this deity or started worshipping this.
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It's not a deity, but this, I don't know what you want to call
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it fallen Angel. And and so they, they saw these
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same things and they're like, hey, we both worship the same
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thing. Let's just combine this, you
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know, it's kind of like. So if this.
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Happened at at in different cultures in different places,
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but they were worshipping the same thing and it's not God.
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They had to have seen something. I don't think they were foolish,
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archaic, unintelligent people back then.
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I think people have always been the way we are today, which
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doesn't say a lot. I mean, we're not all that
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intelligent. When you think about the
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spiritual realm, we just don't know it.
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But you see something that, you know, what if these fallen
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angels came and showed great powers and they're like
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supernatural things that nobody else could do.
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They're like, you know, like. Wow, look at that.
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You know, and then they start worshipping this thing.
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So it's a huge deception that the fallen angels did to
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mankind. And there's further support to
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this too. But anyway, Ashira or Canaanite
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shares similar fertility mother characteristics with other Near
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Eastern goddess Near Eastern goddesses that were sometimes
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synchronized with Inanna or Ishtar.
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Such as Astarte. So the key differences, the
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focus Ish, Nana and Ishtar is more associated with intense,
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sometimes chaotic romantic love and destruction and political
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war. Do we perhaps have any of that
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spiritual influence in our world today?
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Romantic love and destruction, chaotic romantic love and
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destruction, political war. And this is intense.
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Kind of sounds like there's might be some spiritual force
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when it says we wrestle, not wrestle, not against flesh and
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blood. And this is what we're seeing in
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our world today. So then the other one is the
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role. Ashira is more often recognized
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as a cosmic mother figure associated with the sea, trees
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and wild animals similar to Gaia or Ray, rather than a warrior
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deity. So again, I've seen this like
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Gaia, Gaia, I've seen that circulating on YouTube and other
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social media and it's like this mystical kind of, I don't know,
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religious thing. But warning, it looks like
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Ashira is behind it. So it's another false belief
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that's out in the world even today.
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You think all these like strange gods from beforehand were, you
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know, long gone, but they're not.
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They're they're here. And anyway, so now here is what
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Jesus said. And this is this is something to
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meditate on and pray about. This is from John chapter 10
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verse. Let's see, let's just start at
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verse 31 and I'm going to read for a bit and then talk about
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it. So again, his Jewish opponents
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picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus said to them, I have
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shown you many good works from the Father.
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For which of these do you stone me?
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We are not stoning you for any good work, they replied, but for
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blasphemy, Because you, a mere man, claim to be God.
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Jesus answered them. Is it not written in your law?
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I, and here's the quotation from the law, I have said you are
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gods. If he called them gods, to whom
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the word of God came, and Scripture cannot be set aside.
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What about the one whom God says set apart as his very own and
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sent into this world? Why then do you accuse me of
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blasphemy? Because I said I am God's son?
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OK, I've heard before people say that.
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Did Jesus ever claimed to be God?
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You know right here he's saying I am God's Son and then he says
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do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father.
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But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe
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the works that you may know and understand that the Father is in
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me and I in the Father. This is again what Jesus prayed
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before he died that all of us could have that too to could
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have that relationship like he has with the Father.
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So this this part is like this, the whole thing about like I
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have said, you were gods. That is a reference to Psalm 82.
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So I will read through that now. Psalm 82 is called a Psalm of
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Asaph. You have to know who Asaph was.
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He was a seer. He was a prophet.
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He was a prophet who advised King David.
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He spoke with God. He received revelations from
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God. And yes, he wrote songs, but
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that's not necessarily what I'm talking about.
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His songs are prophetic. Now here is it's a short 1.
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Psalm 82 is only 8 verses long. Here's what it says God presides
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in presides in the great assembly.
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He renders judgment among the quote gods.
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How long will you defend the unjust and show partiality to
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the wicked? Defend the weak and the
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fatherless. Uphold the.
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Cause of the. Poor and the oppressed rescue
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the weak, and the needy deliver them from the hand of the
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wicked. The quote Gods know nothing,
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they understand nothing. They walk about in darkness.
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All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
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I said you are quote gods. You are all sons of the most
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High, but you will die like mere mortals.
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You will fall like every other ruler.
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Rise up O God, judge the earth, for all the nations are your
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inheritance. So the key thing here is this
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statement. But you will die like mere
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mortals. You will fall like every other
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ruler. So these little G gods are not
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human beings, but they are, they are told.
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You are going to die like mere mortals.
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It sounds like he's perhaps talking to the angels in heaven
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or some deep some being in heaven.
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And and it says that you are all sons of the most high like God
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gave them a certain level, but they are not they are not gods.
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They're like little G gods. And I was going to look at what
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the actual word that was used for these these gods in Hebrew.
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So they do not know. OK, so it doesn't say that these
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gods. I want to see what it says.
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Render's judgment among the gods.
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So what is that called of the rulers?
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But it's called Elohim and that's that is used like Elohim
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is the plural of rulers, judges, divine ones, angels, gods, God,
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goddess, God like or it could mean the true God.
51:46
But here, so there is some like, maybe because of their abilities
51:51
that God gave them, they aren't the God, but they were created
51:56
by, by God. And, and there's a little bit
52:03
more of an explanation, like I certainly don't understand all
52:06
of this, but this is like in the presence of God.
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And, and this was also mentioned in the book of Job where God was
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there and then Satan was there and angels were there and they
52:19
were talking about Job. I mean, that's like the first
52:21
scene if you want to go into the, the book of Job, the 1st
52:24
chapter, it explains about, about this.
52:26
I mean, like there are these, these heavenly realms, these
52:29
councils, these this law, especially the laws that we
52:33
established are really based on what God gave.
52:36
Like God is the the one who set these laws that we actually
52:42
started with here on this earth. It was God, they came from God.
52:48
They've been distorted in the earth and God's, I'm sure not
52:51
happy about that. But originally they came from,
52:56
thank God. So I did mention about blessings
52:59
and curses on this scroll, but if you want to read that, I'm
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not going to go through all of this, but like I said, it
53:06
matches up with the judgments that are given in Revelation.
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But if you want to read it, you can go to Deuteronomy 28 and
53:14
also Leviticus 26 verses one through 13 and Deuteronomy
53:21
Chapter 7 verses 12 through 24. A lot of this is about idolatry.
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And that's the that's one of the other main themes that I see
53:30
throughout the Bible is to stay away from idolatry.
53:36
So I did look up, you know, driving out the nations and
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intermarrying. OK, so this this might be
53:44
significant to us in this time in 2026 and I think it may
53:51
perhaps be relevant. So Deuteronomy Chapter 7 verse
53:56
one. And also it references Exodus 34
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verses 10 through 16. This is where it originally came
54:05
from it God was saying to the Israelites, obey what I command
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you today. I will drive out before you the
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Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Parasites, Hivites and
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Jebusites. Be careful not to make a treaty
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with those who live in the land where you were going or they
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will be a snare to you. Break down their altars, smash
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their sacred stones and cut down their Ashira poles.
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Remember we just talked about Inana, Ishtar, Ashira, these
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these lands, these people in these lands were worshipping
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those other gods they had. And it said the very next
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sentence says do not worship any other God.
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For the Lord. Whose name is jealous is a
54:58
jealous God. Be careful not to make a treaty
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with those who live in the land, for when they prostitute,
55:05
remember Babylon's the mother of prostitutes.
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When they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to
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them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.
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And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for
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your sons, and those daughters prostitute themselves to their
55:25
gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.
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So this was the warning that God gave the Israelites.
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Don't mix with these people. They are worshipping other gods.
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They are probably worshipping these like Queens of heaven.
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And he gives the all of these different territories and I
55:48
found it interesting, Deuteronomy 7 verse one, when
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the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering
55:54
to possess and drives out before you many nations, the Hittites,
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Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perazites, Hivites
56:04
and Jebusites. 7 nations stronger, larger and stronger
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than you, and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to
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you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them
56:20
totally, make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
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So, yeah, if these are spiritual entities, do the spirits
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continue to influence people in these areas that, you know, are
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mentioned here, The Hittites, the Gurgashites, Amorites,
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Canaanites, parasites, Hivites and Jebusites?
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This is where God saying, you know, we're going to I'm going
56:53
to defeat them. Don't make a treaty with them.
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I think about, you know, this, this treaty that is spoken of
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through Daniel the prophet that, you know, a covenant that is
57:05
made with many for a week, but then it's broken in the middle.
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I wonder if it could be with any of these, these areas, like is
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Israel going to make a treaty with them?
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And he says make no treaty with them.
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Like is that going to be like what brings on God's judgement?
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What brings on all of these things from the seals and the
57:25
trumpets? Just like no, no, no, I warned
57:29
you about this. These foreign worshipping people
57:32
like do not do that. It says show them no mercy, do
57:37
not intermarry with them. So I, I wanted to see like,
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where were the Hittites, you know, where did they live?
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And that is Anatolia, modern day Turkey.
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So that's, you know, just something Turkey factors into
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here. Then I was like, where did the
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Girgashites live? Where they were in the, the
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central part of western Israel. And that's where it says that
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they were likely in the region of Canaan.
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So it was a certain area within Israel.
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So you can see these people are probably still scattered among
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in Israel. Now, the Amorites, where did
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they live? They were in Syria, West of the
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Euphrates and the Arabian desert before expanding into Canaan and
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Mesopotamia, which is modern day Iraq.
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So all of this area that's involved with the wars going on
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right now, could it be that it's these ancient entities that are
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still influencing people because our our battle is not against
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flesh and blood or people. It's a spiritual battle.
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And are these spiritual battles still happening today?
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I tend to think they are. So where did the Canaanites
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live? They the Canaanites lived in the
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southern Levant region of the ancient Near East during the
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Bronze Age, an area corresponding to modern day
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Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and coastal Syria.
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So think about that. We've got the West Bank, we've
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got Lebanon, we've got Jordan and Syria and Israel.
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So it's like within, like they're scattered, They're
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inside, inside Israel, and they believe they still are inside
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Israel. And the OK, the Perizzites.
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They were an ancient Canaanite people who lived in the central
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Hill County and open and fertile open unwalled regions of Canaan,
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specifically South and southwest of Mount Carmel.
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Their name means villagers or dwellers in the open country.
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Indicates that they were rural farmers and herders rather than
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city dwellers. Then where did the Hivites live?
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They were a Canaanite people also who primarily inhabited the
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northern mountainous regions of Palestine, specifically around
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Mount Lebanon and Mount Hermon stretching towards Hemeth.
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They also occupied central areas, including the city of
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Shechem. And the region of Gibeon just
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north of Jerusalem. And then where did the Jebusites
1:00:22
live? The Jebusites were a Canaanite
1:00:24
tribe that inhabited the 1 fortified hill, the city of
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Jebus, which is modern day Jerusalem.
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They controlled the central mountain region, specifically
1:00:36
around Mount Zion and the surrounding hills from the
1:00:40
Bronze Age until their defeat by King David, who made the city
1:00:44
his capital. So this is all of this is like
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the Middle East and is what is I think affecting everything
1:00:55
today. Now this was like lead is
1:01:00
something interesting. So the woman in the basket has a
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lead cover. But when I looked up, OK, lead
1:01:08
meant lead, and lead is symbolic of something, so we're going to
1:01:12
go down that path. But also the cover, when I
1:01:16
looked up that actual word in the Hebrew, it was it didn't
1:01:21
mean like cover or lid. It was it talked about a round
1:01:26
loaf. And so that's what led me to the
1:01:31
thinking that perhaps the woman is representative of iniquity,
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the loaf, the loaf of iniquity or wickedness, just, you know,
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as a the opposite of Jesus being the bread of life.
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So that's kind of where that came from in my thoughts, where
1:01:50
I I thought that the bread analogy in the basket, because a
1:01:55
basket carries bread. So then this, this lead, lead is
1:02:01
used in the Bible and it it's certainly you know how is lead
1:02:06
refined? Lead is refined from raw or are
1:02:11
scrap mostly batteries, primarily through a
1:02:14
pyrometallurgical process, heating and skimming to achieve
1:02:19
greater than 99% purity. The process involves drossing to
1:02:24
remove impurities like copper and iron, softening to remove
1:02:31
Ant antimony slash arsenic and de silvering to recover precious
1:02:37
metals, often using zinc. That's from Britannica.
1:02:41
So lead is refined by heating and skimming.
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And so this is essentially what God is going to do in his final
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judgement. It's going to be by fire.
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He judged by flood the first time, He's judging by fire the
1:02:58
second time. And when he talks about this
1:03:01
lead cover, this lead cover is covering wickedness.
1:03:04
And in order to eradicate wickedness, it's going to go
1:03:06
through the fire and maybe some will be purified as it.
1:03:09
That's what he's going to do to the nation of Israel.
1:03:12
Some will be purified through the process and others will be
1:03:18
destroyed. And and you know, God
1:03:22
disciplines those he loves. He's hoping that they will will
1:03:26
come back to him. So I was curious just I did, I
1:03:32
wanted to find like the support of this.
1:03:34
I was like, well, who discovered lead?
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You know, like where did it come from?
1:03:38
Because I'm trying to find a connection.
1:03:39
You know, it's from the earth. But who actually figured out
1:03:42
what lead could be used for? So here's what I found.
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Lead was not discovered by a single person.
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It has been known and used for over 8000 years.
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You know if that's true, whatever with evidence of its
1:03:55
use dating back to ancient civilizations.
1:03:59
Now listen to this. Like the Egyptians, Babylonians
1:04:04
and Romans who used it for pipes, coins and statues.
1:04:10
The oldest known lead object is a small statue from Anatolia
1:04:16
dated around 6500 BC. OK, let's just look at this.
1:04:22
So who was using lead back then? You know, it's not discovered by
1:04:26
a certain person. But we've got the Egyptians.
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What did they do? They had many gods.
1:04:31
They worshipped multiple gods. We also have those pyramids.
1:04:34
Like how did they make the pyramids?
1:04:36
How did the ancient people that time without equipment that we
1:04:41
have today, How did they build those pyramids?
1:04:44
Then you have the Babylonians are mentioned.
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They had led and so Babylon, I mean, we know so much throughout
1:04:53
Scripture how Babylon was like the Center for like this chapter
1:04:59
says, iniquity and wickedness. Babylon is modern day Iraq, by
1:05:04
the way. Then we have the Romans.
1:05:08
Now the Romans were the this last empire from the the vision
1:05:16
that Daniel had not Daniel had, but Daniel interpreted and
1:05:20
multiple chapters in the book of Daniel talk about these four
1:05:26
different kingdoms that would come before eventually Jesus
1:05:29
returns and you first had the I guess the Assyrians, then the oh
1:05:38
wait, no, the Assyrians had already happened by the time of
1:05:41
Daniels exile into Babylon. So is the Babylonians was the
1:05:46
first one in his visions that it was the the Kingdom of Babylon
1:05:51
that was Nebuchadnezzar. And then after that came the
1:05:57
Medes and the Persians, which would be modern day Iran.
1:06:02
They kind of, they came up and they there was like some
1:06:05
goodness in them because like Cyrus was the one who let them
1:06:08
build their temple. So they weren't an extreme enemy
1:06:11
like today like Iran is to Israel today.
1:06:18
And, you know, maybe, maybe the regime that's in Iran right now
1:06:23
may go away. I don't know.
1:06:26
I mean, I know the people want the Iranian people who are
1:06:29
oppressed, want to be freed from that regime.
1:06:33
And there are Iranians who have fled from that country to have a
1:06:39
better life. And so the Iranian people are
1:06:43
not the, the, the evil ones, but it's just the, the ones who are,
1:06:48
you know, in the current seeking to kill and destroy just like
1:06:54
Satan. Those are the ones who are not
1:06:56
the good ones. And so anyway, but we get into
1:07:02
this, this, OK, the the different kingdoms.
1:07:05
So it was the Babylonians, then the Medes and the Persians.
1:07:09
And then it says the Greeks, but what it And that's kind of the
1:07:13
Mediterranean. But what it it was the Greeks,
1:07:16
but it was also Anatolia, it was Turkey.
1:07:20
What does this say? The oldest LED object is a small
1:07:23
statue from Anatolia dated around 6500 BC.
1:07:27
So here we have this, this, you know, third Kingdom that was in
1:07:33
Daniel's vision, the Greek and the the Turkey connection.
1:07:39
And then after that came the Roman and, and that was the last
1:07:47
Kingdom. But the last Kingdom before
1:07:50
Jesus returns is going to be a mixture.
1:07:53
It's going to be a divided Kingdom.
1:07:55
So it's not going to be it That was the, you know, the 4th
1:07:59
Kingdom was the Roman Empire, but the Roman Empire brought
1:08:03
into all of these like different gods and goddesses.
1:08:08
But again, these are these are things, these are countries that
1:08:12
were against Israel, Egyptians, they had them originally in
1:08:18
slavery, but they, you know, idolatry is certainly a factor.
1:08:22
Babylonians, we just talked about Inanna and Ishtar that
1:08:26
came from, I guess it was, I forgot which one, one of those
1:08:29
two was what the Babylonians believed.
1:08:32
So they have other gods. And then the Romans, they had
1:08:35
all these different gods, the Greek gods and all of that.
1:08:39
They they had that going on. And then you have Anatolia,
1:08:44
which is part of that, that Kingdom that was also against.
1:08:50
So these are all like non God focused locations and and they
1:08:58
had they were using lead and you may think, well, OK, that
1:09:03
doesn't really matter unless you heard about the book of Enoch,
1:09:08
which I know is not canonized. It's not part of the Bible.
1:09:12
It was referenced in the book of Jude.
1:09:15
But if you, if you do get into it, I want to just tell you I,
1:09:22
I, I was curious about the book of Enoch and I'm not basing all,
1:09:26
you know, faith on it or whatever, but I just wanted to
1:09:28
say, well, what did it say? Does it contradict the Bible?
1:09:31
And not that we can believe everything that's in it, but so
1:09:36
I did skimmed over it. I didn't spend a lot of time
1:09:40
reading it like I do the Bible. But here's something that's
1:09:43
significant. The Book of Enoch, specifically
1:09:46
chapters 7 and 8, describes fallen angels known as the
1:09:51
Watchers, teaching humanity forbidden arts, including
1:09:57
metallurgy, which is weapons and jewelry, cosmetics, sorcery,
1:10:04
astrology, and divination. Led by Azazo and Shemhazia, this
1:10:12
knowledge corrupted mankind, fostering extreme violence,
1:10:18
vanity, and sexual immorality. So these this is what the book
1:10:25
of Enoch talks about, these fallen angels.
1:10:28
The Bible supports that in Revelation it says that Satan,
1:10:32
who's the dragon, took his tail and swiped 1/3 of the stars.
1:10:38
The stars are symbolic of angels in the Book of Revelation and
1:10:42
threw them down to the earth. So the Bible supports what this
1:10:47
says. The Bible doesn't get into the
1:10:48
detail. What does God say about these
1:10:51
things? I mean, at one time Israel did
1:10:55
not have iron are tools like that.
1:11:00
Like there's something in the Bible that I recall reading, but
1:11:03
I can't remember what part of the Bible, but the iron and
1:11:06
tools that like came from like the land of the Philistines they
1:11:10
were using that they. Had all that stuff.
1:11:12
But they didn't let the Israelites have it because they
1:11:15
didn't want him to rebel. But it came from them.
1:11:18
It came from those countries or nations that God said to Israel,
1:11:23
wipe them out. But these people had these
1:11:26
weapons. Where did they get that from?
1:11:29
Did they get that from something from the heavenly realm that had
1:11:33
greater knowledge? Were the Egyptians able to make
1:11:37
the pyramids because they were advised by some angelic fallen
1:11:43
Angel that had that had that those resources?
1:11:47
Like how did these areas have this information that nobody
1:11:51
else had? Just think about that and pray
1:11:54
about that. And there is a book that is that
1:11:58
is referenced in the Bible. Like we can't, we can't say that
1:12:02
everything in here is true, but just think about it.
1:12:06
All the things that God says are horrible, that are bad, that we
1:12:09
should stay away from, were supposedly taught to human
1:12:15
beings by fallen angels. I'm going to read this again.
1:12:19
So the book of Enoch, specifically Chapter 7 and 8,
1:12:22
describes fallen angels known as watchers, teaching humanity
1:12:26
forbidden arts including metallurgy, weapons and jewelry,
1:12:31
cosmetics, sorcery, astrology and divination.
1:12:35
Led by Azazel and Shem Hasi. This knowledge corrupted mankind
1:12:41
for restoring extreme violence, vanity, and sexual immorality.
1:12:47
If you look at any of the like depictions of ancient Egypt,
1:12:51
think about all their heavy eye makeup on and all of their like.
1:12:55
Like if you talk about cosmetics, you it seems like
1:12:58
they must have come from Egypt because everybody in in at least
1:13:04
Hollywood's depictions. I don't know that we necessarily
1:13:07
have pictures back there, but they're all heavily made-up.
1:13:10
Even the men were are shown with heavy makeup on.
1:13:14
So is that the result of fallen angels?
1:13:18
Just something to think about. OK.
1:13:20
Weaponry and metalworking. Azazel taught the creation of
1:13:25
swords, knives, Shields, and breastplates.
1:13:30
He taught the creation. He taught mankind about swords,
1:13:34
knives, Shields and breastplates.
1:13:36
Think about that. God is a God of love.
1:13:39
God is a God of peace who brings in strife, who wants to destroy.
1:13:46
It's Satan, and he's deceived, manipulated, whatever you want
1:13:50
to say. Other fallen angels to do the
1:13:54
same with him, to join him in his battle against humans, to
1:13:58
destroy us. Beautification and vanity.
1:14:02
Instruction in creating jewelry, bracelets, and using cosmetics
1:14:06
like antimony or eye makeup for ornamentation.
1:14:10
Magic and sorcery techniques involving charms, spells, and
1:14:16
root cutting. Medicine or sorcery.
1:14:19
Astrology and astronomy. Knowledge of the stars, moon and
1:14:24
sun signs. Forbidden knowledge.
1:14:26
Divination, which is interpreting omens and earth
1:14:32
signs. The influx of forbidden
1:14:35
knowledge combined with the procreation of the giants or the
1:14:41
Nephilim resulted in widespread corruption that prompted God to
1:14:45
initiate the great flood. So the Nephilim, if you haven't
1:14:52
heard about what they were, I think it's Genesis chapter 3
1:14:55
where it talks about the sons of God.
1:14:57
Now remember Jesus said scripture cannot be set aside
1:15:01
and these apparent, you know that some created beings were
1:15:05
called sons of God. Those sons of gods in the
1:15:09
heavenly realms took human women and procreated with them, and
1:15:17
the offspring that resulted were giants.
1:15:22
The Bible talks about people being maybe 13 feet tall, 9 feet
1:15:27
tall, and that some of them had six fingers, so they were not
1:15:32
what God intended for creation. But it did happen and apparently
1:15:38
that is the reason behind the great flood and God, it says
1:15:44
that God found eight people that hadn't succumbed to this and
1:15:51
that was Noah and his family that he put on the ark to give
1:15:54
humanity a new start. So he had to destroy the earth
1:15:59
to get rid of what these fallen angels had corrupted on earth.
1:16:05
Just like Satan at the very beginning deceived Adam and Eve
1:16:09
and and and you know, sin entered into the world as a
1:16:13
result of that. Then the fallen angels start
1:16:17
doing this with people and then things get crazy and God has to
1:16:22
flood the whole earth to get rid of it.
1:16:26
But then it also says that the Nephilim were there before the
1:16:29
flood and afterwards. So apparently this has happened
1:16:33
again. So I don't know, but just these
1:16:39
wild things that you would never think of.
1:16:41
But today it's almost like these things are being revealed to
1:16:44
people, even within government when they start talking about
1:16:48
there's some strange stuff. So anyway, this is not just
1:16:51
fantasy. This is in the Bible.
1:16:54
It's talked about, like I said, Genesis chapter 3 talks about
1:16:57
it, the king of Ogg and Saigon I it talks about in the Bible how
1:17:02
his bed was either 9 or 13 feet tall.
1:17:05
This is who David went against. The Goliath, the land of the
1:17:09
Philistines had a lot of these giant people.
1:17:12
This is what all the people, the tribes of Israel were afraid
1:17:16
going into the Canaanite territories because they were
1:17:19
giants. And they said that we looked
1:17:22
like the Israelites thought they look like grasshoppers compared
1:17:25
to these people. They were so much bigger.
1:17:28
They were probably Nephilim that were living there that God said
1:17:31
go wipe them out. We just don't.
1:17:34
This stuff is not taught and but if you look into Scripture, you
1:17:38
see there's evidence in it. The Bible is true, the Bible is
1:17:41
real, but people skim over some of these details and so you lose
1:17:46
some of this. But these, these other books,
1:17:48
while we cannot believe all of what's in there, it does make
1:17:53
sense of what is written in the Bible.
1:17:56
So I think that really concludes everything.
1:18:00
I mean, tying this all back to Zechariah, we have the flying
1:18:03
scroll. We have, you know, curses for
1:18:07
idolatry. If people are wrapped up into
1:18:09
these false religions, that is from the enemy.
1:18:14
We see that these. That the heavenly realms have
1:18:17
have sent. They have.
1:18:19
There has been some angelic beings coming to the earth.
1:18:22
It is, it is written about in the Bible.
1:18:27
It's not a made-up story. They do exist and people are
1:18:31
just ignorant because it's not something that you would go into
1:18:35
a normal church and hear about. But this is real, this is true
1:18:40
and we need to be aware of it. And why should be we be aware of
1:18:46
it? Just that our relationship and
1:18:48
our confidence and our security and our comfort, all of that,
1:18:54
our peace, everything. We don't have anything to fear.
1:18:57
None of the stuff that I talked about, even though it sounds
1:19:00
like, you know, they're, they're the supernatural entities or
1:19:04
these heavenly entities that have different powers than we
1:19:07
do. If we have the Holy Spirit in
1:19:10
us, we are more powerful. In fact, in the end it says
1:19:14
that. Do you not know that we will
1:19:16
judge the angels? That's what it says.
1:19:19
I think it's somewhere where Paul wrote that, and I can't
1:19:21
remember what book it's in, but you can look that up, that we
1:19:24
will judge the angels. Humans will judge the angels.
1:19:27
We don't have anything to fear. When we have the Holy Spirit
1:19:32
within us. There is nothing to fear.
1:19:35
We have the authority and the power of God in the name of
1:19:39
Jesus. So if you have any fear, make
1:19:44
sure that you've surrendered your life, that you say that you
1:19:48
invite God, that you invite the Holy Spirit into your life, that
1:19:52
you believe in Jesus and you take action as a result of that.
1:19:57
Our actions indicate whether we truly believe this or not.
1:20:02
And God is not after a religious person who checks all the boxes
1:20:07
and say, I go to church every Sunday and I give to the poor
1:20:10
and that is I'm showing love. I mean, that's, that's nice.
1:20:16
But are you submitted? Are you obedient to God?
1:20:19
Obedience is really key because God is Lord of us.
1:20:24
And that's a struggle that every single human being will have
1:20:27
because we don't want necessarily to have somebody
1:20:30
ruling over us, but we need to humble ourselves and say, yes,
1:20:35
God, you are good, You are just, and I want you to rule over me
1:20:39
and I will submit to what you say I need to do.
1:20:44
And that's what God's looking for.
1:20:46
God is looking for people who are submitted to him who love
1:20:51
him back. Jesus said if you love me, you
1:20:53
will obey my commands. So obedience is tied to love.
1:20:59
It's we can't just be religious, obedient people and think that
1:21:05
all of our good deeds get us into heaven.
1:21:06
No, we have to recognize it was the Son of God, Jesus Christ,
1:21:11
who made it possible for us to be in God's Kingdom.
1:21:15
But how do we respond to that? What do we do in response to
1:21:20
that? That matters.
1:21:22
That's going to seal our destiny.
1:21:24
Nobody can do it for us, not any of our acts, nothing.
1:21:27
But how do we respond to God? So this is something if, if you
1:21:32
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And there are things that in here that people don't talk
1:21:40
about very often. And so a lot of people are
1:21:42
probably not aware of this, but it's, it's in the Bible, it's
1:21:47
true. And I believe God wants us to
1:21:50
know this. So anyway, I hope this was
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closer to God and more revelations happen as a result
1:22:08
of it. We start seeing things we hadn't
1:22:10
seen before. So overtime, God reveals more to
1:22:14
us. So I, I asked, I ask for the
1:22:17
Holy Spirit to enter into every single person who listens to
1:22:22
this into their lives that they are willing to accept Jesus and
1:22:27
believe Jesus. And I pray to God that the Holy
1:22:30
Spirit come into your life and give you strength, comfort, and
1:22:36
just remain with you until the day that Jesus returns for his
1:22:40
people. I ask this in Jesus name, Amen.