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739. Bible Study: Isaiah 52 (About the Return of Jesus Christ in 700 BC!) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 52 from the book of Isaiah.
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  Dear God, please be with us as we read through this chapter and
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  give us wisdom and insight in Jesus name.
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  Awake, awake, Zion, clothe yourself with strength, put on
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  your garments of splendor. Jerusalem, the holy city.
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  Now this is where I think that when I read it, I think this is
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  talking about the new Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the holy city.
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  Obviously God chose Jerusalem as the city that would be his.
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  And again, it says awake, awake Zion.
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  And often most of the time it's in the prophetic books where
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  Zion is used and it's also talking about a future time.
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  And I believe that this and it's also talking about people.
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  We talked through this on the last chapter.
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  So I won't repeat myself, but it to me this has a reference of
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  the future. So continuing on, Isaiah says
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  the uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you again.
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  So this is definitely in the future, the uncircumcised and
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  the defiled, because God is creating a, there is a New
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  Jerusalem that's talked about in the Book of Revelation and that
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  will be coming down from heaven. And it's described completely
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  different. I've mentioned this before where
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  it's, it's about half the size of the United States when you
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  look at the dimensions that are given and it's as tall as it is
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  wide. And of course this could be
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  symbolic because it's very interesting.
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  It's like all these semi precious jewels and there's
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  foundations and there's 12 levels and there's names and all
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  that. I'm sure some of it's symbolic,
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  but I also think that God is so creative.
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  It's probably going to be something we have never
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  anticipated, expected, or obviously we've never seen it
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  before. And it will probably blow our
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  minds, to be honest. I mean, if you just think of
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  some of the, the natural wonders of the earth right now in its
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  broken state and just think like when God, you know, fixes
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  everything or when you know whatever God creates is
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  beautiful. It's the corruption, the sin,
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  the, I don't know, all sorts of things that affect God's
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  creation, but God makes everything good.
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  So this New Jerusalem is going to be amazing.
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  Now in verse 2, Isaiah says shake off your dust, rise up,
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  sit enthroned Jerusalem, free yourself from the chains on your
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  neck. Daughter Zion now a captive, now
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  shaking off dust that you know, putting dust on oneself is
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  usually like a ashes on your body Back at that time and
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  dressed in sackcloth was usually a sign of mourning.
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  Now this is saying shake it off, shake off the dust, rise up.
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  Now that rise up makes me think about the resurrection because
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  we know that's what's going to happen.
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  There will be mortal and immortal people living at the
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  same time. When Jesus reigns for 1000
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  years, everybody's looking for the Messiah to come.
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  All religions like are really seriously all the three like
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  Abrahamic religions are looking for someone to come.
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  Unfortunately, two of the three will be deceived by the one the
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  next one who comes and some of the Christians also, because it
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  says that, you know, there's there's some that will be
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  deceived. So there's someone that is
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  coming in our future that is known as the lawless one.
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  He's going to be the fake Messiah.
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  And we'll just we'll have to wait and see how this plays out.
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  But it's getting past that fake one.
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  When we get when the real Jesus returns, it is going to be
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  amazing and it's going to be this incredible time of peace
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  and people are looking for a human being to provide that.
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  I was listening to a Jewish rabbi who was talking about
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  masiak and or mashiach, Mashiach and just saying that doesn't
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  mean savior, that means anointed one.
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  But there's so much more where it ties salvation to this person
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  that comes. So the people who are Jewish are
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  not looking for Jesus, obviously, and they're not
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  looking for a savior to return. They're looking for a regular
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  human being who is going to rule.
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  And so that makes it very interesting.
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  And that surely explains how people will be deceived because
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  they aren't looking for the Son of God.
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  In fact, this one, this rabbi specifically said he's not the
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  Son of God. So this is the deception, this
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  deception, this is the blindness that comes over all for the
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  rejection of Jesus. But it says that in that day,
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  their eyes will be opened and they will realize this is the
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  one who was pierced, this is Jesus, this is the one they kept
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  denying. And you people can be forgiven
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  for for that. It says that there's only one
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  thing that you can't be forgiven of, and that's blasphemy of the
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  spirit. If you speak against the Son of
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  God, you can still repent and, and, and be forgiven.
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  But if you speak against the Spirit of God, that's completely
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  different you that there is that is one the one unforgivable sin.
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  And I think that's also like the mark of the beast.
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  If somebody takes the mark of the beast, whatever that turns
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  out to be, that's also unforgivable.
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  Once you do that, that can't be undone.
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  You've basically probably aligned yourself with someone
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  other than God and it's it's the same pretty much.
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  I guess the way I'm looking at it as blasphemy of the Holy
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  Spirit. You're rejecting the one true
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  God and aligning yourself with something else.
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  So anyway, let's go back to what Isaiah says.
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  So I think this is like shake off the dust, rise up, sit
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  enthroned Jerusalem, free yourself from the chains on your
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  neck. Daughter Zion now a captive.
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  So we are all captive by Satan is called the ruler of the air.
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  He is affecting this world right now, whether we realize it or
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  not. He is.
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  And those who have also rebelled against God, they're spiritual
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  entities that have rebelled against God and they're unseen.
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  So that's why people can't quickly identify that.
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  It's like you have to have your spiritual sense open to
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  understand that there are these evil influences.
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  We can see it. We can, You know, that's why so
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  many people are like, I can't even imagine how could this ever
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  happen? Like it's so evil when somebody
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  says something like that. Well, that's why because it's so
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  evil and it's unseen. So the Bible explains this stuff
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  to us. So let's continue with Isaiah
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  for this is what the Lord says. You were sold for nothing and
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  without money you will be redeemed.
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  Now this is interesting. This is the second time that it
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  talks about a group of people being sold.
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  And there was like an exchange, which I don't, I haven't heard
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  anybody teach about that, but it, it said that, you know, God
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  exchanged people for actually for the Israelites.
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  And, and I guess, you know, God always goes with somebody's free
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  will. So he can probably see who is
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  rejecting him. And, and I just know that God is
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  fair. He is just, he is righteous.
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  So when he sold, he probably took the ones who were rejecting
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  him and said, OK, I'll give you these for these, you know, or,
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  and anyway, he, there was an exchange because it said that,
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  you know, he's, he gave, I guess he gave away some people for the
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  exchange of Israel in the past in the Old Testament.
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  And then there's he did give Israel, the 10 tribes of Israel,
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  a certificate of divorce. It talks about in Jeremiah that
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  we talked about in a prior chapter.
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  So he did separate because of their idolatry and wickedness.
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  That's why he sold them. But he didn't sell, not sell.
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  That's why he gave them a certificate of divorce.
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  But to Judah, he didn't give a a certificate of a divorce.
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  But I believe he put her away, which is different from divorce.
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  There is, it's like being separated from and not official,
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  officially divorced. And so these are all like
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  metaphoric, our analogies to what is actually happened in the
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  spiritual realm. So, but we can relate to the
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  natural realm, but the spiritual realm, if we apply it to that,
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  then we can kind of understand it a little bit better.
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  And I think that's why God gave us so many parables or things
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  for humans, human beings that they could understand.
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  And, and Jesus said one time, I think it was to Nicodemus, he
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  said, how can I tell you of spiritual things when you can't
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  even understand the earthly things?
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  So it's just, it's beyond what we can comprehend.
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  But Scripture gives gives us a little bit of a a comparison
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  that we can somewhat understand. I'm sure none of us have it
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  completely figured out. But let's go back to what he
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  said. You were sold for nothing and
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  without money you will be redeemed.
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  Now how does that happen? That's Jesus on the cross.
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  Like they didn't make the payment.
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  Jesus made the payment for the lives.
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  So someday the Jewish people's eyes will be opened and they
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  will realize that Jesus paid the price for them and they will see
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  these scriptures, these Old Testament scriptures that were
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  written in like 700 BC and understand that, wow, he was
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  written about all throughout the Old Testament that we read all
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  the time and we didn't see it. And I think it has to do with
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  the unbelief of the ancestors. And this was maybe punishment
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  for that. But they're, like I said before,
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  there are some Messianic Jews, Jews that believe in Jesus.
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  So I, I don't know why some are blinded and others are not.
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  And I guess it's maybe an internal decision, a heart
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  decision, you know, maybe not in actions, but in their heart.
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  They have not been circumcised to God.
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  So let's go back to Isaiah verse 4.
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  For this is what the sovereign Lord says.
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  At first my people went down to Egypt to live.
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  Lately Assyria has oppressed them.
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  And now what do I have here? Declares the Lord.
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  For my people have been taken away for nothing, and those who
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  rule them mock declares the Lord, and all day long my name
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  is constantly blasphemed. OK, so this is something that we
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  know that of the three Abrahamic religions.
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  That's why we can never be unified.
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  Because if we are, the name of Jesus is excluded.
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  The name, the Savior, the one who makes it possible for us to
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  be in the Kingdom of God is excluded, that what he did on
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  the cross is denied both in Jewish belief and Jewish faith.
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  Those who don't believe in the Messiah don't believe Jesus is
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  the Messiah. And then, so I'm not talking
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  about Messianic Jews, but the, the, I guess the Jewish people
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  today and then also the Islamic people.
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  They say Jesus was a prophet and he was a good man and he was
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  sinless. But then they say Muhammad is
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  greater than him. And Muhammad like went out and
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  killed people. Jesus was expressing love to
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  everybody and Muhammad's going out killing them.
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  And somehow they think Muhammad's a greater prophet.
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  That just blows my mind. It just, it's completely
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  illogical. And, and not only that, but I've
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  mentioned this before, the Bible was written in 90 AD and the
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  Quran came about in 600 something AD.
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  And the Bible says if an Angel or anyone tells us, tells you
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  any other gospel than what we've shared with you, that is like
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  the spirit of the Antichrist, something to that effect.
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  And so then Muhammad has an Angel come to him and tell him
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  something different, and then he deceives all these people.
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  I mean, isn't it clear that he is evil, that he went around
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  killing and he's deceived people?
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  And it's so sad because people are blinded by that.
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  But someday people will, their eyes will spiritually be open
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  and they will see the spirit behind it.
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  And I will anyone who is listening from a different
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  faith, pray to God. Pray to the one true God, God
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  the Father, and ask him to reveal the truth about Jesus.
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  Just pray, honestly seek, and and I know that God will reveal
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  it to you. I know that he will.
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  If you are truly, if you're not doing it in a mocking way and
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  you're sincerely asking God for clarity, God will make sure you
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  know there will be signs that you will see because God wants
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  to be known. OK, let's go back.
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  Therefore, my people will know my name.
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  Therefore, in that day, they will know that it is I who
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  foretold it. Yes, it is I so that just that's
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  really interesting because they will know my name.
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  Well, obviously the Jewish people and other, you know,
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  people talk about God, but here I think they're talking about
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  Jesus, the son of God. And and so this is is is Jesus
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  the one who's telling Isaiah this?
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  Just some a thought that came to mind.
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  How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring
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  good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who
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  proclaim salvation. Yes, that is the gospel message
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  of Jesus, salvation. He is the Messiah who brought
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  salvation, although some deny him, and by denying him they
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  will be excluded from the Kingdom of God.
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  Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life.
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  No one comes to the Father except through me.
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  Meaning if you don't believe that he died on the cross and
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  rose again, then you cannot be in the Kingdom of God.
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  Because if you've seen Jesus, you've seen the Father.
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  That's what Jesus also said. OK, so it says who pray,
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  proclaim salvation, who say to Zion your God reigns.
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  Listen your Watchmen lift up their voices together they shout
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  for joy when the Lord returns to Zion.
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  Now this is interesting. I would.
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  I didn't look up the actual Hebrew words, But when the Lord
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  returns to Zion, what I've heard from this Jewish rabbi was that
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  he was talking about a a human Messiah that was going to be
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  coming, an anointed one. But Isaiah in 700 BC says when
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  the Lord returns to Zion, that's Jesus.
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  They will see it with their own eyes.
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  Listen to this Burst into songs of joy together, your you ruins
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  of Jerusalem. For the Lord has comforted his
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  people, He has redeemed Jerusalem.
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  The Lord will lay bare his holy arm in the sight of all the
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  nations, and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of
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  our God. This is Jesus coming on the
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  clouds. I mentioned this before and
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  there's scripture to document that.
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  I want to pause for a minute and actually read some verses from
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  Scripture that talk about this Jesus coming in the clouds, and
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  not only Jesus coming in the clouds, but just that we will
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  see Jesus again. So, and how many times this is
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  referenced in the Old Testament, Even so in Isaiah chapter 18
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  verse 3, all you people of the world, you who live on earth,
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  when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it and
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  when a trumpet sounds you will hear it.
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  Now this is talking about, if you recall that when Jesus comes
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  on the clouds, a trumpet will be blown.
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  So think about that in Isaiah 29 verse 18.
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  In that day, the death, the deaf will hear the words of the
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  scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind
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  will see. So in that day when Jesus
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  returns, people will remember what was written in Isaiah 2918
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  and the blind eyes will see. So 700 BC, almost 2700, well
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  more than 2700 years ago this was written and foretold by God.
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  So let's see your eyes in Isaiah 33 verse 17.
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  Your eyes will see the king in his beauty and view a land that
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  stretches afar. And let's see where I wanted to,
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  OK? It says in Isaiah 33, verse 20,
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  Look on Zion, the city of our festivals.
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  Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful abode, a tent that will
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  not be moved. Its stakes will never be pulled
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  up, nor any of its ropes broken. Now this is Jerusalem, a
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  peaceful place. Now there was another scripture
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  that I think read the last episode where it talked about
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  Jerusalem being a tent and Zion being a dwelling.
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  So I think Jerusalem is the temporary place and Zion is the
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  permanent place. But this is just kind of
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  interesting, especially right now in September, about a month
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  from now, there's going to be a discussion again about the two
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  state solution and about dividing the land of Israel.
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  And that's not what God has. For Israel, that's not what
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  Israel wants. I don't know if Israel's going
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  to agree to this. I can't imagine.
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  But in order for God's prophecy to be fulfilled, they could
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  perhaps agree to dividing the land.
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  If they do, Oh my goodness, there is going to be wrath of
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  God that comes out. So when people talk about end
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  times right now, all eyes are on Israel and pay attention.
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  It's, it's ironically happening during the Jewish feast of Rosh
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  Hashanah, which is really interesting during that time
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  frame. It's kind of weird when all
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  these nations make these decisions on Jewish feast days
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  and an especially, it's just very interesting.
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  It's like the enemy just mocking and saying, I'm going to even do
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  this on your feast day. So watch and see what happens.
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  If it doesn't happen, then God's given us some breathing room.
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  And there's some, there's more time than a lot of people are
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  anticipating. But if it does happen, oh boy,
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  you better be ready to meet the Lord because it's very, very
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  soon then. And I'll get into that a little
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  bit later too. OK, so let's see the Isaiah 40
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  verse 5 says, and the glory of the Lord will be revealed and
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  all people will see it together. For the mouth of the Lord has
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  spoken. Isaiah 49 verse 7.
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  This is what the Lord says, the Redeemer Jesus and the Holy One
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  of Israel, to him who was despised, despised and abhorred
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  by the nation, to the servant of rulers.
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  Kings will see you and stand up, Princess will see you and bow
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  down because of the Lord who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel
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  who has chosen you list. Listen your Watchmen lift up
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  their voices together they shout for joy.
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  When the Lord returns to Zion, they will see it with their own
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  eyes. Now that was the verse we were
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  reading this chapter. There's like 3 different
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  references in here. The Lord will lay bare his holy
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  arm. Insight of all the nations and
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  all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
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  So He will sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut
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  their mouths because of Him. For what they were not told they
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  will see, and what they have not heard, they will understand.
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  Now then in the New Testament, this is how it all gets tied
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  together. And that's what people who don't
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  study both the Old and the New Testament miss out on what's in
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  the Bible. So let's see, I didn't read the
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  context of this, but Malachi 15 says you will see it with your
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  own eyes and say great is the Lord even beyond the borders of
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  Israel. And Jesus said, blessed are the
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  pure in heart, for they will see God.
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  And then in Matthew verse 20 or Matthew chapter 26 verse 64,
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  Jesus says, you have said so Jesus replied, but I say to all
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  of you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the
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  right hand of the mighty one and coming on the clouds of heaven.
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  This is talking about the return of Jesus.
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  So let's see in Matthew 28 verse 10, well that's not really
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  unless Mark chapter 13 verse 26 at that time people will see the
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  Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.
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  In Mark chapter 14 verse 62, I am said Jesus, and you will see
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  the Son of man sitting at the right hand of the mighty one and
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  coming on the clouds of heaven In Mark chapter 16 verse 7.
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  But go tell his disciples and Peter, he is going ahead of you
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  into Galilee there. Oh, that's never mind.
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  That's not about the future. That's was at that at their
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  time. Luke chapter 3 verse 6 and all
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  people will see God's salvation and let's see Luke 18 verse 8.
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  I tell you, he will see that they get justice and quickly.
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  However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on
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  earth? That's a message for all of us.
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  Like we need to stay strong in our faith right now and we need
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  to not waver in our faith. It's the it's a very important
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  time to be in Scripture reading it and in prayer daily with God,
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  communicating with God because of this, you know, we don't know
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  how this future prophecy, the timing of everything.
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  And there's a lot of people that feel like it's really, really,
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  really close. So it's really important to be
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  in the word and have that relationship strong with God.
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  In Luke 21 verse 27, at that time they will see the Son of
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  Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
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  And let's see in John chapter one verse 51, then he then
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  added, very truly I tell you, you will see heaven open and the
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  angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man.
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  In John Chapter 9 verse 39, Jesus said for judgment, I have
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  come into this world so that the blind will see and those who see
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  will become blind things. You know, it's a spiritual
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  thing. Let's see John 11 verse 40.
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  Then Jesus said, did I not tell you that if you believe you will
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  see the glory of God? It's all about faith, about
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  belief. We are saved by faith before,
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  OK, John 14 verse 19. Before long the world will not
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  see me anymore, but you will see me because I live.
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  You also will live. That's Jesus talking to his
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  disciples. And in John chapter 16 verse 16,
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  he said Jesus went on to say in a little while you will see me
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  no more. And then after a little while
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  you will see me. This is about the resurrection.
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  When Jesus returns, that's when resurrection happens.
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  Maybe the 12 disciples, no, they weren't.
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  They were still alive when Jesus resurrected.
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  So they weren't the ones who were walking around the city of
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  Jerusalem. But I guess they will get their
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  bodies when Jesus returns and that's when they will see him
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  again. Boy, that's going to be an
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  exciting time. And then John 16 verse 17 said
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  at this some of his disciples said to one another, what does
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  he mean by saying in a little while you will see me no more?
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  And then after a little while you will see me because I'm
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  going to the father. So they were they were
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  questioning that. Then in nine verse 19, it says
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  Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about it.
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  So he said to them, are you asking one another what I meant
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  when I said in a little while you will see me no more.
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  And then in a after a little while, you will see me very
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  truly, I tell you. You will weep and mourn while
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  the world rejoices when he died on the cross.
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  You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy when Jesus
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  returns. A woman giving birth to a child
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  has pain because her time has come.
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  But when her baby is born, she forgets the anguish because of
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  her joy that a child is born into the world.
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  So again, this is like a spiritual thing that they don't
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  know what he's talking about, but he's describing it,
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  comparing it to the birth of a child, the birth.
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  And this is where I think about like, can a nation be born in a
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  day? I think it's actually born not
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  in 1948. I think the day the nation born
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  in a day is when Jesus returns. And that is God's Kingdom is
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  born in a day. But that's just my
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  interpretation. So going back to what Jesus
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  says. So with you, now is your time of
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  grief. But I will see you again, and
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  you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
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  Listen to this. In that day you will no longer
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  ask me anything. Very truly.
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  I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in My name.
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  Until now you have not asked for anything in My name.
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  Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
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  Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming
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  when I will no longer use this kind of language, but will tell
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  you plainly about my Father. In that day, you will ask in my
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  name. I am not saying that I will ask
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  the Father on your behalf. No, the Father Himself loves you
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  because you have loved me and have believed that I came from
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  God. Let's read that again because
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  that's important for all of us. No, the Father himself loves you
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  because you have loved me and have believed that I came from
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  God. That's really important.
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  I came from the Father and entered the world.
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  Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.
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  Then Jesus disciples said, now you are speaking clearly and
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  without figures of speech. Now we can see that you know all
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  things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you
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  questions. That this makes us believe that
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  you came from God. Do you now believe?
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  Jesus replied. A time is coming and in fact has
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  come, when you will be scattered each to your own home.
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  You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my
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  Father is with me. I have told you these things so
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  that in me you may have peace in this world You will have
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  trouble, but take heart. I have overcome the world.