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Jeremiah’s Warning | Gaza’s Prophetic Fate Unveiled (Oct 24) · 1 Year Audio Bible Podcast

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Zephaniah chapter 2, verse 4, for Gaza shall
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be forsaken and Ashkelon desolate.
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Amos chapter 1, verse 7, but I will send a fire
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upon the wall of Gaza which shall devour
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its palaces. Jeremiah 47,
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verse 5, baldness has come upon Gaza Ashkelon
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is cut off.
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O you sword of the Lord, how long until you are quiet?
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Put yourself up into your scabbard, rest and be still.
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How have these prophecies regarding Gaza been fulfilled?
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Listen in as we unpack these prophecies concerning Gaza.
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Welcome to the Daily Audio Torah. Today is October 24th.
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Now let's continue our journey reading through the entire Bible in
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1 year. This week we are reading from the Israel Bible for the
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Old Testament and from the King James for the New Testament.
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Jeremiah 44:24-47:7.
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Jeremiah further said to all the people and to all the women, Hear the word
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of Hashem, all Judeans in the land of Egypt.
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Thus said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, You and
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your wives have confirmed by deed what you spoke in words.
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We will fulfill the vows which we made to burn incense to
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the Queen of Heaven and to pour libations to her.
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So fulfill your vows, perform your vows.
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Yet hear the word of Hashem, all Judeans who dwell
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in the land of Egypt. Lo, I swear by
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my great name, says Hashem, that none of the men of Judah
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in all the land of Egypt shall ever again invoke my name,
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saying, As Hashem lives!
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I will be watchful over them to their hurt, not to their
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benefit. All the men of Judah in the land of Egypt shall be consumed
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by sword and by famine until they cease to be.
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Only the few who survive the sword shall return from the land of
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Egypt to the land of Judah. All the remnant of Judah who came to
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the land of Egypt to sojourn there shall learn whose word
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will be fulfilled, mine or
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theirs. And this shall be the sign to you,
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declares Hashem, that I am going to deal with you in this place,
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so that you may know that my threats of punishment against you will be fulfilled.
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Thus said Hashem: I will deliver Pharaoh Hophra,
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king of Egypt, into the hands of his enemies, those who
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seek his life, just as I delivered King Zedekiah of Judah
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into the hands of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, his enemy who sought
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his life. The word which the Navi Jeremiah
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spoke to Baruch son of Neriah when he was writing these words
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in a scroll at Jeremiah's dictation in the 4th year of King Jehoiakim
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son of Josiah of Judah. Thus said Hashem,
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the God of Israel, concerning you, Baruch: You say,
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Woe is me! Hashem has added grief to my
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pain. I am worn out with groaning, and I have found
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no rest. Thus shall you speak to him: Thus said Hashem:
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I am going to overthrow what I have built and uproot what I have planted.
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This applies to the whole land. And do you expect
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great things for yourself? Don't expect them, for I am going to
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bring disaster upon all flesh, declares Hashem.
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But I will at least grant you your life in all the places
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where you may go.
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The Word of Hashem to the Navi Jeremiah concerning the nations.
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Concerning Egypt, about the army of Pharaoh Necho,
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king of Egypt, which was at the River Euphrates near Carchemish.
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And which was defeated by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in the 4th year
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of King Jehoiachin son of Josiah of Judah.
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Get ready buckler and shield and move forward to battle!
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Harness the horses! Mount, you horsemen! Fall in
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line, helmets on! Burnish the lances! Don your armor!
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Why do I see them dismayed, yielding ground?
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Their fighters are crushed! They flee in haste and
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do not turn back! Terror all around, declares Hashem.
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The swift cannot get away, the warrior cannot escape.
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In the north, by the River Euphrates, they stagger and fall.
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Who is this that rises like the Nile, like streams whose waters
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surge? It is Egypt that rises like
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the Nile, like streams whose waters surge, that said, I will
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rise, I will cover the earth, I will wipe out towns and
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those who dwell in them. Advance, O horses!
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Dash madly, O chariots! Let the warriors go
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forth, Kush and Put, that grasp the shield, and the Ludim
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who grasp and draw the bow. But that day shall be
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for the Lord of Hosts a day when He exacts retribution from His foes.
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The sword shall devour, it shall be sated and drunk
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with their blood, for the Lord of Hosts is preparing a sacrifice in
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the Northland by the River Euphrates. Go up to Gilead and
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get balm, fair maiden Egypt! In vain do you seek many
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remedies, there is no healing for you. Nations have
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heard your shame, the earth resounds with your screams. Where warrior
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stumbles against warrior, the two fall down together.
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The word which Hashem spoke to the Navi Jeremiah about the
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coming of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon to attack the land of
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Egypt. Declare in Egypt, proclaim in Migdol,
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proclaim in Naphtali and Tapanes. Say, take your posts and
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stand ready, for the sword has devoured all around you.
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Why are your stalwarts swept away? They did not stand
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firm, for Hashem thrust them down. He made many stumble,
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they fell over one another. They said, up, let us return to
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our people, to the land of our birth, because of the deadly sword.
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There they called Pharaoh, king of Egypt, Braggart, who let the hour
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go by. As I live, declares the King whose name is
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the Lord of Hosts, Yahweh-Savayot, as surely as
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Tabor is among the mountains and Carmel is by the sea,
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so shall this come to pass.
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Equip yourself for exile, fair Egypt, you who dwell secure,
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for Napht shall become a waste, desolate, without inhabitants.
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Egypt is a handsome heifer. A gadfly from the north is
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coming, coming. The mercenaries too in her midst
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are like stall-fed calves. They too shall turn tail, flee as
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one, and make no stand. Their day of disaster is upon
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them, the hour of their doom. She shall rustle
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away like a snake. As they come marching in force, they shall come
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against her with axes like hewers of wood.
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They shall cut down her forest, declares Hashem, though it cannot be measured.
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For they are more numerous than locusts and cannot be counted. There Egypt
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shall be shamed, handed over to the people of the north.
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The Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, has said,
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I will inflict punishment on Ammon of Noah and on Pharaoh,
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on Egypt, her gods and her kings, on Pharaoh and all who
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rely on him. I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek to
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kill them. Into the hands of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and into
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the hands of his subjects. But afterwards she shall be inhabited again
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as in former days, declares Hashem. But you,
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have no fear, My servant Jacob. Be not dismayed,
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O Israel. I will deliver you from far away, your folk
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from their land of captivity, and Jacob again shall have
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calm and quiet with none to trouble him. But you,
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Have no fear, my servant Jacob, declares Hashem,
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for I am with you. I will make an end of
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all the nations among which I have banished you,
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but I will not make an end of you. I will not leave
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you unpunished, but I will chastise you in measure.
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The word of Hashem that came to Navi Jeremiah concerning the Philistines
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before Pharaoh conquered Gaza. Thus said
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Hashem: See, waters are rising from the north.
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They shall become a raging torrent. They shall flood the
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land and its creatures, the towns and their inhabitants.
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Men shall cry out, all the inhabitants of the land shall howl
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at the clatter of the stamping hoofs of his stallions,
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at the noise of his chariots, the rumbling of their wheels.
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Fathers shall not look to their children out of sheer helplessness because
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of the day that is coming. We're ravaging all the Philistines.
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We're cutting off every last ally of Tyre and Sidon.
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For Hashem will ravage the Philistines, the remnant
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from the island of Caphtor. Baldness has come upon
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Gaza. Ashkelon is destroyed. O remnant
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of their valley, how long will you gash yourself? O sword of Hashem,
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when will you be quiet at last? Withdraw into your sheath,
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rest and be still. How can it be quiet
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when Hashem has given it orders against Ashkelon and the seacoast,
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given it assignment there?
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2 Timothy 2:22-3:17.
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Flee also youthful lusts,
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but follow righteousness, faith, charity,
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peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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But foolish and unlearned questions avoid,
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knowing that they do gender strifes. And the servant of the
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Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men,
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apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing
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those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure
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will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, and that they
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may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive
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by him at his will. This know also,
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that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men
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shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,
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boasters, proud, blasphemers,
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disobedient to parents, unthankful,
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unholy, without natural affection,
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trucebreakers, false accusers,
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incontinent, fierce,
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despisers of those that are good, traitors,
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heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more
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than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but
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denying the power thereof, From such turn
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away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses and
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lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with
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various lusts, ever learning and never able to
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come to the knowledge of the truth.
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Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these
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also resist the truth, men of corrupt minds,
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reprobate concerning the faith, But they shall proceed
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no further, for their folly shall be manifest unto all men,
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as theirs also was. But you have fully known
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my doctrine, manner of life, purpose,
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faith, longsuffering, charity, and patience; persecutions,
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afflictions, which came to me at Antioch, at Iconium,
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at Lystra; what persecutions I endured! But out of
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them all the Lord delivered me, Yes, and all that
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will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
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But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse,
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deceiving and being deceived.
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But continue in the things which you have learned and have been
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assured of, knowing of whom you have learned them, and that from
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a child you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to
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make thee— you wise to salvation
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through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture
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is given by inspiration of God and is profitable
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for doctrine, for reproof,
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for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
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that the man of God may be perfect,
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thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
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Psalm 94:1-23.
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O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs! O God, to whom vengeance
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belongs! Show Yourself! Lift up Yourself, You Judge of
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the earth! Render a reward to the proud! Lord, how long shall the
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wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? How long shall they
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utter and speak hard things, and all the workers of iniquity
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boast themselves? They break pieces your people, O Lord,
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and afflict your inheritance. They slay the widow
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and the stranger and murder the fatherless.
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Yet they say, the Lord shall not see, neither shall the God
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of Jacob regard it. Understand, you brutish among the people,
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and you fools, when will you be wise?
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He that planted the ears, shall he not hear?
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He that formed the eye, shall he not see? He that chastised
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the heathen, shall he not correct? He that teaches man knowledge,
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shall not he know? The Lord knows the thoughts of
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man, that they are vanity. Blessed is the man whom
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You chasten, O Lord, and teach him out of Your law, that You may
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give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be
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dug for the wicked. For the Lord will not cast off His people,
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neither will He forsake His inheritance. But judgment shall
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return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart
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shall follow it. Who will rise up for me against
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evildoers?
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Or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
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Unless the Lord had been my help, and my soul had almost
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dwelt in silence, when I said, My foot slips, Your mercy,
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O Lord, held me up. In the multitude of my thoughts within me,
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Your comforts delight my soul. Shall the throne of iniquity have
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fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law?
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They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,
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and condemn the innocent blood. But the Lord is
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my defense, and my God is the rock of my refuge.
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And He shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut
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them off in their own wickedness. Yes, the Lord our God shall
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cut them off.
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Proverbs 26:6-8.
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He that sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off
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the feet and drinks damage. The legs of the lame are not equal,
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so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
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As he that binds a stone in a sling, so is he that
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gives honor to a fool.
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I want to zoom in on Jeremiah chapter 47 today,
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and it's very, very relevant to look at and unpack
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it in light of the recent 2-year war
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between Hamas in Gaza and
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Israel. And actually, it was a 7-front war, an 8-front war.
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They were also fighting the Houthis in Yemen,
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the terrorists up on the Lebanon border,
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Hezbollah and Iran. And then
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there was the information war. But Jeremiah chapter 47
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really gives us some clues as to what's going
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to go on and happen in the area of Gaza.
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Now, I have a theory I'll
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float by you.
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Is it possible— I'll pose it as a question— is it possible that the
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ancient Philistines, who were always the ancient enemies
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against Israel, that those descendants,
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either physical descendants or spiritual,
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spiritual descendants, that those ancient Philistines are
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the modern-day Gazans or Palestinians.
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Now, why I think this might be so is because if
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you recall the story of Samson, he went down to
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Gaza and he fought the Philistines there.
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And that's where he met Delilah. And ultimately, when he was
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captured by the Philistines, he went down to Gaza.
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So Gaza was always part
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of the territory of Israel, but it's always been a piece
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of land that's been hotly contested, and it's also been
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a territory that was formerly inhabited
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by the Philistines. So having said all that, let's look at Jeremiah chapter
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47. The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet
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against the Philistines, modern-day Gazans,
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before Pharaoh attacked Gaza. So we
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can look at this from a historical context, but also from a
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prophetic context of what's going on with Gaza
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and Israel today. Verse 2, thus says the Lord, behold,
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waters rise out of the north and shall be an overflowing flood,
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and they shall overthrow overflow the land and all that is
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in it, the city and those who dwell within. Then the men
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shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.
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Now, there's a lot of wailing going on right now in Gaza
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as I record this. Trump's 20-point peace
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plan has been signed off. Trump went
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to visit Israel and was there to greet hostages,
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the living hostages, and then he flew on to Egypt
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And there were people at the table to sign the
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20-point peace plan. And it was a very broad coalition
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that he built, him and his team, with Saudi Arabia,
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with Egypt, with Jordan, with Qatar,
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with all these nations. And basically, they're saying to Hamas,
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we want this war to end. We want you to return the
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hostages, all of them, and we want you to lay down
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your arms. Give up your arms and you can leave
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peaceably and go into exile.
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But you cannot remain as any kind of an entity
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or an organization, and you cannot remain armed as a military
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terrorist organization any longer. That's the bottom line
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in this peace treaty.
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So continuing on, verse 3,
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at the noise of the stamping hooves of his strong horses,
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at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels,
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the fathers will not look back for their children,
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lacking courage. And in the previous verse,
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the men shall cry and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail. Well,
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what's been going on now is that as Israel has done a
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partial withdrawal of their presence in Gaza,
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Hamas has been executing those that they perceive
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to be traitors, treacherous traitors.
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They're executing Palestinians, they're executing Gazans who live
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there, who they believe have been cooperating with
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Israel and just shooting them,
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executing them. And so verse 4,
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because of the day that comes to plunder all the Philistines,
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let's say all of Hamas,
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to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains,
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for the Lord shall plunder the Philistines.
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The Lord shall plunder the Hamas organization,
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the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
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Baldness has come upon Gaza.
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Let's think about that. When you go to a barber and
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if the barber cuts off all of your hair and
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you're bald, there's nothing there. It's just a bald head. That's pretty much what's happened
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to Gaza. When you look at the pictures of Gaza today, It is 90%
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totally decimated. All the
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high-rise buildings are nothing but rubble.
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Gaza has become bald.
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It goes on to say, with the remnant of their valley, how long
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will you cut yourself? Oh, you sword of the Lord,
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how long until you are quiet?
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Put yourself up into your scabbard, rest and be still.
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So you could say that the Lord has used
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Israel as His sword of the Lord to
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bring judgment upon Gaza for all the terrorism
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and for the murder and the blood on their hands and for the horrendous
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murderous things that they did on October 7th,
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2023. Verse 7,
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how can it be quiet seeing the Lord has given it a charge against
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Ashkelon and against the seashore? There He
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has appointed it. So this whole chapter
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is talking about God's judgment upon the seashore.
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Gaza is the seashore. Ashkelon is actually in Israeli
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territory. It's not part of Gaza. It's just outside of
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the Gaza envelope, just to the north. So now there's
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2 other passages I want to look at that also talk about Gaza
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in a prophetic sense. The first is
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Zephaniah chapter 2,
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and it begins in verse 4.
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For Gaza shall be forsaken.
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Is Gaza forsaken today? Absolutely.
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It's been decimated. And as this 20-point
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phase 2 of the peace plan rolls out, basically,
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all the inhabitants are going to need to leave. They're going to need to
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go into exile because it's going to probably take a good 10
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or even 15 years to rebuild Gaza into something that's
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habitable. So it is forsaken.
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And Ashkelon desolate. They shall drive out
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Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be uprooted.
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And continuing on in Zephaniah chapter 2, verse 5,
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woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast.
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That's referring to Gaza, the seacoast,
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the nation of the Cherethites. Now that
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word Cherethites, it's very interesting when you look at that
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word Cherethites in the Hebrew to see what it
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means. Cherethites is— what
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it means is executioners.
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Executioners. And it's a group
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of foreign mercenary soldiers serving as a bodyguard for King
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David, also known as executioners.
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The word Cherethites, when you look it up in the Hebrew,
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what it means is executioners. And that is exactly
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what Hamas terrorists are. They are executioners.
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They are executing their own people. Even as the Israeli
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troops have withdrawn, they're taking some of their own people that they perceive
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or believe that they are traitors and
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just shooting them in the head and just killing them point-blank.
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Executioners. It goes on
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to say, woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast.
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Zephaniah 2:5, the nation of the Cherethites, the nation
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of the executioners. Boy, that really truly
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does describe the Gaza territory.
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The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan,
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land of the Philistines. I will destroy
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you so there shall be no inhabitant.
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And that's exactly what we have seen as the
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outcome of this war.
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Now there are some inhabitants, but I'm assuming that
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eventually they're going to leave. Who's going to want to live there where
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all the buildings are nothing but rubble and basically you exist
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in a tent? The last scripture I want to look at is Amos
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chapter 1 starting in verse 6.
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Thus says the Lord, for 3 transgressions of Gaza and for
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4 I will not turn away its punishment because
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they took captive the whole captivity to deliver
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them up to Edom. Now that could be a historical reference because
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Edom is an ancient nation that doesn't exist today, but you
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could say that the foundations of Edom gave rise
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to Rome and the Roman Empire and then to the whole Western
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world. Verse 7, Amos chapter 1, verse 7,
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but I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza,
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which shall devour its palaces. Wow!
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That's exactly what has happened in the last 3 years.
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A fire has been sent upon the walls of Gaza.
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There's been many, many, many bombs set
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off. And firepower against Gaza to destroy
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the buildings, to destroy the arms caches and weapons caches,
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to destroy all of the terrorist tunnels where
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so many of our precious hostages were kept in
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the dark in terrible, terrible conditions.
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I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza, says the Lord,
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which shall devour its palaces.
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So it's truly a living word.
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It's like reading the headlines out of our Bible with
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what's happening in the Middle East.
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I want to wrap up with our reading from 2 Timothy.
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2 Timothy 2:16 is a scripture verse that
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would be really great to memorize if you have not already memorized
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it. It's an important principle to keep at the forefront
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of your mind as you read the Word of God. All Scripture
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is given by inspiration of God and is profitable
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for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
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for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God
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may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all
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good works. So This
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basically tells us in a nutshell what is the purpose of the Scripture.
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The Scripture comes from God. Yeah, you know,
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it's His Word. He had
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the Word written down by men, and they
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were carried along by the Holy Spirit as they wrote, as they inked and penned
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the Scriptures. And it's given by inspiration
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of God, and it's profitable for doctrine to give us good doctrine,
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sound doctrine, doctrine that is right and
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true and correct, for reproof and correction— correction
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when we're out of sync, we're out of line, we're over the line, we're— we
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need to be corrected because we've gone down the wrong path, we've sinned— for
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instruction in righteousness to teach us how to walk
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in righteousness. Why? What's the purpose of all of that?
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So that the man or woman of God may be perfect,
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thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
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So it's to help us to grow and to mature so
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that we can do good works, um,
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for the kingdom of God, for God's people, for the bride of Christ.
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So thank you for listening. Have a blessed
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day, and we will see you tomorrow. Shalom.
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Yevrek ka
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Adonai,
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v'ish mereka
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yai Adonai.
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Anavi lakha,
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vikunneka.
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Isa Adonai,
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anavi lakha,
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vaise lakha.
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The Aaronic Blessing from Numbers chapter 6,
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24 to 26.
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Adonai bless you and keep you. Adonai make
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his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you.
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Adonai lift up his countenance upon you and
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give you peace.