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731. Bible Study: Isaiah 43 (Jesus, the Son of God, Our Savior- spoken of in 700 BC!) · Faith by annm2705

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  We are on chapter 43 of Isaiah, of the book of Isaiah, and let's
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  pray first. Dear God, I know that there is
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  information in this chapter that will be troublesome for a great
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  number of people, not necessarily Christians though.
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  And so I ask that you give the Holy Spirit that I can
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  communicate what you want me to communicate in love, but the
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  truth in love. I ask for this in Jesus name,
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  Amen. So this talks about Israel's
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  only savior, and we are in the Old Testament book, one of the
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  prophets. And I believe that the Jewish
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  people read and acknowledge the Old Testament and read the book
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  of Isaiah. So therefore I do believe that
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  when I say what I say what I've been saying really through the
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  whole study of Isaiah, it seems like Jesus is everywhere.
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  And that may be offensive to Jewish people, but it's in the
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  scripture that they've had all along.
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  But because of their ancestors rebellion against God by in a
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  general way, many have been blinded.
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  But if people seek God and ask God to reveal, he will reveal
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  because God does have a son and His Son is our savior.
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  Again, this will not only offend anyone who is Jewish, perhaps if
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  you're not, if you're Jewish and you hear this and you're not
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  open minded, but it will also offend anyone who is Muslim
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  because again, that religion does not.
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  It says that God does not have a son, and although they do
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  recognize Jesus as a prophet and as a good person, they don't
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  recognize him as the Son of God. But I hope that as we go through
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  this chapter, you will see that this substantiates that Jesus is
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  the Son of God. Jesus is the savior for all
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  nations, including Muslims, when they surrender their current
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  belief and turn to God, the true God, the one true God, and also
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  for the Jewish people when their eyes are opened.
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  And someday the Jewish people's eyes will be opened.
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  I don't understand how some Jewish people can their eyes can
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  be opened right now and others will not be opened.
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  And I don't, I don't know why, but only God knows and it's not
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  even any of my business anyway. But what because I'm reading
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  this and I just really want people to know the truth and
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  want people to see the truth. And to if that happens for
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  people, then of course they'll be in the Kingdom of God and
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  there's a reward for that. And a true Christian does not
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  persecute. I know that in the past, people
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  who called themselves Christians did persecute other people
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  terribly. And they are not true
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  Christians. And that's the bad thing.
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  What the enemy can do is call themselves a Christian, but
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  they're really not. So a true Christian does not
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  force anyone to believe the way that they believe.
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  But at the same time, a true Christian, God wants, Pete wants
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  children in his Kingdom. So God wants true Christians to
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  tell everyone, no matter who you are about the information that
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  we have from the Bible and we even have it from the Old
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  Testament. But the New Testament helps us
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  understand things that are in the Old Testament.
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  And that's when people don't read the New Testament or, you
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  know, give it a shot, whatever. Then it's easy.
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  I guess it's easy to be blinded because you only have the
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  information in the Bible. So anyway, we'll get started and
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  I'll go through line by line like I always do and point out
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  these things where it talks about Jesus and it'll also touch
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  on other religions. So this is meant only to open
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  people's eyes and to ask people to critically think about what
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  you hear and investigate it because it means something
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  personally to if a person's in a different religion, this does
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  this is very important to you that you understand this and at
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  least pray to God and ask is what she's saying true or not.
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  So that's that's between you and God, but I'm giving the
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  information and then we will just go from there.
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  So let's get started. In my study Bible, it says
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  Israel's only savior. Chapter 43.
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  But now this is what the Lord says, he who created you, Jacob,
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  he who formed you, Israel, do not fear for I have redeemed
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  you. I have summoned you by name.
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  You are mine. When you pass through the
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  waters, I will be with you. When you pass through the
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  rivers, they will not sweep over you.
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  When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned.
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  The flames will not set you ablaze.
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  So I want to stop right there because when you walk through
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  the fire, you will not be burned.
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  The flames will not set you ablaze.
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  Isaiah was saying this in the seven hundreds BC and then we
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  find out that this is actually fulfilled in Daniel chapter 3.
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  Now Isaiah is speaking to the, I guess the tribes of well really
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  it would probably be the tribe of Judah because depending on
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  exactly what time it was, either Assyria had already conquered
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  Israel or they may not, I'm not sure.
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  But Assyria conquered Israel first the 10 tribes and then
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  after that Babylon conquered Judah and Benjamin, the 2
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  tribes. So Isaiah was speaking around
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  this time and but it was prior to the book of Daniel because
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  Daniel is one of the Hebrew boys who was sent into exile to
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  Babylon. So he is from Judah.
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  He was sent to exile in Babylon and he is under the king
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  Nebuchadnezzar. And so I want to read about that
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  because this is 200 years or so later.
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  This is Daniel is. So let's say that's right around
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  what, 500. Let's just round these numbers
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  off to, you know, just for a timeline, not for an exact date,
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  but let's say that Isaiah was written or spoken about in 700
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  BC about 200 years later. Daniel is in captivity in
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  Babylon, which is modern day Iraq.
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  And so that's 200 years later. So that would be around 500 BC,
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  not ADBC. So here's what it says about
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  that time. What's happening when Daniel is
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  in exile? First, he was like schooled in
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  there. He's basically being retrained
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  to assimilate to their culture. But they don't quite assimilate
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  fully. And that's where this account
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  begins in Daniel chapter 3. I'm going to start at verse 4.
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  Then the herald loudly proclaimed people and nations of
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  every language. This is what you are commanded
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  to do. As soon as you hear the sound of
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  the horn, flute, zither, leer, harp, pipe, and all kinds of
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  music, you must fall down and worship the image of gold that
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  Nebuchadnezzar has set up, that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.
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  Whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be
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  thrown into a blazing furnace. Therefore, as soon as they heard
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  the sound of the horn, flute, zither, leer, harp, and all
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  kinds of music, all the nations and peoples of every language
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  fell down and worshipped the image of gold that
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  Nebuchadnezzar had set up. I'm going to pause here for a
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  minute because when I read this, all of a sudden it, I don't know
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  why, but it just brought to mind something that happens today
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  over in in different nations. I mean, I'm seeing this, this
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  law actually was just in the city of New York where they can
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  actually, and I think it's also in Minnesota where the call to
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  prayer, the Muslim call to prayer can be over put over loud
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  speakers and broadcast to everyone.
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  And of course, I am not Muslim, so I wasn't quite sure what that
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  entailed and I never looked it up before.
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  So I looked up what are the words of the Muslim called to
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  prayer and I won't try to read the Arabic because I can't but
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  I'll read the English part and it says God is the greatest and
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  it says I bear witness that there is no God but Allah.
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  So again this to me is also denying that Jesus is the son of
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  God. And then it says, I bear witness
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  that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.
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  So in Islam, they believe that Muhammad is the the, I guess the
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  last prophet and that he came after Jesus.
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  They don't deny that Jesus was there, but they also, I think
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  believe that he is the greater 1.
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  And if you ever looked into what the beliefs are, they believe
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  that it, it just very clearly says God does not have a son.
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  And it's, it's an outright blasphemy of Jesus.
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  It's spoken about Jesus that there is no son of God.
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  That's what they say. They say, oh, he's a good guy,
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  but he was not the son of God. And so this says come to prayer,
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  come to success. And then there is no God but
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  Allah. So this is kind of like an
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  outright denial of Jesus Christ. So that's the difference between
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  that and Christianity, the denial that Jesus Christ is the
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  Son of God. And it just when I thought about
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  Nebuchadnezzar having this, you know, music sounded, I mean,
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  that was like back in ancient times, what they would do, like
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  all of a sudden, here it is. Here's the sound.
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  You have to you're it's a call to prayer.
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  It's a call to being worshipped. And they're worshipping King
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  Nebuchadnezzar as if he's a God and he is from Iraq.
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  So I just thought that was kind of interesting the the parallels
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  that come about. And anyway, so this is
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  happening. Let's go back to the book of
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  Daniel. There is a law that's set out
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  and of course they have all these Hebrew people that are in
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  there are not Hebrew, the Jew, the Jewish people who are sent
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  into exile and they worship God and and so they can't worship
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  anything else. That's against the first
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  commandment that Moses was given by God himself on the mount,
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  Mount Sinai. And so that would go directly
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  against God if they did that. So now they're in exile and
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  there's a law that's coming out that says that they're going to
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  get thrown into the fire if they do this.
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  So therefore, as soon as they heard the sound of the horn,
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  flute, zeither, leer, harp, and all kinds of music, all the
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  nations and peoples of every language fell down and worshiped
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  the image of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
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  At this time some astrologers came forward and denounced the
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  Jews. They said to King
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  Nebuchadnezzar, May the King live forever.
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  Your Majesty has issued A decree that everyone who hears the
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  sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyr, harp, pipe, and all
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  kinds of music must fall down and worship the image of gold.
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  Again, I want to pause for a minute because just now as I was
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  reading that I remembered something about what Jesus in
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  when when Jesus was in the wilderness after he was
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  baptized, he was tempted by Satan and Satan told him
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  multiple to told him to fall down to fall off this Cliff.
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  And he was saying angels will cap will not let that you won't
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  even let have a your heel bruised or something to that
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  effect. I don't remember the exact
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  words, but basically you can look it up.
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  That's what Satan basically said to Jesus was that same thing
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  like fall down and kind of fall down and worship, and Satan also
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  said worship me. So it's almost like here's a
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  parallel, like is Satan operating in King
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  Nebuchadnezzar? Is Satan behind the other
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  religions that denounce Jesus? It's a question.
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  I have an opinion, but it's a question you should ask God
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  about the one true God. Ask him and whoever does not
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  fall down and worship will be thrown into a blazing furnace.
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  But there. And you know, again, this is
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  another thing that just came to mind too, is that we know
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  ultimately Christians know from the word of God that ultimately
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  whoever does not worship the one true God will go into the
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  burning lake of sulfur. And so it's always the way the
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  enemy seems to work that he takes a truth but twist it.
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  So now he's using God's own words and saying that whoever
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  doesn't fall down and worship will be thrown into a blazing
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  furnace, almost like, you know, the burning lake, a sulfur.
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  It's, it's almost like just mockery of God and what was
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  said. And that's what Satan would do
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  what that's what the enemy would do.
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  So if you think about it, I mean, he's going to mock God,
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  but there are so continuing on in Daniel chapter 3 verse 12.
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  But there are some Jews whom you have set over the affairs of the
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  province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who no
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  attention to you, Your majesty. They neither serve your gods nor
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  worship the image of gold that you had set up.
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  That's another thing against the 10 commandments is not to have
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  any graven images. I think that's number two or
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  three. I can't remember which one it
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  is, but you're not supposed to have any graven images.
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  So not only that, they're asking, they're asking these
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  Jews to worship other gods, worship an image that's not even
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  a God. And if they don't, they're going
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  to get thrown into this blazing furnace.
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  So verse 13 says, furious with rage, Nebuchadnezzar summoned
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  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. So these men were brought before
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  the king, and Nebuchadnezzar said to them, Is it true,
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  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or
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  worship the image of gold I had set up?
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  Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, leer,
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  harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall
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  down and worship the image I have made, very good.
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  But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately
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  into a blazing furnace. Then what God will be able to
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  rescue you from my hand? That sounds very arrogant and
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  prideful, doesn't it? Like then what?
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  God will be able to rescue you from my hand?
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  Sounds like there's some pride there and you know that you know
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  what God, you know, like a very much a mockery of the one true
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  God. So this continues in verse 16,
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  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to him.
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  King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before
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  you in this matter. If we are thrown into the
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  blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from
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  it and he will deliver us from Your Majesty's hand.
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  Talk about faith. These guys had they were, they
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  weren't going to bow down and worship.
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  They were going to keep the commandment of God, and they had
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  faith and trust in God that God would deliver them and, and from
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  the furnace and also from the King's hand.
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  And then they said, But even if he does not, we want you to
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  know, your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship
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  the image of gold you have set up.
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  Then Nebuchadnezzar was furious with Shadrach, Meshach, and
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  Abednego, and his attitude toward them changed.
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  He ordered the furnace heated 7 times hotter than usual and
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  commanded some of the strongest soldiers in the army to tie up
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  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. There's three of them.
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  Remember that and throw them into the burning furnace.
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  So these men, wearing their robes, trousers, turbans, and
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  other clothes, were bound and thrown into the blazing furnace.
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  The King's command was so urgent and the furnace so hot that the
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  flames of the fire killed the soldiers who took up Shadrach,
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  Meshach, and Abednego. And these three men, firmly
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  tired tide, fell into the blazing furnace.
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  Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and
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  asked his advisors. Weren't there three men that we
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  tied up and threw into the fire? They replied.
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  Certainly, Your majesty, he said.
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  Look, I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and
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  unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.
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  So could that have been Jesus? Could he have seen Jesus looks
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  like a son? Why would he say a son of the
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  gods? Now he doesn't worship the one
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  true God, but he sees four men and he's he's witnessing a
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  miracle right now. He's seeing those three Jewish
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  boys that he threw into the furnace, and then a fourth with
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  him that looked like a son. Verse 26 Nebuchadnezzar then
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  approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted.
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  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God,
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  come out, come out, come here. So Shadrach, Meshach, and
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  Abednego came out of the fire and the say trap.
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  Prefects, governors, and royal advisors crowded around them.
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  They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor a hair
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  of their heads was singed. Their robes were not scorched
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  and there was no smell of fire on them.
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  Then Nebuchadnezzar said, Pray be to the God of Shadrach,
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  Meshach and Abednego, who has sent his Angel and rescued his
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  servants. They trusted in him and defied
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  the King's command, and were willing to give up their lives
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  rather than serve or worship any God except their own God.
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  Therefore, I decree that the people of any nation or language
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  who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and
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  Abednego be cut into pieces and their houses be burned into
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  piles of rubble, for no other God can save in this way.
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  Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the
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  province of Babylon, which is modern day Iraq.
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  So that is an extraordinary story of faith.
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  But we know from reading scripture that God didn't do
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  this just to save these three boys lives.
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  He did it so that others could know Him, because God is
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  merciful and compassionate and His salvation is for all
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  nations. So yes, even Nebuchadnezzar, the
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  king of Babylon, God is reaching him.
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  And, and I do actually, when you hear read the whole story, I do
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  think maybe Nebuchadnezzar came to faith at some point with God.
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  And, and then I, I think maybe he accepted God.
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  So it'll be interesting to see if he's in God's Kingdom
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  someday. But this is, you know, a story
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  where, you know, Nebuchadnezzar just grew up.
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  That was what he was taught. He was in Babylon.
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  This is what he understood. But then God revealed himself to
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  Nebuchadnezzar and Nebuchadnezzar accepted him at
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  this moment. And and so again, this is just,
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  I know I kind of got a little bit off on it, but I think all
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  of this really ties together and it goes back to Isaiah chapter
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  30, chapter 43 that says when you walk through the fire, you
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  will not be burned. The flames will not set you
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  ablaze. That was written 200 years
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  before this event happened, and Isaiah talked about it.
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  For I am the God. I am the Lord your God, the Holy
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  One of Israel, your Savior. So again, this is where God is.
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  You know, Jesus is the Son of God because Jesus is the Savior
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  and he talks about your savior. And it wasn't it wasn't God the
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  Father who is in it talks, it says an Angel, but then it said
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  that he looked like the son of a God.
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  So, you know, it could have been an Angel.
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  It could have been it could have been Jesus.
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  Because there are a few times where like the Angel that
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  appeared in the burning Bush does say that I am he or I am
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  something to the effect that the Angel in the burning Bush when
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  Isaac would was going to sacrifice or when Abraham was
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  going to sacrifice his son Isaac.
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  The Angel that appeared, it was either a messenger, but it just
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  like from what is said, it really sounds like it was Jesus.
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  Because we know that Jesus was eternal and eternally the Son of
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  God. But then he was, he came, he was
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  with God from the beginning and then it was God manifested where
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  God became man when he was born here on earth.
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  So he was always with God, but then he became like in spirit,
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  but then he became man as the Son of God.
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  So and again Jesus came to earth around 5:00 or so.
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  BC is what some scholars believe.
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  And then he died on the cross around 30, give or take a few
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  years. 30AD so those is timeline is really important to know like
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  what came first and and especially when you're talking
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  and comparing about religions and beliefs.
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  So it was Jesus was here on earth.
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  He did these he did all the things he talked about the Bible
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  like this Bible is the last book of the Bible was written in 90
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  AD. So let's go back to Isaiah
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  chapter 43. It says I give Egypt for your
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  ransom, Cush and Siba in your steed, since you are precious
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  and I honored and honored in my sight and because I love you, I
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  will give people in exchange for you nations in exchange for your
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  life. So this I don't have an answer
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  on, but I did highlight it and I did think like, did God actually
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  trade? Now God is just and all the
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  people that he created, he he loves and he wants in his
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  Kingdom. But even though he created
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  people, we still have free will that we can either accept him or
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  love him back. And we love him back when we're
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  obedient to him. So we either are obedient to
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  him, are disobedient to him, and that shows whether we love him
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  or we don't love him. And so perhaps God traded the
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  Israelites for people who were disobedient to God who didn't
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  obey him. And I don't like I said, I don't
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  have the answer, but it I thought it was really
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  interesting that he's, you know, he traded over we know Egypt had
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  many different gods and worshipped many things.
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  And there's some speculation that Egypt may have had, you
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  know, fallen angels give them knowledge.
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  It's really interesting if you read the Book of Enoch, it talks
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  about these watchers who were assigned to certain areas and
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  they came to earth and taught mankind things they weren't
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  supposed to teach, like even like eye makeup.
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  And let's see some other oh gosh, there's like astrology.
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  There is, I think plant grafting something like all the all those
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  things and maybe some kind of like almost like genetic or, you
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  know, like, I don't know, making things, you know, combining
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  things. They a lot of the technology and
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  things. So and then you look at the
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  pyramids. That is the great mystery.
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  Well, maybe with their technology, these were fallen
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  angels that actually helped the mankind in that time to build
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  these things. And then all the other things
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  that are it's kind of like the fruit of the spirit, like So
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  what does Egypt reflect? Egypt reflects the things that
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  God said are that's in the Book of Enoch that the angels were
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  not supposed to teach mankind, but in rebellion to God because
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  he gave the angels free will also in rebellion to God, they
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  went ahead and and taught it anyway to mankind because they
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  had their own plans. They had their own scheme about
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  things. So because Egypt reflects that,
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  those specific things that are talked about in the Book of
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  Enoch, then I think, you know, perhaps they made that choice.
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  The people of Egypt had that choice and we know some of the
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  people, the great people of the Bible came from these different
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  lands. So it's not generalizing and
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  saying every person in that land, but it's there just some
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  people. And maybe there's just a
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  majority of people. Maybe these people had
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  interactions with other beings and they were like, you know, we
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  don't want the true God. We we like these gods because
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  these gods give us wealth or they do things for us.
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  And you know, so they kind of sell their soul to the enemy of
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  God. And and so maybe that's why God,
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  you know, they made the choice to do that.
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  So God uses people's free will for his purpose.
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  So maybe he said, OK, I'll trade you enemy.
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  You can have that and I'll take Israel.
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  I don't know, but it seems to allude to that in this chat, in
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  this sentence. For since you are precious and
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  honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give people
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  in exchange for you nations, in exchange for your life.
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  Do not be afraid, for I am with you.
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  I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the
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  West. I will say to the north give
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  them up and to the South do not hold them back.
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  So if you think about logistically where all these
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  countries are today and where they, you know, that's the way
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  we can understand it. But you think about Israel, I
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  will bring your children from the east.
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  That's Jordan. I will gather you from the West.
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  Well, God actually gave them the Israelites to the sea, but they
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  don't really have that land. So Gaza is there.
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  So on their W would be Gaza, I will say to the north, give them
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  up. Could that be like Syria or
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  Turkey, and to the South, do not hold them back.
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  Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the
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  earth. Everyone who is called by my
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  name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.
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  So you know, is that is that Egypt there?
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  Would they be to the South or is it Saudi Arabia?
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  You know, I don't, I don't know. But they're surrounded by
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  countries that don't hold the same beliefs for sure.
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  So lead out those who have eyes but are blind.
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  So I think it's like, to me, what I understand this as is
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  people that are blinded by the enemy.
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  So I don't fault anyone for what they believe.
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  In fact, there was a period of time in my life, a majority of
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  my life, where I had the knowledge of Jesus, of Father,
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  Son and Holy Spirit. But it didn't, it wasn't really
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  reflected in my life, not to the capacity that it is today.
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  And I didn't have a changed life.
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  I, you know, maybe had some guilt and I would ask for
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  forgiveness, but that, you know, didn't seem like I really
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  changed. And so I just me, like everybody
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  else is a Sinner until we actually our eyes are opened.
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  And it didn't happen for me until I read the Bible.
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  And that was in 2019. So it wasn't all that long ago.
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  So I'm not saying that I am any better than anyone else.
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  I'm saying I was the same as I was similar to others who may,
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  you know, have been taught a certain way.
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  And maybe you have the knowledge and maybe you don't, but once
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  you get the knowledge, what do you do with it?
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  That's the important part. And again, remember that God
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  created all people. He wants all people in his
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  Kingdom. But it's up to us, each person,
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  no matter what religion you grew up in, it's up to us.
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  Do we seek Him? Are we seeking Him?
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  If we seek Him, he says he will be found.
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  And I believe the word of God. I believe that he says that he
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  means it. And so if you did grow up in
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  another religion, seek God because God will reveal himself
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  to you if you are sincere about seeking.
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  The other thing that I want to talk about with other religions
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  is something that is here's a fact and specifically regarding
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  Muslim religions or Islam, because this is what's
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  concerning to me because when I started seeking God, I did look
• 33:32
  into not to change my beliefs, but I wanted to understand what
• 33:36
  do other religions believe? And so I, and I noticed that
• 33:41
  there were some similarities of things.
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  So then I was like, huh, I wonder what, you know, like I
• 33:45
  wanted to dig in really deep and figure out like, how did this
• 33:49
  come about? Where did it come from?
• 33:52
  Why are there different versions?
• 33:54
  Like which one, you know, where did it, which one's older?
• 33:57
  Which one came around 1st? And so I, I asked all those
• 34:01
  questions or searched that information and I got my
• 34:04
  answers. So the last book of the Bible
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  was written in 90 AD. And then there's a book called
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  Galatians chapter one that was written by Paul.
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  Now Paul had a very interesting story because Paul's original
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  name was Saul until he physically had an, A vision from
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  Jesus, an encounter with Jesus that made him blind.
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  And then he, he, it had such an impact on him that he wrote many
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  of the books of the Bible. His life was changed when God,
• 34:40
  when Jesus was revealed to him as the Son of God because he,
• 34:45
  Jesus appeared to him and said, why are you persecuting me?
• 34:48
  Because Paul was a Jew and he was killing Christians.
• 34:53
  So it's not very different than Islamic people who are beheading
• 34:57
  Christians, kind of the same thing.
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  And Paul wrote a lot of the books of the Bible and God used,
• 35:05
  well, he was Saul, he changed his name to Paul.
• 35:08
  God changed it. And then God used him to make
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  disciples, make other people learn about Jesus, learn about
• 35:20
  the Kingdom of God. So if you think you, you know,
• 35:24
  have done something, I mean, there are, I think there's
• 35:26
  actually one of the, one of the terrorist sons is actually has
• 35:33
  converted from Islam to Christianity so it God can reach
• 35:38
  anybody. This is not meant to bash
• 35:44
  anyone. This is meant to enlighten or
• 35:47
  open up people's eyes. I don't want people's eyes to be
• 35:50
  blinded. I want people to know these
• 35:54
  things. So the the point I'm making
• 35:58
  about when things were written, so Paul, I just gave a
• 36:02
  background of his story because I wanted people to know like
• 36:05
  this is a Jewish man who was killing Christians and God used
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  them in a big way in the Bible and brought many to belief
• 36:14
  through him. And continually today teaches
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  many Christians how to live lives because Christians who
• 36:21
  call themselves Christians don't even live like what Paul says.
• 36:25
  So anyway, God can use people who had a bad past and he
• 36:30
  forgets it. No, he forgets them too, forgets
• 36:32
  their past. That'll come up later in this
• 36:35
  chapter 43 as well. So that's really rewarding.
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  OK, so Paul wrote the book of Galatians around in the 40 to 50
• 36:46
  beasts AD time frame. So 40 or 50.
• 36:50
  OK, no, wait, that's not right. I I was looking at when
• 36:57
  Galatians was written. OK, I guess that's right.
• 37:03
  Yeah, OK, that's right. Because Jesus died around 30 AD.
• 37:07
  So Paul was, his books were written about, you know, maybe
• 37:11
  18 years after Jesus died, somewhere around there, 1518.
• 37:15
  I don't know what year exactly 'cause there's a range usually
• 37:18
  given, but not too many years, 10 to 15 years after Jesus died.
• 37:24
  Paul wrote this and here's this is so important.
• 37:28
  Galatians chapter 1 written by Paul, he says, I am astonished
• 37:34
  that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you
• 37:38
  to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different
• 37:42
  gospel, which is really no gospel at all.
• 37:46
  Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion.
• 37:49
  And who is Satan? The author of confusion right
• 37:53
  going back to scripture and are trying to pervert the gospel of
• 37:57
  Christ. But even if we or an Angel from
• 38:02
  heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preach to
• 38:07
  you, let them be under God's curse.
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  OK, this is really, really important.
• 38:15
  Galatians chapter one, verse 8. But even if we or an Angel from
• 38:20
  heaven should preach a gospel other than the one the one we
• 38:25
  preach to you, let them be under God's curse.
• 38:28
  This was written in 40 to 50 AD. Do you know where the Quran came
• 38:37
  from? It came from Muhammad, from
• 38:41
  revelations, from an Angel. And in those revelations from an
• 38:46
  Angel, it says God does not have a son.
• 38:50
  And we know as a Christian that Jesus is our savior.
• 38:56
  The Son of God is our savior. What he did on the cross is what
• 39:01
  enables us to get into God's Kingdom.
• 39:05
  So is that that is the enemy right there changing a story and
• 39:12
  Paul even warned about it. He said even if we or an Angel
• 39:16
  from heaven should to different a different gospel, let them be
• 39:20
  under God's curse. Well, that's exactly what
• 39:23
  Muhammad did. He preached a different gospel.
• 39:27
  He changed what what people were you know had already in the
• 39:32
  Bible. The last book of the Bible was
• 39:34
  written in 90 AD Muhammad came around in like 60637AD like 500
• 39:42
  plus years later he's coming up with a new revelation from the
• 39:46
  quote Angel Gabriel. Now we have to remember that in
• 39:50
  Scripture it tells us that Satan can appear or masquerade as an
• 39:55
  Angel of light. So the enemy is really good with
• 40:03
  deceiving people and the enemy like deceives other people.
• 40:08
  I mean, there's a lot that the enemy can do, so.
• 40:12
  But not a lot when it compares to the power of God.
• 40:15
  So nothing to be fearful of if you have a good relationship
• 40:19
  with God. So and then he says, Paul says
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  and verse 9, as we have already said.
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  So now I say it again, if anybody is preaching to you a
• 40:30
  gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under
• 40:33
  God's curse. Then he says, am I now trying to
• 40:39
  win the approval of human beings or of God, or am I trying to
• 40:44
  please people? If I were still trying to please
• 40:47
  people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
• 40:51
  So that's why these things are tough to hear sometimes, but
• 40:55
  they're the truth and they need to be spoken in love.
• 40:59
  And that's what I'm hoping is being conveyed with what I'm
• 41:02
  saying. It's out of love of your future
• 41:06
  if you are Jewish or Muslim, that you do have a savior who
• 41:13
  died on the cross for you once. And God the Father wants you to
• 41:18
  be in his Kingdom. And he sent Jesus his Son to
• 41:24
  earth to let people know about the Kingdom of God and to die on
• 41:30
  the cross, to break the curse of death that Satan held, said that
• 41:36
  Satan had the keys to death until Jesus broke the curse on
• 41:40
  the cross. So I want people to know that,
• 41:47
  all right? And you know, it's like lead out
• 41:48
  those whose eyes, who have eyes but are blind, who have ears but
• 41:54
  are deaf. All the nations gather together
• 41:57
  and the peoples assemble. Which of their gods foretold
• 42:00
  this and proclaim to us the former things?
• 42:05
  Let them bring in their witnesses to prove they were
• 42:08
  right, so that others may hear and say it is true.
• 42:12
  You are my witnesses, declares the Lord and my servant, whom I
• 42:16
  have chosen, so that you may know and believe me, and
• 42:20
  understand that I am He. OK.
• 42:24
  This is the second time that Isaiah is talking about Jesus.
• 42:30
  So Jesus, he said, oh gosh, there's so many different times.
• 42:37
  I looked up. I am he.
• 42:39
  And it occurs 751 times in 186 verses in the New International
• 42:45
  Version, including 26 exact phrases.
• 42:50
  So I'm not going to read all of these phrases, but I'm going to
• 42:54
  try to pick out the ones that are relevant.
• 42:57
  So, you know, God is saying that and my servant whom I have
• 43:04
  chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I
• 43:09
  am he God. God and He are one.
• 43:15
  They are connected. I mean, let me read that again.
• 43:18
  You are my witnesses, declares the Lord and my servant, whom I
• 43:23
  have chosen so that you may know he wants to be known and believe
• 43:29
  me and understand that I am he. Do you think that was kind of a
• 43:36
  mystery to them? Like what your servant you're
• 43:40
  you're him. You're the servant, you know,
• 43:43
  and I mean, but there there is revelation in here and Jesus
• 43:49
  actually says this. So yeah, in I think that was the
• 43:58
  verse. We just well, there's another
• 44:01
  one that says it further on in this chapter.
• 44:03
  It says yes. And from ancient days, I am he
• 44:08
  no one can deliver out of my hand when I act who can reverse
• 44:13
  it? And then God also says, I even I
• 44:19
  am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake
• 44:24
  and remembers your sins no more. Just like Paul who killed
• 44:28
  Christians, people who believed in Jesus, he blotted out Paul's
• 44:34
  sins and remembers his sins no more.
• 44:37
  Paul became a new actually it was Saul.
• 44:40
  That's why he has a new name. He became a new creation, one
• 44:44
  that honors Jesus, that respects Jesus, that recognizes Jesus as
• 44:49
  the Son of God, as the Messiah, as our Savior.
• 44:57
  And in throughout Isaiah, he says, listen to me, Jacob, whom
• 45:01
  I have called, I am he, I am the 1st and I am the last.
• 45:08
  And Jesus says this in the Book of Revelation.
• 45:14
  I'm going to have to see if I have that.
• 45:16
  Yes. OK, so in the Book of
• 45:17
  Revelation, this is this is 3 times that it said in Revelation
• 45:21
  one verse 17, Revelation chapter 2, verse 8 and Revelation 22
• 45:27
  verse 13. It's interesting.
• 45:29
  It's stated at the beginning Book of Revelation and the last
• 45:32
  Book of Revelation. So I'm going to read those
• 45:35
  verses. And this is what in the Book of
• 45:38
  Revelation, the disciple John has been exiled onto the island
• 45:44
  of Patmos, and he has a vision. And this is what John says.
• 45:50
  When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead.
• 45:54
  Then he placed his right hand on me and said, do not be afraid.
• 46:00
  I am the 1st and the last and then it goes on.
• 46:06
  But that's just what Isaiah said about the about what God said
• 46:10
  the Father Revelation 2, verse 8 to the Angel of the Church of
• 46:15
  Smyrna write. These are the words of him who
• 46:18
  is the 1st and the last who died and came to life again.
• 46:26
  That's Jesus. And then in Revelation 22, verse
• 46:31
  13, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the 1st and the last, the
• 46:37
  beginning and the end. And I want to read a little bit
• 46:39
  further because it it maybe, yes, I do.
• 46:46
  Blessed are those who watch the robes so that they may have the
• 46:50
  right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into
• 46:54
  the city. This is the new city.
• 46:57
  So who washed the robes? That's repentance.
• 47:00
  A changed life become a new creation.
• 47:03
  And that they may have the right to the tree of life.
• 47:05
  Eternal life is what he's talking about.
• 47:08
  Outside are the dogs. Not literal dogs, but those
• 47:12
  were, I think they were like a a word that was used for like
• 47:15
  sexually immoral prostitute people back in that time.
• 47:19
  Those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the
• 47:24
  murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and
• 47:28
  practicals falsehood. I, Jesus, have sent my Angel to
• 47:34
  give you this testimony for the churches.
• 47:37
  I am the root and the offspring of David and the bright morning
• 47:42
  star. So this is Jesus talking to
• 47:46
  John, the Spirit and the bride. Say come, and let the one who
• 47:51
  hears say, come, Let the one who is thirsty.
• 47:54
  We'll talk about that later. Come and let the one who wishes
• 47:58
  to take the free gift of the water of life.
• 48:02
  This is eternal life. This is drinking from the well
• 48:06
  that Jesus provides. We're going to talk about that
• 48:08
  too. I warn everyone who hears the
• 48:12
  words of this prophecy of the scroll.
• 48:14
  If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the
• 48:20
  plagues described in the scroll. And if anyone takes away, anyone
• 48:26
  takes words away from the scroll of prophecy, God will take away
• 48:31
  from that person any share in the tree of life and in the holy
• 48:35
  city which are described in this scroll.
• 48:38
  He who testifies these things says, yes, I am coming soon,
• 48:45
  Amen. Come Lord Jesus, the grace of
• 48:49
  the Lord Jesus be with God's people, Amen.
• 48:54
  So again it's I am he and then Jesus said many will come in my
• 49:01
  name claiming quote I am he and will deceive many.
• 49:06
  We're going to have a false Messiah come up in the last days
• 49:12
  and Jesus also said he replied, watch out that you are not
• 49:15
  deceived for many will come in my name claiming I am he and
• 49:20
  quote the time is near. Do not follow them.
• 49:26
  And then in John chapter 4, Jesus declared I the one
• 49:30
  speaking to you, I am he. This is when he's talking to the
• 49:35
  woman at the well. So I want to read that part of
• 49:37
  it too. What happens with this woman in
• 49:40
  the well, this is in John chapter 4.
• 49:43
  Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was
• 49:46
  gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, although in
• 49:51
  fact it was not Jesus baptized but his disciples.
• 49:55
  So he left Judea, and he went back once more to Galilee.
• 49:59
  Now he had to go through Samaria, so he came to a town in
• 50:04
  Samaria called Saikar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given
• 50:09
  to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and
• 50:13
  Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well.
• 50:18
  It was about noon when a Samaritan woman came to draw
• 50:22
  water. Jesus said to her, Will you give
• 50:24
  me a drink? His disciples had gone into the
• 50:27
  town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him,
• 50:31
  You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman.
• 50:35
  How can you ask me for a drink? For Jews do not associate with
• 50:39
  Samaritans. Jesus answered her.
• 50:41
  If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a
• 50:48
  drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you
• 50:53
  living water. Sir, the woman said.
• 50:56
  You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep.
• 50:59
  Where can you get this living water?
• 51:02
  Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well and
• 51:06
  drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?
• 51:10
  Jesus answered, Everyone who drinks this water will be
• 51:14
  thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them
• 51:19
  will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them
• 51:23
  will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal
• 51:30
  life. The woman said to him, Sir, give
• 51:33
  me this water so I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming
• 51:36
  here to draw water. He told her, Go call your
• 51:40
  husband and come back. I have no husband, she replied.
• 51:44
  Jesus said to her, you are right when you say you have no
• 51:47
  husband. The fact is you've had five
• 51:49
  husbands and the man you now have is not your husband.
• 51:53
  What you have just said is quite true, Sir, The woman said, I can
• 51:58
  see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshipped on this
• 52:03
  mountain, but you Jews claim the place where we must worship is
• 52:08
  Jerusalem is in Jerusalem. Woman, Jesus replied, Believe
• 52:12
  me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither
• 52:17
  on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
• 52:21
  You Samaritans worship what you do not know.
• 52:25
  We worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
• 52:31
  He's talking about himself here. Yet a time is coming and and has
• 52:37
  now come, when true worshippers will worship the Father in the
• 52:42
  Spirit, Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshippers
• 52:46
  the Father seeks. God is Spirit and his
• 52:51
  worshippers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.
• 52:57
  The woman said, I know that Messiah called Christ is coming.
• 53:03
  When he comes, he will explain everything to us.
• 53:06
  Then Jesus declared, I the one speaking to you, I am he.
• 53:16
  So Messiah means Christ and that is Jesus.
• 53:19
  He was revealing himself to the woman at the wall.
• 53:24
  So I thought that was kind of interesting where again he's the
• 53:27
  Son of God and see that let's continue on.
• 53:36
  So we are on verse 10. We were reading and I don't know
• 53:42
  that I finished it before me. No God was formed, nor will
• 53:47
  there be 1 after me. So there's only one God, God the
• 53:51
  Father. I, I even, I am the Lord and
• 53:57
  apart from me there is no Savior.
• 54:02
  So nobody can save. We can't save ourselves.
• 54:05
  The reason Jesus can is because he is from God, from the Spirit
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  of God. Like the Spirit of God.
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  The Holy Spirit made, gosh, made Mary, his mother give birth.
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  So it was the Spirit of God and God chose Mary to be the mother
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  of God here on earth to send his Son.
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  And he sent. So he is a descendant from God
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  the Father. And God delivered him by his own
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  hand, by his own arm, by you know, him, his his own child,
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  Son of God. And that is that is he is our
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  Savior, Savior Jesus is our Savior.
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  I have revealed and saved and proclaimed I and not some
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  foreign God among you. You are my witnesses, declares
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  the Lord that I am God. Yes, and from ancient days I am
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  he. No one can deliver out of my
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  hand when I act who can reverse it.
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  So ancient days that kind of made me think about something
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  else that I heard, and that's from the book of actually the
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  Book of Revelation and the book of Daniel.
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  So I want to read those again. So first let's go to Daniel
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  because he comes a little bit after Isaiah, and we'll go to
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  Chapter 7 and we'll read verses 913 and 22 from this chapter.
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  So verse 9. Here's what Daniel sees As I
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  looked, Thrones were set in place and the Ancient of Days
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  took his seat. His clothing was as white as
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  snow. The hair of his head was white
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  like wool. His throne was flaming with
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  fire, and its wheels were all ablaze.
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  I'm going to read in verse 13. In my vision at night I looked,
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  and there before me was one like a son, like a son of man.
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  That means that it says the Aramaic phrase bar in Nash means
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  human being. The phrase son of man is
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  retained here because of its use in the New Testament as a title
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  of Jesus, probably based largely on this verse.
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  So it's like a human being, like the son of a human being.
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  So this is this is God coming with the clouds of heaven.
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  That's the way Jesus said he's going to return, coming on the
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  clouds. So coming with the clouds of
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  heaven, He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into
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  his presence. Then we have verse 22.
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  It talks about this power that was that.
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  Well, 21 talks about this power, powerful being that is waging
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  war in the end times against the holy people and defeating them.
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  It says until the Ancient of Days came and pronounced
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  judgment in favor of the holy people of the Most High, and the
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  time came when they possessed the Kingdom.
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  So here we have the Ancient of Days again being tied to Jesus
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  and the coming on the clouds because that's talks about.
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  That's how Jesus comes on the clouds.
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  Then in the Book of Revelation, the same description of the
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  Ancient of Days. Listen to what it says here.
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  Remember the description of the Ancient of Days.
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  I'll read it one more time from Daniel verse 9, I think it was.
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  Yeah, his. So his clothing was white as
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  snow, the hair on his head was white like wool, his throne was
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  flaming with fire, and its wheels were all ablaze.
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  Then in the Book of Revelation, this is who John sees.
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  The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and
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  his eyes were like blazing fire. His feet were like bronze
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  glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of
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  rushing waters. In his right hand he held seven
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  stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp double edged
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  sword. His face was like the sun
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  shining in all its brilliance. When I saw him, I fell at the
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  feet, at his feet as though dead.
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  Then he placed his right hand on me and said, do not be afraid.
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  I am the 1st and the last. I am the living one.
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  I was dead. Jesus died on the cross, and now
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  look, I am alive forever and ever.
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  Jesus rose from the dead and I hold the keys of death and
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  Hades. So when Jesus died on the cross,
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  he broke the curse of death that Satan had.
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  He held the the keys to death or something and Jesus took that
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  when he broke the curse, right? Therefore, what you have seen,
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  what is now and what will take place later, the mystery of the
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  seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the 7 golden
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  lampstands is this. The seven stars are the angels
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  or messengers of the seven churches, and the seven
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  lampstands are the seven churches.
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  And he's referring to churches in Turkey.
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  But we won't go through all of that anyway, tying it back to
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  Isaiah chapter 43 verse 13. Yes, and from ancient days I am
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  he. So again, this is tying Jesus to
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  the ancient of days and as our savior.
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  So in Isaiah the prophet Isaiah, he says three times relating God
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  and Jesus. So in verse 3 is the first time
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  that I noticed and then in verse 10 is the second time that I
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  noticed. And then in verse 11 is the next
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  time that God and Jesus are kind of tied together.
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  And you know that God always uses two or three witnesses to
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  establish truth. OK, actually there's more now.
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  So I guess the the 4th 1 would be verse 13 and then the fifth
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  one would be verse 15. So there's a lot in here.
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  This is what the Lord says, your Redeemer, the Holy One of
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  Israel. Now we know Jesus descended from
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  the tribe of Judah, so he, the holy One of Israel, that's Jesus
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  the Messiah. For your sake I will send to
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  Babylon and bring down as fugitives all the Babylonians in
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  the ships in which they took pride.
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  Now remember he's saying this before they are captured by the
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  Babylonians, and he's talking about their future.
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  I am the Lord, your Holy One, Israel's Creator, your king.
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  This is what the Lord says, He who made a way through the sea,
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  a path through the mighty waters.
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  Remember how Moses parted the Red Sea, who drew out the
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  Chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together and
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  they lay there, lay there never to rise again.
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  That was all of Pharaoh's Chariots that you know they
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  couldn't make it through this when God pulled part the sea so
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  that the Israelites could pass through there extinguished,
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  snuffed out like a Wick. Forget the former things.
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  Do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing like
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  a new creation and you know Jesus will be the Savior in the
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  future for what Isaiah is talking about now it springs up.
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  You do not perceive it. I am making a way in the
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  wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
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  So that's a, you know, poetic way of saying, remember that
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  Jesus said I am the way, the truth, the life and no one comes
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  to the Father except through me. So this is saying I am making a
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  way in the wilderness. The wilderness is like where
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  people are kind of lost, just like Moses in the desert for in
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  the wilderness for, you know, 40 years or 40 days.
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  I forgot how long it 40 years I think it was.
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  The wild animals honor me, the jackals and the owls because I
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  provide water in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland to
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  give drink to my people, my chosen.
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  So when we just read about Jesus being at the with the woman at
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  the well, this is like this is another reference to Jesus
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  because it says to give drink to my people, my chosen.
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  Jesus says he will give them, remember that He will give them
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  the drink, the everlasting drink of eternal life.
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  The people I formed for myself, that they may proclaim my
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  praise. So anyone who knows they are a
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  child of God, they're going to proclaim his praise and then
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  they know that Jesus did this for them.
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  Don't you think everybody who knows that's really happy about
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  that, that we're going to be living with God.
• 1:03:53
  There's going to be no more mourning, normal or crying.
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  No more tears. No more.
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  There will be peace. It will.
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  Only the righteous will be there.
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  We're not. We won't have to worry about
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  anything because it'll all be good in God's Kingdom.
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  You have not called on me, Jacob.
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  You have not wearied yourself for me, Israel.
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  You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings, not honored
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  me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with
• 1:04:25
  grain offerings, nor wearied you with demands for incense.
• 1:04:29
  You have not brought any fragrant calamus for me or
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  lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices, but you have
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  burdened me with your sins and wearied me with your offenses.
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  I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own
• 1:04:52
  sake and remembers your sin no more.
• 1:04:56
  So God is so gracious and merciful and loving.
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  Even though we don't do anything for God, when we turn to Him, He
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  blots out our sins and remembers them no more.
• 1:05:10
  When we receive the Holy Spirit from God, we become a new
• 1:05:14
  creation, and the Holy Spirit helped us to be obedient to God.
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  The Holy Spirit gives us courage.
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  Why do you think that some people who have the Holy Spirit
• 1:05:24
  can deal with with death so easily, can forgive people who
• 1:05:28
  have maybe murdered their families, who can get through
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  the death of a loved one because they know the promise of a
• 1:05:39
  reunite, being reunited with their loved one.
• 1:05:43
  These are all people who have the Holy Spirit.
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  They don't see it right now, but in the future they will have it
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  and they rest on that and they have peace about it.
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  And I say they, but I believe this as well.
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  Like I don't have the fears I used to have.
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  It says like in the world, there's two great fears. 1 is
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  public speaking and the other is death.
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  Well, I don't fear either of those anymore.
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  And it's not because of me, because I was very fearful of
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  that, that it's because of the Holy Spirit working in me.
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  And there is a change when you allow, because God gives us free
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  will. So we can reject the Holy Spirit
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  or we can say, yes, God do your will.
• 1:06:28
  I may not see these things as all good and see them as rules,
• 1:06:32
  but now I look at like the 10 commandments, they're
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  guardrails, they're protection for us.
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  Before I used to look at them as like, oh, rules are, you know,
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  limiting behavior or something like that.
• 1:06:44
  But the more that you read in the Bible, you start, you do
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  become changed, you become a new creation and it is necessary.
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  Jesus said Jesus said this as recorded in John chapter 3 when
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  he talks to Nicodemus, he says that we must be born again, born
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  of the Spirit and that that is how we enter the Kingdom of God.
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  And so this is another thing I really think I need to read this
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  to actually, I'll finish this chapter and then I will talk
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  about a little bit more, review the past for me.
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  Let us argue the matter together.
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  State the case for your innocence.
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  Your first father sinned. Those I sent to teach you
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  rebelled against me. Think about Saul and Paul, you
• 1:07:32
  know, like nobody's perfect. So don't compare yourself to
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  anybody in the Bible. Or if you do, you're going to
• 1:07:39
  see that Jesus had someone who is a prostitute in his ancestry.
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  I mean, this is for all people. All people are sinners.
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  It's a matter of what we do do once we have the knowledge of
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  God, once we turn to God, are we going to change our ways?
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  Are we willing to abide by God's laws?
• 1:07:57
  Are we willing to say not my will, but your will, God, I want
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  to do what you want me to do. And if we are, and we ask for
• 1:08:08
  the Holy Spirit, that's all we need for salvation because Jesus
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  did everything else that's needed.
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  So I disgrace the dignitaries of your temple.
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  I consign Jacob to destruction and Israel to scorn.
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  So there are consequences of our sinful actions that we may have
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  to go through and but we will have the courage and the power
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  through the Holy Spirit. And we also just should remember
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  that those are temporary trials and keep our eyes focused on the
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  ultimate reward, which is living with God in eternity.
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  And so I want to read something about being born again.
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  I know I talk about it a lot, but it's something that really,
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  you know, made an impact on me. And and this would apply to
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  people who are Jewish that should really know this as well.
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  John chapter 3. Now there was a Pharisee, a man
• 1:09:08
  named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling
• 1:09:11
  council. He came to Jesus at night and
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  said, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from
• 1:09:18
  God, for no one could perform the signs you were doing if God
• 1:09:22
  were not with him. Jesus replied Very truly, I tell
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  you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless they are born
• 1:09:30
  again. How can someone be born again
• 1:09:34
  when they are old? Nicodemus asked.
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  Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother's
• 1:09:40
  womb to be born? Jesus answered Very truly.
• 1:09:43
  I tell you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God unless they are
• 1:09:49
  born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but
• 1:09:56
  the Spirit gives birth to Spirit.
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  You should not be surprised at my saying you must be born
• 1:10:03
  again. The wind blows wherever it
• 1:10:06
  pleases. You hear it sound, but you
• 1:10:08
  cannot tell where it comes from or where it's going.
• 1:10:11
  So it is with everyone born of the Spirit, Mariel's teacher
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  said. Jesus, do you not understand
• 1:10:17
  these things very truly? I tell you, we speak of what we
• 1:10:21
  know and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people
• 1:10:25
  do not accept our testimony. I have spoken to you of earthly
• 1:10:29
  things and you do not believe. How then will you believe if I
• 1:10:33
  speak of heavenly things? No one has ever gone into heaven
• 1:10:37
  except the one who came from heaven, the Son of Man, which is
• 1:10:42
  Jesus. Now, just as Moses, this is
• 1:10:46
  important. Just as Moses lifted up the
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  snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up.
• 1:10:55
  Jesus died on the cross, and just as that, everyone who
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  believes may have eternal life in him.
• 1:11:05
  So when Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, people
• 1:11:08
  looked to that bronze snake and they were healed after they had
• 1:11:13
  been bitten by the snake. And so Jesus is tying that
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  moment together at this point as well for the Jewish people so
• 1:11:21
  that they understand the Son of Man.
• 1:11:23
  Jesus must be lifted up. He must be on a cross, on a
• 1:11:26
  pole, just like the snake was on a pole.
• 1:11:30
  Jesus was on the pole, and everyone who believes may have
• 1:11:35
  eternal life in him. Then he says, For God so loved
• 1:11:40
  the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever
• 1:11:46
  believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
• 1:11:52
  For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the
• 1:11:55
  world, but to save the world through Him.
• 1:11:59
  Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not
• 1:12:03
  believe stands condemned already because they have not believed
• 1:12:07
  in the name of God's one and only Son.
• 1:12:12
  This is the verdict. Light has come into the world,
• 1:12:15
  but people loved darkness instead of light because their
• 1:12:19
  deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the
• 1:12:23
  light and will not come into the light for the fear that their
• 1:12:27
  deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth
• 1:12:32
  and comes into the light so that it may be seen plainly that they
• 1:12:37
  have done, they have done, that what they have done has been
• 1:12:44
  done in the sight of God. We don't have anything to hide
• 1:12:48
  from God. God knows everything.
• 1:12:50
  Just come clean with it, present it to God, ask for forgiveness,
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  ask for the Holy Spirit and become born again.
• 1:12:57
  Believe in Jesus, and that's as simple as it gets.
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  And I think with that, I'm just going to wrap up this chapter
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  because it's been a long one again.
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  But I hope this was beneficial to you.
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  And if it was, or if you have anyone that comes to mind when
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  you listen to it that would benefit from this, please share
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  this because it's so important that everyone's eyes are opened
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  to the truth.