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857. Bible Study: Ezekiel 32 (Signs of Return of Jesus? Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon) "Terrorists" · Faith by annm2705

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  Continuing with chapter 32, this is called a lament over Pharaoh
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  in the 12th year. So this is a year later than
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  chapter 31 in the 12th year. In the 12th month, on the first
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  day, the word of the Lord came to me, Son of man, take up a
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  lament concerning Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, you
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  are like a lion among the nations.
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  You are like a monster in the sea, thrashing about in your
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  streams, churning the water with your feet and muddying the
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  streams. This is what the Sovereign Lord
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  says. With a great throng of people.
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  I will cast my net over you and they will hand you, They will
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  haul you up in my net. I will throw you on the land and
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  hurl you on the open field. I will let all the birds of the
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  skies settle on you and all the animals of the wild will gorge
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  themselves on you. Now I want to pause there
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  because this immediately had a another part of the Bible come
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  to mind. And there's actually several
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  different places where this comes to mind, but particularly
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  one and many more. Anyway, Revelation 1917 here.
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  I'll just read that verse. And I saw an Angel standing in
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  the sun who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in
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  midair. Come gather for the great supper
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  of God. It continues, so that you may
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  eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty mighty
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  of horses, and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free
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  and slave, great and small. And then it says, Then I saw the
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  beast, and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered
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  together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army.
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  But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who
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  had performed the signs on his behalf.
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  With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark
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  of the beast and worshipped its image.
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  The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of
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  burning sulphur. The rest were killed with the
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  sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse and all
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  the words gorge themselves on their flesh.
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  So this is actually about when Jesus returns and it's, it's
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  referred to as the great, the great supper.
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  It's the heavenly warrior defeats the beast.
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  So it obviously it could mean this could be one of those
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  prophecies, which I think it was, where it has a double
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  fulfillment. It has a partial fulfillment in
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  Ezekiel's time or maybe thereafter, and then a future
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  one, because this is the same way that it's going to unfold in
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  the future after Jesus returns. And it's just interesting that
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  you know, when, when the Lord is saying, I will throw you on the
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  land and, and do this to you. And so it sounds like this is
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  again a future prophecy. So we'll continue reading and
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  there's another part, many more that's going to come up.
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  And you'll see what I mean about being a future prophecy here
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  too. So it continues on verse 5 and
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  says I will spread your flesh on the mountains and fill the
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  valleys with your remains. I will drench the land with your
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  flowing blood all the way to the mountains, and the ravines will
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  be filled with your flesh when I snuff you out.
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  I will cover the heavens and darken their stars.
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  I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not
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  give its light. Now when I read that it made me
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  think about when Jesus returns and at the 6th seal it says I
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  watched as he opened the 6th seal.
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  There was a great earthquake, the sun turned black like
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  sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and
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  the stars in the sky fell to the earth as figs drop from a fig
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  tree when shaken by a strong wind.
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  The And then it continues. The heavens receded like a
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  scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was
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  removed from its place. Then the kings of the earth, the
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  Princess, the generals, the rich, the Maive, the mighty, and
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  everyone else both slave and free, hid in the caves and among
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  the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains in
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  the rocks fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on
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  the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day
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  of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?
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  So the sun covered with dark, you know, the sun becomes dark.
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  The moon doesn't give its light. Now in this account in
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  Revelation, it said the moon turned blood red at this time,
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  but Ezekiel says that the moon will not give its light.
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  And this says the stars are darkened.
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  Where in that one it says the stars fell from the from the
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  sky. So again, this is probably a
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  foreshadowing of the future. But again, when Jesus returns
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  and wrath is upon the earth, it's going to have these same
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  things happening and in a in a slightly different way.
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  It's well, it says, all the shining lights in the heavens.
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  I will darken over you, I will bring darkness over your land,
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  declares the Lord. I will trouble the hearts of
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  many peoples when I bring about your destruction among the
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  nations. Among lands you have not known.
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  That's pretty interesting too. Among lands he has not known.
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  So this is way more widespread than just Egypt.
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  So again, this makes me think it's more about the end times
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  rather than at this particular time, that of Ezekiel.
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  I will cause many peoples to be appalled at you, and the kings
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  will shudder with the horror because of you.
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  When I brandish my sword before them on the day of your
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  downfall. Each of them will tremble every
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  moment for his life. So here's some other verses that
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  you know about this sun, moon and stars and what happens
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  again, I, I think this Ezekiel 1 is a little bit different than
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  the, the end because because it says that, you know, the stars
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  fall and it says the moon is a blood moon.
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  And it just says in Ezekiel that the moon is, doesn't give its
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  light, but at the end it says it's a blood moon.
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  So I want to just read some of these other places that are
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  talked about the what happens in the sky.
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  And this is what I think is right before wrath.
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  And again, this is kind of interesting to me personally
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  because when I had this is like, OK, I've talked about this
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  before. If you haven't heard my other
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  podcast, you won't know about this.
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  But after I decided that I wasn't going to be a hypocrite
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  because I always called myself a Christian, that I and I got
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  baptized. The night that I got baptized, I
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  started having these dreams and probably six months later I had
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  my first rapture, A resurrection dream.
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  And it was a very, very detailed dream.
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  And it was, it was awesome. But right before the gathering
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  happened, everything went black, pitch black.
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  And then I forgot. I think it might have been like
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  a weekly. I can't remember the timing, but
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  I did write it down. I just haven't looked at my
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  journal where I keep this information.
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  But a little bit later, I had a second dream about the
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  resurrection and right before it, everything went black.
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  And I warned other people in that dream, I said don't worry
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  because Jesus is coming next, right after everything goes
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  black. Then I had a third dream and I
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  don't know, maybe it was nine months later, so I don't
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  remember, but it was actually, I know it was in 2023.
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  I know the date that it was on, it was January 27th of 23 when I
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  had this third dream and and the same thing happened.
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  Everything went black. Then I started like ascending.
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  So this was something I wasn't focused on or familiar with.
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  And so I started digging into Scripture to see if that's found
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  in Scripture. And so for me personally, that's
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  how I pay attention to these things because that dream that I
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  had and I was like, does it say something like that in the Bible
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  about this? You know, like that's just weird
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  that it happened three times to me.
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  I've had three dreams and I know God repeats things in threes and
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  then this, this darkness that comes over.
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  So anyway, I have found in many, many prophets books as well as
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  what Jesus says that this is what will happen.
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  And so I'm going to read those to you because it's interesting.
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  So in Isaiah chapter 34 verse 4, it says all the stars in the sky
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  will be dissolved and the heavens rolled up like a scroll.
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  All the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the
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  vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree.
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  It just sounds like just what Revelation does.
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  And here's what Jesus said. That's been recorded in Matthew
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  chapter 24 verse 29. Mark chapter 13 verse 25 S In
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  Matthew it says immediately after the distress of those
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  days. It's that's referring to the
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  great tribulation. The sun will be darkened, the
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  moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky
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  and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
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  In Mark chapter 13 it says the stars will fall from the sky and
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  the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
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  Then there's more verses that talk about the sky, and is that
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  in Isaiah 13, verse 10, The stars of the heaven and their
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  constellations will not show their light.
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  The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its
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  light. Ezekiel Well, that's what we're
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  reading right now. 32 verse 7, When I snuff you out, I will
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  cover the heavens and darken their stars.
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  I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not
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  give its light. In Matthew 2429 we did read, but
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  pay attention to what it says about the moon.
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  Immediately after the distress of those days, the sun will be
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  darkened and the moon will not give its light.
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  The stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies
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  will be shaken. And the same thing in Mark 13,
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  24, but in those days following that distress that's talking
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  about the great tribulation, the sun will be darkened and the
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  moon will not give its light. Then there's something else that
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  I may touch on because I'm going to just mention it.
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  It might be a future podcast. I've read Song of Songs before.
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  And because there's this bride and she's waiting for her
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  husband and all of us, I and as, and many other people have
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  thought this too, but one time when I was reading that, I, I
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  was like, gosh, this sounds like, you know, the bride and
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  the bridegroom. It reminds me of Jesus and
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  waiting for her groom to arrive. And that was initially what I
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  thought. But recently, like the last
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  couple of weeks when I've been searching it and the word
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  searches that I've done have brought up Song of Songs and
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  it's about Solomon and it it doesn't sound like this is his
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  bride that he's with. It sounds like he comes and
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  goes. It almost sounds like a lover
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  rather than a a wife. And, and I want to get into that
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  symbology because this could be like more about something else
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  that I thought it was. And I haven't studied it enough,
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  but it, it certainly is not just there for our, our poetic
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  enjoyment in Scripture. It is there to tell us
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  something. So I think it's going to be kind
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  of interesting to get into that someday.
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  Maybe after I do the tree podcast, I don't know, somewhere
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  we'll get to the Song of Songs book and then I'll really study
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  it. But I want to skip over that and
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  Isaiah 5 verse 30. It says in that day they will
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  roar over it like the roaring of the sea.
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  And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and
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  distress. Even the sun will be darkened by
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  the clouds. I don't think that relates to
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  what we're talking about. But again, this is, you know,
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  just about darkness being over the clouds, so shouldn't have
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  read that one. Isaiah 1310 The stars of heaven,
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  I think we might have read this. And their constellations will
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  not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened,
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  and the moon will not give its light.
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  Now, in Joel, it says the same thing before them.
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  The earth shakes, the heavens tremble, the sun and moon are
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  darkened, and the stars no longer shine.
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  Now, when it says the stars no longer shine or it's just
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  darkness, maybe that's because they fell to the earth.
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  And when you say, well, stars falling to the earth, you know
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  that, well, it could be meteors, meteor showers, but it could
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  also be like what Revelation says.
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  The stars in Revelation are the angels.
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  And it says that Satan, you know, his tail takes a third of
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  the angels from heaven and cast them down to earth.
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  So again, this is like there's a lot of symbology with all this,
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  but it's interesting. So when Jesus returns is that,
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  you know, when he's returning to claim and there's, I, I don't
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  know, like the timing of all these things.
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  It's, it's really, you know, when does Satan and the fallen
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  angels, when do they come down? And, and then he never can go
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  back to heaven again. He's completely banned from
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  heaven. That's what the Book of
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  Revelation tells us when he falls and he takes his angels
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  with them. Like currently he can go back
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  and forth between heaven and earth, but at some point he's
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  not going to be able to. And that's going to be like, I
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  think that's the time, the 3 1/2 years of great tribulation that
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  comes upon the earth. OK.
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  Joel 315 says the sun and the moon will be darkened and the
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  stars no longer shine. And then again, we've read this
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  a few times in Matthew and 24 and Mark 13, so I won't read it
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  again. The Book of Revelation then says
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  this is interesting. When he opened the abyss, smoke
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  rose from it like smoke from a gigantic furnace.
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  The sun and the sky were darkened by the smoke from the
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  abyss. Now that's not exactly the same,
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  but does it relate? I'm not really sure.
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  This falls during the trumpets. And I believe it's about the
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  midpoint where an Angel comes out of the sky.
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  And there are, I mean, there's there are like entities that are
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  below the earth that are let loose and they're obviously
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  spiritual things, not people because they are not raised from
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  the dead. These are spiritual things that
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  are going to come out of the earth and anyway, because they,
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  you know, they have a ruler over them that is called the
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  destroyer Apollo. You know how the Greeks had an
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  Apollo God? And then there's Abaddon is
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  another name for it, the destroyer.
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  And it's interesting again when you think about Babylon because
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  it Babylon is a destroyer too. They're like they're all
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  connected. So maybe these are all like the
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  different trees of Lebanon that poetically was described in the
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  last chapter. We just read just interesting
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  things that make Bible study very interesting.
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  So when I was saying about the the stars in on the Book of
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  Revelation, I'll read this to you because I kind of alluded to
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  it, but it gives kind of a sequence of events.
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  It's in Revelation 12, starting with verse four.
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  Well, I don't know, maybe I should just read the whole
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  thing. This is about the woman and the
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  dragon. So Revelation 12/1, a great sign
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  appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun and the
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  moon under her feet and a crown of 12 stars on her head.
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  So what makes most sense from what I've heard and studied is
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  that this woman is Israel. And I don't know the
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  significance of the moon under her feet, but the crown of the
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  12 stars seems to symbolize the 12 tribes of Israel.
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  Then it says she was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was
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  about to give birth. So Israel gives birth, that
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  means there's she's going to have birth pains because God
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  said that and also through Israel she gave birth to Jesus
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  who is from the tribe of Judah. Then it says, verse 3 says.
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  Then another sign appeared in heaven, an enormous red dragon
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  with 7 heads and 10 horns and seven crowns on its heads.
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  Now this dragon is very similar. You have to read the book of
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  Daniel to understand this. But the dragon is further
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  clarified as this is actually Satan.
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  Satan empowers the and then he has seven heads.
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  These would be like 7 liters and 10 horns.
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  That's 10 powers and seven crowns on his head.
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  So each head has a crown, but there's 10 horns.
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  And what's interesting, it was 10 powers.
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  In the book of Daniel, it talks about 3 horns being uprooted by
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  a little 1A little one comes up and uproots.
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  So then you have 3. So if you take 10 -, 3, you
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  would have 7. So this is almost like the
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  completion, like the beast is formed that those three were
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  uprooted by the one and there are now 7 heads here.
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  So it's tail, the Dragon's tail swept 1/3 of the stars out of
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  the sky and flung them to earth. Now we've learned earlier in the
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  Book of Revelation, the stars represent angels.
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  So that's what I was talking about.
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  The dragon or Satan stood in front of the woman stood in
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  front of Israel, who was about ready to give birth Jesus so
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  that it might devour her child the moment he was born.
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  King Herod tried to have all the boys killed that were under the
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  age of 2 because he knew about the Messiah prophecy so he tried
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  to have that done again. Satan influences people and King
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  Herod didn't want this future Messiah, so he tried to wipe out
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  Jesus the moment he was born. Then it says she gave birth to a
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  son. Israel gave birth to a son, a
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  male child who quote will rule all the nations with an iron
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  scepter. That's the description of Jesus.
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  He is going to be the king, the king of kings here on earth.
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  OK. And her child was snatched up to
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  God and to his throne. Jesus resurrected.
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  So that's, I mean, all I can say about that line, the, the woman
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  fled into the wilderness. I think this is the the end
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  times part here. Like at the, you know, like at
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  the very end of everything, the woman fled into the wilderness
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  to a place. So Israel fled into the
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  wilderness to a place prepared for her by God.
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  God always provides. He has a a remnant of people
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  where she might be taken care of for 1260 days.
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  That happens to be 3 1/2 years. So this would be like the great
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  tribulation time where she is taken care of.
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  Then war broke out in heaven. So it starts up in heaven.
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  Michael and his angels fought against the dragon.
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  So Michael is the one who protects Israel.
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  We find that in the book of Daniel and his angels were
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  fighting against the dragon and the dragon and his angels fought
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  back. So there's this battle when you
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  know, Paul talks about this, we fight not against flesh and
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  blood. In Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12,
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  this is what he's talking about. This stuff is going on in the
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  heavenly realms. But he was not strong enough
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  referring to the dragon and they lost their place in heaven.
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  This is why I'm saying Satan's not able to go back to heaven
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  after he has this fight with Michael and the angels and he
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  loses. The great dragon was hurled
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  down, that ancient serpent called the devil or Satan, who
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  leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth with
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  his angels and his angels with him.
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  So there you go. There's the angels are coming
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  down to earth. He sweeps with his tail.
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  The stars fall out of the sky. This kind of shows you those are
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  his angels and they're coming down.
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  Then I heard a a loud voice in heaven say now have come the
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  salvation and the power and the Kingdom of our God and the
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  authority of his Messiah for the accuser of our brothers and
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  sisters who accuses them before our God day and night has been
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  hurled down. So when we think about Satan
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  being the accuser, that's what he does in front of God all the
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  time for all the people he's trying.
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  He's, he's just like the, the, the lawyer that you're going
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  against in a court and God's sitting on the throne judging
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  and Satan's there accusing you. But you have Jesus as your
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  mediator, as your attorney, as you, the person who stands in
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  front of you when you accept Jesus.
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  And that's what is so important. You know, do you want to do this
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  battle with or without Jesus? So it says in verse 11, They
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  triumphed over Him. This is over Satan by the blood
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  of the Lamb. So again, This is why we need
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  Jesus. His death on the cross covers
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  us. They triumphed over Him by the
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  blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.
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  They did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
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  This is going to call for very strong faith of people.
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  When Satan is cast down to the earth, it's going to be a matter
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  of life and death because he is out to kill everyone and
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  especially people who are unsaved.
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  Because if people haven't made that choice yet and they get
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  killed, they're not going to be in God's Kingdom.
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  And Satan is trying, he's trying to hurt God because he knows his
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  future. He knows that when he's has this
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  amount of time that he's, he doesn't have a lot of time left,
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  just like it says. And he's going to just vent his
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  fury. And I think we should all really
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  think about this because right now our world is, feels like
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  it's on the cusp of a huge war. And I, I think it, it, this war
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  is brewing. And we have to remember that
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  nations here on earth are affected by spiritual entities.
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  And if there are fallen angels influencing certain nations to
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  kill, which we know there are nations that want to kill
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  everybody. We're seeing that in Iran right
• 25:45
  now against their own people. They are killing.
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  I really believe this is something evil that's influenced
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  the leadership there where they are killing people because
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  that's what Satan was. He seeks to kill and destroy.
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  That's a biblical quote from Scripture.
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  So think about this. I mean, This is why it's so
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  critical right now. We see the world about to go
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  into a war. There's there's talk about
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  nuclear. I mean, Iran is building up
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  their nuclear power. And this is a critical time for
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  people to commit their life to Christ, to make Jesus Lord of
• 26:24
  their life, and to ask Jesus for the Holy Spirit to help us from
• 26:30
  here until, you know, the day he returns.
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  This is not a time to be playing around with your faith because
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  of what is on the brink in this world.
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  So I do, I mean, the way the Bible says that when people are
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  feeling like they're at peace and safety, then comes sudden
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  destruction. So I don't know if we really
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  feel peace and safety right now. So I don't know if God's going
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  to slow it down or if it's just all going to happen.
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  And then we did have peace and safety for, you know, the past
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  years that we have been through. We certainly don't now.
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  I mean, I think 2020 kind of ended the feeling of security,
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  of peace and safety. Anyway, let's go back to
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  Scripture, verse 12. Therefore, rejoice you heavens,
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  and you who dwell in them, but woe to the earth and the sea,
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  because the devil has gone down to you.
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  He is filled with fury because he knows that his time is short.
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  He only has 3 1/2 years. When the dragon saw that he had
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  been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given
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  birth to the male child. Huh.
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  The dragon pursued Israel. Hmm.
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  How many nations hate Israel right now?
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  Hmm, Think about it. The woman Israel was given the
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  two the two wings of a great eagle so that she might fly to
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  the place prepared for her in the wilderness where she would
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  be taken care of for times, times and half a time out of the
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  serpent's reach. So that's 3 1/2 years.
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  That lines up with the book of Daniel also.
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  Then from his mouth, the serpent or Satan spewed water like like
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  a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the
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  torrent. I don't know what that means,
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  but we're probably going to see that.
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  So he spewed water like a river. So is there going to be a
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  literal flood? There's been a lot of flooding
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  lately, but it hasn't necessarily been against the
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  woman or Israel. Or it could.
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  Oh yeah, this, this is interesting because this just
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  came to mind. Remember October 7th, 2023 and
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  when the people of Gaza came into the city of Israel or into
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  the, into the neighborhoods the kibbutz located in Israel and
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  there was a word there was a an operation and it was called
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  Alaska flood that just came to mind.
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  I don't know, it's just a thought, but it says here verse
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  15. Then from from his mouth, the
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  serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and
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  sweep her away with the torrent. You know that chant that's been
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  going on too, from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free,
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  free, free. We probably heard that.
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  Well, that's saying eliminate Israel.
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  And does that really sound like Revelation 12/15 Alaska flood?
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  And that chant sounds like I want.
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  It sounds like the chant is saying I want to wipe them away.
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  That's what it sounds like to me.
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  And it really does sound similar to this verse.
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  I'm serious that that thought just came to my mind as I was
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  reading that. But the earth helped the woman
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  by opening its mouth and swallowing the river the dragon
• 30:30
  had spewed out of his mouth. Hmm Spewed.
• 30:34
  The dragon spewed. Could it be like words?
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  I don't know. We will have to see.
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  Only in hindsight will we know really what how these things
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  unfolded. But then the dragon was enraged
• 30:46
  at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her
• 30:53
  offspring. Then there's a long dash and it
• 30:56
  says who those offspring are, those who keep God's commands
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  and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.
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  This is talking about Christian persecution.
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  Have we seen an increase in that?
• 31:15
  Have we seen a certain religion going against Christians lately?
• 31:20
  Have we seen a group of people going against Christians?
• 31:23
  Have we seen Christians being imprisoned?
• 31:29
  Have we seen? I mean, just pay attention to
• 31:32
  these things and then read Revelation 12/17.
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  I don't. I don't know if he's already
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  down or if it's going to get worse or what, but this is what
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  it says is going to happen during this time.
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  So like, like I said, now is a really good time to focus on
• 31:53
  your relationship with God and repair it if it isn't.
• 31:57
  I mean, God is so merciful and forgiving.
• 31:59
  I mean, some David had a choice. God gave him.
• 32:04
  He goes, here's your punishment, XY and Z.
• 32:06
  And so David chose God doing something to him rather than
• 32:11
  people because he knows that God showed mercy.
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  And that's, you know, that's the truth, though God does shows
• 32:18
  show mercy. They, you know, they often say,
• 32:22
  well, God hasn't returned back. This is people have been talking
• 32:24
  about this forever. And it says that the reason God
• 32:28
  is slow to anger and he's patient with us and he wants
• 32:33
  everyone to come to repentance. He does not.
• 32:36
  He's not happy with wrath. He's not.
• 32:38
  But he is a just and holy God. And it must come if he is going
• 32:45
  to have a Kingdom of people who are filled with love.
• 32:48
  He has to get rid of the evil. So it's wise for all of us to
• 32:53
  make sure we are not considered evil, that we are not rebelling
• 32:58
  against God, that we have repented, and that we have the
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  Holy Spirit. And then we don't have to worry
• 33:05
  about whatever comes because we know that we have hope in God's,
• 33:10
  the hope of God's Kingdom that Jesus has defeated death for us.
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  By his death on the cross, He made the atonement for all of
• 33:23
  our sins. And so he makes it possible for
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  us to be in God's Kingdom. But we have to respond to that.
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  We can't just say, Oh yeah, great, Jesus did that and I'm
• 33:33
  just going to go ahead and live my life and I'm protected by
• 33:36
  Jesus. Love, grace.
• 33:38
  I mean, that's not what God has said.
• 33:40
  I mean, there's this repentance. Like, I don't know if people
• 33:43
  quite get this, but repent. If you look at all of these
• 33:46
  prophets, what did they say over and over to people?
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  Repent, repent, get the sin out of your life.
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  You don't want to be on the wrong side.
• 33:55
  And the Holy Spirit helps us. The Holy Spirit gives us power
• 33:59
  to overcome the stuff we struggle with.
• 34:02
  And that's the truth. It'll, it'll, the Holy Spirit
• 34:05
  will change us over time. It doesn't.
• 34:08
  But some people do have like almost like a, an immediate
• 34:12
  ability to overcome things and others it takes a little bit
• 34:15
  longer and there's like a whittling that God has done in
• 34:17
  people's lives. But if we surrender our life to
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  Jesus and he knows that we are truly repented.
• 34:25
  If God, God knows our heart, we don't, you know, just so we have
• 34:28
  to be sincere about it, then we're protected and we will be
• 34:35
  changed. Our life will not be the same
• 34:37
  anymore. And we just have to stay close
• 34:41
  to God and, and, and one of the ways to say close and God, our
• 34:45
  faith increases by being in the word.
• 34:48
  And so that's another reason why I try to read every day and why
• 34:51
  I do this podcast. So anyway, I'm went way off the
• 34:57
  subject here and I've actually don't.
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  OK, now I remember where I was at.
• 35:05
  OK, let's go back to Ezekiel chapter 30, two verse 11.
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  For this is what the sovereign Lord says, the sword of the king
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  of Babylon so will come against you.
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  It will cause your hordes to fall, the swords of mighty men,
• 35:26
  the most ruthless of all nations.
• 35:29
  So here we see that Babylon is the most ruthless of all
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  nations. They will shatter the pride of
• 35:36
  Egypt and all her hordes will be overthrown.
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  Then it says, I will destroy all her cattle from beside abundant
• 35:45
  waters, no longer to be stirred by the foot of man.
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  Now, this is, I think it's like a past, a partial fulfillment,
• 35:56
  but there's yet to be a future full fulfillment because it says
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  no longer to be stirred by the foot of man.
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  When we read this before, we are there's, you know, Egypt's going
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  to be desolate for 40 years. That has not happened yet.
• 36:11
  And it says that no man or beast will walk through there.
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  Well, what do you think is a way that that could happen?
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  It could happen by a war, right? A complete decimation of Egypt.
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  It's just something like obviously that has not happened
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  yet. It seems like this is in the
• 36:29
  future and there's, you know, the the 40 years ahead.
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  So does that go into the Millennium or is that before the
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  Millennium incurs? I don't know.
• 36:41
  We'll only know in hindsight. But still the point is, get
• 36:44
  ready now. OK, say, or muddled by the
• 36:48
  hooves of cattle. Then I will let her waters
• 36:51
  settle and make her streams flow like oil, declares the sovereign
• 36:56
  Lord. When I make Egypt desolate and
• 37:00
  strip the land of everything in it, when I strike down all who
• 37:05
  live there, then they will know that I am the Lord.
• 37:10
  So I wonder, does Egypt know that he's the Lord right now?
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  Just a question. This is the lament.
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  They will chant for her. The daughters of the nations
• 37:21
  will chant it for Egypt and all her hordes they will chant it
• 37:26
  declares the Lord. So then it says like in the 12th
• 37:33
  year. So I got to look back and see,
• 37:34
  So this is still in the 12th year, 12th month where that's
• 37:38
  where that started. And this is the 12th year on the
• 37:41
  15th day of the month. But it doesn't, it doesn't say
• 37:45
  what month it was. OK, so this is another, it's a
• 37:50
  separate thing that came to Ezekiel from the a word of the
• 37:54
  Lord that came to him in the 12th year on the 15th day of the
• 37:59
  month, the word of the Lord came to me.
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  Oh, wait, wait a second, maybe it's let me look back again.
• 38:06
  So this was on the first day. So the 12th year, on the 12th
• 38:10
  month of the first day, that's where this chapter 32 started.
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  And now when we're midway through chapter 32, it goes to
• 38:19
  the 15th day. So this is like 2 weeks later.
• 38:22
  He gets another word from God. Son of man, wail for the hordes
• 38:27
  of Egypt and consigned to the earth below her and the
• 38:34
  daughters of the mighty nations again.
• 38:37
  Is this spiritual? Are these spiritual entities
• 38:41
  that he's talking about? Just a question to consider.
• 38:45
  Along with those who go down to the pit, Say to them, are you
• 38:49
  more favored than others? Go down and be laid among the
• 38:53
  uncircumcised. They will fall among those
• 38:56
  killed by the sword. The sword is drawn.
• 38:59
  Let her be dragged off with all her hordes from within the realm
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  of the dead. The mighty leaders will say of
• 39:09
  Egypt and her allies. So now he's talking about the
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  realm of the dead, the place where the dead are, and the
• 39:16
  mighty leaders will say of Egypt and her allies.
• 39:21
  So again, who were the allies of Egypt in the past when Babylon
• 39:25
  conquered them? Don't know that she had any.
• 39:28
  So doesn't it seem like this is probably future?
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  And wait till you hear the names that are associated with it.
• 39:35
  They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised, with those
• 39:40
  killed by the sword. Assyria is there.
• 39:44
  So that would be Syria and Turkey.
• 39:47
  A little bit of Syria, a little bit of Turkey and a little bit
• 39:49
  of Iran with her. The ancient land represents
• 39:54
  those lands today. So Assyria is there with her
• 39:57
  whole army. She is surrounded by the graves
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  of all her slain. All those, all who have fallen
• 40:04
  by the sword, their graves are in the depths of the pit, and
• 40:09
  her army lies around her grave. All who had spread terror in the
• 40:15
  land of the living are slain, fallen by the sword.
• 40:20
  So what about all these people that are called terrorists?
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  Don't you think that's interesting?
• 40:27
  All who had spread terror in the land of the living are slain,
• 40:32
  fallen by the sword. It's not going to be good to be
• 40:36
  one of the terrorists. And quite honestly, I mean, I, I
• 40:39
  do, it's hard to say this in a way because of the horrible
• 40:44
  things that they've done, but I do have empathy for them because
• 40:50
  I guess it's their choice. Like they just refused.
• 40:54
  Because I know God is just and I know he doesn't just, I know he,
• 41:01
  he creates everyone for good, but something within people, we
• 41:06
  have sin and we can choose bad or good and choose him or reject
• 41:12
  him. And those who love the lie and
• 41:16
  accept it are going to be destroyed and are going to be
• 41:20
  down in the realm of the dead. And there's people who are just
• 41:26
  like evil people. And I, I guess that's just
• 41:29
  justice that is served when they will be in, in hell.
• 41:33
  But they have no idea. And a lot of these people that
• 41:36
  I've heard about, I mean, I guess it was from people who
• 41:39
  have escaped these terrorist organizations.
• 41:43
  They believe what they're doing is good because they're
• 41:46
  deceived. They believe when they die for
• 41:49
  their 'cause that there's going to be 27 virgins waiting for
• 41:53
  them. It's not going to happen.
• 41:57
  And when they open their eyes after they die, they're going to
• 42:00
  see what they're getting and they're going to be in this
• 42:03
  bottomless pit, the abyss that the Bible warned of.
• 42:08
  So these people, I guess it's just that somebody deceived them
• 42:14
  and I just feel bad that they fell for that deception and it's
• 42:20
  still alive today. That deception is still alive
• 42:24
  and rampant today. There's still a lot of people
• 42:26
  who are ensnared by that darkness, by that deception, and
• 42:34
  are being used by Satan to kill and destroy because that's what
• 42:39
  he does. So I guess, like Jesus says, you
• 42:46
  will reap what you sow. OK, going back to the word Elam,
• 42:52
  is there southern Iran there with all her hordes and around
• 42:57
  her grave? What is Iran doing right now?
• 42:59
  They're massacring protesters who don't like the regime that's
• 43:04
  in control right now. I've seen horrible things and
• 43:09
  heard about the horrible things that have been done to people,
• 43:13
  and we know from here what we're reading right now where they're
• 43:19
  going to end up. Elam's there with all her
• 43:22
  hordes, and around her grave all of them are slain, fallen by the
• 43:26
  sword. All who had spread terror in the
• 43:30
  land of the living went down uncircumcised to the earth
• 43:34
  below. They bear their shame with those
• 43:38
  who go down to the pit. A bed is made for her among the
• 43:41
  slain, with all her hordes around her grave.
• 43:46
  All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword because
• 43:53
  their terror again had spread in the land of the living.
• 43:57
  They bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
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  They are laid among the slain. Meshech and Tubal, which is
• 44:06
  modern day Turkey, are there with all their hordes around,
• 44:11
  around their graves. All of them are uncircumcised,
• 44:14
  killed by the sword because they spread their terror in the land
• 44:19
  of the living. But they do not lie with the
• 44:24
  fallen warriors of old who went down to the realm of the dead
• 44:28
  with their weapons of war, their swords placed under their heads
• 44:33
  and their Shields resting on their bones.
• 44:36
  Though these warriors also had terrorized the land of the
• 44:40
  living. This paragraph I don't fully
• 44:44
  understand and I didn't dive into it too deep, but that's
• 44:49
  just. But they do not lie with the
• 44:51
  fallen warriors of old. There's a different place.
• 44:54
  So again, I just, I don't know, maybe this is spiritual, but
• 44:58
  maybe it's both, not sure. But these are terrorists.
• 45:01
  This is the future for terrorists.
• 45:04
  You too. Pharaoh will be broken and will
• 45:06
  lie among the uncircumcised with those killed by the sword.
• 45:11
  Edom, southwestern Jordan is there, her kings and all her
• 45:16
  Princess. Despite their power, they are
• 45:19
  laid with those killed by the sword.
• 45:22
  They lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the
• 45:25
  pit, all the Princess of the north.
• 45:29
  So that's interesting. And all the Sidonians are there.
• 45:33
  Sidonians are modern day Lebanon.
• 45:36
  They went down with the slain in disgrace, despite the terror
• 45:41
  caused by their power. They lie uncircumcised with
• 45:45
  those killed by the sword, and bear their shame with those who
• 45:49
  go down to the pit. Pharaoh, He and all his army
• 45:53
  will see them, and he will be consoled for all his hordes that
• 45:57
  were killed by the sword, declares the sovereign Lord.
• 46:00
  Although I had him spread terror in the land of the living
• 46:04
  Pharaoh and all his hordes will be laid among the uncircumcised
• 46:08
  with those killed by the sword, declares the Sovereign Lord.
• 46:13
  That's the end of chapter 32. So we have a listing of all the
• 46:19
  ones that are going to be in the realm of the dead, those who
• 46:23
  spread terror. Syria's name, Turkey's named,
• 46:27
  Iran is named, southwestern Jordan is named, Lebanon is
• 46:33
  named, Egypt is named. So that's something that pay
• 46:42
  attention to if you live in those areas, seek God.
• 46:49
  OK, then I will read the questions and answers from the
• 46:51
  study Bible. The 12th year of what?
• 46:54
  This is probably a reference either to the 12th year of the
• 46:58
  exile or the 12th year of Ezekiel's prophetic ministry.
• 47:02
  It was typical at that time to date events by linking them to
• 47:05
  the reign of a king or to an incident of major proportion.
• 47:10
  What is a lament? This suggests 2 ideas #1A
• 47:13
  musical or poetic dirge, a song of sorrow, a recognition of our
• 47:17
  2A recognition of judgment, which seems to be the primary to
• 47:22
  be primarily implied here. What was this monster?
• 47:26
  Ezekiel borrowed the image of a crocodile churning the waters of
• 47:29
  the Nile to describe Pharaoh's self assurance.
• 47:32
  Surrounded by water and desert, Egypt seems safe from foreign
• 47:36
  invasion. Pharaoh, the powerful leader of
• 47:39
  a powerful country, was like a confident crocodile, a great
• 47:44
  monster. What kind of darkness was
• 47:47
  coming? Darkness here symbolized God's
• 47:49
  severe wrath, the absence of his light.
• 47:53
  Hidden terrors lurk in the dark, causing it to be almost
• 47:57
  universally associated with danger and judgement.
• 48:01
  Why would streams flow like oil? This suggests the picture of
• 48:05
  coming drought, in which streams would be reduced to only a slow
• 48:09
  trickle. Water would ooze like oil
• 48:11
  instead of flowing freely. What is the pit?
• 48:14
  This suggests an end of end to life, perhaps referring to hell.
• 48:19
  Although Christian concepts of hell generally stem from the New
• 48:22
  Testament and contain the idea of perpetual punishment, the pit
• 48:26
  may be better understood to mean the final destruction of the
• 48:29
  city, not the personal fate of its citizens.
• 48:32
  I disagree with that. I don't know why the study Bible
• 48:35
  has this because it clearly talks about the abyss and this
• 48:41
  place where people are like even the I think the the Nephilim
• 48:46
  were chained in darkness for the day of judgement from the book
• 48:52
  of Genesis. So this has always been there
• 48:55
  and there's many references to it.
• 48:57
  So that confuses me why the study Bible wouldn't talk about
• 49:01
  that. How do leaders speak from within
• 49:04
  the realm of the dead? Military leaders, particularly
• 49:07
  those in Egypt, would be destroyed in the coming battle
• 49:09
  against the invincible Babylonians.
• 49:11
  Their deaths and graves would be world wordless witness to the
• 49:17
  futility of trusting in any power but God for defense, in
• 49:22
  any power of a God for defense against the Babylonian warriors.
• 49:26
  OK, so I yeah, that's true. But is this just Babylon?
• 49:33
  I mean, do you think back in Ezekiel's time that Syria, the,
• 49:38
  you know, the lands that were like Assyria, Elam, Meshach and
• 49:43
  Tubal and Edom and Sidonians or Lebanon, all those different
• 49:49
  modern day countries, You think all those people came, they were
• 49:55
  allies? It doesn't really say that in
• 50:00
  history. I mean, at least what I've
• 50:02
  looked up, I haven't found it. So it just seems like this is
• 50:04
  future what it's talking about. So where were Mishak and Tubal?
• 50:09
  Mishak and Tubal were two cities in what was known as Anatolia in
• 50:14
  Ezekiel's day. Today this region is called Asia
• 50:17
  Minor or Turkey. They were landlocked cities with
• 50:21
  Meshach to the West of Tubal. The Old Testament often mentions
• 50:26
  them together. And that's the end of the
• 50:29
  questions and answers from the study Bible.
• 50:31
  So very interesting stuff. Anyway, hope if you're not
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  subscribed, stay subscribed. We only have, oh, maybe 10 or
• 50:40
  more chapters of Ezekiel, but there's going to be some really
• 50:43
  interesting things that we get to in the latter parts, the
• 50:47
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