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718. Bible Study: Isaiah 27: (Is Leviathan related to the Beast in Revelation? The coming of Jesus, the Messiah) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 27 from the book of Isaiah.
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  Dear Lord please help us with this chapter.
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  As always be with us and please give me thoughts and wisdom
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  through the Holy Spirit as we talk through this chapter and
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  help us to understand and apply these things to our lives and to
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  make a difference in us. After we read through this, we
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  ask for this in Jesus name, Amen.
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  So in that day, this is talking about the second coming, the
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  return of Jesus, the return, the Messiah arrival.
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  That's what this is talking about.
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  And again, this is in the Old Testament, like every chapter, I
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  think is really almost every chapter just seems like has been
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  but relevant are talking about Jesus.
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  So in that day the Lord will punish with his sword, his
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  fierce, great and powerful sword, Leviathan, the gliding
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  serpent, Leviathan, the coiling serpent.
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  He will slay the monster of the sea.
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  Well, you know, as soon as you hear that, there's just so much
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  that you know comes up. Well, the study Bible says what
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  was Leviathan Myths from Myths from several ancient Near
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  Eastern nations tell of a God defeating of a God defeating a
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  sea monster, including leviathan in Canaanite versions so that
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  order could prevail in creation. Here, similar words seem to
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  portray an image of an end time battle in which God defeats all
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  his enemies. Well, obviously the study Bible
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  doesn't take this literal. And I would think, you know,
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  because it calls it a myth. And I would probably think about
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  calling it a myth too, except for when we get to Job, Job in
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  the book of Job, when God is talking about there's, there's
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  just so many things. And we'll get to that too,
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  because I don't want to get out of order from the things that
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  I've saved. But Job talks about this.
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  The Lord talks about this with Job.
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  He mentions Leviathan and the details that he gives about
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  Leviathan. Actually, I don't even know if I
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  searched that part. So I'm going to do it now, but
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  the the details that he gives like this is again, where I
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  think critical thinking is important because if if this was
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  just a myth, do you think that God would spend time talking so
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  much about Leviathan? So he says, let's see, yeah, OK,
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  I'm going to just read this to you.
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  So this is in Job chapter 41 and this is the Lord, I guess the
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  Lord challenging. Yeah, the Lord said to Job and
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  he goes on it's it it starts in chapter 40 and then it goes to
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  chapter 41. But I'm going to start reading
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  there because that's where it talks about Leviathan.
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  So would God inspire with the Holy Spirit, inspire someone to
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  write all this down if it was just a myth?
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  Like the Bible is not a fairy tale story book for our
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  entertainment. It's not that it is there to
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  tell us the truth. And so why would you put a myth
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  in there? So I'll read it.
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  Can you pull in Leviathan with a fish hook or tie down its tongue
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  with a rope? Can you cord through its nose or
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  Pierce its jaw with a hook? Will it keep begging you for
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  mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle
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  words? Will it make an agreement with
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  you to take for you to take it as your slave for life?
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  Can you make a part of it like a bird, or put it on a leash, or
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  for the young women in your in your house?
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  Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the
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  merchants? Can you fill its hide with
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  harpoons, or its head with fishing Spears?
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  If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and
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  never do it again. Any hope of subduing it is
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  false. The mere sight of its of it is
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  overpowering. No one is fierce enough to rouse
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  it. Who then is able to stand
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  against me? Who has a claim against me that
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  I must pay? Everything under the heaven
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  belongs to me. Now remember, this is the Lord
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  talking to Job. I will not fail to speak of
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  Leviathan's limbs, its strength, and its graceful form.
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  Who can strip off its outer coat?
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  Who can penetrate its double coat of armor?
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  Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with
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  fearsome teeth? Its back has rows of Shields
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  tightly sealed together, each so close to the next that no air
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  can pass between. They are joined fast to one
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  another. They cling together and cannot
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  be parted. Its snorting throws out flashes
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  of light. Its eyes are like the rays of
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  dawn. Flames stream from its mouth,
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  sparks of fire shoot out. Smoke pours from its nostrils as
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  from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
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  Its breath sets coals ablaze and flames dart from its mouth.
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  Strength resides in its neck. Dismay goes before it.
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  The folds of its flesh are tightly joined.
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  They are firm and immovable. The chest is hard as a rock,
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  hard as a lower millstone. When it rises up the mighty are
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  terrified. They retreat before its
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  thrashing. The sword that reaches it has no
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  effect, nor does the spear or the dart are the javelin Iron it
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  treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
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  Arrows do not make it flee. Sling stones are like chaff to
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  it. A club seems seems to it, but a
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  beat piece of straw. It laughs at the rattling of the
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  Lance. Its undersides are jagged pot
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  shirts, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
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  It makes depths churn like a boiling cauldron and stirs up
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  the sea like a pot of ointment. It leaves a glistening wake
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  behind it. One would think the deep had
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  white hair. Nothing on earth is its equal.
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  A creature without fear. It looks down on all that are
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  haughty. It is a king over all that are
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  proud. So what?
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  You know, like we'd have to ask ourselves if this is symbolic.
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  What is all this symbolism about?
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  Like I you can, you can believe it's symbolic.
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  And then I would challenge you to come up with a reason for all
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  of what was described. Again, this is not for our
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  entertainment. This is not poetry to just think
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  about and say, oh, wasn't that beautiful how those words went
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  together? No, this is like, they may have
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  written it that way, but it's not you.
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  I think there's some discernment here that these things should be
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  considered. It's really interesting.
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  It says it is king over all that are proud.
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  So I wonder, is this some kind of, is it, is it just a creature
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  or is it maybe something demonic or evil?
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  I, you know, maybe it's just a creature and maybe it no longer
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  exists. And this is, there's a lot of
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  weird stuff that I also found because I started, I was just
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  questioning this myself, like is it really real?
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  Or is it just, you know, what is it?
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  And and then I found other references to it.
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  And it what I thought was interesting from this chapter
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  though, was that it says it it is king over all that are proud.
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  And we know that that's one of the things that God hates like
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  haughty eyes, our proud look. So pride is something that God
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  really hates. So this this beast of whatever
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  it is, whether it's a spiritual entity that has a physical
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  manifestation, if it's some creature that God created one
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  time, but then he destroyed it. And this is interesting too,
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  because was in when you go back to I guess when I looked up the
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  Leviathan, I now I lost that place where I looked it up.
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  OK, I have to that one up again. So Leviathan, when it occurs in
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  the Bible like 6 times I think. Yeah, 6 times.
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  And it first of all, it's in Job.
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  Job talks about it. It says may those who curse days
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  curse that day, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.
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  And then, you know, you get into the questioning and Job for
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  chapter 41 about pulling Leviathan in with a fish hook.
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  Now, in the Psalms they talk about Leviathan and it says it
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  was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave it as food to
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  the creatures of the desert. So then, you know, that's the
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  Psalms are things that David wrote.
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  And so I'm thinking this was a long time ago.
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  And then he, you know, he's saying like you crushed the
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  heads of Leviathan. And when I heard that too, I was
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  like the heads plural. And I don't know if that's just
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  a translation thing. It could just be head of
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  Leviathan. But then when I saw heads, I was
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  like, oh gosh, that makes me think about Revelation and the
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  beast that comes up out of the sea, which I know is symbolic.
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  But but I think that some of these things that are, you know,
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  sometimes they're physical, but they're also spiritual.
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  Like, again, I've said this so many times before, that a
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  literal thing on earth can have a symbolic spiritual meaning,
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  just like the Passover and the blood of the lamb on the
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  doorpost. That is, that was a literal
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  thing that they did, but it had a symbolic significance pointing
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  to Jesus on the cross. So this time it's, you know, was
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  there this creature Leviathan? I mean, we had dinosaurs at one
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  time. And so if we had dinosaurs and
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  they don't exist anymore, then could perhaps Leviathan also
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  have existed? And was there something, I mean,
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  we get all these, where do you think all these stories come
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  about about these Dragons that blow out smoke from their
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  nostrils or they breathe fire and all this stuff?
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  Maybe they were actual beings. You know, we, we have them
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  written down as myths. And that's what I don't know if
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  people just, I don't know, I guess as years go by, they're
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  like, it doesn't exist today. So people think there's no way
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  that existed. It doesn't exist today, but
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  maybe it doesn't exist because something happened just like
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  dinosaurs. I mean, I don't think we doubt
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  that dinosaurs existed on this Earth, but they're not walking
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  around right now in places. So we don't see it, but we've
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  we've found proof of it. Maybe the sea creature it's, you
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  know, so far down in the ocean that you don't really have
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  evidence because the oceans are as deep as they are.
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  But anyway, so it does say that this this was crushed at one
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  time. And so that's something that is
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  just interesting. And then there's another line in
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  Psalms one O 4 that says there the ships go to and fro and
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  Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.
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  So this is almost like acknowledging it's not like, I
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  mean, why would somebody say this to God?
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  If it's this this myth or something, why would they say,
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  well, you formed it And that was, you know, it's kind of his
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  playground. That was where it was the ships
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  go out there and that's where that that beast thing is.
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  And then we get to Isaiah 27 that we're reading to day.
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  In that day the Lord will punish with his sword, His fierce,
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  great and powerful sword, Leviathan, the gliding serpent.
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  Leviathan the coiling serpent. He will slay the monster of the
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  sea. Well, a lot of these things,
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  when you start digging into it, you start seeing that these
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  things have multiple meanings or multiple names.
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  And in some parts when you get into like go to
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  blueletterbible.org and look these things up.
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  And when you use the tool button on the left side of the verses,
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  you can see the original Greek or Hebrew, depending on which
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  part of the Bible you're in. And then you can see all the
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  different times in the Bible where that word is used.
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  You can also look up the pronunciation of it and the
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  definition of it and how it's used biblically, biblically.
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  I mean, it's a great resource if you want to.
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  And that's what I did getting all this information this
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  morning. I went through all of that.
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  So this Leviathan I after all of that, I do believe it was an
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  actual thing. It was an actual thing that
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  lived. And it's also referred to as a
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  dragon, which you could think about the way it was described
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  in Job. It had that smoke coming from
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  its nostrils. It was breathing fire, just like
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  the the mythical Dragons that we talked about today.
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  Maybe they weren't mythical, maybe they were actually real.
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  It's also called a serpent and a sea monster.
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  And those are also things that Satan is called and Satan is
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  called. But I do think that Leviathan
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  and Satan are probably different entities because it does even if
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  even if Leviathan has any tie at all to the beast that comes out
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  of the sea, which I'm not quite sure that it does.
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  But if it does have any tie at all, the dragon is separate from
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  that beast. So they aren't one in the same,
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  but they're kind of like in alliance with one another, are
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  connected in some way. They're they've like they're
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  evil and I mean, they're not talked about in a good way.
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  And the Leviathan is also referred to as Rahab.
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  And so Rahab is from the story of Jericho.
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  I guess she was a prostitute that actually helped the
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  Israelite spies and protected them so they were not harmed.
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  And she's actually in Jesus genealogy.
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  And so, yeah, it's really interesting when you go, I
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  forget which chapter that is in Matthew or in Luke, but Rahab is
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  listed and she's that she was actually the prostitute.
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  So it's just, it shows how it doesn't matter what people have
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  done when they turn to God, that God can restore people and make
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  them new and that we just remember that all of us have not
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  been holy like God. And so all of us have made
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  mistakes and God Forgives those. We're so thankful that God
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  Forgives those because the punishment for that, and we'll
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  get to some talking about some of that for the Israelites here.
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  But the punishment is something that if, yeah, if you can avoid
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  it, that your life will be a lot better.
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  Believe me, when you start hearing what's, you know, Israel
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  will be delivered. But this chapter is going to
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  talk a little bit about what happens before Israel is
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  delivered. But this is talking about the
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  day that Jesus returns. And I believe this is, you know,
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  something that will happen during that time in that day.
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  It's also missed or you know, Babylon is also personified in
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  Revelation and it's Babylon is personified as a woman and you
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  know, Israel is actually personified as a woman.
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  But I, you know, and it's like just symbolic of, of Israel.
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  So the Book of Revelation has a lot of symbolism in it, but it
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  explains it. It explains.
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  So there isn't like a lot of questioning.
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  When you read it carefully, then you can understand and it.
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  So that is that's another chapter that's really
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  interesting and we will get into a little bit more about that
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  too. So anyway, there was, I think I
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  talked about all I wanted to talk about for Leviathan.
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  So for right now at least. OK.
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  In that day, sing about the fruitful vineyard.
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  I, the Lord, watch over it. I water it continually.
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  I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it.
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  I am not angry. If only there were Breers and
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  thorns confronting me, I would March against them in a battle.
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  I would set them all on fire or let them come to me for refuge.
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  Let them make peace with me. Yes, let them make peace with
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  me. So here God is speaking through
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  Isaiah and he's saying, you know, the Breeders and the
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  thorns that's, you know, when everything's dried up, like
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  there's no fruit on the vine. There's nothing good about it.
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  And they they just get burned. The God will just burn it in the
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  end when judgement comes, but he's he's saying or let them
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  come to me for refuge. So God is a refuge.
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  Like we can avoid being bundled up and burned like it talks
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  about if we just turn to God. So it's you know, God still has
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  that option out there for people of turning to him and making
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  peace with with God to reject sin again.
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  It's the Bible is consistently talking about repentance and if
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  your church is not talking about repentance, they are not
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  preparing you for when Jesus comes or not preparing you for
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  the day that you go to be with the Lord with the day that you
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  die. I mean it, you know, if, if you
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  pass away or if we pass away before Jesus returns, we still
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  need to be prepared. So that's not an option.
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  I mean, I think churches should prepare people so that the day
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  they meet the Lord, the day they have to come face to face with
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  the Lord, they, they go to it happily.
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  Like it's a, you know, there's an exciting thing.
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  There's there's actually been some Hospice nurses who have
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  talked about these. People, patients, you know, who
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  have, who are close to death and believers who are close to
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  death, they say it's so peaceful.
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  And there are some many, I don't know, but Hospice nurses say
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  this, that there's a, they do talk about seeing things, they
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  do talk about heavenly things and they are peaceful when they
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  pass. But those who are not, who are
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  not believers, they, they sometimes have very violent
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  transitions into death and very like, I don't know, just like, I
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  don't know how to describe it, but not peaceful events.
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  And Hospice nurses see these kinds of things.
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  And they've, they've said that before.
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  So there is, that's what I'm getting at of with the churches,
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  is that churches need to, I mean, the one thing that
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  churches should do is prepare people so that they can be
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  joyous, joyful, joyous and be looking forward to the day that
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  they get to meet the Lord face to face.
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  Because is if they're not prepared and the church doesn't
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  talk about repentance, then what if they had the fearful meeting
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  with the Lord and then they're eternally separated because
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  nobody helped them out. Like nobody can do anything for
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  anybody else. But you can at least tell
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  somebody. You can at least warn somebody.
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  Then it's up to them to decide. You can't be responsible for
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  them. But if a church just doesn't say
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  anything about repentance, I kind of question why that church
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  exists. I really do.
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  Because ultimately we need to be eternally focused.
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  We need to be eternally focused. I mean, once we have repented,
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  then we can do all these good works for the Lord, and then we
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  can just live the rest of our life doing what God would,
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  working in God's will. But first we have to get there.
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  We have to get into making peace with God there.
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  There is nowhere in the Bible none of these prophets said
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  things other than repent and turn to the Lord.
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  That was constantly the message. So if churches are supposed to
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  be giving people the message, they should be talking about
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  repentance, and a lot of them don't.
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  So that's kind of why I'm doing this podcast too, because I'm
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  just going to read scripture because it says it all through
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  it. So in days to come, Jacob will
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  take root. Israel will bud and blossom and
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  fill the world with fruit. So this is a future time when
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  Jacob or Israel will, will be beautiful when God redeems them
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  and makes them new, just like when we receive the Holy Spirit,
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  we become a new creation. We start to change.
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  Our life actually changes when we have the Holy Spirit.
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  We don't stay the same. And that's what's going to
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  happen with Israel as well. So has the Lord struck her,
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  meaning Israel, as he struck down those who struck her?
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  Has she been killed as those were killed who killed her by it
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  says. But now this is a really awkward
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  translation and there's only one there's one word in the Bible
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  for this and the translation warfare does not even make sense
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  to me. But when you go into the blue
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  letter Bible and you see what was actually written.
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  But this says by warfare and exile.
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  You contend with her with his fierce blast.
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  He drives her out as on a day the east wind blows.
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  Now warfare, you could, I mean, that could be ultimately what is
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  the, the outcome of what is talked about, but it's basically
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  by the Lord's, by a fierce spirit.
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  That's what it talks about, a spirit that is fierce from the
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  east. So I wonder again, if this is a
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  spiritual entity that is hell bent on destroying Israel, that
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  God just allows it to have its free will and it accomplishes a
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  purpose for God because this is how God is actually.
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  It'll tell us right now by this thing happening, by this, then
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  will Jacob's guilt be atoned for and this will be the full fruit
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  of the removal of his sin. The full fruit means the fruit
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  of action. It means this will be the price
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  of the removal of his sin. So it's because of Israel's
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  idolatry primarily that they were worshipping other gods and
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  they weren't turned towards the one true God.
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  And so therefore they have to go through this and, and it kind of
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  makes sense. When I read this, I was
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  thinking, you know, that, OK, so there's going to be this fierce
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  spirit that comes against them on a day the east wind blows.
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  So it's probably gonna be something from the east.
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  And that kind of makes sense that something from the east,
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  somebody that hates Israel from the east is going to come that
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  direction, a fierce spirit and going to take people into exile
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  and that, and this is how Jacob's guilt will be atoned
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  for. So in Leviticus it talks about
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  atoning. Let's see if I I don't remember
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  if I found if I did Leviticus. OK, so yes, Leviticus chapter 5
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  verse 16. They must make restitution for
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  what they have failed to do in regard to the holy things.
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  Pay an addition, pay an additional penalty of 1/5 of its
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  value and give it to all. Give it to all the give it all
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  to the priest. The priest will make atonement
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  for them with the ram as a guilt offering and they will be
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  forgiven. So this is all the stuff they
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  have to do to when they have failed to do something in regard
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  to the holy things, they have to pay a penalty for that.
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  And then the priest makes an atonement for them.
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  And so this is their, this is how they're going to make that
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  payment when this evil, fierce spirit comes against them.
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  And then it also brought to mind in Hebrews, there's a verse also
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  that says Hebrews Chapter 9, verse 22.
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  In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed
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  with blood. And without the shedding of
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  blood, there is no forgiveness. So isn't that interesting?
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  I mean, it's the like a life for a life, I guess, where God
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  allowed a substitute life. And so in the Old Testament
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  time, he allowed an animal sacrifice so that the person's
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  life, I guess eternal life would not be condemned eternally.
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  So it was like a kind of a temporary thing, like when, when
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  they sinned, then this was how they didn't die eternally.
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  And then eventually they just like sinned so much and there
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  were so many sacrifices. And God was not really pleased.
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  He didn't want all the sacrifices.
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  He gave it to them as a, as a way to help them so they
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  wouldn't die. But that's not what he wanted.
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  So then the only way to for the law to be satisfied was for
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  Jesus to die on the cross, because Jesus was the
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  unblemished lamb. You know, that's a symbolic
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  thing. That's always Jesus was referred
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  to a lamb and the lamb was used for sacrifices and it could be,
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  it had to be without blemish. It couldn't be something the
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  animal that was sacrificed couldn't be something that was
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  less than the best. SO Jesus as a in his human form
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  was the best and sinless. And so he was without blemish,
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  just like the Lamb had to be for other sacrifices.
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  But Jesus's sacrifice on the cross, his death on the cross,
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  broke the stronghold of death on us.
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  So that's when he defeated the curse and he defeated, you know,
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  Satan was the one who hold the power to death.
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  I mean, we read that a few chapters ago about Satan was the
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  one who had that, who had that. But then Jesus broke that and
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  made it possible for us to be in God's Kingdom.
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  So he just, he laid down his life literally, he laid down his
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  life for us. He he gave his life for us on
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  the cross and, and according to the law without the shedding of
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  blood, there is no forgiveness. So and in God's law.
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  So anyway. Then it goes back-to-back to
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  Isaiah when he makes all the altar stones to be like
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  limestone crushed to pieces. No Ashira poles or incense
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  altars will be left standing. The fortified city stands
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  desolate, an abandoned settlement forsaken like the
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  wilderness. There the calves graze, there
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  they lie down they strip its branches bare.
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  When it's twigs are dry, they are broken off.
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  And women come and make fires with them.
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  For this is a people without understanding, so their maker
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  has no compassion on them and their creator shows them no
• 30:25
  favor. Again, remember, there's no
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  favoritism that God does not show favoritism and he's not
• 30:34
  showing it to the Jews, the Jewish people as well.
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  Because it, it says, I think it's in Hosea.
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  I can't remember which one it is, but it says my people are
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  just are destroyed from by a lack of knowledge.
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  Something to that effect. I'm going to see if I can find
• 30:54
  that. And it's just, you know, we have
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  the knowledge in front of us, but we it's up to us.
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  Like the knowledge is there, but do we use the knowledge and
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  apply it, which is the wisdom, Lack of knowledge.
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  I'm going to look that up so I can get that verse that
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  hopefully I find it. Lack of knowledge, I'm going to
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  look up. And yes, it's Hosea chapter 4,
• 31:28
  verse 6. My people are destroyed from
• 31:31
  lack of knowledge because you have rejected knowledge and then
• 31:37
  he's talking. I also reject you as my priest
• 31:39
  because you have ignored the law of your God.
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  I will I also will ignore your children.
• 31:46
  So if we, you know, the, the knowledge is here, if we don't
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  apply it, we, we get destroyed. My people are destroyed from
• 31:56
  lack of knowledge. If we are not seeking God, if we
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  are not going into scripture or trying to learn more about
• 32:03
  scripture or learn more about our creator, God says if we seek
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  him, we will find him. So if we don't, then we can just
• 32:15
  be destroyed because we didn't look into this stuff.
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  And then the last part of Isaiah chapter, it says in that day the
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  Lord will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of
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  Egypt, and you Israel will be gathered up 1 by 1.
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  And in that day a great trumpet will sound.
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  And when you look at the original Hebrew word, it's
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  actually a shofar will sound and in that day a great shofar will
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  sound. Those who are perish, who are
• 32:48
  perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will
• 32:53
  come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
• 32:58
  So they will actually come to worship the Lord in Jerusalem on
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  the holy mountain. So this is like at the the end
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  times, I will read the study Bibles question and answer and
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  then I'll get into the additional scripture that I
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  looked up while I was researching all of this chapter.
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  So we talked about what was Leviathan?
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  Why would God want breeders and thorns in his vineyard?
• 33:25
  The Lord says he wishes that there were breeders and thorns
• 33:28
  for him to contend with so that he could chop them down and burn
• 33:31
  them. Some think these breeders and
• 33:35
  thorns refer to the nations whom God would rather battle than
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  unfaithful Israel. Others believe they refer to
• 33:42
  internal enemies, for example those who lead the fellow
• 33:46
  Israelites astray. At any rate, the Lord would
• 33:49
  rather make peace with these and antagonist than destroy them.
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  How will Israel blossom? Perhaps the blossom is a symbol
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  of life now in Jerusalem with the Messiah as king.
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  Israel would then refer to all who are faithful to God, Jew and
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  Gentile alike. Some, however, suggest that this
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  refers to refers to the restoration and worldwide
• 34:17
  influence of the Jewish nation either after the exile and bag
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  Babylon or sometime in the future.
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  How would warfare and exile atone for sin?
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  Some think that some think Isaiah was referring to the
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  northern Kingdom of Israel. Others believe he had Judah in
• 34:34
  mind, or the reference to Jacob may be taken as a designation of
• 34:39
  the whole people of Israel. Atonement contains the idea of
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  reconciling a broken relationship in the old broken
• 34:48
  relationship. In the Old Testament sacrificial
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  system, a sacrifice atoned for sin because it meant the offerer
• 34:57
  repented and desired to return to God.
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  Though the Israelites had refused to repent, the defeat of
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  Israel by the Assyrians and or Judah by the Babylonians, and
• 35:12
  their exile to a foreign land would bring the people to a
• 35:17
  penitent awareness of their guilt.
• 35:20
  God's judgment became a means of bringing His grace.
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  What fortified city was Isaiah referring to?
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  If the prophet had the northern Kingdom of Israel in mind, this
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  would be Samaria. If he was thinking about the
• 35:35
  southern Kingdom of Judah, then it would be Jerusalem.
• 35:39
  It is also possible that this is a reference to the world in
• 35:42
  general. The city that he's talking
• 35:46
  about, the fortified city stands desolate, an abandoned
• 35:50
  settlement, forsaken like the wilderness.
• 35:52
  There the calves graze. I mean, it goes on.
• 35:55
  I believe it's it sounds like it's talking about Israel or
• 35:59
  Jerusalem. And this will happen before God
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  restores it. So why did God have no
• 36:06
  compassion on those without understanding?
• 36:08
  To some degree this depends on whether verses 10 through 11
• 36:13
  refer to the Israelites or to the nations.
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  In either case, though, the crux of the matter was not that the
• 36:19
  people couldn't understand, but that they wouldn't understand.
• 36:24
  Their lack of discernment was self-inflicted and deserved
• 36:28
  judgment rather than compassion. Why thresh from the Euphrates
• 36:35
  River to the Wadi of Egypt? This was a promise of a coming
• 36:39
  harvest. Though they would be scattered
• 36:42
  from Assyria and Babylon, the Euphrates to Egypt, God's people
• 36:47
  would again be gathered back to the Promised Land.
• 36:50
  Because threshing was often used as an image of punishment, some
• 36:56
  suggest this also contains the idea of judgement on the nations
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  that carried Israel and Judah away.
• 37:03
  Others see an allusion to a coming golden age.
• 37:06
  From the Euphrates to Egypt, then represents the boundaries
• 37:11
  of Israel at its peak. And that's in First Kings
• 37:16
  chapter 4. Obviously from what we've read,
• 37:22
  Jesus, when he returns, he is going to expand the boundaries
• 37:25
  of Israel. He is going to restore it.
• 37:28
  And when he returns. It's also interesting that in
• 37:32
  the Book of Revelation, it talks about the grape harvest and
• 37:37
  about the Angel. I know we talked about that
• 37:39
  before that the the Angel goes out and then there's the sickle
• 37:45
  that comes and everything is harvested.
• 37:50
  And that was something that I guess I recently talked about,
• 37:53
  so I didn't look it up again, but I will do that now on I'll
• 37:58
  just look up sickle because that should show in Revelation.
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  So yes, it's in chapter Revelation 14, so I'll read
• 38:11
  that. I looked and there before me was
• 38:16
  a white cloud and seating. Seated on the cloud was one like
• 38:20
  a son of man. That's Jesus with a crown of
• 38:22
  gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.
• 38:26
  Then another Angel came out of the temple and called in a loud
• 38:30
  voice to him who was sitting on the cloud.
• 38:33
  Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has
• 38:36
  come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
• 38:41
  So he was seated on a cloud, swung his sickle over the earth,
• 38:45
  and the earth was harvested. This is when I think he's going
• 38:48
  around picking up the people of Judah.
• 38:52
  OK. And then it says another Angel
• 38:56
  came out of the temple in heaven.
• 38:58
  So this is the second one. And he too had a sharp sickle,
• 39:03
  and still another Angel, that's a third Angel who had charge of
• 39:07
  the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to
• 39:11
  him who had the sharp sickle. Take your sharp sickle and
• 39:16
  gather the clusters of grapes from the earth's vine, because
• 39:20
  its grapes are ripe. The Angel swung his sickle on
• 39:24
  the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great
• 39:29
  winepress of God's wrath. That's the threshing.
• 39:33
  The Angel, they, they, they were trampled.
• 39:38
  OK, the threshing in the wine press outside the city.
• 39:42
  And blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the
• 39:46
  horse's bridles for a distance of 1600 stadia, which is about
• 39:52
  180 miles or 300 kilometers. So that is, to me, it really
• 40:00
  sounds like in that day, I mean, this is talking about the end
• 40:02
  times that a trumpet's going to sound.
• 40:05
  There's a trumpet that goes and these this is the grape harvest,
• 40:08
  the end time grape harvest. So I think there's I'm going to
• 40:13
  go back to the other sections. I don't really remember.
• 40:17
  Oh, I went into Jeremiah chapter 50 and because of Babylon.
• 40:23
  Because again, like how Leviathan and Babylon and all
• 40:27
  these entities and Rahab the prostitute and Babylon is the
• 40:31
  prostitute, there's just so much in here.
• 40:33
  And it's about, it's about something that completely
• 40:37
  rejects God. And something that I found when
• 40:41
  I was searching this was they kept talking about like her
• 40:44
  sorceries or her, all of these things that she did that that
• 40:53
  was the cause of who she was. Like just to search like who is
• 40:58
  Babylon? I, I talked about actually doing
• 41:00
  some either written or podcast on Babylon, just Babylon and
• 41:06
  talk about that because Babylon was a city.
• 41:10
  And then the future Babylon talked about in Revelation,
• 41:14
  there's still some uncertainty about who that is or what that
• 41:19
  represents. I just, I definitely think it's
• 41:22
  spiritual. I think it's a spiritual entity.
• 41:25
  And it might even be some of the ancient gods.
• 41:28
  In fact, there's, oh gosh, let me see where this was.
• 41:33
  I'll just read Jeremiah 50 and then we'll get into it as we go
• 41:37
  because I'm pretty sure I probably have a tab for
• 41:40
  Scripture that talks about Babylon.
• 41:42
  So Jeremiah, he was also a prophet.
• 41:44
  And when I read through this, he's talking about Babylon.
• 41:48
  And I do believe this is also end times.
• 41:50
  This particular chapter 50, there are prior chapters that
• 41:54
  were talking about Babylon when Judah was captured and went to
• 41:58
  Babylon. But this one, when you read it,
• 42:01
  it there's I'll tell you why I think it is a future Babylon
• 42:07
  because history repeats itself. So this is what Jeremiah says.
• 42:12
  A nation from the north will attack her and lay waste her
• 42:17
  land. So this is actually, I'll start
• 42:19
  at the beginning, a message about Babylon.
• 42:21
  This is the word the Lord spoke through Jeremiah the prophet
• 42:24
  concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians.
• 42:31
  Announce and proclaim among the nation's Lift up a banner and
• 42:35
  proclaim it. Keep nothing back, but say
• 42:39
  Babylon will be captured. Belle will be put to shame,
• 42:45
  Marduk filled with terror. Her images will be put to shame
• 42:51
  and her idols filled with terror.
• 42:55
  I think like Belle Marduk. I mean, I don't know if they're
• 42:58
  the same entity we've talked about or I've talked about this
• 43:01
  before in podcast, but they're whatever they are, they're evil.
• 43:05
  And they're either fallen angels who appear to people and say
• 43:11
  that they are gods and all of these ancient cultures that
• 43:18
  worshipped all these different gods.
• 43:21
  I do think they were fallen angels.
• 43:23
  And there's actually something that I found in here that that I
• 43:28
  found actually in Scripture that supports that idea.
• 43:31
  Oh, it is. It's in Deuteronomy.
• 43:34
  I want to read that to you now before we get any further.
• 43:36
  I'm jumping around, I know, but I I want to find that verse.
• 43:43
  It's Deuteronomy 32, verse 17. Listen to this.
• 43:50
  They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God gods they had
• 43:57
  not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your ancestors
• 44:04
  did not fear. So do you think like the angels
• 44:09
  can appear, Satan can? Satan masquerades as an Angel of
• 44:16
  light. So do you not think that if
• 44:19
  Satan can do that, all of his other fallen angels could also
• 44:23
  do that, and they could appear to human beings and present
• 44:27
  themselves as God? That was something that I was
• 44:30
  just thinking, you know, as I was reading, I was like, gosh,
• 44:33
  you know, knowing the Book of Enoch or having heard it, I was
• 44:37
  like, maybe these people weren't just like really like
• 44:41
  unintelligent from, you know, the past.
• 44:45
  Maybe they were actually intelligent people.
• 44:47
  But then they met these fallen angels that appeared good and
• 44:56
  manipulated them. And that's really what I
• 44:59
  believe. And actually Deuteronomy 32
• 45:03
  verse 17 supports that. It says gods that recently
• 45:07
  appeared. So he's, he's talking to them
• 45:11
  about how you know, of Israel and what they did and you know
• 45:16
  that they didn't go to the Lord, but all of a sudden they started
• 45:18
  worshipping these other gods because these other people that
• 45:22
  they were around worshipped those things.
• 45:25
  And these were probably, you know, Satan wanted to be God.
• 45:28
  He, he wasn't happy with where he was.
• 45:31
  He wanted to be worshipped. So it all makes sense, like
• 45:34
  Satan wants to be worshipped. Maybe all these other fallen
• 45:36
  angels, they're called fallen angels because they were, they
• 45:40
  fell from heaven. You know, maybe all of them
• 45:44
  wanted the same thing and they made this alliance like we're
• 45:47
  going to be worshipped here and we're going to, you know, we, we
• 45:50
  have more power than these human beings do.
• 45:52
  So we can present ourselves like something magnificent and these
• 45:57
  people will believe us because they don't have powers like us.
• 46:00
  And we can be worshipped here. That was their dream come true,
• 46:04
  to be down here and to be worshipped.
• 46:07
  So I mean, the Bible says that that they worship gods that
• 46:11
  recently appeared. That was the first time I saw
• 46:14
  that in Scripture today. And I thought here the Bible
• 46:18
  supports that. I mean, that was something I was
• 46:20
  thinking from the book of Enoch, that these fallen angels were
• 46:24
  actually entities that were real entities.
• 46:28
  I mean these these mythical things were actually real things
• 46:32
  that people saw. And there's a lot of very
• 46:36
  interesting stuff. The Bible is extremely
• 46:38
  interesting when you get into it and you start finding some of
• 46:42
  these things. So now I'm going to go back to
• 46:46
  the message about Babylon and Jeremiah chapter 50.
• 46:49
  So we talked about Belle Marduk and that's how I got segwayed on
• 46:53
  that other topic. So a nation from the north will
• 46:56
  attack her and lay her waste. No one will live in it.
• 47:01
  Both people and animals will flee away in those days At that
• 47:06
  time, declares the Lord, the people of Israel and the people
• 47:10
  of Judah together will go in tears to seek the Lord their
• 47:15
  God. Well, that could have happened
• 47:16
  before, you know, like in the ancient time when they were
• 47:19
  captured by Babylon and then when Assyria did that, you know
• 47:23
  that that could be a past thing. But I'll keep reading and you'll
• 47:27
  find out more. They will ask the way to Zion
• 47:31
  and turn their their faces towards it.
• 47:33
  They will come and bind themselves to the Lord in an
• 47:37
  everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.
• 47:41
  That will not be forgotten is the keywords here.
• 47:45
  They will bind themselves in an everlasting covenant that will
• 47:49
  not be forgotten. They forget it all the time.
• 47:52
  So this has to be the end times when they actually return to
• 47:57
  God. My people have been lost sheep.
• 48:01
  Their shepherds had LED them astray, their leaders and caused
• 48:06
  them to roam on the mountains. You know, they were all sent to
• 48:09
  exile, like Isaiah said, because of what they did, their
• 48:13
  idolatry. So God made them lose their land
• 48:16
  and then they just wandered all over the earth.
• 48:19
  They wandered over mountain and hill and forgot their own
• 48:23
  resting place. There's a lot of Jewish people
• 48:26
  who do not live in Israel today, and that's because of what's
• 48:32
  happened. Whoever found them devoured
• 48:36
  them. Their enemies said we are not
• 48:38
  guilty, for they sinned against the Lord, their verdant pasture,
• 48:41
  the Lord, the hope of their ancestors.
• 48:44
  So there's no justification for anybody who goes against Israel
• 48:47
  and uses this as an excuse saying we're not guilty for
• 48:51
  this. They're sitting against the
• 48:52
  Lord. So we're just being God's
• 48:54
  judgment. Well, God doesn't want any of us
• 48:56
  to be the judgment of Israel. The vengeance is his.
• 49:00
  We don't have to do anything because they don't follow what
• 49:05
  God told them to do. That's they have to be
• 49:08
  accountable for that and God will take care of that.
• 49:11
  So anyone who is an enemy of Israel is just bringing on
• 49:14
  curses on themselves, on their nation, on their country,
• 49:17
  whatever. And thank God that right now, at
• 49:21
  the moment, the United States is actually supporting Israel
• 49:24
  because the Bible talks about it.
• 49:27
  And you know, God says, I will bless those who bless you and
• 49:31
  curse those who curse you. So hopefully there's some
• 49:34
  blessings that come out of it, meaning more people in the
• 49:38
  United States turn to God. And there's this reprieve where
• 49:44
  we're not going to all be fallen away from God.
• 49:48
  So it says here Jeremiah 50, verse 8, flee out of Babylon,
• 49:52
  leave the land of the Babylonians and be like the
• 49:55
  goats that lead the flock. For I will stir up and bring
• 50:00
  against Babylon an alliance of great nations from the land of
• 50:05
  the north. Now was there an alliance of
• 50:10
  multiple nations that came against Babylon?
• 50:13
  I think it was a Syria that came against Babylon, but that's not
• 50:17
  an alliance of great nations. From the land of the north they
• 50:21
  will take up their positions against her, and from the north
• 50:24
  she will be captured. Their arrows will be like
• 50:27
  skilled warriors who do not return empty handed.
• 50:30
  So Babylonia will be plundered. All who plunder her will have
• 50:34
  their fill, declares the Lord. Because you rejoice and are
• 50:37
  glad, you who pillage my inheritance, because you frolic
• 50:40
  like a heifer, threshing green and nay and nay, like stallions.
• 50:45
  Your mother will be greatly ashamed.
• 50:47
  She who gave you birth will be disgraced.
• 50:49
  She will be the east of the nations, a wilderness, a dry
• 50:53
  land, a desert. Because of the Lord's anger, she
• 50:56
  will not be inhabited, but will be completely destroyed.
• 51:04
  All who pass Babylon will be appalled.
• 51:06
  They will scoff because of all her wounds.
• 51:10
  Well, Babylon maybe hasn't been inhabited, but it's not
• 51:16
  completely desolate. It was more when I did a little
• 51:19
  bit of research, it said that Babylon, Babylon was more of a
• 51:23
  gradual than a single event. When it it wasn't completely
• 51:28
  destroyed. Take up your positions around
• 51:31
  Babylon. All you who draw the bow, shoot
• 51:34
  at her, spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the Lord.
• 51:38
  Shout against her on every side. She surrenders, her towers fall
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  and her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of
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  the Lord, take vengeance on her due to her as she has done to
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  others. Cut off from Babylon, the sower
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  and the Reaper with his sickle at harvest.
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  I think that's just like the Satan evil entity because of the
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  sword of the oppressor. Let everyone return to their own
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  people. Let everyone flee to their own
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  land. Israel is a scattered flock that
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  lions have chased away. The first to devour them was the
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  first listen that the first to devour of them was the king of
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  Assyria. The last to crush their bones
• 52:21
  was Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.
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  Therefore, this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel,
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  says. I will punish the king of
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  Babylon and his land as I punish the king of Assyria.
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  But I will bring Israel back to their own pasture, and they will
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  graze on Carmel and bash Bashan. Their appetite will be satisfied
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  on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead in those days.
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  At that time declares the Lord's search will be made for Israel's
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  guilt, but not but there will be none.
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  And for the sins of Judah, but none will be found.
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  For I will forgive the remnant I the remnant I spare.
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  So that's not today, Israel doesn't He's Israel's not
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  guiltless. And the sins of Judah, none will
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  be found. That's after restoration.
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  So that is this is a future thing.
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  Attack the land of Merathaem and those who live in Pecod, pursue,
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  kill and completely destroy. Destroy them, declares Lord, do
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  everything I have commanded to you.
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  So I was curious about who this, what this Merathaem is.
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  And it means a double rebellion. It's another name for Babylon is
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  what that is. And then let's see what else was
• 53:47
  there. Oh, and then that Piccad means
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  visitation. And it's a people in the
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  Babylonian army and a tribe in southeast Babylonia bordering
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  Elam, which is modern day Iran. So that's what it's talking
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  about. So it's it's one of the words is
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  really meant to be about Babylon.
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  And the other one is just the people, a certain people that
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  are like close to Iran. So attack the land of Marathaium
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  are Babylon, and those who live and peak Cod pursue, kill and
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  completely destroy them, declares the Lord.
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  The noise of the battle is in the land, the noise of great
• 54:33
  destruction. How broken and shattered is the
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  hammer of the whole earth. How desolate is Babylon among
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  the nations? I set a trap for you, Babylon,
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  and you were caught before you knew it.
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  You were found and captured because you oppose the Lord.
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  The Lord has opened His arsenal and brought out the weapons of
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  His wrath. For the sovereign Lord Almighty
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  has work to do in the land of the Babylonians.
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  Come against her from afar. Break open her granaries, pile
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  her up like heaps of grain. Completely destroy her and leave
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  no remnant. Kill all her young bulls.
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  Let them go down to the slaughter.
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  Woe to them, for the day has come, the time for them to be
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  punished. Listen to the fugitives and the
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  refuge refugees from Babylon declaring in Zion how the Lord
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  our God has taken vengeance, vengeance for his temple.
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  So this might have something to do with the Temple.
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  Summon Archers against Babylon, all those who draw the bow and
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  camp all around her. Let no one escape.
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  Repay her for her deeds due to her, as she has done, for she
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  has defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
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  Therefore her young men will fall in the streets, all her
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  soldiers will be silenced in that day.
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  So this is like a sudden, a sudden destruction thing.
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  See, I am against you, you arrogant 1.
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  Remember that this leviathan was the king of the proud, and I
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  wonder if it's connected somehow to Babylon.
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  Because you arrogant 1 declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty, for
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  your day has come, the time for you to be punished.
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  The arrogant one will stumble and fall and no one will help
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  her up. I will kinder kindle a fire in
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  her towns that will consume all who are around her.
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  In Revelation it talks about people looking and watching this
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  burning away. This is what the Lord Almighty
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  says. The people of Israel are
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  oppressed and the people of Judah as well.
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  All their captors hold them fast, refusing to let them go.
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  That's kind of a situation we're in right now.
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  The people of Israel are oppressed and the people of
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  Judah as well. All their captors hold them
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  fast, refusing to let them go. There's still people that are in
• 57:00
  that are hostages right now from the October 7th, 2023 invasion
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  of Israel where they, they came after him and, and it was called
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  the Alaska flood, which is interesting because the Alaska
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  mosque, or however you say it, it, it was basically they
• 57:21
  wanted, someone said that they actually wanted to prevent the
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  red heifer sacrifice. And this was kind of the flood
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  that they did to prevent that from happening, prevent the
• 57:32
  temple from being built. And it's interesting that it
• 57:36
  says God has taken vengeance, vengeance for his temple.
• 57:40
  So I wonder if that relates to our current times.
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  Yet their Redeemer is strong. The Lord Almighty is his name.
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  He will vigorously defend their cause, so that he may bring rest
• 57:53
  to their land. But unrest to those who live in
• 57:56
  Babylon. A sword against the Babylonians
• 57:58
  declares the Lord against those who live in Babylon, and against
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  her officials and wise men. A sword against her false
• 58:06
  prophets, they will become fools.
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  A sword against her warriors? They will be filled with
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  terrier. A sword against her horses and
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  Chariots and all foreigners in her ranks, they will become
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  weaklings. A sword against her treasures,
• 58:19
  they will be plundered. A drought on her waters.
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  They will dry up. For it is a land of idols, idols
• 58:28
  that will go mad with terror. So desert creatures and hyenas
• 58:34
  will live there. And there will the owl will
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  dwell. It will never again be inhabited
• 58:40
  or lived in from generation to generation, as I over through
• 58:44
  Sodom and Gomorrah, along with their neighboring towns,
• 58:47
  declares the Lord. So no one will live there, no
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  people will dwell in it. Look, an army is coming from the
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  north, a great nation, and many kings, many kings are being
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  stirred up from the ends of the earth.
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  So again, think about this too, this beast that comes up out of
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  the ocean, out of the sea, the beast that comes out of the sea,
• 59:09
  which is symbolic, but it represents there's 10 kings that
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  are involved, 10 powers that give their authority over to the
• 59:17
  beast. So the beast I think is some the
• 59:20
  spiritual entity. I think the beast is actually a
• 59:22
  spiritual entity. But these kings, actually, the
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  leaders actually give over their authority to this beast to
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  destroy everything. So they are armed with bows and
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  Spears. They are cruel and without
• 59:38
  mercy. They sound like the roaring sea.
• 59:42
  Interesting as they ride on their horses, they come like men
• 59:46
  in battle formation to attack you, daughter Babylon, the king
• 59:50
  of Babylon has heard reports about them and his his hands
• 59:55
  hang limp. Anguish has gripped him, pain
• 59:59
  like that of a woman in labor. Always the End Times talks about
• 1:00:03
  a woman in labor, and it also talks about hands hanging limp.
• 1:00:08
  That would be another word search to do.
• 1:00:10
  Hands hang limp because you will see all these references to that
• 1:00:13
  about the End Times. Like a lion coming up from the
• 1:00:17
  Jordan's thickets to a rich pasture land.
• 1:00:20
  I will chase Babylon from its land in an instant, in an
• 1:00:24
  instant. So again, talked about Babylon
• 1:00:27
  was a slow decline of its location.
• 1:00:30
  It's it's land. But this sounds like an instant.
• 1:00:33
  Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this?
• 1:00:37
  Who is like me and who can challenge me?
• 1:00:40
  And what shepherd can stand against me?
• 1:00:44
  So this is interesting too, because he's like who is like me
• 1:00:48
  and who can who can challenge me?
• 1:00:50
  So this is going to be somebody big and he doesn't name who he's
• 1:00:55
  going to appoint for this. I seriously wonder, is it going
• 1:00:57
  to be spiritual? Is it going to be Satan?
• 1:00:59
  Is that who he's saying like Satan's going to rouse up these
• 1:01:02
  people, someone from the past or ancient past?
• 1:01:06
  And what shepherd can stand against me?
• 1:01:08
  Well, the shepherd leads sheep. It's the leader of a sheep.
• 1:01:12
  So this is just now coming to me as I'm reading this, Like what
• 1:01:16
  if this is, you know, some if this is actually Satan or if he
• 1:01:20
  like actually possesses a leader or something, I don't know.
• 1:01:25
  And just like he did Judas, remember he, he had possessed
• 1:01:29
  Judas before he did it. There was evidence of that in
• 1:01:32
  Scripture where it said that Satan had entered him.
• 1:01:37
  So does he enter this guy, whoever this one is, this chosen
• 1:01:41
  one that's important by God and what shepherd can stand against
• 1:01:45
  me? Is that the false prophet, You
• 1:01:48
  know like in the in the last times there are two beasts that
• 1:01:52
  are talked about and 1 is a false prophet and the other is
• 1:01:55
  this other beast that is successful in everything that he
• 1:01:59
  does and it's somebody that is definitely inhabited by a spirit
• 1:02:04
  other than God. So again, this is really
• 1:02:07
  interesting. Therefore here with the Lord has
• 1:02:10
  planned against Babylon what he has purposed against the land of
• 1:02:13
  the Babylonians. The young of the flat will be
• 1:02:16
  flock will be dragged away, their pasture will be appalled
• 1:02:19
  at their fate. At the sound of Babylon's
• 1:02:22
  capture, the earth will tremble, it's cry will resound among the
• 1:02:27
  nations. So this is going to be something
• 1:02:30
  really big when it happens. And this was really interesting
• 1:02:35
  too, how Leviathan, you know, it's, it's referred to as a
• 1:02:40
  serpent, as sea monster, as Rahab the prostitute.
• 1:02:43
  And then there's the Babylon with a mystery name on its head,
• 1:02:48
  like it's not being revealed who this Babylon is.
• 1:02:52
  And I do think it's a spiritual entity, whether it's Satan, I
• 1:02:55
  don't know, or one of one of his, another fallen entity.
• 1:02:59
  But in Psalm 83, verse 5, it says something very interesting.
• 1:03:05
  It says with one mind they plot together, they form an alliance
• 1:03:11
  against you. The tents of Edom, which is
• 1:03:15
  Jordan and the Ishmaelites of Moab, which is also an area in
• 1:03:20
  modern day Jordan, and the Hagrites, Biblas, Ammon, Amalek.
• 1:03:26
  We know that Amalek was always against Israel, Philistia, which
• 1:03:30
  is the land of Gaza with the people of Tyre, Lebanon.
• 1:03:35
  So it's interesting that it says even Assyria has joined them to
• 1:03:40
  reinforce Lot's descendants. So all of these people, I guess
• 1:03:45
  these are lots descendants of that would be in Jordan, the
• 1:03:49
  Moab, I know the Moabites are Lots descendants.
• 1:03:53
  And even a Syria, which is modern day Turkey, there's Iraq,
• 1:03:58
  that's part of it, Northwestern Iran, Turkey, Syria, all of
• 1:04:04
  those are combined and they all are really not, they don't like
• 1:04:09
  Israel. So I think that's really
• 1:04:10
  interesting. Again, in Psalms, this is a
• 1:04:14
  Psalms I never realized actually had prophecy in them, but they
• 1:04:18
  were they were songs. But like Asaph was a prophet.
• 1:04:23
  This is a song, a Psalm of Asaph.
• 1:04:26
  So it's Psalm 83. So just very interesting to
• 1:04:30
  consider that. And then in Isaiah chapter 30
• 1:04:35
  verse one, it says woe to the obstinate children declares the
• 1:04:40
  Lord to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming
• 1:04:45
  an alliance, but not by my spirit, heaping sin upon sin.
• 1:04:53
  So that's very interesting to me.
• 1:04:57
  Obstinate children. I think about Ishmael and Isaac
• 1:05:02
  and Ishmael, they were always, he was always at war and with
• 1:05:09
  Isaac and because of the circumstances of his coming
• 1:05:14
  about and God made him into a, an Archer.
• 1:05:20
  And he is, you know, he is like a representation of the Arab
• 1:05:26
  countries. And so I do think this is really
• 1:05:29
  interesting. And then, you know, the Arab
• 1:05:31
  countries, when they are, when they believe in Islam, they are
• 1:05:37
  believing something that came from a prophet who had an Angel
• 1:05:42
  visit him. Maybe it was a fallen Angel that
• 1:05:45
  told him lies and the Bible tells us in 90 AD.
• 1:05:51
  If anyone tells you anything different than what we've told
• 1:05:54
  you, this is like the spirit of the Antichrist.
• 1:05:57
  So then you realize that Muhammad gave this information
• 1:06:03
  in 637 around that time and AD and the the Bible was written in
• 1:06:10
  90 AD. So he just changed the story of
• 1:06:14
  what's in the Bible. But people who were familiar
• 1:06:17
  with the Bible would know that it said it.
• 1:06:19
  There was a warning about that. And now Islam is growing as a
• 1:06:24
  religion, But it's a big lie. There's a lot of things that it
• 1:06:28
  took from the Bible, but it twisted the truth.
• 1:06:31
  And is it the spirit of Babylon that's behind that?
• 1:06:35
  Is it that that spirit that's not of God and but is deceiving.
• 1:06:41
  It talks about Allah being the best of deceivers.
• 1:06:44
  Well, that's what Satan does and it's just I hope that people who
• 1:06:49
  are following an Islam realize or actually, you know, they're
• 1:06:53
  that's the other thing is Islam. I don't think, you know, they
• 1:06:56
  get very serious about their punishment of people who want to
• 1:06:59
  turn away from the religion because, you know, like, that's
• 1:07:05
  not what Christians do. I mean, Christians will probably
• 1:07:09
  pray for somebody if they turn away from Christianity, but
• 1:07:12
  they'll let them go because we realize that it's somebody's own
• 1:07:17
  free will. They get to choose whatever they
• 1:07:19
  want to choose. But when you're in Islam, you
• 1:07:22
  have this religion that will do these harmful things to people
• 1:07:27
  And, and it, it's just, you know, they, they don't want
• 1:07:32
  them. I mean, there's like they, they
• 1:07:35
  have all these writings in their Quran or their hadiths that talk
• 1:07:39
  very badly about Jews and Christians.
• 1:07:42
  And at least we know that the Jews and the Christians believe
• 1:07:47
  in the same one true God. And but when you get to Islam,
• 1:07:53
  they, they say that it's the one true God, but then it denies
• 1:07:57
  ever having a son. So the father is not going to
• 1:08:00
  deny his Son who came to this earth to be the sacrifice for
• 1:08:04
  all mankind so that we can be in the Kingdom of God.
• 1:08:06
  So that's a big flat lie, big fat lie.
• 1:08:11
  And it's, it's, I don't know, I just feel so bad.
• 1:08:14
  We, we should pray for anyone who is within the Islam, that
• 1:08:20
  believes in Islam because you know, thankfully God is Jesus is
• 1:08:25
  actually appearing to Muslims in their dreams and that's how it's
• 1:08:30
  happening. But it's so hard to actually,
• 1:08:33
  you can't really talk to people because it's so dangerous for
• 1:08:38
  them. I don't know.
• 1:08:39
  So anyone, you just pray for anyone you know, who is, who's a
• 1:08:43
  Muslim, that their eyes be opened and that God show them
• 1:08:47
  the truth and that he have mercy on them and bring them, you
• 1:08:54
  know, open their eyes so that they can, they can make the real
• 1:08:58
  choice about where they want to be in eternity.
• 1:09:01
  So that's what, you know, as far as a Christian goes, we don't,
• 1:09:04
  there's no hate towards Muslims. It's more of a concern about
• 1:09:08
  where they're going to end up in eternity and that they can have
• 1:09:12
  their eyes opened so that they can be in the Kingdom with
• 1:09:16
  everyone else. So then there's another.
• 1:09:20
  Now I'm jumping to Revelation because remember how there's
• 1:09:24
  like the dragon Leviathan and all this stuff?
• 1:09:26
  It's repeated over, over and over.
• 1:09:28
  Well, in Revelation 13, it says the dragon, which is Satan.
• 1:09:32
  It's symbolic for Satan. It's not a literal dragon.
• 1:09:35
  Stood on the shore of the sea and I saw a beast coming out of
• 1:09:39
  the sea. It had 10 horns, 7 heads with 10
• 1:09:43
  crowns on its horns and each one had a blasphemous name.
• 1:09:48
  The beast I saw resembled a leopard and he had feet like
• 1:09:53
  those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion.
• 1:09:56
  It's really interesting if you know the book of Daniel that are
• 1:09:59
  those are all of the different countries or nations, I guess
• 1:10:06
  that at one time had ruled over Israel.
• 1:10:12
  Are these were the strong countries that Daniel had dreams
• 1:10:16
  of. And I want to find there's a in
• 1:10:19
  my study Bible, it tells us which which entities were which.
• 1:10:25
  So I I just wonder if they make up like it says this beast look
• 1:10:31
  like a leopard, a bear and having a mouth of a lion.
• 1:10:34
  Well, in the vision that Daniel had in Chapter 7, he had a
• 1:10:39
  vision of a lion and a bear and a leopard.
• 1:10:42
  And ultimately those were different empires.
• 1:10:46
  The lion was Babylon or Iraq. The bear was media media Persian
• 1:10:54
  or modern day Iran. And then the leopard was with
• 1:11:01
  Grecian or Ion, which Ion actually means sons of son of
• 1:11:06
  Apollo. You get into that and you start
• 1:11:08
  seeing that there's like some idolatry there.
• 1:11:11
  Definitely. And but this is like Turkey,
• 1:11:14
  Syria, Iraq, Iran, and they're part of Yavon.
• 1:11:20
  So that is that the third empire.
• 1:11:24
  So you have Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, all all together kind of
• 1:11:33
  interesting. And that's what this beast looks
• 1:11:36
  like. And the dragon gave the beast
• 1:11:40
  his power and his throne and great authority.
• 1:11:44
  So Satan gave the beast his power and his throne and great
• 1:11:49
  authority. One of the heads of the beast
• 1:11:51
  seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had
• 1:11:53
  been healed. The whole world was filled with
• 1:11:55
  wonder and followed the beast. People worshipped the dragon
• 1:12:00
  because he had given authority to the beast, and they also
• 1:12:04
  worshipped the beast and asked who is like the beast?
• 1:12:07
  Who can wage war against it? The beast was given a mouth to
• 1:12:11
  utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its
• 1:12:16
  authority for 42 months. That's that 3 1/2 year time
• 1:12:20
  frame. It opened its mouth to blasphemy
• 1:12:22
  God and to slander His name and His dwelling place and those who
• 1:12:25
  live in heaven. It was given power to wage war
• 1:12:28
  against God's holy people and to conquer them, and it was given
• 1:12:34
  authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.
• 1:12:38
  All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast, all
• 1:12:44
  whose names have not been written in the Lamb's book of
• 1:12:49
  life. The Lamb who was slain from the
• 1:12:52
  creation of the world. That's Jesus, who if your name,
• 1:12:57
  when you repent and turn to God and receive the Holy Spirit,
• 1:13:04
  your name is written in the Lamb's book of life.
• 1:13:07
  Jesus gives us life. He says I am the way, the truth
• 1:13:11
  and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through me.
• 1:13:17
  Whoever has ears, let them hear. That's revelation.
• 1:13:21
  If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity they
• 1:13:24
  will go. If anyone is to be killed with
• 1:13:27
  the sword, with the sword, they will be killed.
• 1:13:30
  This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of
• 1:13:35
  God's people. So I the I studied, you know, it
• 1:13:41
  the whole thing about when Jesus returns and when he gathers his
• 1:13:45
  people and will people be going through some of the stuff and
• 1:13:49
  will they be saved from it? I never quite could figure it
• 1:13:55
  out. I mean, I was always questioning
• 1:13:56
  about that. But recently, like the past
• 1:14:00
  couple weeks, I've found Scripture where I feel like I
• 1:14:03
  believe this is these are answering my questions about
• 1:14:06
  these things. It very clearly says in
• 1:14:10
  Scripture that the Antichrist is going to be or the lawless one,
• 1:14:14
  the man who claims, you know, he's boastful and all the stuff
• 1:14:18
  he is going to be revealed or known to the world and this is
• 1:14:24
  going to happen. The people who are still alive
• 1:14:28
  at that time, whenever this happens, that is that's going to
• 1:14:32
  happen before Jesus returns. I, I've read the scripture in
• 1:14:36
  such detail looking for the timing like what happens 1st and
• 1:14:41
  the lawless one will be revealed first, but I think shortly
• 1:14:46
  thereafter and I don't know how quickly, but if it's going to, I
• 1:14:51
  don't know how much time, but again, if this one says patient
• 1:14:53
  endurance and faithfulness on the part of God's people.
• 1:14:58
  I, I don't, I don't know if this applies to all of us or if this
• 1:15:05
  applies to those who are not prepared.
• 1:15:09
  Because unfortunately, when Jesus returns, people will not
• 1:15:14
  be prepared. And that's why I'm, I speak out
• 1:15:18
  against churches who are not preparing people to meet Jesus.
• 1:15:21
  Because if they are, if God is not a priority, if we're not in
• 1:15:26
  the word, if we are not in communication with God every
• 1:15:29
  single day, then we are not prepared for what's coming.
• 1:15:34
  And it, I mean, just to be in the word, just pray, pray to
• 1:15:38
  God. And I mean, that's desperately
• 1:15:42
  needed. And if you are prepared, if
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  you're repentant, if you have the Holy Spirit, you don't have
• 1:15:48
  anything to be worried about and you will be gathered.
• 1:15:51
  And some people, like when Jesus returns, not everybody's going
• 1:15:54
  to die. There are going to be live
• 1:15:56
  people who actually go up and ascend into the sky to meet
• 1:15:59
  Jesus in the clouds, and they will be given immortal bodies.
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  But it's only those people who have repented and who have the
• 1:16:08
  Holy Spirit and who are connected to Jesus regularly.
• 1:16:14
  And there's a lot of Christians who say they believe and they do
• 1:16:18
  believe, but they're not living their lives like Jesus, like
• 1:16:24
  Scripture says they haven't made Jesus for God Lord over their
• 1:16:29
  life, like they are not obedient to the commands God's given.
• 1:16:34
  And there are things in in the Bible that tells us things that
• 1:16:38
  we do all the time that that are just will not, will not be in
• 1:16:43
  God's Kingdom. And when I first read that, that
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  is what woke me up and made me want to change my life.
• 1:16:49
  And then I, I believe the Holy Spirit has been helping me to
• 1:16:54
  gradually change from the way I was to the way I am today.
• 1:16:59
  And but I do, there's so many stories about Jesus returning
• 1:17:04
  and people not being prepared. Like half the people will be
• 1:17:07
  prepared and go with him. So I think there are people that
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  that do believe in Jesus and they're still going to be here,
• 1:17:13
  but they're not going to have been be prepared when Jesus
• 1:17:15
  returns. So they're going to be here on
• 1:17:17
  earth and they're going to have to go through this trial after
• 1:17:21
  this testing. They're going to have to go
• 1:17:23
  through experiencing the wrath of God and they're going to have
• 1:17:27
  to endure longer. Just like this says.
• 1:17:29
  This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of
• 1:17:33
  God's people because not everyone is going to be gathered
• 1:17:38
  to Jesus. It's really clear in Scripture.
• 1:17:42
  And so if you are not prepared, then you're going to have hell
• 1:17:46
  on earth literally because of what is about what is mentioned
• 1:17:51
  in prophecy that's going to come.
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  So this then that the first beast was out of the sea.
• 1:17:57
  Then it talks about the beast out of the earth and that's
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  basically the the false prophet one.
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  And he's the one that actually forces people to get the mark of
• 1:18:07
  the beast. They kind of work together.
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  And so let's see. Then there's Babylon, the
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  prostitute on the beast. So this is Babylon is this
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  prostitute like Rahab. Remember we were talking about
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  that and Leviathan was also called Rahab.
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  So again, I, I think this is something spiritual and this is
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  some entity that we just are not aware of, a spiritual entity
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  that is making us. Let me read this to you.
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  Babylon the prostitute on the beast, one of the seven angels
• 1:18:45
  who had the seven bowls came in to me to say, come, I will show
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  you what show you the punishment of the prostitute who sits by
• 1:18:53
  many waters. So it says with her.
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  The kings of the earth committed adultery and the inhabitants of
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  the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.
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  OK, so adultery, you know, it's maybe worshipping another God.
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  And so that all makes sense. But then when you go into the
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  actual Greek words, what it says kind of gives a little bit of a
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  different spin on this. So I'm going to read what the
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  Greek part actually says. With whom the kings of the earth
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  committed acts of immorality, and who and those who dwell on
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  the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality.
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  It's talking about immorality when you, I mean, I guess
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  adultery, you can say that, but that is immoral.
• 1:19:55
  But this is like this is greater than that.
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  When you look at the outline of the biblical usage from
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  blueletterbible.org, it talks about illicit sexual
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  intercourse, adultery, fornication, homosexuality,
• 1:20:11
  lesbianism, intercourse with animals, etcetera, sexual
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  intercourse with close relatives.
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  Sexual intercourse with a divorced man or woman.
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  And that's referring to Mark chapter 10, verse 11.
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  And this thing I think might be a translation issue about the
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  divorced man or divorced woman, because I think this has to do
• 1:20:37
  with if they're separated rather than divorced, if they haven't
• 1:20:42
  been given a certificate of divorce.
• 1:20:43
  Because the English translation doesn't, I mean, should have
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  translated put away as separated and then divorced as divorced.
• 1:20:59
  But the way that it was translated, it makes even when
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  it says put away, it calls it divorced.
• 1:21:07
  But put away and divorced are not the same thing.
• 1:21:09
  So I think that just that kind of throws things off.
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  But then there's also the metaphor, the worship of idols,
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  the defilement of idolatry as incurred by eating sacrificed
• 1:21:22
  off to offered to idols. So it, it really has a lot of
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  it's like porneia. And so it really has a lot to do
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  with with sexual immorality, which I didn't quite get that
• 1:21:40
  when I first read the the verse that about this this Babylon
• 1:21:49
  entity. So I just thought that was
• 1:21:53
  something that because with the way our world is right now, I
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  mean, yeah, we we definitely have a lot of that going on
• 1:22:03
  right now. So I lost my place on that about
• 1:22:08
  Babylon. So because I was, I don't know.
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  So I don't know if I should really continue to talk about
• 1:22:18
  this any longer because I lost the place, but that Mystery
• 1:22:24
  Babylon are had a name there. I mean, there's so much I need
• 1:22:28
  to just do a separate one because it's there's just too
• 1:22:31
  much on that. I'm going to see what our next
• 1:22:33
  search. I was looking at Leviathan.
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  We talked about that. We talked about Job.
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  Now Isaiah chapter 51 says, Awake, awake, arm of the Lord,
• 1:22:44
  clothe yourself with strength, awake as in the days gone by, as
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  in generations of old. Was it not you who cut Rahab to
• 1:22:53
  pieces? Who pierced that monster
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  through? So this is interesting too,
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  because one of the heads that appeared to have been injured
• 1:23:07
  was on the beast, and maybe God had already pierced this Rahab,
• 1:23:15
  the leviathan out in the sea, and it's coming back.
• 1:23:22
  That's what it sounds like now. I mean seriously, that just came
• 1:23:25
  to me right now while I was talking after reading Isaiah 51
• 1:23:29
  because Rahab is just like AI don't know a metaphor of Rahab
• 1:23:35
  was the prostitute. He's not talking about the
• 1:23:37
  literal prostitute. He's talking about it says who
• 1:23:40
  pierced that monster through. So he's talking about that
• 1:23:44
  monster. That monster is also called
• 1:23:46
  Leviathan. So and then I thought about the
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  beast that comes up out of the sea and is and one of the heads
• 1:23:55
  appears to have been wounded. Could it have been wounded
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  because the Lord, remember the Lord also said he that he he
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  said in Genesis that that, that your seed will crush his head
• 1:24:09
  and he will strike the heel. That's Jesus is going to crush
• 1:24:13
  the head of the serpent. But the serpent was going to
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  strike his heel. So could that Jesus, could it be
• 1:24:23
  Jesus or the Father who had cut Rahab to pieces a long time ago?
• 1:24:29
  Because it sounds like in somewhat like the Psalms, I
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  think, where it happened in the past.
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  But then we're seeing that it's going to be also in the future.
• 1:24:39
  So just something to think about, maybe to look, but I'm
• 1:24:44
  kind of thinking that's what it will be.
• 1:24:47
  So here's another interesting thing.
• 1:24:49
  Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent as the enemy advances in
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  force. They will come against her with
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  axes like men who cut down trees.
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  So Egypt is also given, you know, not I mean hiss like a
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  fleeing serpent. I think that actually came up
• 1:25:09
  when I searched Leviathan and it's the same word like the are
• 1:25:14
  the gliding serpent, the fleeing serpent that Israel is being not
• 1:25:19
  Israel. Egypt is being compared to this
• 1:25:22
  fleeing serpent as the enemy. But Egypt is is not going to
• 1:25:26
  escape the hand of this entity that's going to be successful
• 1:25:30
  and bring Egypt under their hand under control.
• 1:25:37
  And most of the nations we talked about Deuteronomy where
• 1:25:42
  gods that had recently appeared now hears about the beast.
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  So this is in Revelation chapter 17.
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  This is here's where this the beast which you saw once was,
• 1:25:59
  now is not and yet will come up out of the abyss and go to its
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  destruction. So I think this is something
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  spiritual that is, you know, maybe this is Leviathan that's
• 1:26:12
  in there. That whatever Leviathan is, the
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  inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in
• 1:26:20
  the book of life from the creation of the world will be
• 1:26:22
  astonished when they see the beast because it once was, now
• 1:26:28
  is not and yet will come. And it says the beast who once
• 1:26:34
  was and now is not, is an eighth king.
• 1:26:37
  He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction.
• 1:26:42
  The 10 horns you saw are 10 kings who have not yet received
• 1:26:48
  a Kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings
• 1:26:54
  along with the beast. They have one purpose, and they
• 1:26:58
  will give their power and authority to the beast.
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  They will wage war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will triumph
• 1:27:07
  over them because he is Lord of Lord and King of kings, and with
• 1:27:11
  him will be his called, chosen and faithful followers.
• 1:27:21
  The Angel said to me, this is John's vision.
• 1:27:24
  The waters you saw where the prostitute sits are people's
• 1:27:28
  multitudes, nations and languages.
• 1:27:31
  So the prostitute is is sitting in or around people, lots of
• 1:27:37
  people, lots of nations, lots of languages.
• 1:27:41
  And the beast and the 10 horns you saw will hate the
• 1:27:45
  prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and
• 1:27:51
  leave her naked. They will eat her flesh and burn
• 1:27:54
  her with fire. For God has put it into their
• 1:27:57
  hearts to accomplish His purpose by agreeing to hand over the
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  boot to the beast, their royal authority, until God's words are
• 1:28:09
  fulfilled. The woman you saw is the great
• 1:28:13
  city that rules over the kings of the earth.
• 1:28:18
  So wasn't it Leviathan who is called the King of the Proud?
• 1:28:26
  I don't know. This is kind of getting
• 1:28:28
  interesting. But seriously, this stuff is
• 1:28:30
  just now coming to mind just from reading that and going into
• 1:28:33
  this. So here's something else that I
• 1:28:36
  want to bring up. The great city split into three
• 1:28:40
  parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed.
• 1:28:43
  God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with
• 1:28:49
  the wine of the fury of his wrath.
• 1:28:53
  So when Babylon gets destroyed, it sounds like it's part of
• 1:28:56
  God's wrath, which is good news because that means that the
• 1:29:06
  people who have prepared who are, you know, when, when God
• 1:29:13
  says very often in Scripture come out of Babylon, come out
• 1:29:18
  like escape from her so that you don't get the destruction.
• 1:29:22
  I think we're all going to see this.
• 1:29:24
  And I think that it's, you know, it's part of God's wrath.
• 1:29:31
  And the good news is that people who have turn to God in
• 1:29:36
  repentance and who have the Holy Spirit are not subject to God's
• 1:29:40
  wrath. So if Babylon, there has been
• 1:29:44
  some speculation that Babylon the Great could be the United
• 1:29:47
  States. But if we are turned to God,
• 1:29:53
  somehow those will be protected. So I don't, I don't know, but it
• 1:30:01
  seems I'm not really sure because I did when I read, I
• 1:30:05
  read that Babylon would be destroyed before the mark of the
• 1:30:10
  beast actually went out. So I know we're going to see the
• 1:30:13
  Antichrist very clear about that in Scripture when he does forces
• 1:30:19
  the mark of the beast with the false prophet.
• 1:30:22
  I don't know if all the people will, all of the people who
• 1:30:27
  believe will be present or not. I think that maybe they will be
• 1:30:34
  spared that because basically they've already proved to God of
• 1:30:38
  their faithfulness and they've prepared themselves.
• 1:30:41
  That's why do it sooner than later because it's not, it's not
• 1:30:45
  easy to change. It takes time.
• 1:30:49
  I, I guess some people say that it's instantaneous.
• 1:30:51
  For me, it wasn't, It was like a couple years before I actually
• 1:30:54
  surrendered and that's why it's just receiving the Holy Spirit.
• 1:30:59
  Probably when you when you truly surrender, then everything
• 1:31:02
  happens really quickly. I guess that really did happen
• 1:31:06
  to me is that I really started wanting to talk about my faith,
• 1:31:09
  talk about this, talk about everything with people.
• 1:31:14
  And I was never like that before.
• 1:31:16
  So I guess that does. But that was finally when I
• 1:31:19
  actually surrendered to God that that happened when I, you know,
• 1:31:23
  I was always believed, but I wasn't living that way.
• 1:31:27
  So I was like a fake Christian, I guess.
• 1:31:31
  So when I was talking about how we are not subject to wrath and
• 1:31:35
  the the the order of the events that come towards the end, it
• 1:31:41
  says in Luke that it it says. But when you see Jerusalem
• 1:31:49
  surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near.
• 1:31:54
  Now Luke doesn't go into as much detail as Matthew and Mark do,
• 1:31:59
  because Matthew says. Therefore, when you see the
• 1:32:03
  abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet
• 1:32:07
  standing in the holy place, then let those are who are in Judea
• 1:32:11
  flee to the mountains. Let him who is on a housetop not
• 1:32:14
  go down to take anything out of his house, and let him who is in
• 1:32:19
  the field not go back to get his clothes.
• 1:32:21
  But woe to those who are pregnant, and to those who are
• 1:32:24
  nursing babies in that day, and pay that your flight may not be
• 1:32:28
  in winter or on the Sabbath, for then there will be great
• 1:32:32
  tribulation, such that is not been since the beginning of the
• 1:32:37
  world, until this time no, nor ever shall be.
• 1:32:43
  And then Mark says So when you see the abomination of
• 1:32:47
  desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it
• 1:32:54
  ought not let the reader understand.
• 1:32:56
  Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
• 1:32:58
  Let him who is on the House top not go down into the house, nor
• 1:33:02
  enter to take anything out of his house, and let him who is in
• 1:33:06
  the field not go back to get his clothes.
• 1:33:07
  But woe to those who are pregnant and those who are
• 1:33:10
  nursing babies in those days. And pray that your flight may
• 1:33:13
  not be in winter, for in those days there will be tribulation,
• 1:33:18
  such as has not been since the beginning of creation, and which
• 1:33:23
  God created until this time, nor shall ever be.
• 1:33:28
  And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh
• 1:33:33
  would be saved. But for the elect's sake, whom
• 1:33:37
  He chose, He shortened the days. So I think this is the people
• 1:33:42
  who are prepared that they, the ones that are prepared, then
• 1:33:49
  they're the ones who will be sheltered.
• 1:33:52
  So like I said, Luke talks about it says then know that it's
• 1:33:58
  desolation is near Jerusalem's desolation, but he doesn't go
• 1:34:02
  into detail about this image and this person claiming to be God.
• 1:34:07
  That's what's in Daniel. The prophet is this person who's
• 1:34:10
  claiming he's he's God and he's on the holy standing in the holy
• 1:34:14
  place claiming to be God and doing these blasphemous things.
• 1:34:18
  Luke does say, let him flee to the mountains.
• 1:34:21
  He does say the same thing there.
• 1:34:23
  Let those who are in the midst of her depart, and let and not
• 1:34:27
  let those who are in the country enter her.
• 1:34:30
  So for the, For these are the days of vengeance that all
• 1:34:35
  things which are written may be fulfilled.
• 1:34:39
  And then it goes on to talking more about that.
• 1:34:41
  So and, and then it says right after that it says, and they
• 1:34:46
  will fall by the edge of the sword and will be LED captive to
• 1:34:49
  all nations. That's just what Isaiah talks
• 1:34:52
  about. They're going to be captive.
• 1:34:53
  That's how he's punishing. That's how they are going to
• 1:34:56
  atone for their guilt. And Jerusalem will be trampled
• 1:34:59
  by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
• 1:35:04
  And there will be signs in this is Luke chapter 21.
• 1:35:07
  There will be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars and
• 1:35:10
  on the earth. Distress of nations with
• 1:35:13
  perplexity, the sea and waves rolling.
• 1:35:16
  Men's hearts fail, failing from fear and expectation of those
• 1:35:23
  things which are coming to the earth.
• 1:35:24
  For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
• 1:35:27
  Then they will see the Son of Man coming on a cloud with power
• 1:35:32
  and great glory. Now when these things begin to
• 1:35:35
  happen, look up and lift your heads because your redemption
• 1:35:39
  draws near. So Luke leaves out the part
• 1:35:43
  about the Antichrist or a part about Daniel the prophet.
• 1:35:46
  But Matthew and Mark say that. So everybody who believes in
• 1:35:51
  this pretty tribulation, rapture, they, they always
• 1:35:55
  reference Luke, but they never reference the Matthew 24 or Mark
• 1:36:02
  13. And if you read those in order,
• 1:36:06
  what happens? What Jesus himself said, it says
• 1:36:10
  that we will see. When you see this lawless one,
• 1:36:14
  when he's revealed, then you flee if you are in Jerusalem.
• 1:36:20
  And that's The thing is that Luke doesn't get detailed about
• 1:36:24
  that. He just says no, that it's
• 1:36:26
  desolation is near. He isn't.
• 1:36:29
  He doesn't say what that desolation is.
• 1:36:31
  And the desolation is the Antichrist.
• 1:36:34
  And so after that, and that's what both of the other two
• 1:36:38
  chapters say, that after that happens, that's when Jesus will
• 1:36:43
  return. And that's what he cuts those
• 1:36:46
  days short or nobody would be safe for the for the elect, for
• 1:36:51
  his chosen ones, for the ones who have turned to him, those
• 1:36:55
  who have prepared. But then the rest who haven't
• 1:36:58
  prepared are going to have to suffer through it.
• 1:37:01
  Now, if they do turn to God during that time, he will
• 1:37:06
  probably be a a protector because that's what he usually
• 1:37:09
  does. Or it does say like people may
• 1:37:12
  need to be beheaded for that. But then he will also make it
• 1:37:16
  right in the Kingdom because the people who were beheaded for
• 1:37:20
  their faith will rule with him for the 1000 years in the
• 1:37:25
  millennial Kingdom. So it's, it's just, you know,
• 1:37:30
  maybe you get your head chopped off if you don't want to
• 1:37:32
  surrender now, but you want to be in God's Kingdom.
• 1:37:35
  So, you know, that's a possibility or maybe you just
• 1:37:41
  take care of getting the sin out of your life and turning over
• 1:37:43
  to, you know, turning away from it, turning towards God and do
• 1:37:47
  it now. And maybe you will be one of
• 1:37:49
  those people who will be alive, who will be alive and just rise
• 1:37:55
  up to meet Jesus in the sky and not have to be beheaded because
• 1:38:00
  there will be some people who do that.
• 1:38:03
  So I think there were some other things that I about the key to
• 1:38:06
  the abyss. So there is when the trumpet
• 1:38:13
  that's during the wrath of God and it says that John saw a star
• 1:38:21
  that had fallen from the sky to the earth.
• 1:38:24
  So I think that is one of the fallen angels because stars are
• 1:38:29
  representations of angels or messengers in the Book of
• 1:38:35
  Revelation. And this is at the the 5th
• 1:38:39
  trumpet. So this is part of God's wrath.
• 1:38:44
  And so this star comes down and it is given the key to the shaft
• 1:38:50
  of the abyss, and that's when all these like locust things
• 1:38:53
  come out. So that is one thing.
• 1:38:55
  It's not like it's not the beast that comes out of the abyss, but
• 1:38:59
  it's the locust things. But then in Revelation 20,
• 1:39:03
  there's an Angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the
• 1:39:07
  abyss and holding it in his hand, a great chain.
• 1:39:10
  He's the one who binds, I guess, binds Satan there for the 1000
• 1:39:17
  years and seals it for the 1000 years.
• 1:39:20
  So Satan can't go out and deceive people again.
• 1:39:24
  So the abyss is talked about in about 8 No 9 times in eight
• 1:39:28
  verses in the New International Version.
• 1:39:31
  So one of the stories is when in Luke chapter 8 where this man
• 1:39:38
  was possessed by multiple demons and he begged the demons
• 1:39:42
  actually begged Jesus repeatedly not to order them to go into the
• 1:39:47
  abyss. So Jesus allowed them to go into
• 1:39:50
  some pigs that were nearby. Then the pigs ran and jumped off
• 1:39:52
  a Cliff and fell into the water below and drowned.
• 1:39:57
  And then we have the abyss mentioned with the the 5th Angel
• 1:40:01
  that we just talked about. And what happens when that Angel
• 1:40:04
  opens it up is when he opened the abyss, smoke rose from it
• 1:40:08
  like smoke from a gigantic furnace.
• 1:40:10
  The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the abyss.
• 1:40:14
  And in the abyss they had as a king over them the Angel of the
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  abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is
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  Apollyon, and that is means destroyer.
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  So again, this is part of God's wrath when all this stuff
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  happens. And then there are these two
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  witnesses that will be proclaiming they will be giving
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  the testimony of Jesus. And when they have finished
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  their testimony, everybody hates them.
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  The beast that comes up from the abyss will attack them, but
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  they'll get to do their message. And the beast comes up from the
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  abyss and attacks them, overpowers them and kills them.
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  And then we read about the beast which once was, is not now, and
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  yet will come up. We read that already and then in
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  Revelation 20 it we talked about this too having the Angel coming
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  down out of heaven, having the key to the abyss.
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  And then in chapter 20 also it says he threw him into the abyss
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  Satan and locked and sealed it over him to keep him from
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  deceiving the nation's anymore until the 1000 years were ended.
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  After that, he must be set free for a short time.
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  And then I think we covered all the different verses of
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  Scripture that I had looked up. And again, it's another long
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  one, but hopefully some of this stuff is helpful.
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  And I, I don't know, I don't know if it's organized enough,
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  but hopefully you learned something from it.
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  I know I feel like I did learn something just as I was talking,
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  going through this, and it's really about preparation and
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  just so that we can be prepared and we can prepare others so
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  that people don't have to go through the wrath.
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  Just like God says about Israel. He's like, I'd rather, you know,
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  he goes, I, I could set them all on fire in verse four, he said,
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  or let them come to me for a refuge, let them make peace with
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  me. And and then it'll be different.
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  It'll be a different story. But people don't do that.
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  And that's why people have to go through wrath.
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  So think about it. If you don't have the Holy
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  Spirit right now, seek God and ask God for the Holy Spirit and
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  ask God for forgiveness of everything that he doesn't want
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  you to do. And you find out what he doesn't
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  want you to do. From the Bible.
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  I always tell people to read Revelation, the last two
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  chapters of Revelation because the second to the last chapter
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  of Revelation talks about all the things that will not be in
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  God's Kingdom. And if that describes you, then
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  you definitely want to change. And you can't change on your
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  own. You need the Holy Spirit to
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  change. But God is willing to give you
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  the Holy Spirit if you're sincere about your desire to be
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  with Him in His Kingdom.