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838. Bible Study: Ezekiel 16 (Jesus is the Atonement, identifying modern Countries in Scripture) · Faith by annm2705

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Ezekiel chapter 16. First, let's pray.
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Dear Lord, please be with us as we read through this chapter and
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let our eyes be opened and our hearts be opened.
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To what you have to say, we ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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This is titled in my study Bible Jerusalem.
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As an adulterous wife, the word of the Lord came to me.
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Son of Man, confront Jerusalem with her detestable practices
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and say this is what the sovereign Lord says to
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Jerusalem. Your ancestry and birth were in
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the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and
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your mother a Hittite. I'm going to pause there for a
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minute because that caused me to look up a bunch of.
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Stuff which I will share at the very end of.
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This study I will read through the chapter, go through the
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study, Bibles, questions and answers, and then at the end
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I'll go over things that I found when I was looking up things.
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All interesting. I mean, if you're curious like
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me about more information, then stay till the end or Fast
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forward to the end. So verse 4, on the day you were
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born, your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to
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make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in
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clothes. No, no one looked on you with
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pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you.
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Rather you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day
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you were born you were despised. Then I passed by and saw you
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kicking about in your blood. As you lay there in your blood I
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said to you, live. I made you grow like a plant of
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the field. You grew and developed and
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entered puberty. Your breast had formed and your
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hair had grown, yet you were stark naked.
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Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you
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were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment
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over you and covered your naked body.
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I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with
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you, declares the Sovereign Lord, and you became mine.
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I bathed you with water and washed the blood from you and
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put anointments on you. I clothed you with an
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embroidered dress and put sandals of fine leather on you.
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I dressed you in fine linen and covered you with costly
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garments. I adorned you with jewelry.
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I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck, and
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I put a ring on your nose, earrings on your ears, and a
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beautiful crown on your head. So you were adorned with gold
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and silver. Your clothes were of fine linen
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and costly fabric and embroidered cloth.
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Your food was honey, olive oil, and the finest flower.
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You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen, and your
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fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, because
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the splendor I had given you made your beauty perfect,
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declares the Sovereign Lord. But you trusted in your beauty
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and used your fame to become a prostitute.
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You lavished your favors on anyone who passed by, and your
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beauty became his. You took some of your garments
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to make gaudy high places where you carried on your
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prostitution. You went to him, and he
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possessed your beauty. You also took the fine jewelry I
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gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made
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for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with
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them. And you took your embroidered
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clothes to put on them, and you offered my oil and incense
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before them. Also the food I provided for
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you, the flower, olive oil and honey I gave you to eat, you
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offered as fragrant incense before them.
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That is what happened, declares the Sovereign Lord.
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And you took your sons and daughters, whom you bore to me,
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and sacrificed them as food to the idols.
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Was your prostitution not enough?
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You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to idols.
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In all your detestable practices and your prostitution, you did
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not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and
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bare, kicking about in your blood.
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Woe, woe to you, declares the sovereign Lord.
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In addition to all other wickedness, you built a mound
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for yourself and made a lofty shrine.
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In every public square. At every street corner you built
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your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty, spreading your legs
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with increasing promiscuity to anyone who passed by.
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You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your neighbors
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with large genitals, and aroused my anger with your increasing
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promiscuity. So I stretched out my hand
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against you and reduced your territory.
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I gave you over to the greed, to the greed of your enemies, the
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daughters of the Philistines, who were shocked by your lewd
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conduct. You engaged in prostitutions
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with the Assyrians too, because you were insatiable, and even
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after that you still were not satisfied.
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Then you increased your promiscuity to include
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Babylonia, a land of merchants, but even with this you were not
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satisfied. I am filled with fury against
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you, declares the Sovereign Lord, when you do all these
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things, acting like a brazen prostitute.
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When you built your mounds at every street corner and made
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your lofty shrines in every public square, You were unlike a
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prostitute because you scorned payment, you adulterous wife.
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You prefer strangers to your own husband.
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All prostitutes received gifts, but you give gifts to all your
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lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your
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illicit favors. So in your prostitution, you are
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the opposite of others. No one runs after you for your
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favors. You are the very opposite, for
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you give payment and none is given to you.
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Therefore you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord.
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This is what the Sovereign Lord says, because you poured out
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your lust and exposed your naked body, in your promiscuity with
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your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and
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because you gave them your children's blood.
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Therefore, I am going to gather all your lovers with whom you
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found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated.
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I will gather them against you from all around and will strip
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you in front of them and they will see you stark naked.
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I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit
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adultery and who shed blood. I will bring on you the blood
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vengeance of my wrath and jealous anger.
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Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they
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will tear down your mounds and destroy your lofty shrines.
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They will strip you of your clothes and take your fine
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jewelry and leave you stark naked.
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They will bring a mob against you who will stone you and hack
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you to pieces with their swords. They will burn down your houses
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and inflict punishment on you in the sight of many women.
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I will put a stop to your prostitution and you will no
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longer pay your lovers. Then my wrath against you will
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subside and my jealous anger will turn away from you.
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I will be calm and no longer angry because you did not
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remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these
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things. I will surely bring down on your
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head what you have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.
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Did you not add lewdness to all your other detestable practices?
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Everyone who who quotes Proverbs will quote this proverb about
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you. Like mother, like daughter.
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You are a true daughter of your mother who despised her husband
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and her children, and you are a true sister of your sisters who
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despised their husbands and their children.
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Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
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Your older sister was Samaria, who lived to the north of you
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with her daughters, and your younger sister who lived to the
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South of you with her daughters, was Sodom.
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You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable
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practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved
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than they. As surely as I live, declares
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the Sovereign Lord, your sister Sodom and her daughters never
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did what you and your daughters have done.
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Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom.
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She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and
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unconcerned. They did not help the poor and
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needy. They were haughty and did
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detestable things before me. Therefore, I did away with them.
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As you have seen, Samaria did not commit half the sins you
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did. You have done more detestable
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things than they, and have made your sisters seem righteous.
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By all the things you have done, bear your disgrace, for you have
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furnished some justification for your sisters.
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Because your sins were more vile than theirs, they appear more
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righteous than you. So then be ashamed and bear your
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disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.
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However, I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and her
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daughters, and of Samaria and her daughters and your fortunes
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along with them, so that you may bear the disgrace and be ashamed
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of all you have done in giving them comfort.
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And your sisters Sodom and her daughters, and Samaria with her
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daughters will return to what they were before, and you and
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your daughters will return to what you were before you.
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Would you would not even mention your sister Sodom in the day of
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your pride before your wickedness was uncovered.
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Even so, you are now scorned by the daughters of Edom and all
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her neighbors, and the daughters of Philistine of the
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Philistines, all those around you who despise you.
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You will bear the consequences of your lewdness and your
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detestable practices, declares the Lord.
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This is what the Sovereign Lord says.
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I will deal with you as you deserve, because you have
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despised my oath by breaking the covenant.
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Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of
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your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with
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you. Then you will remember your ways
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and be ashamed. When you receive your sisters,
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both those who are older than you and those who are younger, I
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will give them to you as daughters, but not on the basis
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of my covenant with you. So I will establish my covenant
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with you, and you will know that I am the Lord.
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Then when I make atonement for you for all you have done, you
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will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth
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because of your humiliation, declares the sovereign Lord.
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That's the end of chapter 16. So there were, there's several
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things in here and I think maybe the study Bible will cover it,
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but little notes that I made to the side of the study were
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basically I'll, I'll talk about the Hittites and the Amorites at
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the end. But some of the IT, it's, it's
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always helpful to me to understand these different
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territories and where these people were.
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So Samaria was like part of northern Israel.
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And I just looked it up like it's the modern day West Bank is
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where it is today. The Philistines that are
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mentioned in here these this is the modern day.
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Of land of Gaza. Is where the Philistines were
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located and then when you hear about Edom, that's Jordan.
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So those things are all interesting just because there's
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something that kind of holds true.
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I mean like Edom and the Philistines, which are Gaza,
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they're still. Do they despise Israel to some
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degree? Yes.
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I mean, you have Jordan and Israel that they have some a
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quasi peaceful relationship on the Temple Mount, but they're
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not in agreement. They both are like fighting for
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the Temple Mount, not fighting, but they they would both rather
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they have it exclusively than the other one.
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So there is, you know, tension up there regarding the Temple
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Mount. When in the very end of this
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chapter, when God says then when I make atonement for you
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immediately. I thought of what's the
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atonement? The the atonement is actually
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Jesus. So that was, I'll get into that
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a little at the end. Also, but and then an
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everlasting covenant. There's several, many covenants
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with the Israelites and Amir's book, the Exploring Ezekiel
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talks about a few of them. And I didn't save these from
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when I originally looked up these, but there's like the
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Abrahamic covenant, the Davidic covenant, there's multiple
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covenants. And I've looked at these before
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because whenever the covenant is talked about, it always makes me
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wonder which covenant are they talking about?
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And so there's quite a few of them.
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And I don't really want to get into the study of all the
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different covenants right now, but we'll go back to some
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additional things at the end first.
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We will go through the study, Bible questions and answers.
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So at the beginning, how was Jerusalem's father an Amorite
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and mother a Hittite? Sinful Jerusalem is personified
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here as a woman born of Pagan parents.
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The image accurately reflects the city's Pagan origin and
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early history. Prior to Israel's conquest of
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the land, Jerusalem was controlled by Canaanite peoples,
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including the Amorites and Jebusites.
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Though no other texts mention the Hittites as possessing
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Jerusalem, they are closely associated with the Amorites in
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many texts like in Genesis chapter 10 and Joshua chapter
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12. So a few little side notes.
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The the Father or OK Ham. So let's go back to Noah.
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He had three sons. Ham, Japheth and Shem.
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And Ham was the father of the Amorites and the Hittites, and
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those areas were Kush, Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia.
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And so those were the Amorites and the Hittites.
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And then let's see. So that's what he was.
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That's what he's talking about. And the Canaanites were the
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ones. So I think Canaan was also.
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Canaan was also. The he was the grandson of Ham
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and I'll read about a story at the end where he was actually
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cursed. So all of this like there's a
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connect the dots when you read the history and what happened
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and you'll see that Canaan became cursed shortly, I don't
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know, shortly after, but after the Noah's flood, when they all
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started spreading out into different land territories.
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So it goes back to very early beginnings in the book of
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Genesis where this this came about.
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You can trace all these things back.
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It's really interesting. So I will get into the next
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question and answer from the study Bible.
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What did it mean to cover with the corner of a garment the
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personification of Jerusalem? Continues as God compares the
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city to a young woman who whom he graciously chose for a wife
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once she had reached childbearing age.
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Covering a woman with the corner of a garment symbolizes
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symbolized 1's intent to acquire her as a wife.
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You can read about that in the story of Ruth, chapter 3.
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By covering her with His garment, the Lord shielded her
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from public humiliation until he could marry her and clothe her
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in appropriate attire. How was Jerusalem like a
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prostitute? Prostitution is used here in
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Ezekiel 16 and throughout the prophets as a vivid metaphor for
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Israel's spiritual adultery. In this chapter, Jerusalem is
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portrayed as a helpless baby who is rescued by the Lord, nurtured
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toward maturity, and then married by the rescuer himself.
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It is a true rags to riches story, but Jerusalem turned to
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idols and so she is described as becoming a prostitute against
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her husband and rescuer, the Lord.
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Why would parents sacrifice their children?
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They probably thought that by appeasing the Pagan gods they
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could improve their quality of life.
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Life's harsh realities Example, high infant mortality may have
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prompted some to place a lower value on children than adults.
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Some neighboring cultures abandoned unwanted infants to
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die, others didn't name their children until they were older
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and more likely to survive. The thought of murdering
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children shocks us, but the people of Judah who are
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calloused by Pagan views around them appear not to have been
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alarmed by that. So I want to add to this, just
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my own little personal opinion on it.
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Is that the way the study Bible says that?
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You know, the murdering of children shocks us, but yet.
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Today, are we really shocked by abortion?
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I think it's horrible. It's horrific, but look at our
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world. Our world just supports that.
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Which is the murdering of children.
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That's really essentially what it is.
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I mean, people can deny it all they want, but the truth is it's
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murdering children and so we. So if you say that abortion is
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murdering children, then it would be like saying that the
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parents are Pagan, like they don't believe in God and they're
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the same as what these pagans were and they are being their
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Lord is someone other than than the one true God.
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So anyway, continuing on with the questions.
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And am I, I'm sure I offended somebody just there, but it's,
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it's the truth in the Bible. The Bible does offend us.
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It opens up our eyes to reality about these things.
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But the other thing that if someone did that, that person is
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not that person is able to reconcile their relationship
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with God when they admit what they did was murderous, was
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terrible, was something they should never do, and it commit
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that they're never going to do it again and ask for forgiveness
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from God. God says he.
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Remembers the sins no more so God is merciful and forgiving
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all people on earth are sinners so anytime there's one sin
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that's called out in the Bible and maybe a person who's reading
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it didn't ever do any of that so they're like oh that's not me
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you know that's some of these other people.
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There is something that will convict each person reading the
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Bible. So this isn't to single out a
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person. However, this scripture
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specifically talks about certain things and if those things
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relate to us, it can make us not really like the scripture
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because it's hard to hear truths.
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It it's like the, it says the the word of God is sharper than
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a sword. It's like a sword cutting you
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like it's just like this is horrible to hear.
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But when you realize this is true, when you understand it's
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true, and then you want to change your ways and not be a
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part of it anymore. God loves you.
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He's always, always loved you. He's always loved all of us and
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just wanted us to come to this, to face the truth and to turn to
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him. So I'll go back to questions and
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answers. What was this mound?
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The precise meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain.
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The word may refer to an elevated idolatrous shrine or
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platform. Others has suggested that a
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harlot's bed or brothel is in view.
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In any case, the passage is emphasizing that Jerusalem's
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unfaithfulness was obvious to everyone.
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How did Judah prostitute itself to Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon?
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Rather than trusting in God alone for national security,
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Judah formed alliances with these foreign powers.
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OK, this is another thing where in the world today, right now,
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there's a lot of well, there's always been conflict in the
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Middle East. I mean, ever since I can
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remember at least. And when you look at history, it
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shows that there's always been conflict in the Middle East.
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And so Judah is, is, is. Israel today going to be forming
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alliances with any foreign. Powers.
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If they actually read scripture, they would not.
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They would just. Trust in God and not be aligned
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with anyone. And maybe that's where they get
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at the very end. I don't know.
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But this is another one of those things that you know, you can
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learn from mistakes. Only, you know, if they just
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stay with God and not have any other alliances, we'll see what
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happens in the future. And it does sound like, as far
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as prophecy goes, that Israel ends up being all by itself with
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no other allies in the very end. So no one knows exactly how that
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will happen. But that's what prophecy.
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Says while, why yield Judah to the Philistine daughters?
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Within the extended metaphor of this chapter, Judah is compared
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to a young woman who has been unfaithful to her husband, the
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Lord. The neighboring Philistines are
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pictured as jealous young woman who greedily steal Judah's
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wealth when given the opportunity.
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The historical reality behind the figurative language is the
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transfer of Judah's land by the Assyrian king.
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Say his name wrong, Senna Sennacherib.
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I think it's how I was calling him Sena cherub.
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So I think it's pronounced Sennacherib to three Philistine
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kings for following Hezekiah's rebellion in seven O 1 BC.
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So it was the transfer of Judah's land by the Assyrian
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king, the Assyrian king Sennacherib, to the three
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Philistine kings following Hezekiah's rebellion in Seven O
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1 BC. If a woman isn't paid for sex,
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how is she a prostitute? Prostitution is not just about
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exchanging money for sex, it is also wantonly offering ones body
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to satisfy strangers. The Lord here condemned the
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religious promiscuity of his people.
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It was bad enough that they were adulterous and following other
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gods, but what they were doing was even worse than adultery.
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Was nakedness shameful? In some Middle Eastern cultures,
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even today, no part of a woman's body is to be publicly visible
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to any man other than her husband.
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In Ezekiel's day, publicly stripping a woman in front of
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her lovers was the most humiliating, shameful act one
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could imagine, where women punished differently than men
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for adultery and murder. According to the Old Testament
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law, both adulterous men and women were to be executed by
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stoning, and that's found in Deuteronomy chapter 22, verses
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22 through 24. It is uncertain if this law was
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consistently applied in ancient Israel.
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In Ezekiel 16, the situation is complicated by the fact that
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God's adulterous wife, Judah, had acted like a common
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prostitute and it had sexual relations with countless men,
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many of them foreigners. Why include this disturbing
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imagery? The imagery here depicts the
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horrific consequences for Judah, the whoring wife.
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She had participated in gross forms, vitality, even the
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sacrifice of her children, presumably to the God Molech,
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like an adulteress, would be stoned.
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So Judah would come under judgment of God for her
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harlotry. How was Judah's behavior worse
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than Sodom's? The context emphasizes Sodom's
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pride, materialism, and social injustice, not the sexual
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perversities highlighted in Genesis chapters 18 through 19.
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It is possible that Jerusalem surpassed Sodom in these
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specific areas. Another possibility is that the
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language is exaggerated for its shock effect.
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Perhaps Jerusalem's sins, though not actually as perverse as
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Saddam's, were more offensive to God because she had received
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such a clear revelation of his moral will.
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More is said about Sodom's sexual sins in Genesis 19.
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Ezekiel's emphasis on social injustice indicates that he was
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influenced more by contemporary traditions regarding Sodom than
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by the Genesis account. Why would God restore Sodom and
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Samaria? Jerusalem was even more sinful
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than Sodom and Samaria, so much that they almost looked
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righteous and compared to her. Though those self-righteous
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Jerusalem refused to admit this, the Lord wood forest the proud
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city to recognize the magnitude of her sin.
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Jerusalem would suffer judgment like Samaria and Sodom.
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Afterward, God would eventually restore all three sisters.
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And if you look at the history and where people came from,
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actually we're like, we're all related.
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So what was this everlasting covenant in the day of
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Jerusalem's restoration, God would forgive the city and re
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establish his quote marriage relationship with her at that
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time. He would revive the line of
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David's kingship and once more live among his people.
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And that's we'll see that in Ezekiel chapter 37.
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But this is about like Jesus, This is, you know, again
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referencing Jesus. What does atonement mean?
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The background for this term is found in the Old Testament
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sacrificial system. In that system, God's wrath was
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appeased by sacrifices. That quote covered over the sins
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of the offender. Here God assured Jerusalem
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representative of His people, that He would make adequate
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provision for her sins which would allow him to re establish
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his relationship with her. In the progress of revelation
30:08
and history, we discover that God views Jesus's death as the
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sacrifice that enables Him to make peace with sinners and
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restore them to His favor, and it this references Romans
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chapter 4. So I found some other chapters
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that that cover this as well. And I'm I'm just going to go
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through the order of the tabs that I saved so that it's it's
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consistent. Here's where it gets into the
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things that I found when I started looking into this stuff.
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So if you want to stay great. And if not, we've covered that
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the actual study part, but I found a little bit more that's
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interesting. So stick around if you want to
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hear that. So Psalm 83, when in verse 37 of
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Ezekiel 16, it says, therefore I'm going to gather all your
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lovers with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as as
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well as those you hated, I will gather them against you from all
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around. So I wonder, Psalm 81 was
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written by Asaph. He was during the time of David
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and he was known as a. Seer or a prophet, so he.
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A lot of the. Psalms that he produced were
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that he wrote were were prophetic.
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And so I actually it was interesting because ironically
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today as I'm doing this study, a video on YouTube came up about
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the specifically. And there were all of these
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verses that were referenced that Asaph wrote.
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And I haven't studied these, but I think it might be an
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interesting study to do to just to see like what these, these
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Psalms say, because some, you know, Psalms are all sorts of
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things. Sometimes they're praising God,
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sometimes they're lamenting. They, they're just like their
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songs, basically heartfelt songs to God.
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But it's interesting that I, I didn't realize at the very
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beginning, I just thought it was more like poetry.
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But there's actually prophecy in there.
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So Asaf wrote Psalm 50, Psalm 73747576777879808182 and 83.
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So I guess if you start with Psalm 50 and then and then again
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skip some and start at 73 and go to 83, those are all written by
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Asaph. So that would be interesting to
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see what these prophecies say. But here's what Psalm 83 says.
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This, just like I said, made me think about Ezekiel 16 verse 37,
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where he's going to gather all your lovers with you who found
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pleasure. So here's what it says in Psalm
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83, verse 4. Come, they say, let us destroy
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them as a nation, so that Israel's name is remembered no
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more. With one mind they plot
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together. They form an alliance against
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you. The tents of Edom, that's Jordan
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and the Ishmaelites, those would be all the descendants of
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Ishmael, more or less. The Arab countries of Moab,
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that's in a portion of Edom and the Hagrites.
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Now that I didn't look up by Bloss, Ammon and Amalek
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Philistia and the people of Tyre.
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Actually, I'm going to have to jump into my study Bible because
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I probably wrote these things down at one point when I was
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looking at Psalm 83. And to go back to I probably did
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look up all of these different nations to see who they were and
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write them down because I write in my Bible.
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And when you don't see like by Bloss, I don't see that often.
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So it's not one like Edom is written throughout.
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So I know that's Jordan. But anyway, let's see.
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This is to form an alliance around you.
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So Edom is Jordan, Ishmaelites are the descendants, Arab, you
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know, the descendants of Ishmael.
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Moab is Jordan, the Hagrites are also Jordan.
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And then by Bloss it has a footnote in the study Bible and
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it just says the is that really go with that 1st?
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I don't OK, I've my markings. OK, so it says the Hebrew says
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Selah, a word of uncertain meaning here, or Selah, Selah.
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I know I've seen that before, but I guess I don't know if.
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It if they changed it to by Bloss, I don't know.
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So that one confuses me. I don't have any answer for that
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one. Ammon is also in German in
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Gordon and then Amalek. I didn't write something down
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for Amalek, but that that's another interesting one.
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Maybe I can? Search that really quick like
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who? Where is the modern country?
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Where is the modern country associated with Amalek from?
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Found in the Bible? Moderate.
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OK, it's the biblical Amalekites.
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Lived in the Nagiv Desert and Sinai Peninsula near modern day
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Israel, but the nation itself vanished with their memory
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becoming a symbol for Israel's arch enemy, leading to various
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modern interpretations including some right wing Israel's linking
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them to the Palestinians while others identify them with
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historical groups like the ancient arm Armenians or even
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Nazis. In a symbolic sense, though,
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most Jews don't see a direct modern national descent.
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So the they were descendants of Amalek, who was a grandson of
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Esau, what who was the brother of Jacob and Israel.
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So that would connect them to Jordan because Esau was the one
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who founded, you know who most of his descendants were found in
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Jordan, and he is the brother. See how everybody's related?
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They're they're actually brothers.
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So anyway, and then it it going back to Psalm 83, Philistia,
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that's the land of Gaza today with the people of Tyre, that's
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in Lebanon, even a Syria, that would be Turkey.
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It's like part of Turkey has joined them to reinforce Lot's
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descendants and Lot's descendants that would probably
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be from with his daughters, and they were the.
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I think the Ammonites and the Moabites and they were, they
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resided in Jordan in like a southern portion of Jordan, I
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think it was. Those were the two names, but.
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Anyway, so it's it's, it's a lot of Jordan.
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So we have Jordan, we have Palestinians, we have Lebanon,
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we have Gaza, Turkey, all these people do not really like.
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In Israel today. So that's kind of interesting,
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but that's Psalm 83 and that's, you know, where those all the
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nation, the surrounding areas where Israel had committed
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adultery, you know, they were they were Pagan people.
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And are those the people that Israel committed this idolatry
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with? I don't know.
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I mean, when you're around, when you surround yourself with with
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people that are not godly focused or not of the same God,
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then you can start to take on their character, You know, you
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can start to become more like them.
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And so God warned about that. Typically people end up turning
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away from God rather than getting closer to God when they
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have a partner that is not the same believer.
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And so God warns that like, he doesn't want.
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That's the whole reason why he said like, don't marry foreign
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people because they worshipped multiple deities.
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They didn't have one God. They were, you know, they would
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draw them into idolatry. In fact, that happened to
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David's son Solomon. He married all these women from
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Pagan countries and then he himself started building altars
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for these other gods that aren't even gods like these things,
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these entities that the people worshipped.
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So it's. It's easy to.
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Happen and anyway can move on from there and let's see.
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So Psalm 83 was was referenced then I was curious the Amorites,
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like who were the Amorites? Because it says that your father
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was an Amorite and then your mother was a Hittite.
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So the Amorites originated from the Syrian desert region with
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their homeland often identified as central Syria around Jebel
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Bisheri, but they spread across Mesopotamia, Syria and
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Palestine. So their legacy is found in
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modern day Syria, parts of Iraq and the Levant, which consists
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of Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, with Syrians often
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considered the closest genetic descendants.
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So that's that's interesting because Syria also, I think
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that's also like where Isaac's. Wife came from Rebecca, I
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believe she came from Syria also.
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And so just kind of interesting when you see how interrelated
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all these people are. And then it also makes sense why
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the Jewish people will say Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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So they will clarify that it's Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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So first of all, there's clarification that it's Isaac
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and then Jacob because it would be either Isaac or Ishmael.
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So that's where the Arabs and the Jews disagree.
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So everybody agrees on Abraham. But then Abraham had, you know,
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the sons like who Ishmael was first born.
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But God said that's not who I was giving you the promise
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through. That was when Abraham took it
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upon himself to accelerate God's plan.
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Or actually it was his wife Sarah who suggested it.
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So what a mistake that that was made there because of ongoing
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conflict for so many years. But so there's Abraham.
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Then this is where the different beliefs come in, where there's
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Isaac or Ishmael. So the Arabs generally say
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Ishmael was the proper descendant, and then the Jewish
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people say Isaac was, and that's what the Bible says too.
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And then after that, Isaac had Isaac and Rebecca had Jacob and
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Esau and Esau. I mean, Jacob wasn't a good
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person either, But Esau, then he, I mean, it describes his
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births. He was red, he was hairy.
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I mean, there were lots of things and it said that, you
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know, God, I mean, there's something bad about him.
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And from the very beginning, it seems the way he's talked about
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in the Bible. But then his descendants are
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like in modern day Jordan. So you can see that Jacob and
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Esau were brothers. They're that closely related.
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And Jacob's, the descendants are the people of Israel.
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So everybody's really closely related here.
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But it's, I find it fascinating if, if you didn't know these
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things and I didn't know these things when I started
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researching them. So then we know that when Noah
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came, he had three different sons and they descended.
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Are they, they settled in certain areas?
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So I was wondering like which of Noah's descendants settled in
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Syria, if that's where you'd, you know, Just for clarification
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about descendants. So Noah's descendant who settled
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in Syria was Aram, the son of Shem, Noah's eldest son, giving
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his name to the Arameans who inhabited the region including
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modern day Syria and parts of Mesopotamia and Damascus
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mentioned as a key city. So the descendants of Shem.
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And then I was curious about what nations did Noah's son Ham
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start? So Noah Sun Ham is traditionally
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seen as the ancestor of peoples in Africa and parts of the
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Middle East with his sons Kush associated with Nubia or
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Ethiopia, Misram or Egypt put which is Libya and Canaan, the
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Canaanites, Phoenicians founding nations like.
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So here's the names of the modern Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia
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and the ancient peoples of the Levant.
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The Bible's table of nations in Genesis 10 lists these
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descendants with Egypt, often called the land of Ham.
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And so this brought about like who were the sons of Noah and
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what happened to them and their descendants?
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So I'm going to read this to you.
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This is from gotquestions.org. So you can look up that question
44:34
if you want to read it for yourself because there's links
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to Scripture. So Noah had three sons born to
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him, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, before God sent a flood to
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destroy the world. Whenever the names of Noah's
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three sons are recorded, Shem is also is always mentioned first
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even though Shem was second born.
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The Bible often lists people according to their prominence
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rather than age. Japheth was the oldest and Ham
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was the youngest. Japheth was born when Noah was
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500 years old, and the flood came 100 years later.
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Since Shem was 102 years after the flood, he must have been
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born when Noah was 502. There is no record of when Ham
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was born other than the fact that he was born sometime after
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Shem. Shem was the ancestor of all the
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sons of Eber, and this is important because the word Eber
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is the origin of the Hebrew word.
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For Hebrew, the word shem means name, which implies that Noah
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expected his son's name to become great.
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He was right. The modern words Semitic and
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Semite are derived from Shem's name.
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The Bible records that Shem had five sons, Elam, Asher,
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Arfaksad, Lud, and Aram. Shem live to be 600 years of age
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and became the ancestor of the Semitic peoples.
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Abraham, a descendant of Shem, is the first person in the Bible
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who is referred to as a Hebrew. Noah blessed Shem above his
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brothers and it was through Shem that the promised seed Jesus
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destined to crush Satan came. That seed is traced back to
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Adam's son Seth through Shem and on to Abraham, Judah and David
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leading all the way to Christ. And you can find that in Luke
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chapter 3. Shem's son Elam was the father
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of the Elamites. Now that's interesting because
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Elam is like where modern day Iran is.
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So Shem's son Elam was the father of the Elamites who later
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settled east of Mesopotamia. Shem's son Asher, whose name is
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related to the word Assyria, is most likely the father of those
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who settled the ancient region of Assyria.
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Arphagsit is thought by many scholars to be a compound form
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of the Hebrew word for Chaldea, which was a region in southern
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Mesopotamia. It was through our Fatah Zack
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that Eber came. Scholars believe that the
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descendants of Shem's son Lud became known as the Lydians of
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Asian Minor, and Aram is identified by Bible scholars
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with the area North East of the Promised Land, today known as
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Syria. The sons of Aram are listed in
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Genesis chapter 10 of Aram's son is later referred to in the book
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of Job. Noah's first born son Japheth is
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listed as the father of Gomer, Magog, Medai, Javon, Tubal,
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Meshech and Tyrus in Genesis 10 verse 2.
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Their descendants became the people who live to the north and
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West of Israel and after Babel they spoke what today are
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classified as Indo European languages.
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In his blessing in blessing his son Japheth, Noah said, May God
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extend Japheth's territory, may Japheth live in the tents of
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Shem, and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.
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There are actually 2 schools of thought regarding what this
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prophecy about Japheth means. Some scholars are of the opinion
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that the enlargement of Japheth's territory refers to a
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great numerical increase of his descendants.
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The comment made Japheth live in the tents of Shem mean that
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Japheth will share in the blessings of Shen.
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According to this view, there was to be a time when God worked
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primarily with Shem, the people of Israel, but later Japheth
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would be brought into connection with the faith of Israel to
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share Israel's blessings. A similar prophecy is evident in
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the Abrahamic covenant, where God promises to bless all
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nations through Abraham's seed. The fulfillment is found in
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Christ and in the gospel coming to the Gentiles at the inception
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of the Church. Other scholars are of the
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opinion that the extension of Japheth's territory refers to a
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territorial enlargement and living quote.
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In the tents of Shem is the conquest of the Semites
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territory by Japhethites. According to this view, the
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fulfillment was the Greek and the Roman conquest of Israel.
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Ham, the youngest son. The youngest of Noah's three
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sons, had four sons. Kush, Mizraam, Hebrew for Egypt
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put and Canaan. Egypt was later called the land
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of Ham. The Hamatic peoples are shown in
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Genesis 10, six through 20 as becoming a godless and worldly
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power. It was the land of Israel that
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was assigned to Ham's son Canaan.
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And for centuries it was under the control of the Egyptians.
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Ham is the father. And I'm going to skip this
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because it says the Arabians and I don't think that's correct.
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And also this is like through gotquestions.org.
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And because they actually have another question and answer that
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says the opposite of this. So I think this might be a typo
51:15
or it may be a portion of it. I actually reached out to got
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questions to say, Hey, is this a, does this need to be updated?
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Because you have two things saying different things.
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So I'm going to kind of skip over that word for now because
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it could be a portion, but I'm just not really sure.
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It created some confusion here. But Ham is the father.
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I'm going to skip of the Canaanites and Africans
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including the Egyptians due to Ham's sin against his father
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that was recorded in Genesis Chapter 9.
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Noah cursed Canaan saying Canaan would be a servant to Shem.
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This was fulfilled centuries later when the Israelites
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entered the land of Canaan and subdued the inhabitants of that
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land. See how it all like?
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If you follow it, it explains. So I was curious like our
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Arabians from Shem are ham in the Bible and I just Google
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searched this. So in biblical tradition, Arabs
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are primarily descendants of Shem, Noah's son, tracing
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through Shems great grandson Eber and his son Yoktan, making
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them part of the Semitic peoples, Though some Islamic
52:35
traditions link Arabs to Abraham's son Ishmael, who is
52:39
also from Shem's line. While Ham's descendants are
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associated with African and Canaanite peoples, Shem's
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lineage is seen as the origin of Semitic groups, including Arabs,
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Hebrews, Assyrians, according to the Bible's Table of Nations in
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Genesis. So the other gotquestions.org,
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it was who was Shem in the Bible then?
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I'll read that to you. You can find that if you ask
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that, you know, search that question in gotquestions.org.
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You can find all the links that go with this.
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Shem was one of the three sons of Noah before the great flood
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that God used to judge the inhabitants of the earth for
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their great wickedness. God instructed the righteous
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Noah to build an ark to save Noah and his wife, along with
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their sons Shem, Ham and Japheth, and their wives.
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Well, that's interesting. So I need to look at that
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because that seems like that contradicts the article that we
53:39
just read about when they were each born.
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So we'll have to look into that because there are eight people
53:47
on there and let's see. So there would be the sons and
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the wife. So they couldn't have like that
53:55
would contradict scripture. So the prior, whoever wrote that
53:58
prior one probably needs to redo it because how could you know?
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When we were reading it, it was saying that they happened like
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100 years after the flood or something like that.
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Like it was saying like how the order of when they were all
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born. So something needs to be redone
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on this apparently. And got questions.
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It's usually really good, but I think there might be an error
54:20
here because there were, I mean, even in the book of Hebrews, it
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talks about eight people were saved.
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And so that would be Noah and his wife and his three sons and
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their three wives. So that's 6 + 2, eight people.
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So anyway, going back to what gotquestions.org says, the Lord
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brought two of every kind of unclean animal and seven of
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every kind of clean animal and shut them up in the ark before
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the floodwaters covered the earth.
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The families of the animals were in the ark for about 370 days,
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40 days and 40 nights during the rains and then the remainder of
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the time waiting for the floodwaters to recede.
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Shem is always mentioned first among the sons of Noah, possibly
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because he was he was of primary importance to Moses audience.
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The Hebrews Shem was their ancestor.
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In the birth order of Noah's sons, Shem was the middle child
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as calculated below. OK, so here let's see what this
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one says. According to Genesis 532, Noah
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began having children when he was 500 years old.
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According to Genesis 711, Noah was 600 years when the full
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flood began, making his oldest child 100 years.
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So maybe I misread because when the flood began, I guess that
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would be they would they would be there before the flood
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happened. And then according to Genesis 11
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verse 10, Shem had a child when he was 100 years old.
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So that's Shem had a child when he was 100 years, two years
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after the flood, making him 98 years old at the time of the
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flood. OK, so this might have clarified
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that other article that was not clear since we know that Ham was
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not the oldest. According to Genesis 924, the
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100 year old son at the time of the flood must have been
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Japheth. Shem, along with his brothers
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and their wives fulfilled God's command to begin repopulating
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the earth. Shem's line produced the
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Assyrians, Chaldeans, Elamites, Arameans, Moabites, Ammonites,
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Edomites, Arabs, and Hebrews. So we have people of Jordan, we
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have. People from Iran, we have other
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Arabs and we have Hebrews. The people of Israel, the
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Chaldeans were kind of in the area of Iraq, so that's kind of
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the territory. Shem's great grandson Eber was
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the father of those who were eventually called Hebrews,
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according or including Abraham. Abraham and the Jews.
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See Genesis 10 and 11 for more on Shem's line.
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There is only one story that deals with Shem Noah, our son of
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Noah. After the flood, Noah became
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something of a farmer and grew a vineyard.
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He became drunk on the wine one day and passed out naked in his
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tent. Noah's son Ham found him thus,
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but instead of covering his father or helping him in any
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way, he reported the incident to his brothers.
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Outside. Shem and Japheth brought some
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sort of garment into the tent, and walking backward so they
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could not see their father's nakedness, they covered Noah
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with the garment. When Noah woke, he was angry and
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cursed Ham, Ham's son Canaan, but he blessed both Shem and
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Japheth for the respect they showed.
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After Shem had fathered many children, he passed away at the
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Old age of 600. According to Genesis Chapter 11
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verses 10 through 11, Shem is mentioned in the New Testament
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as an ancestor of Jesus and that's found in Luke chapter 3
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verse 36. So I think I read this already.
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Like who settled in Syria and that was Aram son of Shem.
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And then what modern day country represents Assyria?
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No single modern day country represents Assyria as its
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heartland was in Mesopotamia, which is primarily modern day
58:46
Iraq, but all but its empire also covered parts of Turkey,
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Syria and Iran. So when we see Assyria, it
58:55
sounds like Syria, but there's more to it.
58:57
There's Iraq, Turkey and Iran that are part of it, or Iran.
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Today, Assyrians and indigenous people live scattered across
59:07
these regions, particularly northern Iraq, and advocate for
59:12
an autonomous area in their ancestral lands.
59:17
And then I was curious also of who?
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Who? Settled in modern day Turkey,
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primarily Japheth but also descendants of Shem and Ham.
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Settled in regions corresponding to modern day Turkey or Anatolia
59:37
with Japheth sons like Gomer, Tagarma, Jayvon and Tubal linked
59:43
to early peoples there while Ham's grandson Nimrod influenced
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Mesopotamia bordering Turkey and Shems lineage set lineage.
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Settled nearby in Persia which is modern day Iran.
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Also slash Assyria showing a broader ancestral presence in
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the region after the flood. So it's Jaypath in the north.
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Shem is kind of the middle. Of the Middle East.
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And then Ham is kind of like over like an Egypt and Africa
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side. So there's like separate
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territories. But this also helps when we're
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studying the Bible and just knowing when they always talk
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about somebody coming out of the north to Israel and and in Bible
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prophecy, it helps. So what country today was Sodom
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and Gomorrah? Now this is up for grabs.
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Sodom and Gomorrah because, and the reason I look this up is
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because the Bible in chapter 16 talks about comparing Jerusalem
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to Sodom and also Samaria. So just out of curiosity, I
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wanted to have a visual idea of where was Sodom located.
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So Sodom and Gomorrah aren't specific modern countries.
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They are legendary cities from the Bible, believed to have been
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in the Dead Sea region, likely in or near modern day Jordan and
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Israel near the southern end of the Dead Sea.
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While their exact location is debated, archaeological sites
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like Bob in Dera and Numeria in Jordan and Tell Al Hammam, also
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in Jordan are often suggested as potential candidates due to
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evidence of fiery destruction. So that's kind of interesting as
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well. Also in Ezekiel chapter 16 verse
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63. I'll reread it to refresh.
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God says, Then when I make atonement for you for all you
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have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open
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your mouth because of your humiliation, declares the
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sovereign Lord. So this is about Jesus, and we
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can find that in Romans chapter 3, verse 25, where it says God
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presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement through the
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shedding of his blood to be received by faith.
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He did this to demonstrate his righteousness because in his
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forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished.
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So God was he, He withheld his wrath.
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And that's where we have people who explain how Jesus took the
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wrath that really should have been upon all of us because he,
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Jesus, was the sacrifice of atonement, that that's how his
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death was the final sacrifice. God let.
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He let a substitute sacrifice happen with animals, but animals
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never fully atone. They weren't an equal
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substitute. Only a human would be an equal
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substitute. And that substitute had also had
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to also be perfect and blameless.
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Blameless and without sin. And no one could fit that
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category. The Book of Revelation tells us
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about that in in a symbolic language where no one could open
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the scroll except for the Lamb who was slain.
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That's Jesus. He's the only one who could
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break the curse. Like open up, I, I.
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It almost seems like the scroll is actually the con, not the
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Contra. I don't know the document that
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is about who owns the earth and in order to take back the earth,
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the seals have to be broken. And there is, you know, there
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are curses that happen as a result of it.
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And just an interesting thought and perspective on the Book of
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Revelation and, and what that symbology is.
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And then also in Hebrews chapter 2 verse 17, it says for this
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reason he had to be made like them, Jesus had to be made like
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them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a
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merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and
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that he might make atonement. For the sins of the people.
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So we see there how it explains that Jesus is the atonement.
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So once again, the Old Testament tells us about Jesus and all we
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have to do is look a little bit, but it helps when we have the
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New Testament and can see see it clearly like this.
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So you know, just Ezekiel chapter 16, verse 63.
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And those verses that I just read were Romans 325 and Hebrews
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217. So God always provides like.
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Multiple witnesses and the study Bible, when it references
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atonement, it talks about Romans chapter 4 through chapter 5.
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So there's probably even more, but I just looked up the word
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atonement and came up with those.
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So then I thought about atonement and I thought, well,
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the Jews celebrate a day of atonement.
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And so I was curious because I'm not Jewish.
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Like what? But you know what, what is this?
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I mean, it's not they're not celebrating Jesus.
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And So what is what is this they're celebrating?
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So the Jewish Day of Atonement is Yom Kippur, the holiest day
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of the year, a solemn occasion for introspection, repentance
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and seeking forgiveness for sins from the past year, culminating
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in culminating the High Holy Days starting with Rosh
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Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It involves a near 25 hour fast,
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no food drink, bathing, leather shoes, marital relations and
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intense prayer services focusing on spiritual cleansing and a
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closer connection with God ending with the blowing of the
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shofar. So the meaning for the Hebrew
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day for Day of Atonement, it's a day to wipe the slate clean and
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be purified before God. It falls on the 10th day of
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Tishri, the 7th month of the Jewish lunar calendar, which is
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usually late September or early October.
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And that is, that is Yom Kippur. And so then I wanted to look up
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like, what are the High Holy days?
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So I'll read this. And this is from Jewish
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practice. If the year is a train, the High
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Holidays, AKA Hi Holy Days, are its engine.
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A delicate blend of joy and solemnity, feasting and fasting,
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prayer and inspiration make up the spiritually charged head of
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the Jewish year. That's what Rosh means are from
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Rosh Hashanah's head, the High. And that was just my comment.
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OK, back to the the reading here.
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This is from chabadduck.org. The High Holiday season begins
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during the month of Elul, when the shofar is sounded every
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weekday morning, a Clarion called to return to God in
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advance of the sacred days that lay ahead.
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The two day holiday of Rosh Hashanah is the head of the
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Jewish year, the time when God reinvest Himself in creation as
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we crown Him King of the Universe through prayer, shofar
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blast, and celebration. Rosh Hashanah 2026 begins before
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sundown on Friday, September 11th and ends after nightfall on
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Sunday, September 13th. A week later, the High Holidays
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reached their crescendo with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
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Like angels, we neither eat nor drink for 25 hours.
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Dressed in white, we pray in the synagogue, united as one people,
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children of one Father. Yom Kippur 2026 begins before
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sundown on September 20th and ends after nightfall on Monday,
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September 21st. But it does not end there.
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The otherworldliness of the High Holidays is then channeled into
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festive holidays of Sukkot and Simchat Torah, which bring the
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annual fall holiday season to a most joyous conclusion.
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So that is, I think that is all that I had for this chapter.
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So it leaves us with some dates and especially some dates.
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This year to look, look towards and see if there's anything
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significant. September 11th, which is an
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interesting date for the United States, and that's when Rosh
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Hashanah 2026 starts. So anyway, I will conclude this
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