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844. Bible Study: Ezekiel 21 (Past and Future Prophecy? End Times?) · Faith by annm2705

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Ezekiel chapter 21 Dear Lord, please be with us as we read
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through this chapter and help us to have our eyes opened.
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What you want to say to us? We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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So this is titled Babylon as God's sword of judgment.
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Now, I'm going to let you in on something that I think this
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prophecy, maybe more future than it is, was fulfilled in the
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past. Granted, I know that there are
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things that were fulfilled in the past, but I will point out
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some reasons why I think this is about the future as we go along.
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So let's get started. Ezekiel says, the word of the
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Lord came to me, son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and
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preach against the sanctuary prophecy against the land of
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Israel and say to her, this is what the Lord says, I am against
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you. I will draw my sword from its
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sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
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Because I am going to cut off the righteous and the wicked.
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My sword will be unsheathed against everyone from South to
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north. Then all the people will know
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that I, the Lord, have drawn my sword from its sheath.
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It will not return again. So the very last thing that is
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stated, it will not return again.
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It leads me to question something.
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So then all the people will know that I, the Lord, have drawn my
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sword from its sheath. It will not return again.
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So it will not return again against Israel or it will not
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return again into the sheath. And the way I am taking this is
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that it will not return again to Israel.
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But we know that there is the great tribulation that will be
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coming forth in Israel. And if we think about the the
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end times, it still is the same reason that there that there's
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punishment, that there's wrath, and it's because of idolatry.
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And so somebody might say, why idolatry?
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Well, maybe it's not actually happening just yet, but in the
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end times there will be some entity or something that people
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who are present at that time will have to pledge allegiance
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to. And if they don't, they will be
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killed and they will have to take a mark that a false prophet
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will force them, a religious figure will force them to
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receive this false mark or I don't know, this, this mark,
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whatever it is, there's a lot of speculation about what that will
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be anyway. So it I just, I just think for
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this reason and because it says it will never return again, I
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think when Jesus comes back, he is going to, there will be wrath
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and there will be a remnant of Israel, 144,000 that will be
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saved. But that's not all of Israel.
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There's 12,000 from each tribe. There are going to be a lot of
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people who will not be saved. There will be a lot of people
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who will take the mark of the beast.
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And why do you think he calls that, you know, Sodom and Egypt,
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where the Lord was crucified in the Book of Revelation?
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Well, that's Jerusalem. And why do you think he calls it
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that? Because Egypt worships a lot of
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different gods. And then there's also, I guess
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Sodom is more representative of immorality.
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And so it's a combination of those, which we could say that
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is prevalent throughout the whole world right now.
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Not everyone, but you know, it's it's around the whole world.
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There's probably no place in the world that doesn't have that
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going on. So anyway, that's an OK.
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So the other thing that was that I questioned right away was the
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statement that says I will draw my sword from its sheath and it
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will cut off from it will cut off from you both the righteous
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and the wicked. And it says my sword will be
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against everyone from South to north.
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And so that was another thing that I, that I kind of struggled
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with because, you know, in prior chapters we were talking about
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how a parent will not be responsible for their children's
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sins or their children will not be responsible for their parents
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sin. Each person will be judged on
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their own. And we also know that in the
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past, God has protected those that he, you know, those who had
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their a, that were considered righteous, like Noah, for
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example. Noah was 1.
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And so there's something that you kind of struggle with in
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this. And I did find one when I was
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searching and I didn't save it, but it showed where they're in
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the Septuagint. It actually had some different
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words. But then most of the Bible
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translations do say both the righteous and the wicked.
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So I have a theory about this, but I'm going to read what the
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others say first and before the theory that I have on this.
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So the study Bible says why prophecy against the South?
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This is a prophecy against Jerusalem and Judah though he
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was an exile in Babylon. Ezekiel was speaking
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rhetorically here as if actually that was from the prior chapter.
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OK, I actually have another comment about this too because
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the other thing we don't know is how all of these word of the
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Lord, each time Ezekiel says the word of the Lord came to me.
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Did he document this like a book?
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Was it in sequential order or was it out of order?
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Because if it was in sequential order, by date, he was already
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exiled into Babylon, so why would he be prophesying against
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Jerusalem that the sword was going to come against them?
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I guess there were a couple of times that Babylon went back to
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Jerusalem because there were two sets of exiles that came out of
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Jerusalem. So perhaps it could be that.
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But there's just some things in here that we, I will point out
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as we get to them that really seem like it's more likely a
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double fulfilled prophecy where some of it happened during
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Ezekiel's time and then some of it is yet to come again.
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Just because that one, that one verse so far says it will not
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return again, the sword. And we know that there's future
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prophecy that the sword's coming out again when Jesus returns.
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So that's another reason why I think this could be future
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anyway. OK, so verse 6 says therefore
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grown son of man grown before them with oh, actually I need to
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read the things about the both the righteous and the wicked.
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So I did look that up. So this is from biblehub.com and
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it says because I will cut off both the righteous and the
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wicked. This phrase indicates a divine
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judgment that is indiscriminate, affecting both the righteous and
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the wicked. In the context of Ezekiel, this
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reflects the severity of God's judgment on Jerusalem and Judah
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due to their persistent sin and rebellion.
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The inclusion of the righteous in this judgment highlights the
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communal nature of sin and its consequences, as well as the
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idea that the righteous may suffer alongside the wicked in
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times of national judgment. This can be compared to the
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story of Noah, where the righteous were preserved through
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judgement, and to the intercession of Abraham for
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Sodom, where the presence of the righteous could have spared the
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city. But there's also the point that,
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and this is not part of the Bible Hub's commentary, but
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there's the part where Abraham had prayed for Lot and Lot was
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taken out of it like he had it was all around him.
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In fact, Lot got removed before Sodom and Gomorrah was
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destroyed, Lot and his two daughters.
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So it does seem like God does spare some people.
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And just like Ezekiel in the very beginning when he had to
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enact these things with when he cut his hair and a third were,
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you know, destroyed by fire, 1/3 were destroyed by the sword and
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a third I think were put in his garment.
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Like the the remnant. There were some that were spared
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and God does spare those some people.
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And just because someone is righteous or following the Lord
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does not mean that they won't experience hardships because
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there is evil that will come against the righteous people and
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but God will be with the righteous people as they go
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through it. So it's it's a really
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complicated. There's a lot of pieces to this,
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but let's see. There's a few more paragraphs on
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Bible hub to talk about my sword will be unsheathed.
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The imagery of the sword is a common biblical metaphor for
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divine judgment and warfare. In ancient Near Eastern culture,
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the sword was a symbol of power and authority.
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The unsheathing of the sword signifies the readiness and
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eminence of God's judgement. This metaphor is also seen in
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other prophetic books, such as Isaiah and Jeremiah, where the
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sword represents God's instrument of punishment.
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The unsheathing of the sword can be seen as a precursor to the
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coming of Christ, who will ultimately judge the nations
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with the sword of his mouth as described in Revelation.
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That's exactly what I'm talking about.
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That's why I wonder if this is future because it says the
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swords would not return again. OK then, the Bible hub says,
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against everyone from South to north.
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This phrase indicates the comprehensive nature of judgment
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affecting the entire land of Israel from South to north.
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Geographically, this encompasses the whole territory, signifying
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that no part of the nation will be spared.
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Historically, this reflects the invasions by Babylon, which came
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from the north and swept through the land.
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The phrase also underscores the totality of God's judgment,
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leaving no one untouched. This can be connected to the day
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of the Lord, a theme in prophetic literature words God's
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judgment is universal and all-encompassing.
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The direction from South to north may also symbolize the
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reversal of Israel's fortunes as they were initially brought into
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the land from the South during the Exodus.
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So then there was a Bible hermeneutics that website that I
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went to that talked about the answers from this verse.
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And so the verse that we're talking about says and say to
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the land of Israel, thus say the saith the Lord, Behold, I am
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against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his
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sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the
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wicked. Why are the righteous cut off
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together with the wicked? The answers 1st.
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Cutting off the righteous and wicked is not quite as bad as it
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first sounds. The righteous have an eternal
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reward, and the wicked do not. Second, the wicked of some the
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wickedness of some places. Jerusalem in this had become so
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exceedingly great that this was the only option left for divine
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Providence. And then it has a couple.
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OK, it says. Note the comments of the Jameson
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Fawcett Brown Bible commentary. It says righteous, wicked, not
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contradictory of Ezekiel 18 verses 4 and 9 and Genesis 1823.
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Ezekiel here views the mere outward aspect of the
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indiscriminate universality of the national calamity, but
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really the same captivity to the righteous would prove a
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blessing, as a wholesome discipline, which to the wicked
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would be an unmitigated punishment.
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The godly were sealed with a mark, Ezekiel 94, not for an
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outward exemption from the common calamity, but as marked
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for the secret interpositions of prominence over ruling even evil
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to their good. The godly were by comparison so
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few that not their salvation but their universality of the
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judgment is brought into view here.
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OK, that one, the godly we're sealed with a mark in Ezekiel
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94. I have to look back at that one
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too, because in the the Book of Revelation there is an Angel
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that goes out and seals those. I believe it's probably the
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144,000 before the the angels who are withholding the winds at
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the corners of the earth. Let it loose and it goes among
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all the people. So I'm looking up this verse
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that is referenced here, Ezekiel 94, and it says Ezekiel 94.
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Then the Lord called to the man clothed in linen who had the
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writing kit at his side and said to him, go throughout the city
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of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who
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grieve and lament over the detestable things that are done
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in it. OK, that makes sense.
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So we did talk about that in that chapter.
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I forgot about it. And then I also mentioned the
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Angel from Revelation 7 where the Angel did the same thing.
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So it's like a again a double fulfillment prophecy and then
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Ellicott provides more detail the righteous and the wicked.
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This explains the green tree and the dry of Ezekiel 20 verse 47
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and quote all flesh of Ezekiel 21 four through 5 corresponds to
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all faces of the same. These expressions are meant to
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show the universality of the approaching desolation.
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The actual separation in God's sight between the righteous and
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the wicked has already been plainly set forth in nine
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verses, 4 through 6. But still, in this, as in all
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national judgments, the innocent must of necessity be involved in
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the same temporal sufferings with the guilty.
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The general terms of this prophecy are to be limited by
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what is elsewhere said of the mercy which shall be shown to a
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remnant. Indeed, on this side of history,
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we know now that we know that a remnant of Israel was saved and
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has survived until the present. So that is, that is what a
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couple of the Bible study commentary say.
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There's a thought that I had that I didn't find anywhere
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because I was asking this same question.
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But there's another way of looking at this too.
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First of all is because of Jeremiah, who was a prophet
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before Ezekiel and Jeremiah told everyone who stayed in Jerusalem
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that they would fall by sword. There was a prophecy that
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Jeremiah gave that said that every single that every person
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who stayed will fall by the sword.
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But then God's word basically said for the others to go to
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Babylon and settle there. And I can't remember what
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chapter that was, but Jeremiah did say everyone who stayed in
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Jerusalem would be killed. And, and I think that maybe it
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was Jeremiah 39 because in Jeremiah 39, verse 18, God says,
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I will save you, you will not fall by the sword, but will
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escape with your life because you trust in me, declares the
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Lord. See, there are so few people.
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It was kind of like the times of Elijah when there were basically
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no prophets that were speaking truth anymore.
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And I don't know if it was Elijah, it was somebody.
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No, it was somebody else who was actually hiding the true
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prophets of God because Jezebel and Ahab had false prophets of
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God and they were actually killing the true prophets of
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God. So there was, there's always
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like some that are spared. And again, Jeremiah was the one
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he's, you know, he said, but I will rescue you on that day,
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declares the Lord. You will not be given into the
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hands of those you fear. So, and this was, you know about
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it was about the capture, those that were going to go into
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captivity. So I like I said, I didn't have
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this one called up followed by the sword.
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I don't Let's see, I can see if it's in Jeremiah 3417.
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He says, therefore this is what the Lord says, You have not
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obeyed me, you have not proclaimed freedom to your own
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people, so I now proclaim freedom for you, declares the
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Lord, freedom to fall by the sword, plague and famine.
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I will make you abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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He was talking to. At this one there was a warning
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to Zedekiah and I'm trying to see what the other ones were.
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It was the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah.
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And let's see, I'll just I'll just read this.
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I'm not sure if this is the then the word of the Lord came to
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Jeremiah. This is what the Lord, the God
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of Israel says. I made a covenant with your
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ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the land,
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slavery. I said every 7th year each of
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you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold yourself, who have
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sold themselves to you. After they have served you 6
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years, you must let them go free.
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Your ancestors, however, did not listen to me or pay attention to
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me recently. You repented and did what was
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right in my sight. Each one of you proclaimed
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freedom to your own people. You even made a covenant before
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me in the house that bears my name.
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But now you have turned around and profane my name, and each of
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you has taken back the male and female slaves you would set free
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to go where they wished. You have forced them to become
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your slaves again. Therefore, this is what the Lord
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says. You have not obeyed me.
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You have not proclaimed freedom to your own people.
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So now I proclaim freedom. Quote a quote freedom for you
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declares the Lord freedom to fall by sword, plague and
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famine. I will make you abhorrent to all
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the kingdoms of the earth. So this isn't the specific part
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where Jeremiah tells them that everybody who stays in the city
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will be killed by the sword. So I, I don't know where that
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is, but I know it's in there somewhere anyway.
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So what I was getting at was both righteous and the wicked.
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If Jeremiah warned them and told them, that means that the, even
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though the, there might be some there that were righteous, they
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didn't listen. They didn't go into the exile
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because in the exile is where they could continue to live.
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And God just said, which was really strange.
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And people were not believing him because he was telling them,
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go with the enemy, live there and have families and, you know,
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farm and do all those things, build houses and all that.
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And that's what Jeremiah said. So are they truly righteous?
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I mean, they didn't listen to Jeremiah.
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God had already said that he was going to bring a sword against
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the people who were in Jerusalem.
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And now he's repeating it. I didn't see any of those Bible
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commentary say this, but it's like you have to remember what
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Jeremiah told them that if they stayed there, they were going to
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get they were they would suffer the sword.
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And another thing about righteous and wicked when we
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think about that is that righteousness doesn't
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necessarily keep us out of I don't know if it's like symbolic
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to show the people of Jerusalem their own works do not save
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them. I know that's that might be a
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little bit of a stretch there, but you know, it just like our
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own works do not save us, our righteous works do not save us.
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So a lot of people think that God when he judges is going to
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look at something like on a scale, but that's not the way it
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is. He doesn't look at it like more
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good than bad. There probably is some level of
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either rewards for those who are saved that will make a
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difference, but it doesn't make a difference as to salvation
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because salvation is only by Jesus dying on the cross and no
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person could do that. And Paul tells us that that that
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fact that the the only way we are saved by faith, faith in
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Jesus. Now obviously the people back at
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this time did not know Jesus. They I mean, Jesus wasn't
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physically present on earth until later till much later.
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So it wasn't like they were denying Jesus at this time.
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But and at the same time, I also wonder if this was something
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that was that would be thought of when they would eventually
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someday hear about Jesus. It would actually be their
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children. These people would not hear
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about Jesus because it was hundreds of years later before
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Jesus came. But that righteousness isn't
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going to exclude from judgement. And if this is about the end
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times and it's saying that both righteous and wicked will be
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will be judged, then it would make sense because people are
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trying to the people of Israel are trying to save themselves by
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their works and have denied Jesus.
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And if they've denied Jesus, then there's no way that they
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can be in God's Kingdom because Jesus is the only way.
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And so maybe this is also like a precursor to a future, which
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again, I think it is all right. Verse 6.
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Therefore grown Son of man, grown before them with a broken
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heart and bitter grief. And when they ask you, why are
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you groaning, you shall say, because of the news that is
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coming, every heart will melt with fear and every hand go
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limp. Every spirit will become faint,
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and every leg will be wet with urine.
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It is coming, it will surely take place declares the
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Sovereign Lord. So this was something else that
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I noticed just like some of the commentary said how well I'm
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just finding it like in Isaiah and Ezekiel that they both they
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both say this in Isaiah 13 seven, it says because of this,
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all hands will go limp, every heart will melt with fear.
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And in Isaiah 19 one, it says a prophecy against Egypt.
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See the Lord rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt.
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The idols of Egypt tremble, tremble before him and the
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hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.
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This is when Jesus returns on the clouds, a prophecy against
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Egypt that Isaiah talked about in 19 one.
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This is when the wrath of God is coming.
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Everyone will see Jesus writing on the clouds.
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And so that's when the Egyptians will melt with fear.
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So again, this this language of about melting with fear and the
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hands going limp. I've noticed it a few times.
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Ezekiel's the only one who says that every leg will be wet with
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urine. There is I can't I mean these it
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I can't even imagine to be that fearful of what's happening that
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that would be the way that it's described.
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But that is what is prophesied. So in Isaiah 13, seven it it
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says again, this is where it says because of all this hands
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will all go limp. Every heart will melt with fear.
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The verse right before that says wail for the day of the Lord is
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near. It will come like destruction
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from the Almighty. The day of the Lord is the time
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of judgement. The verse after the one that
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talks about heart melting with fear says terror will seize
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them, pain and anguish will grip them.
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They will writhe like a woman in labor.
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They will look aghast at each other, their faces aflame.
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See the day of the Lord, a cruel day with wrath and fierce anger
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to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it.
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So that's something that the first time Jesus came, he came
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to save the sinners. The next time that Jesus comes
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is the time of wrath. So when people talk to other
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people about you need to get saved before Jesus returns.
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If you want to be in God's Kingdom, if you want to have a
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future relationship with God, you need to do something now.
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You need to ask Jesus to change your life and submit to him and
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and admit any of the sins that you are aware of and the Holy
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Spirit. Invite the Holy Spirit, tell
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Jesus that you want the Holy Spirit to come into your life
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because the Holy Spirit will change you and it'll be either a
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quick change or a gradual change.
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But if you mean it, if you say it, if you pray it to God, it
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will happen because God wants everyone saved.
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But we have to make that choice and everything is in place for
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us to be saved. In this Isaiah chapter where it
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talks about I mean the verse after the and destroy the
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sinners within it. The next verse is the stars of
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heaven and their constellations will not show their light.
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The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its
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light. Well, there are that's exactly
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what is described in the 6th seal in the Book of Revelation.
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And and you can see it there's like in Joel too.
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I can't even tell you like the so many different verses that
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I've looked up and what what actually caused me.
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This is interesting too, for I don't know if it'll be for you
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or not, but for me it was very interesting when when I finally
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decided that I didn't want to be a hypocrite anymore.
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I always called myself a Christian, but I didn't live
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like a Christian. And then I decided to get
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baptized. I was baptized as an infant, but
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when I decided to get baptized as an adult, it was because I
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was not going to live like a hypocrite any longer.
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The night that I did that, I started having what I'll call
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spiritual dreams, and they've continued since then.
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I don't ever know when they're coming.
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They just come and, and it was, it was, it showed me things.
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I was new to reading the Bible. I read the Bible for the first
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time in 2019. I got baptized 2 years later.
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And so I, I read. I was continuing to read but and
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study it, but I wasn't extremely familiar with it.
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And then in my dreams there would be things that I would see
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and then I would be like, is that in the Bible?
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And so I would look for it. Well, it was probably I let's
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see how many I think it might have, but now I can't remember
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when they were. Oh, actually, I know it was in
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April. So I got baptized in September
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and then in April, right after that, however many months that
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is, I had a dream, actually a rapture dream.
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And it was very extremely detailed and there was a lot in
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it that reflected things that I found in the Book of Revelation.
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But the one and I, I didn't even like I knew it was, I don't want
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to get into the whole dream, but there was 1 aspect of it.
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Right before Jesus came in the dream, everything went pitch
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black where you couldn't even see anything in front of your
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face. And, and so I was like, gosh, is
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that does it say that anywhere in the Bible?
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And so then I started looking and I started finding these
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these verses like this, the one I just read, the stars of heaven
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and their constellations will not show their light.
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The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its
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light. And then like I said in
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Revelation, it says that that happens right before Jesus
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returns. Well, that's what happened in my
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dream. I had a second dream, I think a
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week later, and it was, it was much shorter than the first one.
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It was almost like a scene and that exact same thing happened.
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Everything went pitch black. But in that dream then I was
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warning the people that I was with.
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I was like, don't worry, this is Jesus is coming right now and
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and to not have fear when everything went pitch black.
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And then a third dream that I had was, I don't know if it was
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like nine months later or something, I had a third dream.
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And quite honestly, I don't know if it was that that I saw my
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death or if it was a rapture. I did see myself ascend, but the
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same thing happened. The I didn't even record this
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until now. I'm kind of saying about it, but
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in this dream there was a, an alarm sounding and it was, it
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was like the National Weather Service.
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Then when they, they have a like, I don't know, monthly
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they, they alert people. And so that went off.
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That was first that went off and it was daylight outside in my
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dream. And then I heard this warning
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system alarm go off and immediately after that
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everything went pitch black. And then, you know, the next
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thing that happened was I was, well, I don't want to get into
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the dream or whatever, but at the end of the dream I started
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rising up and I knew I was going to meet the Lord at that point.
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So I've had three dreams like that and they were in 20/20/22
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and I guess January of 2023. So it was three years ago that I
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had the last dream, but I thought it was interesting that
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again, I had three dreams and it did match up with what is in the
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Bible. So I don't know how I got onto
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that subject, but I guess it's maybe about these, some of the
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wording here where it talks about, you know, the hearts
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melting with fear and every hand will go limp and every spirit
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will become faint and every leg will wet with urine.
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If people are not prepared, if they are not at peace with God
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when Jesus returns, this is the reaction that people will have.
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Now I'm not going to have this reaction.
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And I didn't in any of my dreams either.
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I was happy and I was, I was saying in my first dream I was
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like, Oh my God, this is real. Like, I mean, it's, it was
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amazing. Actually, what I saw was so
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incredible. It was the best dream I ever
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had. And I, I would love to go back
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to that again because it was, it was just it, it, there was so
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much happiness in it. It was awesome anyway, these
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these things that that they tell us, it's like if we are not at
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peace with God. And so it's so important to be
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at peace with God. And that's what I tend to talk
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about during these Bible studies because when you see things like
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this, I do think it's talking about the end time.
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And I think everybody needs to take this serious and prepare
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themselves. And once you're prepared, then
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you don't have anything to worry about.
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There's there's No Fear. You're not going to have the
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fear like is described in this book.
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So then I will, I guess, continue on to reading about
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these things. There was like the sword that I
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had searched a whole bunch of them.
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There are lots of verses you can I guess, look up or just word
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search sword and you'll learn a lot from that.
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I don't know if I really wanted to read all of those, but oh,
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probably so because I had, I don't even know.
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OK, this could be really long. Anyway, let's go back to Ezekiel
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chapter or verse 8. The word of the Lord came to me,
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son of man, prophecy, and say, this is what the Lord says.
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A sword. A sword sharpened and polished,
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sharpened for the slaughter, pointed, polished to flash like
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lightning. Shall we rejoice in the scepter
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of my royal son? The sword despises every such
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stick. Now here's another thing that is
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interesting. I'll read what the study Bible
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says. What is the scepter of God's
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royal son? The precise meaning of this
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phrase is not clear. The scepter probably refers to
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rule, government, or Kingdom. The royal son probably refers to
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the Davidic king. God may have been quoting the
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people who wondered if the Davidic king was still a
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legitimate source of hope. The Lord made it clear that even
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the king, that not even the king would be protected from God's
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sword of judgment. That actually, that explanation
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actually confuses me. I don't even because I was
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thinking of my royal son, I'm thinking of Jesus.
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Shall we rejoice in the scepter of my royal son?
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Well, scepter, the word for it is eights.
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I believe If that's the word that I no, it's not.
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That's not it. That's the the word for stick.
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I looked up a couple different words in here because the NIV
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version was a little confusing. And so I was looking up, I was
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trying to get back to the original Hebrew words to try to
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make sense of this verse because it was kind of confusing to me.
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Shall we rejoice in the scepter of my royal son?
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And then it says the sword despises every such stick.
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And that didn't make sense to me.
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So the sword despises every such.
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They use the word stick in the NIV.
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But another translation would be tree and you can see how tree
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and stick could be you know interchanged.
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But it makes sense if it says tree because trees are generally
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referred to their symbolic of people.
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Like an olive tree would be Israel.
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AI guess the Cedars are talk about like in Lebanon and
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there's different kinds of trees that represent different people
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groups. So that would make sense if it
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was saying the tree, the sword despises every such tree,
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meaning all the people of Israel.
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Should we rejoice in the scepter of my royal son in the rod like
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in the authority when Jesus comes because the sword is
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coming against everyone, every tree?
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Now that makes sense to me, but what I just read in the study
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Bible doesn't make sense to me. It says the sword is appointed
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to be polished, to be grasped with the hand.
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It is sharpened and polished, made ready for the hand of the
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Slayer. Cry out and wail, son of man,
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for it is against my people. It is against all the Princess
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of Israel. They are.
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So, you know, this wouldn't make sense the way that study Bible
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said, because it's talking about a Davidic king and we're, you
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know, Judah is being taken into exile.
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And I I don't know why they just didn't say Jesus.
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But if they're thinking about some future king, that's that
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just doesn't make sense because the end of the kings happened
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when they went to Babylon. First Assyria conquered northern
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Israel, and then Babylon conquered southern Israel.
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And after that, that's when the kings ended.
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Zedekiah was the Last King, so there was no future king other
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than Jesus, which again he will come in the end.
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So they are, they are thrown to the sword along with my people.
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Therefore beat your breast testing will surely come.
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And what if even the scepter which the sword despises, does
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not continue, declares the sovereign Lord?
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Here was another verse that really confused me.
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I was like what does that mean? There really isn't an
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explanation of it. But then I went back to the
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Hebrew and again, translations make things really confusing
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sometimes, so testing will surely come.
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That's good, I understand that. Then it says and what if the
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scepter which despises does not continue?
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I don't know if I really still had have this clear from.
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I think just the way it's translated confused me more.
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If I could read Hebrew I could probably understand it better,
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but what if this does not continue?
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I would. I don't know.
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I'm going to have to actually skip that one because it just
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doesn't make sense. Testing will surely come.
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So then, Son of Man, prophecy and strike your hands together.
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Let the sword strike twice, even three times.
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It is a sword for slaughter, a sword for great slaughter.
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Closing in on them from every side.
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Talking about Israel closing in on them from every side.
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Well that also sounds like future prophecy, like in Luke
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chapter 19 verse 43. It's Jesus said the days will
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come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against
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you and encircle you and hem you in on every side.
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They will dash you to the ground, you and the children
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within your walls. They will not leave one stone on
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another because you did not recognize the time of God's
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coming to you. So that is this is when Jesus
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was was going into the city of Jerusalem on the Colt and I can
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read more of it. He he said as he approached
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Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, if you,
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even you had only known on this day what would bring you peace,
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but now it is hidden from your eyes.
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The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an
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embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on
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every side. They will dash you to the
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ground, you and the children within your walls.
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They will not leave one stone on another because you did not
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recognize the time of God's coming to you.
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So that is that is really concerning right now because of
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what is happening in the Middle East.
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If you're not paying attention to that right now, it's 2026 and
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currently that seems to be happening.
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There's a lot of enemies. Israel has enemies on every
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side. There is talk of peace, but
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that's also scary because prophecy says when they all say
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peace and security, then comes sudden destruction.
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Iran is actually, it's very heightened right now that
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something is potentially going to happen between Iran and
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Israel and even maybe the United States.
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The United States is apparently positioning lots of ships and
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other strategic locations to protect its people.
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And Israel is concerned that Iran is about ready to do
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something drastic. And Iran is currently
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slaughtering its own people who are protesting and want to
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overthrow the existing Khomeini regime.
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But it I mean, it's it's in a huge turmoil and the people of
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Iran, unless this is political propaganda that we're seeing
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what little limited. I mean, because the Internet is
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actually down. So I don't know how this is
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circulating again, unless it's political propaganda intended to
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create a war, which it could very well do.
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But the people of Iran, I mean, I've heard numbers like 80,000
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have, you know, being killed and being held in warehouses where
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they're just slaughtered. And because they were
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protesting, they don't even have a trial or anything.
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And these are men, women, children.
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And they are the Iranians that are in the country.
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It's not another it's like internal conflict between
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Iranians and people are from Iran.
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If it's not propaganda, are saying, you know, help us, help
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us. And they're they're calling out
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to President Trump to do something.
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And we don't know what's going to happen.
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But Iran says, you know, if you do anything, then it's going to
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come back to you. So this is just not a good
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situation at all. We don't know how it's going to
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unfold. But we do know that Israel has
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an enemy of Iran. That is a big one.
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And the others that are part of Iran, like Hamas, Hezbollah, and
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there's another one, the hoodies, all of those, they're
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all kind of Iran proxies that do come against Israel.
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So Israel's pretty much surrounded by a lot of countries
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that don't really want Israel to exist.
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In fact, even in the United States, we have again, led by
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propaganda, people chanting to free Palestine and they're using
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quotes from the Bible misapplied where they're saying like from
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the river to the sea, they don't want Israel to be anymore.
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But that is actually kind of, it is mocking the Bible.
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They don't even know that they're saying words of the
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Bible because God actually said that's what Israel's land would
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be from the Tigris, Euphrates River to the sea.
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That's all the land that Israel will have and God's word is
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true. It will happen, but it will
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happen when Jesus returns. So we the things that are
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happening in the world right now, this is not a time to be
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lukewarm in your faith and to not know where you stand with
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Jesus. If you have things that are like
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sin separates us from Jesus. If you haven't repented of your
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sin and asked Jesus to do whatever he needs to do to make
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things right and that you will do whatever you need to do to
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make things right, you need to do that now.
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Because if anything happens, if we do get into some sort of a
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nuclear exchange, you don't, You don't know that we're not
49:14
promised tomorrow. We don't know what's going to
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happen. And it's it the time right now
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is a risky time to not know about your eternal placement and
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reading in the book of Ezekiel is it just happens that we are
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here. I didn't choose this book for
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this time. It just worked out.
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I started in the book of Genesis and I've been working through
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and ironically, right now we're on the book of Ezekiel.
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But is that God's timing? You know, did he know that would
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be that way and want everybody to to get this message.
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So again another verse that is said by Jesus in is Luke chapter
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21 verse 20. When you see Jerusalem
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surrounded by armies, you will know that it's desolation is
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near. Then let those who are in Judea
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flee to the mountains. Let those in the city get out
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and let those in the country not enter the city.
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For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all
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that has been written. If we're going back to if
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Ezekiel if this is future think about this.
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Ezekiel was like in in 500 something BC.
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So this is thousands of years ago where this was written and
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again it here he Ezekiel says so that hearts may melt with fear.
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Verse 15 And the fallen be many. I have stationed the sword for
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slaughter at their gates. Look, it is forged to strike
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like lightning. It is grasped for slaughter.
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Slashed to the right, you sword, then to the left.
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Wherever your blade is turned, I too will strike my hands
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together, and my wrath will subside.
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I, the Lord have spoken, when I see things about wrath, I do
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think about the end times because that is why Jesus is
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going to return. The wrath of God is going to be
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on all the sinners, on all the repentant, on all the people who
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have not made themselves right with God.
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I don't want to be one of those people.
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So I have done what I have done to to make peace with God, you
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know, to repent and to ask God for the holy.
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I mean, I after I learned I mean to actually I think I've
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received the Holy Spirit before. I ask God for it.
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But now I just tell people, just tell Jesus you want the Holy
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Spirit because the Holy Spirit will change you.
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Because the Holy Spirit changed me when I didn't have a mentor
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or anybody telling me what to do in my faith walk at all.
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Mine just happened completely from reading the Bible where I
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was convicted of of my way of living and then I learned about
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the Holy Spirit through the Bible and I didn't want to be a
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hypocrite anymore. I wanted to get right with God.
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It was a repentant heart. Now I always knew about Jesus
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dying on the cross for our sins, but I the religion that I grew
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up with made it seem like I, I don't know.
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It wasn't clear that Jesus, Jesus's death on the cross and
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resurrection covers us and the sins that we have.
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So he, he made atonement for us. I mean without the shedding of
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blood there is no forgiveness of sin.
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We don't have to have the blood shed to have our sins forgiven
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because Jesus did that for us. However, repentance is critical.
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If you are continuing and keep on sinning, you have not
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repented. That's that's the thing.
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And I think repentance is something people don't
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understand. That is something that people,
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they think if they ask for forgiveness and then they're
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like, well, we're all sinners. I can't help myself.
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I just keep doing things that I don't want to do.
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And they use Paul's verse that says something like that, the
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one verse in the Bible, but everywhere else.
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I mean, that's negating the power of the Holy Spirit.
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That's why I always say to people like ask Jesus for the
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Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit gives power, gives
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courage. The Holy Spirit gives, gives,
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you know, it says with the flesh is weak, my spirit is strong.
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So the Spirit of God is what makes up the difference.
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And we can, we will have the power to overcome sin.
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Sometimes we don't want to do it.
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It's our choice. But it's not like we are forced
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to do that. We just, it just seems like
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people are so accepting of their sin and that they don't realize
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how serious it is to God. But when we start reading
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through the Old Testament and even the New Testament, because
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I just, I'm in the Old Testament right now, it's very apparent
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how much it, how important it is for to God that we repent, that
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we change our ways, that we turn away from sin, that we don't
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keep on sinning. In fact, in Hebrews, it says if
55:04
you do keep on sinning, the only thing that you're going to be
55:08
ready for is the wrath of God. And it says no one who has the
55:12
Spirit will keep on sinning. So that's why I say you need the
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Holy Spirit. And, and it does start with a
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choice. You have to have a willingness
55:21
to submit to God. God needs to be Lord over your
55:25
life. You can't just keep on living
55:29
however you want to live and say, well, Jesus died on the
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cross for me and I'm all good. And I think there's a lot of
55:34
people who think that because it gets preached that way at
55:38
churches. And I don't think that's what
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the Bible says. I mean, why would Jesus ever say
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that, you know, pick up your cross if you want to follow me.
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What kind of cross are we picking up if it's not that we
55:52
have to say no to sinful things that we may have a desire to do?
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It's not. It's in the whole thing about
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works and grace that gets, you know, there's the the two sides
56:09
of the argument on that. James in the book of James kind
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of explains that, you know, don't just say claim grace when
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it's convenient for you. Grace is the power to overcome
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sin and you will see someone who has a transformed life.
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That's what James talks about. If someone doesn't have a
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transformed life, do they have the Holy Spirit?
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That's a question. That's a question that if I if
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my life never changed, if I stayed the same and I never had
56:48
this moment of of change in my life and I am continuing in sin.
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Then I would say some serious prayers to Jesus to open your
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eyes about whether or not you're saved.
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Because like I said, read it in the Bible and what I get from
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the Bible, it's not what I would necessarily hope to see because
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it does mean that there is there is something that we need to do
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it their decisions and we need to submit to God.
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God needs to be our our Lord. It's not that we just get to do
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whatever we want and then say, well, Jesus died on the cross.
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I can live the way I want. I mean, that is, gosh, that is
57:32
not showing respect to God at all.
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That's that is I that's kind of appalling to me, honestly, if
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you think about what Jesus went through and to think that he
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would have gone through all of that just so that we could
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continue to live in sin. Do you think that makes any
57:54
sense when it says that sin separates us from God?
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Jesus did it for mercy because the the corruption, I guess, of
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us that we cannot be perfect. But there's a difference between
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habitual sin and messing up every once in a while, or even
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even saying something rude to somebody that is not loving,
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because God wants us to be loving to somebody.
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And even if we just say something rude to somebody else
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or something negative or hurting somebody's reputation out of
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meanness or cruelty, that's the same like what Jesus referred to
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as murder. Like if we're saying evil things
58:41
about a person harming their reputation or something like
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that, that's like murder. Well, all of us.
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I mean, we, we, the things that we think are nothing, they're a
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lot more important to God. And I think that's where Jesus
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gave us, you know, that's where God had mercy on us because of
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all of the wicked things we do. But if we don't make an effort
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to change our life and to see the things that God says are
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good as good, and to see the things that God says are evil as
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evil, we need to make, I think we need to agree with God's
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rules for his Kingdom. I mean, there are certain
59:27
behaviors that God says are not going to be in the Kingdom and
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those behaviors we may struggle with, but the the Holy Spirit
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will give us the power to overcome them.
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So I've kind of gone way too long on that.
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I didn't intend to do this, but I think this is so serious about
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being prepared and being ready. And I know it's hard, but it's
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possible. And the Holy Spirit helps.
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But going through the Word of God, reading scripture will make
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it clear. And and pray to God, just ask
1:00:05
him to reveal things or to open your eyes to things so that you
1:00:08
can see the truth about all of this.
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OK so then verse 18 the word of the Lord came to me, son of man,
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mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take
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both starting from the same country.
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Make a signpost where the word where the road branches off to
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the city. Mark out one Rd. for the sword
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to come against Raba of the Ammonites, and another against
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Judah and fortified Jerusalem. For the king of Babylon will
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stop at the fork in the road at the junction of the two roads to
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seek an omen. He will cast lots with arrows.
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He will consult his idols. He will examine the liver.
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Into his right hand will come the lot for Jerusalem, where he
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is to set up battering Rams, to give the command to slaughter
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the sound, to sound the battle cry, to set up battering Rams
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against the gates, to build a ramp and to erect siege works.
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It will seem like a false omen to those who have sworn
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allegiance to him, but he will remind them of their guilt and
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take them captive. So there's a couple things here
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where I think this later on, the king of, well, Babylon, I guess.
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Nebuchadnezzar again, this is a question I have too.
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If, if Ezekiel's, if the book of Ezekiel was written in
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sequential order, this would not make sense because Babylon
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already took the people out of Israel.
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And so it it is confusing me in that regard.
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And we also know like in the end times that there's going to be a
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sworn allegiance to the beast system, which will be set up
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like 10 kings that don't have a Kingdom, but they will for a
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short while. They're going to be empowered by
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Satan. And so but people who have a
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sworn allegiance to him, it says it will seem like a false omen
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to those who have have sworn allegiance to him.
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So I do wonder if the king of Babylon, if this is actually
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spiritual, is it a double fulfillment?
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We're sure Nebuchadnezzar was the king of Babylon, but then
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spiritually, because we also have in the Book of Revelation a
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future quote, mystery Babylon. So is it spiritual?
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Is it a spiritual entity that influences multiple people?
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But it kind of like history repeats itself.
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That's something else that I've noticed in studying the Bible is
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that there is a lot of repetition.
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When you read the Bible, you can see, well, this happens, and
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then this happens and it just keeps repeating itself over and
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over again. And so I wonder if the king of
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Babylon is spiritual and if this thing was fulfilled at one point
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and this was something that Ezekiel had to do.
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I didn't even catch this the first time I read it that he was
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saying make a signpost where the road branches off to the city.
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Mark one Rd. for the sword to come against Rabba of the
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Ammonites and another against Judah and fortified Jerusalem.
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It I did look up and Babylon did first conquer Jerusalem and then
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they, they ravaged, I guess the Ammonites also.
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But the other interesting thing is that when Jesus returns, he
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also there's a prophecy about the Ammonites when he returns
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too, that he is they, they will not be spared.
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And so I, I don't know, this is it's in, I'm on Jordan today,
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but Edom escapes the Antichrist. So when I read this, I was
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thinking in this part of the prophecy, the king of Babylon,
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if he is spiritual, he goes against Jerusalem, but he
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doesn't go against the Ammonites.
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And we know from Daniel Chapter 11 verse 41 that Edom escapes
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the Antichrist and I don't I've lost my OK, so Daniel 1141 he
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will also invade the beautiful land.
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Many countries will fall, but Edom, Moab and the leaders of
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Ammon will be delivered from his hand.
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So that is present day. Jordan will be delivered from
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his hand. He will extend his power over
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many countries. Egypt will not escape.
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He will gain control of the treasures of gold and silver and
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all the riches of Egypt, with the Libyans and the Kushites in
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submission. But reports from the east and
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the north will alarm him, and he will set out in a great rage to
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destroy and annihilate many. He will pitch his royal tents
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between the seas at the beautiful holy mountain.
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Yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.
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So this is this is about the kings of the South and the
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North. And this is talking about I'll
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read the I should have read the paragraph or the verse before at
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the time of the end. So this is end times.
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The King of the South will engage him in battle, and the
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King of the North will storm out against him with Chariots and
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cavalry and a great fleet of ships.
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He will invade many countries and sweep through them like a
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flood. He will also invade the
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beautiful land that's the King of the North.
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That's what we're talking about. Who's going to have power in the
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end times. So is this a double fulfillment?
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Perhaps, Maybe, let's see. And then the sworn allegiance,
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like I said, it reminded me of the beasts and the allegiance to
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the beast. And then it says I'll read this
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statement again. It will seem like a false omen
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to those who have sworn allegiance to him.
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Like we're not going to get hurt by him because we have a sworn
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allegiance to him. So again, this is like trickery.
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But he will remind them of their guilt and take them captive.
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When I read that, I immediately thought about Satan because
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Satan is the accuser and he reminds people of their guilt
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and takes them captive. But when we confess our sins and
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we turn away from them, God remembers our sins no more.
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We don't have that guilt anymore.
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We are washed clean of our sins. That's what's so wonderful about
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God's mercy is that we don't have to live with that forever.
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It's the enemy of God who makes us think about that.
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And in Revelation chapter 12 verse 10, it says then I heard a
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loud voice in heaven say, now have come the salvation and the
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power and the Kingdom of our God and the authority of his
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Messiah, for the accuser of our brothers and sisters who accuses
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them before our God day and night has been hurled down.
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This is when Satan is thrown down to the earth and he is, the
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reason I'm reading it is because he's the accuser.
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So the guilt, the people think after they've repented of their
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sins and they've turned away from them, then sometimes people
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will start thinking, oh, but I did this, or I'm not worthy or
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those kinds of things. And that is the enemy.
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The enemy does that. He accuses people constantly.
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But that is something that we just need to recognize when it
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does happen there. OK, so back to Ezekiel verse 24.
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Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says, because you
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people have brought to mind your guilt by your open rebellion,
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revealing your sins in all that you do.
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Because you have done this, you will be taken captive.
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So this is like the enemy getting control here.
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And then it says something that's interesting is you
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profane and wicked Prince of Israel.
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So who is he talking about? And I wonder, is this talking
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about the false Messiah, you profane and wicked Prince of
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Israel? It says that it was Zedekiah in
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the Bible study, In Bible study notes, it says it was King
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Zedekiah because he was the Last King.
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But there's some, there's something that I want to point
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out that I also researched that I question if that's really
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true. And I think it may perhaps be a
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false Messiah at the end times, and I'll tell you why.
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So you profane and wicked Prince of Israel, whose day has come,
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whose time of punishment has reached its climax, that's
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another thing. God is very patient.
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It sounds like this is the end. It's reached its climax.
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This is what the sovereign Lord says.
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Take off the turban. Remove the crown.
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It will not be as it was. The lowly will be exalted and
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the exalted will be brought low. That's kind of the way.
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Jesus is in his authority. He.
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He does the opposite of what we are used to.
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The lowly will be exalted, and the exalted will be brought low.
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A rune. A rune.
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I will make it a rune. The crown will not be restored
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until he to whom it rightfully belongs shall come to him.
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I will give it. That seems to be Jesus that it's
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that it's talking about right now and there's something that
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you wouldn't probably. I just accidentally stumbled on
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this because I don't know what I was doing or what I was looking
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up, but when I looked up, I because there's a a turban and a
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crown. And so I looked up who wears A
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turban and a crown in Israel? And it says the high priest of
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Israel, Cohen Gadal, in biblical times wore a turban misnafit
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made of white linen with a gold plate sits, I don't know how to
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say that, acting as a crown fastened to the front, this
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attire signified his sacred duty in the Tabernacle and the
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temple, with the gold plate bearing the inscription holy to
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the Lord. OK, so it's a high priest that
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wears A turban and a crown. So then my next question,
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because the study Bible said Zedekiah was who this was
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talking about. I looked up, was Zedekiah a high
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priest? Zedekiah was not a high priest.
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He was the 20th and final king of Judah who reigned before the
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destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar.
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The second. While a minor thing figure named
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Zedekiah is mentioned in the siddar Olam Zuda as a high
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priest, the ruling king Zedekiah of the Bible was a political
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leader, not a religious one. So again, that reinforces a
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theory. I'm just asking.
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I don't I don't know because prophecy is not always clear,
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but I'm wondering is this wicked Prince, it's not Zedekiah.
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Is this the false Messiah who will come the false priest, the
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the high priest. So Zedekiah was not a high
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priest. And the Lord says, take this off
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and remember that there's going to be this false Messiah.
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And everybody is kind of looking for this right now in Israel.
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And even the Muslims are looking for their Messiah, which they
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call the Mahdi. So everybody is looking for
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somebody and we'll just have to wait and see.
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And we'll only know in hindsight.
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But to me again, this sounds like this is end times prophecy,
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verse 28 of Ezekiel 21. And you son of man prophecy and
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say this is what the sovereign Lord says about the Ammonites
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and their insults. A sword, a sword drawn for the
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slaughter, polished to consume and to flash like lightning,
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despite false visions concerning you and lying divinations about
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you. It will be laid on the necks of
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the wicked who are, who are to be slain, whose day has come,
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whose time of punishment has reached its climax.
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Let the sword return to its sheath in the place where you
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were created, in the land of your ancestry.
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I will judge you. I will pour out my wrath on you
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and breathe out my fiery anger against you.
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I will deliver you into the hands of brutal men, men skilled
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in destruction. You will be fueled for fire.
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Your blood will be shed in your land.
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You will be remembered no more, for I the Lord have spoken so
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about Ammon in Amos chapter one verse 13.
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It says this is what the Lord says for three sins of Ammon,
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even for four. I will not relent because he
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ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to extend his
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borders. I will set fire to the walls of
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Rabba that will consume her fortresses amid war cries on on
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the day of battle, amid violent winds on a stormy day, Her king
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will go into exile, he and his officials together.
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So I don't know if this is a doubly fulfilled prophecy or I
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mean one that's been fulfilled and yet a future to come.
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But it, it really does sound like it as I read this.
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So anyway, I, I don't know, this is probably been long because I
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talked on a lot of things that I didn't intend to.
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So I'm going to end this here and come back next time for
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Chapter 22.