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867. Bible Study: Ezekiel 43 (When Jesus returns to the Temple in Jerusalem FOREVER!) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 43 from the book of Ezekiel.
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  This one may be a long one because I found a lot of
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  information about this one chapter of Ezekiel.
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  So first let's pray. Dear Lord, please open our eyes
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  and our hearts to what you have to say and please guide us with
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  the Holy Spirit in this recording for chapter 43 of
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  Ezekiel. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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  OK, so I will start reading from the study Bible.
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  Actually I'm not going to I'm going to because it gets into
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  some measurements. So I'm actually going to read
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  from Ezekiel 43, the new living translation because it does some
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  of the calculations for us on qubits.
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  So as I read this, there is there's a lot.
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  So let's get started. This is talking about the it's
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  titled the Lord's Glory returns about a summary of this.
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  So this is Ezekiel 43 verse one. After this, the man brought me
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  back around to the East gateway. I'm going to pause right there
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  because this is significant and this relates to today.
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  You can search this online and find out about the Eastgate, the
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  Eastern Gate. It's called also the Golden
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  Gate, and it's at the Temple Mount currently.
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  It used to be an opening that people could go through, but it
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  was sealed up. And so I'm going to read to you
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  when that happened and why it happened, because it's
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  interesting because this is the prophecy that those who sealed
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  up this gate, this opening into the Temple Mount area, they were
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  trying to prevent Jesus returning through it.
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  Very interesting. So I'll read you what I found
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  about this. So the Eastern gate or Golden
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  Gate, I think that's kind of interesting too.
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  Like did the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco get its name
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  from that? I didn't look into that.
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  And it's irrelevant to what we're talking about, but just
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  popped into my head. So anyway, the eastern gate,
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  this is on the Temple Mount of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is
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  sealed primarily. Here's why.
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  It's primarily to prevent the fulfillment of Jewish and
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  Christian prophecies regarding the Messiah entering Jerusalem
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  through it. So isn't that funny?
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  Not really funny, but I mean, to for anyone, any human being to
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  think that they're going to prevent the Messiah from coming
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  through there, They're going to prevent God from coming through
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  this prophesied Eastern gate. So they're familiar with the
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  prophecies and they're like, no, we're not going to let that
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  happen. We're going to board it up.
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  But they didn't even, they even went further than that.
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  So Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ordered it
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  permanently walled up in 1541 to block this prophesied event, and
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  according to tradition, created a cemetery in front to render
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  the area ritually unclean for the Jewish priest.
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  So the Ottoman like Sultan Suleiman, I want to see who a
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  little bit more who you know about him.
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  I guess Sulian Suleiman, he was the military leader of the
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  Ottoman Empire and the Ottoman Empire.
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  Let's see, this was after succeeding his father gives all
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  of these this information. You can look him up.
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  He was called Suleiman the Significant and he was, let's
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  see, he was known commonly known as Suleiman.
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  He was the custodian of the two Holy Mosques, Shah of Baghdad in
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  Iraq, Sultan of Egypt and Caesar of Rome.
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  Kagan, That's kind of interesting.
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  So he was of the Ottoman Empire. So I don't know what the the
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  Ottoman Empire, what they believed.
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  I would have looked that up. Ottoman Empire religious
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  beliefs. So we'll see why he was, what
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  his beliefs were, and why he wanted to rule it up, rule, rule
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  it up, wall it up. OK OK, this is really
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  interesting. So the Ottoman Empire was an
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  Islamic state with Sunni Islam as the official religion and the
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  Sultan holding the title of Caliph.
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  It functioned as a theoretically tolerant empire that managed
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  diversity through the Millet system, granting limited
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  autonomy to Christian and Jewish communities while maintaining
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  Muslim supremacy through social, legal, and tax structures.
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  So here we go. Now we kind of see a little bit
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  more about what is happening in the world right now.
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  At the time of this recording, the US and Iran are kind of in
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  standoffs with some disagreements.
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  And obviously Iran is Islamic. And there's the they've been
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  persecuting a lot of their own people, killing them.
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  I mean, I've heard thousands and thousands have been killed.
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  And the people themselves are revolting against their
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  leadership. And there's some negotiations.
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  And of course, Iran absolutely hates the United States and
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  Israel. In fact, it's kind of weird.
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  Israel's close. So they can, you know, do
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  probably more harm to Israel in close proximity than to the US.
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  However, the the US is targeted and some of these extremists who
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  are in control have called Israel Little Satan and called
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  the United States Big Satan. So they absolutely hate us.
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  And it is this has gone on forever.
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  And just look at how far back this goes that the Bible was
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  written thousands and thousands of years ago.
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  And Ezekiel's prophecy was, I think he was, his book was
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  written in 571 BC and he was, he was receiving the word of God.
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  And God was saying that, you know, the Messiah is going to
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  come through this Eastgate. So in an effort to prevent God,
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  like who is it who would go against God and try to seal up a
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  gateway? Like why do they not want the
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  Messiah there? If the Messiah is going to bring
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  restoration and goodness, why do they want to prevent the
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  Messiah? It's very interesting because if
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  you study Bible prophecy, you will find out this is what
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  happened to me. I was studying Bible prophecy.
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  And then I was, I was curious in the very early stages of my
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  getting into the Bible, which was not that long ago, only in
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  2019 when I started studying it. But I looked into, you know,
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  what do the Jews believe about the end times?
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  And so they are looking for a Messiah.
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  They did not recognize Jesus as the Messiah, even though he
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  fulfilled so many different prophecies, specifically many of
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  them written by Isaiah. But I don't know why there's
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  this, I guess this blindness due to idolatry that is currently
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  over the eyes of many Jewish people, and that's prophesied as
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  well. So as much as somebody who wants
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  to say like, why can't people see this?
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  God prophesied that and it is the condition of their heart,
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  but God is going to change that. When Jesus returns there, they
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  will be given a new heart and they will actually worship God.
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  Their eyes will be opened. So there will be some Jewish
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  people today, which we know there are, who just cannot
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  comprehend that Jesus was the prophesied Messiah that Isaiah
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  talked about and many others because he fulfilled so many
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  different prophecies. If they could just read the New
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  Testament, but I guess they think it's like not true.
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  Even though there were multiple authors who wrote this and they
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  all consistently tie together with the Old Testament.
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  It's it's just hard to comprehend.
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  But this is where this like great deception that is falling
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  over the whole world is happening where people who
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  refuse to believe eventually God gives them over to their
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  desires. And and that's why I think we
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  are in this mass confusion of people.
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  I mean, Even so strange as to not know your own identity,
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  whether you are male or female. I mean, that just seems like so
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  obvious. But today it's not.
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  And there are people who are literally fighting for legal
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  laws to affirm what they their imagination.
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  So it's just, it's just like you look at this and you're like,
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  how can craziness? I mean, that's like insanity,
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  just making up something in your own mind.
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  Like if I just just said that I want to, you know, make up some
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  imaginary being and and then just say that it exists.
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  I mean, that, you know, people get put into mental institutions
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  for strange things like that. So why are we allowing things
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  that would normally go into a mental institution for medical
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  care to actually be put into laws?
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  It's just like, that's very concerning to me about the state
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  of the morality of our world when we are allowing that.
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  And I know there's resistance to it, but we certainly are
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  fighting this battle between good and evil.
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  And it's so clear. It's so clear to those whose
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  eyes are open and it's so confusing to those who I guess
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  rejected God and wanted to remain in their sin.
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  Didn't, you know, want to repent, didn't want to turn to
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  God, chose idolatry, chose selfishness over the way of
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  Christ and, and eventually God turns people over to that.
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  And I remember reading that in the Bible and I started
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  reflecting on my own life and thinking about how I was
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  rebellious to God and I didn't want to risk it anymore.
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  I, when it, when I became aware of what it said in the Bible,
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  it, it did 'cause the fear of God in me, because actually God
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  did that to Nebuchadnezzar. He made him like a crazed animal
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  for I think it was 7 years, which is interesting too, 'cause
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  we're going to get into a seven-year discussion on this
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  chapter. So this is only the first
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  sentence in this, but it's very, it's very eye opening.
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  So I'm going to read a little bit more about the Eastern gate
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  key historical and religious reasons for sealing the gate,
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  preventing Messianic prophecy. According to Jewish tradition,
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  the Messiah will enter the Temple through the Eastern gate,
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  a belief also significant to Christian interpretations of the
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  Second Coming Ottoman political strategy.
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  Sultan Suleiman the First believed sealing the gate would
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  halt the arrival of this prophesied Jewish figure.
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  Ritual impurity. A Muslim cemetery was
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  established in front of the sealed gate.
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  It is believed that this was done because, according to
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  Jewish law, a priest or Cohen cannot traverse a cemetery,
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  further discouraging the Messiah's entry, security and
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  defenses. The gate has been sealed,
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  reopened and resealed multiple times through history by
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  Muslims, Crusaders, and again by Saladin and the Ottomans.
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  The final 1541 ceiling was part of Suleiman's efforts to rebuild
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  the city walls and fortify the city modern conflicts.
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  While the exterior remains sealed, access to the interior
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  was closed by Israeli authorities in 2003 to stop
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  construction by the Islamic walk, which was feared to have
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  destroyed Jewish archaeological artifacts.
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  Although the gate is sealed, it remains A focal point of
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  religious, historical and prophetic debate.
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  So isn't that interesting just about, about that?
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  And and it's, you know, this is again, biblical prophecy tying
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  into modern day world events. So when you want see what's
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  going on in the Middle East, there is prophecy more than
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  likely related to what's happening.
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  So now we have there's a little bit more that I want to talk
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  about because this was an Islamic group who sealed up the
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  opening. They don't want the Messiah.
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  Now it's really strange because they acknowledge Jesus in Islam
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  and they say he's good, he was good and there's a lot of things
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  about him. The only thing that they deny is
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  that he was the Son of God. And they also deny that he died
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  on the cross. And so they have this deception
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  that the, because his, Jesus's death on the cross is the only
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  way that we have the possibility of entering the Kingdom of God.
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  And sadly, those who believe in Islam and, and deny Jesus as the
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  son of God and Jesus's death on the cross, This is like, this
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  is, I mean, there's so much that shows that so much of the
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  history of Islam that shows how this is a deception from Satan.
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  And so I feel so much empathy for the people who believe this
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  religion. And I'll point out a few things
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  that are, you know, to support what I'm saying.
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  So in the Bible, the last book of the Bible was the Book of
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  Revelation. It was written in 90 AD.
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  And so within the Bible it says if anyone not in the Book of
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  Revelation, Paul wrote this, but if anyone brings to you another
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  gospel different than what we preached, let him be accursed.
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  Not even an Angel, you know an Angel won't.
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  And that means the accursed would be damned like that is
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  something from hell. And so that was anybody who says
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  anything different or gives you a different story about
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  salvation that comes after 90AD is something from hell.
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  Then let's see. It's what 537 is when Islam
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  started. So this is like it was 537 or
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  637. Now I'm forgetting, but I think
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  it's like 5 or 600 years later after the Bible was written.
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  Muhammad has these interactions with angelic beings who gave him
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  a news story, a different story than what was in the Bible.
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  And not only that, but if you search records it, he himself
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  thought that he was possessed and he himself also was, I think
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  there was some suicidal attempts.
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  And then there were he, you know, he's just look at the way
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  he lived his life. He was like conquering and
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  killing and destroying. And who is that?
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  Who does that represent? That represents Satan.
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  Satan seeks to kill and destroy. The Bible tells us that.
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  So do you think maybe Muhammad got information from some fallen
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  angels that told a different method of salvation?
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  And then this has been a deception that has prospered and
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  this is the great plan of Satan to destroy mankind.
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  And the Islamists, the extremists, they believe that if
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  they are martyrs, they will then be greeted by 72 virgins.
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  Isn't that another way that Satan used to?
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  And these fallen angels used to deceive and destroy men from
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  days of old. Even the Israelites were
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  affected by that. If you go back to the story of
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  the, the king Balak and then the prophet Balaam, who used to get,
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  he could hear from God, but he could also hear from other gods.
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  He had multiple altars. So he was, he was a polytheist
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  and and he was the king Balak asked Balaam to curse Israel
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  when they were coming in. He didn't want his Kingdom
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  threatened or taken over by the Israelites.
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  So he got he knew Balaam was a a prophet and he could speak to
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  God. So he's doing divination is what
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  he's, he's getting information from a lot of sources.
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  But anyway he for some reason God would not allow him to curse
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  Israel because the king wanted him to put curses on Israel but
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  God didn't allow it because it's his chosen people is the
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  Israelites were and are God's chosen people.
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  So nothing was successful and he tried it 7 times and it never
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  worked. And then the only thing that
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  came out of his mouth with his blessings, not curses.
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  And so the king was so aggravated with Balaam and he
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  didn't get anything that he was promised because he didn't do
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  what the king wanted him to do. And so he he departed and but
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  then he came back with a clever idea.
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  If you to introduce this immorality, sexual immorality,
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  like probably the temple prostitutes and stuff like that,
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  you can lure the Israelites into that.
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  Now there is like what God says is when a man leaves his his
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  household and becomes united with his wife, the two became 1
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  become one. And Paul says that all other
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  sins are outside your body. But sexual sin is a is sin that
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  is within your body and you unite yourself with whomever you
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  have intercourse with essentially and the two become
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  one spirit. So if somebody has an evil
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  spirit and you sleep with them, then that affects you too.
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  And that can affect your life and that can torment you.
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  There are these laws. And that's why Paul says flee
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  from sexual immorality. Just don't don't entertain it at
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  all. I mean, it's good between a
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  husband and a wife, but anything other than that, you are messing
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  with fire, literally. You could potentially be messing
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  with demons, demonic, anybody who's slept with anybody else.
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  You don't know how many different connections they've
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  made. And if the Bible is true, and it
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  says that when you do that you unite with somebody else there,
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  there could be some severe consequences.
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  And so that was Balaam's idea. Let the Israelites go into
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  sexual immorality. And he was, he was successful
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  with that. That defeated the that that was,
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  you know, that was the powerful thing that he could use against
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  the Israelites. He couldn't curse them, but he
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  could lure them with a temptation and they bit off on
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  the temptation. And again, this is, you know,
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  the enemy seeking to kill and destroy.
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  So it's very concerning to me that people are deceived by this
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  religion that came about hundreds of years after the
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  Bible was written and did exactly what the Bible warned
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  people about. Like, don't listen to anything
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  like that. And and then you also look at
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  the life of Muhammad and the fact that I believe he had a
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  wife at who was six years old and consummated their marriage
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  at 9:00. I mean, he was a pedophile.
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  And and this is you can check that out too.
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  I mean, this is just like horrible things.
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  These are not, these are not godly.
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  It is so obvious to me that it is from the evil realm.
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  And it is very concerning because I think people are naive
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  to this. They don't know it, they haven't
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  read the Bible, they are not familiar with this.
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  And therefore it presents itself as this very moral upright.
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  It has all of these laws and things, but here's the other
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  thing about the 72 virgins that it promises the martyrs of
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  Islam. The sad thing about that is
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  these people are are doing what they think is honorable because
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  they're deceived and they think there's going to be this great
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  reward. And it's again, it's, it's
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  appealing to temptation, it's appealing to their sexual
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  desires. So they're thinking, well, gosh,
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  that's going to be awesome for me.
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  And if you look at any of the attacks that happened like
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  October 7th and others and in other areas, there's a lot of
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  rape involved, which is really bizarre.
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  But these people who do these things or are so deceived by the
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  enemy, this is not not like normal war at all.
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  This is like this is so spiritual and and it just like
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  goes back to the ancient fallen angels who I believe represented
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  themselves as gods to people. And this is a very disturbing
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  deception that's coming over people.
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  And I just hope that I mean, we should all pray that their eyes
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  be opened. And as Jesus said, no one can
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  come to the father except through me.
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  And in order to come to the Father, you must be born again.
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  Getting back to the the Islamic extremists who believe that
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  there is going to be 72 virgins for them, they go ahead with
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  what their their evil intent of the evil being that's inspiring
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  them to do these horrific things.
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  Then once they die, they're going to find out there are not
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  72 virgins, but only hell that's waiting for them.
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  And what does Satan seek to do? Satan doesn't care about them.
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  That's the bad thing. Satan doesn't care about them at
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  all, and but he's seeking to kill and destroy.
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  So he's promising them something they think is good.
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  They think they're going to get, but that's where they put their
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  faith. And they don't even know that's
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  true. They, you know, they don't even
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  know that there's been no proof that that happens, but they do
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  it out of faith. And then when they do that,
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  they're going to find there's a point of no, there's no return
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  once you die and you've rejected Jesus.
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  Because I think on their mosques, even it says there God
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  has no son or there's something like blasphemous against Jesus
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  that is written on their mosques.
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  And so it is clearly the enemy of God.
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  It is clearly inspired by Satan or another fallen Angel, I don't
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  know which, but it is definitely associated with evil and and we
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  need to pray for the people who are under that deception because
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  when they wake up in eternity, they're going to realize the
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  huge mistake they made if they don't repent and change their
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  ways before the day they die, there is salvation for them.
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  Even if they were a former terrorist, they can be saved.
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  And I mean, wouldn't, wouldn't you just be amazed that the, the
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  true God will forgive something like that When repentance is
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  there and people are sincere about their regret over their
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  what they did in ignorance, there is forgiveness and God
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  wants to restore. And there will be people who
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  will be, there are people who are in those countries that are
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  primarily or predominantly Islamic who will be saved.
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  It says that in the Bible. So there are some whose eyes
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  will be opened, but not all. So we just need to pray for for
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  people's eyes to be open to the truth and let God reveal himself
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  to them. And anyway, I've gone on a
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  little bit longer than I should have on this, but when we oh
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  gosh, there's so much here because IA question that I asked
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  too was, well, let's go back to the Bible where we left off
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  because I do have a lot of tabs opened and this is going to be
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  jumping around a little bit, unfortunately.
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  So verse 2, suddenly the glory of the God of Israel appeared
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  from the east. So this is going to happen.
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  Jesus is going to come in the east.
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  The sound of his coming was like the roar of rushing waters and
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  the whole landscape shone with his glory.
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  Jesus is the the light of the world and his presence is so
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  astounding by everyone who has seen him and has experienced it,
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  all the prophets who have written about it and the visions
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  that they've seen. And when he returns, there's
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  there's going to be two reactions.
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  People are going to be elated and joyful seeing his return.
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  Those are the ones who are right with God or the others when He
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  returns, are going to call on the rocks to fall on them and
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  cover them because they know the wrath of God is coming.
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  And so that's another interesting thing.
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  But in verse 2, the roar of rushing waters stood out to me.
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  So I searched rushing waters and this is really interesting
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  because I had a new discovery. I just discovered that Job 20,
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  it is about the end times, the book of Job.
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  I never that was the first book I read and I didn't get it
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  obviously because you you learn things or more things are
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  revealed as you study the Bible. But Job chapter 20, you can
• 28:30
  check it out. It's about the end times.
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  And here's the verse. A flood will carry off his
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  house, rushing waters on the day of God's wrath.
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  OK, now you might say, OK, that could mean a lot of different
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  things. So we'll look at it in context
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  and I'm probably going to just read that chapter.
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  So on the day of God's wrath, when Jesus returns, that's when
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  God's wrath starts. So that's clue number one.
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  But let's get into the rest of this.
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  I'm just going to read this chapter because there's really
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  interesting. Then Zophar the nameathite
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  replied. OK, I haven't read this in a
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  while, but I'm the book of Job. Job's really sick and he has
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  friends coming to comfort him, but they aren't very comforting.
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  And I think this is one of the the ones who comes and talks
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  during this time. And, and I never know whether to
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  take what they say as truth because God is very angry with
• 29:38
  them because they wrongly told Job.
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  They were basically saying, Job, you did something wrong.
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  That's why all this stuff is happening to you.
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  But they didn't know that God was allowing Satan to do this to
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  test Job and something that happened in the heavenly realms
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  they were not aware of. So they were thinking that, oh,
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  you had to have done something wrong, just get right with God.
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  Why are you not? Why are you resisting this?
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  You know, and his friends were not supportive of him.
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  So because they were not, they didn't, they were unknowing in
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  that way. Sometimes I wonder, should I
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  even read anything of what they said?
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  Because perhaps it's not true. But now when I'm reading this,
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  this Zophar the Nemethite, he actually says something that
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  lines up with all the other prophets.
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  So it's just interesting. So here's what he says.
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  My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly
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  disturbed. I hear a rebuke that dishonors
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  me and my understanding inspires me to reply.
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  So I wonder if this is God giving him a revelation about
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  something right now. So was so far I didn't look this
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  up. And I mean, these Bible studies
• 30:58
  could go on for days if I looked up everything that I had a
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  question on. But you know, it sounds like
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  he's almost a prophet and he might have just received an
• 31:06
  understanding from God about this.
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  So here's what it says. Surely you know how it has been
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  from of old ever since mankind was placed on the earth, that
• 31:20
  the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless.
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  Last but a moment though, the pride of the godless person
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  reaches to the heavens and his head reaches the touches the
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  clouds. He will perish forever like his
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  own dung. Those who have seen him will
• 31:42
  say, where is he? Now?
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  Here's what I was thinking about when I read this.
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  I'm thinking that the pride of the godless person, like it says
• 31:54
  the godless. I guess it says godless person
• 31:56
  in the NIV version it says that. But is it a person or not?
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  You know it doesn't. OK, So the NASB says it this
• 32:06
  way, though his loftiness reaches the heavens and his head
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  touches the clouds. That's what it says.
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  He will perish forever. So it doesn't say it's a person.
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  Because I got a different understanding when I read this
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  that this is actually about Satan.
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  So listen to this. He will burst forever like his
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  own dung. Those who have seen him will
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  say, where is he? Like a dream he flies away no
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  more to be found banished like a vision of the night.
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  The eye that saw him will not see him again.
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  His place will look on him no more.
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  His children must make amends to the poor.
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  His own hands must give back his wealth.
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  This is what's going to happen to Satan and and when you think
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  of Satan doesn't have children, but if you go back to the book
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  of Genesis, when Adam and Eve sinned against against God, God
• 33:08
  said to them, I'm going to put enmity between your seed
• 33:13
  speaking to Eve and the serpent. And then he spoke to the serpent
• 33:19
  and your seed. And when you look at seed in the
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  Hebrew, it means semen. So this is like your offspring,
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  the woman's offspring and Satan's offspring.
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  And we also see in Genesis, I think chapter 6, where it talks
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  about the Nephilim, the sons of God, which are the angelic
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  beings, and they procreated with women, which this gives you a
• 33:50
  really, I just heard this interpretation recently and it,
• 33:55
  it just ties in with what I was just talking about.
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  So this was not, I don't think, based on this interpretation, I
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  don't think that this was a more or less a desiring thing.
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  Like, Oh my goodness, the women are so beautiful.
• 34:13
  We fallen angels are going to have relations with them, sexual
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  relations. I don't think that was what it
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  was, where it was like, oh, they just had this like desire, this
• 34:22
  lustfulness towards them. I really don't think that's what
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  it was. What it was, was they were
• 34:28
  trying to corrupt the seed of the woman.
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  If they could impregnate a bunch of women or mess up the DNA of
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  mankind, then the Messiah would not be able to come.
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  Which is really interesting because that's what that's the
• 34:51
  reason for the flood. Why God sent the flood to
• 34:56
  destroy all of the Nephilim. The Nephilim were the offspring
• 34:59
  of the fallen angels and women and they were probably about 9
• 35:04
  or 13 feet tall. They were called the giants like
• 35:07
  the there was the king of Ogg and the king of Sihan were some
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  of them and maybe the king of Bashan.
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  I'm not, I can't remember all the different ones, but there
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  was one, I think it was the King of Sihan.
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  And I might have the, I, you know, I just, I haven't read it
• 35:23
  recently, but there was a bed that was found in and documented
• 35:28
  in Scripture and it was 13 feet from the headboard to the
• 35:33
  footboard, 13 feet. Now you wouldn't have a normal
• 35:36
  person in a bed like that. And it talked about like, I
• 35:40
  think Goliath was one of those giants, you know, like we always
• 35:43
  think of that as just say a children's story or a myth.
• 35:47
  But no, that was when you read the Bible.
• 35:51
  The, it was probably a Nephilim that he was fighting against.
• 35:54
  I, it said they had like 6 fingers or something like that.
• 35:57
  Like there was deformed people. They were these giants and they
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  were not normal and they were the offspring.
• 36:04
  So the seed of the woman was being corrupted by the fallen
• 36:10
  angels who were not supposed to interact with human beings like
• 36:14
  that. And it wasn't like I was saying
• 36:16
  this interpretation, which I tend to agree with was not from
• 36:20
  a a desirous viewpoint but more so like hey if we destroy all of
• 36:26
  the seed, the Messiah can't come as a human and can't be the
• 36:30
  sacrifice that atones for the sin of all the people.
• 36:34
  So then we get the Kingdom, that's what they want.
• 36:37
  They want the Kingdom, they want the inheritance and that's what
• 36:41
  they were out to do, to seek, kill and destroy.
• 36:44
  That's why they want to destroy everybody.
• 36:46
  So you have to realize that all these people, I feel so sorry.
• 36:50
  Well, I don't know, but they're choosing it.
• 36:52
  But like people who follow this Satanist, I mean, they're there
• 36:56
  are actually Satan churches or Satanist church, they're all
• 36:58
  deceived too. And they think Satan's the good
• 37:01
  guy and they think God's the bad guy.
• 37:03
  And, and so God turns them over when you choose that when you
• 37:07
  reject. But they're they're going to
• 37:10
  when someday when they wake up after they die to eternal,
• 37:15
  eternal torment is what it is. We're either going to get
• 37:18
  eternal life or eternal torment and they will wake up with that.
• 37:23
  So anyway, it's going to just be this really just a horrible
• 37:33
  experience for many people if they don't wake up soon.
• 37:37
  So then I want to continue on here.
• 37:42
  OK? So the youthful vigor that fills
• 37:45
  his bones will lie with him in the dust.
• 37:50
  Though evil is sweet. Now this is really interesting.
• 37:52
  Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his
• 37:57
  tongue. Though he cannot bear to let it
• 38:00
  go. And let's it's Ling, let's it
• 38:04
  linger in his mouth, Yet his food will turn sour in his
• 38:08
  stomach. It will become the venom of
• 38:12
  serpents within him. So I don't know if any of you
• 38:17
  saw this connection or your mind went to it, but as soon as I
• 38:22
  read that today, I was like, whoa, wait a minute.
• 38:24
  That is like when the Angel tells Ezekiel to eat the scroll.
• 38:32
  And when the Angel tells John in the Book of Revelation to eat
• 38:36
  the scroll, you know it's going to taste sweet in your mouth but
• 38:40
  then sour in your stomach. That's exactly what Job 20 says,
• 38:44
  though evil. Now it gives us a clarification
• 38:48
  about this scroll. Though evil is sweet in his
• 38:51
  mouth, yet his food, like what you eat, what you consume, like
• 38:58
  you know Jesus is the bread of life.
• 39:00
  But if you're not consuming the bread of life his yet, his food,
• 39:04
  meaning the evil food will turn sour in his stomach and it will
• 39:08
  become venom of serpents within him.
• 39:13
  So this is all evil. Like if you choose evil and you
• 39:17
  go after evil, that's that's within you.
• 39:21
  And it's like the venom of serpents.
• 39:23
  It gives us a lot more understanding here.
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  Says he will spit out the riches he fought, he swallowed.
• 39:30
  So Satan's going to have to give up everything, everything he's
• 39:33
  he's tried to get here on Earth, He's going to have to get rid of
• 39:37
  it. God will make his stomach vomit
• 39:39
  them up. He will suck the poison of
• 39:42
  serpents the fangs of an adder will kill him.
• 39:46
  He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey
• 39:50
  and cream. Those you know that he's not
• 39:54
  going to have God's Kingdom. That's where you know God often
• 39:57
  talked about the land of Israel being the land flowing with milk
• 40:00
  and honey. This is similar the so this says
• 40:03
  milk and cream, cream and. Are it says honey and cream, so
• 40:10
  I guess cream or milk, they're kind of the same thing.
• 40:12
  OK, what he toiled for, he must give back on eaten.
• 40:16
  He will not enjoy the profit from his trading.
• 40:19
  When we get into the Book of Revelation, it talks about
• 40:22
  Babylon and I don't really know who Babylon is, but it's
• 40:26
  something I, I do believe it's spiritual and maybe it's one of
• 40:31
  the fallen angels. I don't think it's Satan because
• 40:35
  there are separate entities. When you get into the Book of
• 40:37
  Revelation, there's the beast, there's the harlot, the
• 40:41
  prostitute that rides the beast. So that's a separate entity.
• 40:45
  And then there's the dragon, which is Satan.
• 40:49
  And then there's also the false prophets.
• 40:50
  So there's like 4 different beings and the beast turns.
• 40:55
  OK, so Satan gives power to the beast.
• 40:57
  The beast turns on the prostitute Babylon.
• 41:01
  Whoever Babylon is or that spiritual entity, I don't know
• 41:04
  what it is, but whatever it is, the beast turns on it and
• 41:08
  destroys it. And people are shocked, but that
• 41:11
  is the one. He will not enjoy the profit
• 41:14
  from his trading. Babylon is a significant entity.
• 41:17
  If you look at the Mystery Babylon description, they trade
• 41:21
  with all these different countries.
• 41:23
  So it's something, maybe it's a spirit behind many different
• 41:27
  countries that are involved with this, I don't know.
• 41:30
  There's still a lot of mystery in God's word.
• 41:33
  For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute.
• 41:36
  He has seized houses he did not build.
• 41:38
  Surely he will have no respite from his craving.
• 41:42
  He cannot save himself by his treasure.
• 41:45
  So, you know, this could this could apply to people as well
• 41:50
  who are trying to, you know, they're making all this money,
• 41:53
  they're amassing this enormous wealth and thinking that all the
• 41:57
  money that they have will provide for them.
• 42:00
  They don't have to worry about anything.
• 42:02
  The richest of the rich in the world, like they have so many
• 42:05
  resources, money, resources that they don't have anything to work
• 42:09
  worry about. They'll just build something to
• 42:11
  protect themselves. They're building bunkers, those
• 42:13
  kinds of things. They think they're going to
• 42:16
  protect themselves, but they're going to have to give it all up
• 42:18
  when Jesus comes, because they are going to be judged.
• 42:22
  Those who do those things, nothing is left for him to
• 42:26
  devour. His prosperity will not endure.
• 42:28
  In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him.
• 42:33
  The full force of misery will come upon him.
• 42:36
  When he has filled his belly, God will vent his burning anger
• 42:41
  against him and rain down his blows on him.
• 42:45
  So again, this seems like the battle between good and evil,
• 42:48
  between God and Satan. When Satan reaches his fill,
• 42:53
  like when he thinks he's going to finally succeed, God is going
• 42:58
  to come against him. Though he flees from an iron
• 43:04
  weapon. A bronze tipped arrow pierces
• 43:07
  him. He pulls it out of his back, the
• 43:11
  gleaming point of his liver. Terrors will come over him.
• 43:17
  Total darkness lies in wait for his treasures.
• 43:22
  A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his
• 43:27
  tent. The heavens will expose his
• 43:30
  guilt. The earth will rise up against
• 43:33
  him. A flood will carry off his
• 43:36
  house, rushing waters on the day of God's wrath.
• 43:42
  Such is the fate God allocates the wicked, the heritage
• 43:47
  appointed for them by God. So that very last statement
• 43:51
  makes it much more than just Satan.
• 43:54
  This is like including all of the wicked together, those who
• 43:58
  probably Satan and those who are with him.
• 44:01
  All of them. So it was, it was very eye
• 44:04
  opening that the book of Job actually has prophecy in it.
• 44:08
  I never knew that before, but to me it's very clear.
• 44:11
  When I also looked at rushing waters, Ezekiel, one, the very
• 44:16
  first vision that he had with the Lord, it says when the
• 44:19
  creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings, like the
• 44:22
  roar of rushing waters, like the voice of the Almighty, like the
• 44:27
  tumult of an army. When they stood, they lowered
• 44:30
  their wings. That was the cherubim when he
• 44:32
  saw that in the 1st chapter of Ezekiel.
• 44:34
  Then we get to chapter 43 that we're in and he's talking again.
• 44:38
  The glory of God is of Israel's coming from the east.
• 44:41
  His voice was like the roar of rushing waters and the land was
• 44:45
  radiant with His glory. Then we get to Revelation
• 44:49
  chapter one, verse 15. This is when John sees Jesus.
• 44:54
  He tells them this is Jesus you know in in this interaction to
• 44:58
  read more, but it says his feet were like bronze glowing in a
• 45:02
  furnace and his voice was like the sun of rushing waters.
• 45:06
  So we're seeing God's voice sounding like rushing waters.
• 45:10
  Then in Revelation 14, our chapter 14, verse 2, it says and
• 45:15
  I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and
• 45:19
  like a loud peal of Thunder. The sound I heard was that was
• 45:24
  like that of harpist playing their harps.
• 45:26
  Now that happens when the Lamb or Jesus shows up on Mount Zion
• 45:33
  which is the Temple Mount and he has 144,000 who had his name and
• 45:38
  his Father's name written on their foreheads.
• 45:40
  Now, before the wrath comes out the from God, the angels go and
• 45:47
  seal the heads of 144,000. They're 12,000 from each from
• 45:53
  various tribes of Israel, and they are sealed.
• 45:56
  Now. It's really interesting.
• 45:58
  It says that and they sang a new song before the throne and
• 46:01
  before the living creatures and the elders.
• 46:03
  No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been
• 46:06
  redeemed from the earth. And so a lot of Jesus, the part
• 46:11
  about Jesus's second coming, there's just different
• 46:17
  descriptions about it. And here it clearly says Mount
• 46:22
  Zion in Revelation 14, and he's with the 144,000.
• 46:27
  But then I wondered, like, sometimes the names of places
• 46:32
  change. And so I just was curious, like,
• 46:35
  is Mount Zion from the Bible the Mount of Olives?
• 46:38
  But no, it's not Mount Zion and the Mount of Olives are not the
• 46:43
  same place in the Bible. They are two distinct hills
• 46:46
  flanking the ancient city of Jerusalem.
• 46:49
  Mount Zion is typically identified with the western hill
• 46:53
  or the city of David in the South or southwest, while the
• 46:57
  Mount of Olives lies to the east of the city.
• 47:02
  And that was significant because where did Jesus originally
• 47:08
  ascend? You know, after he died and
• 47:10
  resurrected and then he went, he ascended into heaven.
• 47:13
  Where did that take place? Jesus originally ascended to
• 47:17
  heaven from the Mount of Olives, located near Jerusalem.
• 47:24
  Specifically, Scripture accounts, this scriptural
• 47:28
  accounts place this event near the village of Bethany on the
• 47:32
  slopes or near the top of this mountain 40 days after his
• 47:38
  resurrection. So he was on earth for 40 days
• 47:41
  and then he ascends into it. And the reason why that's
• 47:44
  significant is because the Angel that is seen when his disciples
• 47:49
  who are with him see him go up and they're looking at him like,
• 47:53
  where are you going, Jesus? You know, the angels tell the
• 47:57
  people who observed this the same way that Jesus went up is
• 48:02
  the way he will come back on the clouds.
• 48:04
  So and we know also that he touches the Mount of Olives.
• 48:10
  I believe that there is a where his feet touch the Mount of
• 48:14
  Olives. But we also have him on Mount
• 48:17
  Zion. We also have him coming on the
• 48:19
  clouds and we also have him riding a horse with a sword in
• 48:23
  his mouth. So there is, I'm still trying to
• 48:26
  sort through these details, but I, I definitely think that it
• 48:30
  does have first, he's in the clouds.
• 48:33
  And I do believe that that is when his angels gather people
• 48:37
  and bring them up to him. And then I, I don't know, I
• 48:42
  guess then he descends on. I don't, I don't know, I'm not
• 48:47
  sure how all that happens because I, the timeline of
• 48:50
  things, which is does get confusing and I, I haven't
• 48:54
  researched it enough. So I don't want to continue
• 48:59
  talking about that right now to get way far off the track.
• 49:03
  But this does all relate to the timing of things.
• 49:08
  So there's this time where Jesus is on Mount Zion, but this is
• 49:12
  when the heaven and earth is where his authority is.
• 49:21
  Now let's see, OK, this is right before the wrath.
• 49:24
  So I, I want to read a little bit about this because there's,
• 49:27
  this is, there's another topic that people often, you know, get
• 49:30
  very upset about their, they always worry about the people
• 49:34
  who are on this remote island that never heard anything.
• 49:36
  So this is going to tell you Revelation 14 verse 6 tells us
• 49:41
  that. Then I saw another Angel flying
• 49:43
  in mid air and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to
• 49:48
  those who live on the earth, to every nation, tribe, language
• 49:53
  and people. So God is just and this is how
• 49:59
  he's going to do it. He is going to have an Angel, a
• 50:02
  messenger flying in mid air giving the message of the gospel
• 50:07
  to all those who live on the earth, every nation, tribe,
• 50:12
  language and people. So don't worry about all these
• 50:15
  people. God has it covered, and it says
• 50:19
  he said in a loud voice, Fear God, and give him glory, because
• 50:22
  the hour of his judgement has come.
• 50:25
  Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and
• 50:29
  the springs of the water. Then it says, a second Angel
• 50:33
  followed and said, Fallen, Fallen is Babylon the Great,
• 50:36
  which made the nation's drink of the madding wine of her
• 50:39
  adulteries. So the adulteries is, is usually
• 50:43
  somebody worshipping another God.
• 50:46
  And so I don't know again, who this Babylon the Great is.
• 50:52
  There's a lot of speculation about that.
• 50:56
  There are people who say it's Rome is 1.
• 50:59
  There are people who say it is Israel.
• 51:02
  There are people who say it is the United States.
• 51:06
  So there's, there's a lot of things and then there's people
• 51:10
  that just say it's the spiritual apostasy.
• 51:14
  So people who just turn away from God.
• 51:17
  I, I don't know, But here's the concerning part is that happens
• 51:23
  really early is that Babylon falls.
• 51:26
  The beast who is empowered by Satan, turns on Babylon and
• 51:32
  kills her and it's described as a city.
• 51:37
  So the the beast, which I think is probably, there's a lot of
• 51:47
  scripture in the Bible that makes me believe it's going to
• 51:49
  be Islamic. And I'll even give you more from
• 51:54
  the book of Daniel 2 that supports this.
• 51:58
  But I do think that the beast, the 10 kings are essentially
• 52:03
  empowered by Satan. They are potentially, this is
• 52:07
  speculation. It is not a fact.
• 52:08
  There's lots of different theories.
• 52:11
  I, I actually, OK, I, I need to take that back.
• 52:15
  I think there are kings that are here on earth, but I think that
• 52:19
  there are spirits that come up out of the earth.
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  It's like at the fifth trumpet where the abyss is opened up and
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  the the beast rises from the bottomless pit, and the
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  bottomless pit is where I believe it's the souls of the
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  Nephilim that are imprisoned until the day of the Lord comes
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  where they are actually released.
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  And if they are spirits who died, like they had no place to
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  go and they weren't really human, they weren't really
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  angels, they were something that was not meant to be, but they
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  are kept in the abyss. And then this Angel opens up
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  that at the 5th trumpet and then these things come out of the
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  earth and it's just like these demonic spirits who they don't
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  they're, they don't have bodies. So they look to possess a person
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  to go into a person because they don't have bodies.
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  And you know, perhaps they, I don't know if they can go into
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  inanimate objects either. You know, they could possess,
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  they can possess people. Can they possess machines?
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  I, I don't know, like they need something to, to be inside of
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  because they do not have bodies, but this, this beast comes up
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  out of the, the abyss, I believe from, from scripture in
• 53:49
  Revelation, that's where it says it comes up.
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  The that comes the beast comes up out of the earth.
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  And so whether it possesses people or if it possesses these
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  AI robots that are being created that are like people, I don't
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  know. Well, we don't know.
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  There's so much speculation on it.
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  But whatever. The beast turns against Babylon
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  the prostitute and and it's going to happen pretty early on
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  because the beast continues going on.
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  And then a third Angel followed them and said if anyone worships
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  the beast in its image and receives the mark on their
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  forehead or their hand, they too will drink the wine of God's
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  fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his
• 54:35
  wrath. They will be tormented with
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  burning sulfur in the presence of the angels and of the Lamb.
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  So this Babylon falls before the mark of the beast happens.
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  So if Babylon is the United States and you know, United
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  States is currently an ally with Israel, if something happens to
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  the United States and where it doesn't exist anymore, then the
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  United States couldn't help Israel.
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  There's another better theory that the United States being a
• 55:15
  country that was formed on Christianity, that perhaps those
• 55:20
  people are then like resurrected, taken out of the
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  way so that there is no more Christianity because they are
• 55:28
  gathered up to Jesus in the clouds and therefore they are
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  not. What's remaining of the United
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  States is not an ally of Israel because there's this
• 55:38
  anti-Semitism. And so those people, they're not
• 55:42
  going to help Israel. So Israel is going to be all
• 55:44
  alone fighting this battle, and then God will have to
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  supernaturally defeat these enemies of Israel.
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  So there's a lot of things that I don't know.
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  But what I do know is that it is so important right now when we
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  see these things in the world that match up with the things in
• 56:06
  the Bible prophecy, that we are right with God.
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  Because that's the only thing that's going to save you.
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  No bunkers, no money, none of that stuff is going to help you
• 56:16
  because that is powerless against God.
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  If you are an enemy of God, you're going to suffer His
• 56:23
  wrath. If you've reconciled with God
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  and repented of your sin, turn away from your sin and ask God
• 56:30
  for forgiveness and seek Him. Read scripture every day.
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  Pray to Him every day. Read scripture so you get to
• 56:38
  know Him. And that's all we need to do.
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  And it's not to create fear, but it's all it is to create urgency
• 56:45
  because there's too much happening right now that people
• 56:49
  just need to get serious about God and their personal
• 56:54
  relationship with Him. You can't get it through another
• 56:57
  person. It's got to be you and God.
• 57:00
  So nobody can do it for you. People can plead with you and
• 57:03
  ask you to turn to God, but it's you who have to make that
• 57:06
  commitment, not no one else can do it for you.
• 57:09
  So you have to make the decision and whatever you choose is going
• 57:14
  to have a consequence. Either you're going to have life
• 57:16
  or you're going to have eternal torment because that's what the
• 57:19
  Bible says. So let's see.
• 57:23
  So then there's one more reference in the Book of
• 57:28
  Revelation about rushing waters, and that's at Revelation chapter
• 57:31
  19, verse 6. Then I heard what sounded like a
• 57:34
  great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud
• 57:38
  peals of Thunder, shouting Hallelujah for our Lord God
• 57:43
  Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and give him
• 57:46
  glory, for the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has
• 57:50
  made herself ready. So this is like and it says fine
• 57:54
  linen, bright and clean was given to her to wear.
• 57:56
  Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of God's holy
• 58:01
  people. Then the Angel said to me,
• 58:03
  Bless, write this, Blessed are those who are invited to the
• 58:07
  wedding supper of the Lamb. And he added, These are the true
• 58:11
  words of God, the wedding supper of the lamb.
• 58:15
  There's a parable that Jesus told about that were a lot of
• 58:18
  people that were invited, but they were too busy with their
• 58:20
  worldly things and they had to do this or that or no, I don't
• 58:23
  have time. We have a lot of people in the
• 58:25
  world like that right now who are like, you know, I don't have
• 58:29
  time. I, I don't, I don't want to do
• 58:31
  that Bible study. I don't really have time for it.
• 58:33
  I've got this going on. I've got all this stuff and
• 58:36
  nobody's not nobody. But people are not prioritizing
• 58:40
  God. They are not God is not the
• 58:42
  priority in their life. And if that continues, there
• 58:47
  will be consequences of that. It's just it's written in the
• 58:50
  Bible. God's not threatening with us,
• 58:53
  threatening us with that. He it's just clear in the Bible.
• 58:57
  That's what it says. So yes, I'm, I'm warning people
• 59:00
  right now that if you don't have God as your number one focus,
• 59:05
  you're, you're going to have some really hard times coming
• 59:08
  up. And I don't know how much
• 59:11
  clearer I can say this to people, but get right with God
• 59:15
  seriously right now. So those were all of the
• 59:20
  references to rushing water. You can find them on your own if
• 59:25
  you, you know, wanted to seek that way.
• 59:30
  And we are only on verse 2 from chapter 43.
• 59:34
  The rest will go a little bit faster.
• 59:36
  So verse 3, the vision was just like the others I had seen,
• 59:41
  first by the Kibar River and then and then when he came to
• 59:47
  destroy Jerusalem, I fell face down on the ground and the glory
• 59:51
  of the Lord came into the temple through the east gateway.
• 59:57
  Now this is interesting. So the temple is there, the
• 1:00:00
  temple is present, so. Then the Spirit took me up and
• 1:00:06
  brought me into the inner courtyard, and the glory of the
• 1:00:09
  Lord filled the temple, and I heard someone speaking to me
• 1:00:14
  from within the temple. So again the temple is built.
• 1:00:17
  While the man who had had been measuring stood beside me, the
• 1:00:22
  Lord said to me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne.
• 1:00:27
  We know he's talking about Jerusalem and the place where I
• 1:00:30
  will rest my feet. I will live here forever among
• 1:00:37
  the people of Israel. They and their kings, plural,
• 1:00:43
  will not defile my holy name any longer by their adulterous
• 1:00:50
  worship of other gods or by honoring the relics of their
• 1:00:56
  kings who have died. You know, sometimes we have like
• 1:01:00
  the relics of past people who are considered great.
• 1:01:04
  And this is, I mean, I just think about, you know, we do
• 1:01:08
  have that stuff in in Christian religions where they have an
• 1:01:13
  artifact, a relic of somebody from the past that they honor.
• 1:01:18
  And look at what this says in Ezekiel.
• 1:01:21
  They and their kings will not defile my holy name any longer
• 1:01:25
  by their adulterous worship of other gods or by honoring the
• 1:01:31
  relics of their kings who have died.
• 1:01:35
  So that's that's just kind of another eye opening statement
• 1:01:40
  there. And I think about, well, I'll
• 1:01:43
  just keep reading. They put their idle altars right
• 1:01:47
  next to mine, with only a wall between them and me.
• 1:01:51
  They defiled my holy name by such detestable sin, so I
• 1:01:55
  consumed them in my anger. Now let them stop worshipping
• 1:02:00
  other gods and honoring the relics of their kings.
• 1:02:04
  And, and I will live among them forever.
• 1:02:07
  So it's like if you stop doing all the stuff with these other
• 1:02:09
  gods and worshipping relics and all that weird stuff, I'll live
• 1:02:13
  with you forever. This is what God's saying, Son
• 1:02:18
  of Man described to the people of Israel, the temple I have
• 1:02:21
  shown you. So they will be ashamed of all
• 1:02:25
  their sins. Let them study its plan and they
• 1:02:29
  will be ashamed of what they have done.
• 1:02:33
  Describe to them all the specifications of the temple,
• 1:02:37
  including its entrances and exits and everything else about
• 1:02:41
  it. Tell them about its decrees and
• 1:02:44
  laws. Write down all these
• 1:02:46
  specifications and decrees as they watch so they will be sure
• 1:02:52
  to remember and follow them. And this is the basic law of the
• 1:02:59
  Temple. Absolute holiness, The entire
• 1:03:04
  top of the mountain where the temple is built is holy.
• 1:03:09
  Yes, this is the basic law of the temple.
• 1:03:15
  Holiness. OK, so holiness, that's what God
• 1:03:17
  says. Now, when I read this, I
• 1:03:20
  thought, oh, wow, this, this brings to mind about the
• 1:03:25
  scripture, about the House of prayer for all nations where
• 1:03:29
  God's word gets distorted. So are we on that path, which I
• 1:03:36
  have been seeing since probably 2020, where people have actually
• 1:03:41
  coined it Chrislam, They've talked about it and and there
• 1:03:46
  are this like unification. Are these people who want to,
• 1:03:51
  and I've even heard it out of Jewish people too, where they
• 1:03:54
  want to let people of all religion, all religions worship
• 1:03:58
  in the same place. Now, that is not what God
• 1:04:03
  intended. Intended.
• 1:04:05
  He wants all nations, but not all religions that his house
• 1:04:11
  would be there. And so that's like a
• 1:04:13
  misinterpretation, A misunderstanding or a twisting
• 1:04:16
  of God's word. And of course, then it's going
• 1:04:19
  to be, oh, love everybody, welcome them all in.
• 1:04:23
  Yes, God welcomes all people. He does not welcome all gods in
• 1:04:29
  his house, and that's what I'm afraid this third temple is
• 1:04:34
  going to be. In fact, I was thinking that
• 1:04:37
  this third temple reflected the temple described in Ezekiel, and
• 1:04:43
  I did a search about that and found that it doesn't.
• 1:04:46
  So that's really concerning to me.
• 1:04:48
  So first let me tell you where I'm talking about the House of
• 1:04:52
  prayer for all nations. So in Isaiah 56 verse 7, it says
• 1:04:56
  these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my
• 1:05:00
  House of prayer. Their burnt offerings and
• 1:05:03
  sacrifices will be accepted on my altar.
• 1:05:05
  For my house will be called a House of prayer for all nations,
• 1:05:13
  not all religions, but it's going to be a House of prayer to
• 1:05:17
  the one true God, not to all other gods, but the one true
• 1:05:20
  God. So and then in Mark Chapter 11,
• 1:05:24
  verse 17, it says this is Jesus. And as he taught them, he said,
• 1:05:31
  is it not written? My house will be called a House
• 1:05:35
  of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of
• 1:05:41
  robbers. So even back in Jesus's time,
• 1:05:44
  they were not using the temple properly.
• 1:05:48
  They were trading there. They were doing, you know, they
• 1:05:52
  it was, it was not a House of prayer.
• 1:05:55
  They were distorting what was what was being done.
• 1:06:00
  So I just searched about this. Does the temple.
• 1:06:07
  OK? So the Temple Institute has
• 1:06:08
  plans ready for the third temple.
• 1:06:10
  They also have all of the components that are supposed to
• 1:06:14
  go into the third temple. So again, this is like reality
• 1:06:17
  and Bible prophecy merging. So if you want to see what is
• 1:06:21
  actually planned and what they have, there's photos you can
• 1:06:26
  even see just go to thetempleinstitute.org website.
• 1:06:32
  Temple Institute. I think that's you can probably
• 1:06:35
  just Google search it and find the Temple Institute.
• 1:06:38
  It comes up right away. But then you can explore their
• 1:06:40
  website and see everything that's done.
• 1:06:42
  But my question is, I was looking for a floor plan to see
• 1:06:46
  and I didn't really find one. They have some scaled models
• 1:06:50
  that are behind Glass that you can find pictures of online if
• 1:06:53
  you want to see it. So what they have envisioned for
• 1:06:57
  the 3rd Temple, they have, you know, lots of information about
• 1:07:03
  it. But my question was, does the
• 1:07:05
  Temple Institute's plans for the Third Temple match Ezekiel's
• 1:07:10
  description? Here's the answer.
• 1:07:14
  The Temple Institute's plans for the Third Temple aim to fulfill
• 1:07:18
  biblical requirements for renewing daily sacrifices, but
• 1:07:24
  do not fully match the literal grand scale dimensions described
• 1:07:30
  in Ezekiel 40 through 48 while incorporating similar
• 1:07:35
  ritualistic elements. Ezekiel's vision is widely
• 1:07:40
  considered by scholars to be a symbolic future quote Millennial
• 1:07:44
  Temple often too impractical to build immediately, then key
• 1:07:52
  comparisons dimensions Ezekiel describes an enormous, precise
• 1:07:57
  square 500 Reed structure. The Temple Institute focuses on
• 1:08:03
  rebuilding a structure based on Jewish law, I guess on the
• 1:08:09
  current limited space of the Temple Mount Purpose.
• 1:08:14
  The Institute prepares for immediate functional and
• 1:08:18
  sacrificial use. Ezekiel's Temple is associated
• 1:08:22
  with the Messianic Age, featuring a river flowing from
• 1:08:26
  it and a new division of the land elements.
• 1:08:30
  The institute has already recreated many of the priestly
• 1:08:34
  garments, utensils and a 24 karat gold menorah.
• 1:08:38
  You can see pictures of that too.
• 1:08:40
  It's in case it's encased in a glass structure and there are
• 1:08:46
  pictures you can see online of that if you haven't been to
• 1:08:49
  Israel to see it. While the institute treats the
• 1:08:52
  vision as a blueprint, Ezekiel's description is often interpreted
• 1:08:56
  interpreted as an ideal future state rather than a direct
• 1:09:01
  construction plan. Well, that I think contradicts
• 1:09:06
  the Bible because like when David wanted to build the
• 1:09:10
  temple, he did all the plans for it, but God didn't want him to
• 1:09:14
  do it because he had shed too much blood.
• 1:09:16
  And so he wasn't he was going to let his son build it.
• 1:09:19
  But David had a part in actually making the plans for that.
• 1:09:23
  Now, why would God tell Ezekiel, write all this down and, and be
• 1:09:30
  very specific about this and, you know, give it to the Jewish
• 1:09:34
  people? Like he's going through all this
• 1:09:36
  detail and he's giving them. He, why would he make it just
• 1:09:41
  like, OK, in the, in the beginning when God gave Moses
• 1:09:46
  all of the description of how Moses was to set up everything,
• 1:09:51
  the ark of the covenant, how it was supposed to be built, how
• 1:09:54
  the, the holy place was supposed to be designed and the, you
• 1:09:58
  know, the most holy place and the separation with the curtains
• 1:10:03
  and how the curtains were made and the embroidery on them.
• 1:10:07
  And he gave Moses all of this very detailed instructions on
• 1:10:13
  how to make everything. And Moses was obedient.
• 1:10:17
  Now if we are going to be obedient to God, that shows God
• 1:10:21
  that we love God. So Moses was obedient and did
• 1:10:24
  this. Now, why, why in the world would
• 1:10:29
  the Temple Institute not follow? I mean, obviously because they
• 1:10:32
  don't have the land, but God, I mean, this is like the the
• 1:10:37
  forever problem that Israel has. They, God told them you're going
• 1:10:42
  to have all this land and they go half heartedly into it or God
• 1:10:47
  tells them, wipe out this and they do part of it.
• 1:10:51
  They don't do the whole thing. Ultimately, just like partial
• 1:10:54
  obedience is still disobedience. If God says something, he means
• 1:10:59
  it. He means it in totality.
• 1:11:01
  And why would God waste his breath to talk about these
• 1:11:05
  things with all of this, all of the specifics of this, and then
• 1:11:11
  say, but you don't have to do it that way.
• 1:11:13
  I just wrote all that detail down for no reason.
• 1:11:16
  Like that makes no sense at all. And I don't know why rabbis
• 1:11:20
  don't feel that way. Why do you not feel like God
• 1:11:24
  really this is what's going to happen?
• 1:11:27
  And nowhere what I've been reading does it say that Jesus
• 1:11:32
  is the one who physically builds this or the Messiah actually
• 1:11:36
  builds this. And I don't see that in here.
• 1:11:42
  But I mean, maybe that's what people start doing during the
• 1:11:46
  Millennium reign of Christ. They're actually building a
• 1:11:49
  temple. Because that was another
• 1:11:50
  question that I had. I was like, well, if so, I
• 1:11:56
  wondered, well, could maybe they're starting with the the
• 1:12:00
  base plans and because my background's in architecture,
• 1:12:04
  but I was wondering maybe they started with a smaller temple
• 1:12:09
  that could be expanded later to the Ezekiel 1.
• 1:12:12
  And I thought maybe that's how they're doing it.
• 1:12:15
  Maybe they are following what God said, but it's just, you
• 1:12:18
  know, they're going to work with what they have.
• 1:12:22
  But I didn't get a good answer on that.
• 1:12:24
  So whether or not this is accurate, I was.
• 1:12:26
  So I asked the question, is it possible to expand the plans the
• 1:12:31
  third Temple to explain expand the plans of the current third
• 1:12:37
  Temple that the Temple Institute has to match Ezekiel's.
• 1:12:44
  So here's what it says. Incompatibility of plans Ezekiel
• 1:12:48
  verse Temple Institute The Temple Institute Plan The Temple
• 1:12:53
  Institute currently bases its blueprints on architectural
• 1:12:57
  preparations on the dimensions and structure of the second
• 1:13:01
  temple, specifically the Herodon Herodian expansion.
• 1:13:09
  Ezekiel's Prophecy The temple described in Ezekiel 40 through
• 1:13:12
  48 is massive, with an outer courtyard measuring
• 1:13:16
  approximately 500 by 500 reeds, or a very large specific cubit
• 1:13:24
  measurement. It is much larger than any
• 1:13:26
  previous temple and includes different specific details, such
• 1:13:31
  as a river flowing from it. The Ezekiel Temple is far too
• 1:13:37
  large to fit on the current Temple Mount, whereas the Temple
• 1:13:42
  Institute's goal is to fit a usually smaller Third Temple on
• 1:13:47
  the current site. Can the plans be expanded?
• 1:13:51
  Not structurally. The two visions represent
• 1:13:54
  different structural realities. Ezekiel's plan includes 9
• 1:13:59
  chapters of specific divine engineering measurements that do
• 1:14:04
  not match the traditional smaller Second Temple model.
• 1:14:09
  Symbolic versus literal interpretation.
• 1:14:12
  Many scholars, including some with within the Orthodox
• 1:14:16
  community, argue that Ezekiel Temple is symbolic of the
• 1:14:19
  Messianic Age, not a blueprint for a physical building to be
• 1:14:23
  constructed by human hands. Two different temples.
• 1:14:27
  Some interpretations suggest the Temple Institute's third Temple
• 1:14:31
  will be built in the near future, perhaps by the
• 1:14:33
  Antichrist, as an interim, and will be destroyed or replaced
• 1:14:39
  when Christ returns, at which point the final massive Ezekiel
• 1:14:44
  Temple will be established. Would the third temple need to
• 1:14:47
  be torn down? Rebuilding needed.
• 1:14:50
  If a third temple is built according to the currently
• 1:14:54
  prepared smaller plans, and the prophetic expectation of the
• 1:14:57
  Ezekiel Temple is a literal physical building that is of
• 1:15:01
  immense size, the smaller, earlier temple would effectively
• 1:15:06
  need to be removed or superseded.
• 1:15:10
  Timing. The Ezekiel Temple is
• 1:15:12
  traditionally associated with the final Messianic redemption,
• 1:15:16
  implying it may not be built until after significant
• 1:15:21
  topographical changes to Jerusalem, for example the Mount
• 1:15:26
  of Olives splitting. In summary, the Temple Institute
• 1:15:30
  is preparing for 1/3 Temple based on historical smaller
• 1:15:34
  dimensions, while Ezekiel's vision describes A vastly larger
• 1:15:39
  Millennial or 4th Temple, making them structurally incompatible
• 1:15:44
  to be merged simply by expansion.
• 1:15:48
  So now we can see a little bit of why God's going to be angry
• 1:15:51
  because in Ezekiel 43, verse 11, he says write down all these
• 1:15:56
  specifications and degrees as they watch so they will be sure
• 1:16:00
  to remember and follow them. Oh boy, they're disobeying
• 1:16:06
  again. And this is just I, you know, we
• 1:16:12
  wonder why things happen if we would just read and obey what
• 1:16:16
  God says. OK, one more section.
• 1:16:20
  This is about the great altar to be restored.
• 1:16:24
  So verse 13, these are the measurements of the altar.
• 1:16:28
  There is a gutter all around the altar 21 inches deep and 21
• 1:16:33
  inches wide with a curb 9 inches wide around its edge.
• 1:16:37
  And this is the height of the altar.
• 1:16:39
  From the gutter, the altar rises 3 1/2 feet to a lower ledge that
• 1:16:43
  surrounds the altar and is 21 inches wide.
• 1:16:46
  From the lower ledge, the altar rises 7 feet to the upper ledge
• 1:16:50
  that is also 21 inches wide. The top of the altar, the hearth
• 1:16:54
  rises another 7 feet higher with a horn rising up from each of
• 1:16:59
  the four corners. The top of the altar is square,
• 1:17:03
  measuring 21 feet by 21 feet. The upper ledge also forms a
• 1:17:07
  square measuring 24 1/2 feet by 24 1/2 feet, with a 21 inch
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  gutter and a 10 1/2 inch curb all around the edge.
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  There are steps going up to the east side of the altar.
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  Then he said to me, Son of Man, this is what the Sovereign Lord
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  says. There will be regulations for
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  the burning of offerings and the sprinkling of blood when the
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  altar is built. At that time, the Levitical
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  priest of the family of Zadok, who minister before me, are to
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  be given a young bull for a sin offering, says the Sovereign
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  Lord. You will take some of its blood
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  and smear it on the four horns of the altar, the four corners
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  of the upper ledge and the curb that runs around the ledge.
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  This will cleanse and make atonement for the altar.
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  So the whole reason why they're building this new altar is they
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  are then cleansing it, making it holy.
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  So then take the young bull for the sin offering and burn it at
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  the appointed place outside the temple area on the second day.
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  Sacrifice as a sin offering a young male goat that has no
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  physical defects. Then cleanse and make atonement
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  for the altar again. God's making everything holy,
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  just as you did with the young bull.
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  When you have finished the cleansing ceremony, offer
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  another young bull that has no defects and a perfect ram from
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  the flocked flock. You are to present them to the
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  Lord, and the priests are to sprinkle salt on them and offer
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  them as a burnt offering to the Lord.
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  Every day for seven days, a male goat, a young bull, and a ram
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  from the flock will be sacrificed as a sin offering.
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  None of these animals may have physical defects of any kind.
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  Do this each day for seven days to cleanse and make atonement
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  for the altar, thus setting it apart for holy use.
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  OK, This is why all of this is going to happen.
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  All of these sacrifices. Everybody wonders like why are
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  these sacrifices going to continue?
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  Because God said they are so. It says do this for seven days.
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  And why? To cleanse and make atonement
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  for the altar, thus setting it apart for holy use.
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  On the 8th day and on each day afterward, the priest will
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  sacrifice on the altar the burnt offerings and peace offerings of
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  the people. Then I will accept you.
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  I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken.
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  So God is giving Israel this order.
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  He's, he's saying this is what you're going to have to do,
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  probably because they rejected Jesus.
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  So they're going to have to go through this process.
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  They're going to have to go through following what God said
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  and God said, then I will accept you.
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  So he this is like a lesson for the people of Israel because of
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  all the times they turned away from God.
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  And he told them to do something all the way from history.
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  But we can't just you know, we're not placing judgement on
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  Israel because all of us have turned away from God.
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  All of us are sin are have sinned against God.
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  So it's, I'm not like just pointing out what they've done,
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  but and all of us have to make amends with God, but God chose
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  Israel and so and Israel will be blessed in the end, but they
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  have to go through this as purification.
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  And there were some things that I found about purification,
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  about forgiveness. And oh, there's more detail that
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  I looked at about like the Zadok priest.
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  So those priest who are performing these sacrifices were
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  taken out of service a long time ago, but they're going to be
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  reinstated. And I actually had some
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  information about that. But you know, that's really
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  getting. And like I said, this is already
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  an hour and a half long almost my podcast.
• 1:21:15
  And there's just so much that I can get into from this one
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  chapter, and I just don't know where to stop because people
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  will get really tired of listening to all this.
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  So in OK, in fact, this is in Hebrews 9/22.
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  It says, in fact, the law requires that nearly everything
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  be cleansed with blood. And without the shedding of
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  blood, there is no forgiveness. So then I was, that's Hebrews
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  922. So that gives us a reason why.
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  And then there's this interesting thing that we need
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  to know about atonement and forgiveness, because they're
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  different things. So I will read to you the
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  explanation of that. Atonement and forgiveness are
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  interconnected but distinct concepts, where atonement acts
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  as the necessary, often sacrificial, work of repairing,
• 1:22:14
  apologizing, and covering over wrongdoing to satisfy justice,
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  whereas forgiveness is the subsequent merciful release of
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  the offender. In theology, atonement, such as
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  Christ sacrifice, pays the debt or penalty for sin, making
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  forgiveness possible and enabling A restored
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  relationship. So atonement is the action or
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  the repair, the definition, the act of making amends,
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  reparations or giving satisfaction for a wrong.
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  Often referred to as a covering sin.
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  The focus. It operates within the realm of
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  justice and restitution, often requiring tangible action, an
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  apology, repentance to prove remorse.
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  The biblical context. In the Old Testament it was the
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  ritual covering of sins In the New Testament is the work of
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  Jesus, whose sacrifice paid the penalty, effectively ransoming
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  humanity from the consequences of sin.
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  Now forgiveness is the result or mercy, the definition, the act
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  of granting pardon, accepting an offender without judgement, and
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  releasing feelings of resentment or anger.
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  The focus operates within the realm of mercy and is a gift,
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  often to oneself rather than an earned right connection.
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  Forgiveness is granted based on the atonement, often following
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  the acknowledgement of fault, the relationship between the
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  two. Groundwork atonement is the
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  ground upon which forgiveness is possible.
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  It removes the barrier of debt. So another way to Simply put
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  this is Jesus made atonement for all of us.
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  He forgave every single one of us or he he took the wrath of
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  God for every single one of us instead of us.
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  He was the substitute sacrifice and his shed blood is what
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  covers us. So we don't have the wrath of
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  God come against us, the total destruction.
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  That's what would happen to us if Jesus didn't die on the cross
• 1:24:42
  for us. So we had that.
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  And because Jesus did that for us, we need to forgive one
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  another. And forgiveness is such a, an
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  important part of our relationship with God.
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  And he says, if you're going to bring offerings to me, go back
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  if you have an issue with somebody and make up with them.
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  I'm paraphrasing, but God wants our relationships restored with
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  one another. And just as he made it possible
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  for us to be in his Kingdom and welcome us as sinners into his
• 1:25:19
  Kingdom, he wants us to have that relationship with one
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  another. If if he forgave us, shouldn't
• 1:25:27
  we forgive our brother or sister in Christ?
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  Aren't we supposed to do the same?
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  Like we can't hold grudges against them.
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  If we just think about what God spared us from, then we need to
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  be in the image of God and, and do that for others.
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  Like, you know, let it go, Let God, God'll bring justice.
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  We just turn it over to God. We release it and none of our
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  justice we don't want, we don't seek vengeance against anybody.
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  We turn it over to God and say, God, you know, your justice is
• 1:26:05
  all we need. We don't need to do it.
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  We give it to you. We trust in you.
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  You will take care of all this. We let it go and then we can
• 1:26:14
  have a restored relationship. Because if we hang on to
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  forgiveness, that brings in anger.
• 1:26:20
  And it says that anger is the foothold of the devil, and if we
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  want to take vengeance upon somebody, then we're getting
• 1:26:27
  into even more sin where we're actually going to harm somebody
• 1:26:30
  else, either with our words, our actions, or some other way.
• 1:26:35
  But we are not reflecting God in that, and we are not acting the
• 1:26:41
  way God wants us to. God says be holy because I am
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  holy. Everything is going to be made
• 1:26:48
  holy, and it's not by our own power that we are made holy, but
• 1:26:52
  by the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit dwells
• 1:26:55
  within us, our lives begin to change.
• 1:26:58
  We become a new creation. That's the Holy Spirit's work in
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  us, not something that we ourselves do now, it says.
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  So the process atonement addresses the sin, while
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  forgiveness restores the relationship distinction.
• 1:27:17
  Atonement is about paying the debt, while forgiveness is about
• 1:27:22
  cancelling the debt. That's an excellent summation of
• 1:27:25
  that. So atonement is about paying the
• 1:27:28
  debt, and forgiveness is about cancelling the debt.
• 1:27:32
  While atonement focuses on the costly work of restoring what
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  was broken, forgiveness represents the grace that
• 1:27:41
  follows, allowing for a new beginning.
• 1:27:45
  So it's like saying, OK, we can start over.
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  We're going to hang on to the past, We're going to start.
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  Boy, I think I'm just going to have to save a lot of the tabs
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  that I've opened on my computer screen because there was so
• 1:28:02
  much, There is so much more that I really wanted to talk about.
• 1:28:10
  And this podcast is way too long already, so let's just leave it
• 1:28:18
  at that. And hopefully you will come back
• 1:28:21
  for another episode on the next time we will cover either what
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  the tabs that I still have open or we'll just jump right into
• 1:28:31
  chapter 44. Because I, I get when you start
• 1:28:33
  studying the Bible and you come across so many different things
• 1:28:36
  that take you down a path, but they're all really interesting
• 1:28:39
  and they all tie together and they expand your knowledge of
• 1:28:43
  what's in the Bible when you get into them.
• 1:28:45
  So anyway, I hope this is beneficial to you and if it was,
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  subscribe and stay in the Word with me.
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  That's the bottom line.