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706. Bible Study: Isaiah 11 (Jesus the Messiah, Son of God prophecy plus the Second Coming of Jesus Christ- Messiah!) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 11 from the book of Isaiah.
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This is a really good one because this was written about
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2700 plus years ago and it talks about Jesus and it talks about
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the return of Jesus. And I will give all the
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references because a lot of times biblical, the Bible in
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verse, scripture interprets scripture.
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So within the Bible you'll find multiple accounts and I always
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think about when God used 2 witnesses to establish truth.
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So that happens within the Bible as well.
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So I will reference those and read those in addition to this
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one. But first, let it like always,
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let's pray and ask God to be with us as the Holy Spirit for
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revelation insight. And please open the eyes of
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anyone who listens to this podcast so that they can confirm
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the truth that is spoken in here 2700 years ago and that everyone
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will come to see that the Bible is real.
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It is true. It is so important for every
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single person to take hold of and get into it every day.
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Read it, study it, learn about it.
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It says in the Bible it says my people are destroyed from a lack
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of knowledge. If we don't get into the Bible
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we know we are at a detriment. So dear Lord please be with us
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and please help us see this, help us see the importance of
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this and encourage us to continue with you.
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We ask for this in Jesus name, Amen.
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OK, so Chapter 11, a shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse
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when I forgot to do this one. But the genealogy, I forgot
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which gospel it is that actually talks about the genealogy of
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Christ. And I'm going to see if I can
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find that really quickly because it shows how Jesus descended
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from the tribe of Judah and also from, I don't know if it was
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like in Matthew. I, I yes.
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OK, cool. All right.
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I got it. So anyway, a shoot will come up
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from the stump of Jesse. So we can, if I could, I could
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read all of it to you. But the root of Jesse.
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I'm trying to find out where that is.
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Oh shoot, I don't OK, there we are.
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OK Matthew verse our chapter one verse 6 and Jesse, the father of
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King David. David was the father of Solomon,
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whose mother had been Uriah's wife.
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It goes through the whole genealogy here, and then at the
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very end it gets to and Jacob the father of Joseph, the
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husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus, who is
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called the Messiah. And it concludes with Thus there
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were 14 generations in all from Abraham to David, 14 from David
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to the exile to Babylon, and 14 from the exile to the Messiah.
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So it gives all it accounts for Jesus so that a shoot will come
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up from the stump of Jesse. So Jesse is, I guess a tree is
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personified as you know, like comment like a family tree where
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something will come from Jesse. Well, this is Jesus from his
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roots. A branch will bear fruit.
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OK, so the branch. This is referred to several
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times. So in let's see in Jeremiah
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chapter 23 verse 5, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when
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I will raise up for David a righteous branch, a king who
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will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land.
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In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety.
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This is the name by which he will be called the Lord, our
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righteous Savior. So then the days are coming,
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declares the Lord, when people will no longer say, as surely as
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the Lord lives, who brought up the Israelites out of Egypt, but
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they will say, as surely as the Lord lives, who brought the
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descendants of Israel up out of the land to the north, and out
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of all the countries where he had banished them, then they
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will live in their own land. So this is the return of Jesus
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when he, that's when he becomes the Savior.
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He actually saved us on the cross when he died on the cross.
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But when he returns back and reigns as king, that's when the
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final peace that they would talk about.
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The peace and safety. There's a lot of talk about
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that. Now, that's not going to happen
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and you can really see that it's not going to happen.
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But at some point people will think they're going to have
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peace and safety, but they won't until Jesus returns.
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So then again, Jeremiah says it again in chapter 33, verse 15.
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In those days, at that time, I will make a righteous branch
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sprout from David's line. He will do what is just and
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right in the land. So both Isaiah and Jeremiah got
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the same word. Now God uses 2 witnesses to
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establish truth. And then so anyway, this is what
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says in those days, Judah will be saved in Jerusalem, will live
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in safety. This is the name by which it
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will be called the Lord our righteous Savior.
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For this is what the Lord says. David will never fail to have a
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man to sit on the throne of Israel, nor will the Levitical
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priest ever fail to have a man stand before me continually to
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offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to present
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sacrifices. So then we get to Genesis
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chapter 49 and it talks about this scepter will not depart
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from Judah. Jesus is from the tribe of
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Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet.
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So Jesus is going to reign until until he to whom it belongs
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shall come, and the obedience of the nations shall be his.
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So when Jesus returns, everything will be turned over
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to him and he will be the ruler. And then these things, he will
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tether his donkey to a vine, his colt to the choicest branch.
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He will wash his garments and wine his robes in the blood of
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grapes. His eyes will be darker than
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wine, his teeth whiter than milk.
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There's a lot of things in here. So it's interesting because
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Jesus when he was just before his crucifixion, he rode into
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the city of Jerusalem writing a colt, a donkey.
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And so it this references, this is back in Genesis, the first
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book of the Bible. And then it also says he will
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wash his garments and wine this and I did not reference this,
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but he said it was another part of Scripture.
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Where where are you coming from, Lord?
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And he says he was in Basra and his clothes are stained, you
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know, have blood stains or Crimson blood on them.
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And he was fighting a battle against there was no one with
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him. And so that talks about he will
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wash his garments in wine. There's the treading of the wine
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press that is also in the Book of Revelation, his robes in the
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blood of grapes. So that is the final wrath.
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So you know, it says I've heard people say that God tells us the
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end from the beginning. Well, he certainly does because
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right now he's talking about Jesus and his eyes will be
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darker than wine, his teeth whiter than milk.
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So it's like a darker color, a red color.
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And I looked it up in the in the Bible and it says like this is
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in a good sense, not like inebriation or anything like
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that. But then when you look into the
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description of Jesus in Revelation, his eyes are like
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fiery red because when he comes back, it's for wrath.
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And of course, this is what it's talking about right now.
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Like he come first. He comes and he's got the donkey
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tied to the vine that he uses, and then he will wash his
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garments and wine. So this is the the wrath of God
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that comes. And then it talks about his eyes
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being darker than wine, his teeth whiter than milk.
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So I will read those other parts in Revelation that tie into this
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Scripture so that you can identify that this is Jesus.
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So in Revelation chapter 2, verse 18, to the Angel of the
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church in Thyatira write these are the words of the Son of God.
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So this is who the Son of God said, whose eyes are like
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blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
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So there we get those, those red eyes that were being talked
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about in the book of Genesis, and then it continues on with a
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different message there to the church, but it's from the Son of
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God. And so that's Jesus.
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Then in Revelation 1915, this talks about when Jesus returns
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at his second coming, coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword
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with which to strike down the nations.
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He will rule them with an iron scepter.
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He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God
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Almighty. See how much that ties back to
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Genesis about, you know, the the scepter not departing from
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Judah. He treads the wine Press of the
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fury of the wrath of God. Just like in Genesis it said
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that he will wash his garments and wine his robes in the blood
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of grapes. So further, in Revelation, it
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talks about the treading of the wine press and I did that, put
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that in here, but let me see if I can find that one too.
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And that might help too tread wine press.
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Let's see if I can find that quickly.
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No, that's it. Well OK, so this is actually
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that other verse that I was. Well, I don't know if this is
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what I was talking about, but here's another one.
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This is from Isaiah chapter 63, verse three.
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I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the people there
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was none with me. For I will tread them in mine
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anger and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be
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sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
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So that is, yeah, this is the part that I was talking about.
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Who is this that cometh from Edom?
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That's I guess the Jordan area with dyed garments from Basra.
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This that is glorious in his apparel, traveling in the
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greatness of his strength. I that speak in righteousness
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mighty to save we're out this is in the King James version we're
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out the red in thine apparel and the garments like him that
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treadeth in the wine fat. So it's you know it's treading
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the wine press again in revelation.
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I wanted to find that one and I didn't have it called up ahead
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of time. So I can't.
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There's too many things to remember.
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I'm I'm just learning all of this since like 2019.
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So I don't remember exactly where these things are located,
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but I'll get to it. I know it's in the Book of
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Revelation and it's I'm getting close to it, I think.
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And sorry for the delay here. Oh shoot, I passed it up so I
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don't. I probably would do better if I
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went to my hard copy Bible instead of the digital one on
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this one because I should find it because I know where it is
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when I look through this. OK, here it is.
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It's in Revelation chapter 14 and it's harvesting the earth
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and trampling the winepress. I looked, and there before me
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was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like the Son
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of Man, with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in
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his hand. Then another Angel came out of
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the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on
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the cloud. Take your simple sickle and
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reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the
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earth is ripe. So he who was seated on the
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cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was
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harvested. Another Angel came out from the
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temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
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Still another Angel who had charge of the fire came from the
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altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle.
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Take your shark sharp sickle and gather the cluster of grapes
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from the earth's vine, because it's grapes are ripe.
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The Angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes
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and threw them into the great wine Press of God's wrath.
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They were trampled in the wine press outside the city and blood
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flowed out of the press rising as high as the horse's bridles
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for a distance of 16, 100 stadia.
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And it says that is about 180 miles or about 300 kilometers.
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That's pretty massive, the destruction and bloodshed that
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will occur at this point as the wrath of God.
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Now, I mean, you can pretty well understand why people who are
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not in a relationship with God, who are enemies are at war with
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God, why they are going to fear when they actually see the Son
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of Man coming on the clouds in the sky.
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The people who are prepared will rejoice because they know that
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they will be brought up to him and protected.
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But that's when God's wrath occurs.
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For those who don't who haven't submitted to God, who haven't
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accepted him as King, who haven't, who wouldn't call him
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Lord, who wouldn't be obedient to him, then there's this time
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of wrath that happens. So again, this is all the all
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the things that are talked about.
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This very first sentence in Chapter 11 talks about Jesus.
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And I think that probably should should prove my point there
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about all these verses, how they all tie together and how they
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explain Jesus. So then it says the Spirit of
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the Lord will rest on him. Well, we have a second witness
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for that too. We have Luke, who is a doctor at
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the time that wrote one of the Gospels.
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And so in Luke chapter 3 verse 22 he writes and the Holy Spirit
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descended on him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came
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from heaven in quotation. You are my son whom I love with
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you. I am well pleased.
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So here is where we actually see all three, the three in one God
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head all present at one time. We see Jesus.
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This is during Jesus's baptism. You know, if I go up a little
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bit further and it's, it was the baptism when all the people were
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being baptized, Jesus was baptized too.
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As he was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit
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descended on him in bodily form like a dove and a voice came
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from heaven. You are my Son whom I love with
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you. I am well pleased.
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Now this is like repeated. Thankfully this blue letter
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Bible is such a great resource and that's what I'm reading
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from. But there are multiple
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references of the same thing in Genesis chapter 5 verse 31 it
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talks about it. It references this and then in
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Chapter 11 it also talks about it in Ruth Chapter 4, First
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Chronicles and First Chronicles Chapter 34 and First Chronicles
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Chapter 2 and Matthew chapter 1 verses 2 through 16.
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So these are all just the baptism and genealogy of Jesus.
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So and then the other gospels do talk about this as well about
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Jesus being baptized and the Holy Spirit descending on him
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and the voice from heaven. So there are multiple witnesses.
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So Matthew writes about it in chapter 3 verses 13 through 17.
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Mark writes about it in chapter 1, verses 9 through 11, and John
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also writes about it it in chapter 1, verses 29 through 34.
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So there again, God has multiple witnesses.
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Isaiah first spoke about it. The Spirit of the Lord will rest
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on him. And then all the gospels say
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this. So they all have different
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people and people witness this because there's a gathering
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here. There's multiple people who saw
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Jesus get baptized. So there were multiple
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witnesses. It's not just a made-up story
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and it's has survived thousands of years when it's since it's
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been written. So this is something that we
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can, you know, this will establish truth for us.
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I mean, just kind of use logical critical thinking skills to
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figure this out that yes, this is true.
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So the spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the spirit of
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counsel and of might, the spirit of knowledge and fear of the
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Lord, and he will delight in the fear of the Lord.
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So this is all talking about this branch, talking about
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Jesus. He will not judge by what he
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sees with his eyes or decide by what he hears with his ears, but
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with righteousness he will judge the needy with justice.
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He will give decisions for the poor of the earth.
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So again, if you look up righteousness and judgment or
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justice, not judgment, righteousness and justice, those
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are the qualities that God wants us to have on earth.
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And it also is representative of God as well that he's righteous
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and he's just. So he does everything that's
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right. He's perfect in that way.
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And he also serves with justice. So we anything that happens in
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this world, we can if if God is behind it, there is justice He
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can use things to. People to to perform the justice
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here and there's a lot of things that we don't understand and I'm
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not going to even try to explain it because if I were able to
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explain it, I would have to be God.
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So a lot of things we're not going to be able to explain
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until we can ask God himself because anything other than that
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would be speculation. But we just always have to
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remember that God is righteous and what he does is just.
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So he will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, with the
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breath of his lips, He will slay the wicked.
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So Revelation 19 verse 11, it talks about I saw heaven
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standing open and there before me was a White Horse whose
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writer is called faithful and true with justice.
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He wages wars. Now his eyes are like blazing
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fire. OK, that was we were just
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talking about that. And on his head are many crowns.
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He has a name written on him that no one knows but he
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himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped
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in blood, and his name is the word of God.
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The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white
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horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.
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Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike
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down the nation's. He will rule them with an iron
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scepter. He treads the winepress of the
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fury of the wrath of God Almighty on his robe and on his
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thigh. He hasn't this name written,
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King of Kings and Lord of Lords. So this is a description once
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again of Jesus and his exactly what Isaiah says.
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He will strike down the earth with the rod of his mouth.
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So again, John saw this in a vision when he was on the island
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of Patmos, and he wrote that down in the Book of Revelation.
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So righteousness will be his belt and faithfulness the sash
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around his waist. So in Revelation chapter one,
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verse 13, it says this is when John first saw Jesus in the
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vision and among the lampstands was someone like a son of man.
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And that's what Jesus was called very often, the son of man
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dressed in a robe, reaching down to his feet with a golden sash
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around his chest. And later on it says like so he
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describes himself in verse 17. When I saw him, I fell at my
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feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on
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me and said, do not be afraid. I am the 1st and the last.
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I am the living one. I was dead.
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So this is after his resurrection.
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And now look, I am alive forever and ever, and I hold the keys of
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death and Hades right. Therefore, what you have seen,
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what is now and what will take place later.
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And so this is like his vision, but he, you know, throughout
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this, it tucks and then the end of Revelation, the last book,
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you know, it tells like I'm the alpha and the Omega, the
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beginning and the end. This is Jesus, this is he's been
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in existence, He's eternal. So he's the Son of God.
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Now here, this is a part that after it talks about, he will
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strike down the earth and with the breath of his lips he will
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slay the wicked. Righteousness will be his belt
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and faithfulness to sash around his waist.
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Now this next part is really cool.
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Like I'm looking forward to this because this is going to be an
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awesome time. The wolf will lie, will live
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with the lamb. The leopard will lie down with
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the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together, and a
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little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear,
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their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat
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straw like an ox. The infant will play near the
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cobras den, and the young child will put his hand into the
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viper's nest. They will neither harm nor
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destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be filled
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with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
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So this is going to be this amazing time when Jesus returns,
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after he does the wrath of God and pronounces judgment on
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people. There will be this time of peace
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and safety and tranquility. And this just sounds like an
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awesome time where animals aren't going to be predators
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anymore. They're going to lie in peace
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with Len and other little kids can play with these Vipers and
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not be harmed. It's going to be this wonderful
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time. Part of the reason why it's
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going to be wonderful is because Satan is bound for 1000 years.
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So Satan is not allowed to intervene during this time for
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this thousand year period that Christ rules on earth.
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It's kind of a restoration period.
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We read earlier in the book of Isaiah that this will be a time
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for the the Jesus to teach his ways to the people.
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And it'll be a time of peace and it's going to be a phenomenal
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time. There's going to be mortal and
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immortal people on the earth, on this earth at the same time,
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which is going to be really wild.
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OK, continuing on in Scripture, in that day, the root of Jesse
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will stand again. That's Jesus as a banner for the
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peoples. The nations will rally to him
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and his resting place will be glorious.
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In that day, the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to
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reclaim the surviving remnant of his people.
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Now wait till you hear from where these people are.
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So he in that day, he's going to reach out to reclaim the
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surviving. So there are survivors from the
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wrath and who knows, you know, why maybe maybe they repented.
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It says a lot of people don't, but maybe it's just God's mercy,
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just like we were. We're all sinners and God just
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does what he wants to do. And he's very compassionate,
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very merciful, and he, he just loves.
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So this is there's going to be a surviving remnant of people from
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Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Kush, from
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Elam, from Babylonia, from Hameth and from the islands of
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the Mediterranean. So there's, there's going to be
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quite a number of people, a surviving remnant.
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I don't know, maybe that's the 144,000 from all of these
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different places. So he will raise a banner for
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the nations and gather the Exiles of Israel.
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He will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four
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corners of the earth. Ephraim's jealousy will vanish
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and Judah's enemies will be destroyed.
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Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, nor Judah hostile toward
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Ephraim. They will swoop down on the
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slopes of Philistia to the West. Together they will plunder the
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people to the east. They will subdue Edom and Moab,
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and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
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The Lord will dry up the Gulf of the Egyptian Sea or the Red Sea
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with a scorching wind. He will sweep his hand over the
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Euphrates River. He will break it up into seven
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streams so that anyone can cross over in sandals.
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I know the Euphrates River, I've heard, you know it floods
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sometimes but and this time it's going to be broken up into 7
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streams and people can cross it and cross over it in sandals.
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There will be a highway for the remnant of his people that is
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left from Assyria, northern Iraq or SE Turkey.
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And there was for Israel as there was from Israel when they
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came up from Egypt. So just like the Exodus, he's
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going to have that same thing happen to bring his people from
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northern Iraq or SE Syria that is talked about.
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So I will read over the questions and answers for the
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Chapter 11, and that will be all that we have for this one.
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So what does the stump of Jesse refer to?
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It's a picture of a family tree that had been chopped down.
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The Assyrians all but destroyed Judah, but it was the
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Babylonians who would bring the nation to an end.
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In 586 BC, God had promised David, Jesse's son, that his
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descendants would rule forever. But when those descendants
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failed to meet the conditions of the promise, the tree was cut
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down. And I described it a little bit
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differently. I mean, it was cut down, but not
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forever because this is actually about Jesus.
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Furthermore, like, yes, that happened.
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The Assyrians, you know, conquered, but there is Jesus.
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I mean, this really, I mean, I think I showed how Jesus was
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really referred to in this first sentence.
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So why call Jesse's descendant a branch, Isaiah continued with a
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picture of a family tree from the stump of Jesse, a new branch
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would sprout the future Messiah, Jesus, the son of David.
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Since the Messiah would be a branch of Jesse's family tree,
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branch became a messianic title. Branch of the Lord also suggests
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the spiritual fruit produced by the Messiah.
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That's something else that we should remember is that when we
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believe, truly believe in Jesus, we repent of our sins, we
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recognize that we are sinful, we ask for forgiveness.
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And then in that asking of forgiveness, when we ask God for
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forgiveness, we also, it's within our heart like our desire
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is. I don't want to do that anymore.
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I want to stop it. I'm not going to be a hypocrite.
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I'm not going to say I'm a Christian and then not act like
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1. So Jesus then gives his Holy
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Spirit to help people change. So it also like this says, also
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suggests the spiritual fruit produced by the Messiah.
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So we don't change on our own. We change when we submit to
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Christ and it is our will because God gives us free will
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to say God change me. I'm open to that.
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I accept, I allow you know, like I'm, I'm in agreement with you.
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I want you to change me and then God will change through the Holy
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Spirit. So when we are in Him, there's a
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spiritual fruit that comes about, and that fruit is
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referenced in Galatians chapter 5 called the Fruit of the
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Spirit. So when will justice full be
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fully realized? Isaiah anticipated a time when
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Christ will completely right all wrongs.
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While on earth, Christ began to establish justice by the things
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He did and taught. His written word continues to
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bring justice today wherever it is observed through justice.
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Though justice on earth has begun, the scales won't be
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completely balanced until Christ returns.
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How can wolves live with lambs? Perhaps this imagery points to
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Christ's ability to change human nature.
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Actually all of nature, right? Transforming our aggressiveness
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into harmony with others. But the fulfillment of this
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description is surely yet in the future, brought into existence
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by Christ's return. Some believe this scene pictures
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a time of universal peace during a future reign of Christ on the
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earth, and that references Revelation chapter 20 verses one
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through 6. What does that day refer to
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here? The day of the Lord is it?
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Is this second time yet to come? The first time God reclaimed a
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remnant of His people was when He rescued Israel from Egypt.
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Some think the second time was when God's people returned to
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Judah from Babylonian exile. Others believe the second time
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is still in the future when God's people will be regathered
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at Christ second coming. So again, it's this is
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supporting the study Bible supporting, this is the second
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coming of Jesus that's being talked about.
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What caused the feud between Ephraim and Judah following the
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rebellion that split Israel into Ephraim?
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Another name for the northern Kingdom of Israel.
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That was the 10 tribes, how they were separated from the 2 tribes
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of Judah and Benjamin. So Ephraim is I think that was
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like where their capital was or where their place of worship was
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set up. But it's another name for the
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northern Kingdom of Israel remained a rival of southern
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Kingdom of Judah. In Isaiah's day.
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This animosity led to war when Ahaz, king of Judah refused to
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join the alliance between Ephraim and Aram, which is Syria
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against Assyria, which is that northeast Turkey and then part
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of Iraq land territory. They're common enemy.
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So they all were enemies against this like Turkey and Iraq area.
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But so Syria and Israel they were.
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They formed an alliance and went against this Assyria person and
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group. Some think this prophecy of an
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end to the feud was fulfilled when the Jews returned from
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Assyrian and Babylonian captivity.
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Others look ahead to a future Jewish reconciliation when
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Christ returns. This is probably another one of
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those prophecies that has somewhat of a foreshadowing of
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effect. It has a partial fulfillment,
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but then an eventual later. Because there are things that
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are talked about in this chapter like wait, you know this,
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there's not peace like this. You know that you don't have
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lions laying down with lambs and things like that.
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So there's there's definitely a future moment for this.
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Did the Euphrates ever break into 7 streams?
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Isaiah was envisioning a new Exodus.
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During the first Exodus, the Lord dried up the gulf of the
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Egyptian Sea, the Red Sea. In the new Exodus, he will again
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use a strong wind, this time to break up the Euphrates River
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into 7 streams. Using both similarities and
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differences to the crossing of the Red Sea and the Jordan
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River, Isaiah symbolically portrayed God's provision for
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the return of His people. So yes, this is primarily about
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the second coming of Jesus in my opinion, and the study Bible
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references that as well. So anyway, hope you enjoyed that
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I got something from it and hope you subscribe and come back for
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chapter 12.