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809. Bible Study: Habakkuk 3 (Return of Jesus?) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 3 from the book of Habakkuk.
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Dear Lord, please be with us as we read through this chapter and
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open our minds to your word and give us understanding from
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through the Holy Spirit. We ask this in Jesus name, a
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prayer of Habakkuk the prophet on Shigemoth, and that word just
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says that. Probably a literary or a musical
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term. And here it begins.
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Lord, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds
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Lord. Repeat them in our day, in our
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time. Make them known in wrath.
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Remember mercy. So then he continues, God came
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from Timon the Holy One from Mount Paran.
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I'm going to pause right there because you if you go to
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blueletterbible.com and youactually.org, not.com,
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blueblueletterbible.org, if you go to that website and look up
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Habakkuk 3 and go to verse 3 on the left hand side, you will see
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tools and a, a box called tools. And when you click on that box
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called tools and then Scroll down, you will see the
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translation. It'll start in the English
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version, NASB version, and then it'll give you a number Strong's
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concordance. So you can, if you click on that
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specific word, it'll show you below that every place in the
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Bible where it's used. And then it'll also give you the
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pronunciation of the word and it'll give you the Hebrew word.
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So something that I noticed and I really wasn't anticipating
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this, this is verse 3. God came from Timon this this
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where it says God is Aloha. Now this is really significant
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because if we go to the book of Genesis during the creation, it
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talks about Elohim. Elohim is a plural word.
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Elohim is a plural word for the singular word Aloha and ELOHA.
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And in this one, in Habakkuk's prayer, it said God came from
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Teeman. I think this is really
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significant because I think this is talking about Jesus.
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And you know, Jesus is the Son of God who became flesh, who
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became one of us and is here on the earth.
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Now, obviously this is before, like Habakkuk is in the BC era
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and Jesus came later. And so this is a prophecy and
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said God came from Teeman. So when you know, before he was
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really like he he was speaking prophetically and that's why
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he's also in the book of the prophets, but God came from
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Teeman. So for some reason I don't know
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what made me think about this, but I wanted to look up team and
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in fact the study Bible has what and where was timin.
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The term means Southland and is a poetic description of the
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Sinai desert through which the Israelites traveled after
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leaving Egypt where God gave them the law.
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From there God LED them N past Mount Paran to the promised
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land. OK, a lot of the Bible is
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historical and prophetic in the same time and symbolic, you
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know, the prophecy is symbolic. So some multiple times almost
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I'm seeing this so repeatedly like things that happen that
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literally happened have symbolic significance and they also point
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to future prophecy. So this this literal historical
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route, a route that they took after coming out of Egypt is
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documented that that is where God came from Teeman.
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But here's something interesting that is not in my study Bible
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but just kind of came to mind. I wondered, is Basra near there
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and you're going to see the significance of it later?
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So I looked it up as Teeman close to Basra and here's the
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answer Yes. In biblical times, Teeman and
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Basra were closely linked, often representing the entire region
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of Edom, with Basra being the capital and Teeman possibly a
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key district or city within it, situated somewhere in southern
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Edom near Petra. That's important too, with some
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scholars suggesting it was near the road connecting Elath to
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Basra. They are frequently mentioned
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together in prophecies as key locations in Edom.
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Edom is modern day southwestern Jordan, symbolizing the whole
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land facing divine judgment. So again, that's that's
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significant. So we have team and Basra and
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Petra all put together. Now it says the Holy one from
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Mount Paran. If we look at
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blueletterbible.org and we look what Mount Paran is, it's called
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Selah. And my study Bible says about
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Selah, it says Hebrew. Hebrew has Selah, a word of
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uncertain meaning here and at the middle of the verse 9 and at
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the end of verse 13. So it's a Hebrew word that's
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kind of unknown. But in blueletterbible.org it
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says Selah was, you know, in this Sinai Peninsula area, but
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it's a place of caverns. Do you know what Petra is?
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So I had to look up Petra. I was curious if Petra would be
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called that. So are there caverns in Petra,
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Jordan? Yes.
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Petra, Jordan is full of natural caves and man made caverns
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carved directly into the Rose. Red sandstone cliffs serving as
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ancient dwellings, tombs and places of worship with some
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Bedouin families still living in them today.
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The city itself is built within a vast natural cabin and many
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structures like the famous treasury are carved into these
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rock faces, creating numerous hollowed out spaces.
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So this is really significant when we think about what Isaiah
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said, and there's a lot of prophecies about Basra.
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So in Isaiah chapter 34, verse 6, it says the sword of the Lord
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is bathed in blood. It is covered with fat, the
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blood of the lambs and goats, fat from the kidneys of Rams.
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For the Lord has a sacrifice in Basra and a great slaughter in
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the land of Edom. So remember that Habakkuk is
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he's pleading with God right now in his prayer because this it's
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actually the Babylonians who are capturing Jerusalem and they're
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going through that's the time frame that he is prophesying in.
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And he's he's wanting relief from this and he's seeing God
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coming from Timon and other prophecies say that Jesus is
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going to come from that area. So in Isaiah 63, verse one, it
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says, who is this coming from? Edom, southwestern Jordan from
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Basra with his garments stained Crimson is robed in splendor
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striding forward in the greatness of his strength.
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It is I claiming victory mighty to save.
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This is about Jesus in the Book of Revelation Revelation we also
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see that Jesus had his garments were stained red when he when
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he's riding on the horse. So this happens before that time
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frame. In fact, I want to look at that
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because just to get the the timing of it, red or Crimson,
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Let's see garment red. OK, I'm not finding that
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specific verse at the moment. I know it's in in the Book of
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Revelation and maybe I will come across it with other references.
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So I forgot to look that up before doing this podcast.
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But in Jeremiah it also says, look, an eagle will swore down
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and swoop down, spreading its wings over Basra.
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And that day the hearts of Edom's warriors will be like the
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heart of a woman in labor. That is also again, I think it's
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a double fulfilling prophecy where it had a moment in
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Jeremiah's time, but it also had a future prophecy just because
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it says the heart of a woman in labor and the woman in labor is
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often the description that is held about the very end times.
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Now Amos, the prophet Amos says I will send fire on Teeman that
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will consume the fortresses of Basra.
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That's significant as we get into this chapter a little bit
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more. So again, there's there's a lot
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of proofs in here that this is talking about the return of
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Jesus. And so anyway, God, God.
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So this is singular this time. So it's Jesus coming from Teeman
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where there's less if you look up Basra, if you look Teeman up,
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you can, you can probably find this, it says came from Teeman.
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The holy one should be Jesus from Mount Paran or Selah.
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And Selah is that place of caverns, just like Petra Jordan
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is. His glory covered the heavens
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and his praise filled the earth. His splendor was like the
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sunrise raised, flashed from his hand where his power was hidden.
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Again. This is if you want to again
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search that. If you look up the right hand
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there, I won't read them because there are 259 times in 113
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versions in the NIV that talk about the right hand.
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The right hand is a place of importance, a place of authority
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and a place of strength or a signifying strength.
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And it's very, it's very much referenced, referenced
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throughout Scripture and and also in connection with Jesus.
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So you can see that if you look up the right hand and read those
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things. So then it says Plague went
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before him. Pestilence followed his steps.
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Now here is one of those moments where I get disappointed in
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translations because they did the exact opposite here.
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So if you go to blueletterbible.org and you go
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to Habakkuk verse 3 and click on the tools button, you will see
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the the NASB and you will see the actual Hebrew words.
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So it says before him goes pestilence and plague comes
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after him. But when you look up so
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pestilence is another word for plague.
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When you look up the meaning of that, So pestilence is
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pestilence, plagues, mirroring. So it's a pestilence or a
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plague. And that's why these words might
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seem like they are interchangeable, but they really
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aren't. So before him, so there's
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pestilence. And then if we know the Book of
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Revelation, we know that when the seals are broken, pestilence
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happens before Jesus returns. And so this makes sense.
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Pestilence goes before him and then that the NASB and the NIV
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version both talk about plague and about plague comes after
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him. And I don't know why they chose
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plague. Because it's reset is the Hebrew
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word and when you look up reset the definition of it is coals,
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burning coals, burning, heat, spark arrow, hot Thunderbolt, or
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a flame fire bolt. Spark flame, fire bolt.
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I have no idea. Well, I guess maybe it's a
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plague of fire, but it would have made much more sense to me
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if they would have said like a flame, you know follows you and
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we know that that's what we just read in a verse that bosser was
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going to be burned up our team and you know like there's going
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to be fire that's set to this. So plague plague went before
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him. I would say that's correct, but
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then fire followed his steps where my study Bible says
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pestilence and I think it would be better to say fire followed
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his steps and and again, this is where you know, it's I wasn't
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even. I don't know why I looked up
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this first, but I was a little disappointed in the translation
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because I don't think it's really completely accurate.
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And, and especially then when you compare it to the seals and
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what happens in the Book of Revelation.
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So that's Revelation 6. It talks about that and I so
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let's see the pale horse, that's the fourth horse, it's rider was
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named Death and Hades was following close behind him.
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They were given a power, given power over a fourth of the earth
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to kill by sword, famine and plague and by the wild beasts of
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the earth. So this happens.
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This happens before Jesus returns.
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And then it says, when he opened the 5th seal, I saw the altar.
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Under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because
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of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.
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They called out in a loud voice, How long sovereign Lord, holy
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and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and
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avenge our blood. Then each of them was given a
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white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until
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the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and
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sisters, were killed just as they had been.
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Now comes the 6th deal. This is where Jesus returns.
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I watched as he opened the 6th seal.
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There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like
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sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and
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the stars in the sky fell to the earth as figs drop from a fig
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tree when shaken by a strong wind.
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The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and
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every mountain, an island, was removed from its place.
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Then the kings, the Princess, the rich, the generals, the rich
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and the mighty, and everyone else both slave and free, hid in
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caves and among the rocks of the mountains They called to.
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The rocks in the mountains fall on us, and hide us from the face
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of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
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For there the great day of their wrath has come, and who can
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withstand it? So if you look at many, many,
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many prophecies, I think Joel, I mean about the sun turning, I
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guess the sun and the moon and the stars about what happens.
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That's a very common prophetic indication of when Jesus
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returns. And so again, this is it all
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matches up. I didn't know that Habakkuk tied
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into this too, but just the sequence of events where
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there's, you know, plagues first and then Jesus returns, then
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fire comes after him. And that matches up with what is
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told to us through the Book of Revelation.
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And then it says he stood and shook the earth.
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He looked and made the nations tremble.
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This is exactly what Revelation tells us that so when it's well,
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it says the ancient mountains crumbled and the age-old hills
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collapsed, but he marches on forever.
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So this is like a great shaking and just like God said, I'm
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going to once more shake the whole heavens and the earth.
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That's the stars falling from the sky.
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The the ones that are losing their place in the heavenly
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realms are are in the Book of Revelation.
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We know that the stars are angels.
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They're why we call it the fallen angels, the ones who get
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shaken out of the heavenly realms.
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And so Jesus stood and shook the earth.
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So it's interesting again on here's what it says about
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earthquakes. You know when the earth is
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shaking and earthquaking, there's several times that the
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earth is shaking. So I watched as he opened the
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6th seal, there was a great earthquake.
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The sun turned black like sackcloth made of gold goat
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hair, and the whole moon turned blood red.
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So this earthquake happens at the 6th seal.
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This is when Jesus returns and then it says again.
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Then there's another time when the Angel it's took the sensor,
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filled it with fire from the altar and hurled it to the earth
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and there came peels of Thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning
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in an earthquake. So this is in some of the the
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judgments that come. And then in Revelation 11 verse
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13, at that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth
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of the city collapsed. 7000 people were killed in the
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earthquake and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to
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the God of heaven. And then in Revelation 11, verse
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19, it said, then God's temple in heaven was opened, and within
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His temple was seen the ark of the covenant.
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And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of
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Thunder, an earthquake, and a severe hailstorm.
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And then again in Revelation 16, verse 18, then there came
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flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals, Thunder, and a severe
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earthquake. And it says no earthquake like
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it has ever occurred since mankind has been on the earth,
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so tremendous was the quake. So we see that there's an A
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great earthquake at the 6th seal.
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There is another earthquake at that's according to Revelation
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612. There's another earthquake
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mentioned at the 7th seal. Revelation 8 verse 5.
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Then then it seems like, right? I don't know, somewhere it seems
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like maybe at the 5th trumpet. I don't, I don't know, this is
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kind of it seems like maybe Satan is cast at the 5th
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trumpet. I'm still trying to sort through
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the when the trumpets and the seals happen because the way
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it's described in the Book of Revelation, it seems like the
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trumpets come after the seals because it it gives a pause and
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it says there was, you know, a like 30 minutes there were
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silence and then the trumpets were given to the angels and
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then came the next thing. So at the 6th trumpet, there's
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another severe earthquake, and this is also the second woe, and
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then that's Revelation 11/13. And then at the 7th trumpet,
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that's when God's temple opens and there's an earthquake.
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And this is that. This is another earthquake is
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happening here and then at the 7th bowl, this is about the end
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of the judgement. That's when it talks about a
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tremendous earthquake like never before and everything was
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flattened and that's in the Revelation verse chapter 16,
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verse 19. So the end.
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I mean, earthquakes keep increasing and it, you know,
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again, Habakkuk says. He stood and shook the earth.
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He looked and made nations tremble.
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The ancient mountains crumbled, the age-old hills collapsed.
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But he marches on forever. So it does also say about I
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don't know if I kept this one this first because when Jesus
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came down he, I don't think I did so his feet touched the
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Mount of Olives. So I'm going to see if I can
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find that that verse so I can read it because I don't have
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these verses memorized. I kind of know where they are,
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but I don't have them verbatim. So in Zechariah chapter 14 verse
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4, it says on that day his feet will stand on the Mount of
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Olives east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be
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split into into from east to West, forming a great valley
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with half of the mountain moving north and half moving South.
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Now this is a great earthquake apparently, or it's just split.
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I mean, that's usually what an earthquake does.
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It splits, right? And this is like a, a huge, the
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Mount of Olives is going to be split and two from east to West
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with a great valley in between and Jesus's feet will be on the
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Mount of Olives. That's Zechariah chapter 14,
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verse 4. So it aligns also with Habakkuk
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where he stood and shook the earth.
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He looked and made the nation's tremble.
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The ancient mountains crumbled and the age-old hills perhaps.
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And he marches on forever. I saw the tense of cushion in
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distress, the dwellings of Midian in anguish.
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So cushion is modern day Sudan. The dwellings of Midian would be
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northwestern Saudi Arabia. So Sudan and Saudi Arabia are
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going to be in distress and anguish.
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And it says, were you angry with the rivers, Lord?
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Was your wrath against the streams?
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Well, this is kind of interesting too because it in
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Psalms it's really interesting. Like Psalms 74 has some
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interesting things in it. It says it was you who split
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open the sea by your power. You broke the heads of the
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monster in the waters. Now this is kind of interesting
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because was there a time way long ago Job talks about this to
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the defeat of the Leviathan and in the waters.
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And it it's is that a mirror of the beast coming out of the
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water in the Book of Revelation, which is all symbolic.
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But it it was like you who split open the sea by your power.
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Now, obviously when they were leaving as far as Exodus out of
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Egypt, that's what God made happen.
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But it says you broke the heads of the monster in the waters.
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It was you who crushed the heads, Heads plural of
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Leviathan, and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.
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So it's in the water, but then it's food for creatures on dry
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ground. Dry ground?
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If his head was crushed, wouldn't it be in the water?
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It'd be food for others, but no, this is on the desert.
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So this seems like it's also symbolic.
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And there's that great supper, the great supper of the Lord
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when he, when Jesus returns and the wrath of God comes out and
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there are all of the, the leaders who are against God that
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Jesus battles. And there's this great supper,
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like he calls the birds to eat these like great people that
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they think they're great, but they're not.
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And, and it says also in Psalm 74 verse 15, it was you who
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opened up springs and streams, you dried up the ever flowing
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rivers again. This is the Nile dries up, the
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Tigris Euphrates dries up. There are some waters that dry
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up in the future, in future prophecy.
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And I think the tiger Tigris Euphrates rivers dry up.
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Are you the Euphrates River dries up so that these kings
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from the east can crossover and do go to battle.
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So that's also in the Book of Revelation.
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But again, these are these are just like the Psalms was written
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back in like David's time. I'm not sure who actually wrote
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Psalm 74. It doesn't get, let's see, it
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says Asaph and he was a prophet back at the time, I believe with
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David. So it just, it talks about, you
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know, this seems like it's, you know, talking about Jesus's
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eventual victory over all evil and the return of him.
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So let's see where I'm at here on all these tabs that I.
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The other part about the rivers was also in the Revelation 8, a
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third Angel sounded as trumpet. So this is the third trumpet.
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And a great star blazing like a torch fell from the sky on 1/3
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of the rivers. And on the springs of the water,
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in Revelation 16 verse 4, there's a bowl judgement that
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comes on the rivers. The third Angel out his bowl on
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the rivers and the springs of water and they became blood.
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What I've noticed about the trumpets and the bowls is that
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they are very similar, but the trumpet is usually like a
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warning. It's a little bit less, but then
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the bowl comes with the the full ramifications or whatever.
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And I'm not sure how they happen if all the trumpets go in order
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and then all the bulls happen or if it's trumpet bowl, trumpet
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bowl, I'm not sure. I mean that's or if these are
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happening like simultaneously, it seems like trumpets are
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warnings and then the bull comes after it.
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And I don't know if it all the trumpets sound and then the
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bulls happen or if the bulls kind of, you know, trumpet one,
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then bull 1, trumpet 2, bull two, I'm not really sure.
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I'm still trying to figure out the timing of all that.
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But it's all seems to be part of the judgments here.
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And OK, so then continuing on is, oh, the other interesting
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part about, you know, crushing the heads of the Leviathon and
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what it says in Genesis 315. This is God talking to Satan,
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the serpent and the woman Eve. And here's what God says.
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And I will put enmity between you, the serpent, and the woman
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Eve, and between your offspring and hers.
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He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.
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So this is Jesus. He will crush your head.
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And Leviathan's heads were crushed.
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That's something connected to Satan.
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But it's, again, a very repetitive imagery that's talked
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about about Jesus's victory over evil over Satan and how Satan
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would be, how, you know, evil would be crushed.
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I think this might be oh, Oh yeah.
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This is the part in Revelation where I was talking about this,
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this supper that happens. That's not a good supper.
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So it says the armies of heaven were following him.
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OK. This is also about Jesus, so
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I'll start with yeah, the heavenly warrior defeats the
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beast. We might as well read the whole
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thing. Revelation 19, verse 11.
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I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a White
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Horse whose rider was called, is called faithful and true.
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With justice he judges and wages war.
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His eyes are like blazing fire, 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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Well if we go to the Gospel of John, it said the word became
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flesh. This is talking about Jesus.
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So he is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and we heard
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about how who is this coming from Edom with blood on your
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robe? And there was a great slaughter
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and there was no one. There's another verse.
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I don't know which prophet has it or if it's within that same
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section where Jesus says, you know, I did this on my own,
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there was no one there to help me.
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And that he also set captives free.
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So at some future point, there are probably going to be
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captives held in southwestern Jordan, around Teamen, around
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Basra, and Jesus comes to rescue them.
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And let's see, the armies of heaven were following him,
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riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and
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clean. Coming out of his mouth is a
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sharp sword with which to strike down the nation's.
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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 on his
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robe and on his thigh. He has this name written, King
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of kings, Lord of Lords. And I saw an Angel standing in
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the sun, who cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying in
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manair. Come, gather for the great
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supper of God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings,
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generals, and the mighty of horses and their riders, and the
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flesh of people of all people, free and slave, great and small.
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Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their
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armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the
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horse and his army. But the beast was captured, and
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with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its
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behalf. With these signs he had deluded
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those who had received the mark of the beast and worshipped its
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image. The two of them were thrown
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alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur again.
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Fire, you know, fire comes behind him.
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There's plague and everything before him.
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Fire comes after him. Then the last verse says the
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rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the
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rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their
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flesh. So it's talking about a pretty
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heavy battle here, and it says, did you rage back to Habakkuk
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chapter 3, verse 8? Did you Rage Against the sea
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when you rode your horses and your Chariots to victory?
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So I think when you know this is again 1914, the armies of heaven
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were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine
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linen, white and clean. You uncovered your bow.
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You called for many arrows. You split the earth with rivers,
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the mountains. You saw you and writhed.
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Torrents of water swept by the deep roared and lifted its waves
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on high. Sun and Moon stood still in the
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heavens. At the glint of your flying
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arrows, at the lightning of your flashing spear.
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In wrath you strode through the earth, and in anger you threshed
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the nations. And again, this is interesting
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too. The Sun, Moon and stars do tend
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to perform signs at certain times, and this was also
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interesting. Where there was the sun stood
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still, so it says. Sun and Moon stood still in the
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heavens. So it sounds like this is at the
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glint of your flying arrows, at the lightning of your flashing
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spear. Again, I think this is relating
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to the second coming of Jesus, but it's also talked about in
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Joshua verse 10 or chapter 10 verse 13, and it says so the sun
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stood still and the moon stopped till the nation avenged itself
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on its enemies. As it is written in the book of
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Jasher, the sun stopped at the middle of the sky and delayed
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going down about a full day. There has never been a day like
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it before or since. A day when the Lord listened to
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a human being. Surely the Lord was fighting for
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Israel. So that's really, you know, in a
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battle. And there's like in this, this
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account of what happened, the sun stands still, Joshua 10.
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You might want to read it, but you know, it's, there's this
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battle here and it's there were 5 kings, which is really
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interesting that they join forces just like the beast is
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going to join forces. You know, Joshua is also
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symbolic of the things that he does are very symbolic, are a
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foreshadowing of what Jesus will do.
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And actually, Jesus's name should have been Joshua because
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Joshua in Hebrew is Yeshua, and that's what Jesus's name was,
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but it was translated in English to Jesus.
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So again, confusion comes from all of that.
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But so it's interesting that Joshua, you know, did these
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things and then Jesus is going to be doing similar things and
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that this was a significant time.
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Like the Lord threw them into confusion before Israel.
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So Joshua and the Israelites defeated them.
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That's often what God will do with the enemies.
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They get thrown into confusion and then Israel, you know, is
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successful when the Lord is with them.
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And in this time though, at the very end time, it's no one else
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is with them. It's it's Jesus who is doing.
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I mean, actually God probably did a lot of the other prior
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battles also supernaturally. But at this time it says, like
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at the end times, it says that Jesus is going kind of by
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himself. There's nobody helping him and
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he's he's the one who's rescuing.
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So the times really get get changed there.
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The other thing that I noticed about Leviathan where it talks
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about in in Psalms and also in Job, it talks about like the
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heads crushing the head and in Revelation 13 three, it says one
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of the heads of the beast seemed to have a fatal wound, but the
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fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with
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wander and followed the beast there.
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This actually, there's a couple more verses that I have to go
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and have a cook and I will point this out.
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So going back to Habkuk 3, verse 12, in wrath you strode through
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the earth. Remember we were talking about
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Basra. And in anger you thresh the
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nations you came out to deliver your people to save your
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anointed 1. And I'm thinking that this is
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probably the chosen one. I'll have to go back to that
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verse. It's verse 13 in Habakkuk so
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just a moment and I will get there because I was on another
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page, but verse 13 your anointed OK.
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It talks about the anointed 1 the Messiah, Prince, the king of
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Israel, of Cyrus, the patriarchs anointed, usually a consecrated
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person, specifically the Messiah.
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So you came out to deliver your people to save your anointed
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one. That is interesting.
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Let's see how it says in the NASB.
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It says you went forth for the salvation of your people, for
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the salvation of your anointed. You struck the head of the House
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of the evil to lay him open from thigh to neck.
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Salah Wow, OK, that's totally different than what the NIV
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version has, so I'll read it again.
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You went forth for the salvation of your people, for the
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salvation of your anointed. You struck the head of the House
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of the evil to lay him open from thigh to neck.
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Salah. That's that word again, that
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sayla that says that one says to lift up exalt.
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Sayla is a technical musical term showing an accentuation of
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pause or an interruption. So let's see with OK, with with
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his own spear. You pierced his head.
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When his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though
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about to devour the wretched who were in hiding, that is where I
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was thinking about Revelation. Well, Revelation 13 three is
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because that's where it says one of the heads of the beast seemed
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to have a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed.
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The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast so
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does with his own spear. You pierced his head.
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I just wonder who that was in verse 14.
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It it doesn't say anything in the study Bible about who that
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is. So that's just something that I
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noticed. Let's see when he was gloating
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is that you trampled the sea with your horses churning the
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great waters. Now this is really kind of
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significant because trampling the sea with horses is very
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symbolic. Daniel saw something it listen
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to this Daniel said this is Daniel Chapter 7 verse 2.
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Daniel said in my vision at night, I looked and there before
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me were the four winds of heaven churning up the great sea.
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Now what we also find from other scripture, I was looking at my
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vision at night and behold, the four winds, Rua.
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And Rua is spirit or wind. So we see in the book of Daniel
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that this is a spirit, the four winds of heaven, 4 spirits.
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There's also the four horses and that's where another thing that
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we see like in Habakkuk, there's talking about you trampled the
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sea with your horses churning the great waters.
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And then also when we get into Zechariah, he sees these horses
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standing among the Myrtle trees and he's like, what are these?
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And they reported to the this is in Zechariah chapter one verse
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11 says, and they reported to the Angel of the Lord who was
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standing among the Myrtle trees. We have gone throughout the
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earth and found the whole world at rest and in peace.
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So the the horses that he saw here were the ones who went
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through the whole earth and found it at peace.
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And so these horses again are spiritual beings that go through
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the earth. And so we see it about three
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times here. I don't know if there's another
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verse too. There were 4 Chariots.
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And again, these are very Zechariah chapter 6.
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These are very similar to the Book of Revelation in the seals,
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the first four horsemen. So in this what Zechariah saw,
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he said. I looked up again and there
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before me were 4 Chariots coming out from between two mountains,
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mountains of bronze. The first chariot had red
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horses, the second black, the third white, and the 4th dappled
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and dappled. They tucked, you know, it could
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be green. There's like.
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Anyway, they, they match up with the Book of Revelation.
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I asked the Angel who was speaking to me.
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What are these my Lord? The Angel answered me.
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These are the four spirits of heaven going out from standing
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in the presence of the Lord of the whole world.
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So these are again spirits that are before the Lord.
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So we see them multiple times, just like Daniel saw them,
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Zechariah saw them, and John saw them in the Book of Revelation
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chapter 6. So these are spirits, and they
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tend to be the red, black, white, and dappled.
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I heard, and my heart pounded. My lips quivered at the sound.
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DK crept into my bones and my legs trembled.
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Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on
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the nation invading us. Though the fig tree does not
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bud, and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop
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fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep
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in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in
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the Lord. I will be joyful in God my
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Savior. So this is like what Paul says
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in First Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 18.
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He says give thanks in all circumstances for this is God's
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will for you in Christ Jesus. So no matter what we have to
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know that God has something better planned and that we may
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be called to endure something troublesome.
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It does say in this world we will have troubles, but to trust
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God because he has overcome the world and there is something
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better, something better that God has in store for us.
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And we have to remember that we have eternal souls.
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And whatever happens in this world, you know, we're probably
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not going to live past 120 at the most.
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And you know, probably shorter than that thinking about
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lifespans. So it's very short period of
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time in comparison to eternity. And what we do here will have, I
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don't know if I want consequences will have I don't,
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it'll affect our future eternity like what we've done with what
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God has given us. So our focus really should be on
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God first and foremost. And what can we do with the
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resources that God has given to us?
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And where do we feel that God has, He has a purpose for each
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one of us. And what is our purpose?
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How do we serve God? And the only reason we serve God
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is because God served us first. He came, sent his, well, He sent
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his Son to die for us so that we could be in his Kingdom out of
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pure love. It says there's no greater than,
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there's no greater love than to lay down one's life for another.
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And that's what Jesus did for all of us, all of us who accept
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him, who believe in him, who understand that he is how we are
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enabled to get into heaven, heaven or God's Kingdom.
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I think that would be a better way to describe it.
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And and then Jesus also said that, you know, he made the way,
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he said he's the way, his death on the cross made the way for
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us. And but he also told us that we
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needed to be born again. We needed to receive the Spirit,
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receive the Holy Spirit who is given to us by Jesus and that
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the Holy Spirit is given to us by Jesus.
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When we repent, when we look at our lives and we realize, yes,
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we sinned, yes, we've sinned and we've sinned separates us from
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God and we want to reconcile with God.
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And so when we've received the Holy Spirit, ask Jesus for the
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Holy Spirit. If you don't know that you have
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the Spirit because you will know when you have the Spirit, but if
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you don't feel like you have the Spirit, ask Jesus to send the
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Spirit because it's the Holy Spirit starts to change people
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and in a way that the way God intended.
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That's what I believe the way that God intended us to be and
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starts to transform our lives and over time.
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And so when we have the Holy Spirit, then we can be assured
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of our salvation when we remain in Christ.
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And the Holy Spirit will will like teach us God's ways
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basically, and we begin to live with the Spirit guiding us.
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If I don't know it, hopefully that is understandable.
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But I've finally figured this. Well, I can't say I figured it
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all out, but I understand it so much better than many years ago
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when I started. I didn't even know what the
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gifts of the Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit, I didn't even
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know any of that. I was trying to figure it all
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out. I remember first reading the
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Bible in 2019 and not understanding that stuff.
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But if you go to Galatians chapter 5 and you read through
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what it describes the, the way a person acts who is being guided
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by the Holy Spirit, you can easily tell if you have the Holy
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Spirit. And you can also see like how
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the world when you were before you had the Holy Spirit, how
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most of us lived. And you will see that reflected.
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And I think it's the paragraph before the one that talks about
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those who live by the Spirit. So anyway, that's what Jesus
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said. We need to be in the Kingdom of
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God. So just if, if you don't feel
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like you have it, it's a good time to pray right now.
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So there's one more sentence in chapter three, verse 19.
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The sovereign Lord is my strength.
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He makes my feet like the feet of a deer.
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He enables me to tread on the heights.
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It says for the director of music on my stringed
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instruments. So this was a song, but there's
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so much information in just a song.
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That's why the Bible is so incredible and the way God spoke
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through his prophets. But the Lord is my strength.
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That is, gosh, there's a lot of times it's been written.
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So in Exodus it says the Lord is my strength and my defense.
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He has become my salvation. He is my God and I will praise
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Him, my Father's God, and I will exalt Him.
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In Psalm 28, the Lord is my strength and my shield.
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My heart trust in Him and He helps me.
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My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise Him.
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In Psalm 118 verse 14. The Lord is my strength and my
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defence. He has become my salvation.
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In Isaiah 12 chapter 2, Surely God is my salvation.
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I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord Himself is my
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strength and my defence. He has become my salvation.
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And then of course, in Habakkuk chapter 3, verse 19, the
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sovereign Lord is my strength. He makes my feet like the feet
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of a deer. He enables me to tread on the
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heights for and then it says for the director of music on my
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stringed instruments. So anyway, I will, I forgot to
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read through the questions and answers for chapter 3.
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So I will do that and then we'll conclude.
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So it says why boast about plague and pestilence?
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Egypt enslaved and oppressed Israel.
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Eventually God used plagues and pestilence to free the
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Israelites. Habakkuk praise God for the
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plagues that overpowered the iron fisted Egyptians.
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In this case, plague and pestilence on their oppressors
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meant freedom and deliverance for the Israelites.
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Well, that's what the study Bible says, but I think it
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literally means plagues first and then the fire after Jesus.
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And the person who wrote this commentary didn't quite see all
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of these things that I'm seeing right now.
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So why is God portrayed as a warrior?
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God's opposition to evil is not just a feeling, it is an act of
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resistance to injustice. However, God alone has the right
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to defend his honor against evil.
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Holy wars waged by self-righteous and others deemed
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deserving of God's wrath often go awry, leading to further
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atrocities and evil. We glorify God best when we
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serve Him rather than try to fight for Him.
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Many times in history, God has himself made war on the forces
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of evil in order to conquer sin and set the world right.
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We know that God is just, so if there is a battle that God does,
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it's just, It's not just anything else other than that.
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So how did God thrush the nation's?
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A crop is threshed or beaten or a on a threshing floor so that
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the plants will yield their their fruit.
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Here the imagery of threshing is used to display the anger with
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which God judged the nation's for the sake of His people.
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And again, that's also what God is going to do when Jesus
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returns. What scene was Habakkuk
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describing? Here?
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Habakkuk was overwhelmed with the scene displayed before him
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of the coming wrath of God on the enemies of God's people.
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His heart pounded and his knees grew weak under the display of
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God's majesty. Moreover, Habakkuk received what
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he prayed for, assurance that God would defeat His enemies.
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The display gave Habakkuk the courage and grace to wait
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patiently for that day. What did buds signified?
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With no buds on the trees, there was no hope for a harvest, no
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prospects for better times to come.
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Figs were such a valuable food source in ancient Israel that a
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failed crop impacted the whole economy.
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Despite such a dismal forecast, Habakkuk decided to find hope in
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trusting God. Was Habakkuk kidding himself to
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rejoice during disaster? Seems like denial and totally
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inappropriate if one looks only at present circumstances.
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But faith in God as a new dimension?
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Habakkuk learned to look beyond his present troubles.
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Faith assures, as faith assures us, just as it did Habakkuk,
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that even when things seem hopeless, our all powerful God
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will eventually restore us. How can we rejoice in the Lord
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when everything around us is destroyed in the midst of great
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suffering? Loving God and rejoicing in His
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grace and wisdom is the ultimate act of faith.
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Habakkuk ended a rather dismal prophecy with a call to rejoice.
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He said, though bad things happen, I will rejoice in God my
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Savior. I will rejoice in the Lord.
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Paul echoed this verse when he wrote of being joyful regardless
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of circumstances in Philippians 4 verse four.
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He also had that in Thessalonians, which we found
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too. So there is a reason, and the
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reason is that when we endure and we stay close to God and we
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don't turn away from him, and we show God that we love him by
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being obedient to him, then we can be assured that we will be
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in the Kingdom of God. And there's something really
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absolutely amazing and wonderful that God has in store for us.
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So we always need to keep eternity in mind and keep God's
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promise in mind for all of us that whatever we go through will
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be worth it.