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723. Bible Study: Isaiah 32 (Is this about Jesus Christ reigning as King?) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 32 of Isaiah. First we'll pray.
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Dear God, please let the Holy Spirit give us wisdom and
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insight as we read through this and help us to understand what
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you have this, what you have in mind for us when we read through
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this chapter in Jesus name, Amen.
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Well, as I've said before, this is another chapter where it's
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all about Jesus and it starts out, see a king will reign in
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righteousness and rulers will rule with justice.
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So this is only Jesus, because if Isaiah was talking to either
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Judah or Israel, and he was talking about either Babylon or
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Assyria, who is going to then, you know, conquer them and
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destroy their. In fact, I think it had already
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happened to Israel, the 10 tribes of Israel, they were
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already taken into captivity. But this was, you know,
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something about the future. And it says a king will reign in
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righteousness. Well, after both of those
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southern Kingdom and northern kingdoms were defeated by
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Babylon and Assyria, they existed no more.
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There were no more kings. There isn't a king right now in
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Israel, and there hasn't been. So it says, see, a king will
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reign. So that's Jesus the Messiah,
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Jesus Christ. See, a king will reign.
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That's the very first sentence. See, a king will reign in
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righteousness, and rulers will rule with justice.
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Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from
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the storm. The streams of like streams of
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water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a
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thirsty land. So the shadow is a place like a
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covering a great rock. Jesus is the rock, the rock that
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is, is cut from the stone that will crush the, the final
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Kingdom in Daniel's dream. And he's, so he is the great
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rock and the shadow of the great rock in a thirsty land, a land
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that's wanting, wanting for wanting something, wanting a
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refreshing drink in a spiritual sense, not a literal sense.
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This is very, very symbolic. Everything in here, but I'm
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going to read through some scripture that talks about being
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hungry and being thirsty and what that symbolism is
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throughout the Bible. And then there's another one
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too. There's another symbolism here
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about being blinded or being blind, and I will read about
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that also. So then the eyes of those who
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see will no longer be closed. So there's people whose eyes are
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closed, then the eyes of those who see will no longer be
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closed. So that's kind of if you have to
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think for a minute. So the eyes of those who see, so
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they already see, but they will no longer be closed.
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That doesn't make sense, does it?
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If you just read it for what it is, it's like, well, if you can
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see, then your eyes are open. But that's not what I mean.
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That's what Isaiah is saying right here.
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Their eyes are really not open. Their spiritual eyes are not
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opened. They are blind.
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And and even though their eyes are open and they think they can
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see, they're blinded. They're blinded for certain
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reasons. And that's what I just, you
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know, if I've searched blind, then I probably could get more,
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but I searched blinded. And so I will read to you what
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comes up in the new international version.
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There are five different authors, actually, not 5
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different authors. I guess it's about 3 different
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authors that talk about blinded. And you know, I could search
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blind, blindness, blinded, blind, blind, you know, any
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version of that and it will all mean the same thing.
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So you'll probably make it will make sense once we read this.
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So in Zechariah Chapter 11, verse 17, it says woe to the
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worthless shepherd who deserts the flock.
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May the sword strike his arm and his right eye, may his arm be
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completely withered, his right eye totally blinded.
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That's not helping us with the definition.
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But then in John chapter 12 verse 40, it says he has blinded
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their eyes and hardened their hearts.
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So they can neither see with their eyes nor understand with
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their hearts nor turn. And I would heal them.
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So this one is you need to read it in context to get what it's
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saying. And this is so starting in John
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chapter 12 verse 37, even after Jesus had performed so many
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signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him.
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This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet Lord, Who has
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believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord
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been revealed? For this reason they could not
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believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere, he has blinded their
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eyes and hardened their hearts. So they can neither see with
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their eyes nor understand with their hearts, nor turn.
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And I will would heal them. Isaiah said this because he saw
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Jesus's glory and spoke about him, yet at the same time, many,
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even among the leaders, believed in him.
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But because of the Pharisees, they would not openly
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acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the
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synagogue. For they loved human praise more
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than praise from God and see that can affect all of us.
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If we are more worried about what other people think rather
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than what does God think, we should analyze everything about
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our lives and about ourselves not so much as well what does
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this person think about me, but more about what does God think
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about me. And if you gets that God would
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be happy with you. You don't need to worry about
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what somebody else thinks about you, because it doesn't really
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matter. Then Jesus cried out.
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Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the
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one who sent me. So if you believe in Jesus, that
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means you believe in God the Father.
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The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me.
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So Jesus said this before where he was a reflection of the
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Father and anyone who saw him saw the Father.
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Then Jesus says I have come into the world as a light so that no
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one who believes in me should stay in darkness.
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So no one that believes in Jesus would remain doing evil things
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in darkness. So they would, they would, they
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would be doing, you know, they would be light like Jesus is
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light rather than darkness like evil is darkness.
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If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not
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judge that person. For I did not come to judge the
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world, but to save the world. There is a there is a judge for
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the one who rejects me and does not accept my words.
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The very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last
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day. So when Jesus came, he came to
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save, but when he returns, that's when judgement comes.
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So when Jesus came, he said, if anyone hears my words but but
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doesn't keep him, I do not judge that person.
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For I didn't come to judge the world, but to save the world.
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So he came to die on the cross, and by his death on the cross,
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that's how he saved the world. But then the judgement's going
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to come later, probably because God's patient.
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He didn't do it all at one time. For I did not speak on my own,
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but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I
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have spoken. I know that his command leads to
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eternal life. So whatever I say is just what
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the Father has told me to say. So again, this is this is about
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this blindness. And there were a few more verses
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too about blindness. So the people of Israel were
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blinded because they refused to believe.
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And so God because of their refusal, he hardened their
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hearts. And then they can't.
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So we really shouldn't. I don't know.
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We shouldn't. It's amazing though, because
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some Jewish people come to faith and believe in Jesus even though
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they were raised Jewish. But there's a lot of people who
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are Jewish who will not come to faith.
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And I don't know why God allows some eyes to be opened and
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others not to. But he does say if you seek me,
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you will find me. So maybe it's a matter of, of
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that I, I'm not sure. So then in Acts 22, it says my
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companions led me by the hand into Damascus because the
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brilliance of the light had blinded me.
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So this was Paul talking and he was on the road to Damascus when
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he saw a vision of Jesus and that blinded him.
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It affected his eyesight, but Jesus wanted to use Paul to to
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reach other people and he wanted the Paul to stop persecuting
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Jesus because he was going after everyone who believed in Jesus.
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And he was a very zealous Jew at that time until Jesus, you know,
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blinded him literally and and then told him how he could
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become blind no more. And so he he listened and then
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he actually contributed to a good chunk of the New Testament
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of the Bible. And then in Second Corinthians
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chapter 4, verse 4, Paul says the God of this age has blinded
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the minds of the unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the
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gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of
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God. So he's connecting Christ to
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being the image of God, Jesus to the image of God.
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And he's he's aware. So Paul also was a a Jewish
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person and he became Christian, a Christ follower, a disciple of
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Christ. So first John chapter 2 verse
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11. But anyone who hates a brother
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or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness.
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They do not know where they are going because the darkness has
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blinded them so often darkness is symbolic in the Bible for
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evil and the rebellion against God.
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So anyway, what Isaiah says then the eyes of those who see will
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no longer be closed. God's going to open the eyes of
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the people of Israel when he returns.
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Jesus will, and the ears of those who hear will listen.
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The fearful heart will know and understand, and the stammering
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tongue will be fluent and clear. No longer will the fool be
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called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
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For fools speak folly. Their hearts are bent on evil.
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So here it's relating fools to people who do evil.
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They practice ungodliness and spread error concerning the
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Lord. So even though they think
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they're doing the right thing and they think they're
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intelligent, they are spreading error concerning the Lord that's
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talking about Jesus, because they're denying Jesus.
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The hungry they leave empty and from the thirsty they withhold
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water. So this isn't about literally
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eating and drinking, but it's about spiritual, the spiritual
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reality like hunger. God fed the Israelites manna,
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which was a heavenly bread, I guess, or heavenly food that was
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from heaven and that was symbolic of Jesus.
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And why that's symbolic is because this like I, it's just
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the way that the whole entire Bible talks about things like
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Jesus. Here's what Jesus said about in
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John chapter 6 verses 35 and then 48.
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Then Jesus declared I am the bread of life.
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Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes
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in me will never be thirsty. So he's the food and the drink.
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He's everything that we need. And whoever comes to Jesus will
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never be hungry, will never be thirsty.
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And that's a spiritual sense, like we will be fulfilled
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through Jesus. And he said, I am the bread of
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life. So you have to kind of like,
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think about that, the bread of life.
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That's like, we need to eat food to survive.
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Well, that's what we need Jesus to survive.
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So we, yeah, we need what Jesus did on the cross to survive, to
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have to be in eternity, to be in God's Kingdom.
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And then when it we talk about thirsty, what the Bible says
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about thirsty, in Psalm 107, verse 5, it says they were
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hungry and thirsty, thirsty and their lives ebbed away.
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And then in verse 9 it says, for he satisfies the thirsty and
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fills the hungry with good things.
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And then in verse 33 it says he turns rivers into a desert,
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flowing springs into thirsty ground.
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And then in Proverbs 25, verse 21, if your enemy is hungry,
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give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water
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to drink. Sure, that's a literal sense.
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You could do that. But then even more so when you
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look at what hungry and thirsty refers to in the Bible, it's
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that spiritual food and that spiritual drink.
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It is. That is what ultimately the
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Bible is pointing to. And a lot of times the Bible has
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a literal and a symbolic meaning to it.
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And I believe that's where hungry and thirsty have both of
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those meanings. So let's see.
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As in Isaiah 29, we read this already as when a hungry person
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dreams of eating but awakens hungry still.
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As when a thirsty person dreams of drinking but wakes awakens
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faint and thirsty still. So it will be with the hordes of
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nations that fight against Mountain Zion.
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They won't be satisfied and they will not partake in God's
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Kingdom. So it's again a a symbolic
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meaning each and then where we read each one will be like a
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shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, the
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streams of water in the desert and the shadow of the great rock
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in a thirsty land. Like the people don't even
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realize we are a thirsty land and we are thirsty for God.
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But it's, and you know, the the great rock.
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I mean, that's what's also interesting about what Moses
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did. This just came to mind as I was
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just talking about how God said, he said speak to the rock and
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then water will flow from it. But Moses actually hit the rock
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to get water to flow from it. And God was kind of upset about
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that because he wanted to show the Israelites something you
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just had to speak to the rock. But instead Moses struck the
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rock and then water flowed from it.
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But either way, he let the water flow from it.
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And that's also symbolic because Jesus is the rock.
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He is the cornerstone the the stone the builders rejected, and
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the water comes from him, the water of life.
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And there's just like so much symbolism and later on in the
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Book of Revelation it talks about there's going to be water
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that flows from the temple. And I don't know that could be
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both literal and symbolic. For fools speak fully.
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Their hearts are bent on evil. They practice ungodliness and
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spread error concerning the Lord.
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The hungry they leave empty and from the thirsty they withhold
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water. Then I there's there's plenty
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more parts, but then what I want to read where it refers to
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thirsty. But then in Matthew chapter 25,
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this is what Jesus says for I was hungry and you gave me
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something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me
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something to drink. I was a stranger and you invited
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me in. He's he's talking about in that
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verse. It's kind of hard to understand
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out of context, but he's talking about, well, it'll kind of
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explain here. I'll read it more than the
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righteous will answer him. Lord, when did we see you hungry
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and feed you or thirsty and give you something to drink?
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And then it says, for I was hungry and you gave me nothing
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to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me
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nothing to drink. They will they also will answer,
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Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger need or
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needing clothes or sick in prison and did not help you?
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Jesus answered everyone. Oh wait, that's not part of
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sorry. That's a different book.
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So probably have to go back. So in Matthew chapter 25 verse
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45, he says he will reply truly I tell you whatever you did not
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do for one of the least of these you did not do for me.
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Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the
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righteous to eternal life. So see, he's not even really
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talking about like a physical hunger or thirsty.
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He is talking about spiritually. And this is something actually
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that just came is like I just became aware of actually right
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now while I'm talking about it, because I do often think that
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there's a literal and a symbolic meaning.
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And I thought, you know, the clothing part, like giving
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clothes. So all of us Christians are all
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about like, let's make sure we give are not even just
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Christians. I mean anyone in the world who
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cares for other people. They and they all have that.
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You know, within them where it's like, let's take care of the
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poor, let's give food to the poor, let's put clothes on the
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poor, let's, you know, do these things and visit those in prison
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and all of this stuff. And that's good.
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But there's a deeper meaning in Scripture about that.
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And the deeper meaning is an eternal meaning.
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So all the people who do not know the Lord, who do not know
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Jesus need food, they need Jesus, the bread of life, they
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need water, they need the water. That's eternal water, that it
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comes from Jesus. And I hope that is like you
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understand it the way I do because all of a sudden I just,
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I just realized that they said, you know, if you don't do this,
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then they will go away. The ones who don't get the food
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and water will go away to eternal punishment, but the
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righteous to eternal life. So it's not saying they're going
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to go away hungry. That wasn't fair that they
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didn't have food. They were hungry.
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They were starving people. No, it says if they don't, if,
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if we don't, who know the Lord don't give to the the
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spiritually hungry or the spiritually thirsty, then they
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will go to eternal punishment. Matthew 25 verse 46 clears that
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up and about clothes, Often when a person becomes changed, they
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are given a new set of clothes. That's symbolic of a new
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creation. When someone receives the Holy
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Spirit, then a person becomes a new creation.
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They their old garments are traded in for new.
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And that symbology is used throughout the Bible.
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I can think of it like in Joshua, it talks about doing
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that for Joshua, like taking off his dirty clothes and putting
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clean clothes on him. And it talks about washing your
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robes so that they're clean. Like there is like what you
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wear, what you cover yourself with, make sure it's covered.
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You're covering yourself with light with, you know, it's
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always a white for purity. And it's not like a dark cloak
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or anything. It's a white cloak and it's
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symbolic of Jesus being the light.
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So there's so much symbology in here and it's all pointing us to
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Jesus. So continuing on in, in verse 7
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of Isaiah from chapter 32, scoundrels use wicked methods.
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They make up evil schemes to destroy the poor with lies, even
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when the plea of needy is just. But the noble make noble plans,
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and by noble deeds they stand. You women who are so complacent,
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rise up and listen to me. You daughters who feel secure,
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hear what I have to say. In a little more than a year,
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you who feel secure will tremble.
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The grape harvest will fail. The harvest of fruit will not
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come. Tremble, You complacent women,
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shudder. You daughters who feel secure,
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strip off your fine clothes and wrap yourselves in rags.
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Beat your breast for the pleasant fields, for the
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fruitful vines, and for the land of my people, a land overgrown
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with thorns and breers. Yes, mourn for all houses of
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merriment and for this city of revelry.
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The fortress will be abandoned, the noisy city, deserted citadel
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and watchtower will become a wasteland forever.
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I thought that was interesting forever.
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So that hasn't happened to Jerusalem.
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And I know that Jesus protects Jerusalem in the end.
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So I don't know if, but I also know that there's a new
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Jerusalem that comes out of heaven, and it's way bigger than
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what the current Jerusalem is. And I guess there's some
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ambiguity about that now that I'm reading this and just
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thinking about that. Maybe that's why the new
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Jerusalem comes down is because the old Jerusalem will be
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completely destroyed. I don't know.
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But that's just the thought that came to my mind right now.
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While we're I'll do things doing this podcast because because of
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what Isaiah says forever, because why would he talk about
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something that was going to happen in A and I just don't get
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this part either. If there's some symbology here
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in a little more than a year, you who feel secure will
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tremble. So there probably is more
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meaning to that, but I don't understand it and the study
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Bible addresses it. But, you know, kind of like
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they're not even sure. But it seems like this entire
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chapter is about the return of Jesus, that period, rather than
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Assyria coming because you know what we read later, You know,
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sure, Assyria would be doing these devastating things to the
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land of Israel, but Israel was not a was not desolate forever.
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It it came back. And so is this a future
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prophecy? The delight of donkeys, A
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pasture for flocks till. So it's talking about, I'll
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start to read a little bit more because go back a little bit.
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So it makes sense. The fortress will be abandoned,
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the noisy city, deserted citadel and watchtower will become a
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wasteland forever. The delight of donkeys, A
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pasture for flocks till. The Spirit is poured on us from
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on high, and the desert becomes a fertile field.
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And the fertile field seems like a forest.
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The Lords justice will dwell in the desert, the his
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righteousness live in the fertile field.
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The fruit of that righteousness will be peace.
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We know that when Jesus returns, he will bring peace.
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Everything will be the final peace.
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It'll be like for the 1000 years that he reigns, there will be
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peace like we've never had before.
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Its effect will be quietness and confidence forever.
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So once a once Jesus establishes it, it's going to be forever.
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My people will live in peaceful dwelling places, insecure homes,
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in undisturbed places of rest. Is that a description of Israel?
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Has it been a description of Israel ever?
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It's never been that way. Maybe there might have been
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peaceful moments, but it seems like there's always been an
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enemy wanting to attack them all the way from the beginning of
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the Bible. So when the tribes, when they
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were established, I mean, from the very beginning, there was
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always enemies coming against them.
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So it's I, you know, this is this is the future.
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This is when Jesus returns. And it says, though hail
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flattens the forest and the city is leveled completely.
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That's where I'm getting what I don't know if Jerusalem will
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actually be leveled completely and that's why the new Jerusalem
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comes down. Like I said, that thought just
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came to mind while I was reading this though.
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Hail flattens. We know that God uses hail for
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judgement. He even the earliest book, the
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oldest book I think is the book of Job and it talks about have
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you seen my storehouses of hail, I think, and snow that are for
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times of war. So the hail flattens the forest.
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The forest is not just trees. It's symbolic of many different
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types of peoples and nations, like the olive tree is Israel,
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like the cedar tree is Lebanon, and then there's Myrtle trees,
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but I'm not sure what they represent and maybe they don't.
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But there's a lot of symbolism with trees because he would talk
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about what other prophets would talk about.
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I will cut down your tree like the what you've grown.
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And there's lots of symbol symbology in those things.
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How blessed you will be sowing your seed by every stream and
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letting your cattle and donkeys range free.
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And that's the end of chapter 32.
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And again, I think it's all about when Jesus reigns and
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Jesus Jesus Christ the Messiah. So hopefully you'll come back
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for chapter 33. And when I look ahead, I think
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this also has some end time implications.
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And I actually wrote Jesus on there too.
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So there's this is going to be another chapter about Jesus.
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And it seems like it's been so covered up that people don't
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talk about it. In fact, I forgot to read the
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questions and answers on the study Bible because sometimes
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they have different ideas than what I do.
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So I'm going to read those chapter 32.
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What king will reign in righteousness?
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Whether or not Isaiah's original readers understood it, this
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prophecies the coming Messiah, not an ordinary king.
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A perfect government will only be established under the rule of
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the Messiah. His righteousness will even be
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reflected by those who serve Him as the rulers or government
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officials. How will each man be like a
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shelter and a refuge? Some believe the words each one
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refer to all of the Lord's redeemed people, but most think
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this pertains to the rulers of the Messiah's righteous
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government mentioned in verse one.
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These rulers will reflect the protective and sheltering
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character of their king, whose eyes will be opened to all who
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earnestly seek to follow him. Christ gives eyes to see and
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ears to hear spiritual truth. If we receive Him, we will be
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receptive to God's truth. God had warned Isaiah that the
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people's eyes and ears would be shut to the truth.
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Their hearts would be hardened to God's message given through
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Isaiah. Here, however, God promised
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through Isaiah that the Messiah would heal such spiritual
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blindness and deafness. Why would a fool be considered
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noble? When people are spiritually
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blind and deaf, they often allow ungodly people.
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Fool means someone who prefers sin over righteousness, someone
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whose heart is bent on evil, to assume noble positions of
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leadership. Such a thing will not happen in
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this righteous Kingdom. Why were the women complacent
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and confident that they were secure?
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They were so caught up in their easy lives of luxury that they
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ignored deeper spiritual needs, both their own and their
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nations. Isaiah called attention to their
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complacency as just one example of Judah's twisted values during
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his day. What would happen in a little
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more than a year, though, we can't say with certainty.
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Many commentators suggest that this was a prophecy of Judah's
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invasion by the Assyrian king seen a cherub in seven O 1 BC,
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when only Jerusalem itself escaped major damage.
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In this case, the armies of Assyria would bring widespread
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destruction, rooting the harvest.
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Or perhaps the failure of the harvest would be due to the
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inability of the people because of the enemy occupation to
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gather the grapes and other ripe fruit.
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I just think that that doesn't make sense in context with the
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rest of it when it it absolutely seems like this is about the
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time of Jesus's reign. So but nobody knows.
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I mean, I don't even, yeah, I don't really get this.
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In a little more than a year, you who feel secure will tremble
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maybe in some point in the future will definitely know that
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or in hindsight will say, oh, that's what he meant there.
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So it was like one year of time. It's like everybody feels
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complacent. That's probably like what it
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means because it says when people are saying peace and
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security, suddenly destruction will come upon them.
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So it's kind of like something unexpected.
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But he's saying you're so complacent.
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But in a little more than a year, you who feel secure will
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be trembling, like there's going to be a drastic change in a
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little bit more than a year. So is this reference to
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Pentecost in Acts 2. As so often occurs in Isaiah,
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the prediction of tragedy and defeat is immediately followed
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by God's promise of hope. If Judah has trusted in all the
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wrong things and become barren and unproductive, God has a
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solution that will make possible true productivity and security
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His own spirit. This language of outpouring was
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destined to be far reaching being taken up by the prophet
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Joel in Joel chapter 2 verses 28 through 29, which was quoted by
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the apostle Peter after after the outpouring of the Spirit on
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the day of Pentecost in Acts chapter 2 verses 17 through 18,
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The also at the IT says in the last days, which technically you
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know, the the last days were the days of they began when the
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disciples when Jesus went away. That is like what they call the
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end of the age. And after Jesus left, after he
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rose from the dead and went back to the Father, then that period
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until that we're still in until he returns again is called by
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some prophecy people, I guess the church age.
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And that's supposed to be a period of 2000 years.
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And that's why people talk about 20-30 as being a possible date
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for a not date, but a year for Jesus's return, because if he
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died around 30 AD, 2000 years later would be 20-30.
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So there's, that's the reason why, because there's this, this
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church age and that's the age when it's called.
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I don't really like that terminology, but people use it
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when it's called the church age because everybody thinks about
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churches rather than people, but people make up the church.
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So it's when believers, it should be like the believers age
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is what it should be called the 2000 years.
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And then that's going to, I guess it's God's patience that
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he's waiting to see all the people that will come in and
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become believers within this time period of 2000 years.
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And the big question is nobody really can absolutely say what
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year it was that Jesus died on the cross.
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And not only that, but different rulers affected the calendars.
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So now our calendars are off. I mean, some are I think are
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even off by a couple 100 years. So we aren't going to really
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know other than the signs that Jesus gave us about his soon
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coming return. But as far as a calendar goes,
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we're we're just going to be guessing because everything so
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much has changed and it's just, it's just not possible.
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It's possible to know. Like I believe that it's 2000
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years after his death that he will return based on lots of
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different information from the Bible and from historical pieces
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of what the early church, the early believers believed.
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So yes, I do. I just don't think that we know
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what what actual year it was. So it could be a wide range that
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some will say it can go like 5 years forward, five years back
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from 2030. So we'll just have to see.
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But if so, if that is the case, I mean, that's only five years
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away from now when I'm recording this podcast.
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And you know, it could be earlier or it could be a lot
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longer. But again, like every podcast
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that I do, it's important to be prepared right now so that when
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Jesus returns that you will be happy about it and not fearful
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when he returns because his return is going to be a
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gathering of people and taking us into his into I guess the
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heavenly realm. So that because we go up into
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the sky. So that's why I think that's
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where we will go initially. But then again, we'll be here on
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earth at some point with Jesus because it says that we will to
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be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
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And then when he returns is also when people get their immortal
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bodies. So and the dead in Christ, the
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believers rise. The dead people who believed in
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Jesus and trusted in him will rise first and then those who
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are alive and remaining will then also be brought up to
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Jesus. So there's there's a lot to look
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forward to if you're a believer. And if you're not, make sure you
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seek God because he says you will be found and it's all about
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receiving eternal life. It's all about making it into
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the Kingdom with God, being in the presence of God, and being
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prepared to be in the presence of God.
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Because God is holy. He wants us, and we have to be
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holy actually, but we can't do it on our own.
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We need the Holy Spirit to make us holy.
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So when we believe all of this, God will send the Holy Spirit to
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us and help us remain with us until Jesus returns or until we
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pass away, whichever one comes first.