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Palm Sunday - The Triumphal Entry - Luke 19:28-48 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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Well, you've probably realized by now I'm not Pastor Clark or
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Pastor Lewis. My name is Sam Morris.
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I'm part of the leadership here at Calvary Chapel.
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I serve with the kids in Sunday school and do some teaching on
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Wednesday night as well as helping with some of the youth
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on Wednesday. So good morning to everyone,
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happy Palm Sunday. Let's let's pray and get into
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the word. Lord.
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It says in Isaiah that you tell us the end from the beginning,
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Father, so that we know that You are God and there is no other.
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Over 500 years ago, Lord, you prophesied of your coming into
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Jerusalem. You revealed the very day in the
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very manner of your coming, Lord.
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Lord, please help us to discern the times that we live in today.
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Lord. We see wars, rumors of wars,
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pestilence, plagues, Father, or in famines and diverse places.
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Lord. Lord, please just help us today
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in our generation. We look at the world around us
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and we wonder how much longer till you come again.
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Father, I pray that each person here today or listening would
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hear your word and be drawn closer to you in Jesus name,
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Amen. All right, so I think everyone's
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aware this is a very significant day, Palm Sunday, right?
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The fulfilment of many prophecies, the arrival of
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Messiah of Jerusalem. So I want to give a brief
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overview of sort of what we call what the Passion week, right?
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I know on, you know, Friday, Pastor Clark will talk about it
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and then Lewis on obviously on Resurrection Sunday, we'll get
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into a little bit more. But I thought it'd be a good
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idea just to give you a sort of a layout of the week, right?
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Jesus from Sunday to Sunday. So Palm Sunday writes A
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triumphal entry in the Jerusalem.
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Jesus arrives on the scene and this is as you'll find them in
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the Gospel, Luke, you'll get scholars at the bait, some of
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the events from Wednesday to Thursday and things like that.
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But a lot of people have it like this.
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So on Monday, he walks in and cleanses the temple, right?
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And this is actually the second cleansing of the temple.
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The first time it occurred in John 2, if you go back and look
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at that, at the beginning of his earthly ministry.
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And then he does it again at the end of his earthly ministry.
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And when he's there in the temple, he has the lame and the
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blind. They come in and he heals them,
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right? Just like it was prophesied in
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Isaiah. And then on Tuesday, he teaches
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in the temple and he's questioned by the religious
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leaders. Wednesday the religious leaders
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plot to kill Jesus, and then Judas agrees to betray him.
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Thursday you'll see the Passover with his disciples they arrest
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in the Garden of Gethsemane. And then Friday, Good Friday,
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you see Peter's denial, Jesus questioned by the Sanhedrin,
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Pilate and Herod, and then crucified in the tomb before
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sundown. And then Saturday's the Sabbath,
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right? The day of rest.
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And then on Sunday, the 1st day of week, obviously we're all
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very familiar with that resurrection Sunday, right?
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Now you're going to get some people that argue Christ's
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death, whether it occurred on Friday or Thursday because they
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say he had to be in the tomb for three days.
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But if you look at Jewish, you know, the Jewish day, it's
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sundown to sundown. So people who say Good Friday,
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right? If he was in the tomb before
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Friday evening, there's one day, then he's there Saturday, and
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then he raises from that on Sunday, right?
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So that'd be 3 days. So you get that argument.
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We're not going to belabor that because me, some people say, Oh,
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no, it's Thursday to get the full 3 days.
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The most important part is he wasn't in the tomb anymore on
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Sunday, right? So we're not going to worry
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about that one. So before we get in the loop
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today, and that's where we'll be in Chapter 19, if you would
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please turn with me to Exodus 12 because I think it's important
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to understand the Passover in itself as you look at this week
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ahead for Jesus. So, Exodus 12.
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So you have the 1st 9 plagues in Egypt, right?
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And then it gets to the 10th one in Pharaoh's heart's been
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hardened. And God says I'm, I'm going to
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do something else, right? I'm going to take the first born
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from everyone. But there's a way for you guys
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to escape at the Israelites, right?
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And he institutes the Passover where they had to take a lamb
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and put the blood above their doorpost.
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But we're going to read it here. So Exodus 12 verse, we'll go
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through verses one through 6 here.
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And it says, now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land
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of Egypt, saying, this month shall at the beginning of
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months, it shall be the first month of the year to you speak
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to all the congregation of Israel, saying on the 10th of
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this month, and that's the 10th of Nissan, every month shall
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take for himself. Every man shall take for himself
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a lamb according to the House of his father, a lamb for a
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household. And if the household is too
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small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house
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take it according to the number of persons, according to each
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man's need. You shall make your count for
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the lamb. Your lamb shall be without
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blemish, a male of the first year.
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You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
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They shall keep it until the 14th day of the same month.
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And the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall
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kill it at twilight. So that's the 14th of Nissan,
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four days later. So if you jump down the verse 12
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now says, For I will pass through the land of Egypt on
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that night and I will strike all the first born in the land of
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Egypt, both man and beast and against all the gods of Egypt.
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I will execute judgment. I am the Lord.
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Now the blood shall be assigned for you on the House is where
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you are. When I see the blood, I will
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Passover you and the plague shall not be on you to destroy
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you when I strike the land of Egypt.
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So when you look back at the passion we Christ arrives on
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Sunday, right? He's tested by the religious
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leaders for four days and then he's killed at twilight, right
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and buried Friday evening. So really parallels the Passover
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that God instituted going back into the Exodus.
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It's almost like God was trying to show them something through
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their entire history leading up to that point, right?
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That your true Passover lamb has arrived.
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You need His blood to avoid this judgement that's coming.
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So you either can accept him in turn or you're going to face
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judgement. So we can get in the loop now.
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So if you go to Luke 19 verse 28.
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So we'll be jumping around a little bit today because this is
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a very prophetic event, very historical.
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So as we work down through, we're going to be jumping
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through a couple different verses, but we'll start here in
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Luke 19, verse 28 says, when he had said this, he went on ahead
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going up to Jerusalem and it came to pass when he drew near
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to Beth, Fuji and Bethany at the mountain called all of it that
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He sent two of his disciples saying, going to the village
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opposite you, whereas you enter, you will find the Colt tide and
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on which no one has ever sat loose it and bring it here.
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And if anyone asks you, why are you losing it?
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Thus you shall say to him, because the Lord has needed it.
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So right off the bat, my first thing is like, Jesus knew what
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the disciples were going to ask here, right?
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I think of like a modern equivalent.
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You're walking into someone's driveway and you're just going
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to go in and take their car, right?
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Someone comes out of the house and they're like, Hey, what are
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you? What are you doing, right?
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So Jesus is preempting saying, Hey, tell me the Lord has need
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of it and they'll understand that, right?
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It's it's one of those things that you you think about and
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it's kind of like, Oh yeah, the Lord doesn't need it.
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They take and they just walk away.
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But you think those people there and what we'll see that here
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coming up in verse 3234, how they respond to that.
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They must have had some sort of awareness to what was going on,
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some awareness to who this Lord may be, right?
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Just to hand over their donkey and colt and walk away from it.
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So in verse 32, so those who were sent their way found it
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just as he said to them. But as they were losing the
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colt, the owners of it said to them, why are you losing the
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colt? And they said the Lord has need
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of him. So going back to their thoughts,
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right, So they either recognize these disciples and have seen
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them with Jesus and they knew who the Lord was that they're
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Speaking of, right? Or they understood the prophecy
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in Zechariah 9. So if you guys want to turn
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there to Zechariah 9, it's a little bit before Matthew.
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So don't go too far into the Old Testament back just a little
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bit. So Zechariah 99 says, rejoice
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greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem,
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behold, your king is coming to you.
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He's just in having salvation lowly and riding on a donkey, a
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colt the full of a donkey. I will cut off the chariot from
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Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem.
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The battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the
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nation's. His dominion shall be from sea
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to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth.
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So you see, God had prophesied 500 years before the survival of
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Christ that he would ride in on a cold a full of a donkey. 500
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years before it happened He had prophesied of it.
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So go back to Luke here in verse 35.
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Then they brought him to Jesus and they threw their own clothes
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on the cold and they set Jesus on him.
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And as he went, many spread their clothes on the road.
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So Matthew's gospel, if you go look in chapter 21 of Matthew,
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you'll see that there was a great multitude.
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It was not just a few of the disciples or the 12 disciples,
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right? It says there was a great
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multitude that laid their clothes down on the road.
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That's where you see them cutting down branches, palms,
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right? The lay lay on the road and
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spread them across there. So when you think about the idea
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of laying clothes on the road, it's an idea that they're
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showing respect for a king. There's a couple of examples of
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it. The one that you see in the Old
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Testament is give you a little bit of background.
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So I think everyone probably knows who Ahab and Jezebel are.
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You probably don't see too many people named Jezebel for a good
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reason. But so Elisha and the sons of
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the prophet. Elisha tells one of the sons of
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the prophet go annoying Jehu king, right.
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I'm going to print out God's pronouncing judgement on Ahab
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and Jezebel and their family line.
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So one of the sons of prophet runs out, goes to Jehu, anoints
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him king takes off running because I think he's afraid he's
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going to kill him. He runs back and Jehu gets back
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to his sort of entourage and they say, oh, what, what did
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what did that crazy prophet say? He's that he's just a crazy guy
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in there. And they're like, no, really,
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what did he tell you? He said I'd be king and he
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anointed me. So immediately all his entourage
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lays down their garments before him on the steps, right?
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It's a sign of royalty, a sign of a king showing respect for
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him. Now, the idea riding on a
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donkey, you know, when Jesus came in on a donkey, this is
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very significant in terms of his first coming versus second
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coming. When he comes in on a donkey, it
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symbolizes peace and humility. So normally a king, when they
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come into a city and they're as a ruler, right?
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They're looking to conquer, they're going to come in on a
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horse, right? That sign of power, a conquering
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king. And that's where you see Israel
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and the Jewish people, right? They, they missed it.
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And you even see the disciples, the chapters before, when Christ
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is telling them, hey, this is what's coming.
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I'm going to be cut off. They're going to kill me.
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I'm going to die for the sins of the world.
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And the disciples had no ID. And you see that all throughout
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the Gospels that they were just as blind as everyone else was to
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what was going to come because they, they expected their,
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they've been taught their entire lives that the Messiah would
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show up, set them free from Rome, and he'd established his
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Kingdom. That's where you see James and
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John and the mother arguing about, hey, when you come into
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your power, can my son sit on your left and right hand, Right.
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So they're thinking of this earth, earthly rule, which will
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happen. But that's the second coming.
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And they didn't. They didn't quite get that.
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So if you look again in Luke 19/9, a little bit before Jesus
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rides in, it's the story of Zacchaeus, right?
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And you get to the end of that and he says salvation has come
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to this house. What Jesus came to do in his
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first coming at the end of that verse in 99, it says that he
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came to seek and save that which was lost.
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That was his goal of the first coming, right?
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He's the true Passover lamb. And you see that reference
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throughout the New Testament, the Gospels.
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You see a Peter people calling him the Lamb of God.
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John specifically called him the Lamb of God.
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He is their Passover lamb in our Passover lamb, right?
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So if you want to turn with me to Luke 4, so just go back a
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couple pages. We're going to talk a little bit
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more about his first coming compared to the second coming.
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So Luke 4, he's in, in Nazareth, right in his hometown.
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He walks into the synagogue and he's reading from Isaiah.
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So in Luke 4 verse 16, so so he came to Nazareth where he had
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been brought up, and as his custom was, he went into the
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synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read.
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And he was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah.
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And there's a lot of prophecies in Isaiah for telling of the
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coming of Christ and what he would do.
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He'd cause the blind to see the lame to walk.
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So he stood up and read Start here, verse 17.
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And he was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah.
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When he had opened the book, he found the place where it was
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written. The Spirit of the Lord is upon
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me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.
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He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim
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liberty to the captives and recover of the sight of the
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blind, to set liberty at those who are pressed to proclaim the
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acceptable year of the Lord. So that that's Christ's first
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coming, right? He came to sake and see, save
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and seek that which was lost. We are right now in the
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acceptable year of the Lord. And you notice he didn't quite
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finish that verse. If you go look at that verse in
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Isaiah, the next line is in the day of vengeance of our Lord,
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right? So that's his second coming.
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That's what's coming next. So the time that Christ first
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came until now we are all in the acceptable year of the Lord.
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So that second coming and this time He is going to come on a
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horse. If you go to Revelation 19, God
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willing, we get there with Lewis.
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If the rapture of Christ doesn't return before then.
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So Revelation 19, verse 11, it says, Now I saw heaven opened,
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and behold a White Horse. And he who sat on him was called
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faithful and true, and in righteousness he judges and
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makes war. His eyes were like a flame of
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fire, and on his head were many crowns.
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He had a name written that no one knew except himself.
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He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and his name is
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called the Word of God. And the armies in heaven clothed
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in fine linen white. And queen followed him on white
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horses. Now out of his mouth goes a
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sharp sword, that with it he should strike the nation's, and
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he himself will rule them with a rod of iron.
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He himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of
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Almighty God. And he has on his robe and on
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his thigh a name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
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So that's the second coming of Christ.
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He's going to come in judgment in his second coming.
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He's he's going to be on a horse that time and they will
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recognize him that time. So I look at that and you think
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about being in the acceptable year of the Lord.
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We have a chance today to believe, right?
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To put your faith in Christ while we're in this time.
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Because listen, not everyone knows when they're going to die.
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Your days are numbered. You can walk out today.
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You can get in the car, start driving down the road, someone's
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texting and they hit you and you're, you're, you're done,
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right? It's over.
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There's a lot of people texting out there in their cars.
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There's a lot of accidents. There's a lot of sickness.
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You just don't know the number of your days.
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And James says it's pointed once for a man to die and then comes
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the judgement. And Christ said that he's the
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way, the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father but
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through him. So when you put those together
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and you hear a lot about, Oh no, I'll wait to get right with
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Christ, right? I'll wait, I'll put it off until
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I'm dead so I can live this life now and enjoy everything I'm
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enjoying. You can live in sin.
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That's not how it works. And you see books written out
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there that say, you know God, God loves everyone, which he
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does. He loves everyone but they say,
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oh, he'll just keep him in time out for so many years and after
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that he'll let him free and everyone be in heaven together.
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If that were so, then the question would be why?
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Why in the Garden of Gethsemane, why did Christ say Father let
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this cup pass from me, right? If there's another way, let it
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pass from me and there wasn't right?
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He said not my will, but your will be done.
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So to contradict the character of our Father.
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If it wasn't that way now, I mean, for me, hey, he's right to
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do whatever he wants. He could say, OK, I'm going to
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let everyone out, you know, and be good with it like I could.
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I couldn't argue him if he wants to do that in the future.
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But everything that we see here in Scripture says that once
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we're going to die and then we're going to be waiting for
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judgement. So we have to make our decision
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today, right? So verse 37, Luke 19.
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Then as he, as he was now drawing near the descent of
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Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began
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to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for the for the
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mighty works they had been there for they had seen saying,
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blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord, peace in
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heaven and glory in the highest. And then in Matthew's Gospel you
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see Hosanna to the Son of David, right?
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Hosanna meaning saved now and son of David is obviously
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Messianic. So that's why you see in this
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next verse here, the Pharisees and some of the Pharisees called
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to him from the crowd. Teacher, rebuke your disciples.
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They knew what the disciples were claiming Christ to be.
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They knew what the multitude was saying.
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What was, you know, calling out the Christ.
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And that's from Psalm 118. If you want to go there and look
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at that one, but we'll stay here for now.
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And Jesus answered them in verse 40.
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He said, but I tell you that if these should keep silent, the
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stones would immediately cry out.
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When you think about that, the culmination of prophecy from 500
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years from Zechariah, and even before that of the coming
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Messiah, Christ is saying this is such a significant event that
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even if there was no one around, the rocks would cry out.
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And now it's his coming. And it's going to be the same
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way when he comes a second time, right?
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Because it's been prophesied of and you can't get around God's
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word. If he says something's going to
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happen, it's going to happen, right?
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We're not going to get around that.
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So when you see the mighty works, right, it says the
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disciples are praising him for the mighty works that they had
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seen. What did they see in the
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Gospels, right? They they saw the deaf, lame and
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blind healed. They saw multiple people raised
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from the dead. Lazarus, he's already in the
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tomb for four days, brought back to life.
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Those are the mighty works that he had seen.
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When you think about that, just seeing something doesn't always
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make you believe. You think in our own life, you
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know, we we know it's Jesus after he's resurrected, right?
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He says to Thomas, because you have seen, right, you believe a
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blessed are those who believe and have not seen.
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That's kind of where we are, right?
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We believe, and even though we didn't see all the miracles, we
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didn't see him physically erased from the dead, but we believe
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because he changed our hearts and he came into us.
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So you can get caught up. In all this knowledge and all
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this idea, like the Pharisees, they obviously knew a lot about
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God. They didn't take it the heart
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and they kind of created a bunch of traditions that were
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nonsense. And God, I'm in a lot of
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trouble. But you can get caught up in
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this idea that you know so much about Jesus, but you don't
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really know Jesus, right? And what's it say when Peter,
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Jesus was asking the disciples, who do people say I am?
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Some of the disciples said, Oh, you're Elijah.
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Or some people were saying you're, you're John the Baptist
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or some prophet. And what what's what's Peter say
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to them? You know, what's Peter say back
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to Jesus? He says.
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No, you're, you're the Christ, you're the Son of the living
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God. And that's the most important
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question that you can answer for yourself.
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Who is Jesus to you? It's not who's Jesus to me?
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I can't make that decision for you to believe.
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You have to have that in your own heart, whether Christ is the
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Son of the living God, your Messiah, not my Messiah.
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He has to be your Messiah, right?
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So another point here, it says it talks about the Mount of
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Olives. That's pretty significant as
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well. We'll get to that here in a
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second. Throughout Christ's.
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Ministry on earth, you don't see him too often declaring himself
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as the Messiah. This is one of the first times,
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I think the first time really, that he walks in and says he
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sets it up, goes, gets the donkey, has the everything
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organized basically. And the fairy Pharisees say
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rebuke your disciples because they're claiming this.
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And he says, Nope, the rocks would cry out if, if they didn't
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declare it in all the gospels, you'd see him heal people.
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You'd see all these miracles. And what would he tell the
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people after that? Keep quiet.
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Don't tell anyone that I'm basically here, right?
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He's kind of being hush, hush about it because his hour had
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not come. You'd see that throughout the
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gospel that says for his hour had not come because he didn't
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want the people taking him and marching him into Jerusalem
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before the will of God right before the time that he was
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appointed to arrive in Jerusalem on that day.
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All right, so. Speaking of the Mount of Olives,
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his first coming, right? So he comes in on the Mount of
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Olives. Let's talk a little bit about
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the second coming now. So if you go to Acts One, it's
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the ascension of Christ. And he goes up into the.
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Clouds. We're going to jump around a
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couple different verses here. So if you flip to.
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The right from Luke. So verse 9.
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Here says, now when He had spoken these things while they
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watched, He was taken up in a cloud, received him out of their
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sight, and while they look steadfastly toward heaven, as He
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went up, behold, 2 men stood by them in white apparel, who also
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said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven?
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This same Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven will so
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come in like manner as you saw him go into heaven.
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And then verse 12, it says then they return to Jerusalem from
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the mount called all of it, which is near Jerusalem, the
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Sabbath day's journey. So you see Jesus came in the
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first coming on, you know, through the Mount of Olives.
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He ascended back into the clouds from the Mount of Olives.
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If you go to Zechariah 14, we're going to see in the second
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coming that he's also going to return to the Mount of Olives.
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So if you go to Zechariah. 14 Just a little bit to the left in
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Matthew. All right, so we'll pick up.
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There in verse one it says Zechariah 14 One, behold, the
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day of the Lord is coming, and your spoil will be divided in
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your midst. For I will gather all nations to
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battle against Jerusalem. The city shall be taken, the
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house is rifled, the women ravished, half of the city shall
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go into captivity, but the remnant of the people shall not
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be cut off from the city. And then the Lord will go forth
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and fight against those nations as he fights in the day of
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battle. And that day his feet will stand
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on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east.
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The Mount of Olives shall be split into two from east to
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West, making a very large valley.
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Half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it
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toward the South. So I have never been to Israel,
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but I do have Google Maps and Google Earth, so you can look at
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this. So if you look at the Mount of
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Olives, right, I'm trying to get my bearings right here, so.
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It's on the other side. Of the eastern gate of
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Jerusalem. So this is my left hand.
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So we're going to go here, right?
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So eastern gate of Jerusalem. Now I'm backwards either way.
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It's on the other side of the eastern gate of Jerusalem,
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right? So Christ is going to arrive
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there and he's going to split that mountain and you have the
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Kidron Valley in between there. Now, there's some interesting
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things about that right now today.
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So the eastern gate where Christ has prophesied to enter back
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into Jerusalem in 1541, the Ottoman Turks, I think it was
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Suleiman the Magnificent, he sealed that gate shut because of
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the Jewish prophecy that the Messiah would arrive there.
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And they also put a Muslim graveyard right in front of it
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because they thought, oh, a Jewish person is not going to
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defile himself coming through the graveyard, right?
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So they believed in it from the Jews, right?
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And then on the other side of the Kidron Valley, on the Mount
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of Olives, there's one of the most ancient and largest Jewish
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graveyards awaiting the arrival of the Messiah.
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So you got a pretty good picture of these people are trying to
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keep the Messiah out. And on the other side you have
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all the people waiting their Messiah, right?
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Pretty interesting when you look at that.
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But for them sealing that eastern gate, it's also called
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the Golden Gate of the beautiful gate in Jerusalem.
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You can go look this up online. You'll see images of it.
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I wouldn't be banking on the Muslims keeping him out when he
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arrives. If he's going to split the
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mountain in two, I think that's also going to split and he's
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just going to kind of walk in. So, you know, they they can try,
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but I don't think it's, I think it's going to work there.
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All right, so back to Luke 19. So this section we're going to.
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Get into a little bit more history and prophecy.
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And there's. A reason for belaboring some of
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this because I think, I think it's important that we know that
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everything in God's Word is true, right?
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You can go back and look at the historical sites.
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They keep digging places, they keep finding more and more.
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So it's important to know that what you have in here is true
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because when you get into the New Testament says everyone who
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believes in the name of the Lord, right, who calls the name
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of Jesus will be saved. If that wasn't true, why should
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you believe that, right? So we're going to go through
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some of this. So in verse 41 of Luke 19, it
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says now as he drew near, he saw the city and he wept over it,
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saying, if you hadn't known, even you, especially in this
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your day, the things that make for your peace, but now they're
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hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when
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your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround
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you, close you in on every side, and level you and your children
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within you to the ground. They will not leaving you one
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stone upon another because you do not know the time of your
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visitation. That's that's a tough one,
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right? To hear that one.
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First time Israel they. They missed the first coming of
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Christ, and it's been kind of a pattern for them.
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If you read the Old Testament, what did they do?
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The Joseph. They rejected him, threw him in
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a pit, and then sold him as a slave to Egypt.
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And the second time they accepted him.
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Same thing with Moses. Remember when he went in to try
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to Save the Children of Israel? They rejected him and they
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wanted him gone. And then the Lord sent him back
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and they finally accepted him. It's a bit of their pattern,
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right? And then you see in Jesus's
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final public sermon in the temple, right, he really lays
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into the religious leaders and it's all those woes, right?
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I think there's seven of them in there.
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It says, woe do you scribes, Pharisees, you hypocrites.
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And then he gets through all this that he's basically
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hammering him with, and he gets the end of me.
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He says, you will not see me again until you say, blessed is
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he who comes in the name of the Lord, right?
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Speaking of that nation of Israel, who right now their eyes
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are blinded. And you'll see that in Romans
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11, the Paul says that their eyes have been blinded until the
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fullness of the Gentiles be brought in.
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So it's. A bit of a big.
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Judgement on them. So a little bit of history for
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this section of scripture. So in 68 AD.
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The Vespasian, who was a general at the time, had conquered the
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outside areas like Galilee area leading up to Jerusalem, and he
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was laying siege to Jerusalem. And then all of a sudden Emperor
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Nero dies and he has to run back to Rome, right?
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So you see in the New Testament, Christ warning them, and I think
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it's even in the next chapter of Luke, he says that when you see
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Jerusalem surrounded, flee, right?
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He tells them to get out, run. And that's why you also see in
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the book of the Acts that it's possible that.
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The Holy Spirit and God. Put on those believers in
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Jerusalem, on their hearts, that's all they had and
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basically live communally together because in a short
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period of time they were going to have to flee for their lives.
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And if you have a house and you have a bunch of land, that's
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going to make it pretty tough to get rid of that, right?
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So that's, that's the thought behind that because you don't
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really see that elsewhere in the Scripture and some of the other
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letters that Paul writes to the church.
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So there's a thought for that one, but we'll keep going here.
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So once Emperor Nero died, there was a bit of a struggle with
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some other guys, but eventually that's Basalum and that's when
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that the city and the sanctuaries destroyed, he takes
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over, right? If you ever run any accounts to
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Josephus, he might be a little bit favorable to Titus and the
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way he talks about him because he basically, I wouldn't say he
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was a traitor turned on the Jews, but he kind of went on to
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the Roman side. And that's how he was able to
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live right under that line of emperors.
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But so Titus, he goes back, sieges Jerusalem again, all the
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Jews at the final hurrah get barricaded into the temple.
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And there was an argument and Josephus was talking about this,
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who's a Jewish slash Roman historian that Titus didn't want
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to burn the temple down because he kind of wanted to keep his
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like a trophy, right, for the conquest.
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Like, hey, look what we did. Look at this beautiful building,
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right, that we have and wipe them out.
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So he can kind of conferred with his generals and said that no,
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we're going to, we're going to keep it.
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But you know, you kept getting the Jews coming out and
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attacking the Romans and the Roman soldiers eventually set
30:13
fire to it and burn the temple down.
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So they end up wiping out the temple in 70AD.
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And when you see about not. One stone being left upon
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another. When they wiped out the temple
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and it burned down, a lot of the walls were laid with gold,
30:27
right? So that burned down and melted
30:29
into the cracks. And then the Romans went in
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there to get all the gold and the treasure out.
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They picked apart the stones and threw them out so that even
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today you can see images online, if you've been to Jerusalem, you
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can see that there's, these massive stones have been thrown
30:41
down from the temple wall on the ground, right?
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Huge stones because the Romans, literally, they, they took it.
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They took it down one stone upon another to get the gold out of
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it. All right, so let's.
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Let's go to Daniel 9. We got to finish the thought.
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Here on this one. So I'm going to skip some.
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Of Daniel 9 and we'll get we'll get the one part of it I'll fill
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you in so Daniel's praying he looks back at prophecy from
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Jeremiah and realizes that there's 70 years in Babylon that
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they were going to have to spend for forsaking the Sabbath, right
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So he's basically confessing his sins in the sins of the people
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to the Lord and at the end of that prayer and that's where
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we're going to pick up in verse 20 of.
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Daniel, Chapter 9. He says now while I was
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speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people,
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Israel. Now it's an interesting thing
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because Daniel, he's one of the, we know Daniel had sin, but he's
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one of the people in the Bible that there's no mention of sin
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of Daniel, right. And you'll see that where God
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calls him greatly beloved, but we know he had sin because
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Christ is only one without it. But very interesting that you
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see that there. He's presenting my supplication
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before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God.
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Yes, while speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen
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in the vision at the beginning being caused if I swiftly to
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reach reach me about the time of the evening offering.
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And he informed me and talked with me and said, Oh, Daniel, I
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have now come forth to give you skill to understand at the
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beginning of your supplications. The command went out and I've
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come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved.
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Therefore, consider the matter and understand the vision.
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So I'm going to try to go through this pretty quick
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because we won't have too much time.
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So it says 70 weeks are determined for your people and
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for your holy city. So this prophecy is for your
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people and your holy city. Speaking to Daniel, it's talking
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about the Jews. This is not a prophecy on the
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Gentiles. This is a prophecy on the Jews
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in Jerusalem. It says to finish transgression.
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So you're going to see six things listed here.
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The first three are the first coming of Christ.
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The second three are the second coming of Christ.
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It says to finish the transgressions, to make an end
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of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity.
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And that's what Christ did for us on the cross, right?
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You finished a transgression, ended sin and made
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reconciliation. And then here's the second
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coming to bring in everlasting righteousness.
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So this is one that have a hard time where people say that we're
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living in the millennial reign right now because I don't see
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everlasting righteousness in the world.
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I don't see everything under under Christ right now.
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When he comes back, we're going to see that.
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But I don't see that right now. And Satan still seems like he's
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not bound. So we'll we'll continue on.
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So seal a vision and prophecy. I think there's some outstanding
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prophecy. I don't think Christ has
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returned yet, unless someone can tell me otherwise.
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And to anoint the most holy, it says this is part of where we're
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going to see our verse here today in Luke.
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It says no, therefore and understand that from the going
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forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem.
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So this is not about building the temple, which you're going
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to see in Ezra. And we don't have time to get in
33:47
all these verses, but the command the build and restore
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Jerusalem was a Nehemiah 2 and approximately like 445 BC from a
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hazardous says until the Messiah the Prince, there shall be 7
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weeks and 62 weeks. So 69 of those 70 weeks is the
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time period from that command until Jesus walks into
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Jerusalem. And the street shall be built
34:11
again. In the wall, even in trouble
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sometimes that's in Nehemiah, if you want to go read that.
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They had a lot of trouble rebuilding the walls and streets
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of Jerusalem and says after 62 weeks, so there's already been
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seven weeks and now after another 62, so we're at week 69.
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The Messiah shall be cut. Off, but not for himself.
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So a lot of people have looked. At this the 70 weeks or
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seven-year, so it's 70 * 7 four, 190 years when you go through
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this prophecy and we'll we'll continue on here.
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So you have 490 years. We fulfilled 483 of it until the
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coming of Christ, right? So when you read that in Luke
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19, it says for in this year day what we've had for you, the
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peace I've had you, you should have known, right?
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You should have known the time that I was coming to you because
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I told you 483 years ago, or yeah, I told you 4 and 83 years
35:06
ago when I was going to arrive on the scene.
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But you didn't see it, right? And there's some people and
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there's some books out there. I think it's called The Coming
35:14
Prince. And he does his calculation.
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He says it that Jesus would have if it was March 14th, 445 BC,
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when the hazardous gave that command that he would arrived
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on, let me see here, 32 AD, April 6th, which is really
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close. Now you can argue that date
35:29
where it's 30 AD 33 or whatever, but it's really close.
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And you have to remember when you go do this, the Jewish
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calendar is 360 days, not 365. There's a lot of different
35:38
calendars out there. So it's not as easy as it looks
35:41
just taking 365 * 43 and getting there.
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So there's a little bit more than that.
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But what Jesus is telling them, they.
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Should have known it, right? So let's continue the prophecy
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because it also goes into what we have today.
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And after 62 weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for
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himself. And the people of the Prince who
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is to come shall destroy the city in the sanctuary.
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So we already know that who destroyed the city in the
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sanctuary? It was the Romans.
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And then it says the people, the Prince who is to come.
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And a lot of people believe this is the Antichrist descended from
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the line of Rome, Rome. But Rome had a vast area.
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So good guess on who exactly that may be right?
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They had a lot of territory. The Babylon in six O 5 BC.
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So this is somewhere in the neighborhood of like 530 ish BC
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520 something BC. He's already prophesying that
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there's a second temple in Jerusalem before the 2nd temple
36:36
is even wiped out. All right, it's not even built
36:39
yet until until the end of the war.
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Desolations are determined. It says then he shall confirm a
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covenant with many for one week. And this is the Antichrist in
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that last seven-year period that with the timetable is going to
36:51
go back to the Jews, right? Because right now we're living
36:54
in the acceptable year of the Lord.
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So that's that 483. To 490 that's left, it says.
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But in the middle of the week, he shall bring an end to
37:04
sacrifice and offering. So when you see people talking
37:07
about 1/3 temple, you might be wondering, why do people think
37:10
there's going to be a third temple?
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It's because right here, because in order to have sacrifice and
37:14
offering for the Jews, they have to have a third temple, right?
37:18
And for the Antichrist to cut that off, there must be one
37:21
there. And it says on the wing of
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abomination shall be one who makes desolate even until the
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consummation which is determined is poured out on the desolate.
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So let's go back to Luke here. So we'll start getting towards
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the end. And I mentioned before I.
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Belabored going going through some of that just because I
37:54
think it's important for you to know that everything that the
37:57
Bible says is true. If you go back and look at those
37:59
prophecies, it happened exactly how God said it would happen.
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And there's people out there and critics like to say no, Daniel
38:07
was written, you know, 100 BC or 200.
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He still said the sanctuary is going to be sacked in 70AD,
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right? He still prophesied when Christ
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was going to arrive and they found that his prophecies they
38:20
are dated back to that time period is 500 BC plus.
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You know, going back to the Jewish people.
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And I mentioned before about Romans 11 that blindness has
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come to them until the fullness of the Gentiles is brought in.
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And then you see again in Luke 21, it talks about Jerusalem's
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going to be trampled by Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles
38:43
are fulfilled. I mean, it's really hard not to
38:48
say God's on his own timetable with things, right?
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He's given us numbers and dates and things are when it's going
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to happen. He knows, you know, it might not
38:54
be our time. It's his time.
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And you think about where we are right now.
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We're in a generation where 100 years ago there was no nation of
39:02
Israel to look at. There was no, you say you would
39:04
read these and you'd be like, huh, like, what does that mean?
39:07
It must be the church, right? But God has not replaced Israel
39:11
with the church. If you go read Romans 910 and
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11, you'll see that in there in Isaiah 66, A, it says, can a
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nation be born in one day? Speaking of Israel, right,
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that's where you see in May 14th, 1948, the nation of Israel
39:27
was declared a state again, right?
39:29
A country which came out of nowhere, right?
39:32
You never would have thought all these Jewish people from all
39:34
over the world would not be gathered back.
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And I think there's seven, some million of them there.
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So we live in some interesting times, right?
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I think everyone's like, oh, that you hear that phrase out
39:45
there, We've never been closer to the coming of Christ, right?
39:48
And it's true because actually passes, you're getting closer.
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But I think our generation, we've literally never been
39:54
closer to the coming of Christ. We have the nation of Israel
39:57
sitting in their land. You see other prophecies in
40:00
Daniel where it talks about people going to and fro
40:02
throughout the whole earth and knowledge is going to greatly
40:04
increase. I mean, what age do people say
40:07
we live in, right? It's the information age.
40:10
We have AI and data centers and all this crazy stuff going on.
40:13
You can't tell what's real and what's fake anymore.
40:23
So if the worship team wants to come.
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Forward here, I'll begin to wrap up.
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We're going to do a brief about the verse 45 and 48 for the
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temple here for cleansing of the temple.
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And it says in verse 45. Then he went into the temple and
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began to drive those out who bought and sold.
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And it's saying to them, it is written, my house is a House of
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prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.
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And he was teaching daily in the temple.
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But the chief priests and the scribes and the leaders of the
40:47
people sought to destroy him and weren't were unable to do
40:50
anything, for all the people were very attentive to hear him.
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So there's there's a lot. That can be said about what was
40:58
going on in the court of the Gentiles and the Temple during
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that time. So what it was, you had all the
41:04
money changers and in the courtyard, right?
41:07
People will come in with their currency from out outside and
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they say, no, you have to use the our currency here.
41:13
So they basically RIP you off. You go to another country,
41:15
they're going to charge you more to get their currency.
41:17
It might take a little bit. So they're had some exuberant
41:20
taxes basically to get the right coinage to be able to purchase
41:24
things in the temple courtyard. And then they were selling
41:26
animals because you would show up with your animal and they
41:29
say, Nope, that's not good. Has spots and blemishes, right?
41:32
And they'd be like, here, you have to buy one from us.
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So now they're making people, when they're robbing them,
41:36
they're literally robbing them of their money, right?
41:39
And they're taking away the connection that the people have
41:41
to their sacrifice for their atonement, right?
41:43
So it just becomes a ritual of them.
41:45
It's just a thing they do. Hey, I can pay for it.
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You just pay for it, right? It doesn't affect you at all.
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What was that doing to Israel right?
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Is destroying their witness right that court of the Gentiles
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was supposed to be an area where they could come in and see the
41:58
God of Israel, right? The one who brought them out of
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Egypt and see who he was but it. Was a den of thieves.
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You know, First Corinthians 6 says, do you not know that your
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bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you
42:12
have received from God? You are not your own, for you
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were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your
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body and in your spirit, which are gods.
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If you're here today and listening, if you allowed sin to
42:26
come into areas of your life, it's it's slowly going to
42:29
destroy you. You know the.
42:32
Bible says what do light. And darkness have in common.
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If you're backsliding and living in sin, you might look really OK
42:37
on the outside, but I guarantee you, you feel empty on the
42:40
inside. If all you have to do is get
42:44
back with. Jesus and he'll come into you,
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He'll cleanse you just like you did the temple, and he'll take
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that sin and remove it. But when you start spending less
42:51
time with Jesus and more time with the world, you're not going
42:54
to be in a good situation. And for those, if you don't know
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Christ today and you can't stop the fooling around, the
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drunkenness, the anger, the lying, stealing or whatever type
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of sin may be controlling your life, you know, you're
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completely empty inside. You might have a lot of social
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media followers and look like everything's pretty dandy on
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there. I mean, for the young kids, if
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anyone's listening, social media is really fake.
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Everything you see on there is not real.
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It might be real. The picture, even some of those
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pictures are fake because people just want likes.
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What you see on there is not real Life, OK?
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But if if you're that. Empty inside.
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You can't fix it on your own. You see a lot of self help
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books, they get you through something, but what do you see
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on the other side? A lot of people relapse, they go
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back into it, right, because they can't do it on their own.
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But. What does Christ promised?
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Us, if you accept him as your Savior, it says the Holy Spirit,
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he's going to come into you, He's going to cleanse you and
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he's going to give you a new heart.
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He's going to give you peace that passes all understanding.
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All you have to do is invite. Him in and you have that peace
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that you've never had before. So as we look at taking.
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Communion here. For revealing yourself.
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To us, Lord, through many prophecies and Lord even going
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to look back at history and see the time, the very manner and
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our Lord, the day that you would arrive in the Jerusalem.
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Father for our own benefits so we can look back and understand
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that what you were telling us is real.
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It's not a favorable. It's not something that someone
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just came up with. Lord, we can believe that this
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word that we have here today is true, Lord.
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And we know when you say that if we confess with our mouth, Lord,
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and leave in our heart and you, Lord, that you will save us from
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our sins, Father. Lord, we just thank you.
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For this time today, Lord, I pray that you would bless those
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who are here today. Lord in Jesus name, Amen.
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All right, it. Says on the night he.
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Was betrayed. He took the bread and we had
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given thanks. He broke it and said this is my
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body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
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Says in the same way after. Supper He took the cup, saying,
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This cup is a new coven in my blood.
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Do this whenever you drink it in remembrance of me.
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Says whenever you eat this. Bread and drink this cup.
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You proclaim the Lord's death until he comes again, and
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that's. What it's all about right we're.
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Looking forward to the Lord coming again, and we know, we
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know he's going to come again soon.