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The Feasts and the Day of the Lord | Mondo Gonzales and Graham Keelan · The Week in Bible Prophecy

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  Speaker 1: The Week in Bible Prophecy, a Prophecy Watchers podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the program today, Mono Gonzalez here in studio
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  Speaker 2: with our good friend Graham all the way from England.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome Graham, Thank him Mom.
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  Speaker 4: No, great to be here as ever. I enjoy my
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  Speaker 4: time with you. Yeah, this is good.
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  Speaker 2: And we've been Graham and I've been going through a
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  Speaker 2: series on the Day of the Lord. So if you
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  Speaker 2: haven't had a chance to see our other programs, you
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  Speaker 2: certainly can check them out. And we are just progressing
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  Speaker 2: because the thing about the Day of the Lord that
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  Speaker 2: we have been going through is that the Day of
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  Speaker 2: Lord is very complex. I think, Graham, some of the
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  Speaker 2: things that we've been talking about is that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we know that many of the churches don't talk about prophecy,
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  Speaker 2: and I think often we tend to think, oh, the
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  Speaker 2: day of the Lord, I don't really know about that.
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  Speaker 2: That's part of eschatology, that's not really part of my
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  Speaker 2: daily life. But yet in reality, what we're finding is
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  Speaker 2: that the Day of the Lord Lord has a lot
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things, but one of them is God's
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  Speaker 2: direct intervention in humanity. But also he sets it up
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  Speaker 2: to where and we're going to talk about this today
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  Speaker 2: in the right ways. But this is really how God's
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  Speaker 2: people connect with him in the past.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely. And I mean the amazing thing for me is
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  Speaker 4: when I propose we do this, do this series, I've
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  Speaker 4: been digging in and I've been seeing things I never
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  Speaker 4: saw before, and you know, I never understood before. And
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  Speaker 4: of course that's how it works. Right as you're digging
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  Speaker 4: in and you bring to teach to teach people, you're thinking, Wow,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't see that. And one thing I have noticed
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  Speaker 4: I have really surprised me is, you know, because a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people and I was I suppose you could say,
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  Speaker 4: I was like that you think that the Day of
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  Speaker 4: the Lord is just this eschatological day at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the days, you know, and when all the bad
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  Speaker 4: stuff happens and God rescues his people and pour judgment
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  Speaker 4: about upon their rebellions. But what we've seen in the
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  Speaker 4: study so far, Mono, is we've we've gone all the
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  Speaker 4: way back to Israel's beginning the Exodus. So we we've
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  Speaker 4: discussed certain themes about the Second Exodus. All there, the
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  Speaker 4: first Exodus, and it's all Day of the Lord language,
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  Speaker 4: it's all it's all Day of the Lord a Day
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  Speaker 4: of the Law theme, and in fact, we understand our
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  Speaker 4: redemption through the Day of the Lord. And when we
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  Speaker 4: we we we understand it that way, we we realize
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  Speaker 4: there's no discontinuity between the what we call the Old
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  Speaker 4: Testament and the New Testament in that sense, you know
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  Speaker 4: that the Day of the Lord is running through is
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  Speaker 4: running through both, and it's an exciting study. I'm really
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  Speaker 4: enjoying what what we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for the sake of the you know, the just
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  Speaker 2: continuity in that regard kind of highlight for us a
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  Speaker 2: few of the main themes that we have been discussing,
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  Speaker 2: which are the there are a few main themes that
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  Speaker 2: are part of every demonstration in the in the narrative
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  Speaker 2: from from the Garden of Eden all the way to
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  Speaker 2: the end of the millennium, the entire human history. There
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  Speaker 2: are certain theremes themes that are characteristic of the Day
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord in every demonstration. Kind of talk.
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  Speaker 4: About that, yes, so you know, I again we think
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  Speaker 4: of the Day of the Lord as judgment, you know,
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  Speaker 4: but even like the forgiving of sins is an act
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  Speaker 4: of judgment. It's it's God bringing his judgment to man's sins,
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  Speaker 4: and he's judging, is judging in mercy. So you know
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  Speaker 4: when he is he is faithful and just to forgive
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  Speaker 4: us us sins. It's an act, it's a it's a
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  Speaker 4: legal decree. So you know, we have to understand that
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  Speaker 4: all of all of what he is doing is him.
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  Speaker 4: When he's visiting humanity's he's bringing his mercy's bringing his
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  Speaker 4: judgments and and he's intervening in hue and history in
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  Speaker 4: certain places as as you said, but he's bringing an
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  Speaker 4: aspect of he's always bringing in aspect of the day
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  Speaker 4: of the day of the Lord. So so okay, so
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  Speaker 4: you have this idea with the you know, the Jews
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  Speaker 4: understood themselves and they understand the Old Testament as they
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  Speaker 4: are the Adam, the new Adam returning to Eden, returning
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  Speaker 4: to the land of that's flowing with milk and honey, right,
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  Speaker 4: So that there's that theme that runs through through the
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  Speaker 4: Old Testament. But then that's in opposition or in response
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  Speaker 4: to the first Adam being expelled from Eden. You know,
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  Speaker 4: so when we think about maybe Adam and Eve there
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  Speaker 4: in the garden of Eden, they're living, God comes down
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  Speaker 4: in the cooler of the day, they're sor they're living
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  Speaker 4: in the day of the Lord moment, they're living in
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  Speaker 4: his presence, they're communing with him. You know, people now
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  Speaker 4: in heaven, you know that have gone before us, they're
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  Speaker 4: they're living in his presence, they're living in his day.
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  Speaker 4: So we never get away from the day of the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: But but we see it. We see it almost sporadically,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that's the wrong way to see it,
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  Speaker 4: and that's kind of what we're discussing here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's interesting and fascinating when you look
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  Speaker 2: at the Bible. Uh, the you mentioned the word visit.
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  Speaker 2: That's a very loaded Hebrew word pacad, it's it's it
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  Speaker 2: has I think it's fascinating because I remember being in
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  Speaker 2: seminary and learning you know, Hebrew and and different things.
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  Speaker 2: But but this word's like, hey, when someone visits, when
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  Speaker 2: God visits, it's uh, it could go good or it
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  Speaker 2: could go accountability. I mean, God's gonna come down and
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  Speaker 2: see like oftentimes you'd say I'm gonna go to I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna go to Sodom. I'm going to see whether well
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  Speaker 2: he knows of course, but using the language, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: come see whether they have done what you know what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing there, you know, whatever. So the idea of
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  Speaker 2: the Day of the Lord has both elements, the pacad idea,
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  Speaker 2: the visitation. Jesus said that in Luke nineteen they did
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  Speaker 2: they did not know the time of the visitation.
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  Speaker 3: And so but Jesus when he came, as we know, he.
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  Speaker 2: Came with an offer of blessing, he came with miracles,
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  Speaker 2: he came with healings, He came with God's word, the
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  Speaker 2: offer of salvation to be redeemed from the sin. But
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  Speaker 2: with it, when they didn't respond the right way, of course,
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  Speaker 2: there was blindness that came, and they were blinded in
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  Speaker 2: part and they were given over to judgment. And so
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  Speaker 2: when God visits, there definitely is a response of humanity
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  Speaker 2: to that visitation. And so that really is what we
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  Speaker 2: see in the Day of Lord. And so also, which
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  Speaker 2: might be helpful kind of you know, we're here in
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  Speaker 2: session four, maybe kind of just give a short you know,
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  Speaker 2: one minute two minute overview where we've been and then
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  Speaker 2: where we're going in this one today.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so what have we discussed in our previous sessions?
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  Speaker 4: We discussed the what what it was, and we kind
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  Speaker 4: of touched on that now you know, it's just a
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  Speaker 4: great point. You may because when you make a point,
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  Speaker 4: something goes often is that you know, we don't and
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  Speaker 4: we don't really see the Sodom and Gomorrah as a
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  Speaker 4: day of the Lord even because it doesn't have the
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  Speaker 4: Day of the Lord language, right, but it is it's
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  Speaker 4: his visitation. And interestingly that example is used in the
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  Speaker 4: New Testament, you know, Jesus and the and the Apostles,
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  Speaker 4: well in in in the later epistles, so as it
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  Speaker 4: was in the days of Noah, and then as it
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  Speaker 4: was in the Days of Love and and you know,
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  Speaker 4: Sodom and Gomorrah. So all of these visitations where God
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  Speaker 4: is coming to correct humanity's course because he has a
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  Speaker 4: grand plan for humanity where we all enter into the
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  Speaker 4: fight that the day of the Lord for complete rest
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  Speaker 4: and Sabbath and all of that. So we've done sort
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  Speaker 4: of like the what and then I think we we
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  Speaker 4: looked at the the, the where, and the when again
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  Speaker 4: where it where? This day has sort of broken into
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  Speaker 4: human history because God is always watching. God is always watching.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing escapes it whatsoever we think, because he doesn't respond.
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  Speaker 4: And this is Peter's argument, right, Mondo, is that people say, well,
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  Speaker 4: where is the day of his coming and what? And
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  Speaker 4: Peters comes out with this, well, you know, don't you know?
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  Speaker 4: The day is with the Lord as a thousand years
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  Speaker 4: and a thousand years as one day. Yeah, so we
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  Speaker 4: all have to we have to always bear that in mind.
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  Speaker 4: The day is upon us, the day is here. We
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  Speaker 4: live in the shadow of the day. I can actually,
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  Speaker 4: I think as we get further on into the study
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  Speaker 4: that somehow we've already been caught up into the day.
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  Speaker 4: I think. But that's that's more nuanced. But so we
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  Speaker 4: looked at that the what, We looked at the where,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the when. And then at the last time,
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  Speaker 4: we looked at the who brings the day of the Lord,
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  Speaker 4: didn't we we? And we looked at certain figures, the Messenger,
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  Speaker 4: the Messenger on the don Kin Zachariah uh, the Messenger
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  Speaker 4: in Malachi, the Messenger of with the with the with
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  Speaker 4: the feet on the mountains of Israel, in Isaiah. And
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  Speaker 4: then we looked at the Dead Sea scrolls. And then
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  Speaker 4: this person they called upon. They connected this person that
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  Speaker 4: the Daniel seventh character, the son of Man, the the
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  Speaker 4: Isaiah character, and they connected him with Melchizedek and they
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  Speaker 4: called him Melchizedek. And then at the end, if you remember,
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  Speaker 4: it said and your God is melchissedex. So somehow this
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  Speaker 4: individual brings all of the all of the associations of
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  Speaker 4: the Day of the Lord, because in one sense, well
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  Speaker 4: maybe in every sense, he is the incarnated Day of
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  Speaker 4: the Lord himself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that really is important. Thing is when when
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  Speaker 2: you look at the the mysteries of or that maybe
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  Speaker 2: the confusion that many, like the rabbis at or even
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  Speaker 2: the people at Kumaran. But for us who have the
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  Speaker 2: fullest revelation in the New Testament, certainly by Jesus himself
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  Speaker 2: and then of course his his apostles, we understand when
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  Speaker 2: you put Jesus with no surprise, when you put Jesus
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  Speaker 2: right in the middle, you're like, oh, well, he accomplishes.
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  Speaker 3: He's the he's the guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the central figure. As we would know the
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  Speaker 2: Angel Lord certainly, you know, mel Kezdek is a type,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and Jesus is of that order. But over
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  Speaker 2: and over and over the captain of the Lord's army,
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  Speaker 2: you know, again, all of the Angel Lord appearances Genesis eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: when the Lord appears with the two angels right before Sodomyaemora.
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  Speaker 2: I think that was the Lord Jesus himself, because we
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  Speaker 2: know the Father is not embodied, and Jesus, Jesus was
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  Speaker 2: in certain times and became hermanly ambodied as a human.
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  Speaker 2: But it's amazing to me, and I think what we're
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  Speaker 2: going to get into it here. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about the connection between the day of the Lord and
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  Speaker 2: it's we've seen it over and over right, different different instances,
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  Speaker 2: different visitations, if we're going to use that word, which
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  Speaker 2: is a great connection. But yet God instructs his people
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  Speaker 2: in the feasts indeed, to have these ceremonies. They're his moadeem,
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  Speaker 2: they're his festivals, there his rehearsals. And yet they are consistent,
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  Speaker 2: periodic or regular events that he has set up seven
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  Speaker 2: Leviticus twenty three.
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  Speaker 3: So talk about that, talk about the segue over to
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  Speaker 3: the feasts.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and so we know that the face of the
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  Speaker 4: Lord are given to them at Sinai, right, this is
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  Speaker 4: why it's all instituted. And they're instituted for a reason.
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  Speaker 4: And you mentioned, you know, the Angel of the Lord
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  Speaker 4: in the Old Testament and as et cetera. But I
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  Speaker 4: think you can make a good case. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: how you feel about this. Is that the one who
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  Speaker 4: comes down on Sinai with the trumpets, there's only one
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  Speaker 4: person who comes from heaven with trumpets. We know who
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  Speaker 4: he is. That the one who comes down from Sinai
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  Speaker 4: almost the mediator to bring the law, is the one
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  Speaker 4: who then also becomes the angel of the Lord. So
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  Speaker 4: we you know, we know it's God who comes down
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  Speaker 4: on Sinai with the cloud with the trumpets, with the lightnings.
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  Speaker 4: And again you're thinking, well, if that isn't the same
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  Speaker 4: one who's coming down at the end of the the
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  Speaker 4: story with the clouds and the lightnings and the trumpets
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  Speaker 4: or what have you, then there's some discontinuity there. So
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  Speaker 4: I see a connection here, and I don't think I
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  Speaker 4: think it's pretty easy to connection. Is that we have
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  Speaker 4: a Sinai and then we have where the feasts are implemented,
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  Speaker 4: and then the one who sort of like implements the
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  Speaker 4: feasts is then the one who who comes to fulfill
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  Speaker 4: the feast in the end. And the one who will
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  Speaker 4: will will culminate, will consummate this this day of the Lord,
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  Speaker 4: because he's initiated it here for the children of Israel,
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  Speaker 4: because Jesus up the God. I refer to him as Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: Of course he's not Jesus in the Old Testament, right.
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  Speaker 4: So this is where it can get a little bit confusing,
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  Speaker 4: because because when he comes down on Sinai to initiate
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  Speaker 4: a covenant with you, with them, he then comes to
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  Speaker 4: fulfill the covenant incarnated as one of them, as the
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  Speaker 4: Seed of Abraham, to fulfill that which he gave to
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  Speaker 4: them on Sinai which they could not fulfill, to bring
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  Speaker 4: redemption to Israel and to the whole world. But he's
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  Speaker 4: initiating feasts here, the feasts of the Lord, as you said, Mondo,
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  Speaker 4: here at Sinai, because there is a great plan on
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  Speaker 4: fo So I think that's what we to want to
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  Speaker 4: look at today because we we we sort of discussed
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  Speaker 4: that and we've introduced that is that you know, Sinai
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  Speaker 4: is when the the the Mosaic story begins, right. So
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  Speaker 4: God Moses says, God will raise up a prophet like
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  Speaker 4: unto me, you know. And it's interesting Jesus, you know,
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  Speaker 4: he seems to lay claim to the Sinai person because
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  Speaker 4: he's he speaks in the in the Gospel of Matthew
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  Speaker 4: on two occasions where he's he says, heaven and earth
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  Speaker 4: will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
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  Speaker 4: And then he also says, not one John or tittle
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  Speaker 4: of that all will pass away, heaving the worth wi
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  Speaker 4: pass away, but not one John, John, It'll always fulfill.
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  Speaker 4: And you're thinking, well, if you're the one who's somebody
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  Speaker 4: else who's done the heaven on earth thing, you're thinking, well, actually,
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  Speaker 4: I might have something to say about that. But if
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  Speaker 4: you are the one who's done the heaven on earth thing,
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  Speaker 4: created it. I created it, right, then you could say
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  Speaker 4: not every because they're all his words. They're all that
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  Speaker 4: you know, they're all his words. So so something's initiated
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  Speaker 4: at Sinai, this story where he's engaging now now with Israel,
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  Speaker 4: and he launches he said, now, these are the feasts,
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  Speaker 4: They're my feast, their fist you have to keep. And
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  Speaker 4: and in one sense, so what we've said is that
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  Speaker 4: the the the the the coming of Israel, the exodus,
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  Speaker 4: the coming of Israel out of Egypt to the mountain.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it takes I think it's about a month,
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  Speaker 4: isn't it, from when they leave when they get to
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  Speaker 4: the mountain and then also less about.
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  Speaker 2: A year that they're there, at least ten months.
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  Speaker 4: Very interesting, right, because this has going to tie into
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  Speaker 4: all sort of prophetic scripture. So what they and so
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  Speaker 4: what is initiated now is the day of the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: And if they had not been disobedient, because they would
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  Speaker 4: have gone straight into the promised land. Right, But this
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  Speaker 4: is what you know. You're coming out of here, into
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  Speaker 4: the land that I will show you. You're coming out
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  Speaker 4: of captivity, out of bondage, out of slavery, into the
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  Speaker 4: land flow with milk and honey, into the land of
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  Speaker 4: my presence, no more those foreign gods. You will dwell
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  Speaker 4: with me. I will be your God, you'll be my people.
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  Speaker 4: We will be married. It's all there, right, the fact
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  Speaker 4: that they were married to God at SINAI. I will
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  Speaker 4: be your husband. You'll be a faithful bride, to be
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  Speaker 4: a faithful wife. Of course they weren't, but that didn't
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  Speaker 4: stop God's faithfulness. And in this then Mondo, he institutes feasts,
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  Speaker 4: but they're not just yeah, I want you to do this,
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  Speaker 4: I want you to do that. So there's something going
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  Speaker 4: on here where they are living in a in a
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  Speaker 4: continuity of the day of the Lord. They are living
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  Speaker 4: this deliverance day for them. They are living in the
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  Speaker 4: like in the shadow of it. And we know that
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  Speaker 4: the feasts are called you know, in the types and
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  Speaker 4: shadows until until the full until the fullness comes, so
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  Speaker 4: you know, and at these feasts is so, what do
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  Speaker 4: they do at three feasts? Mondo? They they they have
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  Speaker 4: to present themselves before the law down.
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  Speaker 2: Down in which we know ultimately ends up being Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 2: and don't show up empty handed. Right yeah, so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: all males went up three times a year, had to
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  Speaker 2: travel down as a good Jewish person.
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  Speaker 4: But they were doing that. I think they were doing
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  Speaker 4: a shiloh as where they are. So all of this
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  Speaker 4: was tied with a feace and what that is. It's
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  Speaker 4: a reenactment of them presenting themselves at the mountain of Sinai, right,
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  Speaker 4: and they say, well, you can't come up with them,
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  Speaker 4: but you need to present yourselves and then they set
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  Speaker 4: Moses up to the mountain. So this is not this
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  Speaker 4: is not okay, We've done that. Now we've got to
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  Speaker 4: do something else. This is a con These feasts are
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  Speaker 4: reminded to them and it's not just a reminder as
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  Speaker 4: we think as a Westerner. Oh, I you know, I
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  Speaker 4: remember where my keys were. I remember that I did
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  Speaker 4: this ten years ago. These feasts are actually re enactment.
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  Speaker 2: The invitation to reenact and participate in all their history,
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  Speaker 2: to come back and say, listen, it's not just something
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  Speaker 2: your ancestors got to do. You get to be a
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  Speaker 2: part of it as a continuous yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. So as they're participating in these meals, as they're
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  Speaker 4: bringing their harvest there, as they're doing passover, let's just
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  Speaker 4: take the pass of what they are re enacting, the
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  Speaker 4: exodus moment, the death of the firstborn in Egypt, the
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  Speaker 4: salvation of them because they are now God's first ball.
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  Speaker 4: They are actually they are back in Pharaoh's land. You know,
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  Speaker 4: they are back there. They are. This is what it's
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  Speaker 4: all about. That's what it means for them to remember. Well,
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  Speaker 4: so you will remember my covenant. God says, it's not that.
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  Speaker 4: So they have this yearly cycle. Right, we have these
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  Speaker 4: seven feasts, and interestingly they last a year and then
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  Speaker 4: they recycle. At each of these feest sort of bring
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  Speaker 4: a reflection, bring a different aspect of of of even
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  Speaker 4: the exodust moment. Right, so we will have a we'll
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  Speaker 4: maybe have a have a have a look at some
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  Speaker 4: of this, because we.
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  Speaker 2: Into this it's pretty amazing. Not only did God institute
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  Speaker 2: these as a remembrance of the great act of the Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: but he's going to bring in, of course, all of
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  Speaker 2: the other ceremonies that are more of the ritual or
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  Speaker 2: the you know, cultic in the sense of priestly stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But we also know in Colossoms two, sixteen and seventeen
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  Speaker 2: that all of those are types and shadows of the
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  Speaker 2: fullness of something forward. So it's interesting that God in
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  Speaker 2: again he visited them using if we think of the
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  Speaker 2: day of Lord as visitation, which would be a great synonym,
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  Speaker 2: we see the visitation on the Mount Sinai, and then
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  Speaker 2: of course we see his invitation to come in. Because
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  Speaker 2: if we asked this question, whose land is it, It's
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  Speaker 2: God's land, right, We talked about that in one of
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  Speaker 2: our other series. God says, this is my land.
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  Speaker 3: It's my land.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you use it. You're red, is gonna
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  Speaker 2: be obedience, but I'm gonna let you use it. But
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  Speaker 2: it's always God's land. But then as that progresses all
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  Speaker 2: the way through, we get to see that part of
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  Speaker 2: that rehearsal. The word modeem mo ed is a rehearsal,
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  Speaker 2: is a looking forward to further points of the Plan
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  Speaker 2: of Redemption, which also include rehearsals. But all the way
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  Speaker 2: through the day that the millennial. Even there's an argument
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  Speaker 2: you can say that the millennium itself is part of
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  Speaker 2: the day of the Lord, which that's that's for another conversation.
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  Speaker 2: But nevertheless, every time this happens, God is saying, you're
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  Speaker 2: participating with me. In one sense, I'm bringing you back
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  Speaker 2: to my garden, which was the garden where I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: walk with you, I'm gonna interact with you, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna we're gonna have this this fellowship, and then
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  Speaker 2: having it repeated over and over because you know what,
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  Speaker 2: in one sense, that generation died, the next generation is
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  Speaker 2: gonna die. So just because we're born later doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: we should have to miss out. And that's the beauty
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  Speaker 2: I think of what God is doing is saying every
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  Speaker 2: generation has the opportunity to re enact this and participate
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  Speaker 2: and do enjoy God today just like they did back
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  Speaker 2: then again by remembering.
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  Speaker 4: It, yes, and and remember who brought you here, remember
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  Speaker 4: what you were brought from and remember why you came here,
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  Speaker 4: Why I brought you here. I brought you here to
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  Speaker 4: separate you.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's like it's and again the whole idea of paradise,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's it's the royal garden, you know. So in
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  Speaker 4: the Persian concept, it's the royal and so and it's
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  Speaker 4: where you know, it's where the king will will have
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  Speaker 4: his bride, you know, where the king and the queen
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  Speaker 4: will walk. So all of this is going on, you know,
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  Speaker 4: in the Israel story. And then so he he he
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  Speaker 4: institutes these feasts, uh and again. But what's really interesting
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  Speaker 4: as we as we delve into this is that they
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  Speaker 4: do these feasts for a year and then the whole
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  Speaker 4: thing recycles again. So and every every feast is is
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  Speaker 4: a it's an invitation, it's but it's an acknowledgment of
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  Speaker 4: the acceptable year of the of the of the Lord. Right,
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  Speaker 4: so every year in Israel is the acceptable year of
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  Speaker 4: the lot is when he receives them, he receives their offerings,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the three the three early feasts passover and
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  Speaker 4: then they come with their offerings, the wave, the waving
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  Speaker 4: of the first fruits, and then they come at Pentecost
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  Speaker 4: or shadow the weeks and to you know, for them
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  Speaker 4: to be received there. So in other words, he's telling
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  Speaker 4: them they have to go to present him, to present
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  Speaker 4: themselves to him. In all it shows that he's received them.
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  Speaker 4: They're receiving him. Is a relationship thing, and of course
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  Speaker 4: the big one is the is the atonement one, right,
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  Speaker 4: So but that atonement is different. Atonement is about remission
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  Speaker 4: from sins. It's yes, I'm receiving you. And what is
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  Speaker 4: happening there, Let's say on the day of Atonement is
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  Speaker 4: God is forgiving Israel's sins like he does at side,
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  Speaker 4: and then he institutes the covenant, right, he institutes the
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  Speaker 4: ark of the Covenant and the tabernacle system. And then
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  Speaker 4: he's because they have this thing that you know, God
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  Speaker 4: sort of remembers them and then from the next year
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  Speaker 4: they're okay. But it's just all the Book of Remembers.
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  Speaker 4: But it's just this idea of this is a continuation
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  Speaker 4: of the relationship we've begun at Sinai. So they're going
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  Speaker 4: into the Promised Land and God is forgiving them as
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  Speaker 4: an act of judgment, where because the judgment is on
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  Speaker 4: the you know, on the slain animal. But where's he
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  Speaker 4: forgiven them from. He's forgiving them from the mercy seat.
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  Speaker 4: He's giving he's forgiving them from his throne, from his
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  Speaker 4: presence presents, and he's thrown because he's thenenthroned between the
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  Speaker 4: terrible We don't sometimes and we we kind of missed that.
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  Speaker 4: We just said Mercy's. But it's as if they are
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  Speaker 4: going to the throne of God himself because they are
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  Speaker 4: the hybrid. But you know, in the in the Book
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  Speaker 4: of Psalms, I think he talks about the the ark
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  Speaker 4: of the Covenant is his footstool, right, so you know,
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  Speaker 4: and and of course the mountain where they they they
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  Speaker 4: celebrate or the elders eight with him. You know remember
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  Speaker 4: that where the elders ate with him on.
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  Speaker 2: The twenty five Yeah, the sairey four twenty five, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the Sapphire floor.
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  Speaker 4: And of course, so when they are participating, they're bringing
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  Speaker 4: their sacrifices to the Lord, you know, their offerings, they're
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  Speaker 4: eating with him, they're eating with him, a passover. It's
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  Speaker 4: all this is just Sinai continued. And so when they
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  Speaker 4: rejected all of that and they said, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: we're kind of bored with this we like the foreign gods.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they let us do a whole lot more
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  Speaker 4: than you know that our God does. What begins to
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  Speaker 4: happen there. Mondo is the other side of the Day
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  Speaker 4: of the Lord takes it. You know, God is forgiving,
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  Speaker 4: He's forgiving. He sends them profits. He says, you know,
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  Speaker 4: to repent and turn as sometimes they do. But then
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  Speaker 4: other times, as we know from history in the Bible,
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  Speaker 4: he has to say, you know what, if they will
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  Speaker 4: not repent, or if they're just doing lip service, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they just and he says, I am not receiving your sacrifice.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not receiving because your hearts are far from me.
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  Speaker 4: Don't think that you can just go through the motions.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, and this is this is this is
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  Speaker 4: all good. It's not good. It's not good at all.
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  Speaker 4: And if you won't listen to the prophets, and eventually
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  Speaker 4: he drives them out. He drives them out by a
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  Speaker 4: day of the Lord. Event by sending these Syrians, by
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  Speaker 4: sending the Babylonians, he drives them out of the land
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  Speaker 4: which he has invited them into for them to So
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  Speaker 4: so here's what I want to propose. They're always in
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  Speaker 4: the day of the Lord. One way or another, they're
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  Speaker 4: under some sort of judgment. And that's why I think
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  Speaker 4: that the whole idea of imminency also with the day
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  Speaker 4: of the Lord. I mean, we touched on that about
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  Speaker 4: that with Atonement. And here's the other thing mom though,
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  Speaker 4: which is quite interesting, was about the forty nine days,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the feast of weeks. Looking down there and
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  Speaker 4: I noticed you have the feast of weeks there, which is,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you have to count to count then our day.
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  Speaker 4: But then you have like the forty nine weeks, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and then then you have the Jubilee years. So you
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  Speaker 4: have Pentecosts after the forty nine and then you have
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  Speaker 4: Jubilee after the forty nine weeks. And Jubilee is always
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  Speaker 4: always falls on the day of Atonement, so and that
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  Speaker 4: is the day of deliverance, is the day of the
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  Speaker 4: remission of sins. So all of these feast days is
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  Speaker 4: points to Hey, you're my people. I brought you into
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  Speaker 4: my presence, I brought you into my day. You have
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  Speaker 4: to live.
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  Speaker 3: You have to live like that.
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  Speaker 4: Is there anything you want to say about.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, not a bit, No, No, this is good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm training in when I need to.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, and we see here so well recent scriptures. Now,
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  Speaker 4: but we see here in Malachi chapter three, verse seventeen.
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  Speaker 4: Should we have a look at that. Yeah, that's good,
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  Speaker 4: and then I'll get here. Malachi three seventeen, it says, okay,
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  Speaker 4: go to sixteen the Book of remembrance. Then those who
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  Speaker 4: feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid
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  Speaker 4: attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was
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  Speaker 4: written before him. Of those who feared the Lord and
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  Speaker 4: esteemed his name. They shall be mindsets the Lord of
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  Speaker 4: hosts in the day when I make up my treasure,
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  Speaker 4: treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man
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  Speaker 4: spares his son who serves him. But they're already his
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  Speaker 4: treasured possession. He's told them that. But of course the
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  Speaker 4: fullness of this isn't going to come until much later. Right,
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  Speaker 4: But this is what I say. We're living in the shadow.
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  Speaker 4: They're living in the shadow of it. They should be
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  Speaker 4: aware of the cycles of what God has instituted them
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  Speaker 4: for the nation. Let's go to zephy Andiah chapter three,
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  Speaker 4: verse eight. And of course this is the you know,
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  Speaker 4: the normal language we hear about the day of the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: It says, therefore, wait for me to declare the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: For the day when I raise up to seize the prey,
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  Speaker 4: for my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms,
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  Speaker 4: to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger,
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  Speaker 4: for all the fire of my jealousy, all the earth
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  Speaker 4: shall be consumed. So that's kind of what, yeah, we get,
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  Speaker 4: that's the day of the Lasso. No, it's all day
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  Speaker 4: of the losstop. Because the day of the Lord is
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  Speaker 4: the day of gathering. And this is what we see.
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  Speaker 4: He's gathered them at Sinai, He's gathered them in the land.
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  Speaker 4: He's gathered to the tabernacle. He gathers them to the
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  Speaker 4: temple when they refuse the gathering. And that's what you
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  Speaker 4: touched upon when when Jesus comes and he visits there,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to get into Jesus on the next session
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  Speaker 4: he comes and he visits them, he said, how are
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  Speaker 4: and I would have gathered you as a hand gathers
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  Speaker 4: chicks on air wings, but you would not what you
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  Speaker 4: would not be gathered. You would not allow yourself to
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  Speaker 4: be gathered. So the day of the Lord is the
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  Speaker 4: gay is the day of gathering. Either the nations or
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  Speaker 4: of the tribes. But that begins, that begins with the exodus,
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  Speaker 4: when he's gathering the tribes to himself. So could you
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  Speaker 4: see what I'm trying to say. When it's all nuanced,
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  Speaker 4: there's a continuation. I think it's a lot bigger than
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  Speaker 4: we are just thinking about, you know, the bad stuff
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  Speaker 4: at the end of days, that's the day of the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: That the whole thing, the plan of redemption is a
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  Speaker 4: day of the Lord. Redemption over to you, sir, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And so when we think about that for us today, Graham,
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  Speaker 2: what do you think is? You know, it's one thing.
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  Speaker 2: So we have this kind of lofty theological concepts that
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  Speaker 2: are going throughout scripture. What what do you what do
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  Speaker 2: you suggest to the average I don't mean in a
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  Speaker 2: negative way, but just what you suggested the Christian who's
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  Speaker 2: hearing this, How does it? What should there response be?
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  Speaker 4: What does God?
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  Speaker 2: What is all this truth that God is providing here
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  Speaker 2: in his word to the person? What's what's he what's
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  Speaker 2: he looking for from them from that?
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  Speaker 3: What's the application sort of speak?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so this is that's kind of a question like
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  Speaker 4: for four sessions along, but we can touch on it
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  Speaker 4: now because in the way, in the same way that
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  Speaker 4: the children of Israel were living in the presence of
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  Speaker 4: that day, all that's the ark of the Covenant was there,
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  Speaker 4: the temple was there, the tabit. They're living in the
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  Speaker 4: presence of the Lord. He's not he doesn't have to
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  Speaker 4: be there. He's there because of he's covenant with them, right,
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  Speaker 4: I propose, And I think that's what Paul is getting
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  Speaker 4: on about when he talks about we are children of
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  Speaker 4: the day with the children there, not children, and we
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  Speaker 4: have to see ourselves the same way. But because he
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  Speaker 4: uses that when he's talking about the day of the
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  Speaker 4: Lord right in Thessalonians, that we we are children of
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  Speaker 4: the day, not of the night. You know, we're children
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  Speaker 4: of the glory of the Covenant, not of the judgments,
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  Speaker 4: all the bad judgments of the Covenant. We're we're forgiven.
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  Speaker 4: If we're not living as if we are children of
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  Speaker 4: that day, why would why would we be expect to
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  Speaker 4: be gathered on that day? Because that's when the gathering
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  Speaker 4: really is brought to fruition in terms of the gathering
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  Speaker 4: and the clouds. It's not separate from anything. The gathering
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  Speaker 4: from the mountain at Sinai so we have to live
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  Speaker 4: as those, as children of the day, as those who
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  Speaker 4: have been gathered in covenant, not to Sinai now, but
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  Speaker 4: to as Paul tells us in Hebrews. I don't believe
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  Speaker 4: Paul rote Hebrews. So, but as we are told in
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  Speaker 4: Here Bruise, we are gathered to the heavenly Jerusalem. It's
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  Speaker 4: a heavenly mounter. We gather to another mountain, but we
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  Speaker 4: are still being gathered to him. So do we want
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  Speaker 4: to You know, it said the Scripture is given to
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  Speaker 4: us to teach us right for reproof correction. We're meant
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  Speaker 4: to see how they walked and how they succeeded, but
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  Speaker 4: then how they failed, and they are examples to us.
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  Speaker 4: So we are meant to we are meant to be
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  Speaker 4: longing for that day now if we are children of
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  Speaker 4: that day already, if in some way we have already
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  Speaker 4: been gathered up into the day, because we are being
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  Speaker 4: gathered to Sinai and we're waiting for the data break
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  Speaker 4: as it were upon the earth. We should be living
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  Speaker 4: that way. There should be a separation between us and
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  Speaker 4: the world, not talking about we're in the world. Jesus
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  Speaker 4: says that, you know, but there should be a separation
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  Speaker 4: between us and the world, which is a difference between
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  Speaker 4: day and night. I know that's a challenge for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And I would say too that one of the things
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  Speaker 2: that I think about often is that you know, here
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about some of these high points as it
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  Speaker 2: relates to celebrations or feasts or festivals that were you know,
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  Speaker 2: seven times a year. But the other thing, too, Graham,
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  Speaker 2: that I see is that you know, God here were
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  Speaker 2: his people, and he says, okay, I want you.
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  Speaker 4: To go out.
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  Speaker 2: And as you mentioned, he separated Israel. They're holy, which
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  Speaker 2: just means separate. He gave them unique laws that were
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  Speaker 2: unique to Israel, not the rest of the world. But
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  Speaker 2: he does the same thing for us, and he says, okay,
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  Speaker 2: you know I'm saving you. You're in the world, but
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  Speaker 2: you're not of the world.
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  Speaker 3: Now as you go out.
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  Speaker 2: Ultimately, God's heart is to reach the world, he John
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  Speaker 2: three sixteen, for God so loved the world. He's seeking salvation.
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  Speaker 2: But he also says, okay, there's a war. If he's
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  Speaker 2: in six twelve, right, we wrestle not against flush and blood.
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  Speaker 2: Secretary is ten for our weapons are not carnal.
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  Speaker 4: So we have this war.
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  Speaker 2: Now he says, okay, I want you to go out,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: similar to how they went into the into the Holy Land,
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  Speaker 2: not without war. It was a conquest. We call it
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  Speaker 2: the conquest. And then he says, but going, But once
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  Speaker 2: you're there, I want you to be a light. I
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  Speaker 2: want you to reflect my glory. I want you to
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  Speaker 2: You're going to have interaction, You're going to have adversity.
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  Speaker 2: But how are you going to respond? I think in
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  Speaker 2: that adversity. Most of the New Testament epistles are written
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  Speaker 2: to God's people who are out in the world, who
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  Speaker 2: are who They have to work, they have to eat,
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  Speaker 2: they have to raise children, they have to interact with others,
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  Speaker 2: all the things that life entails. They get to have fun,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whether it's a vacation. But in all of that,
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  Speaker 2: whether you eat, drink, do it to the glory of God.
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  Speaker 2: But also do it with His presence, you know. The
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  Speaker 2: so we have our life that we live again raising children.
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  Speaker 2: But whatever we seek to do, we're doing it for
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  Speaker 2: the glory of God, as his represented, as his imagers,
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  Speaker 2: his image bearers. But then I think of the great
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  Speaker 2: commission Matthew twenty eight, to go into all the world,
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  Speaker 2: you know, make disciples, teaching them of everything he said,
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  Speaker 2: baptizing them and the fathers in the Holy Spirit, and
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  Speaker 2: he says, but the greatest thing, he says, and behold,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be with you, yes, until the end of the age.
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  Speaker 2: So it's that daily presence glorifying Him. And this is
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  Speaker 2: where there's not a moment that I think every day
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  Speaker 2: as we get up, whether it's work, family, vacation, family,
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  Speaker 2: were gathering, he's with unbelievers. Whatever, God says, I'm with you,
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  Speaker 2: and I want you to reflect me to them, because
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  Speaker 2: that's old. That's the Genesis one mandate, which of course
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  Speaker 2: they failed in. Now we've been recommissioned to do that.
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  Speaker 2: But it's this idea of the day.
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  Speaker 4: Of the Lord.
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  Speaker 3: Certainly has the high.
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  Speaker 2: Points and the other is sometimes, but the visitation ultimately
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  Speaker 2: is to say I'm with you always and we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have these high points. But in the middle, when there
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  Speaker 2: is a high point, necessarily.
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  Speaker 3: Live for me. Live we live in the in the
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: in the moments.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: With the theology of the high point, so to speak,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: where his visitation and then we bring it down because
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: what I've learned in the Christian life is it would
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: be wrong as a parent. I think about it myself.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: It'd be wrong to I remember saying this to my
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: son in law when he was asking for my daughter's
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: hand in marriage. And I've said it twice now because
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: I have two daughters that are And I said, listen,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to love my daughter. That's most important,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: but do not give her everything she wants. Don't because
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: God doesn't give us everything we want. We know, And
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: I said, I don't want you. I mean, I want
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: you to love her, but I don't want her to
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: be spoilt, because then they become entitled in a spoiled
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: brat and everything else. And I think that's what God
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: often does. He allows challenges, but ultimately we have that
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  Speaker 2: confidence that we have a good dad. And he says,
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: and I want you to reflect me. I mean, that's
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: that's that's the ultimate goal. And the day of the
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Lord is one of the mechanisms, one of the highest
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: mechanisms that he does to accomplish that.
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  Speaker 4: Its people, Uh, you absolutely, It's it's the relational aspect,
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  Speaker 4: isn't it. So while you were talking there, you know
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  Speaker 4: what Jesus said. He said, as the Father has sent me,
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  Speaker 4: so I'm sending you well now what does that? What
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: does we're going to read this, Well, we'll finish it
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  Speaker 4: when we finish off with what Jesus is said to do,
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: and then will cover Jesus in the next section. But
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: but what Jesus is is sent to do is to
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: initiate or bring the day of the Lord. So which
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: why then he says, you're going to continue my word,
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: You're going to continue my work. So when he sends
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: them out with the Gospel of the Kingdom, the message,
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: he's sending them out with the message of the Day
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: of the Lord. That's what he's sending. So when we're
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: preaching the message, we're preaching the gospel or that we are,
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: we are proclaiming the day of the Lord. So you
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: know the day of the Lord's coming, that he has come,
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: that he is with us by his spirit, that he's
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: coming again. So this is you know, and then we
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: have we have to live as if in full in
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: readiness for readiness, and because that's what Jesus is saying.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: He said, you're you're my sheep, you're my people, you're
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: my messengers. You're I'm sending you out. I'm not sending
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: you out with anything that I haven't done with a
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: different message. I'm sending you out with my message now
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: to the nations, which is why he told his disciples
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: you have to wait in Jerusalem. You went in Jerusalem
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: until you receive the power from on high. So all
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: of us who have now the last two thousand years,
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: who have experienced the the indwelling and the Holy Spirit
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: coming and empowering us through the New Birth, we've come
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: out of Jerusalem. That's that, because that's where he was sent.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: So it's all like, okay, we've done with Jerusalem. Now
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: let's go do this some well, let's go do this
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: in Paris, or let's go do this somewhere else. He's
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: not he's all lunded.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: He's not.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: He's he's doing exactly what he was said to do.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: And he said there, I mean, think about the woman
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: at the well. At that time, salvation is of the Jews. Now, granted,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: today the current state of Israel is not in a
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: place of good salvation but because the rejection of Jesus.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: But at the time salvation stemmed out of the Jewish
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: people from Jerusalem, very clearly. That was the heritage. And
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: then it's gone worldwide. So we don't we don't look
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: necessarily to Jerusalem today for that source. We looked at
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: the scripture, but we do look to Jerusalem where it
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: was and when it was in a state of obedience
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: in the sense of the disciples and the apostles right
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: there and expanded outwards, which we know it has done.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: And because that's the that's the place where God puts
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: his name and he will puts his and it's like
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: and the disobedience of the children of Israel, even at
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: Jesus time doesn't negate any of that. It's like, okay,
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: so my spirit is coming from Jewish from now I'm
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: going this temple. Thing is this this side is finished,
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: the feast that I am the fulfillment of the feast.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: I you know, I have come. So I'm bringing all
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: these things, trumpets, mondos. So I mean that's a crazy
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: that's a crazy sort of a I mean, you know,
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: some of the other feasts they're eating, they're doing something.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: Now we're just like blowing trumpets for two days. So
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: what's that? What's that about? But again, you have the
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: idea of where God is a it sits and throned.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: He sits and throned with his people in the temple
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: because he sat and throned on Sinai. That was that
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: you know, when that when that mountain burned and God
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: came down, Uh, that was that was the king mountain
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: of the world, because that's the only place that God
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: has going to have his presence. Of course, now he
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: moves his mountain to Jerusalem because and they're taking his
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: his presence with him, they're taking his kingship with him.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: So when Jesus comes proclaiming the Kingdom of Heaven, this
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: is what he's doing. He's bringing everything about the kingdom
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: which is which is a proclamation of the day of
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: the Lord. And so we'll read that in Isaiah sixty one.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: So but just picking up then, you know, facer trumpet
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: is young Tarua, right, it's the day of the day
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: of shouts. That's more accurately what it is. And so
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: when they're going into the Promised Land with Joshua, what
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: do they do. They're they're they're blowing the trumpets, you know,
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: seven times, and they blow out and then the walls
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: fall down flat. That doesn't happen with every city, but
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: it happens with the very first city. It's a sign
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: for them. And so it's the Day of shouting. And
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: so when we stand up and we proclaim the day
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: of the Lord, we proclaim in the Gospel, we're proclaiming
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: his messenger, the messenger his feet on the mountains of Israel,
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: who brings good news. Well, that good news now has
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: to go to all the world. Well we are young,
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: toruing are we are we are trumpeting, we are show firing,
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: we are proclaiming his presence to the world. And I
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: think that's why I keep coming back to this that
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: as I looked into the Day of the Lord is
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: more nuanced I think than we think it is traditionally,
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: and we think it is. Do you want to add
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  Speaker 4: to anything to that?
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: And then we show, I mean, there's no doubt that
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: we understand there's an scatological there is a final of
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: the end of the age where there's a transition where
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: God has been relatively he's in the shadows, He's in
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: the background, providentially working versus the Lord Jesus coming out
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: of heaven in the cloud, in the clouds and gathering
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: us together, and then also coming back to set up
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: his earthly kingdom where the whole glory, the whole earth
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: is filled with the glory the Lord.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: We don't see that now, right, but we will see that.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: So there is that that's coming. But this is where
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: I think the idea is, as we go out trumpeting,
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: we're calling people, Hey, the Day of the Lord is
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: not only impending, it's coming, but it's here in a sense,
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: are you read? The key thing with anything is readiness.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: So whether we're ready each and every day, because God visits,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: like again Slim macmour, he showed up, he visited where
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: he was gonna see whether they were ready, and they
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: were to other things, but also to know there is
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: coming a final culmination, yes, which again is going to
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: change everything.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: And so but Isaiah sixty one, I think this really
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: is powerful God.
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: It's living in, it's living in just so I it's
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: living in, it's living in the spirit of imminency. Yes,
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: and that that should be in the church all the time.
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: That's what. It's imminent, it's close, it's there, and you're
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: part of it anyway already, you know. So as I
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: am sixty one, this is a great, a great declaration
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: here of the of the Day of the Lord. The
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted,
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: the prison to those who are by, who are bound,
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: To proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: day of vengeance of our God. To comfort all who mourn,
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: To grant to those who mourn in Zion, to give
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: them a beautiful headress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness,
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: instead of mourning, the garment of praise, instead of a
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: faint spirit, that they may be called oaks of righteousness,
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: the day of the Lord.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, what a tremendous It's a very fitting
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: into this particular session because we see the mandate of
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Jesus there and then him for him to go and
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: sit down and say, boy, this has been fulfilled in
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: your hearing. I mean, what a statement. Just what I
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: mean that would be like, what did he say? I mean,
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: that would be very odd. Hey, I just read this
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: and it's just been fulfilled. And so that anointing that
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: took place, as we know, it was one of the
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: first places that he went in Luke chapter four and
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: started the ministry and he was anointed, but also, as
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: you said earlier, as the Father sent him. So he
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: sends us any final thoughts, where are were going next?
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: Right into right into Jesus ministry, and we're going to
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: pick out certain points, certain highlights off off his ministry.
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: He comes forgiving sins. I mean, that is phenomenal, that's
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: never been done in you.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: Know, with such clarity with you know, apart from the
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: sacrificial system.
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: Of yes, yes, yes he comes, and that's unheard of
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: in Israel, because who can forgive sins but God alone? Yeah,
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: and and I love his response, but I don't want
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: to spoil it. Yes, yes, tune into the next session.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you guys for listening today. It's been great
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: hanging out with Graham, and this whole series is really
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: just been a joy to get into the Day of
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: the Lord. And again, well we're looking as no one's
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: denying the other idea of a of a coming seven
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: year period of Day and the Lord, where again there's
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: a final culmination. But here we have some more nuances.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: And those scholars that write about the Day of Lord,
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: they will often say, this is not so simple, and
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: so we don't want to get stuck there.
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: We want to be able to let scripture speak. So
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: thanks for listening today.
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  Speaker 2: Make sure if you haven't seen the other ones to
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  Speaker 2: check them out and we will see you next time.
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