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738. Bible Study: Isaiah 51 (about Jesus again, "the Rock", Zion- God's chosen place, Restoration, Protection, Wrath, Leviathan, Satan's defeat) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 51 from the book of Isaiah.
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  I need a prayer this time especially.
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  Dear God, please let the Holy Spirit give me wisdom as I speak
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  through this. Because there were things that I
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  noticed here that either I, I don't know, I just I will
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  mention them as I go along. But I definitely need God's
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  grace in speaking this today. So I ask for that in Jesus name,
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  Amen. OK, this is chapter 51.
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  Isaiah is speaking to Judah, I believe.
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  Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the
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  Lord. Look to the rock from which you
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  were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn.
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  Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth.
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  When I called him, he was only one man, and I blessed him and
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  made him many. The Lord will surely comfort
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  Zion and will look with compassion on all her runes.
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  He will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the
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  garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found
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  in her Thanksgiving and the sound of singing.
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  OK, let's talk about this. So this is first of all in the
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  beginning part it talks about look to the rock from which you
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  were cut. Well, the rock also has a
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  significance being Jesus, the cornerstone, the foundation, but
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  he's, he is specifically talking about like there is this, this
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  he says, well, I mean, it says, look to the rock which you were
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  cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn.
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  Look to Abraham, your father and to Sarah who gave you birth.
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  So I think there's like multiple people here that he's saying,
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  listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the
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  Lord. So there's two things, two
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  qualities of people that he's talking to, those who pursue
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  righteousness and those who seek the Lord.
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  And I know this is before Jesus, but so often Jesus is referred
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  to as the rock in throughout the Scripture.
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  So if you search the rock, you will see and you have to look at
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  the Bible in whole context, but you will see that it, I mean,
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  it's, it's mentioned in the dreams of Daniel.
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  It's mentioned all throughout the Bible that Jesus is the
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  cornerstone, the rock, the foundation, everything.
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  Obviously they didn't know Jesus at that time.
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  However, maybe they did know Jesus because there are what
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  people called theophanies that happened where there's something
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  someone described as a messenger or an Angel, but this person
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  speaks as if they are God. And so when that happens, like
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  the Angel in the burning Bush, for example, speaking to Moses,
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  I have a feeling that might have been Jesus.
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  The way he spoke to Moses, he, he, you know, he basically said,
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  tell him, I am sent you. Well, that's God.
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  That would be blasphemy. And that's what Jesus was
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  crucified for. So I do think that is, I mean,
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  an Angel wouldn't say that because there's other instances
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  where an Angel sends a message and the person falls down to
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  worship it and the Angel says, no, don't do that.
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  I am a servant, I am a messenger.
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  Do not do that. So the Angel says don't do it
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  sometimes. But in the burning Bush that
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  messenger or the Angel did not say that.
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  The that messenger or Angel said I am tell him I am sent you.
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  So was that Jesus question mark? So had they really known Jesus
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  but not really known him? Then another time in fact with
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  Abraham and Sarah when it was before, I guess it was before
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  Sodom and Gomorrah got destroyed.
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  And if you pay a close attention to that account, there were
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  three angels who came to visit Sodom and Gomorrah to see if it
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  was as bad as what the prayers that went to God, What he had
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  heard, obviously he knew, but he was sending these three.
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  And and so when they came, there were three of them, and one of
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  them spoke a little differently than the other two.
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  And one of them told Abraham that a year from now he would
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  have a son. And he was like, what was it?
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  I don't know. I know he's like close to 99 or
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  Sarah was 90 years old. He might have been close to 100
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  when Isaac was born. So anyway, this is like he was
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  saying you're going to have a child about this time.
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  And Sarah heard them and laughed.
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  And that's what Isaac, I think means something about he laughed
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  or something. So anyway, this pay close
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  attention to that if you when you read that chapter about
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  Sodom and Gomorrah destruction and there were three that first
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  came to check out the situation and to give Abraham the future
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  prophecy. And then when the actual
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  destruction happened, there were only two angels that came, not
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  3. So again, that's another time
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  where it seems like was that Jesus?
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  And then I also think about what Jesus said when he said that no
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  one has seen the Father except for the one who came from him,
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  which is Jesus. And he said, but if you've seen
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  me, you've seen the Father. So he, you know, then I think
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  like did Moses really see the Father or did he see Jesus?
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  Did he actually see Jesus? Because Moses, it says something
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  in prophecy or something that the only one who is seeing him
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  is Moses or something. And there was something on the
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  at Mount Sinai when he spent 40 days and 40 nights on the
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  mountain and received the 10 commandments from God.
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  Now, Scripture doesn't doesn't lie.
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  Scripture interprets scripture. So the question is, do we
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  understand it? And I don't know.
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  That's a question. And I don't think I haven't
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  found anything in Scripture that could clarify this yet.
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  That would be a mystery that we could ask God someday.
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  Like, was it Jesus who came here?
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  And then, oh, yeah, there's another one too.
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  And God always does things in threes.
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  This just came to mind. So in the Garden of Eden, it
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  said that God was walking in the garden and called out to them.
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  It was after they had sinned and they hid from him.
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  And so it says, you know, God is spirit and God is omnipresent.
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  He is everywhere at one time. So God in the flesh is Jesus.
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  And so was it Jesus that was actually walking in the Garden
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  of Eden? These are questions I don't have
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  the answers to, but I'm just in. I'm interpreting scripture from
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  Scripture and what is said. You have to put it all together
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  and and Jesus was with the Father from the beginning.
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  So he didn't just start out when he was born of Mary.
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  That's not where he started. He was eternally with the
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  Father. In fact, in the beginning in
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  Genesis, when it talks about the Spirit hovering over, that's the
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  evidence of the Holy Spirit there.
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  And it it does call God Elohim, which is plural, the plural form
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  of God. So it's the three persons in
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  one, as I've been taught and, and the only reason I can say 3
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  persons in one. I know there's, I've heard other
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  people that just say, well, it's just God and Jesus, but that's
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  not the case because we see all three present.
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  When Jesus was baptized, he was in the water, came up out of the
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  water and the people there, it said something like a dove was
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  visibly seen and came upon Jesus and God said, this is my son who
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  I'm well pleased. So that was where the like the
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  Holy Spirit and the Father and the Son were all present at the
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  same time. And so I.
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  Yeah, there's a lot of mysteries, you know, then when
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  you get into it and they, there's something about the
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  seven spirits of God. So I don't know what all that
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  is, but I know there are good spirits and there are evil
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  spirits. And I, the Bible only gives us
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  some information. We don't have everything.
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  So there's and it's, it's, you know, there's some different
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  creation in the heavenly realms than there are here on earth,
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  obviously. But it's very interesting.
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  Anyway, I'm kind of talking around too much about this.
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  But so Jesus, it's the cornerstone, the rock, and he's
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  the rock that will crush the last Kingdom in Daniel's dream.
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  And that just aligns with all the other scripture.
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  So then we get to the verse 3 where it says the, the Lord will
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  surely comfort Zion. So Zion, that was another one
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  that questioned me because I, I remember reading like, what's
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  Zion? Where's Zion?
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  And even today I looked up, you know, Mount Zion, where is Mount
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  Zion? And so it's really kind of
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  interesting. What you find is that Mount Zion
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  is like a lot of different things, and so here's like a
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  summation of it. In essence, while initially a
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  specific hill, Mount Zion's meaning in the Bible expands to
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  encompass the city of Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, and even the
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  broader concept of God's chosen people and their land.
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  So it gets really big. It gets really broad.
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  But another thing that I did notice about Zion, and this will
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  be something I won't do it because there are too many
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  verses and my podcasts get too long.
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  But if here, this is a wonderful resource.
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  I've mentioned it before, blueletterbible.org, excellent
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  study tool. So if you go to
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  blueletterbible.org and just search Zion and you can look at
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  all the searches for Old Testament and New Testament.
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  And this is interesting. When you look in the Old
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  Testament to see what you can do is on the toolbar that's on the
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  left of the verse, click that thing that says tools and then
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  find the word that says Zion. And it's, I think it's, let's
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  see, Strong's H6725I think or no, that that might be the root
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  word of it. I don't yeah, I think it is
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  6725. So if you search in the Old
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  Testament, this is interesting. It shows up 153 times in 153
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  verses. And what I noticed about it was
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  that first it it, you know, like it's in David.
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  David talks about Zion and David was actually prophetic, I think
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  because the Psalms that he wrote spoke about things about Jesus.
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  He probably didn't even know he was prophetic because I know
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  there was Nathan the prophet who used to advise David, but I
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  think David himself actually knew the Lord much more and he
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  was known as the man who was after God's, what was after
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  God's heart. Like he was really seeking the
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  Lord. And anyway, I noticed that Zion
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  is very often in more of the prophetic books than anything
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  else. And it is it, it talks about
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  like the heavenly, the heavenly Jerusalem in let's see, I want
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  to find the 1st that I did write down because I thought this was
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  kind of, this is kind of like a new thing that I learned that it
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  seemed like a new thing. Well, it was a new thing to me,
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  put it that way. And it's Psalm 76 two.
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  I thought this is interesting. Psalm 76 Two, his tent is in
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  Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.
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  It made me think about this. So his tent is in Salem.
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  That's another way of saying Jerusalem.
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  His tent, a tent is something temporary.
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  His tent is in Jerusalem, His dwelling place in Zion.
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  God chose Jerusalem. Jesus is returning to Jerusalem,
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  so that's his dwelling place. Like He is coming back and he
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  will rule from this greater area called Zion.
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  But it also says like God is in Psalm 74, verse 2, it says,
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  remember the nation you purchased long ago, the people
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  of your inheritance whom you redeemed, Mount Zion, where you
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  dwell, That's one thing. But then it also talks about the
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  heavenly throne that that's where Zion is, is the heavenly
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  realm. And I don't I don't know where
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  it is because there's 153 verses.
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  So I did read it, but go to blue letter Bible and search Zion and
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  read all the verses. Now here's what I was getting at
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  with 153. Just a coincidence.
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  Maybe, maybe not. And I looked in a couple
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  different translations, but it's written 153 times.
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  And isn't it like interesting how in the, when Jesus saw the
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  disciples out fishing and they didn't, they couldn't catch any
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  fish. And he said to throw the nut on
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  the right side and then he they caught 153 fish.
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  I thought that, you know, everybody thinks that they're
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  like that specific number. There's something to that.
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  And, and God is just so amazing and the Bible is it just like
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  it. Things like this just never
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  cease to amaze me. Just the fact that it's 153
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  times. There is something about that
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  number. And I just thought it was ironic
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  when I opened up and saw in the Old Testament that Zion was
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  mentioned 153 times. Then I searched in the New
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  Testament and it's written 7 times.
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  Isn't that interesting? Like these are like God's
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  numbers and things like 7, the seven days of creation, the
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  seven days of the week, the shabby, the, the Sabbath being
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  on the 7th day, the, the MOA deems that they have their
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  groups of seven. I mean, all of this is like
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  symbolic and it's significant to God.
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  Like God does speak in numbers and it's very fascinating.
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  So I just thought that Zion is is very complex because it does
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  mean all those things, but it seems like often it's written
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  about in, in in the future heavenly Jerusalem.
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  And in Hebrews 12 verse 22, it says, But you have come to Mount
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  Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.
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  You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful
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  assembly. And in Scripture it says, and is
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  quoted by both Paul and Peter. For in Scripture it says, see, I
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  lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and
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  the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.
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  That's Jesus. Then in Revelation chapter 14
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  verse one about the end times, it says then I looked and there
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  before me was the Lamb. That's Jesus.
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  He's, you know, the symbolic Lamb, the one who is slain on
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  the cross for all people, the sacrifice for to atone for all
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  people sin. So then I looked and there
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  before me was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion and with 144,000
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  who had his name and his Father's name written on their
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  foreheads. That verse I don't know what is
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  right because in the new King James or King James version it
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  just says the father's name written on his head.
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  And when I was reading it, I have the NIV version and it says
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  his name and the father's name. I don't know which one's right.
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  I don't know which one is actually actually translated
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  right. Did it have the son's name and
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  the father's name written on their foreheads, or was it just
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  the father's name? I think that's a significant
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  detail. Does it really?
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  I don't know that it necessarily matters to us.
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  And I don't know, I mean like I, but I do think it's a
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  significant detail that is written two different ways.
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  And there is something in Revelation that says that anyone
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  who takes away from our adds to in the Book of Revelation will
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  be cursed. So I don't know who did that,
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  but somebody did that and it leads to confusion.
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  Not that it is a salvation matter for us, but it is
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  something in Scripture that I don't know what the truth is
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  there. Somebody did something with it
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  and I don't, I don't know. But again, it doesn't take away
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  from the overall message that we will have salvation through God
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  and through the Holy Spirit. As Jesus said you we must be
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  born again, born of the Spirit to enter the Kingdom of God.
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  So that's the important part that we should know.
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  I mean, the the big overall message isn't changed, but some
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  of the details, I don't know, the little tiny details.
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  So let's see, let's get back to Isaiah and what he says when he
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  said he's going to make this Zion, the deserts like Eden,
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  like the restoration. So there's going to be these
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  lush, you know, beautiful grounds that have plants in it
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  like Eden. Well, that hasn't happened yet.
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  This is what I see is the Millennium happening during the
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  Millennium after Jesus returns. And he so he goes on to say in
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  verse 4, listen to me, my people, hear me.
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  My nation instruction will go out from me.
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  There's a couple different verses also that talks about and
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  I didn't research this, but I did today see it in Micah and I
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  think it might be also in Isaiah where it says instruction will
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  go out from me. So Jesus will be teaching from
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  Jerusalem's the nations will stream to Jerusalem to be taught
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  and I'm going to see if I can find it right now to get those.
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  Let's see to I don't know what I searched, how I came across it,
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  but I'll put teach and see what comes up and see if I can find
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  it. I don't know, I I'm I'm not sure
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  and I will be stalling, but in prophecy I did see somewhere in
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  there that the OK Isaiah chapter 2 verse 3.
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  That's one location. So it says many peoples will
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  come and say, come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to
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  the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so
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  that we may walk in his past. The law will go out from Zion,
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  the word of the Lord from Jerusalem, and that when I read
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  the law will go out from Zion and the word of the Lord from
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  Jerusalem, that also hit me because the law is what I see as
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  the 10 commandments. The law will go out from Zion.
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  Zion is in this instance the heavenly throne of God the
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  Father, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
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  Jesus is referred to in the Gospel of John as the word
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  became flesh, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
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  So the law goes out from Zion, the heavenly realms and the word
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  of the Lord from Jerusalem. So I don't know, I just, I think
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  this is significant. I think, you know, it's the
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  Father and the Son and the, the, you know, the Son says, I only
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  speak what the Father tells me. He's in one in spirit with the
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  Father. And so this is just, I don't
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  know. It's very interesting.
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  And in Micah, OK, Micah, maybe Micah's repeating this, but in
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  Micah chapter 4, verse 2, many nations will, will come and say,
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  come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the
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  temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so
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  that we may walk in His paths. So again, this is also said,
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  instruction will go out for me. My justice will become a light
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  to the nations. I'm going back to Isaiah chapter
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  51. My righteousness draws near
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  speedily. My salvation is on the way, and
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  my arm will bring justice to the nations.
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  So is Jesus the arm of the Father?
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  I'm just, you know, thinking the islands will look to me and wait
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  and hope for my arm. Lift up your eyes to the
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  heavens. Look at the earth beneath.
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  The heavens will vanish like smoke.
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  The heavens will vanish like smoke.
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  That's what Isaiah is saying. Well that made me think about
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  the Book of Revelation where it says in chapter 6 verse 14 the
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  heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up and every
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  mountain and island was removed from its place in IA.
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  In Isaiah 34 verse 4 it says let's see.
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  Isaiah 34 four says all the stars in the sky will be
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  dissolved and the heavens rolled up like a scroll.
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  All the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the
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  vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree.
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  So and then when Daniel has this vision, at the end of this
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  vision he has in chapter 12, it says he replied, go your way,
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  Daniel, because the words are rolled up and sealed until the
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  end of until the time of the end.
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  So these are, you know, this this rolling up like a scroll.
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  The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up.
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  The heavens rolled up like a scroll.
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  These seem like it The heavens will vanish like smoke.
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  So it just all of these things kind of tie together is the
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  point when Jesus returns for his people is at the point where I
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  know that's when the wrath begins because that's when Jesus
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  comes down and the wrath then starts on people.
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  And I wonder if that is the point where Satan and a third of
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  the angels are cast, because in Isaiah 34 four, it says all the
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  starry hosts will fall like withered leaves from the vine,
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  like shriveled figs from the fig tree, like Jesus says we must be
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  connected to the vine. We can do nothing if we are not
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  connected to the vine. So maybe it's when the starry
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  host in the Book of Revelation, the stars are angels, are
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  angels. And so it says the dragon, which
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  it tells us in Revelation is Satan and he takes a third of
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  the, of the angels, 1/3 of the stars with his tail.
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  He, they go down to earth and, and it's basically saying woe to
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  the inhabitants of the earth because the wrath, and we're
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  going to talk about that in a minute as well.
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  So does it, does it happen like this?
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  Like Jesus comes back and at that same time Satan is thrown
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  down to the earth and that's when his wrath occurs.
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  I don't know. I don't know about the timing of
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  it. It's the book of Revelations
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  really hard. But these are verses that make
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  me lead me to these speculations about it.
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  I guess the earth will wear out like a garment and it's
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  inhabitants inhabitants die like flies.
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  But my salvation will last forever.
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  My righteousness will never fail the inhabitants Often I see in
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  scripture, at least in the NIV version, I see inhabitants as
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  not really the the holy ones or those who are practicing
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  righteousness or those who are seeking the Lord.
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  I see those as kind of the the worldly people.
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  It there is a distinguished, it seems like the inhabitants in
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  the Book of Revelation. All of a sudden, you know,
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  there's a, there's a portion of time where it's talking about
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  the elect and then all of a sudden it starts talking about
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  the inhabitants of the earth. And it's during the wrath of God
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  because there is a separation between tribulation and wrath
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  like in the Book of Revelation. I think it's Philipsis is
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  tribulation and wrath is orgae. So there are two different
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  words. And again, when if you use the
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  Blue Letter Bible, you can see where one is used and the where
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  the other is used. So tribulation and wrath are not
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  the same thing. And I think it's important for
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  us when we look at prophecy that we do look at those two
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  different things because I think that causes a lot of confusion
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  in our in our understanding. Anyway, let's go back to Isaiah
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  chapter 51, verse 7. Hear me, you who know what is
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  right, you people who have taken my instruction to heart.
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  So listen to this. This is like a promise for the
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  righteous ones. None of us are righteous but the
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  ones who know what is right. And then we take instruction to
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  heart, like we sincerely want to do what is right, not only just
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  know it, but actually do it. Like we show our belief by how
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  we live, how we act, those who are surrendered to God.
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  So hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have taken
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  my instruction to heart, do not fear the reproach of mere
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  mortals or be terrified by their insults.
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  So we have nothing to fear. That's the thing.
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  If we have the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit gives us courage,
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  and we have nothing to fear. The things that people without
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  the Holy Spirit fear, we will not fear when we have the Holy
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  Spirit. So it says.
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  For the moth will eat them up like a garment, the worm will
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  devour them like a weed. But my righteousness will last
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  forever, my salvation through all generations.
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  So this isn't an eternal promise from God.
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  Awake, awake, arm of the Lord, clothe yourself with strength.
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  Awake as in as in days gone by, as in generations of old.
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  Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces?
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  OK, I have to pause here about Rahab because Rahab cutting to
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  pieces, there's twice that's written in the book in the
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  Bible, in Job chapter 26 verse 12, it says by his power he
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  churned up the sea. By his wisdom, he cut Rahab to
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  pieces and then in. Yeah.
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  And it says like, who pierced that monster through?
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  That's what was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces?
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  Who pierced that monster through?
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  Well, who is Rahab the monster? Well, if we go back to the book
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  of Job, we find out that Rahab is linked to Leviathan.
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  Now, when you look up Leviathan, it occurs 6 times and I'm
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  looking in the new King James Version and this is, you know,
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  it's in Job, it's in Psalms, it's in Isaiah.
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  That word Leviathan, may those who curse it, who curse the day,
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  those who are ready to arouse Leviathan.
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  I think Leviathan is spiritual. It's a created being, but I
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  think it also has spiritual ink implications.
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  And I'll tell you in a couple more verses.
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  Why can you in Job 41, it says, can you draw out Leviathan with
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  a hook or snare his tongue with a line which you lower?
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  This is talking about how God is more powerful than Leviathan.
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  Now here's where it gets really interesting.
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  In Psalm 74 verse 14. This is really interesting, it
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  says you broke the heads Pearl of Leviathan in pieces and gave
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  him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
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  OK that probably makes no sense to anyone but in context in the
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  Bible you broke the heads. In the Book of Revelation it
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  talks about a 7 headed beast. The dragon empowers the beast.
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  The dragon is Satan. Satan empowers the beast.
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  The beast is said to rise up out of the sea.
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  Leviathan lives in the sea in in the book of Job that's where
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  he's supposedly lives. And is this some spiritual?
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  Is the sea the abyss When you know what is released out of the
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  abyss? Is this some spiritual thing
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  from days of long long ago that comes up in the end times that
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  is over all the people and you broke the heads of leviathan and
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  pieces. This is also saying about Jesus
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  doing this and gave him his food to the people inhabiting the
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  wilderness. So in the end times it there is
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  a couple different suppers there that are talked about. 1 is a a
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  good supper, the wedding supper of the lamb that in the heavenly
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  realms with the Son of God. But then there's another supper
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  of God that is on earth and that is the destruction with all the
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  birds of prey that come to eat the kings and the mighty ones of
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  the earth who are slaughtered. So there's a two different kinds
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  of the the great supper of the lamb, which is really
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  interesting. And so is this Leviathan that's
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  defeated by Jesus when he returns.
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  And Leviathan is, I think Leviathan is Satan actually.
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  And here's where I draw that conclusion.
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  Now it could be another being, but it just seems like Satan is
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  kind of the ringleader the the major one that you know, tempted
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  Jesus in the wilderness while he was there for 40 days when he
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  was right after he was baptized, he came to him.
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  Satan seems to be the ringleader of all this.
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  OK, in Psalm one O 4 verse 26, it says they're the ships sail
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  about there is that Leviathan which you have made to play
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  there. So I don't get the connection
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  between Leviathan and the sea. But you know, and then there's
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  like this mythological creature. I don't know if these things are
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  actually myths, but maybe they really were true at the time,
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  but they no longer seen. So nobody believes it, but they
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  will come back. Like there's something about,
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  you know, that's something about these end times.
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  It's going to bring terror on people.
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  If we saw some like, you know, I don't know, something I, I
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  think, you know, a lot of this is symbolic, but something from
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  the past. Maybe it's just like these
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  spirits from the past who have been somewhat dormant or
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  imprisoned by God and they're released to do his wrath, to
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  perform his wrath. It's it's not.
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  I mean, God uses the intentions of the will of other of people
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  for his purposes. So he is going to bring about
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  wrath. He can use the will of these
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  other spirits who want to do this, who want to, who seek to
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  destroy. That's what Satan does.
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  He seeks to kill and destroy so he can use Satan to accomplish
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  his wrath. Just the thought that I had.
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  Now here here's where I connect Satan with Leviathan in Isaiah
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  chapter 27 verse one. In that day the Lord with his
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  severe sword, great and strong, will punish Leviathan, the
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  fleeing serpent, Leviathan that twisted serpent, and he will
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  slay the reptile that is in the sea.
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  So Jesus returns with a double edged sword.
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  And all the way back in the book of Genesis it talks about the
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  Lord putting enmity between Eve and the serpent.
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  And this the serpent will strike his heel, but he will crush the
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  head of the serpent. And in Psalm 74, it says you
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  broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces.
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  So there is, I think there's this like spiritual And then the
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  other thing about the seven heads.
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  I, this just came to mind while I was talking.
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  But I you okay. In the spiritual world it it
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  talks about somebody getting clean of evil spirits in the
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  Bible and it says that spirits look for a body to inhabit.
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  They don't have a body form and so they they roam the earth
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  looking for a body. If one of them has been cast out
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  of a person, it roams looking for another person.
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  And if it doesn't find another person, it takes seven others
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  that it's found and then goes back and inhabits that same
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  person who is left emptied. So if that person gets rid of an
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  evil spirit, that person needs the Holy Spirit so that those
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  seven others can't come and and possess that person essentially.
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  But I just now think it's really interesting that this beast in
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  the Book of Revelation has seven heads.
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  Is that symbolic of seven spirits, evil spirits that come
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  back? I don't know.
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  But again, in Isaiah 27, verse one, it talks about Leviathan,
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  the fleeing serpent, the twisted servant serpent, and the reptile
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  that is in the sea. The sea in Revelation is
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  symbolic of peoples, of nations, of all of that.
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  So while this is talking about this serpent, I think it's a
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  spiritual thing. And I think there maybe are
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  seven others that are with him in the end.
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  And it it comes from among the people, like it's inhabited the
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  people. So something will rise to
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  governance in this last time, these last days.
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  And it's a spiritual thing everybody's looking for.
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  Who's going to be a part of it? Well, yeah, these people will be
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  inhabited because they don't have the Holy Spirit.
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  So they are empty and they're going to get something evil
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  within them and then perform like God's wrath.
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  But ultimately Jesus defeats this serpent.
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  So that's the that's the good news.
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  But isn't this amazing that Isaiah is really like tying in a
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  lot of stuff of revelation? That seems confusing, but it's
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  it's all tying it together in my mind as I'm reading through
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  this. So let's go back to verse 10 In
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  Isaiah 51, was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of
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  the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea so that
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  the redeemed might crossover? So this is literal and symbolic.
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  We think about Moses, right? He made the sea part well
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  through the power of God. The sea parted and then they
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  were able to escape slavery from Egypt.
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  And then the sea came back where the dry ground was and flooded
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  all the people in the Chariots that were chasing the
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  Israelites. So that was like the path the
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  redeemed might crossover. And then again, that was
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  symbolic. It was literal and symbolic
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  because it's pointing to Jesus the Messiah who will take the
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  redeemed from earth and and spare them from the wrath.
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  But the remaining people, those who are against him, those who
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  chose evil rather than God, they will be destroyed with wrath.
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  So then it says those the Lord has rescued will return.
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  So we have to go somewhere in order to return, right?
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  So Jesus gathering people, I believe just like somebody else
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  said this the Today earlier I listened to them, but they were
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  talking about as in the days of Noah.
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  So it will be at the coming of the Son of Man and people are
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  eating and drinking and marrying and getting married and no one,
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  they were taken by surprise and you know, 1 was taken and one
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  was left. I believe Jesus gathers the
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  people who are prepared and then those who are left are subject
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  to his wrath because they have not chosen God.
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  They have said I don't want you, you know, and they're just like
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  Moses saved the Israelites. Jesus is going to do the same
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  for those who are prepared and those who are waiting for him,
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  looking for him, ready for him. It says that when we are saved,
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  we are not subject to God's wrath.
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  OK, so they will enter Zion. This is here Zion again.
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  It's the this heavenly place where God's throne is.
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  They will enter Zion with singing.
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  Everlasting joy will crown their heads.
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  God has rewards, he says. He says with me I come, and with
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  me come my rewards, or something to that effect.
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  This is when Jesus returns. Gladness and joy will overtake
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  them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
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  I even I, am he who comforts you.
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  Who are Who are you that you fear Mere mortals, human beings
• 42:25
  are but grass that you forget the Lord, your Maker who
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  stretches out the heavens and who lays the foundations of the
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  earth, that you live in constant terror every day because of the
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  wrath of the oppressor who is bent on destruction.
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  OK, this is where I am thinking about Satan it because it's
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  like, don't worry about mortals because you're forgetting who
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  God is. You're forgetting that what he
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  does, that he created all these things.
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  And it says that you live in constant terror every day
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  because of the wrath of the oppressor who is bent on
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  destruction. Well, there's certainly lots of
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  oppressors, lots of people bent on destruction.
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  But that's also what Satan, he seeks to kill and destroy.
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  So could it be that the this in Revelation is about Satan coming
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  down being used by God because it says in Revelation chapter 12
• 43:29
  verse 12. Therefore rejoice, O heavens,
• 43:34
  and you who dwell in them, woe to the inhabitants.
• 43:39
  Remember I said the inhabitants or you know, the people who
• 43:42
  didn't really choose Jesus. Woe to the inhabitants of the
• 43:47
  earth and the sea. For the devil has come down to
• 43:52
  you having great wrath because he knows that he has a short
• 43:58
  time. So when it Yeah.
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  So anyway, let me start back in Revelation same chapter 12 and
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  start with 9 and read through 12.
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  So in chapter 12, verse nine, so the great red dragon, which we
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  so it was Satan was cast out that serpent there he ties to
• 44:22
  Leviathan, right? That serpent of old called the
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  Devil and Satan who deceives the whole world.
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  He was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with
• 44:36
  him. Then I heard a loud voice
• 44:39
  saying, in heaven now salvation and strength, and the Kingdom of
• 44:43
  our God, and the power of his Christ have come for the accuser
• 44:49
  of our brethren who accused them before our God day and night has
• 44:53
  been cast down. And they overcame him by the
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  blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.
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  And they did not love their lives to, they did not love
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  their their lives to the death. Therefore rejoice, O heavens,
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  and you who dwell in them, woe to the inhabitants of the earth
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  and the sea. For the devil has come down to
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  you having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short
• 45:22
  time. So just another question about
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  the timing of all this stuff. So for where is the wrath of the
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  oppressor? The cowering prisoners will soon
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  be set free. They will not die in their
• 45:36
  dungeon, nor will they lack bread.
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  For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its
• 45:45
  waves roar. The Lord Almighty is his name.
• 45:49
  I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the
• 45:54
  shadow of my hand. So I think this is God's
• 45:59
  protection, the shadow of my hand.
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  A lot of times if you look up shadow, like He provided shadow
• 46:05
  for them during the day to keep the heat of the sun off of them
• 46:09
  in the Old Testament. And the shadow of his hand is a
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  protection of God. I who set the heavens in place,
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  who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, you
• 46:21
  are my people. Awake, awake, rise up,
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  Jerusalem. I wonder if that refers to the
• 46:28
  resurrection. I don't know you who have drunk
• 46:32
  from the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath.
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  So it's not saying that they've escaped wrath here.
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  Rise up Jerusalem, punishment for idolatry and disobedience.
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  That's what I believe the wrath of the Lord is disobedience.
• 46:50
  You know, in a lot of different ways.
• 46:53
  It could be an idolatry, whatever this like images that
• 46:58
  people start to worship and whatever that turns out to be
• 47:04
  and they have to take a mark that enables them to buy and
• 47:09
  sell. It's basically they're they're
• 47:13
  turning over their worship to whatever this thing is that
• 47:17
  requires a mark of the beast. This is some kind of mark or
• 47:21
  something that a symbol, I don't know what it is that people
• 47:29
  receive and they knowingly receive it.
• 47:32
  And it has to do with I believe that ultimately the servant, you
• 47:37
  know, the mark of the beast, the I think Satan empowers this 7
• 47:41
  headed beast, which is a spiritual thing which is
• 47:44
  embodied in people. So but these people get have the
• 47:49
  cup of his wrath, you who have drained to its stretches and the
• 47:54
  goblet that makes people stagger.
• 47:56
  Among all the children she bore, there was none to guide her.
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  Among all the children she reared, there was none to take
• 48:03
  her by the hand. I think this is an indication of
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  the lack of leadership that will be present at this time.
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  There's no one to help. There's no one who's speaking
• 48:14
  the truth. It does say that there will be a
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  great falling away in the day of the Lord or prior to the day of
• 48:22
  the Lord. So at that point, you know,
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  maybe it is maybe the great falling away happens because
• 48:28
  those who have accepted Jesus and those who choose to live
• 48:32
  righteously and to look for Jesus return.
• 48:36
  Maybe they have been taken away to an area of protection or have
• 48:41
  been hidden somewhere here on earth for protection.
• 48:44
  During this time, if we are still present during the we are
• 48:47
  not subject to God's wrath. Maybe we're present, maybe we're
• 48:51
  not, maybe we're in another place, I don't know.
• 48:53
  It remains to be seen. That's a big question, but it's
• 48:57
  then Isaiah 51 chapter verse 19 says these double calamities
• 49:04
  have come upon you. Who can comfort you?
• 49:07
  Rune and destruction, famine and sword, Who can console you?
• 49:12
  OK, the double calamities, that's another thing to look at.
• 49:17
  If you look up double, you'll see that often that's what God
• 49:22
  does. He and he says several different
• 49:25
  times about double, like Job for one, he he was being tested and
• 49:31
  everything got taken away from him.
• 49:33
  But then God blessed his life doubly when he restored things.
• 49:38
  So there's double restoration often.
• 49:42
  But for the people of Israel who don't turn to the Lord, who
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  don't recognize Jesus, there is it.
• 49:54
  It tells the Jewish people in the Old Testament.
• 49:57
  It warns them about this in Isaiah chapter 40, verse 2.
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  Speak tenderly to Jerusalem and proclaim to her that her hard
• 50:09
  service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that
• 50:14
  she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.
• 50:21
  So God has set a precedent in this.
• 50:23
  He's spoken this and it's for all her sins.
• 50:28
  There is, yeah, there's the the tribulation, the wrath of God
• 50:35
  that comes on and their payment is double for all their sins.
• 50:43
  And then when it talks about these double calamities, it
• 50:47
  talks about it specifically says ruin and destruction, famine and
• 50:52
  sword. If you look at Revelation
• 50:54
  chapter 6, that's what it talks about happens.
• 50:58
  There is first an oppressor, then there is war, so that's
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  ruin and destruction. Then there is famine, which is,
• 51:06
  you know, our scarcity, which is the third seal I believe and the
• 51:12
  the 4th seal. So look at the the seals of
• 51:17
  Revelation and it seems like those are described here in
• 51:24
  verse 20 of chapter 51. Your children have fainted.
• 51:28
  They lie at every street corner like antelope caught in a net.
• 51:32
  They are filled with the wrath of the Lord, with the rebuke of
• 51:39
  your God. So the people who are here, the
• 51:43
  inhabitants of the earth, those who have rejected God, those who
• 51:47
  are not turned towards him, those who have not repented, who
• 51:51
  are not seeking the Lord, they are filled with the wrath of the
• 51:56
  Lord, with the rebuke of your God.
• 51:58
  Therefore hear this, you afflicted one made drunk, but
• 52:02
  not with wine. There, some would say they're
• 52:06
  drinking the Kool-aid of the other spirit.
• 52:09
  This is what your sovereign Lord says, your God who defends his
• 52:14
  people. See, I have taken out of your
• 52:18
  hand the cup that made you stagger from that cup, the
• 52:22
  goblet of my wrath. You will never drink again.
• 52:26
  So Jesus will stop it. This is Jesus, He will, he will
• 52:30
  took. Well, first of all, he tried to
• 52:32
  do that. He he took the cup of God's
• 52:36
  wrath when he died on the cross. He told his disciples to at the
• 52:42
  night of Passover when they were having a meal together.
• 52:46
  And he said, this is the cup of my blood.
• 52:48
  The blood has been poured out. I mean, people didn't understand
• 52:52
  what he was saying at the time. It's only in hindsight that
• 52:55
  these things are realized. But the cup of wrath and and
• 52:59
  Jesus prayed to the Father and he said, if you can take away
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  this, this cup from me, he's talking about the cup of the
• 53:05
  wrath. Let it be.
• 53:07
  But if not, your will be done. Well, that was God's will.
• 53:11
  Jesus had to die on the cross. He had to break that curse so
• 53:14
  that all of us, Jesus's future brothers and sisters could be in
• 53:19
  God's Kingdom with him. So the cup of wrath, he, Jesus
• 53:23
  had to drink from it on the cross.
• 53:26
  And but he's taken away this cup.
• 53:30
  So there's going to be a punishment of Israel that is
• 53:33
  because of idolatry and disobedience.
• 53:38
  That is going to come. And it will happen probably
• 53:42
  during this time when this beast rises up.
• 53:46
  Leviathan, the spiritual thing that is coming from the past,
• 53:50
  from days of old that will come into the present that will
• 53:54
  attack Israel, I will put into the hands, but God will turn
• 53:59
  this around. Like there's only going to be so
• 54:02
  much of it and then God's going to turn it around.
• 54:04
  And I seriously wonder, was October 7th part of that?
• 54:09
  You know, that was like thousands of people just, you
• 54:12
  know, innocently families, you know, that just were slaughtered
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  by the enemy. I think there was a spirit when
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  you learn more about what those people that's that slaughtered
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  the people of Israel, what you learn about them that and what
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  they found in some of the they they found books on Hitler and
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  they found like these kids are being taught at a very young age
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  to hate Jews like that is something spiritual.
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  Anybody that teaches hate and and they it's like rewards if
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  you kill them. I mean, they they actually
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  received monetary rewards for having killed.
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  There was a recording, I remember when it was all going
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  on, I was watching a channel that had these recordings or
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  tapes of these people. This one guy who was part of the
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  slaughter and he's calling his mom like being happy about what
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  he did. And it's just like when evil is
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  known as good and good evil. I mean, that's that's the times
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  that we were certainly seeing when that happened.
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  Like, how could anyone think that evil was actually good?
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  Innocent people. These weren't people in combat.
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  They were innocently in their homes with their families just
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  taken and destroyed. I mean, it very much sounds like
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  this Bible prophecy about what was prophesied would happen.
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  I mean, there were pregnant women whose wombs were cut open
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  and there were, there was actually like a baby put into an
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  oven and baked. I mean, these are like
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  horrendous things that happened. And I mean, I, I really, I don't
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  know. I mean, this is just awful.
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  And if it gets, if this is not God's wrath or I, I don't know,
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  I mean, if it gets worse than this, I can't even imagine.
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  I do not want to be here for that because that is just
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  horrendous. But God will put an end to it.
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  He goes, I will put it into the hands of your tormentors who
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  said to you fall prostate that we may walk on you and you and
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  you made your back like the ground like a street to be
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  walked on. So is this, you know, like I, I
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  did see this, I mean, like where there were wicked people with
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  their foot on the head of a Jewish person.
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  I mean, there were these horrible things and these these
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  people who were murdered were like paraded around on display
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  for others to see along in Gaza. It was just, it was terrible.
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  It was so inhumane and brutal. And I cannot see how some people
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  today are not, are forgetting that like that was just like
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  unprovoked. It was just like unreal what
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  actually happened there. And, and I just think about this
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  like forced worship. And this is where I asked for
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  the grace of God, because I know that there will be some Muslims
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  who will be saved by God, Some that will their eyes will be
• 57:32
  opened. But I'm concerned about the the
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  Islam that is seen in the Middle East, the terrorist type of
• 57:45
  Islam, those who say that they practice Islam and those who are
• 57:50
  bent on death and destruction, it only seems like their God
• 57:54
  must be Satan, because that's what Satan wants, death and
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  destruction. And and then the thing that they
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  do, these terrorists that actually decapitate people, and
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  they do this to Christians too. And so it is very concerning
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  about that religion. How can someone call that?
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  I know that there are there are Christians who cause them call
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  themselves Christians that don't act like Christians.
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  So there are these great imposters of people.
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  And maybe that's what it is. Maybe it's just that we can't
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  say that like all Christians are bad because of what happened
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  like a long time ago with the Crusades, because those people
• 58:38
  were not Christians. And it must be the same for I
• 58:42
  have to believe that. It must be the same for the
• 58:45
  people who are not these radical terrorist Islamic people.
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  But the fact that the religion actually talks about Jews and
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  Christians being forced to worship and if they don't, they
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  will be destroyed. That's in the Quran and that's
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  really concerning to me, or at least in the hadiths.
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  And so I, I just like it. It seems like so concerning.
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  And, and maybe there are some people just who grew up with
• 59:15
  that, that religion and they don't see the dark side of it
• 59:20
  all. But if you get deep into it and
• 59:23
  you see these things like anyone who forces somebody to be in
• 59:30
  that religion or just die, it that doesn't seem like love.
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  I don't you know, Christians don't shouldn't they are not
• 59:42
  called to force anybody. God doesn't force anybody to
• 59:45
  believe. There is an there is an eventual
• 59:49
  it does say the vengeance of God will come and it will like there
• 59:57
  there is a there is a law. I mean people that re reject
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  God. It'll be through God that people
• 1:00:04
  do. They are eternally separated.
• 1:00:07
  They will get what they want to not be with God because they
• 1:00:10
  don't know the true God. And so it's we're at a time
• 1:00:16
  where we, it's really, really important to be in the word of
• 1:00:20
  God. And yes, God is love, but if God
• 1:00:26
  is love, he cannot tolerate hate.
• 1:00:29
  He can't have hate and destruction in this world.
• 1:00:34
  It has to be dealt with and those who destroy, as it says
• 1:00:41
  here will be destroyed. And so we all have to be careful
• 1:00:47
  that we are not a part of any religion that actually not to be
• 1:00:52
  radical with the religion that we belong to.
• 1:00:56
  And religion is really something that I don't know if it's, I
• 1:01:03
  don't know. There can be like bad things
• 1:01:06
  about religion. It's so important to truly know
• 1:01:09
  God and to have a relationship with God and to be seeking God
• 1:01:14
  in prayer and through scripture and to actually love other
• 1:01:19
  people, to be concerned about other people and to bring other
• 1:01:23
  people into the Kingdom of God. We don't force anyone to come
• 1:01:27
  into the Kingdom of God, but there are great things in store
• 1:01:32
  that Jesus said he left and he was going to the Father to
• 1:01:36
  prepare a place. And there is a future.
• 1:01:41
  There is a future eternity. There will be a restoration,
• 1:01:46
  there will be joy. People will be happy.
• 1:01:49
  Their death will be gone. There will be true peace only
• 1:01:54
  when Jesus returns. Jesus said up until that time,
• 1:01:56
  there's going to be war after war and rumors of war.
• 1:01:59
  It's just not going to go away. We're in a time frame right now
• 1:02:03
  in the world where people think that peace is coming, but
• 1:02:07
  prophecy warns us. It says when people say peace
• 1:02:10
  and safety, then will come sudden destruction.
• 1:02:13
  So Jesus isn't here yet. So there won't be peace.
• 1:02:19
  It's going to be a false sense of peace and then will come
• 1:02:22
  sudden destruction. So the most important thing, if
• 1:02:25
  we're here in peace and safety, we better be close to God right
• 1:02:28
  now because sudden destruction comes.
• 1:02:32
  If sudden destruction comes, we better make sure that our
• 1:02:34
  relationship with God is solid, rock solid, so that if we get
• 1:02:40
  destroyed when the sudden destruction comes, we will be in
• 1:02:44
  the Kingdom of God. We can know that before we die,
• 1:02:48
  and some of us won't even die. If we're alive.
• 1:02:51
  When Jesus returns, there will be no death experienced.
• 1:02:54
  We will rise to meet him in the sky, and our bodies will be
• 1:02:58
  changed into the imperishable type.
• 1:03:01
  We will have a new body when Jesus returns.
• 1:03:03
  People get new bodies. There's so much that is in store
• 1:03:07
  for us. And I don't know that churches
• 1:03:11
  talk about these things like Christian churches.
• 1:03:13
  A lot of them don't talk about this.
• 1:03:15
  But we should be focused on the Kingdom of God and bringing
• 1:03:21
  others into the Kingdom. Like God sent out people to
• 1:03:26
  populate the earth, to rule over the earth.
• 1:03:29
  And he want, he wants a family and those who accept him and who
• 1:03:37
  love him back, those who are obedient to his commands will be
• 1:03:41
  in the Kingdom of God. And a lot of people aren't even
• 1:03:44
  aware of this. And that's why it's so important
• 1:03:46
  for us to, if we know this, to let others know, not force them
• 1:03:52
  into believing this, but just tell them, pray, pray to God,
• 1:03:57
  get into the Bible, read the Bible and ask God about things
• 1:04:02
  that are not get a study Bible. The quest study Bible is an
• 1:04:08
  excellent study Bible. It helps.
• 1:04:10
  It has a hundred of the most asked questions in it.
• 1:04:14
  So but just start or get on blue letter Bible and start reading
• 1:04:18
  it and and studying it and asking questions about it and
• 1:04:23
  letting Scripture interpret scripture and talking with other
• 1:04:26
  people about it. But the main thing is preparing,
• 1:04:32
  you know, to surrender our natural sinful self to, to God
• 1:04:39
  and let God's Holy Spirit work in our lives so that we become
• 1:04:43
  more holy like God and we start to desire the things of God and
• 1:04:48
  that we can in love bring other people as brothers and sisters
• 1:04:53
  into God's Kingdom or help them be aware of it so they can make
• 1:04:56
  that choice. So that's what the Bible is all
• 1:04:59
  about. It's, it's the way to eternity.
• 1:05:04
  It's about God. It's the revelation of God, who
• 1:05:07
  he is, how much he loves us and what he has in store for us.
• 1:05:11
  And it's how we get there. And that's what I was starting
• 1:05:14
  to say is we can know before we die if we're going to be in
• 1:05:16
  God's Kingdom, if we've accepted, if we believe Jesus
• 1:05:21
  died for our sins and rose from the dead and lives today, he's
• 1:05:26
  not dead. And and we believe that he took
• 1:05:29
  care of that so that we don't have to die for our sins.
• 1:05:33
  Then we don't have to worry about the judgement if we had
• 1:05:36
  the Holy Spirit. And we are willing to let God
• 1:05:39
  start changing our lives and turn US away from sin if we're
• 1:05:43
  willing to do that and with the help of the Holy Spirit, that's
• 1:05:46
  what Jesus said. He said you must be born again
• 1:05:51
  and no one can enter the Kingdom of God unless they are born
• 1:05:55
  again. And that Jesus said, I am the
• 1:05:57
  way, that he is the way, the truth and the life.
• 1:06:00
  And no one comes to the Father except through him.
• 1:06:04
  So it's Jesus. Jesus is so important.
• 1:06:07
  He is the Son of God. And there are many other
• 1:06:11
  religions who don't believe he is the Son of God.
• 1:06:15
  And that's where, if if you don't believe that he is the Son
• 1:06:17
  of God, then you won't believe that his sacrifice made
• 1:06:21
  atonement for us so that we can be in the Kingdom of God.
• 1:06:25
  And that's a that's a huge problem about being in eternity.
• 1:06:32
  That's the only way we can be in eternity.
• 1:06:34
  And it's not by all of our good works.
• 1:06:36
  Our good works are basically gratitude to God because he did
• 1:06:40
  save us, because he did this for us, that we want to be good to
• 1:06:45
  other people. And but it's all about, it's all
• 1:06:49
  about the glory of God. Everything ultimately points to
• 1:06:54
  the glory of God, recognizing the glory of God, and hopefully
• 1:06:58
  opening up others eyes to the glory of God so that we can all
• 1:07:03
  be in God's Kingdom one day.