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890. Bible Study: Zechariah 13 (What happens when Jesus returns) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 13 from the book of Zachariah.
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  We'll start with a prayer. Dear Lord, please be with us as
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  we read through this chapter and let the Holy Spirit open up our
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  hearts and our minds and our thoughts to you.
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  We ask this in Jesus name. So it begins, chapter 13.
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  On that day a fountain will be opened to the House of David and
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  the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and
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  impurity. On that day I will banish the
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  names of the idols from the land, and they will be
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  remembered no more, declares the Lord Almighty.
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  I will remove both the prophets and the spirit of impurity from
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  the land. And if anyone still prophecies,
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  their father and mother to whom they were born will say to them,
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  You must die because you have told lies in the Lord's name.
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  Then their own parents will stab the one who prophesizes on that
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  day. Every prophet will be ashamed of
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  their prophetic vision. They will not put on prophet's
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  garment of hair in order to deceive.
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  Each will say I am not a prophet, I am a farmer.
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  The land has been my livelihood since youth.
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  If someone asks what are these wounds on your body, they will
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  answer the wounds I was given at the House of my friends.
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  Awake sword against my shepherd, against the man who is close to
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  me, declares the Lord Almighty. Strike the shepherd, and the
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  sheep will be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the
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  little ones in the whole land, declares the Lord. 2/3 will be
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  struck down and perish, yet 1/3 will be left in it.
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  This third I will put into the fire.
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  I will refine them like silver and test them like gold.
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  They will call on my name and I will answer them.
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  I will say they are my people and they will say the Lord is
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  our God. Now that's the end of chapter
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  13. I will read what the questions
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  and answers are from the Study Bible.
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  What is the significance of this fountain?
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  In the Old Testament, water was necessary for ceremonial
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  cleansing from sin. In the New Testament, the
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  cleansing comes through the blood of Christ.
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  But Jesus also talks about the living water, and so if you look
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  that up, because it says on that day a fountain will be opened to
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  the House of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to
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  cleanse them from sin and impurity.
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  So these are some of the verses where living water is talked
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  about in Jeremiah chapter 2 verse 13.
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  My people have committed 2 sins. They have forsaken me, the
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  spring of living water. So here God is called the spring
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  of living water and have dug their own cisterns, broken
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  cisterns that cannot hold water. In Jeremiah 17 verse 13, it says
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  Lord you are the hope of Israel. All who forsake you will be put
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  to shame. Those who turn away from you
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  will be ridden in the in the dust because they have forsaken
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  the Lord, the spring of living water.
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  So again, this is relating the the Lord to the spring of water.
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  Then we have Zechariah 14, which will be the next chapter we come
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  to. On that day, living water will
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  flow out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea and half
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  of it West to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter.
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  Now here's where Jesus talks about the living water.
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  In John chapter 4, verse 10, Jesus answered her, this is the
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  woman at the well. If you knew the gift of God and
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  who it is that ask you for a drink, He was referring to
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  himself, you would have asked him and he would have given you
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  living water. Verse 11, the next verse Sir,
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  the woman said you have nothing to draw with and the well is
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  deep. Where can you get this living
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  water? And in Chapter 7, whoever
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  believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water
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  will flow from within them. I'm going to go back to John
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  chapter 4 verse 11 though, because about the living water.
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  So Sir, the woman said you have nothing to draw with and the
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  well is deep. Where can you get this living
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  water? Are you greater than our our
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  father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself,
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  as did his sons and his livestock?
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  Jesus answered, Everyone who drinks this water will be
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  thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them
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  will never thirst. Indeed the water I give them
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  will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal
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  life. The woman said to him, Sir, give
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  me this water so I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming
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  here to draw the water. He told her Go call your husband
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  and come back. And then it continues on where
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  Jesus talks to this woman about her current situation and let's
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  see, she does believe in in the Messiah called the Christ in
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  verse 25, it says the woman said, I know that Messiah called
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  Christ is coming. When he comes, he will explain
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  everything to us. Then Jesus declared, I the one
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  speaking to you, I am He. So he was letting the woman know
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  about the living water that he was bringing.
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  And then he, you know, Jesus was saying it.
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  Whoever believes in me as the scriptures has had rivers of
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  living water will flow from within them.
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  In Revelation Chapter 7 verse 17 says for the lamb referring to
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  Jesus at the center of the throne will be their shepherd.
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  He will lead them to springs of living water and God will wipe
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  away every tear from their eyes. So the living water in this
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  fountain, this cleansing, the cleansing of us comes from God
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  through the, through Jesus by the Holy Spirit.
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  So it's, it is a, a process in our life.
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  But this is talking about on that day that God is going to
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  cleanse all the people. And it says, I, I will banish
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  the names of the idols from the land and they will be remembered
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  no more. That's going to be a good thing.
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  So, and he's going to remove the prophets.
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  These are the false prophets and the spirit of impurity from the
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  land. So everything is going to be
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  made new when Jesus returns, but there is going to be a process
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  of going through the fire like it says in that it's almost like
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  a a poem towards the end of it. So the part about the children
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  that is, I just said, whoa, when I read that one, then their own
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  parents will stab the one who prophesized.
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  So I'm going to read the question and answer from the
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  study Bible. I have nothing to say about that
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  one. Why would parents execute their
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  own children? This prophecy regarding the New
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  Covenant implies that false prophecy will still be a problem
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  in the future. Still, it is hard to imagine how
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  concern for the truth will supersede even the most intimate
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  human concerns. So yeah, I don't that's I, I
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  just can't even imagine this. But there's a lot of things that
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  are coming up and in this time of testing that are going to be
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  like never before. Like Jesus said, there will be a
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  time that of great tribulation that has never been before nor
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  will ever be again. So this is going to be something
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  that no one has ever seen before.
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  The verse about strike the shepherd and the sheep will be
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  scattered. This verse was later quoted by
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  Jesus to describe what would happen to him and his disciples.
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  And it gives us a reference which I didn't look up ahead of
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  time, but I will now for Matthew chapter 26 and we'll go there.
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  It's verse 31 that's referenced, so I'll read what it says there.
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  So Matthew 26 verse 31 then Jesus told them, this very night
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  you will all fall away on account of me.
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  For it is written, I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of
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  the flock will be scattered. But after I have risen, I will
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  go ahead of you into Galilee. Peter replied, Even if all fall
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  away on account of you, I never will truly I tell you Jesus
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  answered this very night before the rooster crows, you will
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  disown me three times. But Peter declared, even if I
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  have to die for you, I will never disown you and all the all
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  the other disciples said the same.
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  So this is you know if this happens to the disciples, then
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  you can see why in Scripture it says pray that you will be able
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  to stand on that day that your faith will be strong enough.
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  Look at all the people that the 12 disciples or 11 disciples
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  that were with him and we're good friends, dear friends to
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  him that even they went through after seeing everything that
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  Jesus did and knowing who he was, they denied him.
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  And it just shows how weak us, how weak we can be.
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  But then I also think about this like at this time the disciples
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  did not have the Holy Spirit, but that's what was promised
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  when Jesus left. He said it'll be good for you
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  when I go away because I will send the Advocate and he will
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  remain with you. I think all the way until he
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  returns is what I can't remember.
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  I'm paraphrasing that verse. But that's the good news that
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  the Holy Spirit that Jesus sends to us when we are truly
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  connected to God and we we desire to be a child of God and
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  we want to get rid of the mess in our life and we believe in
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  Jesus and about his death and his resurrection, then we
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  receive the Holy Spirit. That's what Jesus said he will
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  send when we are truly repentant and want to change.
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  We don't come to Jesus perfect, but the Holy Spirit changes us
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  in that process. And you know, as long as we our
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  desire is that way. So in Mark chapter 14 verses 27
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  through 31, it says you will all fall away.
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  Jesus told them for it is written, I will strike the
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  shepherd and the sheep will be scattered.
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  But after I had risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.
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  Peter declared even if all fall away, I will not truly I tell
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  you Jesus answered today, yes, tonight before the rooster crows
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  crows twice, you yourself will disown me three times.
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  But Peter insisted emphatically, even if I have to die for you, I
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  will never disown you and all the others said the same In Luke
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  chapter 22. It doesn't talk about chapter
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  22. It talks about the same scene,
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  but it doesn't talk about the the shepherd being struck.
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  But this is Luke's version of the gospel.
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  It's it says verse or chapter 22, verses 31 through 34.
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  Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat.
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  But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not
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  fail, and when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.
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  But he replied, Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to
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  death. Jesus answered, I tell you
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  Peter, before the rooster crows today you will deny 3 times that
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  you know me. And then in John chapter 13
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  verses 36 through 38, Simon Peter asked him, Lord, where are
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  you going? Jesus replied, where I am going,
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  you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.
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  Peter asked, Lord why can't I follow you now?
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  I will lay down my life for you. Then Jesus answered, will you
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  really lay down your life for me?
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  Very truly, I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will
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  disown me 3 times. So all four Gospels talk about
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  this and about how the sheep scattered after the shepherd was
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  struck. Everybody went in fear, but
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  again, they did not have the Holy Spirit at that time.
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  So let's see what catastrophe was Zechariah describing.
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  This may predict the Roman attack on Jerusalem in AD 70, or
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  it may refer symbolically to the persecution of the Church.
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  What is the day of the Lord? This refers and and when it says
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  the persecution of the church. I was thinking that because
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  there's 1/3 that'll be left. And I was thinking that's kind
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  of the remnant cause like in the whole land declares the Lord,
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  2/3 will be struck down and perish, yet 1/3 will be will be
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  left in it. There were a few other times
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  where this was acted out like Ezekiel, where he would take a
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  third and he would put it a third of the hairs and put it
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  inside his coat. He would cloak.
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  He would spare that when he was like re enacting to get a
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  message to the people surrounding him.
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  And this same thing like this is this is kind of, this third is
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  repeated also like in the Book of Revelation.
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  At first, when the trumpets happen, I think there's like 1/3
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  of different things that are affected.
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  And then when the the bulls happen, then the, the remaining
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  part of it has happened. So God does things like in
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  stages, he gives warnings and they keep getting harsher and
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  harsher. But the whole point of that is
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  to lead people to repentance. But some people will never go to
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  repentance. So and God is aware of that.
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  It's written in Scripture that many of the people, I guess
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  during the the wrath of God, they could turn, but they don't.
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  They just don't want to repent of what they're doing.
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  And we find that in the world, You know, there are, there will
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  be people who accept Christ and then people who reject him and
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  resist him. And we can't do that for anyone
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  else. It's everyone's own decision.
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  So what is the day of the Lord? Well, I guess last recording we
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  talked about that quite a bit, so I won't go through all of
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  that, but if you want to listen to it, just listen to the last
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  chapter 12. I guess it was.
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  So this refers to a time when the Lord will be vindicated and
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  His wrath will be unleashed against those opposed to Him.
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  At the same time, His grace will be poured out on those who
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  belong to Him. So the grace is really the power
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  of the Holy Spirit. Why would God cause an attack on
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  Jerusalem only to defend against it?
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  Though God may use Pagan nations as instruments of His wrath,
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  they are not exempt from judgment for their wickedness.
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  So God brings the nations in judgment against Jerusalem, but
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  also turns judgment back on the unrighteous nations.
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  It's kind of an example of the way I always look at it is that
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  God lets us have our free will like all these nations.
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  They do want, they want to go against Israel.
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  And in order to refine Israel like silver and test them like
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  gold, God allows it to happen. But their free will and their
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  desire to punish Israel will not be left undone.
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  It's going to come back on them as well.
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  So I think there's there's so much more that we should all
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  think about, like what you reap, you will sow because it shows
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  that pretty clearly in the Bible how things turn out.
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  So I think that's the end of this chapter.
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  And I'm going to keep this one a short one for today and hope you
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  come back next time for chapter 14.
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