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703. Bible Study: Isaiah 8 (Prophecy, Seraphim?, Satan?, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Syria, Jesus?) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 8 from the book of Ezekiel.
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I'll start with a prayer. Dear God, thank you for giving
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us this opportunity to discuss and review your word.
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Please let the Holy Spirit enlighten us and give us wisdom,
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the application of knowledge that we receive by reading this
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book in Jesus name. Amen.
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So chapter 8 actually before we get into chapter 8, I want to
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talk about something in Chapter 7 because I I saw it, but I
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didn't comment on it because I couldn't make the correlation.
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I remembered that Jesus was referred to as Emmanuel.
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I mean, I would, that was something I was taught.
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And when I read in Chapter 7, there's you know, Isaiah was
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speaking to Ahaz and he was saying, therefore the Lord
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himself will give you a sign the virgin will conceive and give
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birth to a son and and will call him Emmanuel.
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So, and then it goes on to say a lot more, but I, that really
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confused me because I thought somebody, you know, must have
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misunderstood this because this must have applied to the time,
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to Isaiah's time. And I, I know that in taught
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Christianity it refers to Jesus, but when I'm reading it, I'm
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like, I'm not getting that. I'm not understanding that.
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And so today I actually searched for Emmanuel to see where it was
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written in the Bible. And now I understand why
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Christianity says this was a reference to Jesus because in
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Matthew chapter one, verse 23, Well, actually let's go to verse
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22, the one before it. Actually, let's just go, maybe
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let's read, let's start at 18. OK first, OK, first I will read
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Matthew 123 and then I'm going to go back so you get it in
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context. So Matthew 123 for OK, first let
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me go back to Isaiah Chapter 7 and it's verse 14.
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Therefore, the Lord himself will give you a sign.
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The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and will
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call him Emmanuel. So this is in the seven hundreds
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BC that that's written. Now we're going to go to
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Matthew, which was, gosh, I don't know what year it was.
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It was like probably the 50s, sixties somewhere in there.
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I didn't look it up before this. So I'm I'm just guessing.
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I know John, the last book that was written was around 90, the
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Book of Revelation. So it was before 90AD.
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So anyway Matthew in chapter 1 verse 23.
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Now Matthew is one of the original disciples, the original
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12 followers that was with Christ during his ministry.
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So he said in quotation marks, the virgin will conceive and
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give birth to a son and they will call him Emmanuel, which
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means God with us. So Matthew is referring to this
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a prophecy in Isaiah. So let's go back to Matthew
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verse 18. This is how the birth of Jesus
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the Messiah came about. His mother Mary was pledged to
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be married to Joseph, but before they came together she was found
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to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.
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Because Joseph, her husband, was faithful to the law and yet did
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not want to expose her to public disgrace.
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He had in mind to divorce her quietly.
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But after he had considered this, an Angel of the Lord
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appeared to him in a dream and said, Joseph, son of David, do
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not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is
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conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
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She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name
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Jesus, which is the Greek form of Joshua, which means the Lord
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saves. Just so you know that because he
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will save his people from their sins, all this took place to
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fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet.
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The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and they
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will call him Emmanuel, which means God with us.
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So it's really interesting how the Bible is written because it,
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the prophecies are given in such a way that, you know, only in
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hindsight do people realize what has happened, but then they
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realize that God foretold this through someone and, and it's
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references tied together here. So Matthew came away with
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knowing that somehow he, he was, he knew that took place and that
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applied to Jesus. So I can now understand why
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Christianity says that verse refers to Jesus.
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So I because, and again, there's a lot of times in the Bible
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where it doesn't even expand upon like was somebody named
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Emmanuel at that time? The text, the rest of the text
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doesn't even tell you that sometimes there is like a double
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fulfillment, often called like a foreshadowing of future events.
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So it may have happened back in Isaiah's time and there could
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have been a partial, but not a full complete fulfillment of
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that prophecy. So it's it, you know, prophecy
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is definitely hard to understand because it's not clearly
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written. Even the disciples would pull
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Jesus aside and say, can you explain like parables?
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He they'd say, can you explain this to us?
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Because they didn't quite understand everything was kind
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of talked about in in code language almost to where the
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enemies of God would not understand it, but those who
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have the Holy Spirit can understand it.
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So very interesting thing. So I just wanted to talk about
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that because it was the prior chapter before we get into
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chapter 8. So we'll start with chapter 8.
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Now the Lord said to me, take a large scroll and write on it
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with an ordinary pen, Meher shalal Hashbaz.
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So I called Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jereba Kya as
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reliable witnesses for me. So this is really interesting
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because the Lord's telling him to write this down and then he's
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bringing 2 witnesses to see him write this down.
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And so he has the the name and the name actually means this
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name means quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil, quick to the
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plunder and swift to the spoil. This is like in in the times of
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war where someone is quick to go plunder to take items, to take
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away the spoil in a, in a, in a warfare time.
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So that's really an interesting name to name a child and
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especially after that prophecy was given.
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So again that confused me. So in the but then he, you know,
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tells he gets to other people. Remember that God uses often 2 *
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2 to three times when he repeats something to establish truth.
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And so here he has two witnesses to establish truth, the Uriah
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and Zechariah. So then he continues to say,
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Then I made love to the prophetess, and she conceived
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and gave birth to a son. And the Lord said to me, Name
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him Mahershala Hashbaz. For before the baby knows how to
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say my father or my mother, the wealth of Damascus and the
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plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of
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Assyria. So Assyria was a land area that
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was made-up of partially of, I believe partially of Syria, but
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Turkey primarily and Iraq and maybe a portion of Iran.
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So the Lord spoke to me again, because these, these this people
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has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloha and rejoices
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over Resin. Remember, he's, I believe, the
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head of Damascus and the son of Ramallah.
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In fact, I'd better check that because those were the those
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were the kings that were mentioned in the prior chapters.
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So yes, so Resin was the king of Syria, who's capital was
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Damascus, and then Romalia was the king of Israel, the northern
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kingdoms. So this is actually prophesied,
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I guess, before the northern Kingdom was taken away by the
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Assyrians. So anyway, therefore the Lord is
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about to bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the
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Euphrates, the floodwaters of the Euphrates.
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Think about that, the floodwaters of Euphrates.
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Then he says the king of Assyria with all his pomp.
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So he's talking about floodwaters in a metaphorical
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sense. Being the king of Assyria and
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the king of Assyria is the floodwaters.
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It will overflow all its channels, run over all its banks
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and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it, passing
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through it and reaching up to the neck.
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It's outspread wings will cover the breath of your land.
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Emmanuel, Emmanuel, God with us. So this just comes out of
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nowhere all of a sudden now he's going back.
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He said, the Lord spoke to me again and he's giving this
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prophecy about the Assyrians coming into Judah.
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And then what's so weird is the Assyrians.
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But he says wings will cover the breath of your land.
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Emmanuel, God with us. So it's almost like the, the,
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the, the people at the time, Judah and Israel were always,
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well, they were confident about God being with them through
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everything and never letting anything overtake them.
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But then when I read this today, I was like, wings.
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Why would he say outspread wings?
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Well, I guess just sweeping over, but I just thought it was
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very interesting. And all of a sudden my mind
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went, now this is just side commentary that happened when
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I'm reading this wings. I thought about Seraphim and
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then somehow I was thinking, well, isn't is Seraphim
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connected to Satan? And so I did a lot of looking
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into all of this and it's, it's very interesting if you want to
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go to the blue letter Bible and search in whatever translation
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you are comfortable with, but search some of these things and
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look up the the word for that. So anyway, that's what I did was
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I want to go back to where I started because I it really got
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me into a lot of different places actually.
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So I want to go to 1st chapter Isaiah chapter 8 because I
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didn't save that and click on it so I can see where Isaiah
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chapter 8 verse 8, that's the place that I was reading.
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So it's outspread wings. Now you know, we know that's
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some sort of a metaphor, but then sometimes there is a
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literal and a metaphorical way of state stating something.
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So it could be winged, it could be wing, it could be skirt,
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borders, corners, ends, feathered, miscellaneous, you
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know, somewhere on the, you know, the outer edges of it.
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And and so that certainly has a different it's outspread wings,
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but outspread wings will cover the breath of your land.
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To me, it that does sound like it does sound like wings.
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It's been translated as wings. And again, that's where I came
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up with was that seraphim is Satan never called seraphim.
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So I looked at Isaiah 6 and verse 2 about Seraphim above
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him. Were seraphim each with six
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wings. With two wings they covered
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their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two
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they were flying. So these are some kind of flying
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seraphim and so like seraphim or some sort of angels, right?
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I mean, something like that, I guess.
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And and then just in chapter 6, verse 6, remember one of the
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seraphim flew to Isaiah with a live coal in his hand, which he
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had taken with tongs from the altar.
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And he touches his mouth to take away, you know, to cleanse him
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basically. So I'm thinking OK.
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These are These are. Good, but they're in the
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presence. Of.
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God and these are seraphim and so I, I was like, how could you
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know, was Satan? And I did look it up like just
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searching, you know, with Satan a seraphim and and there's like
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a mixed belief that yes, he was, but it the Bible doesn't exactly
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state that. However, when you start digging
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deeper into the word. So that drew me to look at what
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the seraphim. So if we go to Isaiah 6, two
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seraphim was the first word and it's actually it, it's here's
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the definition, fiery serpent, fiery seraphim.
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So the outline of the biblical usage is serpent fiery, serpent
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poisonous, serpent fiery from burning effect of poison, a
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seraph or a seraphim, majestic beings with six, six wings,
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human hands or voices in attendance upon God.
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So these are this is just really interesting.
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And then I looked at, you know, it's actually written in the
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Bible or this, this word, the Hebrew word is syrup is actually
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in seven times in the Bible. It goes to Numbers 21 verse 6.
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Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them.
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They bit the people and many Israelites died.
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So that same word that's used for this poisonous serpent is
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used for this venomous St. snake in Numbers 21, verse 6.
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In Numbers 21 verse 8, the Lord said to Moses, make a snake and
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put it up on a pole. Anyone who is bitten can look at
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it and live. So this.
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Is. Really interesting and I didn't
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dive into this tremendously, but again, this was what you know,
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God told Moses to do this. Now anything that gets hung on a
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pole. Is cursed.
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That's somewhere else in Scripture.
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And so the snake is on the post and it, you know, it's the
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original one who is being cursed.
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And then there's a a verse later on that talks about, you know,
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just as the snake was on the pole that Moses was commanded to
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do, so Jesus had to be on the pole.
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To die for our sins. So that's where it says like he
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had to become the the curse or he broke the curse or he was
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took on all of the sin to die for us.
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There's a lot of this mysterious part of the Bible that I really
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didn't get into a deep study, but I don't know if you're
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thinking if your thoughts are connecting it.
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The way my thoughts were was that this is some like fiery
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serpent and and then Deuteronomy 815 says he led you through the
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vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land
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with its venomous snakes and scorpions.
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He brought you out of Hard Rock. And then Isaiah 6, two and six
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six are ones we've read already. Isaiah 1429.
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It says do not rejoice all you Philistines.
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Those are the, you know where Gaza is today that rod that
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struck you is broken from the foot or from the root of that
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snake will spring up a Viper. Its fruit will be a darting
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venomous serpent. So there's this is, I think,
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future Bible prophecy when we get into 14 chapter 14 and then
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Isaiah 30 verse 6A prophecy coming out of the animals of the
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Negev through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and
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lionesses, of adders and darting snakes.
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The envoys carry their riches on donkeys back their treasures on
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the humps of Campbell camels to that unprofitable nation and to
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Egypt whose help is utterly useless.
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Therefore I call her the Rahab do nothing.
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So it's, you know, that was referring, referring to Israel
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going to. Judah to Egypt often to get help
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when they weren't seeking God. Instead they were seeking Egypt
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for help. But it was just, I didn't know
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that a seraphim had anything to do with fire and that it was a
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fiery serpent. And of course, then it kind of
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draws that connection with Satan or something.
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You know, these, these are in God's presence.
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And so there's a lot of other parts in the the Bible when you
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read it, like if you go to look at, you know, in the beginning,
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in the very first book of the Bible in Genesis, when the
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serpent deceives Eve and gets her to take from the tree of
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knowledge, then God gives a command against them.
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He says, So he says, or you know, he has a consequence of
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this. In Genesis 315, God says, and I
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will put enmity between you and the woman talking to the serpent
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and between your offspring and hers.
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He will crush your head and you will strike his heel.
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So crushing the head then this is really interesting when you
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get into crushing the head. So then in Psalm 74 verse 14, it
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says it was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave it
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as food to the creatures of the desert.
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So this is again like future prophecy and about the Lord
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defeating Leviathan. And so Leviathan is also called
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the the gliding serpent. So again, there's like this
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connection to all these things which I just find very
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interesting. So in Isaiah 14 in verse 12 it
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says this is referring to again. Satan, how you have fallen from
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heaven. Morning Star, son of the Dawn,
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you have been cast down to earth, You who once laid low the
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nations. And then in verse 19 it says,
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but you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch.
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You, you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the
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sword, those who descend to the stones of the pit like a corpse
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trampled under foot. So this is, and then there's
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actually another one, verse 26 that says this is the plan
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determined for the whole world. This is the hand stretched out
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over all nations. That's Isaiah chapter 14.
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So it's referring to the whole world.
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And so I believe this is an end time.
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And again, I believe that Satan's behind all of this and
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it's, you know, his this is just supporting that that Satan is
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the enemy of God. He's seeking to destroy and he
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all of these things when you start searching them, it's
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either him or one of the other fallen angels that are doing
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these things. But it's interesting, like I
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said, that it's outspread wings will cover the breaths of the
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land. And it's also talked about as
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Assyria, the Lords instrument. So again, God is in control of
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this and somehow Satan is connected to the land of
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Assyria. And it even gets deeper the more
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you start diving into scripture. I mean, I got into like Babylon
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and everything. I mean it just.
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And then you get into Lebanon too.
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So there is, you know, is, is that going back to Genesis
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chapter 3, verse 15? And I will put M&T between you
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and the woman, between your offspring, your offspring or
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your seed and hers. So are these enemies of Israel
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actually the seed of Satan? It's offspring of Satan.
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And you know, could that be a literal or maybe more of a
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metaphorical way of saying it? Somebody whose thoughts and
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hearts are turned towards evil, somebody who is influenced by
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Satan, they don't have the Holy Spirit of God residing in them.
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So therefore they are doing the will of Satan, who is their
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Lord, as opposed to the true Lord, the God of all the
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creation. And they don't have the Holy
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Spirit. So because they don't have the
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Holy Spirit, they are doing, they are, you know, under the
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influence of Satan. So anyway, it was just, that was
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a very long. There's actually even more
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that's kind of interesting too. In Genesis chapter 49 verse 10,
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it says the scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the
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ruler's staff from between his feet, until he to whom it
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belongs shall come, and the obedience of the nations shall
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be his. Now this is talking about Jesus
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and especially when you read the very next sentence in this
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chapter, Genesis chapter 49 verse 10.
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Then when you read 11, it says he will tether his donkey to a
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vine, his colt to the choicest branch.
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He will wash his garments and wine his robes in the blood of
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grapes. This might be very confusing to
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people, but Jesus came into Jerusalem and rode A tethered
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donkey. He took the colt, his colt to
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the choicest branch. So these are things that Jesus
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did. He will wash his garments in
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wine. It there is other future
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prophecy that says something like where?
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Where have you come from? Lord?
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Your, your robe is stained red, Crimson red or something to that
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effect. And he was fighting a battle all
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on his own. And he came from Basra, I think
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is where it says that he came from there and his and then
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again, who is the one who tramples the wine press?
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So his robes in the blood of grapes.
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That's again Jesus bringing about judgement when he returns
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that he tramples the wine press. So this is all the way you know,
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God tells the story from the end story from the very beginning.
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So the very first book, Genesis chapter 49 verses 10 and 11 are
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talking about Jesus. So and and it's giving, you
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know, the the outcome of what is going to happen in the end.
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So let's see, I don't know if there's Oh, and then in verse
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17, this is interesting because this is like what Jacob is
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telling his not Jacob. I yeah, Jacob blesses his sons,
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correct. OK, I get names mixed up
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sometimes. So Jacob is blessing his sons
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and he says that Dan, the tribe of Dan or his son, you know,
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Dan, will provide justice for his people as one of the tribes
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of Israel. Dan will be a snake by the
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roadside, a Viper along the path that bites the horse's heels so
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that it's rider stumbles backward.
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So I don't that one's a hard 1. I don't quite have that
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understanding. But Dan being compared to a
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snake is not a good thing. And I also noticed that in the
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Book of Revelation, the tribe of Dan is missing from the 144,000.
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There's 12,000 from each tribe except for Ephraim and Dan.
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They are not mentioned and so their names are not in there.
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And Ephraim is the one who turned away and allied with
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Assyria. So and they got into all the
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idolatry and the bail worship. And if you really deep dive into
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who is Bail or Bell or you just you start looking in Scripture
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1st and then see these different connections or Mammon or you
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know, there's a lot of different names, but you find out that
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they all kind of there's an article if you keep looking that
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ties all of them together. Like they may be known by
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different names, but they all refer to the same being.
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And I believe they refer to Satan and may perhaps his fallen
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angels. I mean, he did take a third of
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the stars. That's what the Book of
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Revelation says. The stars are representations of
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angels. He took a third of them down to
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earth with him from the heavenly realms.
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And so there is, you know, a number of, you know, maybe those
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are the Satan's offspring, the serpent's offspring, or all of
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those who banded with him from the heavenly.
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They left the presence of God and then decided to come to
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earth and do certain things. So that's all told in the the
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book of Enoch, which is not part of the Bible, but does kind of
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expand upon that concept. So anyway, it's it again, this
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just it was kind of eye opening. So these these, these will
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probably be human beings that will do these things, but they
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will be under the slavery of Satan.
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They will have the spirit of Satan.
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Maybe they will be possessed by Satan.
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I don't know. But this is something that the
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Lord spoke to Isaiah 700 BC. Let me read it again.
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This was a prophecy. The Lord spoke to me again
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because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of
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Shiloa and rejoices over resin. He was the king of, of, of Aram,
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which is modern day Syria and the son of Ramallah.
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Now he was the king of Israel and sometimes the king of
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Israel. That area was Ephraim was the
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kind of like the, the major city during that time.
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So Ephraim, that name is used because Ephraim led the
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Israelites into idolatry, worshipping Bale and you know,
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child sacrifices and all those kinds of things.
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So and it so it says, because these people has rejected the
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gently flowing waters of Shiloh and rejoices over resin and the
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son of Ramallah. Therefore the Lord is about to
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bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates,
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the king of Assyria with all his pomp.
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So maybe that's just the old, the whole alliance because that
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land covered lots of different areas, like we were saying, like
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Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. So those were all kind of like
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part of that land of Assyria. Pay attention to what's going on
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in the Middle East right now. In fact, today is the 16th of
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July, 2025, and Israel is in a big time battle in Syria right
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now. And Damascus has been hit
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several times and there is fighting between the different
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factions of the people that are there.
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And there's a lot of conflict going on.
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And people who watch for biblical end times, prophet,
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prophetic events happening in the Middle East.
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There is something, I forgot what chapter it is in Isaiah
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also, that says Damascus will no longer be a city.
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So at some point in the future, we don't know if it's now, but
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there's a battle definitely happening in Damascus.
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Is that happening now? Is that fulfilling Bible
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prophecy or will it stop? And not completely?
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The Bible says it will no longer be a city.
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There'll be nobody living there. So that hasn't happened yet.
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That's Damascus is still a city. So again, Isaiah 700 ish BC said
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this was going to happen. And today, in 2025, it hasn't
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yet happened, but there's something happening today there.
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In fact, it started last night. And it's kind of ironic that I
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just happen to be on this chapter and talking about these
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things. I think so.
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It will overflow its channels, run over all its banks and sweep
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into Judah, swirling over it, passing through it and reaching
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up to the neck. It's outspread wings will cover
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the breath of your land. Emmanuel, raise the war.
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Cry you nations, and be shattered.
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Listen, all you distant lands, prepare for battle and be
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shattered. Prepare for battle and be
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shattered. Devise your strategy, but it
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will be thwarted. Propose your plan, but it will
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not stand for God is with us. That's interesting because even
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though God is calling for he's, he's bringing this judgement.
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He's letting this happen because they were too concerned about
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their, you know, the I guess they rejected, they rejected
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God. And so he's calling these
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nations to be his instrument. So but letting them have their
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free will, they want to do this anyway.
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So God's going to let them because Israel turned away from
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God. And but he's also saying to
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them, you're not going to be successful in this.
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You're going to come against Israel, but you're not going to
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be successful for with this because God, because of God,
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only because of God. This is what the Lord says to me
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with His strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way
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of this. People.
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Do not call conspiracy everything this people calls a
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conspiracy or a secret plan to harm.
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Do not fear what they fear and do not dread it.
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The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy.
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He is the one you are to fear. He is the one you are to dread.
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He will be a holy place for both Israel and Judah.
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He will be a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock
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that makes them fall. I, I need to, I don't know.
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There's a, there's a lot right there.
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And I just, I might, I might read through this and come back
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to that statement, though. A stone that causes people to
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stumble and a rock that makes them fall.
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We're going to talk about that. And for the people of Jerusalem,
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he will be a trap and a snare. Many of them will stumble.
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They will fall and be broken. They will be snared and
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captured. Bind up this testimony of
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warning and seal up God's instruction among my disciples.
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I will wait for the Lord who is hiding His face from the
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descendants of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.
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So again, we always trust God. Here am I and the children the
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Lord has given me. We are signs and symbols in
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Israel from the Lord Almighty who dwells on Mount Zion.
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When someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritists
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who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their
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God? Again, why do people go?
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Why do people use astrology? Why do people go to mediums?
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Why do people go to tarot cards? All those kinds of things.
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Those are opening yourself up to evil spiritual realm.
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Why do you just not go to God who is the creator of all?
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Don't you think God can answer that question?
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Of course, that's all my commentary, so I'll go back to
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scripture. When someone tells you to
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consult medians and spiritists who whisper and mutter, should
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not a people inquire of their God?
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Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
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That's the other thing is you have to be careful because it
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there is something in Scripture that says that you know dead
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people do not communicate with people here.
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So if that happens, there is a within Scripture, it says that
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Satan can appear as an Angel of light.
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He can appear as something good. So again, his his strategy is
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deception and he can often reach people because of someone they
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really desperately want to communicate with who is dead.
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I mean, remember when Samuel or Saul went to the medium and
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called up Samuel? Saul called up Samuel through
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this medium. Now he was not supposed to do
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that. Someone did appear, and I don't
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know if it really I don't know. I mean, it's we.
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I guess we'll only know by God when he answers that, like did
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he actually come about or was that something evil that came
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forth presenting himself like Saul?
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That's kind of what I think happened perhaps.
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But I also think that Saul, that he looked like Samuel.
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I don't know if I said that right or if I got the names
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mixed up, but Saul was doing something wrong again, that he
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knew better. He knew he wasn't supposed to do
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this. In fact, even the the Witcher,
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the spirit medium or whatever of Endora, I think is what her name
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Endora, Endora, something like that, or Endor.
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And she was, she realized that who he was because he had banned
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all of them. And she was, I guess, fearful of
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who he was and that he was actually getting her to do
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something she wasn't supposed to do because they were still doing
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this. So consulting the dead.
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But that's something that in today's world, don't go to
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psychics, don't go to mediums, don't go to spiritist, don't go
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to and people that read tarot cards, don't do astrology.
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All those things because you are consulting with evil, call on
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God, pray to God, ask God. You know God's the creator.
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Why go to something that is under the authority of God that
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God forbids us to do? Why not go directly to the top
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and ask God about it? So verse 20, consult God's
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instruction and the testimony of warning.
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If anyone does not speak according to this word, they
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have no light of dawn. Distressed and hungry, they will
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roam the land. When they are famished, they
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will become enraged, and looking upward will curse their king and
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their God. Then they will look toward the
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earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and
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they will be thrust into utter darkness.
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So there's there's nothing good that's going to come from
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seeking anyone other than God. So that's the end of chapter 8.
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I'm going to read the questions and answers and then I also want
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to get. Back to that stone in the rock,
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Because there are. I could just.
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List all of them, or we could read them too.
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I may read them. So first let's see.
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Go through the questions and answers.
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Who was the prophetess Isaiah's wife?
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She was probably called a prophetess because she was
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married to a prophet, or perhaps because as the one who bore
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children with prophetic names, she became involved in the
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communication of the message of God.
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Some identify her as a young woman who would become the
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mother of Emmanuel. If so, Emmanuel and Maher Shala
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Hashbaz were two different names for the same child.
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Who knows about that? I don't know why give a name
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like this to a child. To the Israelites, names were
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often connected with special characteristics or events, and
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were sometimes even prophetic. In this case, God intended the
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child's name to signal the coming Assyrian conquest of
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Aram, which is Damascus, and Israel, Samaria, Samaria.
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That was their capitals. This would begin to be fulfilled
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before the boy even learned to speak at about age 2.
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The time period appears to be the same as that in 716.
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In Chapter 7 verse 16. This symbolic name meant that A
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has enemies would be plundered, but it also implied that Judah
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would suffer. Why should we fear God?
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Remember it says fear the one, fear the Lord.
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Let's see, the Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as
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holy. He is the one you are to fear.
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He is the one you are to dread. So why should we fear God.
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The background of this passage was the threat to the southern
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Kingdom of Judah presented by King Pika of the northern
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Kingdom of Israel and his alley king Risen of Arum through.
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Isaiah the Lord warned Judah not to turn to Assyria to calm their
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fears. Rather than fearing or dreading
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Israel and Arum, the people should fear the Lord.
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Isaiah then used 2 analogies to picture the coming judgement on
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both houses or kingdoms of Israel.
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God was often described as a rock in Deuteronomy chapter 32,
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verses 415 and 18, normally with the implications of shelter and
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refuge. Here the prophet turned his
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family figure against the people, God the rock for his
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people who trust him, but he is against those who refuse to
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believe. Isaiah had already pictured
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people under the divine hand of judgment having to become
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hunters again. Here he spoke of God as the
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hunter who uses bird snares and spring traps as foils for his
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victims. We too should fear God rather
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than people. God enacts His judgment on the
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basis of His Holiness and I'm I'm this His omnipotent point of
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view. Thus, as standards and knowledge
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of sinners individually are collectively are infallible, as
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Abraham said, will not the judge of all the earth do right?
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So God is always doing right. So when judgement is pronounced,
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it is for the right reasons. When it's judgement against
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someone, God has he's just and he's holy and all of that and
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and it's, you know, for us to we're not in God's shoes.
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We don't see what God sees. We are not everywhere as God is
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everywhere and God can under can see all the things that are
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happening. So if we see judgement against
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someone and we think, oh, that wasn't right, We don't know
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everything. We truly don't know everything.
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What I found in scripture is that sometimes it's judgement
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and sometimes it's testing. It's testing person.
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So a person could also be righteous, but then be tested by
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God. He'll allow a certain degree of
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testing, but not a complete capturing of their soul, if you
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want to call it that. So what was Shiloha?
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This was a slow moving stream that flowed from the spring of
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Geehan in Jerusalem. It was a sharp contrast to the
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mighty flood waters of the Euphrates which flowed through
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Assyria. Shailua represented God's supply
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and protection for His people, which Judah rejected, choosing
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said to seek help from Assyria. Though they would rejoice over
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the downfall of King Resin of Aram and King Pika, the son of
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Ramallah of Israel, both of whom died in 732, they would nearly
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be drowned by the surging armies of Assyria.
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Why would God side with Judah's enemies?
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He had given the people of Judah their chance, but they had
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refused to put their trust in Him.
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To punish His people, He would permit Assyria to sweep into
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Judah, reaching up to the neck. This would be fulfilled in seven
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O 1 BC, when Senate Cherub's invasion overwhelmed all the
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cities of Judah except Jerusalem, Judah's head.
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Why the dramatic shift from uttered feet to victory?
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Assyria wouldn't sweep over into her own land, but to the land of
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Emmanuel that prompted Isaiah's powerful poetic lines in verses
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9 through 10. All seems lost, but God is with
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us and defeats the enemy. Just as Arum and Israel would be
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shattered, so Assyria would eventually.
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Fall. Why is God referred to as a
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stumbling stone, a trap, and a snare?
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These are images of God's coming judgment on Judah and Israel,
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both of whom would be subjected to the destructive military
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might of the Assyrians. There's a little bit more to it
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too, and that's what I was going to read about.
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So why was God's instruction sealed something?
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God's instruction refers to the large scroll on which the
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prophecies of the coming Assyrian invasion were written.
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If so, this was God's way of preserving the pronouncement of
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judgement that a has had refused to hear.
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Later, when it was fulfilled, it would prove that God had been
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behind both the prophecy and the judgement.
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How were Isaiah and his children's signs and symbols?
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Isaiah and his children were living testimonies to God's
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workings with His people. The meanings of His children's
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names constantly put God's plan before the people.
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Isaiah later became a sign to the nation with his object
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lesson behavior. What were mediums and
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spiritists? These were people through whom
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the spirit of a dead person was believed to communicate with the
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living. Consulting them was widespread
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practice among Israel's neighbors and was a constant
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temptation for the Israelites, especially when they were under
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the judgement of God, even though they were strictly
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forbidden to do so in Leviticus chapter 19 verse 31, chapter 20,
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verse 6, and Deuteronomy chapter 18, verses 9 through 13.
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Isaiah pointed out the foolishness of consulting the
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dead when they could consult the living God.
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How would God honor? OK, that's the end of chapter 8.
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So when I was reading this again, it says a stone that
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causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fail, them
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fall. And so when I read that
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immediately, I don't know if you thought this too, but I thought
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of Jesus, Jesus so often. And I have 12345678910111213.
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Yeah, I think it's 13 and there there might be 14/15/16.
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I'm not sure if I think, yeah, maybe 16 different references to
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Jesus. OK, so again, let's go back to
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Chapter 8. And this is within verse 14, a
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part of the sentence. He will be a holy place for both
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Israel and Judah. He will be a stone that causes
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people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.
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This is talking about Jesus and again in the seven hundreds BC.
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So let's go first to Psalm 118 and this is in verse 22.
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The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
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So you might as well just read the whole Psalm 118 if you don't
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believe it, because this is about Jesus.
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It says I will give you thanks for you answered me.
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You have become my salvation. The Lord has done this in its
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marvelous eyes. So I mean, the stone the
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builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
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That's Jesus. Then if we go to Isaiah, let's
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see cornerstone, maybe if I just look that up, that might come up
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where I can see all of these verses.
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OK, so Isaiah 2816, so this is what the sovereign Lord says.
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See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone stone.
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Remember how Jesus was tested in the wilderness?
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A precious cornerstone for a sure foundation.
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The one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic.
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That's that peace without understanding.
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Then we also have, let's see, Zechariah chapter 10, verse 4.
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From Judah will come the cornerstone from him, the tent
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peg, from him, the battle bow, from him every ruler it's
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talking about God. Jesus was a descendant from the
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tribe of Judah and all these other things describe him.
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The tent peg, the battle bow. Every ruler comes from him.
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He sets kings, He places them and takes them away.
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Then we have Matthew chapter 21 verse 42.
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Jesus said to them, have you never read in the scriptures the
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stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
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The Lord has done this and it is marvelous in our eyes.
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So in Matthew 21 verse 42, it it is part of the parable that
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Jesus tell talks about and he talks about him being the son of
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the vineyard owner and how they would they would kill him.
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He prophesizes about his his death and it says, you know,
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anyone who falls on the stone will be broken to pieces.
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Anyone who whom on whom it falls will be crushed.
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So it's he was giving a warning to them because they weren't
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believing that Jesus who he was. And he was like, have you never
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read this in scriptures? And then we have in Mark chapter
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12, verse 10. Haven't you read the passage of
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the Scripture? The stone the builders rejected
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has become the cornerstone. And he says in Luke it was
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documented, chapter 20, verse 17, Jesus looked directly at
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them and asked what's the meaning of that which is
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written? The stone the builders rejected
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has become the cornerstone and then in Acts in the book of Acts
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chapter 4 verse 11, it states very clearly Jesus is the stone
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you builders rejected which has become the cornerstone.
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So that should take away any question that what is that Jesus
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be is the cornerstone. And then Ephesians 220 built on
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the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Christ Jesus
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himself as the chief cornerstone.
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And first Peter 264 in Scripture it says, see I lay a stone in
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Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who
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trusts in him will never be put to shame.
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And then we have in in first Peter chapter 2 verse 7.
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Now to you who believe this stone is precious, but to those
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who do not believe the stone the builders rejected has become the
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cornerstone and a stone that causes people to stumble and a
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rock that makes them fall. They stumble because they
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disobey the message, which is also what they were destined
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for. So if you don't believe, that's
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where your destination is. If you if you don't believe that
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Jesus is this cornerstone, it it's very clear within the
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Bible. And then I think I wrote down
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something else like another verse that I found in here about
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Jesus being the cornerstone. Daniel 244 Listen to this in the
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time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a Kingdom
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that will never be destroyed. That's the Millennium reign of
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Christ. Nor will it be left to another
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people. OK, it will crush all those
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kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure
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forever. And then in Daniel 245 it says
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this is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of
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the mountain. But not by human hands, no, by
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God, by the Holy Spirit. A rock that broke the iron, the
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bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.
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The great God has shown the the king what will take place in the
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future. The dream is true and its
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interpretation is trustworthy. So just, you know, as this, the
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stream that he had, I mean, it would be crushed eventually by
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God, just like remember it crushed in Genesis 315.
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I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your
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offspring and hers. He will crush your head and you
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will strike His heel. So that is another verse in
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Romans 1111. That was another verse I wrote
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down. There's just see, there's just
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so much in here that OK, I don't know why I wrote that one, so
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I'll read it again. I asked, did they stumble so far
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as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all.
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Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has
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come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious.
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So Israel stumbles because they don't believe Jesus.
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So Jews do not believe unless they're a Messianic Jew, they do
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not believe that Jesus is the Son of God.
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And so it says, did they stumble as far, so far to fall beyond
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recovery? And it says not at all.
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But the blessing that comes from it is that, you know, Israel was
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the chosen nation. But here it it says because of
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their transgression, because they didn't believe salvation
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has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious.
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So thankfully the people who are not directly Israeli are given
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the opportunity to be in God's Kingdom.
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And he said that you know these these people later on if you
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want to read Romans Chapter 11, these people are are grafted in
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just like you know it says for if God did not spare the natural
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branches, he will not spare you either.
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So it they were broken off because of unbelief.
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So but then he graphs in other branches, which are the
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Gentiles. So this this whole chapter talks
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about that. So again, God came for all
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nations. Jesus came for all nations.
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He's a savior for all nations. And then I have written down
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first Peter 2 verse 8. I don't know how I found all
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these, but I was obviously looking for a while First Peter
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2 verse 8 and OK, it says and a stone that causes people to
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stumble and a rock that makes them fall.
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They stumbled because they disobey the message, which is
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also what they were destined for.
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So we did read that and then first John 2 Chip first John.
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I'm looking this up two verse 10.
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Anyone who loves their Anyone who loves their brother and
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sister lives in the light, and there's nothing in them to make
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them stumble. So again, if you love your
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brother and sister, you live in the light.
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Brother and sister could be metaphorical to talk about other
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people in the world, and there's nothing to make them stumble.
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Again, this is like the stumble like if the love of God is
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within someone, if they're loving their other people of the
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world, if they love other people of the world and they want to
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bring them into the Kingdom of God by giving them the knowledge
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of what is in the Bible, it's up to them to make the decision.
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But this is what what God does promise that it he's, you know,
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going to it'll his house will be a House of all nations.
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That's what it says. So it means that more people
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beyond the Jewish people do get to be in God's Kingdom, which is
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really good, but you have to come to a saving knowledge,
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wisdom, actually the application of knowledge.
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So in Daniel chapter 8, I don't know what I wrote about that 9
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or maybe it's 9/24 9 because that didn't seem to apply when I
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looked at it. I don't know where I because I
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have Daniel 924 and Revelation 10/4.
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So 70 sevens are decreed for your people in your city to
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finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for
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wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to
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seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the holy place.
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Well, that is when Jesus will finally return to finish up the
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sin and sin. And then Revelation 10, verse 4.
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So I don't know why I wrote these down, if they were
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relevant to relevant to another verse or what, but I wrote it
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down. And so I'm looking them up
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because I don't have all of these things memorized.
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But I wrote down Revelation 10, verse 4.
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So we'll read that and that's going to be the last verse.
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But Jesus is definitely the cornerstone.
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Oh, I guess maybe it was when God talks about sealing up, bind
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up this testimony of warning and seal up God's instructions.
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So that was the same thing. That's right.
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That's why I said that in Daniel because that's what God said
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about Daniel. Seal up the scroll for this is a
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time in the very in the future. That would be in chapter 8,
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verse 26 and then 924 where these things are sealed up until
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the end times. And he gives a time frame of
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when that will be the very end like the last days.
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So in Revelation chapter 10 verse 4, and when the thunders
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spoke, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven say
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seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not write it
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down. So there is something that still
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we do not have. We do not know what what that
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is. And yeah, there's like a mystery
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of what will unfold. And it says that in Revelation
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10 verse 7, it says, but in the days when the 7th Angel is about
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to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be
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accomplished just as he announced to his servants the
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prophets. So very interesting chapter,
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chapter 8, lots of references to Jesus once again from 700 BC, so
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almost 3000 years ago. So I hope you come back and join
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