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790. Bible Study: Jeremiah 32 (Sealed Land Deed, Two State Solution, Wrath of God, Restoration Promised) · Faith by annm2705

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  We have another very interesting chapter ahead, chapter 32 from
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  the book of Jeremiah. And so let's get started on this
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  and remind ourselves why we read these Second Timothy 316.
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  All Scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching,
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  rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness so
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  that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every
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  good work and Romans chapter 10 verse 17.
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  Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message and the
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  message is heard through the word about Christ.
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  Now in this chapter of Jeremiah I have seen actually I want to
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  pray first. So dear Lord, please let the
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  Holy Spirit reveal things to us, let us have understanding, open
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  our eyes to what is in scripture.
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  Please guide us in understanding you better and applying this I
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  guess conceptually to our own lives so that we learn from
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  this. Just as the purpose of scripture
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  is described in Second Timothy. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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  Let's get started. Jeremiah buys a field.
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  This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the
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  10th year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, which was the 18th year
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  of Nebuchadnezzar. So in the first sentence we find
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  that there is a time frame of when this happened.
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  And so I double checked this, I searched, you know, how long
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  does Zedekiah rule? What were the years?
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  And he ruled from 597 to 586. BCI did the same for
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  Nebuchadnezzar. When did he rule?
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  He ruled from six O 5 to 562 BC. So what is the difference in
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  both of those years? If we look at 10 years later
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  from Zedekiah starting in 597, we come up with 587 BC.
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  If we take the 18th year of Nebuchadnezzar, which he started
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  reigning in six O 5 and subtract the 18 years, then we will come
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  to 587 BC. So these details Fact Check and
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  we find the year that this happened in 587 BC.
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  This isn't really significant to anything that's in the in the in
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  the context, at least right now it isn't, but it's another way
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  to Fact Check, which I think is really good.
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  Now the second verse says the army of the king of Babylon was
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  then besieging Jerusalem and Jeremiah the prophet was
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  confined in the courtyard of the guard in the royal place of
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  palace of Judah. So Zedekiah king of Judah, it
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  says, Now Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him there,
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  saying, Why do you prophecy as you do?
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  You say, this is what the Lord says, I am about to give the
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  city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will capture
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  it. Zedekiah, king of Judah will not
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  escape the Babylonians, but will certainly be given into the
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  hands of the king of the of Babylon and will speak with him
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  face to face and see him with his own eyes.
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  He will take Zedekiah to Babylon where he will remain until I
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  deal with him, declares the Lord.
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  If you fight against the Babylonians, you will not
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  succeed. So this gives us a little bit of
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  information. This is this is punishment that
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  God is. It's a consequence of Judah's
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  idolatry and their not listening to God and not doing what God
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  commanded. And so God turns them over to
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  the enemy. And God uses the enemy's will
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  desires to accomplish his own purpose.
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  That's how God can use people that are not submitted to him.
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  The Babylonians want to do this on their own.
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  That's their heart. That's their own personal
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  desire. But God uses that personal
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  desire to accomplish His purpose.
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  And it says in Scripture that we read last chapter that God
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  disciplines those he loves and He disciplines them and us so
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  that for our good. So there is a he, you know,
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  there is a benefit to submitting, surrendering to God
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  and obeying Him. And there's a lot of resistance
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  from them and from us today. In obedience to the Lord, we'd
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  like to pick and choose what we want to obey.
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  But in reality, if we choose and we agree with God, we come into
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  agreement with him and say the things that you, that you ask us
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  to do, that you command us to do are good things.
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  And they are for the good of us. And they are protection for us
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  as well. When we understand that, then we
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  see that these are protective things.
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  The the rules, the obedience that God is asking us for.
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  This is to protect us, to make us ready and prepare us for the
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  Kingdom of God. That's what it's about.
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  Because God says be holy, because I am holy.
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  So the people that will be in God's Kingdom will be holy
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  because God cannot have sinfulness in his presence.
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  I believe it just burns things away.
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  I've said this before, or like God warned the people at Mount
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  Sinai when he gave the 10 commandments that he said this
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  ground is holy, you know, take off your shoes, don't let
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  anything touch it because everything was sinful.
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  All the people were sinful. He's like, don't let them touch
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  it because they will, they will die if they touch it.
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  So God is a protective God. It's kind of like a child.
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  Say you have a gas stove and the child sees the fire, you know
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  the flames, and wants to touch it because it looks pretty and
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  they want to see what it's all about.
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  As a parent, you're going to say no, no, no, you cannot touch
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  that. You will get burned.
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  That's like God with his children.
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  It's like, no, no, no, you're not ready for that.
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  You can't touch that. You're still children.
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  You know, You don't know all of this that I'm trying to teach
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  you. And so that's somewhat of an
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  analogy of God and us as his children, God and the Israelites
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  as his children, like he's a protective God.
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  He's trying to keep us and them, them and us from harm.
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  And after reading and studying the Bible, I realized that at
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  first I resisted the obedience personally because I didn't like
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  all of it and I was really set in my ways.
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  But eventually, as it says in Scripture, when you read
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  Scripture, it will convict you, not condemn.
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  Condemn means sending you to hell.
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  Well, it can if you don't change your ways.
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  But it'll, it'll make you feel guilty, it'll make you feel
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  ashamed when you understand it. And a lot of people when they
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  get to those points in the Bible that personally speak to them,
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  they're they cry. I know I cried.
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  And I've heard men say this like really strong, brave men.
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  There was like a man on Shawn Ryan's show who was, I think the
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  one who actually got Osama bin Laden.
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  And he when he had this experience at a camp, a
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  Christian camp, he literally cried.
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  But when he was first there, he was looking at these guys who
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  were crying and he was like, gosh, you know, he had his, you
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  know, his fleshly self saying, you know, they need to like
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  basically put on the big boy pants and, you know, quit doing
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  this stuff. Like what it what is going on
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  with these people? Why are they crying?
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  But then it happened to him and his life was changed as a result
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  of that. So God humbles us when we seek
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  him and and just being there, he had someone pray over him and he
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  was moved by the Holy Spirit in that like the Holy Spirit can
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  soften our heart, can make us or I guess help us to receive what
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  God has to say and to know that whatever God commands comes from
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  love and comes for our good. OK, let's go back to Scripture.
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  Jeremiah said the word of the Lord came to me, Hannah now.
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  So now this is interesting. Jeremiah has another word.
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  So he's imprisoned. Zedekiah doesn't like what he's
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  saying. And he's like, why are you
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  saying this, Jeremiah? Why are you telling me that I'm
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  going to be captured and all this like he didn't believe it
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  and it did get fulfilled later. But then Jeremiah, he's just
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  having these experiences with God.
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  Even while he's imprisoned. There are things that are are
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  while he's under observation. Whatever he's, he is, he's the
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  Lord is speaking to him. So again, the Lord speaks to
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  him. The word of the Lord came to me,
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  Hannah Mel, son of Shalom, your uncle is going to come to you
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  and say, buy my field at Anathoth, because as nearest
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  relative it is your right and duty to buy it.
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  So this is interesting because, well, I'll read the next part.
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  Then just as the Lord had said, my cousin Hannamel came to me in
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  the courtyard of the guard and said by my field at Anathoth in
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  the territory of Benjamin, since it is your right to redeem it
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  and possess it by it for yourself.
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  Now there's a lot here that in those two paragraphs that there,
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  first of all, there was an immediate fulfillment.
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  So Jeremiah is literally hearing from God because, you know, how
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  does he know that? How does he know that this man's
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  coming to him and going to ask him these things?
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  And the Lord also said he told him, he said buy it because
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  you're the, you know, he told Jeremiah to do that.
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  And so again, I'll, I'll read through this, but umm, there's
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  so much in here. I knew that there was, that this
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  was the word of the Lord. So I bought the field at
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  Anathoth from my cousin Hannah Mel and weighed out him 17
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  shekels of silver. I signed and sealed the deed,
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  had it witnessed and weighed out the silver on the scales.
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  I took the deed of purchase, the sealed copy containing the terms
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  and conditions, as well as the unsealed copy.
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  And I gave this deed to Baruch, son of Neriah, the son of
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  Messiah, in the presence of my cousin Hannamel and of the
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  witnesses who had signed the deed, and of all the Jews
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  sitting in the courtyard of the guard.
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  In their presence I gave Baruch these instructions.
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  This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says.
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  Take these documents, both the sealed and unsealed copies of
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  the deed of purchase, and put them in a clay jar so they will
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  last a long time. For this is what the Lord
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  Almighty, the God of Israel says.
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  Houses, fields and vineyards will again be bought in this
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  land. So there's this future
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  restoration that is promised by God.
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  Now. There's so much in here that is
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  really, really cool. That honestly just came to me
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  when I was reading it today. So I'm going to share with you
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  some of the research that I did. I was curious, you know, he paid
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  17 shekels of silver. And so I was curious what what
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  was that? Was that a little bit of money?
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  Was that a lot of money? So I searched how was land
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  valued in 587 BC? So I'm going to read this to
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  you. In 587 BC, land value in the
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  ancient Near East was typically determined by factors such as
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  location, agricultural potential, and prevailing
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  political circumstances, with transactions conducted using a
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  system of weights in precious metals like silver shekels.
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  Land valuation factors Agricultural Use Land was
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  primarily valued for its agricultural productivity and
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  ability to sustain life, which was especially critical during
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  times of siege and famine. Property law In ancient Judah,
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  property law as outlined in Leviticus ideally mandated that
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  land remain with the family line and only be transferred through
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  inheritance or a kinsman redemption process, the goel
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  system. This meant that the inherent
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  long term value was tied to familial lineage and not just
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  market speculation. So there is ancestry.
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  Especially because God identified what land people will
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  have and nothing is. You know God's will will
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  succeed. No matter what people do, God's
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  will succeeds. So there's a lot of things like
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  the Kinsman redemption process, where only someone you know can
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  redeem. This ties to Jesus again,
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  because Jesus was the ransom on the cross.
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  The price paid His life was the price paid for the redemption of
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  mankind. So even though we're talking
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  about people, it's a very similar type thing, a kinsman,
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  Redeemer, somebody related. He was from the tribe of Judah.
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  His sacrifice on the cross. Again, Jesus is the way, the
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  truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father except
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  through him. So his sacrifice on the cross
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  made it possible for the Israelites to be in God's
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  Kingdom. And this is, you know, the the
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  Jewish people should understand this from property law when
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  their eyes are finally opened about Jesus and what he did for
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  them. So I'm going to continue to read
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  about this political instability.
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  The year 587 BCE was a time of immense turmoil with the Neo
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  Babylonian Empire besieging Jerusalem.
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  The value of land during such periods was highly volatile.
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  The ongoing war, famine, and subsequent Babylonian exile
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  meant that the immediate market value for land near the conflict
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  zone was likely depressed or even considered worthless by
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  some. Due to the high risk currency.
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  There were no standard coins. Instead, payments were made
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  using shekel weights of silver which were weighed on a scale
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  for each transaction and we see evidence of this in the
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  description found in Jeremiah because it was 17 shekels of
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  silver and they were weighed out on scales in verse 10 and the
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  deed of purchase. Now this is interesting too, the
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  deed of purchase, the sealed copy.
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  So what I understand from having researched this before was that
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  there were these wax seals that were put onto the scrolls where
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  these this deed that was purchased.
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  Now does that sound familiar? Sealed scroll.
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  How many times were scrolls talked about in Bible prophecy?
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  So there were a couple different times where scrolls were sealed
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  and visions were had by prophets that, you know, was about the
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  end times. And then we look into the Book
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  of Revelation and there's a scroll.
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  So I've, you know, some of these, the symbology in the Book
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  of Revelation was really confusing to me at the
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  beginning, but now it seems to be coming clearer and clearer.
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  This scroll, is it, you know, is it the deed of the land?
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  Is it a deed for mankind? Is it both?
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  And is Jesus the Lamb of God? I mean, I know Jesus is the Lamb
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  of God, you know, symbolic Lamb of God.
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  But he was the only one who could redeem, the only one who
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  could open the scroll. So his death on the cross was he
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  was the only one that could do that because he was sinless.
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  He died on the cross. That required purity to atone
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  for the sin of all people. And then Jesus, as the Lamb in
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  the Book of Revelation, opens up the seven seals on the scroll.
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  No one else can do it. It's only the Lamb.
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  So Jesus opens the seven seals. So, and this brings about it, it
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  sounds, I mean, these are negative things that happen as
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  the seals are being broken. And so it's, but it's I guess a
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  process that has to happen in order to redeem the full scroll.
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  So there is this consequence. And you know, when God set out
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  his commands and he gave blessings for obedience and
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  curses for disobedience back in Deuteronomy, if we read through
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  those, we'll probably see this again.
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  And, and, and there are also things that are like in the Book
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  of Revelation, if anybody takes and modifies any words of it,
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  then the plagues that are described in the scroll will
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  come upon those on that person. So God is pretty serious about
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  his word and about anybody messing with it, changing it or
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  doing anything different. And we know that there are some
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  countries that are actually trying to rewrite the Bible.
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  There's going to be consequences for that.
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  And actually, I've, I've seen and I today, I don't even know
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  what's real and what's not real, but I've seen these like plague,
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  like things like frogs, gnats, white flies happening to the
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  country that is, has been in the news that they've actually been
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  trying to rewrite the Bible and these plagues have been
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  happening and they don't know why these plagues are happening.
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  It's just, I think this is just prophecy being fulfilled.
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  So now this is interesting. When I was looking at how was
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  land valued in 587 BC, all of a sudden an example from Jeremiah
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  32 comes up. This.
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  So this is really relevant to what we're studying.
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  So I'm going to read this part. A prominent example from this
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  period illustrates the complex nature of land valuation.
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  The prophet Jeremiah purchased a field in Anathoth from his
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  cousin for 17 shekels of silver during the Babylonian siege of
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  Jerusalem around 587 or 586 BCE. So again, even looking this up,
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  the the year matches, Jeremiah weighed out 17 shekels of silver
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  for the field, signed the the deed, sealed it, and stored it
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  in a clay jar for safekeeping. So this also brings to mind the
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  discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1948.
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  There are I think over 1000 or 2000 scrolls that have been
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  found. And and so anyway, it's just
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  it's showing the process. There's more that I'll read
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  about that too. So this transaction was not an
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  economically investment in the immediate term, as the land was
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  soon to be under Babylonian control and largely vacated.
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  Instead, it was a prophetic act symbolizing a promise of future
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  restoration when houses, fields, and vineyards will again be
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  bought in this land after the exile.
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  The actual amount of silver, approximately 7 oz was a sizable
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  sum, but whether it reflected the fields true market value or
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  a prophetic symbolic price is debatable.
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  You know the God number of seven.
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  So that's interesting too that that is what he paid for it.
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  And the seven day, I mean, there's so many, like the number
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  7 is so significant and symbolic in Scripture documentation.
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  Business transactions were meticulously recorded on clay
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  tablets during the Neo Babylonian period, including
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  details like the King's reign, year and the status of the moon,
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  to ensure accuracy and provide verifiable records.
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  This level of documentation suggests a structured, albeit
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  ancient, system for property transactions.
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  So there was something when I was thinking about value.
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  I remember reading in scripture how and I thought it pertained
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  to land as well, But it also applies to indentured servants.
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  And maybe it more so applies to indentured servants, but it also
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  does apply to land. So let me read this to you.
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  I wanted I knew there was a value associated with land as it
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  pertained to the years left until the jubilee.
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  So here's the relationship between the value of land and
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  the jubilee. The value is directly
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  proportional to the years left until the jubilee.
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  More years remaining mean a higher value and fewer years
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  mean a lower value. This principle, found in
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  Leviticus, was used to calculate the value of land or the
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  redemption price for a person sold into servitude, with the
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  value based on the number of future harvest or years of hired
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  labor. So how was the how value was
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  determined? More years left?
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  The value was higher because there were more years of
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  potential crops or labor. If there were fewer years left,
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  the value was lower because there were fewer crops to be
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  harvested or less time. As a hired servant calculation,
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  the price was calculated based on the remaining years until the
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  next jubilee using the value of a hired servant for that period.
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  Examples in practice. Selling land.
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  A person selling land would base the price on the number of years
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  until the jubilee, increasing the price if many years were
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  left and decreasing it if few years were left.
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  So this I'll, I guess I'll read the rest of it too.
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  Redemption of servitude. A person who was sold into
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  servitude could be redeemed by a family member or himself.
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  This is that kinsman Redeemer too, which I think applies to
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  all of us. And I'm, I still haven't done
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  my, I'm going to write this out about slavery in the Bible.
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  And I think this is applicable to it as well.
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  The So continuing on the redemption price was calculated
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  by multiplying the annual wage of a hired servant by the number
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  of years remaining until the Jubilee.
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  Now, why this is significant is that in the Jubilee year, people
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  were set free. They were no longer on a they,
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  they didn't need to remain where they were.
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  They worked for six years in the 7th year.
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  Well, I guess the Jubilee year is actually the 50th year.
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  It, it went like there were 49 years and then the next year was
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  a Jubilee year. But there were also it, there
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  was like 6 years or seven. The 7th year was then the when
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  people were freed. So I need to probably look that
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  up because I know I've read both of those things though.
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  But consecrated fields. When a person consecrated a
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  field to the Lord, the priest would assess its value based on
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  the number of years left until the jubilee.
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  If the owner wanted to redeem the field later, the price would
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  be based on this calculation, with a fifth added if he
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  redeemed it after it was consecrated.
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  So there was more value if it was holy.
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  So just in context of today, I believe that 2025 right now I
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  think is a Jubilee year according to the Essenes
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  calendar, which the Essenes calendar was found in the Dead
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  Sea Scrolls. There we are in now the last
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  remaining 50 years before the not before, but during this time
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  period I think we are the generation that will see the
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  Messiah return. There are so many indications
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  that Jesus will return within this next 50 year period and
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  many people think it's much sooner than that, but that's
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  speculation. So we don't really know.
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  But if the Essenes calendar is correct and apparently from
• 27:15
  those who have studied the Essenes calendar, everything
• 27:19
  lines up with the Bible according to the Essenes
• 27:22
  calendar. So there are as of right now,
• 27:25
  there are 50 years remaining. Like this is the first year and
• 27:30
  then there are I guess 48 more years.
• 27:35
  Well it it's the 50th year, but it's also the first because of
• 27:39
  the way they calculate their years.
• 27:41
  So they'll have like 7-7 years, 7 sevens to 49.
• 27:50
  And then the 50th year is the Jubilee year, but it's also the
• 27:55
  first year of the next grouping of 49.
• 27:58
  So it's like these these groupings of 49 years, 7 sevens.
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  And we can find that in prophecy too, like the prophetic book of
• 28:07
  Daniel where it talks about 7 sevens.
• 28:10
  And there's a lot of this like to really understand how
• 28:14
  calendars were calculated and not calculated, but I guess time
• 28:19
  periods were calculated from calendars.
• 28:22
  It's important to know that to better understand prophecy.
• 28:27
  And the Jubilee year is significant.
• 28:29
  So studying the Jubilee year is important.
• 28:33
  So I also looked up, was 7 ounces of silver much in 587 BC?
• 28:39
  And it says yes, 7 ounces of silver was a very significant
• 28:42
  amount of wealth in 587 BC, likely representing many months
• 28:47
  if not years of an average laborer's wages.
• 28:51
  In pre modern times, most people did not commonly possess large
• 28:54
  amounts of silver, and even wealthy individuals engaged in
• 28:58
  barter for most transactions. A silver coin, likely a shekel
• 29:04
  or a denarius depending on the specific region, was often
• 29:07
  considered the equivalent of a full day's labor for a worker.
• 29:16
  10 shekels was cited as a standard annual wage for a
• 29:20
  laborer. In some biblical context, a
• 29:24
  pound of silver, about 12 ounces in the Troy system, commonly
• 29:29
  used for precious metals, could purchase as many as 15 cows in a
• 29:34
  different historical context, Anglo-Saxon times, illustrating
• 29:39
  its considerable purchasing power for major assets.
• 29:43
  Therefore, 7 oz was a substantial sum that would have
• 29:47
  been used for major purposes, possibly equivalent to buying a
• 29:52
  house or land rather than everyday expenses.
• 29:58
  So now here is something that my thoughts were just going with
• 30:04
  all this. Like I noticed the correlation
• 30:07
  between a deed of purchased and this sealed copy, this legal
• 30:14
  system that they had in place for transferring land ownership.
• 30:21
  And so then I'm thinking about what God has said and what God
• 30:28
  has given to Israel. He gave the boundaries in the
• 30:32
  Book of Genesis to the Israelites and said these are
• 30:36
  the boundaries of your land. And it was actually, I think
• 30:41
  it's like from from the Wadi to the Euphrates River and then
• 30:45
  from, you know, beyond the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean Sea,
• 30:51
  like, and it's like from the river to the sea.
• 30:54
  You know that that chant that was going along in 23 and it was
• 31:00
  they were twisting the words of Gods promise to Israel and
• 31:06
  turning it around. I mean we are in those.
• 31:09
  This is another evidence of being in the end times where
• 31:12
  they call good evil and evil good.
• 31:15
  Like they are literally taking words from the Bible that God
• 31:18
  spoke to Israel and saying this is going to be your land and
• 31:23
  twisting it and saying this is going to be the land of the
• 31:25
  Palestinians or the Arabs. This they are not the
• 31:29
  Israelites. The Arabs are not the Israelites
• 31:32
  and the the Palestinians. This was really interesting when
• 31:37
  I learned this was a another name for the Philistines and the
• 31:44
  Philistines lived in Gaza. So all of this is like really
• 31:50
  eye opening when you learn these things.
• 31:54
  So now we have God's enemy. Like how many times in the Bible
• 31:58
  did God say wipe out the Philistines?
• 32:00
  So you see the Philistines and this this land that Jeremiah
• 32:05
  bought is in the territory of Benjamin.
• 32:07
  So that was another question that I had was you know what,
• 32:11
  you know, where is the modern territory of Benjamin or what is
• 32:15
  it called? The modern territory of ancient
• 32:17
  Israelite tribe of Benjamin is primarily located in the area of
• 32:21
  modern day West Bank, including parts of Jerusalem.
• 32:27
  The region is situated between the territories of the ancient
• 32:30
  tribes of Ephraim to the north and Judah to the South, along
• 32:36
  with central watershed Ridge of ancient Palestine.
• 32:41
  So I thought this was really interesting.
• 32:43
  This is the land that is is has been contested for years.
• 32:49
  There is an argument over who should control the land.
• 32:53
  Who owns the land? Whose territory?
• 32:55
  Is it the same thing for Judah. The modern territory of ancient
• 33:00
  Judah is known as Judea, which includes parts of modern Israel
• 33:05
  and the West Bank. So Judah, Judea and Samaria are
• 33:12
  also known as the West Bank. Isn't that interesting that all
• 33:18
  of this has, you know, has application to today and what is
• 33:24
  being discussed? I was curious because Jeremiah
• 33:27
  told, you know, went through this detail of hiding the
• 33:29
  scrolls. And I bet in some time, maybe in
• 33:32
  our life, we are going to see that Jeremiah's scrolls are
• 33:36
  found. There's, I guess they're still
• 33:39
  searching some of these caves and finding scrolls, but
• 33:43
  Jeremiah's scroll did not. I'm going to read about that.
• 33:46
  Has Jeremiah's deed been found in the Dead Sea Scrolls?
• 33:50
  No, Jeremiah's specific deed for the field and Anathoth has not
• 33:55
  been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.
• 33:57
  However, the scrolls contain copies of the Book of Jeremiah,
• 34:01
  and the act of their preservation in jars is often
• 34:04
  compared to Jeremiah's act of preserving his deed in a jar,
• 34:09
  symbolizing hope for future restoration.
• 34:12
  The Dead Sea Scrolls include numerous copies of the Hebrew
• 34:15
  Bible, including several versions of the Book of
• 34:17
  Jeremiah. The historical event of Jeremiah
• 34:20
  buying the field at Anathoth is documented in the book of
• 34:24
  Jeremiah, Jeremiah 32, verses 10 through 14, and serves as
• 34:28
  symbolic act of faith and hope. Jeremiah's deed was stored in a
• 34:33
  clay jar, just as many of the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered
• 34:37
  in similar jars, creating a parallel between the two events.
• 34:42
  Scholars have found other ancient documents that confirm
• 34:45
  the practice of using duplicate documents for transactions
• 34:50
  supporting the history, historical accuracy of
• 34:53
  Jeremiah's account. So this is all very interesting.
• 34:59
  Now, getting back to this land of the West Bank that is
• 35:03
  contested and things that are happening today, because this
• 35:08
  seems to be relevant to me, and I'm also going to speculate a
• 35:13
  little bit on this. First of all, I'm going to just
• 35:15
  tell you the truth about like what is happening right now and
• 35:20
  we know we've heard we are in 2025 right now.
• 35:25
  We've heard about the two state solution and I am going to read
• 35:30
  about that. Like I put I just asked the
• 35:33
  question, I knew it wasn't imposed yet, but I knew it's
• 35:37
  under discussion discussion. So I I just searched when will
• 35:41
  the 2 state solution be implemented.
• 35:44
  I didn't know if there was any projection because I know
• 35:46
  there's been discussions. So I'm going to give you an
• 35:49
  update on this. The two state solution is a
• 35:52
  proposed framework for peace, not a set plan with a specific
• 35:58
  implementation date. Its implementation depends
• 36:02
  entirely on the outcome of future negotiations, which
• 36:07
  currently face significant political and practical
• 36:11
  challenges. There's no fixed timeline.
• 36:14
  There is no established timeline for when or even if A2 state
• 36:19
  solution will be implemented. Past efforts such as the Oslo
• 36:24
  Accords in the 1990s set a framework but did not result in
• 36:29
  a final settlement. Now here's where I want to
• 36:33
  speculate a little bit because and other people are
• 36:36
  speculating. I don't know if we should but
• 36:39
  but I think it's good to have your minds open to many
• 36:43
  possibilities and to watch because this is what came to
• 36:48
  mind as I'm reading is when the there is a confirming of a
• 36:56
  covenant with many which is in end times prophecy.
• 37:02
  Everybody talks about this seven years and there's this confirm
• 37:08
  confirming of a covenant. Think about this.
• 37:12
  I I always wondered like, what is the covenant that they're
• 37:15
  talking about? Because there were many
• 37:17
  covenants God made with his people, like the rainbow is a
• 37:21
  covenant that he will never flood the entire earth again.
• 37:25
  It's a covenant from God. And then there's other covenants
• 37:29
  where God, you know, I know that God will be the, the God of the
• 37:34
  people, the one and only God. And then there is also the
• 37:39
  covenant of the land. And, and I was wondering like,
• 37:42
  what is the specific covenant that is important to God?
• 37:49
  And I do think it could very well be that God claimed
• 37:53
  Jerusalem. This is God's land, he said.
• 37:58
  This is where he's going to rule from.
• 38:01
  And when Jerusalem gets involved, when the city of
• 38:05
  Jerusalem is under, you know, ownership discussions, I think
• 38:12
  this is where it's going to really anger God.
• 38:16
  Like no, that is my land. And so therefore I wonder if the
• 38:22
  two state solution is actually going to be the trigger that
• 38:27
  really enrages God and brings back wrath.
• 38:32
  And there is, you know, there's more that's happening in this
• 38:36
  right now, so I'm going to continue to read.
• 38:39
  The plan faces strong opposition from key parties in Israeli
• 38:43
  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly
• 38:47
  rejected A2 state solution, while support among Palestinians
• 38:53
  has also declined international efforts.
• 38:57
  The international community, particularly the United Nations
• 39:02
  General Assembly and nations like France and Saudi Arabia,
• 39:08
  continues to advocate for the two state solution as the only
• 39:14
  viable path to lasting peace. Now I've seen Trump saying Saudi
• 39:21
  Arabia may be a part of the peace negotiations are the peace
• 39:26
  the Abraham Accords that started in what, 2020, September 15th of
• 39:31
  2020, very interesting dates on these things.
• 39:34
  And that was also, I think when the red heifers were shipped to
• 39:38
  Israel. Just like, again, there's so
• 39:41
  much happening. And so we have this this
• 39:46
  international pressure that everybody wants peace, but the
• 39:52
  Bible says that when they say peace and security or peace and
• 39:55
  safety, then come sudden destruction.
• 39:58
  So if you know the Bible, you know that this isn't going to be
• 40:00
  peaceful. And if you know the Bible, you
• 40:03
  know that God's not going to be happy about a two state
• 40:06
  solution. But there are people who don't
• 40:09
  know the Bible who are proceeding with worldly insight
• 40:14
  and thinking this is the way to appease, this is the way to get
• 40:17
  peace among the people. And so these.
• 40:20
  Non biblical people, people who don't know the the Bible, don't
• 40:25
  know history, are proceeding with their best.
• 40:31
  I mean maybe they are deceptive in their ways of proceeding, but
• 40:35
  they are thinking this is a good thing.
• 40:38
  Now here's where it's recent 2025.
• 40:41
  In July and September 2025, a high level international
• 40:45
  conference was held at the UN resulting in a New York
• 40:51
  declaration outlining steps toward an irreversible pathway
• 40:58
  to peace. This is really interesting New
• 41:03
  York declaration that I didn't realize it was called that.
• 41:08
  And there's like a lot of changes happening in New York
• 41:13
  recently. This is November of 2025.
• 41:18
  So that's interesting. I wonder if Jonathan Cahn, who
• 41:23
  sees a lot of the symbology and what happens today, is this
• 41:28
  going to be bringing on the wrath of God, these decisions
• 41:32
  that are against what God said? And New York, we had, like I
• 41:38
  said, New York is a symbol of the United States.
• 41:42
  Are we going to receive judgment?
• 41:44
  Are we getting judgment from God because of the secular people in
• 41:49
  the world who don't know the Bible, who haven't turned to
• 41:52
  God, who haven't repented and are still rebellious to God?
• 41:56
  Look at all of the pushing. I know in the last election we
• 41:59
  had abortion on it and it was very contested and it wasn't
• 42:05
  successful in all areas. And abortion is just like the
• 42:09
  sacrificing to Molech, it's the modern day sacrificing to Molech
• 42:14
  that's happening. And again, this is against what
• 42:18
  God says. God creates life, God takes away
• 42:23
  life. God is in charge of that.
• 42:25
  We are not. And anyway, I'm not going to get
• 42:28
  on that whole subject, but abortion is wrong and it is
• 42:34
  doing in doing it. It is completely against God's
• 42:37
  will and there will be consequences for it.
• 42:43
  So anyway, this this meeting in July and September of 2025 by
• 42:48
  the International Conference, the UN, it's LED several
• 42:51
  countries, including the UK, Canada, Australia and France to
• 42:58
  recognize a Palestinian state. I'm going to say an observation.
• 43:03
  When they just listed these countries, the UK, Canada,
• 43:08
  Australia and France, do you notice that they now they are,
• 43:13
  they want to recognize a Palestinian state.
• 43:15
  Do you know what's happening currently to those countries?
• 43:21
  They are becoming Muslim. Let's see, maybe that's not the
• 43:29
  right word. They are embracing Islam.
• 43:34
  They are allowing Islam, they are allowing the call to prayer
• 43:40
  type things that are happening. They are taking away the freedom
• 43:45
  and the rights. These countries, the people, the
• 43:49
  Islam religion want Sharia law and some I think have been
• 43:54
  implemented and others have not. There's resistance toward it,
• 43:58
  but this is really biblical when you look at it what's happening
• 44:03
  in the world and that they are recognizing A Palestinian state.
• 44:07
  Keep in mind Palestine is the word for fill it.
• 44:12
  It was derived from the word Philistines.
• 44:14
  Philistines were the enemy of God that God told Israel to
• 44:19
  eliminate. So think about Bible history.
• 44:23
  I probably know Bible history better than history of anything
• 44:27
  right now from reading the Bible.
• 44:30
  So anyway, it says there are major obstacles.
• 44:33
  Numerous complex issues remain unresolved, including final
• 44:38
  borders. The status of Jerusalem, I would
• 44:41
  say absolutely, because God said that's he's going to rule from
• 44:45
  there. So the status of Jerusalem is
• 44:48
  critical security arrangements for both states.
• 44:52
  The future of Israeli settlements in the West Bank
• 44:56
  isn't that interesting because the West Bank is this land that
• 45:00
  Jeremiah bought. The issue of Palestinian
• 45:04
  refugees and their right of return.
• 45:07
  In summary, the implementation of A2 state solution remains a
• 45:12
  goal for much of the international community, but it
• 45:15
  is not currently an active agreed upon process by both the
• 45:19
  Israeli and Palestinian leaderships and therefore has no
• 45:23
  set date for implementation. So anybody who is listening to
• 45:29
  this podcast, you want to watch and see what happens with this
• 45:33
  two state solution because in my opinion it aligns with a lot of
• 45:39
  what the Bible says. You know what is going to bring
• 45:42
  about God's anger is when they are saying this land is somebody
• 45:47
  else's and it's not God's. And God claimed this land.
• 45:51
  God created the earth he has. He has the final say on who has
• 45:55
  the land. But are we as people going to
• 45:59
  disregard what was written in the Bible thou thousands and
• 46:03
  thousands of years ago that said this is going to be the land of
• 46:08
  Israel. This is going to be where Jesus
• 46:12
  rules from. Are we going to go against God?
• 46:16
  It's not going to go well for anyone who goes against God.
• 46:20
  And it does say in the end times that everyone's going to be
• 46:23
  against Israel. So I just think we need to keep
• 46:28
  our eyes open and what does that mean for us?
• 46:30
  We need to be prepared. We need to have the Holy Spirit
• 46:34
  within us. We need to be guided by God and
• 46:37
  not by mankind. Here's another interesting
• 46:41
  aspect. So the Book of Revelation very
• 46:43
  much symbolizes a deed of land. And that's why I'm speculating
• 46:50
  and thinking when this two state solution goes into play, does
• 46:55
  that be begin the opening of the seals?
• 46:58
  I was already thinking the seals were being opened.
• 47:03
  And so I'm not sure honestly, if the seals have already started
• 47:08
  opening because I do see the White Horse rider as Islam
• 47:13
  setting out to conquer. They openly say they want to
• 47:16
  conquer, they want to rule the whole world.
• 47:19
  So I, I, you know, there's part of me that thinks, well, the
• 47:23
  Seals already opened and Islam is going out to conquer the
• 47:26
  world and then the next thing is war.
• 47:30
  And Jesus said, you know, that's kind of hard to put a placement
• 47:33
  on the seal because war continues until, you know, it
• 47:37
  just goes on and on all the way till the end.
• 47:39
  So it's really hard to say how is this time any different than
• 47:43
  any prior years. So I, I can't really say for
• 47:47
  sure, but all of these things also could be foreshadowing of
• 47:51
  the future Seals. But then there's this next thing
• 47:54
  where there is like a scarcity and the way I look at it, this
• 47:59
  scales, there is, you know, of a higher price paid for basic
• 48:05
  necessity. So inflation and we've seen
• 48:09
  inflation since 2020. So again, this also makes me
• 48:16
  think about like the whole symbolism that I talked about in
• 48:21
  regards to Leah and Rachel, where are there like is there a
• 48:27
  seven-year period for the Gentiles?
• 48:30
  Because it says that these things happen until the fullness
• 48:33
  of the Gentiles happens. So is God giving the Gentiles 7
• 48:37
  years and then once all of the fullness of the Gentiles, the
• 48:41
  non Jewish people are there's so many people turning to Christ
• 48:45
  right now that is this all of the Gentiles coming to this, to
• 48:51
  faith, this revival, is that the fullness of the Gentiles?
• 48:55
  That's going to happen. And he uses the fullness of the
• 48:58
  Gentiles to provoke Israel to jealousy because they're going
• 49:03
  to see something. I think when the fullness of the
• 49:06
  Gentiles comes in and the Gentiles will be taken to Christ
• 49:11
  in the air, the resurrection, that's what I believe.
• 49:16
  But then is there a seven-year period for known as Jacob's
• 49:21
  trouble that occurs after that? There's just, you know, I don't
• 49:25
  want, I want to, I know what's been taught, but I also want to
• 49:28
  look at Scripture and keep an open mind because the Pharisees
• 49:35
  and the Jewish people of the day were experts in what was written
• 49:40
  down, but they missed Jesus. They didn't recognize him as the
• 49:45
  fulfillment of Scripture. So we also should not be so set
• 49:51
  in while I was taught this is how it happens.
• 49:54
  And I think we need to keep an open mind and look to Scripture
• 49:58
  and then when things happen, keep those in mind and just, you
• 50:02
  know, recognize the times. And the only reason we need to
• 50:07
  recognize the times is that salvation, the time frame of
• 50:12
  salvation is really critical. If Jesus returns there, you know
• 50:18
  you're either prepared or you're not.
• 50:20
  So if that is happening soon, people need to get their lives
• 50:24
  in order right now because we don't know when it's going to
• 50:28
  be. And if it's soon, you want to be
• 50:32
  prepared. It there was a warning that
• 50:34
  Jesus said about the 10 virgins. Half of them fell as well.
• 50:38
  They all fell asleep. So we all kind of like weren't
• 50:42
  ready, our eyes weren't open, but God is waking us up.
• 50:45
  Is God waking us up since 2020? Are there signs?
• 50:50
  I mean, I see all 2020 was the the marker year for me noticing
• 50:56
  all of these end times things that were happening in
• 50:59
  acceleration and, and you know, we are approaching the sixth
• 51:05
  year. And I also think about God's law
• 51:09
  and how you work, you know, 6 days and how God created the,
• 51:14
  you know, he created everything in six days at the creation in
• 51:18
  the 7th day he rested. So is there a period of rest for
• 51:22
  those who who have prepared a a year like the 7th year?
• 51:26
  Do those who have prepared now rest the 7th year?
• 51:30
  And in that time frame, those who are not prepared experience
• 51:35
  the wrath and tribute, you know, the wrath of God when these
• 51:39
  seals are open or have the seals already been opened?
• 51:43
  Like as I thought the seals were already opening.
• 51:46
  I thought we were maybe to the point of there's also people
• 51:49
  being beheaded. So that is also, you know, death
• 51:55
  in Hades follows on the 4th seal.
• 51:58
  And we see at the 5th seal, there are the souls that were
• 52:01
  martyred that are under the altar saying when will you
• 52:04
  avenge our death? So these things are happening in
• 52:08
  our world. Are they a foreshadowing of what
• 52:11
  is future to come? Or are these seals being opened
• 52:16
  right now? And here's another interesting
• 52:19
  thing, and it relates back to this, this legal process of
• 52:24
  transferring land. There are witnesses to it.
• 52:28
  The witnesses sign and in the Book of Revelation it talks
• 52:34
  about two witnesses and they prophecy for 1260 days and they
• 52:41
  are clothed in sackcloth. Sackcloth is significant.
• 52:46
  They are clothed in mourning. This is a sad time.
• 52:52
  So are these the one? Are these two witnesses the ones
• 52:57
  who are, you know, they something very terrible happened
• 53:02
  and they are witnessing to people, reminding people of
• 53:08
  God's truths during this time of persecution.
• 53:13
  And in John chapter 8 verse 17 it says in your own law it is
• 53:18
  written that the testimony of two witnesses is true.
• 53:23
  So we have two witnesses that God.
• 53:26
  This is God appointing in Revelation Chapter 11 verse 3.
• 53:30
  And I will appoint MY2 witnesses and they will prophecy for 1260
• 53:38
  days, which is 3 1/2 years clothed in sackcloth.
• 53:44
  Another part of prophecy talks about times, times and half a
• 53:48
  time. And it's been understood that
• 53:50
  that means 3 1/2 years. And so I kind of, you know,
• 53:57
  like, I don't know where we are in this process, but I'm
• 54:01
  pointing out things that I've observed in reading Scripture.
• 54:05
  And it's certainly a time to have your eyes wide open and
• 54:09
  focused on Christ, focused on getting closer to God, being in
• 54:14
  repentance, getting right with God, because we are seeing
• 54:19
  things that are talked about in the Bible happening in our
• 54:22
  world. And it's so, so important.
• 54:24
  I can't even express how important it is.
• 54:27
  I don't know that people realize what is going on in the world
• 54:31
  right now. So I'm going back now to
• 54:34
  Scripture, verse 16 In Jeremiah 32, after I had given the deed
• 54:41
  of purchase to Baroque son of Nyria, I prayed to the Lord.
• 54:49
  Ah sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by
• 54:52
  your great power and outstretched arm.
• 54:55
  Nothing is too hard for you. You show love to thousands, but
• 55:00
  bring the punishment for the parents sins into the laps of
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  their children after them. Great and mighty God, whose name
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  is the Lord Almighty, Great are your purposes and mighty are
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  your deeds. So Jeremiah is praising God then
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  he says your eyes are open to the ways of all mankind.
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  You reward each person according to their conduct and as their
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  deeds deserve. So that's a really important one
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  when we think about applying that to our lives.
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  God's eyes are open to all the ways He sees everything, nothing
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  a secret or hidden from Him, and He rewards each person according
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  to their conduct and as their deeds deserve.
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  So if we're doing things that are not good, there's a
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  consequence of that as well. So Jeremiah continues, You
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  performed signs and wonders in Egypt and have continued them to
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  this day in Israel and among all mankind, and you have gained the
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  renown that is yours. Like God wants to be known by
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  all. You brought your people Israel
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  out of Egypt with signs and wonders, by a mighty hand and an
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  outstretched arm, and with great terror you gave them this land.
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  Listen, you gave them this land. You had sworn to give their
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  ancestors a land flowing with milk and honey.
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  So again, this covenant for the land is standing out to me.
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  They came in and took possession of it, but they did not obey you
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  or follow your law. So there's consequences
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  associated with that. They did not do what you
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  commanded them to do, so you brought all this disaster on
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  them. So again, consequences of
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  disobedience. So therefore we need to be
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  obedient to God or we will suffer the consequences.
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  If we want to be in the Kingdom of God, we need to accept God's
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  commands and out of love. That's why we are obedience.
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  It says if you love me, you will obey my commands.
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  So if we are not being obedient, we are basically saying God, I
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  don't, I don't love you. And do we really want to be the
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  enemy of God when Jesus returns? So therefore we need to be
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  obedient by the time Jesus returns.
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  And I would not delay in making that happen.
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  I would do it today. See how the siege ramps are
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  built up to take the city. Because of the sword, famine and
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  plague, the city will be given into the hands of the
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  Babylonians who are attacking it.
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  What you have said has happened, and now you see, and you now
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  see. And though the city will be
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  given into the hands of the Babylonians, you sovereign Lord,
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  say to me by the field with silver and have the transaction
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  witnessed. Now being obedient to God, like
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  think about Jeremiah. He's heard all this prophecy
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  that the Babylon, Babylonians are going to take all of this.
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  We know that the 7 ounces of silver that Jeremiah paid was a
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  significant portion of money. So Jeremiah already knows this
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  prophecy from God that the Babylonians are going to control
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  this. And then God's saying, take your
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  money and buy this land. Boy, that's an act of faith.
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  By faith, you are redeemed. By faith, you are healed by
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  faith. All of these things like God
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  rewards people of faith when their faith, despite what it
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  looks like, despite what we see, faith is, you know, believing in
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  the unseen. And so Jeremiah hasn't seen this
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  restoration. He's taking a good chunk of his
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  money and he's buying a field, being obedient to what he heard
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  and knew was from the word of God because God told him in his
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  thoughts. And then all of a sudden his
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  cousin comes up and says, hey, I want you to buy my land.
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  And then he does it even knowing that the Babylonians are going
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  to have control over it. But will God reward Jeremiah
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  when he does? Will Jesus reward and when he
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  returns? I would imagine so.
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  I would imagine that there's going to be some restoration of
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  ownership of that land when Jeremiah is resurrected, if he
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  hasn't already been as part of the fruit first fruits.
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  I'm not sure who that was that was resurrected at the when the
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  graves were opened at the time of Jesus crucifixion.
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  There's very little that's known about that.
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  Just a brief mention in Scripture, but a very
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  interesting fact. There OK Verse 26 Then the word
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  of the Lord came to Jeremiah. I am the Lord, the God of all
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  mankind. Is anything too hard for me?
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  Therefore, this is what the Lord says.
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  I am about to give this city into the hands of the Babylonian
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  and to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who will capture it.
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  The Babylonians who are attacking this city will come
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  in, set it on fire. They will burn it down along
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  with the houses where the people aroused my anger by burning
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  incense on the roofs to bail and by pouring out drink offerings
• 1:00:36
  to other gods. So that's another thing like
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  fire cleanses, it purifies, and so it's a consequence of sin.
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  Everything became defiled. You.
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  We need to comprehend in a limited capacity, I comprehend
• 1:00:52
  some of the laws from reading Leviticus, but there is this
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  cleansing and this consecrating of the land, and this is
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  probably a consequence of their sinful actions, that it all has
• 1:01:04
  to be destroyed. And even in the end, God's going
• 1:01:08
  to have a new heaven, new heavens and new earth coming
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  down from above. So because the first one was
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  defiled and needs to be destroyed, which will happen
• 1:01:20
  during the wrath of God, so this earth as we know it will not be
• 1:01:24
  the same in the future. The people of Israel and Judah
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  have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth.
• 1:01:34
  Indeed, the people of Israel have done nothing but arouse my
• 1:01:36
  anger with what their hands have made, declared the Lord.
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  That's another thing like what we are doing today, what we are
• 1:01:43
  seeing today, the advances of technology and what we are
• 1:01:46
  making, people are getting into that position of being a
• 1:01:52
  creator. Like even like the crisper
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  babies and stuff like that. Look that up.
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  There's, you know, like we are bordering on trying to be God
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  and God's not going to share that spotlight.
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  So those who are part of that are going to fall to severe
• 1:02:15
  judgement from God. And anyway, I'll continue on in
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  Scripture. From the day it was built until
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  now, the city has so aroused my anger and wrath that I must
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  remove it from my sight. Sin separates.
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  God has to be separated from sin, and that's why we need the
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  Holy Spirit so that we can be counted as righteous and we
• 1:02:41
  receive the Holy Spirit through Jesus.
• 1:02:43
  That's why we have to believe in Jesus because Jesus is the one.
• 1:02:48
  I mean, he's not going to give the Holy Spirit to someone who
• 1:02:51
  doesn't believe, who denies him, but he says we need the Holy
• 1:02:56
  Spirit to be in the Kingdom of God.
• 1:02:59
  The people of Israel and Judah have provoked me by all the evil
• 1:03:04
  they have done. They, their kings and officials
• 1:03:07
  and their priests and prophets, the people of Judah and those
• 1:03:11
  living in Jerusalem, they turn their backs to me and not their
• 1:03:16
  faces, though I taught them again and again, they would not
• 1:03:21
  listen or respond to discipline. God disciplines those He love
• 1:03:26
  and the discipline is used to for the good of people.
• 1:03:30
  But as we see in here, people don't respond to discipline.
• 1:03:35
  They don't listen. God keeps sending prophets.
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  He keeps sending messengers of His to tell people.
• 1:03:44
  Basically, they tell people repent, turn to God, get right
• 1:03:47
  with God, have that relationship with God, yet to know God, know
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  God through scripture. So verse 34, they set up their
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  vile images in the house that bears my name and defiled it.
• 1:04:02
  Now this seems to almost be a foreshadowing of future events
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  too, because in the end times there's going to be an image
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  that is that can speak. Now, with our technology today,
• 1:04:14
  that is possible that that could happen.
• 1:04:18
  And and is that going to be in the temple of God or on the Holy
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  Land or it's set up somewhere and that is future prophecy.
• 1:04:29
  So again, this is like a foreshadowing.
• 1:04:31
  They did it before, they're going to do it again.
• 1:04:33
  History repeats itself. Verse 35 They built high places
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  for Baal in the valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons
• 1:04:42
  and daughters to Molech. Though I never commanded, nor
• 1:04:46
  did it enter my mind that they should do such a detestable
• 1:04:52
  thing and so make Judah sin. So again, sacrificing children,
• 1:04:59
  the same abortion. Abortion is sacrificing
• 1:05:04
  children. It's a modern day version of
• 1:05:08
  what they were doing to Molech. There will be judgement for
• 1:05:12
  that. Now God can forgive people who
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  were ignorant and did it not knowing, listening to the world,
• 1:05:19
  listening to the evil. They didn't even know they were
• 1:05:21
  listening to evil when they accept it and think it's OK.
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  But when you understand that this is evil, this is detestable
• 1:05:34
  hands that kill, that's detestable.
• 1:05:37
  When you understand that if you repent, God Forgives and God can
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  restore. Now the, the way that I think
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  about this is that God is so loving and merciful that I
• 1:05:51
  believe all those babies that were killed will be in God's
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  Kingdom because they were wrongly killed.
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  So there is going to be some sort of restoration of that in
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  God's future eternal Kingdom, I believe.
• 1:06:06
  I mean, the Bible doesn't necessarily say that this is my
• 1:06:10
  belief just because I, I know God is love and I know that he
• 1:06:13
  is merciful and that he is just and, and he created these people
• 1:06:19
  and these people were destroyed. Like God gives life.
• 1:06:23
  And so if people take away the life that God gave, that is
• 1:06:27
  murder. And that's what abortion is.
• 1:06:30
  Abortion is murder. And that is against the 10
• 1:06:34
  commandments. But I also want to say that
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  people before they know God do stupid things.
• 1:06:40
  We all do stupid. I mean, that's mild to call it
• 1:06:44
  stupid, but we all do things that are bad that we don't even
• 1:06:49
  realize. Or maybe we do, but we're
• 1:06:51
  rebellious. And but God is so loving and
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  kind and he knows our intentions and knows what what caused us to
• 1:07:00
  be that way. And when we recognize it, like I
• 1:07:03
  said earlier, that a lot of times people will cry intensely
• 1:07:07
  when they are convicted by the Holy Spirit, like look at what
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  you've done. But there is restoration.
• 1:07:13
  It's not to remain in shame. God does not keep us in shame.
• 1:07:17
  He, when He sees our heart, is truly repentant for whatever
• 1:07:21
  we've done. He forgives us and restores us,
• 1:07:26
  and He wants us to become holy. We can even become holy even
• 1:07:30
  when we've done these horrible things like Moses murdered
• 1:07:33
  somebody and he fled. But look at how God used Moses.
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  I mean there are many people in the Bible who did things that
• 1:07:41
  were not good. Like every significant person
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  that God used. I maybe I shouldn't say every,
• 1:07:48
  but I think most that he used had issues and God redeemed
• 1:07:54
  them. God restored them.
• 1:07:57
  God made them holy as a result of their obedience to God.
• 1:08:00
  When they started showing love back to God through obedience,
• 1:08:05
  God started restoring and blessing them.
• 1:08:07
  So I think this is something we can all learn that when we turn
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  to God, no matter what we've done, God can restore.
• 1:08:13
  God can make us whole again. God can take away that guilt and
• 1:08:18
  shame because he makes us a new creation through the Holy
• 1:08:22
  Spirit. That is God's Spirit living
• 1:08:24
  inside of us and it's something that we want to welcome.
• 1:08:28
  We want to pray, pray to Jesus and ask for the Holy Spirit.
• 1:08:32
  If you don't believe that you have the Holy Spirit right now,
• 1:08:35
  if you've repented, but that the Holy Spirit is who makes us
• 1:08:42
  restored. So let's go back to verse 36.
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  You were saying about the city by the sword, famine and plague,
• 1:08:49
  it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon.
• 1:08:52
  But this is what the Lord the God of Israel says.
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  I will surely gather them from all the lands where I banished
• 1:09:00
  them in my furious anger and great wrath.
• 1:09:03
  I will bring them back to this place and let them live in
• 1:09:07
  safety. Israel is not in safety right
• 1:09:10
  now. I think this is a future
• 1:09:12
  prophecy. So verse 38, they will be my
• 1:09:17
  people and I will be their God. I will give them singleness of
• 1:09:22
  heart and action so they will always fear me and that all will
• 1:09:29
  go well for them and for their children after them.
• 1:09:34
  Again, I think this is a future moment in time when the
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  singleness of heart and action, I believe is when we have the
• 1:09:44
  Holy Spirit. And the reason I believe that is
• 1:09:48
  a prayer that Jesus said to the Father before he died for all
• 1:09:51
  mankind. And he said, make them one as we
• 1:09:56
  are one, one is single, right? So I believe that when we have
• 1:10:02
  the Holy Spirit, we become one with God.
• 1:10:07
  And I believe that this is when we have the singleness of heart
• 1:10:12
  where we want and desire what God wants and desire through the
• 1:10:17
  power of the Holy Spirit. We can't do it on our own.
• 1:10:20
  We need the Holy Spirit for that to happen.
• 1:10:24
  So verse 40, I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
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  I will never stop doing good to them.
• 1:10:35
  I will inspire them to fear me so that they will never turn
• 1:10:41
  away from me. Now the fear of God is called
• 1:10:44
  the beginning of wisdom. If we know the power of God and
• 1:10:49
  we know you know like don't fear mankind because they can only
• 1:10:53
  kill the body or the shell, but the soul lives and God will is
• 1:10:58
  giving us a new body when Jesus returns that we will be changed
• 1:11:03
  to immortal beings. So life continues.
• 1:11:08
  Life doesn't end when we when we die.
• 1:11:12
  That is a transition into another realm of existence
• 1:11:17
  that's according in agreement with the Bible.
• 1:11:19
  And there is going to be a restoration that we are what we
• 1:11:23
  the way we Live Today. If we take away everything bad,
• 1:11:26
  we are going to be living that way in the future, minus
• 1:11:30
  everything bad. So we will be restored
• 1:11:34
  physically, mentally, spiritually, all these different
• 1:11:37
  ways. That's what God does.
• 1:11:39
  He's a restorer. We will be that even newer
• 1:11:44
  creation. Spiritually we're a new creation
• 1:11:47
  when we receive the Holy Spirit, but physically we will also be a
• 1:11:50
  new creation or restored creation, I guess.
• 1:11:55
  But the fear of the Lord is important because that keeps us
• 1:11:58
  from turning from God, having that fear that God can send us
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  to an eternal place. God is the final judge.
• 1:12:08
  We will be either be with him or separated from him for eternity.
• 1:12:15
  Eternity. Think about that.
• 1:12:17
  Our our decisions today are so critical because the decision
• 1:12:22
  that we make today in regards to God seals our destiny.
• 1:12:28
  So if you want to be in God's Kingdom, then we need to let God
• 1:12:33
  know that we need to accept the Holy Spirit.
• 1:12:36
  We need to agree to live with in, in, you know, let the Holy
• 1:12:40
  Spirit guide us so that we are in agreement with God's will,
• 1:12:45
  that we are living our life according to God's will.
• 1:12:49
  Verse 41 I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly
• 1:12:56
  plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.
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  That's a promise from God to the Israelites about he.
• 1:13:06
  He's going to be so pleased in doing them good.
• 1:13:10
  Like God is a good father. He's a good giver.
• 1:13:13
  He wants good things for His children.
• 1:13:15
  He gives good gifts to his children.
• 1:13:18
  When we have the Holy Spirit, we are the children of God.
• 1:13:22
  We are brothers and sisters of Jesus.
• 1:13:25
  This is what the Lord says. I have brought all this great
• 1:13:29
  calamity on these people, so I will give them all the
• 1:13:33
  prosperity I have promised them. Can you imagine all the
• 1:13:39
  prosperity I have promised them like God?
• 1:13:41
  When God promises prosperity that's that's so much greater
• 1:13:46
  than any man can promise. Once more fields will be bought
• 1:13:52
  in this land of which you say it is a desolate waste without
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  people or animals, for it has been given into the hands of the
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  Babylonians. Fields will be bought for
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  silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed and witnessed in
• 1:14:08
  the territory of Benjamin. Again, remember, this is the
• 1:14:12
  West Bank we're talking about in the villages around Jerusalem
• 1:14:16
  and in the towns of Judah, which is also the West Bank, and in
• 1:14:20
  the towns of the Hill Country of the western foothills and of the
• 1:14:24
  Negev. Because I will restore their
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  fortunes, declares the Lord. And that ends chapter 32.
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  There are some questions and answers so I guess I will go
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  through those. I don't know if I read any of
• 1:14:43
  these, so I will start with why had Zedekiah imprisoned
• 1:14:51
  Jeremiah? King Zedekiah did not believe
• 1:14:53
  Jeremiah and punished him for speaking out against his
• 1:14:57
  policies. God's call on Jeremiah's life
• 1:14:59
  was one of hardship, not prosperity or fame.
• 1:15:02
  Over the course of his ministry, Jeremiah was ridiculed,
• 1:15:06
  denounced, beaten, and imprisoned, but he was
• 1:15:09
  absolutely committed to God and was willing to pay the price to
• 1:15:14
  prophecy faithfully. Why did Jeremiah have two deeds?
• 1:15:19
  The sealed deed was perhaps the equivalent of a notarized deed
• 1:15:23
  today. It was the official document
• 1:15:24
  that served in a similar way to a registered deed today.
• 1:15:28
  Probably the legal system of Jeremiah's day required 2
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  documents. One was seen and used more
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  frequently and the other was preserved for safekeeping.
• 1:15:37
  Since it was sealed and could not be altered, the document
• 1:15:40
  could be used to settle any later disputes.
• 1:15:45
  How did a jar of How did a clay jar protect the documents?
• 1:15:49
  Clay jars were sealed with pitch and stored in a cool, dry place
• 1:15:54
  such as a cave. They were the best means for
• 1:15:57
  protecting documents from the elements.
• 1:15:59
  Some documents, example the Dead Sea Scrolls, have survived
• 1:16:03
  intact for over 2000 years in sealed jars.
• 1:16:08
  Why punish the children of sinners?
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  In an imperfect world, people often suffer the consequences of
• 1:16:16
  others actions through no fault of their own.
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  Judas sins would have long lasting impact, affecting
• 1:16:25
  generations to come. Affliction in this life,
• 1:16:28
  however, does not necessarily mean punishment in eternity.
• 1:16:34
  Children are not eternally damned simply because they were
• 1:16:38
  born to ungodly parents. Still, each generation must bear
• 1:16:43
  the responsibility for its own choices.
• 1:16:47
  What miracles had God done among all mankind?
• 1:16:50
  We have to understand this in terms of Judah's view of the
• 1:16:53
  world. All mankind to them meant
• 1:16:55
  neighboring nations whose people had heard not only about the
• 1:17:00
  Egyptian plagues and the Exodus, but also the crossing of the
• 1:17:04
  Jordan River, the fall of Jericho, and the destruction of
• 1:17:08
  cynic cherubs. I know I'm probably pronouncing
• 1:17:11
  that wrong army. These were miracles by anyone's
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  definition and gained the God of Israel the respect of other
• 1:17:19
  nations. How were siege ramps made?
• 1:17:22
  Siege ramps were built with trees, large rocks, and soil.
• 1:17:25
  Whatever debris they could that could be found.
• 1:17:28
  They were built up against the walls of a protected city in
• 1:17:31
  order to gain access to the city by using battering Rams or by
• 1:17:36
  simply scaling the walls. They were difficult to build
• 1:17:40
  because the city defenders did all they could to impede the
• 1:17:43
  progress. Those building the ramps were
• 1:17:45
  prime targets for attack. In this immediate context, the
• 1:17:49
  ramps were already built, putting the city in a vulnerable
• 1:17:52
  place. Did people fear that a
• 1:17:55
  prediction of something bad could actually bring it about?
• 1:17:59
  The words of a true prophet had power because the prophet spoke
• 1:18:03
  God's word. This is what the Lord says.
• 1:18:06
  Once uttered, God's word proceeds to accomplish His
• 1:18:10
  purpose. That's found in Isaiah 55 verse
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  11. That is why people preferred to
• 1:18:17
  listen to false prophets who spoke about peace rather than
• 1:18:21
  Jeremiah's predictions of destruction.
• 1:18:24
  Again, wake up everybody. They're talking about peace.
• 1:18:28
  Know what the Bible says? Where was the valley of Ben
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  Hinnom? The Valley of Ben Hinnom lay to
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  the South and east of Jerusalem. It was known as the place where
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  people sacrifice their children by fire to Molech.
• 1:18:44
  Later, the valley became the city's garbage dump.
• 1:18:47
  While the corpses of criminals were discarded and the city
• 1:18:50
  trash was burned, it's perpetual fires caused it to be a symbol
• 1:18:54
  of future judgement. The word hell is derived from
• 1:18:59
  the Greek Gehenna, which comes from the Hebrew Gehinam, a word
• 1:19:05
  that refers to the Hinam valley. Who was Molech?
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  He was one of the many Pagan gods mentioned in the Old
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  Testament. Baal, meaning Lord or master,
• 1:19:16
  was a more generic word. Any God could be called Baal.
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  Some think Molech simply could mean the king.
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  Molech, the chief God of the Ammonites, was known as was
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  known in Moab as Kimosh. The worship of both Molech and
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  Kimosh often involved child sacrifice.
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  Was God contradicting his prophet?
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  No. There is no doubt that there is
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  a focus on sword famine and plague throughout the prophecies
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  of Jeremiah. These were spoken at God's
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  command. In this verse, God was not
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  contradicting Jeremiah's messages but was bringing a
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  focus to future deliverance. He was providing an additional
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  message of salvation. This had been the plan of God
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  all along. Deuteronomy chapter 30, verses
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  one through 5. However, the previous messages
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  of judgement were. Not being reversed, they too
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  would come to pass. Why make the people of Judah
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  into something they worked? The people of Judah needed
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  divine help to break free from their sinful habits.
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  That's the help of the Holy Spirit, and God used their
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  captivity in Babylon to do just that.
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  There they found themselves surrounded by impotent Pagan
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  gods, and they began to again desire the one true God.
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  After a number of Jews returned to Judah years later, they never
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  again worshipped idols. Some speculate that synagogue
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  worship, which began during the exile, may have helped them
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  remain devoted to God. And that's the end of the
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  questions and answers for chapter 32.
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  Hope you come back for 33. I haven't previewed that one,
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  but this was a very interesting chapter.
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  So if you found it interesting and insightful, please share it
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  with other people because I think it's really important for
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  people to know this, especially being in the year 2025.