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709. Bible Study: Isaiah 15 and 16 (Prophecy against Moab/land of Jordan, Jesus the Redeemer, Satan the Deceiver) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 15 of the book of Isaiah, Before we read this, we
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definitely need to pray because as I was studying it before this
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podcast, I came away with a very strong theory that I believe
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after studying the Bible since 2019.
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And each time that I get deeper and deeper, I start seeing some
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similarities, some patterns and things that make me arrive at
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the theory that I have. So I will share that with you
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and, and I do encourage you to do your own research on it.
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Look it up, apply critical thinking skills to it.
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Don't just accept what other people say, pray about it and
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and look into it yourself and see what you come up with.
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So let's start. Dear God, as we read through
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chapter 15, we definitely need Holy Spirit wisdom as we go into
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this. Please be with us as we read
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through this and share your wisdom with us so that our eyes
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may be opened and that we may come to know the truth.
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We ask for this in Jesus name, Amen.
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So this is a prophecy against Moab and Moab is in modern day
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Jordan. It's very interesting how Moab
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came to be or the I guess the founder where the name came
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from. So when Sodom and Gomorrah, if
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you know the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, that was a city where
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Abraham's nephew Lot had settled.
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They were traveling together and then they kind of got too big to
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continue to travel together and they needed to separate.
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And so Lot chose some land near this near Sodom and Gomorrah,
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and then eventually he moved into Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Well, there were prayers that were going up to God about Sodom
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and Gomorrah and everything bad that was happening.
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I guess you know when you say bad against God's commandments.
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And there was a lot of what was emphasized.
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It was sexual immorality. And it didn't seem like it was
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men and women both and that they were, I mean, there was a lot of
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raping. There was all sorts of stuff
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happening. And anyway, this is another kind
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of side note, but Abraham's prayers actually saved Lot's
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life. So Abraham was praying to God
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about Lot and that he would spare him and God.
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It says in Scripture that God remembered Abraham's prayers and
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he spared Lot. So God sent.
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I wonder from the description that's written in the Bible, if
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it was actually Jesus and two angels, it really certainly
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sounds like it was that. And you can look into that and
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decide for yourself about that. But first and then first there
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were three that came, three visitors and they told Abraham
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and Sarah that they were going to have a child about a year
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from then. Then next, the only two visitors
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came and those were the angels. And they were there to help Lot
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get to safety. Lot and his whole family, but
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they gave them certain requirements like you can't look
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back. You just have to go.
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You have to listen to us and do what we say.
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And the Lot's daughters were there and they had, I think they
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were like fiance's or they were engaged to be married or
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something or they were actually son in I can't remember what
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they're, they're familiar or what their status was, but they
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thought he was joking. They thought Lot was joking.
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They thought this message about, you know, the angels coming to
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protect them and the city was going to be destroyed.
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They didn't believe it. They stayed behind.
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Lot's wife, for whatever reason, looked back, whether that's, you
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know, symbolic of she was longing for her people or what
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it was, but she didn't listen to what the Angel said.
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So the only ones who were who ended up escaping were Lot and
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his two daughters. And then when his two daughters
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realized that was it, you know, they didn't have their husbands
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before because each of them had some mail in their life and they
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were going to be saved, but they didn't listen.
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So they weren't saved. And they were destroyed in Sodom
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and Gomorrah and the destruction of it because of the evil and
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wicked ways that had come about and been brought to the
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attention through prayers to God.
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So anyway, they are removed from Sodom and Gomorrah, saved from
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Sodom and Gomorrah. And then this is interesting,
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like at A at a period of time, the daughters decide that they
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are not their family lines going to end because they don't have
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anybody. And so then they proceed to get
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drunk and then have sex with their father and the child, I
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think it was the oldest daughter, the eldest daughter
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who had a child first perhaps. And that child's name was Moab.
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And that's where the Moabites came from.
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So it was Lot's nephew, his, he and his daughter had Moab now.
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So then there was these there were these restrictions like how
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Moab would not be a part of the the community.
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However, this is really interesting because Ruth in the
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the book of Ruth is actually a Moabite, but she gave up ways of
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being a Moabite and decided to follow the God of Israel through
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Naomi, her mother-in-law after her husband's died.
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And she is actually, Ruth is actually in the genealogy of
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Jesus. So it just shows about God's,
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how God can redeem. Even if you are part of
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something that wasn't, you know, perfect, which nothing is,
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there's still the possibility of redemption.
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It's a matter of choice of the individual.
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And Ruth chose the true God. She abandoned the God of her
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people and left to she was redeemed.
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She was redeemed. So it was her choice and she
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made that. So that's where the history of
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Moab is or how it came to be. And now Isaiah the prophet is
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giving a prophecy against Moab. And so when I started studying
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this, I found something that was really eye opening today because
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I never saw this verse before today.
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So this is what Isaiah says, a prophecy against Moab.
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Our in Moab is ruined, destroyed in in a night.
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Kit in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night.
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Dibon goes up to its temple, to its high places to weep.
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Moab wails over Nebo and Mediba. Every head is shaved and every
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beard cut off. In the streets they wear
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sackcloth. That's a sign of mourning.
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On the roofs and in the public squares they all wail prostate
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with weeping. Heshban and Iliale cry out.
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Their voices are heard all the way to Jehaz.
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Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out, and their hearts are
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faint. My heart cries out over Moab.
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Her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Iglath, Shell,
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Ishiya. They go up the hill to Lubith
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Loohith weeping as they go on the road to Horanayam, they
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lament their destruction. The waters of Nimram are dried
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up and the grass is withered. The vegetation is gone and
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nothing green is left. So the wealth they have acquired
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and stored up they carry away over the ravine of the poplars.
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Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab, their wailing
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reaches as far as Eglam, their lamentation as far as Beer Elam.
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The waters of Dimum are full of blood.
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But I will bring still more upon demon, a lion, upon the
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fugitives of Moab, and upon those who remain in the land.
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And that is the end of chapter 15.
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So it's just saying, you know, there's going to be destruction
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here. I'm going to read what the study
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Bible says, and then I'll get to the verses of that I found.
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So why did God so utterly destroy Moab?
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In part because of its history of antagonism towards God's
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chosen people, the Lord commanded Israel not to pass
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through Moab on their way to the Promised Land.
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King Balak of Moab, however, hired Balaam to come and curse
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Israel. You can find that in Numbers
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chapter 22 through 24. Though that didn't work, Moabite
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women entered the camp of Israel and seduced the men, resulting
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in God sending a plague that killed 24,000 Israelites.
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And you can read about that in Numbers chapter 25.
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So that's something that I want to just point out right now as
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we're talking about it. So Moab, the Moabites, they,
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they were practicing idolatry. They were worshipping another
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God, which I have a theory that that God is Satan and they were
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deceived by that, but they were worshipping, let's just say my
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theory that they were worshipping Satan.
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And so it's very important that the scripture that I found today
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and I'll talk about that in a little bit.
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But God, you know, he always, he didn't want the Israelites to
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intermingle with foreign women, not anything to do with
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ethnicity or anything like that. It had to do with their
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idolatrous practices. They were not worshipping the
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same God. And that's why God put these
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barriers, these guardrails on the people of Israel and didn't
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want them intermingling with any other because he always chose
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Israel and said that I will be their God.
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So he never gave up. He had the, you know, Israel was
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to be the one nation that knows the true God and other nations
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would come to know the true God through Israel.
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But Israel wasn't perfect in keeping the covenant with God.
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So they messed up as well. But God was constantly,
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continually redeeming them and bringing them back, correcting
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them, disciplining them, bringing them back.
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And the purpose of him doing that was so that other nations
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could come to know him. God wants to be revealed and he
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he will go through many different ways of making people,
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not making people. That's not the right word that
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I'm looking for, letting people open their eyes and see who he
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is. He will he will send various
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people to do that to other people.
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So anyway, the first of all, like this is really important
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because the Moabite king was concerned about how many
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Israelites were coming into his territory and that scared him.
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He didn't want them to overtake his land, so and he he wanted
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protection from it. So he found this prophet who
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heard from God. But what he asked the prophet to
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do was to curse Israel so they couldn't come like to put curses
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on them. And this prophet was really
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hearing from God. But the problem was he was doing
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it for money. He wasn't doing it because of
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his love of God, but he was hearing from God.
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And so he told the king of Moab that I can only do what God will
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tell, tell me to do. I, you know, I will only do
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that. And so he still expected his pay
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for that. And so each time the king of
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Moab took him to all these different places, I don't know
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if there were maybe 7 different places, a lot of different high
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places. And they kept thinking, well,
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maybe this God will, you know, something will respond
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favorably. But every time the king of Moab
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asked to curse Israel, then Balaam said all he would do
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would bless them. And so the king of Moab got
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really angry with Balaam. And there was like a
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supernatural intervention that God had too with Balaam.
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When he was riding his donkey, God made the the donkey actually
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speak. And so he that's how to get his
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attention. And the donkey was actually
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getting scared of an Angel that was standing in his path trying
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to prevent him from going. But Balaam was going because he
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wanted to get money. That's what he was doing.
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And so he had, he had the love of money.
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So money isn't evil, but it's when you prioritize it and when
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it becomes something that you love.
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And that's what he was doing. So that's a little bit more
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about the Moabites and the king of Moab and then their
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antagonism with Israel. So going back to what the study
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Bible says, nearly a century after the conquest of Canaan,
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Israel became subject to Moab for 18 years.
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David conquered the Moabites, but they later regained their
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independence. Moabite Raiders invaded Israel
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frequently after that. Amos, a contemporary of Isaiah,
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denounced the Moabites for their many sins.
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So why did Isaiah mourn Moabite's flight?
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There are several reasons why Isaiah's heart may have been
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softened to Moab's pain. Abraham's nephew Lot was Moab's
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grandfather, so the Israelites and the Moabites shared the same
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ancestral father, Terra, and Kings David and King David's
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great grandmother Ruth had come from Moab.
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Furthermore, unlike Edom, the Bible never mentions Moab
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rejoicing over Israel's misfortunes.
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So then it says, what was the ravine of the Poplars?
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It is generally identified with the Zarid River, Arwadi El
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Hessa, which flows into the southern end of the Dead Sea and
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forms the boundary between Edom and Moab.
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The people of Moab would exit their country here as they fled
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S because of God's judgement likely brought on them by the
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Assyrians from the north. So now I think is a good time to
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talk about what I discovered in Scripture.
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So as I was searching Moab just to get the full biblical context
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of Moab, I found a verse that's that I don't recall seeing
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before or paying attention to, but it's Numbers chapter 24,
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verse 17. And here's what it says.
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I I see him, but not now. I behold him, but not near.
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A star will come out of Jacob, a scepter will rise out of Israel.
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He will crush the foreheads of Moab, the skulls of all the
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people of Chef. So this is OK?
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Remember when we just talked about Balaam?
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Who was supposed to bring about curses on Israel?
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So it this is actually Balaam's fourth message.
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So then he's, so I'll read back a few lines.
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Then he spoke this his message, the prophecy of Balaam, son of
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Bior, the prophecy of one whose eyes eye sees clearly, the
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prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who has knowledge
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from the Most High, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who
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falls prostate and whose eyes are opened.
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So Balaam is actually seeing Jesus Christ the Messiah.
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Isn't that wild? Back in Numbers 24.
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So Balaam, he's a prophet, he's seeing from God, but he does
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this stuff for money and he says, I see him talking about
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Jesus, but not now. I behold him, but not near.
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So this is thousands of years before Jesus was born.
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A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of
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Israel. Remember that Jesus has a
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scepter. The scepter will never depart
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from him until him who is to come from the tribe of Judah,
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and the scepter will rise out of Israel.
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He will crush the foreheads of Moab, the skulls of all the
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people of Chef. OK, that is really important.
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So crush the foreheads of Moab, the skulls of all the people of
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Chef. Now we go back to Genesis
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chapter 3. When Adam and Eve were, they
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rejected God and didn't believe him.
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And so they did something forbidden and God confronted
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them and he spoke to the serpent or Satan or the devil, whatever
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you want to call him. And then he tells, he tells them
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this, He tells Satan this. I will put enmity between you
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and the woman and between your offspring and hers.
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He will crush your head, Jesus, and you will strike His heel.
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So this is where in Genesis Jesus has talked about and about
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crushing the head of Satan and says you will strike his heel.
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And then we see that in Numbers 24 he will crush the foreheads
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of Moab, the skulls of all the people of Chef and talking about
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your offspring and her offspring when he was speaking to Satan.
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So the first time I read that I was like, Satan has offspring.
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Well, maybe, maybe in a literal sense, I don't know, but
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definitely in a spiritual sense. So Satan wanted to be worshipped
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and that's why he could no longer be in the Kingdom of God.
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It was his pride that got him that he lost everything because
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of his pride. He wanted to be worshipped.
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God made him very special, but he wasn't satisfied with that.
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He wanted more. He wanted to be worshipped and
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he challenged God and he believed that he was good enough
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to or wise enough to accomplish what he set out to do.
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Now he's only set out to destroy human beings because he hates
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human beings, because human beings will get to inherit, will
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get the opportunity at least to inherit the Kingdom of God.
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He won't. So he hates all of us and so he
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tries to deceive and manipulate people so that they don't make
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it into God's Kingdom. And he does that the same way
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he's always done that through desires, especially through lust
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and through sexual ways. Because the the Bible clearly
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says that there will be, there's like the sexually immoral will
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not be in the Kingdom of God. So that's a great way for Satan
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to get a hold of God's people and deceive them and make them
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think, oh, this is no big deal because he wants to see them
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destroyed so he can get into people's thoughts.
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Evil spiritual entities can influence people's thoughts.
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I've heard so many people who have come to faith and they've
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their ministries after they've come to faith, have been very
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strong ministries. But just before they came to
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faith, they were about to kill themself.
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And I believe that's evil influencing their thoughts and
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trying and, and trying to destroy them before they can do
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what God has purposed them to do.
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So if anybody ever has any like suicidal thoughts, that's the
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enemy, The enemy of God trying to destroy a human life because
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he ultimately hates the human life.
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He's jealous of humans and doesn't want humans to inherit
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the Kingdom of God. And he knows that he's not going
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to get it, but other people are. So he's just, he's angry and
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he's coming after people for that.
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And there's a way around that, that you don't have to succumb
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to those evil influences. And that's by receiving the Holy
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Spirit, by recognizing that we are sinners.
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We have a natural tendency towards sin.
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We do sinful things. There's a lot of sexual
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immorality that people do, go to God with it, ask for forgiveness
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and ask God to to forgive and to send the Holy Spirit so that you
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can avoid it in the future. So that would be stuff like
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watching porn. That would be stuff like having
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sex outside of marriage. Those kinds of things that
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people today say are no big deal.
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Well, it's a huge deception that the enemy has planted in the
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minds of people today, and it's not the truth because the Bible
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tells us differently. So if you want to forfeit the
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Kingdom of God, you can keep on going right ahead and do it
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because God's not going to force you.
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He's going to allow you to make your choice and let you have
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what you choose. He probably will put people in
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your path to warn you because he doesn't want you to be
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destroyed, but he's not going to force you to make that decision.
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So that's something that I see many people deceive today and
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and it's when I discovered these things in the Bible, it really,
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it really concerned me because I didn't want to give up the
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Kingdom of God. Now, there's nothing wrong with
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sex. I'm just going to talk about
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that part of it. It's inside of a marriage.
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So it's not saying that you can't, it's just saying that you
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need to be married. But anything outside of marriage
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is something that will prevent you from being in God's Kingdom.
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And don't use, but I'm covered by grace.
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Grace is actually the power of the Holy Spirit to overcome sin.
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So if you are obedient to Christ, you remain in Christ.
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Therefore, you have grace to cover, but not to keep on
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sinning. There's there's a lot of
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scripture that tells you that if you keep on sinning, you are not
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covered by grace. So don't let the enemy distort.
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Look into the word of God and find it for yourself if you
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don't believe me, because that is true.
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And if you look you will find. So anyway, getting back to this,
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I believe that any religion that worships a God and denies that
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Jesus is the son of God is actually worshipping Satan.
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So that's my theory, and it's because of what I saw here.
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But not only that, there's one more paragraph in the study
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Bible that talks about these. It talks a lot, a little bit
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more, and I did a little bit more research on other aspects
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of it, which I will start reading now.
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So what do ancient prophecies have to do with us today?
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Isaiah's prophecies teach several important truths that
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are still relevant centuries later.
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First, God's rule over all nations.
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He is not a local deity or a territorial God.
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The true God is not He's over everything.
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Despite appearances at times to the contrary.
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God is involved with the intricate detail of our lives as
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well as the broad strokes of human history.
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His message of hope is for people of all nations and ethnic
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backgrounds. We see this illustrated in
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Isaiah's prophecy against Moab. Though Moab was Israel's long
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standing enemy and faced God's judgement, Isaiah presented the
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Messiah's future role as extending over Moab in verse 15,
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verse 5. So he says, let me read that
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one. Oh, I don't know, OK, it says.
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My heart cries out over Moab. Her fugitives flee.
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As far as Zohar, as far as Egleth, I don't know.
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That to me doesn't sound very salvation related.
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That's what the study Bible says, though.
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But but you have to think about Ruth, because Ruth was a
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Moabite. She turned away from her
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people's God that they worshipped, and she said she
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wanted to worship the one true God, Naomi's God, and she
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changed. And so that just shows that.
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And she's in the ancestry, the genealogy of Jesus.
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So that just shows that, you know, God is a Redeemer of all
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people. Ruth is, you know, she has she
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Boaz and he's, you know, the symbolic of Jesus and being a
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Redeemer, like taking her from darkness into light and and you
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know, she's she was saved. So it is for all people.
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OK, now going back to the study Bible.
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Second, God rules by his prophetic word, which is sharp
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and powerful. Through obedience to God's Word,
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we can remain in Christ, promote God's will in our lives, and
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bring love to our neighbors. So this is really important.
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Through obedience to God's Word, we can remain in Christ.
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A lot of people I don't think know what remaining in Christ
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means. And it says through obedience to
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God's Word we can remain in Christ.
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So if we are not obedient to God's Word, we are not in
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Christ, We are not covered by grace.
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Now there's a difference between messing up and doing something
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stupid and immediately going to God with it and saying I messed
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up, I need help. Yes, there's grace for that.
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But when you knowingly keep on doing something that you know
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that God says no to, you are not in Christ.
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You are not covered by grace. And if you die in that moment,
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then I would really be fearful. I would be fearful that you may
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not be in the Kingdom of God. So let's see, that's why I say
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this because I think so many people are deceived because
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churches are so like lukewarm that they don't speak the truth.
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They only tell you the good stuff.
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They don't tell you the things that are important, that can
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warn you about the future. Because to me, eternity is a
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little bit more important. I don't care if my feelings get
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hurt if I have to cry a little bit and struggle with something
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that is said. If I can have the an inheritance
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in the Kingdom of God and be considered a child of God, I'd
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I'll give that up. I'll give up being upset about
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something, you know, here on earth so that I can have
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eternity with God. And it just, you know, why not
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give people the choice? Don't just give them the all the
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good stuff and none of the truth that's behind it.
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So we see hints of this in the fact that Isaiah, and perhaps
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God himself wept over Moab's punishment.
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Third, God has the last word. Unfortunately, Moab's sufferings
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would drive the people not to the living God, but to the idol
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shrines of their false God Kimosh, from whom there could be
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no help. Likewise, the pretenses and
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rebellion of modern society will burst like a soap bubble.
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Those who ignore God's word will be judged at the end of the age
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and evil, all evil, will have its day in court.
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Finally, those who have trusted Jesus are not under judgement.
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If we personally and intimately know God, the one who gives
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prophetic words and live in His mercy, we can rest securely in
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His unfailing love. So as I was looking about this
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Kemus, especially after discovering what is in Numbers
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and Genesis about crushing the head and that being related to
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Satan or yeah, connected with Satan.
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So there are other names I found out.
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Well, first I found that Kemish there, that other God, there was
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a lot of child sacrifice that was done to them to worship this
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other God, which is also like today abortion.
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But you know, we've kind of modernized things.
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So now abortion is basically that it's getting rid of a life.
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That's exactly what Satan wants to do, to destroy a life, not
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let it come to be because then you know it's you won't, you
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know, there's one human life that's gone.
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And that's what he wants to do is he wants to destroy human
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lives and not give them an opportunity to be in the Kingdom
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of God. However, in regards to children,
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I do believe that God is merciful and compassionate and I
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do believe that the babies that God spares the babies.
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And that's just what I believe. It's it's not really clear in
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Scripture, but that's my belief. I have a theory about that.
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So anyway, there it, this Kemash is also known as Molech, is also
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known as Baal, is also known as L is also known as Ashtar and is
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also known as Venus and is also known as a bull.
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So all these things, all of these things are depictions and
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descriptions and things that go back to Satan even today.
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I mean, you see the bull representing Satan being
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represented with bull, like bull symbol symbolism and things.
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And it's also called like the abomination of Moab, their God.
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And it's also also tied with war.
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So all those things, war and destruction.
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So again, it just seems to me like my theory that religions
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that don't believe that Jesus is the son of God are deceived
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people who are believing in a false God that is actually that
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Satan is actually behind and and says that Satan can appear as an
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Angel of light. So it's a very deceptive thing.
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And so my concern is people who do worship all these other
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things and do have other religions that don't believe
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that Jesus is the son of God that I have a I'm concerned
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about their placement in eternity because I know that God
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wants them to be his child because he created them and he
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wants them to be in his Kingdom. But the enemy is preventing them
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from doing that. So find all you can.
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If you don't believe in Jesus, as Jesus says, the Son of God,
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the best thing to do is read the Bible because your eyes will be
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opened and ask God, the true God for the Holy Spirit to give
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wisdom. So I will continue on to Chapter
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17, because it still is about Moab.
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So Chapter 16, Send lambs as tribute to the ruler of the
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land, from Selah across the desert to the Mount of daughter
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Zion. Like fluttering birds pushed
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from the nest. So are the women of Moab at the
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Fords of the Arnon. Make up your mind, Moab says.
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Render a decision. Make your shadow like night at
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high noon. Hide the fugitives.
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Do not betray the refugees. Let the Moabite fugitive stay
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with you. Be the shelter.
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Be their shelter from the destroyer.
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Well, I think that could also be Satan or Satan and inspiring
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other people to come against them.
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The oppressor will come to an end and destruction will cease.
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The aggressor will vanish from the land.
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Now this just pops out of nowhere.
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So pay attention to this verse 5.
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In love a throne will be established.
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In faithfulness, a man will sit on it, one from the House of
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David, one who in judging seeks justice and speeds the cause of
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righteousness. So this is Jesus and it starts
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about in love like this is showing God's love in the middle
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of all this destruction. Isaiah sees this and speaks this
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to Moab and talks about Jesus coming and it.
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You know, he could have even made it better if he would have
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tied Jesus to to Moab from Ruth, because she was from Moab.
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Going back to scripture, we have heard of Moab's pride.
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How great is her arrogance, of her conceit, her pride and her
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insolence. But her boasts are empty.
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Empty. Therefore the Moabites wail.
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They wail together from Moab, lament and grieve for the Raisin
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cakes of Kerr Hauscheth the fields of Heshbourne wither the
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vines of Cibna. Also, the rulers of the nations
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have trampled down the choices vines which once reached Jazer
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and spread toward the desert. Their shoots spread out and went
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as far as the sea. So I weep as Jazer weeps for the
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vines of Sibma, Heshbon and Ilaya.
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I drench you with tears. The shouts of joy over your
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ripened fruit and over your harvest have been stilled.
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Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards.
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No one sings or shouts in the vineyards.
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No one treads out wine at the press, for I have put an end to
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the shouting. My heart laments for Moab like a
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harp, my inmost being for Kerharse Hairseth.
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When Moab appears at her high place, she only wears herself
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out. When she goes to her shrine to
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pray, it is to no avail. So it basically saying these
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this false gods not going to help you.
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Unfortunately, they were deceived and they're believing
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in a false God who's not going to help them because that false
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God wants them destroyed. It's Satan.
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Satan's behind it. OK, this is the word the Lord
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has already spoken concerning Moab.
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But now the Lord says within three years, as a servant bound
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by contract would count them, Moab's splendor and all her many
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people will be despised, and her survivors will be very few and
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feeble. So it's not a pretty picture of
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this. So the I'll read the questions
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and answers. Why give aid to the Moabite?
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Some think that Isaiah was speaking on behalf of the Lord
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here, advising Judah to provide refuge for the refugees from
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Moab as they fled from the destroyer, which was probably
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Assyria. But I think it could also mean
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something even greater since Jesus was talked about.
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It's probably whatever human person Satan uses in the future,
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but it's more likely that the Moabites were speaking, asking
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Judah for refuge. Why bring up Israel's Messiah?
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Here, Isaiah took the opportunity to speak about the
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ultimate trust, not only for the Israelites, but also for the
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Moabites and the rest of the world.
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Though the Messiahs appearing would come long after this time
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when the Moabites were fleeing their enemy, likely the
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Assyrians. He would bring an end to
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oppression, destruction, and aggression.
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Neither the Judeans nor the Moabites would live to see him.
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Nevertheless, persons in both groups could put their trust in
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the God who made such a promise on their day.
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It's really interesting though. Remember that Balaam gave them
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this prophecy a long time ago about it.
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The king of Moab, when the Israelites were first coming, he
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said this was going to happen, that Jesus was going to come.
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But nobody really understood it. Of course you know, but
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Scripture interprets Scripture. So why did Moab have to boast?
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Or what did Moab have to boast about?
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Not much. The insignificant nation was
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only a whimper compared to the roaring of other nations such as
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Assyria. Moab's pride was based not on
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reality but on its own feelings of importance inflated opinions
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of oneself, particularly when. Set alongside shriveled
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resources and abilities, demonstrate how ridiculous human
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boasting is. How was Moab trampled down?
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The Assyrian king Sargon the Second put down a rebellion
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along the western border States and probably squelched Moab in
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the process. How did Moab wear herself out at
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her high place? Isaiah was foretelling the
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efforts of the Moabites to thwart their inevitable
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judgement to ward of destruction.
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The Moabites offered frenzied prayers and sacrifices at their
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high places which a Pagan place of worship to entice their gods
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to protect them from the enemies.
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The continued effort was wearing them out, and it wasn't going to
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happen anyway. So what kind of prophecy is
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this? The Hebrew word for prophecy
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here is related to the verb meaning lift up or carry.
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It is and is possibly to be understood as either the lifting
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up of 1's voice or carrying a burden.
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Such a prophecy often brings unwelcomed news or judgement.
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And that concludes chapters 15 and 16.
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Son of God, Jesus Christ as your Savior, as the Messiah, then
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keep seeking God and praying and stay in the Bible every day.
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