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750. Bible Study: Isaiah 66 (Final Judgement Day) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 66 from the book of Isaiah.
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Let's first pray. Dear God, we're in our last
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chapter of Isaiah. Please give us wisdom and
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insight and touch our hearts with these words that you've
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given Isaiah. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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This is called judgement and hope in my study Bible.
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This is what the Lord says. Heaven is my throne and the
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earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will
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build for me? Where will my resting place be?
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Has not my hand made all these things?
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And so they came into being, declares the Lord.
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These are the ones I look on with favor, those who are humble
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and contrite in spirit and who tremble at my word.
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It reminded me of the verse that says the fear of the Lord is the
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beginning of wisdom. It seems like we've somewhat as
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a, as a culture, as, as the world in general, not everybody,
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but we have kind of lost that fear of the Lord.
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And everybody likes to talk about the loving God.
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And then a lot of people talk about, well, the God of the Old
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Testament was really, you know, he was judgy or he was fierce or
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he was all these other things. But God hasn't changed.
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He's the same today as he was back then.
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And what people need to realize is that there is a coming
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judgement day. And it does say in Scripture
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that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of the of wisdom.
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When we understand that everything that that happens
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will come into judgement, that's going to create a fear.
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Don't you think? If there's a punishment that's
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understood that'll come from evil things, that maybe people
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would hold off on doing evil things or reconsider doing evil
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things. Well, I think the fear of the
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Lord brings that about. And people don't like to talk
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about that today for some reason.
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They just want to talk about a loving God, and he is a loving
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God, but he's also just. And in order to be just, evil
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must be eliminated and evil must be punished.
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So those who will will not turn to God, they they will not be in
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his Kingdom. So anyway, let's continue on
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with what scripture says. But this is another thing that's
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really interesting too. But whoever sacrifices a bull is
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like the one who kills a person. And whoever offers a lamb is
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like one who breaks a dog's neck.
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Whoever makes a grain offering is like one who presents pig's
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blood, and whoever burns memorial incense is like the one
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who worships an idol. They have chosen their own ways
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and they delight in their abominations.
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So I, I think what this is saying is that, you know, it did
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say that God said he doesn't like the sacrifices.
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The sacrifices that he allowed were not something that he
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desired his people to do. He gave it to them.
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He gave them that ability so that they could have a
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substitute for their own death. It was a substitute, but it
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seems like over time it really got out of control Where it was.
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Everybody was thinking that these sacrifices are what God
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wanted, but that's not what He wanted.
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He mentioned before in other chapters that he wanted justice
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served. He wanted people to take care of
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other people. Like there's all these loving
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things that God was looking for, but instead of people doing
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those loving things, they were doing all the sinful things and
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then thinking that they were good because they did the follow
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up sacrifices that were required.
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But that's not what God's after. He's after a righteous and he
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also says be holy because I am holy.
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So let's continue in here, he said.
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So he talks about all these sacrifices like he doesn't like
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this stuff. So I will choose harsh treatment
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for them and we'll bring on them what they dread for.
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When I called, no one answered. When I spoke, no one listened.
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I think we all need to think about that because if, if
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anybody's listening to this podcast, it's, it's because
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there is some interest in God. And, and so if God is calling
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you don't refuse him because he, he's very patient with us and he
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calls us and we ignore him a lot of times.
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And thankfully he's merciful and he's patient.
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But there is also a limit. And we don't know what God's
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limit is. And when we start pushing the
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limits, we don't, we really, if we think about it, we really
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don't want to push God past the limit where he just turns us
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over to our ways that are against him, our rebellious
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ways. We don't want to be eternally
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separated from God because that would that's basically what hell
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isn't even the right word, but it's the burning lake of of
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sulphur and the place of eternal torment.
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I mean, I think a lot of people don't even realize what this
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separation from God is going to be like.
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And no one, if they understood what it was, would want it,
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would desire it. I can't imagine because the
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people who are willingly wanting to rebel against God just don't
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really understand the consequences of what's going to
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happen and and that how serious it is.
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And I guess as time goes on, God's judgements are going to
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get worse and worse among all mankind so that people start
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seeing, OK, this is what's happening.
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I mean, right now we're seeing a lot of natural disasters in the
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world. I don't think these are.
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I don't think it's like just odd that these things are happening.
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I don't think it's just a coincidence.
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I think God is sending warnings to people that we need to repent
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and turn to him. Stop doing our sinful things
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that we know separate us from God and ask God for the Holy
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Spirit to help and guide us and teach us His ways.
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Teach us how to be what He created us to be.
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He had very good intentions and purpose and does have that for
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everyone. But we kind of get on our own
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path and do our own thing. And if we're just doing it on
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our own, it's so much less than what God could have done with us
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if we had just submitted to Him and done things His way.
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So it's just something over time, as I've read through
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Scripture, I realize this, going back to what Scripture says,
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they did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me.
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Again, this is no one can say that God sends them to hell
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because that's a consequence of choices, a consequence of
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choices people make. No one can blame God for doing
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that. We send ourselves to hell if we
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don't repent and turn to God. If we refuse God, if we deny
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Jesus, we send ourselves. It's the consequence of our
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decision. And the Bible tells us that.
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That's why it's so important to read.
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So you don't really know unless you read the Bible, how severe
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it is to make some of the choices that we make.
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And again, there is this evil spiritual force that's out there
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and Satan is behind it and he seeks to kill and destroy.
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He does not want mankind to inherit what God has in store
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for everyone. And a lot of people don't like
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to talk about that aspect of it, but if we understand that, then
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we know what kinds of influences are coming against us.
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And maybe, I don't know, if you just read the Bible, you will
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see all this stuff. So it says, hear, hear the word
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of the Lord. You who tremble at his word,
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your own people who hate you and exclude you because of my name
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have said, let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your
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joy. So this is something that Jesus
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said, he said a long time ago. He said it's documented by John
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in chapter 15 verse 18. If the world hates you, keep in
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mind that it hated me first. This is the Son of God saying,
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if the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
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And that's really what Isaiah is saying here.
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Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word.
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That's kind of the fear of God. Your own people who hate you and
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exclude you because of my name. Do you think they're excluding
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them because of the name of God? Perhaps, but also because of the
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name of Jesus. I mean, Jesus is the one common
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denominator when you find all the other religions, the denial
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of Jesus being the son of God, that's what differentiates
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Christianity from other religions.
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There's many other religions that acknowledge that Jesus did
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exist and they that he was a good person and that he was a
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prophet. There's a lot of religions that
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say all that, but they deny that he was the Son of God.
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And that denial of who he is, I mean, that's the hatred of him.
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That's why they wanted him crucified, because he was for
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blasphemy for saying that he was the Son of God.
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They didn't like that. But the thing about him being
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the Son of God is that's the only way that we actually get
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the inheritance that God has planned.
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We will be sisters and brothers to Jesus.
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And God has this inheritance that he is giving to all people
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who become, you know, we're all created by him but and he loves
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us, but we don't all love him. And those who love him will be
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willing to submit to what he he says is good and to leave behind
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what he says is not good. That we are kind of drawn to
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because we have this sinful nature.
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So anyway, it's there's, there's just, there's, there is.
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And there will be a separation of people.
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And Jesus is the one, you know, that Jesus is the one who gets
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mocked in a lot of comedy acts. I mean, it's just start paying
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attention to it. Music start look, seeing, you
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know, some of these musicians are actually mocking Jesus in
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their music videos. And and it's just you can see
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that this is all like from the enemy of God.
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Like who would do that? We wrestle not against flesh and
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blood like Paul says in Ephesians chapter 6.
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He talks about the spiritual entities in the heavenly realms,
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the evil forces. And don't be naive and think
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those forces are not at work in our world today and we see it
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manifested in people. Let the Lord be glorified so
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that we may see your joy, yet they will be put to shame.
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Hear that uproar from the city. Hear that noise from the temple.
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This maybe think about the temple that's referenced in the
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Book of Revelation during the wrath of God in Revelation
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chapter 16 verse one, it said then I heard a loud voice from
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the temple saying to the seven angels go pour out the seven
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bowls of God's wrath on the earth.
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So these, that's what you know this again, this chapter 66
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reminds me of the the last days. It is the sound of the Lord
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repaying his enemies all they deserve.
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See, I don't think this prophecy from Isaiah happened yet.
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I think this is the future now. This is another thing that's
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almost like a little bit of a puzzle, but it's very
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interesting. Before she goes into labor, she
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gives birth. Before the pains come upon her,
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she delivers a son. Who has ever heard of such
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things? Who has ever seen things like
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this? Can a country be born in a day
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or a nation be brought forth in a moment?
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Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her
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children. So I want to go through that all
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again because a lot of people say this is about Israel
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becoming a nation in 1948. I've heard that a lot, but that
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doesn't really make sense. It makes more sense when you
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think about the end times and the birth pains that Jesus
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talked about. It'll be like at the end times
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will be like someone going into labor, like a woman going into
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labor. And that's what Jesus talked
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about is how the end times will be.
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So listen to what it says before she OK, so she we do know
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because it says in the later verse it says yet no sooner is
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Zion in labor. So Zion is like the heavenly
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Jerusalem, the holy Jerusalem. That's another name for
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Jerusalem. So no sooner is Jerusalem in
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labor than she gives birth to her children.
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So the she is basically we can say that's Jerusalem.
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So before Jerusalem goes into labor, she gives birth.
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So who does she give birth to? Well, it could be a lot of
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different things, but one person that comes to mind is Jesus,
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because he is a descendant from the tribe of Judah, and so she
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gives birth. Israel or Jerusalem gives birth.
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That's where Jesus comes into the picture.
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Before she goes into labor, she gives birth.
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You know, because usually you go into labor, then you give birth.
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But before she goes into labor, so before the end times happen,
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she gives birth. Jesus arrives before that,
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before the pains come upon her, she delivers a son.
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So she births a son. Well, who is that son?
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The Son of God, right? And it's before the pains of
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Labor come on. Like, so that's like the
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opposite, like there's a birth before the labor pains.
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And that's not the way things work, but that's the way God did
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it. And he, you know, this is like
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very, I don't know what the right word is, what I'm looking
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for, but the way that Scripture and prophecies are written,
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they're very symbolic. They're poetic, but they have
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this really deep meaning. And a lot of times we don't
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understand them until after the fact because you could make them
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because they're, they're somewhat vague.
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You can make them into a lot of things, but after they've
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happened, then you can look back on them.
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You're like, oh, wow, he said this from the very beginning.
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So again, here it is Jesus being talked about in chapter 66 of
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Isaiah. So who's ever heard of these
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things? You know, nobody has who has
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ever seen such things like this? Can a country be born in a day
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or a nation be brought forth in a moment?
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You know, God says when this comes about, it's going to come
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about quickly. And I don't think it's
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necessarily the nation of Israel from 1948.
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I think this is God's nation that he's bringing about and
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it'll come forth in a moment. Can a country be born in a day?
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I think, you know, this is when Israel's borders will be
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expanded, extended to where Jesus had, you know, are not the
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the Father had said that's there were certain borders for Israel
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and those are not what exists today.
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What God has planned is larger than what it is today.
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And honestly, I don't even know if that is ever going to happen.
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The whole earth may be destroyed.
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I'm not quite sure when the new heavens and the new earth come
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into play. I don't know if this whole earth
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gets destroyed or if during the thousand year reign of Christ
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there's a restoration of the earth and then the heavenly
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maybe. I think that's probably when it
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happens because it says that nothing, nothing, probably evil
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or no darkness will ever enter the city, the holy city of
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Jerusalem. So during the millennial
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Kingdom, there will be mortal and immortal people.
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There are still going to be people who die, but they're
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going to have much longer lifespans because in prior
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chapters that talked about people being 100 years old
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seeming like, you know, that was really, they were young.
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And so I think it's going to go back to the ages that were
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talked about in Genesis where people live TO600700800900
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years. And so there's going to be
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immortal and immortal people living here on Earth.
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And because there's the mortal people that are here, that means
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they can still sin. They can still choose sin.
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The final judgment doesn't happen until the end of the
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thousand years. So there's this, this other
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space of time, this other timeline of 1000 years before
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the final judgment happens. And the people who were
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rebellious to God, who rejected God, they will stay asleep until
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that thousand years are over. They don't rise.
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It tells us in the Book of Revelation that they don't, they
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don't rise until the end of that time period.
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So they are still what the Bible calls, they are still asleep.
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They are in some like holding place until these thousand years
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are ended. And then the people who didn't
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like God, they will rise also. There's going to be a final
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resurrection and that will be when the the final judgement
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happens of all people. So anyway, he's.
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It says do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?
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Says the Lord. Do I close up the womb when I
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bring, when I bring to delivery, says your God, rejoice with
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Jerusalem and be glad for her all you who love her.
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I think especially today, 2025, we need to pay attention all
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this is about Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you who love
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her. So.
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I think this whole thing about anti-Semitism is very dangerous.
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When God has chosen Israel and you know all you, the people who
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are rejoicing are all of you who love her.
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So does that mean that the ones who are, who don't love
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Jerusalem, who don't love Israel, are going to experience
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God's wrath? You might want to think about it
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because like unforgiveness is something that does separate us
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from God. And it says all you who love her
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rejoice greatly with her, all you who all you who mourn over
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her. For you will nurse and be
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satisfied at her comforting breast.
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You will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing
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abundance. For this is what the Lord says,
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I will extend peace to her like a river and the wealth of the
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nations, like a flooding stream. So this again is in the future
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because there will be no peace. Because the last thing that they
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say is when they say there, when they say peace and safety or
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peace and security, then will come sudden destruction.
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So we are not going to have peace.
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Jesus said war will continue. Wars and rumors of wars will
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continue until the very end. So we're not going to have peace
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until Jesus returns. And there's going to be this
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like false Messiah that comes too, that probably promises
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peace. So people will be deceived.
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But it's when there's true peace.
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It's not going to be until after Jesus returns.
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So anyway, it says you will nurse and be carried on her arm
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and and dandled on her knees as a mother comforts her child.
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So I will comfort you and you will be comforted over
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Jerusalem. This reminded me when I read
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that of what Jesus said when he entered into Jerusalem in
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Matthew chapter 23 verse 37 and in Luke chapter 13 verse 34.
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They both give the account of this says Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
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you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you.
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How often I have longed to gather your children together as
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a hen gathers her chicks under her wings.
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And you were not willing. This is again that refusal of
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God's call. You know that Isaiah talked
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about in verse 4 where it said, For when I called no one
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answered, when I spoke no one listened.
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And Jesus was saying this as he rode into the city of Jerusalem.
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He had compassion and he wanted to be this protective hen
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gathering her chicks under her wings.
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But they weren't willing. They didn't want that.
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And but then he does. He does say, as a mother
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comforts her child, so I will comfort you.
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So doesn't that that reflects Jesus and the Father and Jesus
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said like the words that came out of his mouth were basically
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a reflection of the he was a reflection of the Father.
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So whatever came out of his mouth was from the Father.
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He said He only spoke what the Father said.
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When you see this, your heart will rejoice and you will
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flourish like grass. The hand of the Lord will be
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made known to his servants, but his fury will be shown to his
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foes. See the Lord is coming with
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fire, and his Chariots are like a whirlwind.
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So again, the when Jesus arrives, it's which I believe
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it's going to be during the 6th seal and it says like in the 6th
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seal in Revelation chapter 6 verse 12.
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I watched as he opened the 6th seal.
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There was a great earthquake, the sun turned black like
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sackcloth made of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
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and the stars in the sky fell to the earth as figs drop from a
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fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.
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The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and
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every mountain and island was removed from its place.
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Then the kings of the earth, the Princess, the generals, the
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rich, the mighty, and everyone else both slave and free, hid in
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caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
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They called to the mountains in the rocks fall on us, and hide
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us from the face of Him who sits on the throne, and from the
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wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of their wrath
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has come and who can withstand it?
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So there's also parts about Jesus, the Son of man coming on
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the clouds and everyone will see that.
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And again, you know, like this said the all people are wanting
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to hide because they know what's coming.
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They know what's happening at this point.
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It's not taking them by surprise because they've heard it,
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they've just rejected it. So then this whole description
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of a whirlwind I thought was really interesting because if
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you haven't heard this yet, there are so many people in the
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last several years all over the world having dreams about end
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time type things. And it's just a couple years
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ago, I don't know. I, I started having dreams
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myself and they've slowed down a little bit, but they were 21 and
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22. I think 22 was a lot of them.
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And there was many people, I didn't have one of these dreams,
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but many people were dreaming about tsunamis.
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And and I always thought that's not in the Bible, like where is
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that coming from? And they were just talking about
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these destruction that were these tsunamis that were going
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to happen. And I was like, you know, you
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always check with the dreams, like do they match up?
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What's in Scripture? And is it somebody's, you know,
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imagination or is it really from God?
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And you know, but so then you know, when, as I'm reading this,
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I'm thinking about, they talk about these whirlwinds.
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And when you look up whirlwinds and you see how often that is
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being used, it's, it's really insightful, I would say because
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whirlwind, I don't know if I, I need to actually search for that
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again, because I kind of dug deep into it and got off the
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initial search. But so this is interesting where
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it it occurs 13 times in the New International Version.
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So in second Kings chapter 2 verse one, it says when the Lord
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was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah
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and Elijah were on their way from Gilgal.
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As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a
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chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the
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two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.
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So this is like the whole thing. If you read in second Kings
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chapter 2, read about Elijah being taken up to heaven and
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notice some things about that story.
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There were people that were talking to Elijah, who is his, I
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guess, prodigy or the the person who came after him, you know,
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who is kind of going to replace him or I don't know, was the
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second one in line, but people were coming up to him saying, do
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you know that Elijah's going to be taken?
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Like people knew this. There were and people saw this
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like there were, I think hundreds of people who witnessed
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Elijah going up into this whirlwind.
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And but they knew in advance it wasn't like a tornado came along
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and took this person's life. And then everybody said, oh,
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that was God. You know, that's not what
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happened. These people knew about this.
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They were telling Elijah, I mean, it was a it was a known
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fact that this was going to happen on this day, which I find
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really interesting because Elijah didn't experience a
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normal death. He was taken up.
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It was so he was one that really didn't experience a death.
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I mean, it's just a very different kind of a description
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of when he goes away. And it was like he, it was
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known. It wasn't like just symbolic.
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He was walking along and they kind of made a deal like Elijah
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told Elijah, if you see this happening because Elijah asked
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him for like double the power or double the the Holy Spirit that
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Elijah had. And Elijah basically told him if
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you see this happen, then you will receive that or something.
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And I don't know, maybe because he trusted that God would either
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let Elijah see it or he won't. And so anyway, Elijah did get
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double the power of the Holy Spirit when Elijah went up to
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the heaven. So it's just read it in detail
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because it's very interesting. And but anyway, these
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whirlwinds, I, you know, there, there are sometimes literal
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things and then there's sometimes metaphors are
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metaphors for or symbols for something.
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And so, and sometimes they can be both, they can be a literal
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and also have a symbolic meaning.
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And so anyway, when other people today start having dreams about
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tsunamis, you know, maybe it's a literal one that could come.
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Maybe they are seeing having prophetic dreams, and maybe it's
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symbolic. And maybe that whirlwind is
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also, you know, part of God's judgement.
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And because it does in Scripture also says like like a whirlwind,
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like in Proverbs 127 when calamity overtakes you like a
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storm. So it's not a storm that's
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happening, but calamity. And it's like a storm when
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disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and
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trouble overwhelm you. And it continues so.
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And then in Isaiah chapter 5, their arrows are sharp, their
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bows are strong, their horse's hoof seems like flit, their
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chariot wheels like a roll. And that's just describing, you
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know, like, I guess a fast moving wheel.
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So it can be descriptive, picturesque to give us a
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meaning. But then there's just times
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where it you know, it might be both symbolic and literal.
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So it says, see, the Lord is coming with fire.
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This is in this chapter. And his Chariots are like a
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whirlwind. He will bring down his anger
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with fury and his rebuke with flames of fire.
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Now, when God was, when he met with Moses at Mount Sinai, it
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said, you know, there was like a like fire and smoke and fire on
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the mountain and nobody could get near it or they, they could
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die. And God said this is holy.
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He told them, you know, what they need to do to do to prepare
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and also warned them, don't touch it because sinfulness
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cannot be in the presence of holy.
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I mean, that's the conclusion that I came about after reading
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the Bible is that, you know, that's part of what God's, you
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know, God was originally walking with Adam and Eve here on earth,
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but then after the sin came about, he was no longer walking
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around with them. And it just seems like God's
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presence, you know, was, was removed once people made the
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choice for sin. And the only way that this could
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be restored was through Jesus coming to earth, being the Son
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of God, you know, having the Holy Spirit, being conceived by
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the Holy Spirit so that he was sinless and he was God.
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And he died on the cross and gave his life as a substitute
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sacrifice for all of us so that it was meaningful enough and
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important enough and valuable enough that it covers all
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people. So it really is important to
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understand what Jesus's death on the cross means to every single
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one of us. Without that event happening, we
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could not make it into God's Kingdom.
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We could not inherit the in Kingdom because we can't get rid
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of our sin. It's it's like permanent for us
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until God himself takes it away from us.
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So then in Jeremiah he's another prophet and he talks about this
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too. He says, look, he advances like
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the clouds, his Chariots come like a whirlwind, His horse is
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swifter than eagles. Woe to us, we are ruined.
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And then he also says, see, the storm of the Lord will burst out
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in wrath, A whirlwind swirling down on the heads of the wicked.
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Hosea talks about a whirlwind will sweep them away and their
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sacrifices will bring them shame.
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That's very similar to what Isaiah was saying about how he
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didn't like all the sacrifices. And then Hosea's talking about a
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whirlwind. They sow the wind and reap the
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whirlwind. The stock has no head.
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It will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain,
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foreigners will swallow it up. And then Nehemiah Arnahum says
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the Lord is slow to anger but great in power.
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The Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished.
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His way is in the whirlwind, and the storm and clouds are the
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dust of his feet. So of course that's kind of a
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metaphor. But could God actually use a
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whirlwind, a hurricane, or a tornado and a storm to bring
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about punishment, bring about justice?
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Very well. He could very well do that, and
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I believe He does do that in Zechariah it says I scattered
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them with the whirlwind among all the nations where they were
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strangers. The land they left behind was so
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desolate that no one travelled through it.
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This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.
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So that is also, I think, more symbolic in that part.
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But it's just interesting that the return of the Lord does talk
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about a whirlwind and and then people, you know, having those
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kinds of dreams is kind of interesting.
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So I'll continue with what Scripture says.
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He will bring down his anger with fury and his rebuke with
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flames of fire. For with fire and with his
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sword, the Lord will execute judgement on all people.
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This is justice and many will be those slain by the Lord.
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So the Lord is going to this is like when you know, it says
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leave it to me or the vengeance is mine.
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This is when God's vengeance comes out, like all the things
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that were never justified, all the wrongs that had not been
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dealt with, are going to be dealt with during this time.
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Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the
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gardens, following the one who is among those who eat the flesh
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of pigs, rats and other unclean things, they will meet their end
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together with the one they follow, declares the Lord.
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I don't know if this is going to be like a false Messiah.
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Is this going to be the lawless 1?
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Is this some other like idolatrous, you know, fake God
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that people follow? I'm not sure, but it's talking
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about those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the
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garden. So if this is future prophecy,
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we should probably remember this first because if we see people
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consecrating and purifying themselves to go into some
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garden and then there's one who's among them who eats pigs,
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rats and other clean, unclean things, that's just something to
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pay attention to because that's we'll know that it's prophecy
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when that happens. They will meet their end
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together with the one that they follow.
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Then it continues on and I, because of what they have
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planned and done, am about to come and gather the people of
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all nations and languages, and they will come and see my glory.
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I think this might be another the resurrection or what people
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call the rapture too. And that's when God says, you
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know, and I because of what they have planned and done.
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So they have something future planned and God knows everything
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that's going on and it's also what they have done.
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He says he's about to come and gather the people of all nations
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and languages and they will come and see my glory again.
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The Son of Man coming on the clouds.
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I will set a sign among them, and I will send some of those
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who survive to the nations, to Tarshish, to the Libyans, to the
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Lydians famous as Archers, to Tubal in Greece, and to those
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distant islands that have not heard of my fame or seen my
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glory. They will proclaim my glory
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among the nations. I don't know if this is like I
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don't know at what point this is because sometimes prophecies can
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have near future and then long term future prophecies in there.
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I mean, this is, is this like spreading the gospel that you
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know, after Jesus sent out his disciples where they are going
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to proclaim the glory among the nations and they will bring all
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your people from all the nations to my holy mountain in Jerusalem
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as an offering to the Lord on horses, in Chariots and wagons,
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on mules and camels, said the Lord.
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They will bring them as the Israelites bring their grain
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offerings to the temple of the Lord in ceremonial clean
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vessels, and I will select some of them also to be priests and
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Levites, said the Lord. Now this hasn't happened because
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God had already established the Levites as the the service
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providers for the the temple and the descendants of Aaron were
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the priests. And so now he's talking about I
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will select some of them also to be priests and Levites.
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And this is talking about all nations.
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You know, this is going to be AII do believe this might be
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during the millennial reign of Christ because there will be a
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third temple during that time frame.
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And apparently that all of us, I forgot which prophet said it,
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but we will all be going to celebrate the Feast of
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Tabernacles during the Millennium.
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And anybody who doesn't go up there won't have rain.
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That's going to be a consequence of not going to the temple to
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celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
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So just very interesting time. But there is going to be a third
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temple. And if you don't know that
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already, it's there are plans that are already drawn up.
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They're just waiting for government approval.
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There's actually been signage that's been placed in Jerusalem
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now. And there's some who have also
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said that October 7th was also to stop that process by from
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happening. So we're in 2025 and we're
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certainly seeing a lot of prophetic things unfolding.
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So keep watch for the Middle East and pay attention.
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The month of September is always a very interesting month to
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watch because of so much significance in Jewish history,
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Jewish customs, traditions, festivals, things like that.
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September and October are definitely months to be
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watchful. So then in verse 22 it says as
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the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure
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before me. So again there's that new heaven
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and new earth that's talked about in Revelation chapter 21
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and 22, I believe declares the Lord.
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So will your name and descendants endure from one new
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moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another.
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All mankind will come and bow down before me, says the Lord.
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Well, this hasn't happened yet, and the Lord isn't present
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currently, but He will be. And they will go out and look on
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the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me.
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The worms that eat them will not die.
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The fire that burns them will not be quenched and it will be
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loathsome to all mankind. I think we need to really
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understand how critical it is to what the consequence is for
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rebelling against God and not make light of it because I don't
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think any person would choose this.
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But yet some are. And and I guess the ones who
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mock and say this isn't going to happen, this isn't going to be
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true. They will see one day that it is
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true again. The fear of the Lord is the
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beginning of wisdom. So we have finished the book of
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Isaiah. So we are going to be moving on
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to another prophetic book in the order of when they did their
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prophecy. And before I end this chapter, I
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will read what's in the study Bible for the questions and
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answers. So we'll get started on that now
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and then wrap up. So why did Isaiah criticize
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sacrifices? Isaiah seems to have carefully
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chosen his words for their shock value.
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The most sacred exercises of true God-given religion are like
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the worst sins when they are divorced from humility of
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spirit. One of the themes of the
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prophets was that God detests human efforts to please Him by
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keeping ritual laws without respecting his moral laws.
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People without integrity are not genuinely religious when they
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perform rituals. They are merely superstitious.
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So there's a big difference between doing something, you
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know, heartfelt, and doing something like a robot.
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So why talk about Zion giving birth?
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Isaiah uses a metaphor of Zion or Jerusalem as a metaphor to
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express express both sorrow and loss, and here hope and
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blessing. The emphasis in this passage is
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on how how quickly and effortlessly Zion gives birth to
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her children. We can't be certain if the
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prophet had a particular invent in in mind.
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He may have been referring to anything from the return from
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Babylon, the rebirth of Israel to the day of Pentecost, the
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birth of the Church and the second coming of Christ.
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The birth of the people, forever liberated from the curse of sin
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could mean all those things. So unclean things.
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These are similar to the things listed in chapter 65, verses 3
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and 4, the detestable things associated with idol worship,
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superstition and immorality. Where were Tarshish, Libya,
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Lydia, and Tubal? Tarshish was probably in
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southern Spain. Libya was West of Egypt in North
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Africa. Lydia was in western Asia Minor,
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modern modern western Turkey. Tubal was in eastern Asia Minor
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near the Black Sea and what is today northeastern Turkey.
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These, together with Greece and the distant islands, represent
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the farthest reaches of the earth.
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The point being that God will send out His missionaries to all
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the world with the news of His glory.
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Who were these priests and Levites?
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Some say these were Jews brought by the Gentiles as an offering
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to the Lord. Others say these were Gentiles
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who brought those Jews. Perhaps a picture of the largely
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Gentile church leading Jewish people to faith in Christ, an
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ancient Israel. Only male Levites descended from
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Aaron could be priests, but God promised that one day all could
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become priests. Today all who trust in Christ
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are priests who can come directly to the Lord.
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What does? The worms will not die and the
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fire will not be quenched mean. Jesus quoted this in Mark
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Chapter 9 verse 48 as a reference to hell.
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And they will go out may mean going outside Jerusalem to the
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city dump where decay was continuously in process and
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fires were continually smoldering.
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This dump became a picture of hell.
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The images of the worms not dying and the fire not being
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quenched are Isaiah's way of saying that as worship of
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believers is everlasting, so is the punishment of those who
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rebelled against God. Why does the book of Isaiah end
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on such a negative note? As Isaiah 55 chapter 55 verse 6
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says, seek the Lord while he may be found.
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The ending is a realistic, sober look at what a terrible mistake
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it is for people to reject God's offer of eternal life.
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The worms that eat them will not die.
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The fire that burns them will not be quenched is a symbolic
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way of saying that there will be no chance to turn back from this
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fate. Worms and fire are agents of
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destruction. Those who show no interest in
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eternal life will not be forced to receive it.
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How will God judge the world? For Isaiah and other Testament
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prophets, God was clearly a God of both judgement and salvation.
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They knew nothing of salvation that did did not involve
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judgment. In fact, they saw God's judgment
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as a sign that He cared enough to save his people.
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The Bible describes judgment for sin in various ways.
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It is a place of fire in Mark Chapter 9 and darkness in
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Matthew chapter 8. It is a sentence pronounced by
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the righteous judge in Matthew 25 through 33.
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It is harvesting what you have sown in Galatians chapter 6.
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It is a separation from God in Matthew Chapter 7.
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Isaiah 6615 through 16 pictures God as a mighty warrior riding a
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chariot and destroying his enemies with fire and a sword.
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The message is clear. God does not ignore sinners, He
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punishes them. Isaiah 6615 through 16 surely
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refers to the final judgement of God at the end of the world,
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when sinners will be separated from God in hell.
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But it may also point to a cycle of judgment that continues
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throughout history. Nations fall from power defeated
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in their injustices. God's judgment in both instances
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is shown to be devastating. And that ends the book of
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Isaiah. Hope you come back for the next
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prophet that we read about.