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698. BibleStudy: Isaiah 2 (The Reign of Christ talked about in 700 BC? Wow!)) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 2 from the book of Isaiah.
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  Dear God, please be with us and let the Holy Spirit give us
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  wisdom, insight and application to our lives.
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  Let your words that you inspire the prophet Isaiah to speak move
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  us today in what we read. We ask for this in Jesus name,
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  the mountain of the Lord. This is what Isaiah, son of Amos
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  saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
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  So this is really important because it tells us right away
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  that he saw this regarding Judah and Jerusalem.
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  And that is why there's so much focus on what's going on in the
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  Middle East today because it is the core of the Bible, this and
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  there's future prophecy that will occur in this area, Judah
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  and Jerusalem. So in fact, this particular
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  chapter tells us some things that will be in our future.
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  And Isaiah was a prophet. Did he know what he was
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  speaking? He was speaking this in the
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  seven hundreds BC. So thousands of years before
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  today, he was saying this. And yet as I read through this,
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  we will see that there may have been, you know, some partial
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  things that happened with this prophecy, but ultimately this is
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  a prophecy yet to be fulfilled. So it in in its entirety, it has
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  not been fulfilled, fulfilled yet.
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  And I will point those out as we go through this.
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  So this is future. This is for all of us that we
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  could see this in the future. So let's go first.
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  Two, it says in the last days the mountain of the Lord's
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  temple will be established as the highest of the mountains.
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  It will be exalted above the hills.
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  All nations will stream to it. Now, I did a little bit of
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  research on here through the Bible to look at where are
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  mountains referenced and what is the symbolism.
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  And I actually think I didn't finish it this morning because I
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  got distracted, but I, I did. I saw enough of it.
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  Are some of it at least, and I think I stopped where the the
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  mountain that would be defeated is actually Babylon.
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  So it's the mountain in the city of ER and it's it's, you know,
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  it's really interesting too, because Abraham came from ER,
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  which is in Iraq and Babylon, ancient Babylon is actually in
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  the area of Iraq, just like Nineveh is.
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  There's a lot of things that are in Iraq and I just find that
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  very interesting. And there's this future mystery
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  Babylon that, you know, most people do not think it's, it's
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  Iraq. They think it's, it's a lot of
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  different things. And they're all good theories.
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  And we'll just have to wait and see.
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  And perhaps Babylon is actually a spiritual entity that effects
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  many different things. So maybe lots of different
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  theories can all be right because it's a spirit that's
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  going out and into the world. But it it kind of started back
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  in that ancient land of Babylon, which is modern day Iraq.
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  So none of us know. There's all this speculation,
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  all this, all these theories. But the more I read the Bible,
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  the more I lean towards Babylon or Mystery Babylon is a
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  spiritual entity that affects all nations.
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  And anyway, let's just go into the Word.
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  So it does say that they, the Lord's temple will be
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  established. We know there is going to be a
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  third temple. And I always wondered that
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  before reading the Bible. Well, I didn't even know about
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  it, but when I heard about it, I wondered, does the Bible say
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  that? And so yes, it, the Bible
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  clearly says that in Ezekiel. And I did comparisons when I was
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  looking into it to see the measurements and the size that
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  are referenced in Ezekiel and whether those mirror what
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  Solomon built or the rebuilding of that later.
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  And they don't. So the first and the second
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  temple don't match up with the measurements.
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  So this is clearly 1/3 temple that has not yet been built, but
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  will be built someday. All of the dimensions.
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  I mean, there's just way too much detail that was given to
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  Ezekiel, a prophet of God that talks about this, that, you
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  know, it, it just, you know, it's, it's going to happen
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  someday and we don't really know what it is.
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  In fact, here's the other interesting part that it could
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  happen in the very near future because there's an organization
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  called the Temple Institute that currently has all the plans
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  drawn up in accordance with Ezekiel, the book of Ezekiel.
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  I mean, it's ready to go. All of the materials, all of the
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  things that would be within the temple already, they're all
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  there. They've accumulated them over
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  the years, over thousands of years.
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  These have been accumulated since the last temple.
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  I guess it's been like a couple thousand years.
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  The temple was destroyed in 70 AD, so almost a couple 1000
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  years where we are today in 2025.
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  So it's been quite a while. And there is one that will be
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  built. So that's, that's very
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  interesting, something to look forward to.
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  So again, this says, you know, the Lord's temple will be
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  established. So that that is going to happen.
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  There's going to be a physical temple and it says many peoples
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  will come and say, come, let us go up to the mountain of the
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  Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob.
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  Now this is interesting because a lot of Christians especially
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  say, why is there going to be a temple?
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  We don't need sacrifices because Jesus was the sacrifice that
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  covered, you know, everything. And that is true, but it's the
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  prophet. Isaiah tells us why.
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  Why do these people come to the temple?
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  Listen to this. He will teach us His ways so
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  that we may walk in His paths. Now who is the He?
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  He is going to teach? It's the Lord.
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  Well, the Lord who is the Lord Jesus, Yeshua, when he returns,
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  He is going to be ruling from Jerusalem.
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  So again, this is in the seven hundreds BC when this was
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  written or experienced or when Isaiah was prophesizing and he's
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  talking about Jesus the Messiah, Yeshua.
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  So this is again Old Testament scripture that talks about this
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  future reign of Christ. The law will go out from Zion,
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  the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
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  Now the word of the Lord has multiple meanings because it
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  could be the literal word of the Lord.
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  And then in the Gospel of John, he refers to Jesus as the word
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  of the Lord. So I think that's another point
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  to make, that if you don't read the Old Testament with the New
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  Testament, you miss out on things.
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  So he will judge between the nations and will settle disputes
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  for many peoples. So God the Father has given him
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  authority to judge and to reign and, and so he will judge
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  between the nations and will settle disputes for many people.
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  So this is, we're not talking about eternity yet.
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  This is kind of a transition between the life on earth that
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  we know it right now and what it's going to be like in the
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  future when Jesus reigns from Jerusalem for 1000 years and
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  what people call the Millennium because it's 1000 years.
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  They will beat their swords into plowshares and their Spears into
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  pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword
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  against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.
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  Have we ever seen this take place?
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  Never, ever, ever have we had entire peace on earth where
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  people did not fight, you know, fight against each other or
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  train for that anymore. But it says we are going to be
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  coming into a time when Jesus returns that you're not going to
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  need your sword to go against nations anymore and you won't
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  even need to train for it anymore.
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  This is going to be a different time.
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  And this is not yet eternity. There is, there is, there will
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  still be. This is really interesting and
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  that's this is a summation from other prophecies.
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  There will be mortal and immortal people at the same
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  time. In fact, the people who are
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  going to be leading with Jesus will be the the the Christians,
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  the believers whose heads were cut off in because of their
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  faith in this earth right now. Like there are there are people
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  who have been beheaded for their belief in Jesus.
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  And like all of his disciples, they all, except I think John
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  was the only one who didn't, but I think they all were killed for
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  their belief. And so of course they're going
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  to be reigning with Jesus. But there's probably going to be
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  more people than that because there are other Christians who
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  have been beheaded in the past and they will be reigning with
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  Christ on this earth. But they will, you know,
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  obviously when your head is no longer there, you're not living
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  anymore. So they will be resurrected.
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  They will receive their immortal bodies and be here on earth.
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  But yet there are survivors who will after the the wrath of God
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  comes, which happens before Jesus reigns.
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  Like there is this purging that happens before Jesus begins his
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  thousand year reign. So during that time there will
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  be some survivors, but not many that go through the wrath of
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  God. And but there are some because
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  it does. Another prophet tells us that
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  and so there, that means there are mortal people, people who
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  can still die. And in fact, it says that, you
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  know, they're going to, in another prophet's book, it says
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  that people will be living on earth and they will, I, I think
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  it's like if somebody lives to be 100, that'll be considered a
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  really short life during this thousand year period.
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  So lifespans will be extended once again the way they were in
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  the beginning of the Bible. That was one of the first
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  shocking things that I read when that I guess one of the first
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  shocking facts that I read about in the Bible when they started
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  talking about people living 609 hundred years and all it kind
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  of, you know, there was this period of time where they didn't
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  reach 1000 years, but I think that's because of sin.
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  But they did reach like up to 900 something years old.
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  A few people did. So that's, that's, I believe
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  that's literal because it does. After that, it says that God
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  shortened the lives because of the, the sin and the corruption
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  and the tendencies of people to choose sin.
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  And he, he made it shorter. So it's kind of interesting
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  because I think that the 120 years that's referenced in
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  Genesis about shortening to no more than 120 years, I think
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  there's a lot of symbolism in that.
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  There are some people who have a theory.
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  I think it's like there's 120 fifty year jubilees.
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  So if you take 120 * 50, that gives you that number that is
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  going to be shortened to. So like 120 * 50 is 6000 years.
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  6000 years are allocated to human beings.
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  And this matches up with what the ancient church father, if
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  you want to call it church, the ancient, I guess, priest, what
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  they believed, the ancient Christians, there's a lot of
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  them that believe that, you know, mankind has 6000 years and
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  then that that last 6000 to 7000 is going to be when Jesus reigns
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  here on earth. And then after that, 7000 is
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  eternity. Jesus turns everything over,
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  back over to the Father. And, and there's not much at all
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  about what that's going to be like.
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  There's a lot of information about the Millennium reign, but
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  not so much in fact, there's also a different differing
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  opinions, maybe like some people.
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  OK, so I believe that when the New Jerusalem comes out of
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  heaven, that's when eternity begins, because it talks about
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  Jerusalem being the size of like half of the United States, the
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  land mass of half the United States.
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  And it's as tall as it is wide. It's almost like a cube.
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  And it's got these different layers.
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  And it just, you know, whether that is a poetic way to describe
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  whatever it is, it's very different than what we have here
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  on earth. And it's still called Jerusalem,
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  but it's something, it's the new Jerusalem.
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  So that's what I believe is going to be like eternity.
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  And then there's this protective wall that around that city that
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  is, you know, God's Kingdom. And but until then, Jesus, and
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  prior to then, I guess I should say Jesus will be reigning from
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  earth the way this earth here, and he will be restoring it and
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  restoring people. So just like this chapter says
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  that he will teach us his ways. So he's going to be teaching the
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  mortal people his ways and he will judge.
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  I mean judge judging between means.
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  People are not perfect yet. They're still having
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  disagreements, but Jesus is going to be overseeing that part
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  of it. So calm descendants of Jacob,
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  let us walk in the light of the Lord.
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  Oh, and then it says like nation will.
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  Another thought that I had reading this, nation will not
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  take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war
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  anymore. And I just thought because
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  during this thousand year period, Satan will be bound.
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  He's not going to be able to have free reign like he has
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  right now. And the first time I read that
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  about Satan being bound for 1000 years, I was like, Oh my gosh,
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  only 1000 years. Like, why would it not be
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  longer? And I don't, I mean, this is
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  something that isn't given to us in Scripture.
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  Like why is he bound for 1000 years?
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  There's we don't, I don't know. I haven't seen it yet in
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  Scripture. I don't know why.
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  But after that he is sent to his destruction to the burning lake
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  of sulfur, the eternal fire. So he is, he is destroyed after
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  that, but I don't know why he's like imprisoned for this
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  thousand years. But if he is imprisoned and he
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  can't do anything, he's bound, then he's not, he's unable to
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  affect people in the way that he is able today to affect people.
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  And so that's probably why there's not going to be war and
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  all of that, because the enemy, God's enemy, Satan, he seeks to
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  kill and destroy people. That's what he wants to do.
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  So that makes sense. War is a good way to do that.
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  And that's what he he's behind that.
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  OK, so continuing on verse 6, you, Lord, have abandoned your
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  people, the descendants of Jacob.
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  They are full of superstitions from the east.
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  We still have that today. They practice divination like
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  the Philistines. The Philistines were the
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  inhabitants of the area that we now call Gaza.
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  And, and actually what's really interesting is the Philistines,
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  Palestinians are actually a derivative of Philistines, very
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  interesting too, but they practice divination like the
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  Philistines. So, you know, seeking other gods
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  and communicating with other gods, other little G gods, like
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  they are not the creator God, but you know something other
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  some sue, you know, higher up being from the heavenly realms.
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  I believe that's what that would be and embrace Pagan customs.
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  Well, if you start searching out what Pagan customs were and you
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  and you see like how many Pagan customs affect our traditions
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  here in the United States, it's shocking.
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  There are so many things like, I mean, the things of God that
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  have been distorted and merged with Pagan, which you know is
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  against God. Other God things are being
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  merged together, like a lot of the Greek gods, goddesses and
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  things like that. There's like Easter is a great
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  example because Easter is from I think I don't even know the way
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  to say it, but Astoria or whatever is how you, I don't
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  know how to say it, but it's something like that.
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  And it is an it is an egg and it was like the goddess of
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  fertility. Now, how did that ever get?
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  I mean, I do now I see like the loose connection here is that,
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  you know, this, a chick comes from an egg, hatches from an
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  egg. And so that is like a new life.
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  And that's like Jesus rising from the dead.
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  And so I could see how you could tie it in, but I kind of think
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  that's look at the way the world is.
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  I mean, how, how often do we have Easter egg hunts?
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  And we have this all over the world, but how often are we
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  saying we're celebrating the resurrection of Jesus?
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  You know, it's really gotten ingrained in our, it's become
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  like bunnies and chicks and eggs and things like that, rather
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  than the Son of God dying for our sins and resurrecting,
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  defeating death so that we have the opportunity to be in God's
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  Kingdom. So that's a Pagan originated
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  celebration thing that got incorporated into Christianity.
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  And so it does. It's like that's a shocking
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  thing. And then you look at some of the
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  other holidays and that they are, they are tied to like
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  witchcraft kind of things, magic and stuff like that, that, you
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  know, like a lot of these, like you look into the details around
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  Valentine's Day, you look into the details about Saint
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  Patrick's Day. And you start seeing these
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  things that are not of God, that are kind of mixed and merged and
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  blended with things that are of God.
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  And it's, it's just shows like how far we've fallen away from
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  our focus on God. Even Christmas.
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  There is there is some I've seen like a couple different beliefs,
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  like some believe Jesus was born in September, some believe he
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  was born in the spring. I don't know if we can ever sort
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  that out or if there's any factual data.
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  But no one who studies biblical the the truth in the Bible, no
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  one says that Jesus was born in December.
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  Christmas came about because of a holiday, the winter solstice
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  that is related to Greek mythology.
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  And so even the birth of Christ was the birth of the Messiah has
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  been moved to a different month that doesn't relate to any of
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  the the, the holy months or any of the events that God gave to
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  the Israelites back in Leviticus.
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  I think is, is when it was when they started having all these
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  festivals, the ones he said that I think they were actually,
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  there's three festivals that he said everybody should always
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  remember. And I think what I, I don't want
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  to say him because I, I don't have them memorized yet, but I,
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  I, I believe one of them is Passover when he, you know, and
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  that is, gosh, that's, there's so much symbolism in that.
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  That was when Moses was bringing the Israelites out of Egypt out
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  of slavery. And they, the Pharaoh would not
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  let them go. And so Gods was sending all
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  these different plagues and these different infestations and
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  everything to Pharaoh to make him let the Israelites go.
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  So I think it was the very last one was the death of the first
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  born. And the Angel of death went out
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  and was going to kill all the first born.
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  But in advance of that God said to use a lamb, sacrifice the
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  lamb, and put the blood of the lamb on the door person.
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  The Angel of death will pass over that house and will not
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  kill the first born in that house.
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  And that's what happened. Everybody who wasn't protected
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  by the blood of the lamb was killed.
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  Well, that is so symbolic because Jesus is the symbolic
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  lamb. Whoever is not covered by the
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  blood of Jesus will be destroyed, just like that story
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  in Passover. So you know why God wanted
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  everybody to remember that one. Then there's a, there's another
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  one. I can't remember which one it is
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  and so I don't want to say it, but then the third one would be
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  the Festival of Tabernacles. And that's when they were out in
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  the wilderness and they had these temporary shelters that
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  God provided them, shelter, food, water, everything.
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  And so that is celebrated by the Israelites and it's called
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  Sukkot. And it's a week long time period
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  where a lot of them will go camping or they'll have
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  temporary shelters. It's, it's a festive, happy
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  celebration. The Bible tells us that that
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  festival will be celebrated during the millennial reign of
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  Christ. So that is going to be something
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  that will be celebrated in the future.
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  And anyway, there's I kind of went down the path of this, but
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  it's Pagan customs. That's where I let me down this
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  path. So Pagan customs really are
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  ingrained in modern Christianity and, and it's important that we
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  make sure that the focus on Jesus on on God is the priority
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  over these other things that take our minds off of God and
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  put our minds onto other things that aren't, you know, related
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  to God. I don't know if the original
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  intention of merging these things was to help people get
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  there, but it hasn't helped people.
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  It probably would have been better just to say, get rid of
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  that stuff. Let's just focus on the truth
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  and forget about all that extraneous stuff.
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  We don't need that bridge to get there.
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  We just need to focus on God. And I think that's where we
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  really need to be today because we get so far off from our
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  attention on God that we're thinking about all these other
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  things that are paying customs and something that God is, you
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  know, he's accusing Israel of this stuff.
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  So their land is, this is interesting.
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  The land is full of silver and gold.
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  There is no end to their treasures.
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  Their land is full of horses. There is no end to their
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  Chariots. Their land is full of idols.
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  They bow down to the work of their hands, to what their
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  fingers have made. So this is talking about like
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  wealth and prosperity, like they're doing great.
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  They have lots of silver and gold.
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  They have all these treasures. They the land is full of idols.
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  They bow down to the work of their hands.
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  So there's a lot of pride in look what we did.
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  Look, look, look at what we built.
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  Look what we have. Look at our possessions.
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  Those are idols, things that you know, it's like looking at, look
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  at what I did and forgetting that God gave you the resources
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  to do that. God gave you the skills and
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  ability when he created you to do that.
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  And it's forgetting God in all of this, like anything that we
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  have, we should be thankful because God allowed that to
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  happen. And and God, you know, he gave
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  us any talents that we have, they're from God.
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  So because of all this, there's wealth and prosperity.
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  They have so many things and God's recognizing that like they
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  are blessed. Now here's what he says what
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  through Isaiah, so people will be brought low and everyone
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  humbled. Do not forgive them.
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  Now those were Isaiah's word, but he was saying so people will
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  be brought low and everyone humbled.
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  Well, that's what God does to the proud, to those who have
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  idols. Everyone will be brought low,
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  humbled, and that really, you know, the outcome of what
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  happens after that is our decision.
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  If we get too wrapped up in it, God's going to test us to see
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  where we are now. When everything gets taken away
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  from someone, they either reject God or they draw closer to him
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  and they realize the condition that they're in.
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  And that's, you know, the kind of the separation of the sheep
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  and the goats. Those who choose God are the
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  sheep and those who don't are the goats.
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  And in, in, you know, in many parables that are told in the
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  Bible. And, and it's I definitely
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  experienced being humbled because I was in a time period
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  of life where things were really going well, everything was going
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  well. And then maybe I got a little
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  bit prideful and was thinking too highly of everything.
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  So God set me straight for sure. And he changed that for me.
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  And I, you know, while I was going through it, it was very
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  traumatic, very depressing, and it affected me in a difficult
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  way. But in hindsight, I'm thankful
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  for it because if that hadn't happened, I probably wouldn't
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  have changed. I wouldn't.
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  My eyes wouldn't have been opened.
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  Sometimes God has to bring people low before he can build
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  them up again, build them up the way He created us to be where we
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  want to do His will. And we're not so self-centered
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  and self focused, but we are looking more through in the ways
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  that God does and how can we be of service to other people.
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  So then it says, go into the rocks, hide in the ground from
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  the fearful presence of the Lord and the splendor of His Majesty.
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  So this is repeated in Hosea chapter 10 verse 8IN Luke 23,
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  verse 30 and Revelation 616. It talks about this time when
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  people will see Jesus, see the Messiah coming on the clouds.
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  It says, and they will try to fall hide in caves that
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  definitely hide because they know the wrath of God is coming.
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  Now the Bible tells us they're going to know the wrath of God
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  is coming. So that's really interesting.
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  It's not like they're like, oh, what's going on?
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  They it says they know and they're saying like hide us from
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  him. So there's a recognition.
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  And so a lot of people always say, well, you know, that's not
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  fair to people who don't know. Well, the Bible doesn't say us
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  say that anybody's going to be surprised about this when they
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  see God coming in the clouds. They are going to know and they
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  are going to hide out of fear. They don't want to face the Lord
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  because they do not want the wrath of God.
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  So that means they're knowingly doing something that they know
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  God doesn't approve of. And so they are in fear.
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  Then there's other people who have prepared themselves who are
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  living according to God's will and keeping in touch with him on
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  a daily basis through prayer and and open to the Holy Spirit
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  guiding them in life. And they welcome when Jesus
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  returns, they're not going to be fear because those who have
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  prepared themselves are not subject to God's wrath.
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  So there's nothing to fear. When you see God coming, you're
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  not going to, you know, say hi. Do you know, like, Oh my gosh,
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  let's go on a cave and protect ourselves from the wrath of
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  Jesus. Jesus is not going to send bad
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  things on us. He's not going to beat us up.
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  So the wrath of God is for those who have rejected him, not for
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  those who have prepared, those who have the Holy Spirit, those
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  who have repented of their sin, turn away from their sin.
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  Those who don't feel guilty about what they're doing anymore
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  because they're not doing the things they used to do.
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  There's been a change. They've become a new creation.
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  The new creation happens when we receive the Holy Spirit and the
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  Holy Spirit starts changing our lives.
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  We have to be willing to let God do that.
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  But God does it, and He does it because we are not strong
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  enough. We're weak, we can't do it on
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  our own. We need God, we can't be our own
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  savior. We need a savior.
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  And so that's what God saves us. So the eyes of the arrogant will
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  be humbled and human pride brought low.
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  The Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
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  That's going to be in the future.
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  He certainly isn't exalted now. There's lots of gods that are
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  being worshipped right now. You can see it even in sporting
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  events in the Olympics and everything.
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  I mean, there's just once your eyes are opened, it's it's very
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  sad when you realize you see this, you're like, wow, this is
• 32:04
  really happening. The Lord Almighty has a day in
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  store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exhaust
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  exalted, and they will be humbled.
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  There's a day coming where everyone's going to be humbled.
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  For all the Cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty, and all the oaks
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  of Bashan, for all the towering mountains and all the high
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  hills, for every lofty tower and every fortified wall, for every
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  trading ship and every stately vessel.
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  The arrogance of man will be brought low and human pride
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  humbled. So today there's like last month
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  was a celebration of Pride Month.
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  You know, how did we get there when God says he hates pride and
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  then we have a month that that celebrates it.
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  I mean, that's stupid, that's ignorant, That's just completely
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  ridiculous that we've allowed that to happen.
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  A country that was formed and you know, in God, we trust, we
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  put our trust and faith in God and, and here we are today the
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  way we are. It's just, it's has to be
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  appalling to God when he sees this, like of all the things
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  that he does for us, and then to see that we just blatantly do
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  something that God says he hates.
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  So anyway, that's not going to last forever.
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  There's going to be God's wrath is going to come for that.
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  The Lord alone will be exalted in that day, and the idols will
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  totally disappear. I guess everything is going to
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  be destroyed. If it's idols, people will flee
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  to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from the
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  fearful presence of the Lord. I do find it kind of interesting
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  that if you want to call it the elite of the world, those who
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  have a lot of financial resources, a lot of them are
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  building bunkers. And of course, they're doing it
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  because of maybe not, of course, but they're probably doing it
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  because of the potential threat of nuclear wars, which, you
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  know, we may have nuclear wars. There's, you know, definitely a
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  good possibility for that. But you know, they're, they're
• 34:36
  looking at, you know, how they're going to go into these
• 34:39
  bunkers and survive. And, and it's just, it's, well,
• 34:45
  they don't either they know God or they don't know God, but they
• 34:47
  don't know the, the word of God because the word of God says
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  people are going to do this, but they're not going to be able to
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  escape from God. So those things are going to be
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  useless when God returns, when Jesus returns, those bunkers,
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  those caves, those places, it's just not going to be helpful at
• 35:07
  all. So it's a lot of wasted money.
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  Idols will totally disappear. So in Revelation 616, this is
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  the future thing. When Jesus returns, it says they
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  called to the mountains and the rocks fall on us and hide us
• 35:21
  from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of
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  the Lamb. The Lamb is Jesus from the face
• 35:30
  of him who sits on the throne. So they don't want to see the
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  Creator says, for the great day of their wrath has come and, and
• 35:37
  who can withstand it? So very interesting stuff,
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  people. And so Isaiah said people will
• 35:44
  flee to caves in the rocks and to the holes in the ground from
• 35:47
  the fearful presence of the Lord.
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  When has that happened? Not yet, It's in the future and
• 35:54
  the splendor of His Majesty when he rises to shake the earth.
• 35:59
  So there is another part of Scripture, and I don't know
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  where it is, but it says there will be one more shaking of the
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  heavens too. OK, that's another part of
• 36:08
  prophecy, but I can't remember where that is.
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  So in that day people will throw away to the moles and bats their
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  idols of silver, idols of gold which they made to worship.
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  So they're not going to want anything at that point.
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  They're going to be like, oh, I'm just throwing this out of
• 36:26
  here. It will do nothing.
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  They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging
• 36:33
  crags from the fearful presence of the Lord and the splendor of
• 36:40
  His Majesty when he rises to shake the earth.
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  So then it says, the last sentence says, stop trusting in
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  mere humans who have but a breath in their nostrils.
• 36:54
  Why hold them in esteem? Good question.
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  So it's warning about leaders, you know, if people are
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  thinking, oh, I need to create my bunker just like these other
• 37:06
  people are doing, No, you don't. You just need to have a
• 37:10
  relationship with God. You need to be in communication
• 37:12
  with God. You need to repent of sin and
• 37:15
  turn to him. Let the Holy Spirit into your
• 37:18
  life to start changing you to be what God created you to be and
• 37:23
  to have a purpose that God has for every single person.
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  So that's what you need to do right now, but don't like look
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  towards these people as, oh, I need this, I need that.
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  That's that's going to come to you're going to see that that's
• 37:39
  not that's going to be worthless.
• 37:41
  So, and these, these leaders, it's a warning about leaders
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  because a lot of the leaders today it, they, they're, they
• 37:51
  won't submit to God because they want power.
• 37:54
  This is just like the old story back when the Kingdom split into
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  the northern Kingdom of 10 tribes and the southern Kingdom
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  of Judah and Benjamin. So the 10 tribes, they wouldn't
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  give up their city of Samaria, which is in the modern day West
• 38:10
  Bank. They wouldn't give that up
• 38:12
  because they wanted, they didn't want to go to Jerusalem.
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  They wanted to stay where in their area.
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  They didn't want to give up their power, their leadership.
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  They, they thought if they let people go, then they'd always
• 38:29
  keep going to Jerusalem. And then Jerusalem is where God
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  had established that where his place of worship was going to be
• 38:36
  and it will be in the future. But they didn't want it.
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  They didn't want to give up the power.
• 38:39
  So they had another, a northern Kingdom and a separate place of
• 38:43
  worship. And instead of staying true to
• 38:45
  the Lord, they started worshiping calves again, just
• 38:48
  like what Moses, What happened when Moses was up on the
• 38:52
  mountain with the Lord receiving the 10 commandments, The people
• 38:55
  down at the bottom of the mountain melted all their
• 38:58
  jewelry and stuff and made these are melted.
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  I don't know what they did, but somehow they used the gold they
• 39:02
  had and they made calves to worship.
• 39:05
  Like just during like Moses was gone for like 40 days.
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  But in that 40 days of time, these people started doing this
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  and worshipping something other than God after they had heard
• 39:19
  the presence of the Lord at that mountain in Mount Sinai, Sinai.
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  And they were, they were still doing this.
• 39:26
  Like it just seemed so. Like, how could people be so
• 39:30
  ignorant? You know, you experience this
• 39:32
  threat, you know, this trembling presence of God.
• 39:37
  And, and yet at the same time, you, you know, well, they didn't
• 39:41
  have the 10 commandments. So I guess they didn't realize
• 39:43
  that worshipping something else was, was against the
• 39:46
  commandments. But that was one of the first
• 39:47
  commandments. You know, you shall have no
• 39:49
  other God before you, no other idols before you.
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  And and so, but we look at human nature and we can see that the
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  people at that time, as is the as are the people of today.
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  Think of all the leaders in the world, the world leaders, and
• 40:05
  look at them. Are they seeking power?
• 40:08
  Do they want to gain more territory?
• 40:10
  Do they want wealth? Are they looking to get wealth?
• 40:14
  Do they have pride? Will pride or embarrassment keep
• 40:21
  them from telling the truth? Do they hide things well?
• 40:23
  Don't trust it says stop trusting in mere humans.
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  Humans are sinful. They they value power, they
• 40:31
  value wealth, they value pride. They they could also maybe tell
• 40:38
  lies out of fear or threats or to protect their pride.
• 40:45
  They don't want to be embarrassed, so they'll lie.
• 40:48
  They could get money so that they do something that is
• 40:51
  against their morals, against their values, but they're
• 40:54
  getting money for it. So they trade off.
• 40:57
  They could do it because they are they have a fear of death
• 41:00
  because they don't know God. They don't know that actually,
• 41:03
  when they die, if they are, you know, I born again, a new
• 41:07
  creation where they've repented, then they will be in God's
• 41:12
  Kingdom when that happens one day.
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  But if they don't believe, they're going to have a fear of
• 41:19
  death because they think, you know, it's kind of like you only
• 41:21
  live once theory where, you know, celebrate the day or like
• 41:26
  the Greeks say, carpe diem where it's just, you know, like you
• 41:30
  got to live for today because you don't have tomorrow.
• 41:34
  And, and it's usually a reckless behavior that they are
• 41:37
  encouraging, not something godly.
• 41:41
  It's true, we should think like that.
• 41:43
  You only live well. You only live forever is what
• 41:46
  the truth is. But again, it's probably God's
• 41:51
  enemy making people think you only live once.
• 41:53
  Well, we fall asleep and then when Jesus returns, we will be
• 41:58
  awakened and we will be living just like Jesus did.
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  And so we are going to be eternal beings.
• 42:05
  If we became a new creation where we rejected sin and chose
• 42:11
  God, we turn to God. So the things that the world can
• 42:15
  separate us and and God's enemy is really good at getting
• 42:20
  people. I mean, getting people, but
• 42:22
  enticing people, tempting people with power, wealth, pride, and
• 42:29
  in fear, fear is another one too.
• 42:32
  Fear motivates people. And maybe they have a fear of I
• 42:36
  didn't get to do all the things I wanted to do in this earth.
• 42:39
  I mean, who cares? We've got eternity to live.
• 42:41
  That's forever. There's so much we can do.
• 42:43
  We don't have to do it all here. So there, that's something.
• 42:47
  And then the fear of death. If you know where you're going
• 42:50
  after you die, you don't fear it anymore.
• 42:53
  And then threats that you know, people can use, threats against
• 42:57
  something that they know somebody loves.
• 42:59
  And if they have something against someone, then you know,
• 43:03
  people could, can and do lie to avoid being exposed because of
• 43:11
  their pride, because they don't want anybody to think they're as
• 43:14
  bad as they are. But here's the refreshing thing.
• 43:18
  When you finally admit you are as bad as you are, you admit it
• 43:23
  to God and you say, God, change me though I don't want to be
• 43:27
  like this. Then when you actually say that
• 43:30
  you were once that bad, but now you've you have a new life and
• 43:34
  you're not going to be that way anymore.
• 43:36
  That's so refreshing. There's you don't have any power
• 43:39
  over you over you anymore. Yeah, that was the past life and
• 43:42
  God that was, you know, happened in the past and God and you
• 43:48
  reconciled with that and God Forgives and he has mercy when
• 43:52
  anybody, I mean it says the angels in heaven rejoice when 1
• 43:56
  Sinner repents. So God is looking for people who
• 44:00
  are willing to humble themselves and say, yes, I got it wrong.
• 44:04
  Yes, I made a lot of mistakes. I don't want that in my life
• 44:07
  anymore. I want to turn to you.
• 44:09
  I want you to change my life and to help me to live in accordance
• 44:15
  with your will and accordance with your purpose for my life
• 44:19
  because everybody has a purpose and God designs that.
• 44:22
  So anyway, long, long story once again, but this is this is about
• 44:30
  chapter 2 is about the Millennium reign of Christ and
• 44:34
  things will be very different when Jesus returns.
• 44:38
  So what we can take away from this today is that we need to
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  prepare, not in bunkers, but to prepare our repair, our
• 44:48
  relationship with God, talk to God in prayer.
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  It's between US and God. Nobody can do it for us, and we
• 44:55
  don't need anybody in between us besides Jesus.
• 44:57
  That's already been done. Jesus died on the cross for our
• 45:00
  sins, so he is our mediator. We don't need any priests.
• 45:04
  We don't need any pastors. We don't need any rabbis.
• 45:07
  We don't need any of that. We don't need anybody.
• 45:10
  Jesus is that for all of us, all nations.
• 45:14
  All we need is Jesus, which like I said, that already happened.
• 45:19
  He already died on the cross and he's living and we need to
• 45:24
  communicate with God in the name of Jesus and ask for these
• 45:27
  things. Go to Jesus with us and you will
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  be restored. You will be prepared.
• 45:35
  You will be equipped for whatever comes and you will
• 45:39
  know, not just guess. There's not going to be any of
• 45:41
  this. Well, I hope God's Kingdom, no,
• 45:44
  you're going to know because of the choice you made and make
• 45:49
  every day, you will be in God's Kingdom when you turn away from
• 45:54
  sin and turn towards God. And when you are weak, you ask
• 45:58
  God for the Holy Spirit to help you overcome the temptation
• 46:02
  that's in front of you. And God will do that.
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  It just takes our free will to call on God.
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  So call on God, be prepared, and you have nothing to fear.