00:00 Intro

00:05 Join a Community Group

00:38 Using the Church Center App

01:18 Importance of Community Groups

02:54 Ezekiel 37: The Dry Bones

08:24 Ezekiel 38: Gog and Magog

12:34 Ezekiel 39: Judgment of Gog

14:24 Application and Reflection

16:14 Closing Prayer and Farewell

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello and good morning.

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We talked yesterday about

moving up and moving in.

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Another thing that you could do to really.

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Help us and bless us.

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And we talked about as your pastors

saying, Hey, this is what we think

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you should do and we feel like this

is the right thing for you to do.

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And that is join a community group.

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We'd love for you to get

plugged in with us for sure.

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This is the time of year that a

lot of people are thinking about

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getting back involved in things.

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I know my kids' sports have taken

off, again, new soccer teams, new

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basketball team, things like that.

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A lot of people are thinking, okay, it's

time to, to get started with something.

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This is a great time to jump

in with community groups.

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We are gonna be switching over to our

Church Center app with that, I don't

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know if it's out just yet, but soon

where you'll be able to go to our church

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center app, which you can download on

the app store or the Google Play Store

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or whatever you happen to have access to.

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It'll ask you for your phone number.

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You can find our church on there,

and that's basically all you need.

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And then once you log in there,

you can look up groups that

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are a group, not a church.

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You found a church you attend our

church, you can find a group on there.

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But I think when you register for

the app you search for your church.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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You're searching for your church.

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You're not searching for a new church?

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No.

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You just to, I don't want you

searching for a new church.

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No.

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You're searching for us now what

this advertisement is about.

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Yeah.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I appreciate that.

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Yeah.

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What I'm trying to get rid of you.

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Find us, and then you'll be

able to find a group on there.

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And this is so important and it's

more than just, Hey, we wanna bump up

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our numbers in our community groups.

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We want you there because this is

where we feel like discipleship

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takes place, where life change takes

place, where the sermon is applied,

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where you're praying for people.

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And it's just a another step of ownership.

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And where we're at in the church,

in fact, we were talking about the

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fact that man our church is growing.

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We talked about that

yesterday on the podcast.

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It really is.

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And we have plans and desires and

ambitions to, to set the church

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up, to be able to grow even more.

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And yet there's some key areas that

we need to identify some more leaders

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in and we need to identify some key

people that we can trust and say, Hey,

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we need you to fill, fulfill this role.

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Right now, a lot of our community group

members are already filling vital roles.

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We've got a great saturation in people

that are in community and serving.

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Those are roles though, that we're

not just gonna grab somebody outta

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the seats that we haven't gotten a

chance to know yet and say, Hey, we

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want you to come and be in this role.

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You could be the most gifted person

in the world in that role, and

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yet we want to get to know you.

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And community is such an

important part of that.

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If you're not in community groups,

consider this our call to you, to

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make that call and make that move.

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Get involved, get plugged in.

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Commit to a community group, commit to

another group of brothers and sisters

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in Christ and join something like that

so that we can continue to see God

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provide leaders and volunteers for us.

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That's right.

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Thanks, man, that, that sounded a

lot smoother on the podcast because

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you removed the the gap there.

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I can take my time now.

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You can just wait, can just all the

time I need and then cut out the

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silence and everyone is none the wiser.

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No, thanks for pointing it out.

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None the wiser.

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I'm here to do that.

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Yeah, and there's no more sound

effects because you can't clean up

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the podcast on that, so Not easily.

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Not easily.

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Yeah.

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I still can do it and I still may.

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May if I had a day where I just wanna

spend the time to, but not this one.

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Not today.

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Yeah.

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Alright speaking of time, we've

got quite a bit in front of

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us in Ezekiel 37, 38, and 39.

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37 is the dry bones chapter.

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Them bones, them dry bones.

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That old song that's Ezekiel 37

and what the dry bones represent

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here is the Nation of Israel.

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And God's saying that he's gonna breathe

new life into the nation of Israel.

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And the bones are going

to metaphorically that is.

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Be brought to life.

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They're gonna receive sinews and flesh

and muscular systems and all those things.

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And then the breath of life

is going to be commanded.

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And the breath of life is gonna

be given to these bones and

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they're going to live again.

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And so this is a picture of what God is

going to do for the nation of Israel.

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In the future as he restores them

in their land, like we talked about

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yesterday, the Abrahamic covenant,

when he brings them back into their

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land, the millennial kingdom they're

gonna once again be his people.

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And there's gonna be that spiritual

vitality that is there with them during

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this season in in the millennial kingdom.

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So this isn't about

resurrection per se, right?

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But it seems like it, it leaves the door

open at least for there to be a general.

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Not general revelation, general

resurrection, not the point.

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Sure.

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Not the point.

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I don't think that's what Ezekiel's

trying to communicate, but I think it

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at least hints in the faintest way,

much those sodas, they're not sodas

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actually, they're, what are they called?

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Sodas?

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I don't, no.

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What are you talking about?

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They got like a hint of something in them.

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Beer.

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They're water.

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No beer does not have a hint of anything.

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That's a lot of stuff in there.

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No.

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It's one of those fizzy drinks

that has Oh, like LaCroix?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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This is like a LaCroix.

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It's got the faintest sense of rev.

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No, I keep saying revelation of

resurrection, but it's not really there.

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I'm almost positive that no one

has ever said, Ezekiel 37 reminds

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me of LaCroix until right now.

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So congratulations.

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It's creativity.

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There you go.

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On the fly.

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It is.

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When I was in high school,

my favorite class included.

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Improv games.

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One of my favorite things to do of all

time, in fact, I still want to take us

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to, there's an improv place in McKinney.

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Is there where we can do a class

together as a staff, we would love it.

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It would be so much fun, and Erin

has promised to help get us a group

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rate and maybe the discount because

we're a church and she knows us.

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I was just thinking,

Aaron, I'm looking at you.

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Help us out.

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Still wanna do it.

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We'll see about that one.

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We'll see about that one.

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Real quick here.

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Yeah.

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The rattling of the dry bones.

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Yeah.

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I've heard people preach on this text

and to use it in a lot of different ways.

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Okay.

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Is it fair?

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To take the principle of God brings

the dead to life, or God adds things

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according to the word of the prophet.

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How can we take this text and not abuse

it, but still take a principle out of it?

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So you and I are trying

to do some of that.

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Is it fair to use it to say if I wanna

do a song called Rattle and I want

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to talk about God doing something

like that in my life is that fair?

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I like God renews.

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He brings new life when

I'm totally He does.

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Yeah.

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When I'm feeling dry and my soul

is dead or feeling like death,

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he brings me back to life.

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Bring me back to life.

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Yeah.

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I can't wake up.

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Yeah, save me Evanescence.

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I, I wouldn't here, I think

it's another gener, Jeremiah

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28 or 29 11 type situation.

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It's like you can grab that

principle about God from

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somewhere else in the Bible.

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There are other passages that teach that

clearly that you can say, okay, I can.

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That may be true.

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That is true.

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God does breathe life into things

and, do a new thing and everything.

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But I don't know that we look at this

passage which is clearly saying, Hey,

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Israel's dead, but I'm gonna give a

future life to Israel and say, oh.

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And so what that means for you is

God wants to give new life to your.

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Business.

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God wants to give a new

life to your marriage.

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God wants to give new life

to your can you argue that?

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Maybe he does and there's other passages

that you could turn to for that.

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I just wouldn't go to this one for that.

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What about something like speaking

life to your dead situation?

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Speak life.

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Speak life.

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There's a song all about that, right?

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Yeah.

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Toby Mack, we're looking at you.

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I like the song, by the way.

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Yeah.

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Is speaking life to my dead situation.

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An another application that I could fairly

use in my marriage, my parenting, yeah.

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My new venture that I'm pursuing.

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College.

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Whatever.

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I would say again, no I don't think

that's what God wants us to do here.

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I don't, God is.

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Imparting life into these bones.

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And yes, he's doing so through

the prophet, but it's coming

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directly from him with a specific

message about the future of Israel.

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So I don't think this is saying to

you as the Christian, Hey, go and

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speak life into this situation.

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Now, Proverbs, which are women are

gonna be studying next weekend,

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does say that the tongue has

the power of life and death, but

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that's a different kind of life.

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That's not to speak life as in

manifesting life or creating life

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that's giving, it's a life giving.

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It's edifying, it's building someone

up or tearing someone down in

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that, in the death side of that.

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Yeah, I wouldn't grab that,

that principle from here.

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Can I still sing Toby Max Speak life?

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Sure you can.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Just know that it's, it

doesn't come from this.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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I accept those terms.

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Yeah.

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What's interesting is I brought

this up before, but you go to Israel

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on the Mount of Olives, all of

the tombstones and there's these

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massive graveyards that are there.

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I think you said you

wanted to be buried there.

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I did.

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And I can, 'cause I'm partially Jewish,

you can actually, yeah, probably

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from the trap of ju you may need a

little bit of money to get in there.

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Pretty sure it's pretty

well booked up after.

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I think the church will support me in

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Anyways all of their feet are facing

the city, so there the amount of

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olives is outside the walls of the

city and all of these tombstones are.

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The people are buried so that

their feet face the city.

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And the reason is because when the Messiah

comes back, they believe they will be

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brought to life and enter into the city

for the millennial kingdom with him.

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And Ezekiel 37 is the background

to that belief that the bones will

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literally be brought back to life.

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And they will enter into the city with

the resurrect, with as resurrected

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saints, with the Messiah at that point.

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So it does come through in

Jewish theology that way.

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Alright let's talk interesting stuff.

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Some more here with with GOG and May Gog.

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And this is one of those sections

that I, I think as long as we don't

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try to press it too much, it doesn't

have to be super confusing for us.

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And it's become super confusing

because people have said who is

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GOG and who and what is May GOG?

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And it's this person and it's

this area and when we begin to do

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that's when we begin to cross lines

into speculation and that's when

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we can begin to get in trouble.

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And sometimes it comes back to bite us.

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For example, the Bible Knowledge

commentary, when they comment, wrote

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their section on Ezekiel 38, said,

this is probably gonna be somebody

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that's gonna come out of the USSR.

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So if you know anything about recent

history, the USSR hasn't really been

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around or been a thing for a while.

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So when we make bold claims about things

like that we have to be careful because

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now all of a sudden we, we look like.

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If it's not the USSR,

then who is it gonna be?

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And can I trust what you have

to say on these other things?

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We have to take the Bible for

as much as we can understand it.

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What we can say is, I believe that G GOG

is the antichrist here, and he's gonna

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come from a land known as Mego, and

he's going to come against the people

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of Israel during a time when there's a

general peace with the people of Israel.

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So if we flash forward.

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To the time of the tribulation, period.

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So the church has been raptured.

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The church has been taken

off the scene, by the way.

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Okay, let's set context.

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We're in the church age right now.

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Next thing for us is the rapture.

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So Christ is gonna come back

and remove the church from the

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scene to go to be with him.

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Then there's the seven

year tribulation period.

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The first three and a half years

of that tribulation period.

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The antichrist is going to have a treaty

of peace with the nation of Israel.

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And so that would help us understand

Ezekiel 38, 8, and verse 14, when

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the people of Israel are currently

at peace, when GOG shows up on

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the scene to come against them.

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When GOG attacks, he's

coming from the north.

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And again that's could be that they're

located in the north, but remember,

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Babylon came from the North, Persia

came from the north against Babylon.

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It's the direction of

invading armies is the north.

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When we read about it in prophecy.

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So God comes against God's people

and he's going to attack them and

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he's going to bring his vengeance

upon them, his aggression on them.

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And it, it sounds like a lot in verses

18 through 23, that this seems a lot

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like those last three and a half years

of the tribulation, when the antichrist

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is really gonna ratchet up the heat

against Israel, against the people of God.

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And so that to me seems to be

who God is the antichrist who

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comes from the land of Mago.

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The antichrist is going

to have a nationality.

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What nationality?

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We don't know, and that's where we can

get into trouble trying to speculate on

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that, but that seems to be what Ezekiel

Chapter 38 is dealing with GOG and Magog.

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Yeah, probably the best way to look

at this is that this is clearly a

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confederation of nations against Israel.

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That's as simple as you need to keep it.

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And once you understand that this

nation, these nations, this collection

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of nations, they're working together

against them upending their peace and

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giving it one more go to destroy them.

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And of course, God's not

gonna let that happen.

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And that really is the point.

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To your point, I agree entirely.

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It does us a disservice

to try to say this.

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Nation is this particular

people group, and they live

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over here, that kind of thing.

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So be careful with that.

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Some people talk about reading

the Bible and reading the

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newspaper at the same time.

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Would you would you encourage

something like that because you do

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want to look at the nations and look

at the headlines and say clearly

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scripture talks about this, but to.

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To say this, is that a helpful

practice that you would've commend?

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Jesus does tell us, Hey,

we need to be watchful.

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We need to watch for the signs

of the times we need to not keep

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our heads buried in the sand.

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We need to be ready for those things.

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But I think that's our takeaway is at the

end of the day, not looking to press the

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details as much as to say, am I ready?

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Am I ready for the return of Christ?

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Yeah, it could be at any time.

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Now you're gonna hear

wars and rumors of wars.

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He says, this is not the end yet.

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This is the beginning of the end.

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This is the birth pangs.

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Certainly we can look around

and see that there's been

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rumors of wars for eons, right?

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And we need to understand that Christ

could come back at any minute, and I don't

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think we should read the news and the

Bible in the same breath and say, okay,

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so that helps me interpret the Bible.

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I think we need to say, the Bible

helps me interpret what's going on

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in the news today, and that is that.

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That Christ is going to come back.

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There is something that God

is doing on the timeline and

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I need to be ready for that.

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Yeah.

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That direction is critical.

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Yeah.

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We use the Bible to interpret the

news not the other way around.

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Yeah.

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Alright, anything else on, on 38?

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I know GOG and Mago big deal.

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But I think, again if we keep it

simple it is, it's understandable

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when we read through it.

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Cool.

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Chapter 39, then we get into Ezekiel

focusing on the judgment of gog.

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Now, the judgment of go's armies God

is not going to put up with this.

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He's not going to allow Gog

ultimately to be victorious.

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And this is again.

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The end times situation.

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And so if this is the antichrist, that

coalition, then what's going to take

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place is that the Lord is gonna come back

and he's gonna vanquish the antichrist.

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He's gonna vanquish the false prophet.

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He's gonna vanquish all

of his forces and enemies.

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And that is gonna be the moment that marks

the beginning of the millennial kingdom.

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And what we read about in chapter 39

is the destruction of all of these

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armies that are gathered against

God's people is pretty vast, such

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that it's going to take seven.

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Months for God's people to go out and to

clean up the land of all of the corpses

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that have been laid waste in this land.

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And all of the remnants of the

co corpses, they talk about going

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out and marking where different

bones are and things like that.

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So I don't know what that, that

distraction is going to look like, but

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I can imagine that even from what we've

seen from some things for example,

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the atomic bombs that were dropped in

Japan during World War ii th their w.

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Still finding evidence of

the damage of those things.

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When they do different digs and things

like that, they're still saying,

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oh, look at this fragment from this

building that shows a char mark from

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the explosion that took place there.

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So whatever God's ultimate judgment

is gonna be here, it doesn't have to

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be that there are so many bodies that

is gonna take seven months to grab

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all of the bodies and bring them back.

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But the general cleanup process to

cleanse the land of the defilement of

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corpses is gonna take seven months.

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That's what the scripture says.

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I think we believe at that for face

value and say that's what it's gonna be.

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I think this is taking place

concurrent with the reign of Christ.

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I don't think this is a seven month

gap where Jesus is waiting to set

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up the millennial kingdom until this

takes place, I think he's there.

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And this is part of the cleansing

process that's taken place in the

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dawning of the millennial kingdom here.

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But God is gonna be destroyed

by God is the point.

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Here.

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Here are the heart behind this.

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So what, it's 2025 right now, right?

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I don't see this happening next week.

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This doesn't really change a whole

lot for me when I go to the office

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as I'm driving to work right

now, maybe, or I'm at the gym.

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What does this do for me?

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Yeah.

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A couple things.

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Number one, you're gonna be with Christ.

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We're gonna be there as the church.

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When Christ comes back to reign

during the millennial kingdom,

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the church comes back with him.

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And when all of this has taken place

in Ezekiel 39 is being fulfilled

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and the cleanup process is taking

place, we're gonna be there.

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And so this is something that,

that we wanna know about because

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we'll be on the scene for this.

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This is not something that's we somewhere

else and this doesn't relate to us at all.

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We're gonna be present there, number one.

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And then number two, it.

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Tells us and provides comfort

for us that God wins in the end.

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And that's such a huge comfort

in the world in which we live.

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When things are so chaotic and you do

look at the news and sometimes the news

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carries more weight than the Bible does

from time to time, this is a reminder.

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God wins in the end and we can trust

that and have a peace about that.

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As we we move through this

life, that's a great reminder.

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We need that because we often

are so caught up with our

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lives and our situation, right?

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Even as I brought up the question,

thinking, we're just thinking

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about my slice of earth, right?

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And what I have to do.

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We forget so many times the larger story

that's taking place and our privilege

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position is that we're part of the

story, but we are not the main character.

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God is the main character.

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His glory will be vindicated.

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And this is the role that we play in,

that we support, that we encourage that.

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We long for that.

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We pray for that.

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And this is the end of all human history.

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Really.

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We're seeing the last stages of

human history being wrapped up.

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This is end game, but in real life, right?

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And God's end game is really on, on.

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On stage here, not the Avengers,

it's God, he's the great avenger,

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and he will set all things right.

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So whatever's happening in your life,

if you're parenting and you're having

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a difficulty with your child, or if

you're gonna work and there's a, a

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boss situation, this is the bigger

picture, don't forget that will help

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you put everything else in perspective.

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Yep.

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A hundred percent.

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Let's pray and then we'll

wrap up this episode.

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Lord, we are grateful for that

truth that you win in the end

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and that is such a good thing.

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And you are the one that is going

to decide when that end comes.

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And the timing of all of it is yours.

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And we want to trust you.

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We wanna walk faithfully right now.

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We wanna live in obedience to

you right now and live ready

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for that whenever it happens.

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So as we navigate through

texts like Ezekiel 37.

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38, 39.

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Help us Lord to see why

this does matter to us.

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That it does impact us where we sit today

and prosper Solana or Frisco or McKinney

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or wherever we happen to be listening

to this, that this matters because it's

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the outworking of your sovereign plan.

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And that involves today to today.

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We were one day closer to this being

reality than we were yesterday.

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And tomorrow will be another day closer.

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And so we don't wanna take these days

for granted because they're moving

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forward in the progression of the

unfolding of Salvific redemptive

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history according to your will.

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And so help us to play the role that

you have for us in that which right

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now is to trust and to look for your

return and to make sure that we are on

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mission to point others to Christ as

well as we pray this in Jesus name, amen.

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Keeping your Bibles tuned in

again tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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We'll see you then.

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Bye.

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episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said