00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:11 Discussion on The Truman Show and Simulation Theory

02:19 Religious Beliefs and Nihilism

03:34 Preaching and Sermon Preparation

04:33 Women's Ministry and Podcast Recommendations

06:57 Daily Bible Reading: Zechariah 5-9

07:11 Visions and Prophecies in Zechariah

11:39 The Role of the Messiah

14:33 Fasting and True Worship

16:05 Future Millennial Kingdom

17:54 Judgment on Nations and the Messiah's Arrival

21:06 Conclusion and Prayer

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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.

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Good morning.

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Good afternoon.

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And if I don't see you, good night.

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Thanks.

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Truman show.

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Oh yeah, that's where it's from, isn't it?

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It is from the Truman Show.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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What'd you think about that?

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That TV show?

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Or is It's not a TV show.

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It's a movie.

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Yeah, it's a movie.

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What'd you think about that?

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I, man I thought it was fascinating and

still even when you watch it back and

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you know the end, it's still fascinating

'cause you're realizing, man, everybody's

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playing along with this guy's delusion.

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And some people believe that's.

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What we exist in, that we exist

in a simulation, that we exist in

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this whole thing that's not real.

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I've heard that before.

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And we perceive it as real,

but no one else around us does.

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Now, not that everybody around us

is an actor, but nobody's real.

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And that's some of the people

have embraced that worldview.

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That's a dumb one.

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It is.

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It's gonna call it the way I see it.

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I don't think that has any credence.

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Whatsoever.

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No, but people talk about it a lot

because they talk about the glitches.

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Have you heard oh, look at this.

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There I found a glitch in the matrix.

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Or a glitch in reality.

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And they'll show something with

a person walks by and then 10

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seconds later somebody walks by

that looks exactly like that person.

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And so it's oh yes,

there's a cloned to NPC.

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That's walking around, right?

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Yeah.

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N pc, non playable character.

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So it's a video game term.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Anyways.

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Yeah.

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I'm with you though.

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But the movie I found fascinating

in the freedom of getting out,

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out of that contained space.

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Now, I think that message can

be helpful and that message

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can also prove problematic to.

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I in the sense that you need to break

free of all societal constraints and

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you need to create your own reality and

recognize that you've been compressed

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and you've been constrained and you've

been, fed lives your whole life,

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making you believe that it's reality.

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Somebody could look at that and take

that into growing up in a Christian

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household and be like it's the same thing.

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I'm just in the Truman show because I've,

I don't have a literal studio that I've

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been raised in, but I might as well have

because of my family and everything.

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Yeah it's a dangerous idea.

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Because it does cause you to,

if you take it for anything more

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than just a movie, and for most

people it's no more than that.

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But if you take the ideology and say

everything I see is just a simulation.

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Nothing here is real.

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This is all just my perception,

and we're all gonna eventually

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perish into the everlasting

nothingness nihilism, basically.

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I, it's, I don't know.

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I find that so unappealing.

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And I know for some people it's,

oh, this is so freeing and it's so

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liberating to realize that basically

everything is meaningless and pointless.

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I don't find that liberating

and freeing at all.

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I find that terrifying, and I think the

majority of people are with you in that.

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And that's one of the reasons why we

have as many religions as we have.

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Because once you reject the

existence of God, all you're left

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with that makes sense is nihilism.

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And so then you have to recreate

or remanufacture a God of your own

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choosing that you can create your

own systems and regulations and rules

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about how to live and where to find

meaning and where to find purpose.

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And I think that accounts for so many

of the world religions that we see

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today and why there's always, new.

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Additions and evolutions of these

religions as society continues to

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progress versus Christianity, going

back to saying, okay, we've got.

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A bedrock, God who is the

creator of all things.

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And he's the definition of

what is true and what is real.

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He is prime reality.

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And he's the one that gets to

define what it looks like to

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transcend death and overcome that.

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So I think you're right.

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I think a lot of people don't like

to embrace nihilism, and that's

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why they chase after anything else.

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And I think the other

religions are appealing because

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we've got skin in the game.

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We can say, okay, I feel better about

Hinduism, or I feel better about Islam.

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I have to do something so I have

something measurable that I can

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point to say, this is why I'm okay,

because look at my good works.

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And Christianity says the opposite.

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It's like you can't work

enough to be acceptable to God.

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Not that we shouldn't do

good works, but Right.

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We don't have skin in the

game in that same sense.

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Sounds like you're getting

ready to preach, but you're

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not in the pulpit this morning.

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I'm not in the pulpit this morning.

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Least it's not in our pulpits.

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Not in ours now.

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Who gave you the week off?

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Yeah.

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Who's responsible for this?

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Or it's a funny week off because I'm still

preaching three times, so Yeah, but you

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didn't have to write a new sermon though.

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I didn't.

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You're right.

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This is gonna be the second,

third, and fourth time that

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I've preached this sermon.

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And maybe it'll be better yet.

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I hope so.

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That's the idea.

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You can come back to us next week

and you can preach it again and we'll

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let you know if we think it's better.

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I don't think that's,

anybody would want that.

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We'll see.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, we'll see.

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No, I was talking with with somebody

this morning as we're recording this,

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and which is saying, the Saturday to

Sunday morning is interesting because

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you preach it on Saturday night and

then you've got quite a bit of time.

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It's before your next time up on Sunday

morning, so that's where you're tempted

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to make tweaks and change things.

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And sometimes those are good

things to, to change and tweak.

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But then the turnaround from the

nine o'clock to the 11 o'clock

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on Sunday morning, it's so quick.

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It's yeah, it is.

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There's no time to that point.

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Yeah.

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You just gotta go for it.

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Just take another swing at it this time.

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Try to hit it outta the park.

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Yeah, we do all the time.

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We're always trying to swing

and aim for the fences.

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Don't always do that.

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We recognize it, but we are

always attempting to get better.

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Which by the way, which

by the way, speaking of.

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Preaching Okay.

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And doing it really well.

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Yeah.

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I just gotta let you know, I, and

probably half the audience who

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listens to us would know about this.

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Your wife's a really great preacher, and

I, you texted me that the other day and

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I shared that with her to encourage her.

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And so I, yes, I agree.

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She is, dare I say exceptional?

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I just find her.

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Okay, so there are several marks.

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I always have feedback, Amanda, so

if you ever want my feedback, if

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you ever care, I did listen to it.

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And the reason why I wasn't

totally violating your conscience

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here and your convictions.

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I know how we feel about that for sure.

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But Kristen spoke so highly of it.

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I thought I, let me just give it a

listen and see what the ladies heard.

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And I did it as an

overseer and as a pastor.

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Sure.

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I felt like I, I put on my pastor

hats and I'm just gonna check in

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and see what these ladies are doing.

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And I listened and I was at first.

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I was thinking, okay, PPJ edited this.

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He clearly did.

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She's too flawless, she's too smooth,

she's too good at what she's doing.

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So I looked down on your poor bride,

assuming that she was deriving some

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kind of help from ai, and lo and

behold, when I looked it up on descrip.

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Our editing platform.

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There was no edits to be, had, no edits.

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I was I was I think my jaw

probably fell open at that point.

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'cause I was just so impressed

at how smooth she was.

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And not only that, it wasn't just that

her delivery was exceptionally good,

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but the content was really good too.

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Again, I wasn't listening

to be instructed.

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Sure.

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I was just listening, but I

thought she did such a great job.

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I, I didn't, haven't

listened to Kayla's yet.

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I feel less invested in Kayla's preaching.

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But I was very impressed.

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And so if you haven't listened to

the Women's Retreat sermons, they are

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available on the Women's Ministry podcast.

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I'm not sure what we call that right

now, but it's the women's podcast.

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It belongs to our church.

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It has the same blue that we

use, so you can't miss it.

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Highly encourage you to go give

that a listen, or you can go

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to our website, compass tx.org

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under the ministries tab if

you click on women's ministry.

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It will show those episodes

right there as well.

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You can follow that to the podcast page.

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Is that a video?

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No, just audio.

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Okay.

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Either way it doesn't

link to the podcast page.

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Go it.

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However you do it.

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Go get it.

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On behalf of my wife, thank

you for that feedback.

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I'm encouraged.

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God has blessed her greatly and

I'm thankful to be married to her.

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So you go, yeah.

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I'm just glad that you're not

suggesting we become egalitarian

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and you kicked me out a little bit

before I would do no such thing.

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I I did smile a little bit when I was

listening to the podcast 'cause I thought,

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oh, PPG would not approve of this.

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Yeah.

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I think as a pastor you

would give me a pass.

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I do think there's a difference there

because as a pastor we do need to

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know what the content that's being.

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Given in our various pulpits is.

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Yeah.

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And so I do think there's

a difference there.

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There is a difference.

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I would qualify that a hundred percent.

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Okay.

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Let's talk about our DBR today,

which is Zav five through nine.

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Yes.

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5, 2, 9.

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Yes.

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So I mentioned yesterday,

I dunno what that was.

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The AI will cut that out twice.

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We will cut it out.

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We're not as good as Amanda.

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I mentioned yesterday that I,

Zacharia is full of visions.

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And in chapter five, we

get two more visions.

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The first one is of this scroll.

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This is vision number six.

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And the scroll is going to be the

pronouncement of cursing and judgment

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on all those who have disobeyed God.

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So that's what he sees here.

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He sees this this judgment being

laid out through this scroll.

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It's 20 qubits by 10 qubits.

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That's Pastor Rod's favorite measurement.

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He loves the qubit.

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I'm gonna start using it everywhere.

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And and this is a list of all

those that have disobeyed God.

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And that's just a reminder.

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We talked about it briefly a couple weeks

ago, I believe now on Sunday morning

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about, or maybe just this past week

about the future judgment that awaits.

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For the believer, but also the unbeliever.

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And I think this is obviously dealing

with the unbeliever great white throne.

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There's gonna be books that are opened

up with all of the things that were

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done by the unbelievers written in

them, and they'll be judged accordingly.

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And so here's a reminder that

God's judgment is coming against

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those that disobey him, and

he is making record of that.

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And that is a chilling

thing for us to think about.

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Even as believers, like we talked

about the beam C, there's gonna

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be a sense that we need to.

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We're gonna potentially suffer loss

for the things that we didn't do

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with eternal value at that moment.

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The rest of chapter five

then is another vision.

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And this time it's a vision of a

woman floating in a basket down

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this river and the lead cover

is lifted from the basket and.

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The woman is in the basket and the woman

represents the sin of the nation of

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Israel, and he says, this is wickedness.

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And then the basket is pushed back

out into the water and then all

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of a sudden, two angelic beings,

it seems, come and take the basket

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and carry it away, and they carry

it to the land it says of China.

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Now that is Babylon and that may.

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It would strike you as odd seeing

as how we're post exilic of

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Babylon's no longer on the scene.

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So this I think, has to be neo

Babylon, which is the future.

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And I think it's indicating the fact

that as Israel was so sinful and

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rebellious, there will be another

nation that is gonna be sinful and

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rebellious to even greater extent.

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And that is gonna be the nation

of that is led by the antichrist

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in the future, Neo Babylon.

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That is is being depicted here

at the end of chapter five.

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What would you say to people

who suggest that the Bible is

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misogynistic by making wickedness a

woman in a basket instead of a man?

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We see it in Revelation too, right?

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That the great harlett that's riding

the beast there in Revelation.

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I would say when we look at scripture,

I don't think God pulls punches when

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it comes to men and the sin of men.

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Men either, definitely not I don't

think that if you want to just highlight

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this and rip it out of its context

and say, look, God is misogynistic and

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so are Christians, and so are Jews,

because look at this, then you're not

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considering the fullness of scripture.

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And so this is one example, but there are

plenty of other examples where God has

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come after men and held men accountable,

and in fact, even the leadership

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capacity of men and saying, you're gonna

be held to an even greater higher, in

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higher standard because you are man.

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In this context.

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And yeah, I would say I think that's

a narrow-minded focus of pulling one

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passage out or two passage out and

saying, look at these, this is evidence.

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Yeah.

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And it's not an exclusive

way that God refers to evil.

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King Nebuchadnezzar's

statute was a male statute.

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Presumably.

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Or an novelis.

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I guess there's also that in any

case it might be as simple as this.

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We don't typically think this way

'cause we're English speakers, but

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most other languages have gendered.

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Nouns and gendered language,

generally speaking.

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So a table La Mesa is a feminine

gender, but that doesn't

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mean the table is a woman.

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So it might just be as simple as the

word wickedness being a feminine word,

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and therefore God uses a feminine

symbol to picture that word itself.

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So maybe it's not that complicated.

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Or maybe it is just the fact

that God intends to utilize this

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kind of image because there's a.

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There's a certain sensuality that

comes with the allure of wickedness.

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And so maybe God is saying of the

two genders the woman tends to be the

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more sensual, more seductive kind.

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And so I'm gonna utilize that stereotype,

or at least that that commonality to

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say she's more like this than like that.

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So I don't think God's being

unfair here or unkind toward women.

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It's just utilizing it as a

symbol to depict judgment.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And it is, by the way, and you

were making this point, but just

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to be clear, it is a feminine noun.

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Wickedness is in Hebrew.

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And so that would make sense in that

in that connection there as well.

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Alright, chapter six, we get into

some more visions here, and this next

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one up is a vision of four chariots.

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You've got more horses, red horses, black

horses, white horses, dappled horses.

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Again, these are very similar to what

takes place in Revelation chapter six.

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In fact, I think they're the same

description of colors that we see

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there in Revelation chapter six.

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And this.

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In this vision is God's

judgment on the nations.

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And so these chariots are going to

go out and they are going to judge

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the surrounding nations, judge,

those that are opposing the kingdom,

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opposing God opposing the Messiah.

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And and so that is this next

vision up here in chapter six.

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In the rest of this, starting in verse

nine, a situation here where there is

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the Messiah referenced in verse 11.

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It says, take from the, from them

silver and gold to make a crown

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and set it on the head of Joshua,

the son of ak, the high priest.

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Now you say how is this the Messiah

of this is Joshua and it's because

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of what it represents and say to

him, thus says the Lord of hosts.

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Behold the man whose name is the branch.

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And you'll notice in the ESV, at

least that's capitalized he shall

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build the temple of the Lord.

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It's he who shall build the

temple of the Lord and shall bear.

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Honor and shall sit and rule

on its throne, and there shall

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be a priest on his throne.

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So what's going on here is, again, like

we talked about, I think yesterday, the

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combination of the priest and king role,

and that's what's being depicted here.

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So Joshua is the high priest, and

yet he's gonna receive a crown.

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The high priest never would've

received a crown in the ancient.

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Context of the old covenant,

because that wasn't his role.

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The high priest was to serve in the temple

and the king was to sit on the throne.

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Here in the future temple, in the

millennial kingdom, there's gonna

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be a priest king, and that is

gonna be the Messiah, the branch.

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And it's also worth note here

that he's gonna be the one

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that's gonna build this temple.

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He's gonna be the one that's going

to make sure that it's construction

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is done, is the Messiah here.

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And so he will build that and that

will be the temple that is standing

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during the millennial kingdom.

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And that will reign for that,

that thousand years that

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Christ is here on earth.

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In addition to being the priest

king, does Jesus fulfill any other

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roles that we ought to be aware of?

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He also is the prophet, priest and king.

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Oh, so he is the one that is, and we've

seen that already in Christ as during his

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earthly ministry, he served as prophet.

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He served as the one that was saying, Hey,

here's what's gonna come down the road.

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Be on the watch when you

see these things happening.

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The women need to run for the hills.

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The you need to interpret the

times and be ready for that.

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So he's already been the prophet.

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He will, and he already is

functionally right now the high priest.

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That's what the writer of Hebrews

is talking about, that he's the

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one interceding on our behalf.

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He's the great high priest

and he will be the king.

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And so in a.

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In a sense he's the king right now.

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Yes.

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But when he will be here on earth

reigning, that's when he will be the

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ultimate fulfillment of the Davidic

King, the Davidic Covenant, which goes

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to show the way the Old Testament is

meant to help us understand who Jesus is.

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All of the things that we're seeing

in the Old Testament eventually point

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to Jesus, and they help us understand

a better picture of who Jesus is.

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So these.

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Major roles that God assigned to

these different people groups.

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And so it's you, the Levites, you're

the priests and you're the support

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for the temple to the line of David.

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You're the kings.

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There's a certain, a class of Levite

that would fulfill the priestly role.

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And all of these roles are summed

up in consummated in Christ.

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That's so cool.

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He is the prophet, the priest, and

the king that perfectly fulfills

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all of these roles and all for us.

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This is the God that has lived in

your place and died in your place.

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That gets me excited.

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This is the guy that, this is not just a

guy, this is the Son of God who, for our

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sake, as Peter says, for our sake, who

was crucified, he was raised for our sake.

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All these things.

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Such a cool analogy, not an analogy.

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Such a cool picture of what Jesus

has done for us and who he is.

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Yeah, in chapter seven, then the people

ask a question and it's a good question.

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So we're dealing about five 18 bc.

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They say, Hey, should we continue to fast

like we have been during this fifth month?

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Because that was the month

the temple was destroyed.

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So they're trying to figure out

what is, what does worship look like

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now on the backside of all of this?

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Now that we're back, we're

rebuilding this temple.

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Things are looking up.

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For us at least, that was

their presumption and God

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is gonna say, you know what?

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No, you can stop fasting, but also

you need to know that you were

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never fasting really, truly for the

right reasons, in the right ways.

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And he's gonna in indict them

for going through the motions

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essentially, and harboring their

wickedness and their sinfulness that

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they still have not repented of.

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And he's gonna go into a

description of those things

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beginning there in verse nine.

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And it's a lot of it having to

do with the execution of justice.

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He says, render true judgments, show

kindness and mercy to one another.

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Do not oppress the widow, the

father fatherless the sojourner.

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Or the poor.

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Let none of you devise

evil against your brother.

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And so he's saying in the past, this

is what I called your forefathers

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to, and they refuse to repent.

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And essentially the message is don't

commit the same error that they did.

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You need to repent because you're

falling prey to these same things.

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Don't ask me about fasting.

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It's not about the external,

it's about the internal.

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And right now you've got a problem with

the internal, and so God is calling

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them to obedience on that front.

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Yeah.

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One of the dangers for us as we look

at something like this is to say,

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yeah, those guys were bad about that.

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But Jesus calls people out in the New

Testament too, for having a profession

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of faith, but not the heart behind it.

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And so what we see here is that

piety is more important than posture.

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What you do is important, but it's not

as important as the heart behind it.

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And so yet again, we see that God is not

interested in our religious activity.

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He's interested in our heart.

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That's always been what it's been about.

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Yeah, chapter eight the page turns to a

positive vision of the future millennial

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kingdom in the time of prosperity.

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And it, it is introduced with

the Lord saying that he's jealous

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for Zion with great jealousy.

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And he repeats it.

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It says, I'm jealous for

her with great wrath.

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And so this is God saying talking

about how he's gonna restore

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the fortunes of the people.

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And so there are six initially

here, at least there are six times.

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In chapter eight that it's

introduced, thus says the Lord.

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And so if you notice that in your Bibles

you'll see each of those statements

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introduces a different statement about

what he's gonna do on behalf of the people

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for the future millennial kingdom and for

the prosperity and the peace of Jerusalem.

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So six times there that he is

mentioning thus says the Lord.

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Verse eight, for example, he

says, I will bring them to

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dwell in the midst of Jerusalem.

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They shall be my people.

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I will be their God in faithfulness and

righteousness that refrain, they shall

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be my people and I will be their God as

repeated many times in the Old Testament.

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And it will finally come to fruition

in part in the millennial kingdom.

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But.

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But ultimately in that eternal

state, and that's Revelation 21.

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He says that will be the time when he

is wiping white tear for their eyes,

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that we will be with him as his people,

and he will be with us as our God.

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You have a seventh statement in verse 14.

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And a, just a reminder of the

promise of God being sure.

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He says, as I purpose to bring disaster

to you, when your father provoked me to

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wrath and I did not relent, says the Lord.

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So again, I've purposed in these days to

bring good, so there God's saying you've

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experienced the consequences for your sin.

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I told you what would come and it did.

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No, for sure then that I'm telling

you, good things are gonna come

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and you can trust that they

will because I'm the same God.

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Faithful to my promises.

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So then he calls them to action

in obedience there in the rest of

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chapter eight, including going from

fasting to feasting and and looking

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forward to being in the millennial

kingdom when that day comes.

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All right, chapter nine chapter

nine gets back into a a.

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Poetic approach.

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And you'll notice that even just

as the text looks differently here

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versus the prose that has come before

that and here in chapter nine, we get

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prophecies against the the nation's

judgment that's coming on the nations.

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It seems that this is a judgment

that's going to be executed not in the

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millennial kingdom, but more near term.

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In under the rule and reign of Alexander

the Great and some of the judgment

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that he's gonna bring, the destruction

that he's gonna bring to these regions.

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And we say that because of

the regions that are in view.

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And that was part of the expansion

of Greece and the Grecian Empire

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under Alexander the Great.

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He did go after Tyre.

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He did go after Seiden.

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Remember Ty and Sein were originally

part of God's plan for destruction

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outta Nebuchadnezzar, but they resisted.

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And so now later on, Alexander

the Great in the Grecian Empire

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is gonna come and take them out.

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But.

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Instead for Jerusalem.

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Now we shift forward to the coming future

Messiah again, and that's going to be

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through the arrival of Jesus Christ.

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And this is the triumphal entry passage.

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This is the one that's associated with

Jesus coming in mounted on a donkey.

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And what I'm reminded of every time

I read the rest of chapter nine is.

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The humility to remember the reaction of

the people when Jesus died on the cross.

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It's understandable when you look at a

passage like Zacharia chapter nine, and

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when you look at the rest of the things

after he's gonna show up riding on this

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donkey and lowly and humble, because after

that, it's all about a victorious king.

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It's all about the conquering.

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It's all about the victory.

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And yes, that's gonna happen.

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That's gonna be what's gonna take

place during the millennial kingdom.

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But it wasn't what took place during

the initial appearance of Christ,

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and that's one of the reasons why

his disciples were so confused too.

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The reason the crowds are shouting Hosanna

blessed is he who comes in the name of the

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Lord is because they know Zechariah nine.

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They know the rest of Zacharia nine too.

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And so they're sitting there

thinking to themselves, this is it.

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He's come as the conquering king,

not realizing, even as Peter said,

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that first he has to suffer before.

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Entering into his subsequent glories.

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And so Zechariah chapter nine is looking

forward to the deliverance when God

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is gonna come and save his people.

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It's just they thought their

salvation needed to be more of a

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political and militaristic salvation,

when really what they needed

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was deliverance from their sins.

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And so the victory being wanted is

first coming, is still a victory.

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It's in fact a greater victory 'cause

the victory that we needed most as far

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as our eternal standing with the Lord.

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But it's not the same victory

that we see depicted in the

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rest of Zechariah Chapter nine.

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So Zachary, chapter nine, you're

saying is likely speaking primarily

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to the conquering that Alexander

the Graves affected the first part.

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Yes.

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The first part, which is why verse

13 says, I'll stir up your son's o

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Zion against your son's o Greece.

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Greece is in view.

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Likely, and that's why God is saying,

look, you're gonna get, you're gonna

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get back what you've given, what

he did with Babylon and Assyria.

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I'm gonna pay you back

for what you've done.

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Is that what we're trying to say here?

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And the fact that you offered

it in that way says that there's

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possibility that we're wrong here.

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We think it's about Alexander

the Great in Greece.

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If it's not about that, is there some

other way to un understand chapter nine,

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besides well and there I would say again

the future, the opponents of Israel.

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And that's what's so difficult with

Old Testament prophecy, especially in.

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In times prophecies you're dealing

with, okay, is this dealing with

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near term fulfillment or is this

dealing with long term fulfillment?

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So this could be that Greece is

representing future enemies of Israel.

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That is gonna be part of the conquering

kingdom of Jesus when he returns.

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Right on.

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Alright, hopefully

you're tracking with us.

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We've got one more Dan Zacharia, then

we've got Esther coming up after that.

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And then we're not far away from

the New Testament, so lemme pray and

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then we'll be done with this episode.

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God, help us understand your word.

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Feel that keenly, especially

when we come up against texts

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that we're less familiar with.

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Help us to do our best to track

with what you have written and what

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your prophets have said, and to

understand what it means for us today.

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Lord, give us the wisdom to

be able to do that as well.

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And we thank you that we have the

fullness of your word from beginning to

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end, from Genesis through Revelation.

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I pray that we would

not think less of one.

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Part of it because it, it's harder

or more confusing, but that we

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would understand that all of it

is part of your inspired word.

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All of it is part of you

revealing who you are and what

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your plan is for your creation.

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So help us to study it, and to

study it well, and to know and

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understand as much as we can.

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We're praying in Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep you in your Bibles tuning

against Tomorrow for another

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bye everybody.

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Bye.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said