00:00 Introduction
00:07 Discussion on Puberty and Liberty Commercials
00:30 The Epstein Files: A Christian Perspective
01:33 Trusting in God Over News and Politics
05:10 Turning to Isaiah: Judgment and Hope
06:00 The Woe Chapters: Isaiah 28-33
11:34 Judgment Against Jerusalem: Assyria's Siege
13:29 God's Deliverance and Future Kingdom
19:49 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer
20:36 Outro and Podcast Information
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Hey everybody.
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:Welcome back to another edition
of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:And happy Tuesday to you all.
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:It is Tuesday.
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:Yeah.
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:Yes it is.
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:Yeah.
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:Here's a question that I have for
you, and we won't go into detail
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:with this because of the, oh, we're
going into detail the of audience.
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:You don't even know what I'm about to say.
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:I'm doing it, whatever it is here.
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:Puberty, that's what I'm gonna say.
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:What does that mean?
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:Liberty?
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:Liberty, puberty.
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:It's a commercial.
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:The the EMU guy.
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:I don't know what you're talking about.
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:Anyways, whatever.
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:This is one, another one of those.
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:Bob, uncle.
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:Liberty.
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:Liberty, car Insurance,
I, puberty, whatever.
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:People out there listening know some of,
two people know anyways the Epstein files.
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:Ooh.
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:Should we care as Christians
that they are unsealed?
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:And is there a yes and a no answer to that
or is there a right concern and a wrong
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:concern that we can have as Christians?
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:I will hit the ball that you're teeing
up here and I'm gonna say it's both okay.
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:It's a yes and a no and I'll offer my 2
cents and I can't wait to hear your 98.
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:I, I, I've tracked it from a distance
and I know that there's concerns about
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:the hoity-toity in our world using
their power and their prestige and
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:their resources to do untoward things.
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:I think that's a fair concern.
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:We should care about justice on.
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:Across all levels of society, especially
those who are given the stewardship of
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:greater power and greater resources.
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:And so I think there's a right
sense of we want justice.
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:If these guys are able to use their
power and prestige to hide from man's
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:justice, we should care and we should
try to do something about it if possible.
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:On the other hand, if your news stream is
constantly stoking the fires of your anger
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:and of your discontentedness, it's very
likely that you're being manipulated as
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:opposed to having a biblically informed
co care for the cause of justice.
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:And that's probably more likely the case
for most of us because all of us have news
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:sources that don't present bare facts.
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:They're presenting an angle and
a perspective that's meant to.
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:Create something in you.
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:If their goal is your eyeballs on
their website, looking at their ads
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:and enjoying their services, then
they're making more money off of you.
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:And so I don't, I'm not suspicious
of every single news outlet,
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:but they're there to make money.
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:They're not there to bless me.
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:They're not there to present God's glory.
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:And so I'm always a bit
suspicious of those things.
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:And so I would say take
everything with a grain of salt.
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:And trust it to the Lord insofar
as you have a, an ability
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:to do something about it.
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:And maybe you're in a position that's
unique in this particular season of
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:life where you could do something, you
could talk to your governing official.
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:Maybe you have a great relationship
with P President Trump.
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:Okay maybe you should care more
than we do, but for most of us,
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:I would say it's probably not
worth your time and attention.
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:And all it's doing is providing
salacious details for you
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:to conjure up in your mind.
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:And it really doesn't do.
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:Any good.
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:What would you say?
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:PPJI would agree with those statements
that she just made in that moment
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:right there in the last 20 seconds.
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:That's what I'm saying.
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:Record.
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:Oh, we got a record.
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:Record, yeah.
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:Yeah, same.
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:I think it, it beco it can become a
form of voyeurism for us when we're
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:wanting the names because we want
to, who is it who's on the list?
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:I want to know that.
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:If the, if that's our motivation,
then it's a wrong motivation.
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:If our motivation is, what the names
need to be unsealed given to the
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:people that can do something about it.
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:And justice needs to be done.
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:Okay, great.
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:But to your point, I think the majority
of people out there are like, we just
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:want the, we want the juicy details.
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:We want to know who's on the list.
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:We want to know what that list looks like.
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:Let it I think it just reminds me what
we've read in the Old Testament about.
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:Where a trust is, the idea of some
trust in chariots, some trust in horses.
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:We're gonna trust in the name
of the Lord our God, some trust
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:in princes, to deliver them.
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:There's a lot of speculation out there
about why hasn't it been released?
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:And maybe who's on the list and are there.
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:But C word is tossed
around all over the place.
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:C word conspiracy.
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:Yeah, totally.
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:And people are saying there's
Republicans on the list and
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:there's Democrats on the list.
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:And just let that be a reminder that.
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:Our trust is in God at the end of the day.
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:And it may be that there's both sides of
the aisle on this list, it may be that
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:there's significant people from both sides
of the aisle on this list and that's not
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:gonna change anything about who God is
or what he's doing with us or with the
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:church or what we're supposed to do.
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:Yeah.
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:On this, it just reminds us,
made of our trust is in God.
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:Our trust is not in an administration,
it's not a human being.
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:Our trust is in God.
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:Yeah.
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:And it really does raise the
question what can you do?
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:Realistically, what can you do?
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:You could pray.
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:That's powerful, that's effective.
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:You can pray.
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:Yeah.
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:What may, I don't know what really
though, what could you do unless you're
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:like in the f fbi, I, and you can
go, that's, go and arrest somebody.
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:You have the authority and the
capacity to actually act upon what
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:may be, and I'll use the word may.
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:It's possible that it's a conspiracy,
but even in this own book that we're
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:gonna look at today and Isaiah.
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:Don't call conspiracy, all that.
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:This people calls conspiracy, right?
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:Don't fear what they fear.
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:We could be fretful and concerned
and ringing our fists and
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:saying, man, this is awful.
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:This is an abdication of justice
and on, but really what can you do?
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:What you can do is pray.
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:Yeah.
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:Don't be anxious about anything, but in
everything, by prayer and supplication
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:with Thanksgiving, let your request
be made known to God and that's
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:where we're gonna get our peace from.
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:It's not gonna get, even if they were to
make arrests and they arrested every top
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:governing official, every hoity-toity
person with a lot of money and a lot
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:of resources, they arrested everybody.
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:You're not gonna have peace, right?
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:You're not gonna feel like, oh,
finally the kingdom has arrived.
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:You're just gonna be looking
to the next thing, right?
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:That's on the new cycle.
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:For sure.
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:Trust in Jesus.
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:Yep.
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:That's a good word.
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:Let's turn to Isaiah and talk
about Isaiah 28 through 30,
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:which is our reading for today.
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:So chapter 28, we are focusing in
on the judgment against the Syria.
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:Now, before we hit record, you
said, ah the woes the woe chapters.
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:I don't.
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:I don't see the word wo in my Bible.
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:Pastor Rob hold on a second there, cowboy.
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:Let me point him out to you, Bucky.
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:Okay.
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:By the way, this week
was all cowboy theme.
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:Why didn't you never come,
showed up to, to VBS as a cowboy.
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:Why didn't I?
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:Yeah, that's so low hanging fruit.
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:I don't often dress as a cowboy,
but this is your area, bro.
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:If there was anyone who's
gonna dress up as a cowboy.
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:It was you really?
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:I was.
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:I was disappointed.
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:People were chanting in the crowd,
asking people were not chanting,
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:people were chanting, saying PPJ Dan.
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:And they were also noticing that you
weren't dressed up as a cowboy, which
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:it just felt like it's not bad, man.
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:I don't know, man.
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:You're from this area.
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:Yes.
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:Have you lived in Dallas for very long?
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:Chapters?
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:Chapter 28 through 33
are the woe chapters.
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:Okay.
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:And the reason why you don't
see them there is because it's
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:represented by the word ah, it's ah.
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:In the Hebrew you've heard this word
before, although it's often translated.
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:But the word is oi.
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:So you might hear someone say if they're
Jewish like me, they might say that
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:on occasion the word oi is ah or wo
and depending on the context is really
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:gonna depend on how it's translated.
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:So here it seems like the
translators see this less as a de
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:declaration of judgment and more
as a warning call wo has a stronger
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:connotation of forthcoming judgment.
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:You are judged for this
reason, ah, feels a bit softer.
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:So even though it's the same
word, it has a little bit of
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:flexibility, just like all.
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:All of our words do.
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:There's a fluidity to our words.
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:They have parameters.
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:It's not freewheeling, it's not whatever
you want it to mean, but that's what.
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:So that's what I meant.
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:So woes are chapters 28 to 33.
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:Gotcha.
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:That's helpful.
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:Ah.
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:The woe in chapter 28 is about the coming
judgment, and it's gonna be Assyria.
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:If you look down at verse two, it
says, behold the Lord has one who
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:is mighty and strong, like the
storm of hail, a destroying tempest.
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:This seems to be the Assyrian army.
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:And now there is a near term in the
long term element here that you can
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:draw out pretty much across the board
with Isaiah, where it's yes, this
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:can refer to the day of the Lord.
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:It can also refer to the
short-term things that are coming.
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:And I think.
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:It's more helpful for us to think
about the immediate context 'cause
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:that's what Isaiah's original audience
would've gone to and been preparing for.
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:And that is the judgment
coming from Assyria.
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:But it's interesting because the judgment
coming from Assyria is gonna be terrible
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:for some but beautiful for others.
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:Look at verse five in that day,
the Lord of hosts will be a crown
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:of glory, a diadem of beauty
to the remnant of his people.
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:So there are gonna be some there, as we've
just alluded to in yesterday's episodes.
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:Spoken of before that look at the
judging wrath of God as something that's
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:beautiful, even as it's being poured out.
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:And that's only possible if you
are part of his faithful remnant.
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:If you're not being judged.
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:If you're not being judged exactly.
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:For the others, it's gonna be awful.
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:It's terrifying.
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:He's talks about the.
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:This interesting interchange
here in verse 10, he says, for
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:it is precept upon precept.
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:Line upon line here a little there, a
little the Hebrew there is it's conveying
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:baby talk, basically, or the way that
you would teach a, an infant to speak.
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:And so what he's indicting them is saying.
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:That's how they're looking at and accusing
the prophecies of being just pedantics,
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:just minor stuff that is, is like foolish
talk something that you teach a child.
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:And yet verse 13, the word of the
Lord is gonna become just that
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:to them, God's judgment of them.
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:Not only with the Assyrians, but also
with the way that he's gonna prevent
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:them from understanding things.
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:Think Isaiah chapter six.
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:The, you, I'm sending you to a
people and you're gonna say, here,
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:and they're not gonna hear that.
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:You're gonna say, see,
and they're not gonna see.
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:And so God's judgment is coming
upon them and they're gonna not be
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:able to understand even the things
that are being taught to them.
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:It's gonna seem like baby talk
to them as it's coming outta
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:the mouth of the prophet.
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:From here he speaks of the covenant
that they've made, verse 15, with death
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:that I, it seems to be a reference
to Egypt as, as best as we can
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:understand here, because the people
sought help from Egypt rather than.
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:Turning to the Lord again, that
they're looking for help there.
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:And that was true of both the northern
Kingdom and the Southern kingdom.
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:Specifically the Southern Kingdom.
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:Looked to Egypt a lot to try to avoid
the problem that was coming, and
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:yet it was going to come anyways.
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:Verse 16, I'm the one who has
laid a foundation in Zion at.
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:A stone a tested stone, a precious
cornerstone in a sure foundation.
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:This is Jesus, right?
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:And this is applied to Jesus
in Matthew 21, in Mark chapter
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:12 in one, Peter chapter two.
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:And he is going to have a future
kingdom that's gonna be marked
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:by justice and righteousness.
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:Verse 17.
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:This is the future millennial kingdom.
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:But in the meantime though,
that future kingdom is coming.
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:In the meantime, verse 22,
you might be tempted to.
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:To scoff or to mock.
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:He said, don't do that lest
your bonds become strong.
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:For I have heard a decree of
destruction from the Lord, the God
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:of host against the whole land.
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:It is coming, in other words.
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:And so he calls them in
verse 23 to give ear.
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:Though again, Isaiah six,
they're not gonna listen to him.
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:But chapter 28 is about the impending
destruction that's coming and
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:it's also anticipating the future
righteousness that's ultimately
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:gonna be established from the.
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:Cornerstone from Jesus the
Messiah, who's gonna rule a kingdom
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:with justice and righteousness.
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:One of the things I love about
his rulership and his reign is
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:the contrast in verses 15 and 16.
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:It says here, that we have
made lies our refuge, and in
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:falsehood we have taken shelter.
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:So God is warning them about the
kind of security they're taking.
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:Security.
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:What is that?
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:Is your phone talking to us?
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:Siri?
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:Oh, Siri's eavesdropping on us, bro.
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:Stop.
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:Stop.
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:That is the FBI.
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:They heard us talking
about the Epstein files.
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:How did supposed to be my voice?
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:I don't know.
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:Did you hack it?
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:So God's rulership, it's truthful
in contrast to making lies, refuge
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:and falsehood taking shelter.
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:In that he says that the reign
in the Messiah is the opposite.
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:It is the contrast.
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:It is the light to their darkness.
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:And it says here in verse 17, he'll
make justice the line righteousness,
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:the plumb line, hail will sweep away.
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:Here we go again.
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:The refuge of lies.
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:The same verbiage there in verse 15.
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:So I love the way that scripture
paints Jesus leadership.
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:It is not falsehood.
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:It is not a shoddy security.
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:It is truth.
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:It is justice, it is righteousness.
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:It is everything that we long
for and is found perfectly and
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:most beautifully in Christ.
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:Chapter 29 pastor, who is Ariel,
because we know her as The
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:Little Mermaid, but, ah, Ariel.
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:Ariel, ah, Ariel.
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:Whoa.
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:Oi.
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:Oy.
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:Ariel.
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:Ariel is likely a nickname for Jerusalem.
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:Yeah.
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:And we know that much.
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:What?
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:What God intends to communicate by the
nickname is a little harder to diagnose
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:because a name could mean a hearth.
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:It could mean lion of God.
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:There's a lot of things it could mean.
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:Yeah.
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:But whatever it does mean, it's a point.
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:To Jerusalem.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:And so this is the judgment that
he's turning against Jerusalem.
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:Now in verse three, I will
encamp against you all around.
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:I'll besiege you with towers and I
will raise siege works against you.
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:Now, it's important for us to remember, we
immediately think Babylon when we think.
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:Judah, when we think Jerusalem, when
we think of siege, when we think the
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:downfall of Jerusalem judgment against
Jerusalem, our mind goes to Babylon and to
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:Nebuchadnezzar and rightfully so because
that's what ultimately does happen.
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:But here, this is still Assyria 7 0 1
BC under Akra, the Ssha and everything
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:else that we're reading about in Second
Kings that's gonna come and he's going
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:to be siege the city and it's going to
be a, an awful time for the people there.
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:And chapter 29.
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:He's referring to the fact that God
is going to bring this judgment by
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:the hand of the Assyrians against
the people of Judah, and yet he's
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:not gonna bring them to a full end.
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:Look at verse eight.
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:When a hungry man, dreams and behold,
he is eating and awakes with hunger,
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:and his hunger is not satisfied.
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:Earth thirsty man.
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:Dreams and behold, he's drinking wakes
faint with his thirst, not quenched.
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:So shall the multitude of the nations
be that fight against Mount Zion.
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:In other words, they're not gonna be.
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:Their goal of destroying
Jerusalem is not gonna be met.
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:They're not gonna be satisfied because
God is going to spare the city.
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:They're gonna come right up to the neck
of the people in the Southern Kingdom,
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:and yet God is going to deliver them.
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:At this point in time, are
they gonna turn to God?
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:Verse 13, the Lord said, because this
people drawn near to me with their mouth
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:and honor me with their lips, their
heart is far from me and their fear
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:of me as a commandment taught by men.
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:Therefore, I will again do
wonderful things with these people.
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:Wait.
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:What?
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:What?
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:Wonderful.
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:In a bad way?
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:Yes.
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:Explain because, wonderful.
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:When I read that, the exact
opposite, I read that as God's
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:judgment mixed with grace.
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:I'll do wonderful things,
wonderful as any positive.
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:I'm gonna, I'm gonna upend what they think
and then surprise them with mercy and
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:grace and kindness, which I think fits
the fact that they're delivered in 7 0 1.
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:It, it does.
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:Except here, the wonder upon wonder,
the wisdom of the wise men shall perish.
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:Their discerning discernment of
the discerning men shall be hidden.
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:So I still think there's
a judging element there.
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:That's a fair point.
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:I guess I, I understood
it as God's deliverance.
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:But you're right.
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:That's fair because I think it is the
deliverance, but then I think it's also,
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:but they're not going to, this isn't
gonna be effective, in other words.
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:And so the wonder being the wonder of.
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:Of terror, of being in of you can
think something is wonderful in the
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:sense of, oh, that's so wonderful.
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:That's so great.
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:And also something that's wonderful, as
in it inspires wonder and awe and even
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:terror in you as you consider it there.
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:Yeah.
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:Awe would've been a good word.
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:Yeah.
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:Wonderful.
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:Sounds pleasant.
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:Maybe they didn't use
awe because you use awe.
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:No, not ah, A WE.
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:A HH.
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:And then he goes on in verse
16 and he indicts them.
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:He says, shall the potter
be regarded as the clay, the
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:thing that made save its maker?
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:He did not make me, or the thing
form save him who formed it.
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:He has no understanding.
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:So again, I think he's telling the people
of Judah you still don't understand here,
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:and yet you're the one trying to instruct
me as to what is right and what is good.
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:And this reminds us of Romans nine because
that's what happens there in Romans nine.
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:And Paul grabs the same imagery there.
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:And we'll get there and that'll have its
own podcast, which is a, a fun day in the
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:future that you get to look forward to.
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:Man.
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:Verse 19 though.
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:Can we just camp on that
for just a quick second?
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:Yeah.
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:The meek shall obtain
fresh joy in the Lord.
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:I want that.
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:Yeah, I want that.
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:And notice here the kind of
person that gets that fresh joy.
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:I think about fresh bread.
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:When you smell fresh bread, bacon
in the oven, or you walk by one
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:of those restaurants where they're
cooking it up in their own ovens,
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:it just WAPs through the air.
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:And it's a smell of joy and happiness.
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:And Christmas, I don't
know what else to say.
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:It's Christmas.
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:It's so good.
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:And here it says here, the people that
get that fresh bread, that fresh joy
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:in the Lord are those who are meek.
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:It is those who are humble in spirit,
those who rely and depend upon him.
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:Those who acknowledge that.
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:He defines them as the poor among
mankind, not financially poor necessarily,
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:but those who are spiritually poor.
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:Jesus will say later on in the
Sermon on the Mount, the blessed
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:are the poor in spirit, for they
shall see God fresh joy in the Lord.
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:And this is the same idea
here captured in verse 19.
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:I love that the meek shall
obtain fresh joy in the Lord.
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:If you want fresh joy.
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:Humbly submit yourself to the Lord.
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:Yeah, that's so good in, in fact,
beginning in verse 17, really through
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:the end of the chapter here, is in a lot
of ways, I think, a depiction of what's
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:happening in the millennial kingdom.
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:These are the future blessings that
are gonna be there, and that day the
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:deaf shall hear the words of the book
and outta their gloom and darkness.
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:The eyes of the blind shall see.
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:Verse 18.
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:The ruthless shall come to nothing.
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:The scoffers shall cease.
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:Those who watch and do
evil shall be cut off.
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:I think this is looking forward
to the reign of Christ on earth.
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:The reign of the cornerstone from
back in chapter 28 is described
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:here, I think in chapter 29.
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:Chapter 30, then we are
ing the stubborn children.
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:Whoa, ah, stubborn children, declares
the Lord who carried a plan but not mine.
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:And I think that's the plan
of their returning to Egypt.
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:Continuing to seek help there rather than
trusting in God who set out there it is.
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:Verse two.
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:You don't have to think it's right there.
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:Who set out to go down to Egypt
without asking for my direction?
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:So they're trusting Egypt
and they're not trusting God.
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:They're turning there instead of
turning to him, he says in verse
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:three, therefore shall the protection.
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:A Pharaoh turn to your shame.
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:He then says about their humiliation,
verse seven, Egypt's helps is gonna
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:be worthless and empty, and therefore
I have called her Rahab who sits
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:still, and so God is gonna judge them.
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:Yeah, again about.
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:They're turning to Egypt
rather than turning to him.
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:And the reason being
is their stubbornness.
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:Verse nine, they are rebellious people,
lying children unwilling to hear the
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:instruction of the Lord, who say to the
seers, do not see into the prophets.
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:Do not prophesy to us what is right.
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:Speak to us.
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:Smooth things and prophesy illusions.
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:And so again they're putting their
fingers in their ears saying la.
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:We don't wanna listen to this.
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:We don't want to hear this.
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:Tell us things we want to hear.
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:Instead the New Testament's gonna
talk about, there's gonna come
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:a time when men are gonna want.
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:Preachers and teachers that are
gonna itch their ears that are
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:gonna tell them soothing things.
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:And it's similar here with Israel.
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:Like then is gonna be like the
future to quote King Solomon.
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:There's nothing new under the sun.
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:People are like that as well.
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:And then he goes on to talk about
this breach in the high wall.
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:Again, I think this is Assyria in
him prophesying the fact that Assyria
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:is coming against the people here.
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:I was convicted by verse
two verse one and two.
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:Not that I'm.
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:I'm setting up my own kingdom or
trying to go to Egypt for alliance.
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:That's good.
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:I don't possess those resources, but
I just thought, man, there are so many
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:times that I just presume upon the Lord
the thing that I think is the right path.
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:And yet he tells us he charges
them of going down and doing a
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:certain thing without asking for
his direction, without seeking his
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:leadership and his will on the matter.
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:And I thought of James chapter four
of saying, not presuming upon the Lord
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:to say I'm gonna do this or that, but
really opening up your plans of the
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:Lord and saying, Lord, if you will.
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:We'll do this or that.
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:We'll go to that city, we'll make a,
we'll make a profit here and there.
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:We'll establish this ministry
program or we'll do this thing.
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:We'll go on this vacation.
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:Nothing wrong with
making good plans, right?
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:God's not charging them
with being strategic.
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:He's charging them with failing to
talk to him first, failing to get
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:They carry out a plan but not his.
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:And I think there's two things
that he's talking about there.
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:Number one, obviously his revealed will.
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:He had clearly told
them not to go to Egypt.
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:He had given them every indication
in his word not to go back to Egypt
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:for their support and their guidance.
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:But number two, there is a there is a
subjective sense in which they should
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:just open their plans to the Lord.
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:Say, Lord, what do you wanna do?
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:Yeah, Lord, how do you wanna lead
us in this particular situation?
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:So I think that's perfectly viable for
you to take home today as you're reading
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:through your Bible to recognize, man I
wonder if I'm presuming upon the Lord.
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:Now I remember I had one friend who would.
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:Ask the Lord about what kind of
t-shirt he should buy and whether
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:he should wear the blue shoes or
the red shoes or whatever else.
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:I think you could take that too far.
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:Yeah, that's my guess.
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:Yeah.
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:But I think the spirit is great
honoring the Lord by saying, Lord,
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:I want your input on my life.
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:That's a great posture to have.
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:So even if you do ask the Lord about your
shoe color, I, maybe there's better things
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:to pray about, but better that than not.
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:Yeah.
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:I think that's a better posture
to have and I think the Lord
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:would be pleased by that.
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:Yeah.
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:The rest of chapter 30 God does say, Hey,
I still, I am gonna be gracious to you.
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:And I think this, there's again, the
near term, far term here, I think
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:in the short term he's talking about
he will deliver them from Assyria.
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:In fact, he says that in verse 31.
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:He says, the Assyrians will be
terror stricken at the voice of the
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:Lord when he strikes with his rod.
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:We're going to read in two Kings 19 that
the angel of the Lord's gonna come out
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:and destroy 185,000 of the Assyrians.
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:That are encamped against Israel,
that are besieging Jerusalem there.
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:And so that's what's here.
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:But I think it's also he's pointing
forward to the millennial kingdom that
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:they, again, people are gonna dwell in
Zion, they're gonna dwell in Jerusalem
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:there, and this is gonna be a time
of great prosperity for God's people.
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:So there's short term with a Syria,
but long term also looking forward
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:to the millennial kingdom as well.
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:It's exciting.
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:Let's pray and then we will be
done with this this episode.
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:Yet we find it hard sometimes to fully
wrap our minds around what was going on
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:then and what goes on now, and yet we're
grateful for things and insights like
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:what Pastor Rod was just talking about
seeking you and discerning your will.
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:In our lives.
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:And not just presuming upon you, that's
part of having a high view of you, which
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:we were talking about earlier as well.
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:And so we want to have that, we
want to approach you in that way.
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:We want to trust you and we want
to seek you and not presume, not
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:assume what's not ours to to plan.
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:And so help us to be a people that
really does take our plan to you and
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:say, if the Lord wills, let us do this.
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:And if the Lord wills God, we wanna
be a faithful bride to you until
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:you call us home to be with you.
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:And so we pray that we
would be in Jesus' name.
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:Amen.
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:Amen.
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:Keep you in your Bibles.
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