00:00 Introduction and Listener Engagement

00:28 Is It Sinful to Have a Cover Story?

01:16 Biblical Examples of Deception

02:18 Moral Complexities of Deception

04:25 Spycraft and Christian Ethics

09:02 Consequences and Personal Decisions

11:46 Reading from Exodus

17:22 Reading from Matthew

22:10 Closing Remarks and Prayer

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Welcome to Friday's edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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You made it through another week.

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What's up folks?

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We are excited to be with you.

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We're excited to be reading the Bible

together and doing this podcast together.

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So I don't know what our

numbers have been this year, but

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Pastor out, have you checked?

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Are people listening to us?

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I haven't checked.

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But I do know that people are listening.

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People are listening.

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People will say things to me and give

the impression, at least that they're

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listening to what we're saying.

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So that's a mild comfort.

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But I don't know how

many we're looking at.

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And part of the reason why we know

people are listening is because people

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are questioning people are That's true.

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Asking us questions.

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And we have a big one that I

don't know that there's a really

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straightforward answer too, but

we're gonna tackle this one anyway.

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We got one.

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And the question is

essentially this is it.

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Right or wrong, is it sinful to

do a job that has a cover story?

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For you to share with

your family and friends.

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So I think about different jobs in the

government sector, like an intelligence

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position or, spy craft, those kinds

of jobs where you're forced by nature

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of what you do to not be forthcoming

with people around you and maybe

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problematically, especially those

whom you live with, like your kids or

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whoever else that you do life with.

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So, question is this, is it sinful?

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That's the question.

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Is it sinful?

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But there's probably a lot of.

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Qualifications you would add there.

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So let's start working that through.

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Yeah, so my family and we're reading

one of those Benji biographies

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B-E-N-G-E are the author's last name.

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And so we're reading one of the those

on Dietrich Bonhoeffer right now.

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So you take a guy like

Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

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Oh, that's providential.

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Yeah.

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Bonhoeffer was a pastor, a German pastor,

but he also took on turns Spy a role.

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Yeah, as a spy.

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And put himself directly in those

positions on purpose and decided to

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join a plot against, not a cult, but a

plot against Hitler and trying to work

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towards the assassination of Hitler.

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Now at the same time for the

protection of his family and for the

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protection of others in his life.

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He wasn't sharing all those details

with them as well as for the good

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and success of the mission at hand.

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He believed that this the good

that he was working to accomplish.

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Allowed some of the deceit that he

was necessary to do, what he was

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doing, what he was needing to do.

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So it was almost a lesser

of two evils situation.

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So sometimes we talk about a wartime

allowance for situations like this.

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We think of Anne Frank hiding the Jews

and the Nazis come in and knocking on

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her door saying, are you hiding Jews?

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And she lies.

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She says, no, I'm not.

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Was that okay?

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In a situation like this, I think

we can't answer this question, just

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blanketly in saying yeah, it's fine

for you to use a cover story with

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your family and with your coworkers.

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It's, that's totally fine.

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No big deal.

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We can't say that across the board because

it really has to do with towards what end,

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and I know that in, in this situation,

we don't, sounds like pragmatism.

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We don't know.

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Right?

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We don't know the nuts

and bolts pragmatism.

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I would say it's probably I would

prefer to call it discernment.

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For us to be able to say, is this

really working towards the greater good?

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Is what I'm doing the task that I'm

being asked to help accomplish is

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this something that is for the greater

good to where I could feel in my

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conscience, like this is an okay thing

for me to do between me and the Lord.

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And that's where we can't point to.

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A chapter in verse and say, across

the board in every situation, here's

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your verse for this, A lot of this

is gonna come down to the conscience

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of the person that's at question.

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So would you be able to say then a

Christian hypothetically could participate

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in something like this, assuming that

their conscience is fine with it.

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Is there anything in scripture that

would lead you to believe that this is an

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impossible thing for a Christian to do?

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I don't think so, because even.

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You had the circumstance.

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We've talked about this before in passages

when we come across it like Rahab hiding

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the spies and you've got other situations

where the midwives, we've, here's one that

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we've already covered this year, right.

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The midwives are telling Pharaoh,

the Hebrew women are too robust.

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They give birth too quickly.

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We can't get there.

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Okay.

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That's a.

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That's a lie.

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The midwives were working to help

the Hebrew women conceal their male

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children and God commends them.

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You go to Hebrews chapter

11, God is commending them.

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The only caveat I would give to that

is they're directly working for what is

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good Biblically, like this is a clear,

this is biblically a better thing for

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me to preserve the life of these Hebrew

children than it is for me to participate

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in the murder of these Hebrew children.

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And so if a lie is gonna help me

continue to preserve the life of the

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Hebrew children, I'm gonna do that.

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So there is a scenario which I could

say, yeah, a Christian could do this,

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and I would say not be culpable for

the sin of deceit because it's working

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to accomplish the greater good.

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The hard thing is discerning how do

we know if this is really working

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to accomplish the greater good?

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So the rule of thumb then would be

a decision that you have to make.

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Like this would require you to be

able to make it by faith with a clear

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conscience as you already identified.

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So the starting place for.

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Question like this is, do I understand

sufficiently what the scripture says

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about truth, about deception, about

lies and how God has interacted

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with that in, in the scriptures?

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And so principally what we can say is

that God has made provisions or allowances

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where the lie was the lesser evil.

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Now, when you introduce words like that,

we start talking about pragmatism, which

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most Christians are rightly wary of.

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Sure.

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We're not pragmatists.

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Sure.

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In fact, I would say that only God

can be a true pragmatist because

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he can guarantee that the ends.

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Justify the means, right?

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He alone has that knowledge.

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We can only guess and hypothesize

and it might lead to certain ends.

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So we still have to make

the calculus though.

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Does this make sense?

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Given the circumstance?

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And I think that for me, is gonna

be one of the pivotal questions.

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Does my lie seem or my deception,

does my deception seem to weigh

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sufficiently or to weigh less than

what the alternative would be?

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So in other words, if I don't lie.

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What is the alternative?

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We do see that God endorses spycraft, God

initiates spies to be sent from Israel

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into the land of Canaan, and they're

to bring back information, they're

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to bring back intelligence, we would

say in the modern vernacular mm-hmm.

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About this land so that they

can consequently destroy them.

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Now you could say, well, this

is what God told them to do.

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And I would say, that's absolutely right.

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God did tell 'em to do that, but

principally speaking, this happened.

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Yeah.

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And so it's not a leap to say that.

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It's clear that God provides

allowances for this to take place.

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And of course someone, someone would say,

well, the only allowance is God told them.

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Right.

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And of course that would dis, that

would disallow that ever taking

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place today because there's, God's

not saying those things anymore.

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I would argue to the contrary that

scripture shows us by example.

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How God has dealt with

some of these things.

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So if Spycraft in and of itself I

would say is permissible and spycraft

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necessarily involves deception, yeah.

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Would you agree with that?

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I would.

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I think when it comes to those closest

to you, I think there's a way to

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avoid perpetuating deception too far

and deceiving only to the degree that

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you feel like you need to, or that's

necessary in the sense of this if you.

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Let's say you get married and you

happen to be a spy, and you tell your

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wife, do not ask me what I do exactly.

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Hey, you know what?

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My job is gonna require me to do

things that I can't talk about.

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And so if I'm traveling, if I'm going

somewhere I know it's a big ask.

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Yeah.

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But I'm gonna ask you to trust the

Lord with my safety, my wellbeing, and

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not ask me too many questions because

I can't share with you everything

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that I'm gonna be doing in my career.

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And I don't want to lie to you.

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And so that puts, and I

thought about that here.

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Here was my counter.

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Okay.

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If my wife knows that I am engaged

in sensitive information and that

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information alone puts her at risk.

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Mm-hmm.

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Wouldn't it make more sense if my

superior saying here's what we're

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gonna tell you to say to people, and

this includes your closest family.

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They need to hear this

and their protection, they

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need plausible deniability.

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Right.

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And this means that I need

you to tell them this.

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Right.

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You work construction on

42nd and fifth Avenue.

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How would you feel about that?

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Yeah, I get that.

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'cause in the scenario that you're

captured and they find out who

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your family is, you don't want

to put your family in danger.

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You want them to have full

deniability of any knowledge and

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not be able to give up anything.

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It doesn't guarantee

their safety after all.

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It doesn't, but it does help.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I guess.

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How much does it help?

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What are they gonna assume

that your family knows?

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And I suppose that there's a whole host

of questions that we can't answer, right.

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We're just working off

of the hypothetical here.

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Right.

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But I, in a situation like that,

would you say that the impetus

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is strong enough to say Okay.

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I guess in that sense, I could see the

wisdom in not being forthright with

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my bride or my kids or my husband.

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If it's the case of a

female, I work for the CIA.

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Yeah.

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Maybe other than like.

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If that's just what it is.

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If she, over the course of getting

married to somebody, you, they know

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because these are conversations that are

gonna come up that you work for the cia.

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Then it's just that, that it's one

conversation at the outset of the

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marriage, Hey, look this is my job.

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My job is gonna involve me doing

a lot that I can't talk about,

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that I can't discuss, and.

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Let's just kinda leave it at that, right?

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I mean it's, I think, extremely rare.

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Not totally unheard of, but I think it's

extremely rare to find somebody that

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has to deceive from the very word go of.

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Yeah, I sell hot dogs on a street

corner when really they're, committing

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espionage and working for the Navy

seals and rescuing people from the inner

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circles of terrorist organizations.

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But there's probably

those people do exist.

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Oh, for sure.

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They do.

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And how, and then they be in

our midst for that matter.

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Touche.

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The problem with this is that

scripture says that Christians

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are to bear truthful testimony.

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Yes.

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Right.

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We're to be honest with one another.

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Yes.

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We're truth tellers by and large.

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There's concerns even if you practice

lying and you get really good at it.

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Yeah.

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Is that a good thing?

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Yeah.

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Is that a kind of virtue

that you wanna be known for?

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Man, that guy's poker face is so good.

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Right?

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He can lie and tell me what I

think is telling me the truth

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and he's totally lying to me.

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There's problems with this and

we're not gonna pretend like this

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is easy peasy and that it's just one

calculation to make this decision.

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Obviously there's lots of things involved

in this, not the least of which being.

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Do you want to cultivate that

kind of character, right?

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Because you have to, right?

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If you're gonna be good at this, you

have to get really good at deceiving

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people, and you don't want, you,

you probably don't want that skill.

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No.

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We're not able to compartmentalize

that successfully, as some

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people think that we can't.

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I think who you are is who

you are, is gonna leak.

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And maybe it's to the

point where you say, I.

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This is enough of a conscience

burden for me that I need to

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not do this, I need to resign.

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I need to quit.

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Which comes back to the very

beginning of the conversation.

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The decision you have to make

is, can I do this by faith?

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Right?

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With a clear conscience, right from

what I know from scripture, and of

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course you get to make that decision.

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And what is not from faith is sin

is what we're told in scripture.

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Hebrews chapter 11.

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So if you can make the decision by

faith saying, this is what I see

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from scripture I see that there's

provisions made, there's allowances.

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Okay, Lord, I'm gonna do

this as a sacrifice to you.

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It's a worship, it's worship in my

life to show that I trust you, even

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in this weird, murky situation.

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And if you want a great conversation

on this, I found one spycraft.

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And Soulcraft on the front lines of

history, a conversation with James Olson.

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This is Dr.

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Mueller's thinking in public.

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Okay.

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This is a former spy.

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Okay.

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Who talks all about it.

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And he's a Roman Catholic, so he talks

about some of the moral complexities.

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Yeah.

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And the conversation with Dr.

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Mueller is just so fascinating.

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Yeah.

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I highly encourage you.

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There's also a book that,

there's two books that this guy

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wrote, Olson and I've got one.

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On the way to my house.

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A physical book.

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A physical book.

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A physical book.

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That's another conversation

for another time.

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Yeah, it's but I recommend that

Spycraft and Soulcraft on the front

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lines of history, a conversation

with James Olson, that's Dr.

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Moeller, that's on YouTube

and all the podcast platforms.

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I highly recommend that

you listen to that.

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Closest I've ever come to knowing a

spy was one of the elders at a church

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that I worked at in Arizona who was the

executive VP of Aerospace for Honeywell.

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So he was working on like

rocket components and, oh, fun.

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Not like the air conditioner

Honeywell, like the components on

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the space shuttle and the rocket

ships and stuff when he would.

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Go down to his house in Mexico when

he's flying back into the United States.

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He would get a text as soon as he entered

American airspace from Honeywell saying,

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welcome back to the United States.

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Wow.

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They were tracking him that closely

because of what he knew, which is Wow.

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Fascinating.

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Also, I don't think I would wanna be him.

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I don't know.

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It'd be kind of fun.

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I maybe for a minute.

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Yeah.

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If you want our honesty here,

speaking of being truthful,

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we track you just as clear.

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Closely.

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Well, you don't send me a

text though when I get back.

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Yeah, we don't do that.

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'cause we don't wanna alert you

to how closely we're tracking.

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But suffice it to say we know

everything about you, pastor.

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Well, I know the Lord does.

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That's for sure everything.

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Let's turn to his word

as we do this together.

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Let's go to Exodus 39 and 40 as we

finish up the Book of Exodus today, and

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then we'll be in Matthew 24, Exodus 39.

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This is all about the weaving and the

making of the priestly garments and

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I think the one that's on the scene

here is probably mostly, oh holy ab.

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We've talked a lot about Belo, but

O Holy was the one that was weaving

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and working with the Scarlet and

the yarns and everything else, and

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we see that here in what's going

on with the priestly garments.

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So I think.

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Holy.

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I probably had the majority of the

oversight with the priestly garments here.

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But again, a lot of repetition here

from what we already have seen, and

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this is going to be the manufacturer

of the garments the robes the

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shoulder pieces, the breastplate

that the priest was gonna wear.

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And with all the names of Israel inscribed

on these because he was representing them

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as he went in before the Lord, to bring

the sacrifices, to bring the offerings.

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And again, like you said pastor Rad,

I think in one of our last episodes,

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part of the reason for the repetition

is what we read down in verse 32.

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Thus all the work of the tabernacle,

the tend meeting was finished

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and the people did, according to

all, the Lord commanded Moses.

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So they did.

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So this is just showing us they did

it exactly as they were told to do.

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If you do want the cross reference,

you're gonna look at chapter 28 primarily.

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That's going to show you the initial

instruction given by God for how

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to make the priestly garments.

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And you probably notice this as you're

reading through, but it is worth

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at least marking up in your Bible.

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If you have a physical paper Bible, you're

gonna see repeated over and over again.

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Something like the end of verse five.

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As the Lord had commanded Moses mm-hmm.

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The end of verse seven, as a Lord

had commanded Moses the end of

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verse 21, as the Lord had commanded

Moses, you're getting the picture

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right and so this is really, there's

sim symbolism laden with what the

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materials are and what the colors are.

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In fact, if you have an ESB study

Bible, they do a really good job of

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some of the art artistic work they do

to show you an illustration of what

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they think it could have looked like.

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So in the ESB study, Bible would be

worth having just for those pictures.

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Those are so much fun and

they're so good to look at.

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They really do help.

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Give you a sense of

what it was meant to be.

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That said, all of it has symbolic

value and the thing is that unless

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scripture gives me a good sense of

what that is, it's hard to know.

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You could guess probably pretty

accurately, but I'd still be careful.

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Appreciate it for what it is.

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Get your ESV study Bible,

look at some of the images and

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enjoy what God's people did.

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They obeyed the Lord.

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This is a highlight.

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Yeah.

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Of Israel's history.

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'cause it's not gonna last us very long.

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No, it's not.

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And we see that even at the end

of 39 verse 42, according to all

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the Lord of command of Moses.

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So the people of Israel had done

all the work and Moses saw all

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the work, and behold they had

done it as the Lord had commanded.

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So they had done it.

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And so just that emphasis there,

that stamp of going, you guys did it.

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We're gonna grade you and you pass.

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Which is I remember being in school,

turning an assignment and just watching

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the teacher grade it live in front of you.

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Did you ever have that?

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Situation.

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Oh yeah.

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And you're just going, okay,

is this gonna be good enough

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or is he gonna send me back?

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Yep.

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And when, whenever you got it done

in pass and accepted, it's like, yes.

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Got it.

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I liked when you had the pass

your paper to your neighbor.

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Oh yeah, that, that's great.

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Together.

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Yeah.

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That was fun.

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Yeah.

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Or humiliating, depending

on how you look at it.

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Yeah, it's true.

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Depending on who was sitting next to

you, chapter 40, then we're going to see

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the tabernacle is gonna be constructed.

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It's set up now.

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And one thing that's gonna happen

here is the tabernacle is gonna be

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officially consecrated, which is

a word that means to be set apart.

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Up until this point, it was all

just being manufactured, or it was

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designed, or it was in theory, and

now it's here and it's gonna be built.

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And so now they actually have to go

through the act of consecrating it.

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That is setting it apart.

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And so that's starting in verse nine.

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What.

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What God is gonna command Moses to do,

to take the anointing oil and anoint

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the tabernacle and all of its furniture.

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They're gonna consecrate the altar.

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They're gonna consecrate the basin.

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They're gonna consecrate, even Aaron

and his sons, they're gonna be brought

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to the front of the tent of meeting.

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They're gonna be set apart as the

priest to serve here in the tabernacle.

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So the tabernacle is built, and

now they need to prepare it for

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the work that it's going to do.

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And this is the consecration here.

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We also see that same phrase that

you talked about in the last chapter

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here in chapter 40 again, verse 19,

as the Lord had commanded Moses,

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verse 21, as the Lord had commanded

Moses, verse 23, so forth and so on.

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Again and again and again.

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We see it here.

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Moses can obey the Lord and

then the stamp of approval.

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Shows up in verse 34.

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The cloud covered the 10 meeting.

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The glory of the Lord

filled the tabernacle.

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This is the way they know they officially

did it right, is God has come to take up

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that temporal residence in the tabernacle.

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What did that look like?

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Do you think the glory of the

Lord filled the tabernacle?

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So clearly there's some kind of something

visible vis right, some visibility

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that God is depicting there for them.

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Do you think that this was fire, the

cloud, was this some combination betwixt?

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What are we looking at here?

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Or are we looking at anything?

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I would imagine it has something

to do with light just because

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over and over again in scripture.

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I think when we consider the

glory of the Lord and when we see

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emanations of the glory of the Lord

usually involves light and sometimes

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brilliant and blinding light.

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And I wonder if that's why it says Moses

was not able to enter the tent of meeting.

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I wonder if it was so brilliant,

so glorious that he was not

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able even to enter in because

of the brilliance of the glory.

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I wonder if there's a combination

of the two of them, because you

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have here in verse 34, it says, the

cloud covered the tent of meeting.

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So is the cloud and the, and God's

glory, are those working together?

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Is this a separate thing?

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I have more questions than I have

answers, but it is fascinating

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to think what did this look like?

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Yeah.

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And yet I should make known

the glory that was part of the

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tabernacle pales in comparison to

the glory that Christ brings true.

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He tabernacles among us.

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And even though we don't see him

face to face today someday we will,

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and the glory that we would've saw.

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We would've seen rather in the

tabernacle, will not even hold a candle

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to the glory that we'll see when we

do see Jesus face to face someday.

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Yeah it's kinda like when we're here in

Texas during the springtime especially,

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you get those big, fluffy white clouds

and sometimes the sun pierces through

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those clouds and it's such that it's

beautiful and yet at the same time,

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you can't look at it for very long

because it is so brilliant, the white

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of the clouds and then also the sunshine

shining through the cloud there.

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I continue to look until

I can't see anymore.

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It's amazing the sun staring game.

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It's a bad game.

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Alright, well let's turn it

over to Matthew chapter 24.

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Matthew 24, 1 through 22.

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We are gonna start talking

about the signs of the end here.

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And so Jesus is gonna begin by talking

about the destruction of the temple.

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This is going to be fulfilled in 70 AD as

Titus PHAs is gonna come into Jerusalem

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there with his forces, his Roman forces.

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They're gonna destroy the temple

and they're gonna knock down every

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stones that not one stone is left

upon another Jesus, just as Jesus

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prophesies here in Matthew chapter 24.

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In fact, on Expedition Bible I

was watching a video where the.

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Host was talking to a Jewish

rabbi who himself on the video,

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said, look, I'm not a Christian.

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And yet the host said, Jesus predicted

that this was gonna be the case.

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And they're standing there looking

at the rubble, which you can still

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see today in Jerusalem, piles

of rubble from this destruction.

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And the host says, what?

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What do you think this is

saying about Jesus's prediction?

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And this Jew said, this is

saying that Jesus' prediction

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came to pass, that this is true.

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This is what actually happened.

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That's crazy.

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Yeah.

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It says here that, well, in my study bible

it says that this is the first half of the

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tribulation verses three and following.

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Do you subscribe to that?

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I hold, no, I don't because I

hold this to be 70 ad destruction.

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There.

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Are you looking in ESV study Bible?

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I have a note and I didn't put where

I got it from, so I think it was

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my, because the ESV would hold that

because the ESV is not dispensational.

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So the ESV is looking at an amillennial.

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Kingdom.

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And so we're in a metaphorical

thousand year reign of Christ that is

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inaugurated with his earthly, with his

first appearance and his ascension.

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Ah, yes.

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So we just endorse the e sb study Bible,

and I think the pictures are great.

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Yes.

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Maybe not all the notes are on the

same page with us theologically,

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but the pictures are still

great and not in disparate.

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We're not saying this is a view that's

heretical that needs to be rejected.

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It's just a different view.

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Yeah.

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And so if they're gonna look at

this they're gonna interpret it

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differently than we would and they

might say, this is the mark of the

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beginning of the tribulation period.

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Through that, a lot of times

you'll see people that hold a

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more of an non-millennial view.

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They'll look at a figure like neuro

as the antichrist or an antichrist and

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try to project that the tribulation

period back on things like that.

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Yeah.

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Well, two things that stood

out to me in this chapter.

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The first one is I see he says, see

that no one leads you astray, which

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tells me we are responsible for this.

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This is interesting 'cause if you're.

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Lead astray.

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It seems like maybe you

don't have much of a choice.

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You're deceived into thinking

something that you shouldn't think.

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And yet Jesus says, see that no one

lets us, that no one does this to you.

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How do you do that?

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Well, he tells us ahead of

time, here's what you expect.

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People are gonna come in my

name and say that I'm he.

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So he says, basically, don't get

fooled and bamboozled by these guys.

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But I think this is a shorthand

way of saying no, your Bible.

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Yeah, know your Bible so well that no one

can mislead you because you know the word.

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Yeah.

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Second thing that stands

out here is verse 12.

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He says, lawlessness will be increased

and the love of many will grow cold,

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which tells me that there's an inverse

relationship between love and lawlessness.

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If I grow in love, my law

abiding will also grow.

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If I grow in lawlessness, my love will

decrease inverse relationship where

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one increases the other decreases.

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And so if I'm walking with the Lord

in closeness, in intimacy, my love

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will be inflamed and my righteousness

will also similarly increase.

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But if I walk in lawlessness, my love

will also decrease, which is a fascinating

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connection that I haven't thought

about before, or at least a whole lot,

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but I think it's there in the text.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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That's a good connection.

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In verse 15, in following we do

turn to the tribulation period,

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the abomination of desolation.

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We see the verse 21.

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There will be great tribulations such

as not been from the beginning of the

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world until now, nor will ever be.

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And he talks about the

elect multiple times.

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And here we hit on this last year when

we went through this, but the elect that

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he's talking about here are not the elect

the way that we think of them today.

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But these are gonna be

the tribulation saints.

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These are gonna be those

that are gonna be saved.

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Out of the tribulation period

during this seven year period

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of God's judgment on the earth.

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And so Jesus is telling them all about

these signs, and it's all in response

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to this question when the disciples say,

what will be the sign of your coming?

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Which is fascinating because

they didn't expect him to leave.

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And so I'm wondering.

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What they were thinking about when

they're asking him, okay, tell us about

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what's gonna be the sign of your coming,

because they were ready for him to go and

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inaugurate the kingdom at that moment.

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And so it's interesting that

they're trying to ask this

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clarification question there.

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Yeah.

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I don't know if they

even knew what they knew.

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Yeah.

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I don't know if they know what they're

asking and why they're asking it, but

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you want more at the end of this.

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You want to tell me more?

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Jesus.

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Yeah.

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What I do know what he says here, I.

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How far do we go in this today?

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24 to 22.

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Okay.

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It's, and tomorrow.

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Then, in any case, this is exciting.

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I like.

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What is he, Andy?

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The, for the sake of the elect,

the days are gonna be cut short.

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Explain what that means.

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I like that he says that.

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Yeah.

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It's exciting.

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Is this an astronomical sign?

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Is this, is he actually

shortening the days?

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What do you think is

happening here in that verse?

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I think this is the days meaning

the time of the tribulation period,

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that this is going to be cut short.

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It could have gone on longer.

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Oh, I see.

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Instead for the sake of the elect.

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So this isn't like the

time on the clock, right?

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This is days as in the season.

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Right.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Cool.

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That's my take on it.

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Well, hey, let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode.

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God, thanks for your word and for our

relationship with Christ, which tells us

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that our future is waiting to be with him.

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Even as Pastor Rod was talking about,

that we will behold his glory and it's

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gonna be even better than what was seen

when your glory filled the tabernacle.

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And so we can't wait for that day.

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We don't pretend to know exactly what

that day's gonna be like other than we

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will be overwhelmed with gratitude when we

stand before Jesus for the fact that we're

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there because of what He's done for us.

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So, Lord, we look forward to that day.

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In the meantime, help us

to be faithful and Jesus.

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Name, amen.

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Keep you in those Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow as we tackle

more from Matthew 24, as well as

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start a brand new book in Leviticus.

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We'll catch you.

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