00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:23 Women's Bible Study w/ Kristin Gomez

01:43 Things Pastor PJ Says

03:07 Upcoming Women's Retreat

04:35 Daily Bible Reading: Judgment on Nations

09:18 God's Judgment and Restoration

13:50 Judgment on Babylon and Future Implications

18:38 Conclusion and Prayer

19:22 Podcast Closing Remarks

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Welcome back to the Daily Bible Podcast!

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We're so glad you've joined us.

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And now your hosts,

Pastor PJ and Pastor Rod.

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Hey, thanks Bernard for that rousing

introduction again, we're grateful for

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your presence here at our beck and call.

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Willing to say whatever Pastor

Rod wants you to say at any time.

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He says whatever we want him to say.

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Does he?

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Does he it's a group effort.

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Hey, it's Saturday, which means

it's Women's Bible Study Day, which

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means that your bride is busy.

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This morning she's out

preaching to our ladies.

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She's been busy for this

for a long time now.

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Well, yes.

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And she's teaching on

Sunday for our kids men.

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Oh.

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I was like, is she preaching on Sunday?

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That's poor planning on our part.

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Should have arranged that a little better.

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Oh, gotcha, gotcha.

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But.

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She excited about Saturday or today

as people are listening to this.

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Excited probably isn't the word, but

she will be happy when it's done.

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Yeah.

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So it's one of those things where you,

you go into it feeling the burden and

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the responsibility and this yearning

and desire to do it really well.

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So of course if it's anything

short of what you think is

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perfect, then it's gonna be.

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It's gonna be hard.

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But I, I think that that's,

that served me well, so I don't

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necessarily discourage it.

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I, I like the pressure that I feel when I

preach, and so I think she feels that too.

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And there's, there's a helpful sense

of relief when it's all said and done.

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Fair enough.

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Well, what I trust that

she's gonna do well.

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What?

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No, that's, that's, yeah.

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Say it not I have nothing.

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I have no comments.

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Yeah.

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Your face is, otherwise, I, I don't.

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Okay.

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I have no comments.

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Alright.

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I really don't.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Different strokes for different folks.

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That's, that's great.

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Yeah.

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Shirts.

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What, what do you mean by different

shirts for different folks?

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Different strokes for different folks.

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Oh, okay.

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I thought you said No,

not different shirts.

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It's another one here.

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Weird phrases.

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No, guys, the other day we

were having a staff meeting.

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Are you at least gonna something, right?

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Are you gonna attribute something?

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No, I, I remember it.

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I remember it.

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PPJ says the weirdest things.

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We could have a whole podcast about

the things that he says that appear.

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To be some, some people know these

sayings, but they're so niche that

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basically nobody knows what he means.

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So recently he said something to

the effect of, or we're, we're

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brainstorming ideas for, I don't

even know what it was anymore, but he

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said, yeah, let's just throw pickles

out the window and see what sticks.

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And so we look at each other

like, did he say what we think?

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He said, what did he, did he just, what

did, what did you, what did you just say?

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And he is like, yeah,

throw pickles at a window.

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Like, like it's just something

that everybody says every day.

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So we're sitting there trying to

figure out and discern what he means.

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And I said, dude, where'd that come from?

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He's like, oh, you

never heard that before?

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I said, no.

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No one's ever heard that before.

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I mean that there's other things.

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Bob's your uncle, I've

never heard that one before.

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Him saying it.

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There's other stuff now.

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Now you're saying different

shirts for different folks.

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Who knows what that even means?

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I been, all right guys,

I just gotta have you.

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Any of you heard that before?

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Throw pickles at a window.

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Has anybody heard that?

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See what sticks.

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Let us know.

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Whatever.

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Listen, man, listen.

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And so now I'm gonna

start using my own things.

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I'm gonna start making it my own stuff.

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Throw, do tamales at the crowd, you know?

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Let's see what happens.

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Okay, well, different tires for

different vehicles, you know?

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Yeah.

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Well, our ladies are meeting today,

but then next month there is no

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women's Bible study because next

month these women's retreats.

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And so ladies, if you are not yet

registered for Women's Retreat, would

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really highly encourage you to do that.

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We still have some time

to to get registered.

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It's gonna be a great trip.

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Great facility good teaching, I trust, and

and just a, a great time of fellowship.

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The, the theme is using our words,

well, women and, and the words, women

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and their words, women of the word.

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And it's, it's gonna be just a, a, a good.

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Examination of, of how our words can

be used for good and for harm, and

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also even for conflict resolution.

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So trust that it'll be a, a

fruitful retreat, and that's

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gonna come up in September.

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So if you're not registered yet,

ladies, time to get registered.

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Time to get on that that ball.

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What's the theme again?

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Women of the word.

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Women of the word?

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Yes.

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Not women.

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N Words.

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It's, it's, it's Women of the word, I

believe is the, the title of the retreat.

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Oh, okay.

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Yeah.

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But the theme is about

women and their words.

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But if we are women, well we, if

they are women of the word, then

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their words will be, ah, also good.

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Okay.

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That's the idea.

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I see the connection.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So I think Women N Words

compass Women's, women N words.

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Women and words.

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That's what I said.

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Is that what you said?

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No.

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Nope.

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Okay.

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Women in words.

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Women N words.

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Yes.

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Women in words, which I see that,

'cause it's both, it's like throw

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pickles out a window, see what happens.

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Different shirts for different folks,

different shirts for different folks.

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Anyways, yeah, sign up

for that should be good.

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Well, let's let's do our DBR.

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We got only two chapters, but

man, they're long chapters.

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They're thick.

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Yeah.

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As I was reading in preparation for this,

I was like, man, this is, this is long.

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And, and the first chapter is continuing.

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It's on the nation.

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So we start out.

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With another nation now in God's target,

in God's sites, and this is Amon and

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the Ammonites, you'll remember them.

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They are actually those that came in

after the the Assyrians carried off the

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northern tribes and they took some of

the cities of Israel there in the north.

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And so they kind of took advantage that

kind of, they did take advantage of God's

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people during a very vulnerable time.

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And God is gonna.

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Exact vengeance upon them.

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You'll note down in verse two, the city

of Rabba Rabba was one of their capital

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cities, their chief cities there.

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We talked about this yesterday,

but down in verse three, you're

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gonna find the word milam.

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And milam was one of their gods.

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And so again, their gods are being

targeted by Yahweh, the true God

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who's going to take them into exile.

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And once more, we find in verse six that

there is still a future for the Ammonites.

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And so God is, is.

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Destroying these, these peoples,

but then also holding out hope that

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they, they will be a future for them

in the millennial kingdom timeframe.

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Notice also verse four, and he says,

why do you boast of your valley's?

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Oh, faithless daughter who trusted in her

treasure saying, who will come against me?

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You'll notice that this is also

similar to what God charged Moab

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with thinking that they were too

good, too strong, too powerful to

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be afflicted or to be overthrown.

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God hates pride, and this is one of

the reasons that he judges the nations.

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He despises the pride

of nations because it.

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Doesn't correspond to reality,

and it attempts to steal glory

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from God alone who deserves pride.

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It's not pride because it's righteous.

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It is his right glory seeking

because that's all that really.

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Is true.

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That's all that matters.

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So here, notice again, God is

opposing them because of their pride.

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Yeah.

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This next section should

sound familiar to us.

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If we remember back from Obadiah, because

there's a lot of overlap here between what

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Jeremiah writes and what Obadiah wrote.

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Obadiah was judging, was

prophesying about God's judgment

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against Edem, and that's what.

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We find next in this section here.

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In fact, Obediah of five has

very similar language to what we

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read about there in verse nine.

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If the grape gatherers came to you,

would they not leave Gleanings?

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If thieves came by night, would they

not destroy enough for them themselves?

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God had had said something

very similar in, I.

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Five, about the destruction that was

gonna come against the Edomites there.

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The Edomites, remember, are

the descendants of Esau.

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And so this goes back to the

relationship of Jacob and Esau, and

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God is so concerned with, with judging.

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The Edomites that he not only talks about

it here in, in the book of Jeremiah,

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but he devotes an entire prophetic

book to it in the book of Obadiah here.

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And I think it goes back to

the fact that this is family.

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This is family turning against family.

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This was e Esau Jacob's brother

turning against his own kinsmen and

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the Edomites and the way that they

were a, a, a perpetual burn the saddle

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of Israel throughout the generations.

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There, and God is going to bring

justice against them for that.

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And so Edman is gonna be judged.

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And, and even we see with the EDEMs,

there's also proud pride that, that she's

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gonna be judged for in, in verse 16.

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The pride of your hearts who

live in the clefts of the rock.

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Remember that edms, they dwelt south

there near the Dead Sea territory

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and what we know as, as Petra today,

and those, those impenetrable.

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Fortresses built into the rocks.

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Literally into the rocks there.

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God is calling out and saying, you

trust in these things and yet your,

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your end is going to come and it's gonna

be swift and it's gonna be thorough.

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In verse 11, he says, leave

your fatherless children.

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I will keep them alive and

let your widows trust in me.

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I, you see something about God here

that is repeated in the New Testament.

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Basically what you're saying is

God saying, I, I'll take care

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of your orphans and your widows.

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Leave them to me.

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I will care for them.

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James will say in the New Testament,

James, the physical brother of Jesus

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or the half brother of Jesus, that is,

he says, true religion, real religion

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is to care for orphans and widows, and

that's because this is God's concern.

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God cares for the weak and the

vulnerable, the powerless God is.

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Astutely aware of their plight,

and he has a soft spot in his heart

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for them, if I can put it that way.

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God doesn't have spots in his heart.

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You get the idea.

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But notice genuine love for God

will result in a love for the

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weak and the vulnerable among us,

and that is the orphans and the

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widows, but that also includes.

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Everyday people that you might come

across the elderly, I think would be

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included in the weak and the vulnerable.

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You could look at young

children or women in general.

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That's why people used to say in the

old times when a ship was going down

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women and children first, and now

it's, I don't know what we say anymore.

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I'm not even sure if we say

that because maybe it's too.

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It's offensive to people perhaps,

but a biblical Christian, someone who

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cares about what God cares about, will

care for the weak and the vulnerable.

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And here you see God caring for the

orphans and the widows who of course

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are some of the most vulnerable.

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Yeah.

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Look, if, if you will, at let's see here.

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Verse 19 and 20.

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God says, for who is like me?

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Who will summon me?

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What shepherd can stand before me?

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And then verse 20 specifically,

therefore, hear the plan that the

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Lord has made against edem and the.

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Purposes that he has formed

against the inhabitants of teman.

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Now keep that, just put a pin in

that, because we're gonna come

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back to that in just a second.

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When we talk about nebuchadnezzar's,

boastful words against qar and

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hazo, which is to the, the nations

coming up, the nomadic tribes.

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But between now and then we

have to deal with Damascus.

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So Damascus, think of

Damascus, the, the Syrians not.

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Us Syrians, but the Syrians, you

have Ben Hayad and you have Haze.

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And, and you remember Ben Hayad was the

one that that was one of the, the, the

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enemies of Israel as, as well as Hael.

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I think Hael was the one that,

that assassinated Ben Hayad.

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And, and one of the prophets, I can't

remember who it may have been, Isaiah was

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weeping when he was speaking with, with.

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Hail because he knew that hail was

going to not only assassinate Ben Haida,

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but then was gonna cause problems for

the northern tribe there in Israel.

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And so the Syrians, we can remember

some of the context there of

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their travails against Israel.

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They were gonna be judged by God

as well and taken off the scene.

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I.

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But now we come to Qar and Hazo

and this is where Babylon is

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going to be on the scene again.

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And, and Babylon is the instrument in of

God's judgment for a lot of these nations.

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Babylon is gonna be the one that he

uses, much like we talked about in

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Habak, not only to bring justice against

Israel, but to bring justice on, on a

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lot of these nations, including these.

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But here we get a foreshadowing of what

Bab Babylon's downfall is gonna be.

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I just read for us a second ago what

we read in verse 20 of chapter 49.

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Therefore here the plan the

Lord has made against e.

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Him and the purposes that he has formed

against the inhabitants of taman.

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Now look over in verse 30, it

says, flee, wander far away.

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Dwell in the deso inhabitants of his or

declares the Lord for Nebuchadnezzar,

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king of Babylon has made a plan against

you and formed purposes against you.

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And so there you see that, that

God is on the one hand saying, I've

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made a plan and I have my purposes.

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And yet there God says Nebuchadnezzar

has his plan and his purposes.

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Now, God was using Nebuchadnezzar's

plan and purposes, but Nebuchadnezzar

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was, was a God to himself.

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In fact, that's what

Habak even talks about.

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He says that, that their

own might was their God.

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And so I think the language there is

intentional to call back to what we just

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read about in verse 20, that that God is

the one with the plan and the purposes.

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And yet from Nebuchadnezzar's perspective,

he thinks he's got his own plan

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and purposes and yet God is the one

behind it using him the whole time.

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We get the, the next nation, the

Elamites, the the nation of Elam.

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This is the, the final nation that

we see here before we get to Babylon.

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And this is we pick up in verse

34 the first year of Zia's Reigns.

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So this is 5 97 BC that

we're dealing with this.

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And this is again, again gonna be judgment

verses 35 through 38, followed by a

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promise of future restoration in verse 39.

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Any guesses why they're

gonna get restored, man.

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I, other than God's glory

during the millennial kingdom.

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I mean, I, I think.

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Part of the purpose of the millennial

kingdom is going to be that it's,

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it's his victory lap in, in essence,

before the ultimate final victory.

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But Satan is bound and Christ is here,

and Christ is reigning and his people

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are there and the church is there.

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It it reigning with Christ.

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I, I think God is, is flexing.

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And I think having the other nations,

there is gonna be a way for God to

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continually magnify his own glory

as they are realizing that all of

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their false gods that we've been

reading about in Jeremiah have been.

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Brought to nothing.

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They are nothing.

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And the only true God

is the God of Israel.

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The only true God is Jesus Christ

reigning on the throne, and yet

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not all of them will be redeemed.

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As we've talked about before,

the the millennial kingdom

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is not a time free from sin.

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They're still gonna be sin.

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They're still gonna need to.

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Put their trust in Jesus.

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We were talking about this at our

community group on Tuesday night about

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Israel, and somebody was asking men,

where do the people like, how are they?

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How are they saved?

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Israel's rejected Christ, and so why?

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Why is God gonna show favor

to them in the future?

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And one of the prophets that we

didn't talk about during our minor

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prophet series, Zacharia talks

about that in chapter 12 into 13.

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He says, there's gonna be a time where

they're gonna look on him, whom they.

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Pears and they're gonna mourn.

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And then he says in chapter 13 that

there's gonna be a fountain that's opened

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up for the forgiveness of their sins.

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And so this is repentance

and faith in Jesus.

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That's true.

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That was gonna be necessary for the

inhabitants of the millennial kingdom.

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That's also gonna be true.

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It's gonna be necessary for the

inhabitants of all these nations

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that are gonna be restored

during the millennial kingdom.

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If they want to be right with God,

they're gonna have to believe the gospel.

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The gospel is still gonna be operative

and, and important for all of these

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nations, and that's gonna be the, the

way that they can glorify Christ the most

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is through faith and repentance in him.

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Well, chapter 50, we get to Babylon.

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And, and this is the

judgment against Babylon.

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And, and this is one of the longest

sections that we have of any of the,

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the judgments against the nation saved

for the nation of Israel themselves

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because of, of how strong and mighty

Babylon was and the wickedness there.

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You'll note in verses two through

three that it says A nation

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from the north is going to come

against Babylon and overthrow her.

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We know from history and also Daniel,

that the MEO Persians are gonna be

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the ones that come against Babylon.

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Now, they were not.

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North geographically, but they

would attack Babylon from the north.

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That was often the, the direction of

the attack of a, of an opposing army.

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And so they're gonna come from the

north, even though geographically

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they were located east of the the,

the people of Babylon, the, the, the,

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the north was known prophetically

as the direction of judgment.

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And so I think that's

why that's used here.

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Even the, the, the Meads and Persians

are, are east from Babylon itself.

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There.

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Verses four through 10, Jeremiah

predicts the return of the, the

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Jews here under Cyrus the mead.

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That, that God in judging Babylon is gonna

set free his people and even allow them

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to return and send them back to Jerusalem.

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So there's hope for the, the people,

even before they go into exile,

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that this is going to take place.

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Remember, Jeremiah has also prophesied

about the 70 years of captivity.

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And so Jeremiah is a lot of hard truths

for the pe for God's people, but there's.

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There's hope there contained

in this message as well.

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Verses 11 through 16, Babylon is

going to exalt over the destruction

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of Jerusalem, but at the same time

face her own destruction in the end.

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And so this is hey, not so fast.

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Don't, don't bow up too much

because of what's coming there.

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Verses 17 through 20, you get a quick

summary here in, in chapter 50 of

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Israel's history, the North and south

fell to Assyria and Babylon respectively.

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Judgment is going to come

on those nations that, that.

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Cause the north and south to fall

for their crimes against God.

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And Israel's ultimately gonna be

restored, but that full restoration is

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gonna come in the millennial kingdom.

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This is such an interesting one because

Babylon is being judged for what God

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used them to do, and it's one of those

God's sovereignty man's responsibility.

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Dilemmas that we find

ourselves in a again.

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And so thi this is fascinating as we

read through this, even down to verse

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40, when when Babylon's going to end

up like Sodom and Gomorrah, she's gonna

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be completely destroyed and wiped away.

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And yet a, a lot of what Babylon does,

she does in, in execution of God's

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plan, not just for Israel, but as we've

been reading these other nations too.

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Babylon was used to judge.

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The nations.

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And so it's a, an an interesting

juxtaposition of the fact that

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they're gonna suffer for doing what

they did, even though what they did

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God had ordained for them to do.

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So one of our, our missionaries that

we love and, and know not one of our,

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our church supportive missionaries

necessarily, but, but one that we

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are, are connected with Eric Zeller.

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He got to go to, to Iran.

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I think a, a couple of years ago, and he

and his son went and looked at, at a lot

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of the old sites of where Babylon was and

where the city was and, and everything.

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And, and so as we read here, the

ruins, that's what it is still today.

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And so if you go there and, and I

wouldn't encourage you go into Iran

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today, but if you, if you were able to

get into Iran today, you could go and

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look at a lot of these sites and all

that's left is the rubble it, the, the.

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Prophecy about the, the destruction

like Sodom and Gomorrah has come true.

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And that's what you're gonna

find if you show up there.

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So God's word is, is true.

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It's reliable, we can bank on it.

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And when he says This is what's

gonna happen, this is what happens

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and nothing is gonna change

that or, or alter that outcome.

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I heard you say that you're

setting up a Compass Bible

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Church, nor Texas trip to Iran.

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Yes.

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Is that what you just said?

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I'd like to be led in that trip.

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I'll sign up.

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Yeah, let's do it.

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Yeah.

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You wanna lead that trip?

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Is that what you said?

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I'd like for you to lead it.

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Okay.

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So that we can follow you into Iran.

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Into Iran.

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Yeah.

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Okay, man.

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I hope we get to go to

Israel someday though.

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That would be, that'd be awesome.

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I hear if you go now it's

pretty cheap and empty.

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Well, yeah, it'd be a nice time to go.

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Could be.

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Second best time would've

been during COVID-19.

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All Cire.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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One of my friends.

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That's a good time.

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That time was awesome.

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One of my friends is a, a tour

guide over there and he would do

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these videos on YouTube of the

sites and there was nobody there.

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That's crazy.

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So they got unprecedented access to,

to areas where there were no tourists.

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Amazing.

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Which is heartbreaking for them.

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'cause that's their number one industry.

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Yeah.

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It used to be ag agriculture and

agriculture's still major in that region,

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but, but predominantly it's tourism.

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So hopefully we can support them

in the future at some point.

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Anyways, so there you go.

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Judgment against the nations and, and

a lot of what we talked about yesterday

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as far as our application points

are, are, are true for these as well.

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Babylon remember is going to also

represent the, the future final foe of

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the world system that is going to be

defeated by Christ in the end as well.

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So we read about that in

the Book of Revelation.

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So while this I think is dealing with

the near term, there still is a, a

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little bit of a, the foreshadowing

of the eschatological judgment of God

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against the world's system that he's

gonna pour out in in the end times.

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Dense.

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Yep.

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Thick.

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Well, let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, we thank you for your word

and and for Jeremiah, and we're

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almost done with this book.

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And and yet it's, it's such a, a

good thing for us to, to go through

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books that are, are hard, that

are dense, that are thick, and to

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wrestle with these things and to ask

ourselves the, the hard questions.

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Okay, how do I take this and apply

it to where I am, where I sit today?

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And there yet there's, there's

good to be found there.

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It's so much.

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More valuable for us to do this

than to pursue so many other things

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that we might spend our time on.

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And so I just pray that you keep us

in your word and help us to endure

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and persevere when it does get

difficult and to understand as much

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as we possibly can by your spirit.

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So we pray this in Jesus' name, amen.

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Keep your Bibles tuning again

tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bye bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for

listening to another episode of

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the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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We're honored to have you join us.

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This is a ministry of Compass

Bible Church in north Texas.

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You can find out more information

about our Church at compassntx.org.

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Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said