00:00 Welcome to the Daily Bible Podcast

00:33 Discussing Apostasy and Salvation

05:33 The Importance of Community in Faith

09:53 Exploring Zechariah's Visions

12:39 Reflecting on Personal Responsibility

12:43 Modern Imagery in Biblical Prophecy

13:09 Interpreting John's Vision

13:51 Symbolism of the Warrior King

14:32 The Return of Christ: Imagery and Expectations

15:01 Biblical Imagery and Modern Correlations

18:11 Zechariah's Final Vision

19:17 The Priest-King in the Millennial Kingdom

21:17 Fasting and True Worship

21:56 Future Peace and Prosperity for Israel

22:34 Judgment on Israel's Enemies

22:51 The Triumphal Entry and Prophecy

24:39 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

Hey, your welcome back to Saturday's

edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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Hey, Hey.

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Hey, I guess it's not welcome back.

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Welcome to Saturday's edition

to the daily Bible podcast.

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That's right.

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And if you're new with

us, thanks for joining.

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We're happy that during the QR code.

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And join our team.

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Wasn't the best.

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Come to compass 1 0 1.

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It feels like we're doing a Sunday

morning thing is what I'm saying.

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Okay.

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This is how you started every podcast.

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I know, I know.

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It just feels like Sunday.

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And I didn't change.

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You changed.

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I don't even recognize you anymore.

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It's cause I got a haircut.

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That's all.

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Well, speaking of apostasy.

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Um, what.

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Let's just be clear.

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I have not gone apostate.

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Well, no intentions from our framework

of how we start our podcasts.

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No, you have fallen away from our normal.

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Okay.

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And now you're just dissatisfied with it.

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I had an apostasy.

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You want something new and different?

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You're unsatisfied with

the tried and true.

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And now you're like, well,

give me something else.

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Give me something better.

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All right, Mr.

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Looking over the Android fence.

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I could talk to me about that.

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Hold on a second.

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Talking about the grass is greener

on the, on the Android guy is just

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bigger and more aesthetically pleasing.

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Okay.

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Uh, we talked about a pasta CSPA.

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We did tell him that people are terrified.

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People have been texting

all last 10 minutes.

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And wants to know, and they're

concerned that they don't go a postie.

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How does someone make sure.

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They don't become unopposed.

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Literally my first point tomorrow.

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Make sure you don't become a pasta?

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No.

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How do I know?

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I won't.

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That's a question, right?

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Questions.

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Yes.

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It is, are we becoming a liberal church?

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Yeah, I'm preaching interrogatives

rather than imperatives.

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He does this.

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I don't know if I buckle up.

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And I'm doing it differently.

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I'm doing the whole exp

exposition of the passage.

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And then I'm talking through these

three questions that flow out.

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This is, so this is so different.

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I'm not sure that I can approve of this.

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Well, I'll listen, but I don't

know if I'm going to like it.

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Okay.

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Fair.

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But that's anyways, that's what

we're dealing with in, in what

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is effectively point number one

is how do I know I'm not Judas?

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Um, well, there's certainly

going to be a lot that that's

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left on the chopping room floor.

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And so this is definitely a good

commercial to listen to the podcast,

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but give us some of the high points

then and give us some of the things that

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maybe aren't going to make it in the

sermon that are maybe less than obvious.

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How do I make sure that I

don't go a POS state, man?

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I don't want to do that.

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I don't want to.

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I don't want to be on the news.

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For a, this guy was going to a church

and he had a family and a wife and a kid,

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or this woman was, you know, following

her husband and doing all the things.

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She was Betty crocker.

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And then one day she got up and

left and she's no longer a Christian

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and all the things help us.

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Well, MacArthur is the one that I think

has, has said it most often though, to a

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reality that other people have suggested.

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And that is if you could lose

your salvation, you would.

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Um, and he built that off.

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The idea that if you didn't do anything

to gain your salvation, you can't

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do anything to lose your salvation.

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And so if you are truly in Christ and

that's the question, and we're going to

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get to John 15, where John talks a lot

about, or Jesus talks about a biding

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in Christ and what that looks like.

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Uh, then there's no reason to fear

that all of a sudden you're gonna

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wake up one day and be severed

from the vine that you're not going

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to be abiding in him any longer.

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Uh, we are not the ones that keep us safe.

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There are realities that the scripture

teaches even the good works that we do.

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Our works, that he works

in wills within us.

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Philippians two talks about that, or

even what Peter talks about in second,

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Peter, uh, first Peter chapter one.

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When he says that we are being

guarded by God's power through

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faith for that salvation ready

to be revealed in the last time.

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That's one of the most encouraging

verses to me is the idea that

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man, I'm not keeping myself saved.

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It's God's power guarding me through

the faith that he's given me to believe.

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Uh, for that salvation ready to

be revealed in the last time.

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Uh, Peter also though in

second Peter chapter one.

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Does talk about the importance of

examining ourselves, uh, in, in

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confirming our calling and election.

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In fact, that's the language he uses.

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He used, he says, do your best to confirm

your calling an election for if you

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practice these things, you will never

fall and there will be guaranteed for

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you an entrance into eternity, basically.

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And he's listed all of these

different things right before that

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virtue supplementing our faith

with virtue and godliness and love.

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And, and he says, if you're

practicing these things, you can have

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confidence that you will never fall.

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And so in a sense, that's part of it.

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We need to examine our lives and

say, Hey, do I see fruit in my life?

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And we need to say, am I.

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My moving in the right direction

as a believer, my growing in

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Christ-likeness as a believer, if

I'm, if do I desire these things?

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Am I intentional about these things?

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Uh, those are going to keep

you on the straight and narrow.

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The warning passages and Hebrews,

which, you know, back in, in California,

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you were preaching Hebrews to the

students, to the high school students.

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I was preaching to the college

students at the same time.

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Yeah.

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In.

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We even have the same title

for the, uh, the series.

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We ripped it off from a lot of other

people that have used the same one.

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Yeah.

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Jesus is better.

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That's pretty classic.

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Yeah.

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I ripped it off.

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First is all I'm saying.

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Um, okay.

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I copied and pasted.

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No, but, uh, those

warning passages, right?

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There's a lot of questions.

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Can I lose my salvation?

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Because Hebrews six tells me I need

to be careful because it's impossible

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to be renewed to repentance.

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Can I lose my salvation?

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Because he says, you know, be careful

as you drift and fail to reach the rest.

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And those are like those guard rails

on a, on a mountain road that keep you

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hugging the mountain that keep you from

saying I'm going to get as close as I

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possibly can to the edge in it fall.

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If you're worried about falling away.

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I mean, I'd say number

one, that's a good start.

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Uh, that you're cognizant of that danger.

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I think the second step from that is.

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Clinton to Christ as

much as you possibly can.

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You know, grow as much as you

possibly can in your walk with

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him and your affections for him.

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What if.

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I'm suffering a dry season, and I'm

afraid that in my dry season where I feel

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spiritually parched and malnourished.

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That, you know, I'll do something stupid.

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Like what about that sense

of like, man, I just.

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You talked about trusting Christ,

but I know me and I can't trust me.

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And therefore I'm just worried.

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That I'm going to do something dumb,

especially when I'm feeling dry already.

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And I'm just kind of in a

pattern of sin now, what.

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That's why community is such

an important part of this.

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Um, Uh, pursuing Christ in the

context of, of a community of

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brothers and sisters in Christ.

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We talked about this a little bit

yesterday, that when you don't

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have that accountability, when you

don't have people who know you and

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who have access to your life, Uh,

it's easy to hide in the darkness.

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And so I would say.

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Sit down with a brother,

sit down with a sister.

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And say, Hey, here's where I'm at and

be vulnerable, be transparent with them.

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Um, because that, whatever it might

cost you to do that, whether that's.

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The perceived godliness that you've

established for yourself or the

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respect and in your mind or whatever.

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Uh, number one, I think they're going

to respect you more for being honest

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with them in seeking that, that help.

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And looking to them for, for

encouragement and accountability,

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but, but number two, whatever the

cost may be, it's far more worth it to

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pay that cost now than to potentially

drift and find yourself walking away.

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I mean, I don't want to give anybody

false assurance listening to this

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that you may not be on that road.

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Um, you know, if you are

in a dry season and you are

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entertaining San and you, you, you.

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You continue to drift down that and

you don't ever respond to the Spirit's

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prompting to say, Hey, this is.

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Emergency you turn flash flashing lights.

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Get off this path.

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This is the, this is dangerous.

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That that is how apostasy happens.

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It doesn't happen.

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Like you wake up one day and

you're like, I'm done with Jesus.

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I don't want anything

to do with them anymore.

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If you wake up one day and you realize,

man, I'm a million miles away from Christ.

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I don't know how to get back.

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I don't think it's even worth

it to try to do back anymore.

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And then you're gone.

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And the differences.

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What do you do with

the Spirit's prompting?

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Between the initial steps off that's

the straight narrow path in that.

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That point where you're you're

beyond the reach anymore.

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I love the idea that one of the ways

it got preserved us is through the

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community, the body of believers.

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Um, and probably one of the scariest

and hardest things for most people

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to wrap their minds around is doing

that well is not second nature.

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Uh, it's hard to do community

well, because it means that

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you must not a choice here.

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You must pursue vulnerability, genuine

relational connection with people, which

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means that you're being real with them.

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Honest.

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And that honesty is what allows the

doors to be open for confession and

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for prayer and for support the kind

of things that we all really need.

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We're just not good at that right now,

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our privacy and we love our individuality.

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And giving that up to a community

setting is really hard for us.

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Give us one more encouragement

for why it would be good for us

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before we jump into Zachariah five.

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Y what would be good for his community?

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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I mean, it's, it's just, it's God's,

it's God's prescription for all of this.

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I mean, when we look at.

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And how.

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Why is the church worth it?

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Why is it because this

is what God has done.

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I was talking with somebody about

baptism today that, that pulses it

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we've been baptized into one body

of believers we've been placed

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into, which is what that word means.

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So we, as believers have been placed

into the body of Christ, which again

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is only realized in the local church.

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And so God's designed for you as

a Christian is to live your life

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out within the community, the

brothers and sisters in Christ.

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And he's given you them to be able

to be that support structure and

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for you to support them as well.

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In your pursuit of Christ

likeness, and that's such a gift.

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He hasn't called us to be lone Rangers and

said, good luck, figuring this one out.

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Uh, he's given us not only his spirit,

but he's given us the body of Christ

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to, to walk through that with us.

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We were designed for this.

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Or designed for community.

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So it's, it's his prescription

because it's, what's good for us.

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We were made for this and we do it right.

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It's something magical happens.

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It's like, it's like the secret cheat

code that unlocks who we're meant to be.

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He does this through our community.

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And so as hard as it

is would encourage you.

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If you want to avoid a posse.

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Everything that pastor PJ said

do so within the body of Christ

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in the community of believers,

be open, be vulnerable, be truth.

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Truthful to who you are to

what you're, what you're doing.

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And then God, God's going

to use that for work.

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We're confident of that.

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Yeah.

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And tune in Sunday.

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Cause we're gonna be talking

about this even more.

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That's right.

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Yeah, we're gonna talk about how do

I know I'm not, or how do I know?

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I'm not going to be Judas.

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How do I, what do I do

if I suspect somebody is.

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And what do I do when

somebody proves to be.

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Um, so that's kind of our paradigm

that we're going to walk through.

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And everything's a question you said.

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Right now everything's

a question right now.

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I mean, I'm going to answer the question.

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So we'll see.

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The point is the.

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Well, I get to be seen.

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I might end with more

questions than I started with.

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I'll just raise, I'll raise my voice at

the end of every one of my sentences.

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So then it turned to John chapter 13.

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Like it.

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All right guys, let's speaking

of the Bible, turn to Zechariah

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chapter 5, 6, 7, 8, and nine.

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I can only do one of those.

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Which one do you want to turn to?

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Chapter five.

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Okay.

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Let's start there.

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That seems right.

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Um, all right, verses one through

four here's vision number six,

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and it's this flying squirrel and

this is a pretty sizable scroll.

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I haven't seen any squirrels

here that were flying.

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Uh, well, I haven't either.

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Um, but this one is in California.

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I saw them all the time.

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And they've jumped from tree to tree.

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Scroll scroll, not squirrel.

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Oh, scroll.

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Okay.

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The confusion from scroll to scroll.

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Yeah.

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Got it.

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Uh, yeah.

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And it's this flying scroll and

the scroll contained curses for

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all those who had disobeyed God.

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And so this is a vision of

judgment on both God's people

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and the nations for those that

reject him and in donut bay, him.

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Implied is that the content

of the scroll is God's word.

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And God's word is the

instrument of judgment.

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And, uh, and that will be the

case in the end is going to be

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the word of God is going to be

the indictment against everyone.

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Um, for what they've done.

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Uh, verses five through 11

then is vision number seven.

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And this is of a woman in a basket and

she's floating down the river and, uh, The

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prophet list, the lid, it says, look, this

is wickedness and shoves the lid back down

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and shoved her back out into the water.

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It's funny one.

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Um, comical.

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It is.

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It is w as men it's comical.

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If you're a woman dishes, it's

a funny, it's a funny visual.

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If you're imagining what it looks like.

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It's funny in my mind.

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Well, it is.

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And then these unclean

birds come in and take that.

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The, uh, the basket and

place it in Babylon.

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Uh, it seems that this

is, is doing two things.

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Number one, it's talking about the need

to purge evil and wickedness from Israel.

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Um, and then number two, it's

pointing to the future of the

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renewed Babylonian empire, which is

going to rise during the end times.

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And that's going to be

the tribulation period.

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Uh, revelation 17 through 18 talks

about the new Babylon at that point.

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Okay.

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So here's a strange question provoked

by what we're reading in this

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passage, but it's not exactly related.

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God, when he speaks.

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I can't wait for these questions.

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When you, when you enter them this way,

it's like, okay, what is this going to be?

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God spoke to Zachariah using

at that point, modern imagery.

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You know, like the squirrel.

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Not this girl, this girl scroll.

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He didn't talk by a squirrel.

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By the squirrel.

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Not yet.

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But he's a flying scroll, which

would have made sense to him.

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Uh, he, he used, you know,

the woman in a basket.

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I would imagine it's a

basket of its period appear.

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Basket of its time.

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It's not going to be a basket like you.

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And I would look at, at home

like hobby lobby or something.

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Yeah.

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So when God spoke to them,

he was using ancient imagery.

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That made sense.

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In the future.

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When God comes back when Jesus returns.

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Do we expect him to

literally be on a horse?

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Do we expect chariots?

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Do we expect squirt?

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I can't.

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I got to stuck now, do we expect squirrel?

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Squirrels squirrels.

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Scrolls.

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This is, I've never

seen this happen before.

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You can't do.

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I messed up.

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Did this to yourself?

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I did.

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It's my fault.

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So when God speaks to us, should

we expect him to speak with

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an ancient tongue as it were?

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Or should we expect that when he returns,

he's going to do it with updated.

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Like images that will make sense to

the, to the audience of that time.

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Uh, somebody was asking, I think it was,

my son was asking me this the other day.

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I think Josh was asking.

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Good job.

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Yeah, it was one of my

kids and it was either.

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It's probably an yeah.

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It could have been Annie too.

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Yeah.

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But they're talking about

the future the end times.

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And they were like, you know, If

John saw all of these, all of these

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things and it is for the future.

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Why wouldn't he wouldn't he

have been like, wait a minute.

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What is that?

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That's a helicopter.

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And that's.

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And the weird, and then the

horse's head and all that.

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Right.

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And.

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And that's what we're left to realize

is in the end, John does his best to

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describe what he sees in the language

that he had access to at the time.

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His modern vernacular

modern images for him.

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Yeah.

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In that day.

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Uh, so in the end, could it

be that it is the helicopters

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and the, and things like that.

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It's, it's possible as

Jesus riding a horse.

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I, I don't have any problem with that.

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I mean, I, I have no problem

seeing that be that the.

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Reality.

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What if he rose up in the 4runner?

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Is that like a white

4runner instead, you know?

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I think there's symbolism in the, what

the horse represents even still today.

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The majestic war Steed.

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Like there's a reason

why that's a concept.

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Today.

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And so I, I, I don't think there's

anything else that's replaced that as far

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as like, That's a symbol of the, the war.

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You know, the warrior, the warrior king,

like I don't, I don't think the warrior

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king mentality has moved away from that.

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We even still romanticize the middle ages

and the true king Arthur and that the

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dominant Knight on the horse and things.

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I mean, that still is something that is

held on and probably because of the Bible.

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Probably because of that, the impact

that the Bible has on, undefining

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what it looks like for a warrior king.

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To be pictured.

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So I guess my question primarily then is,

should we expect any upgraded or updated,

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I guess not graded, but updated imagery.

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At the return of Christ.

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I mean, here's what I know for sure.

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We're not going to be.

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One left a wondering going, is that

Jesus or is that just like some guy.

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We're going to know

what's him and whatever.

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However, he comes back, whatever

he comes back, riding on.

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And in fact, at that point, when

he's come back on the horse,

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we're, we're following him.

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So we're going to know what he's on.

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Even before the rest of the

world sees what he's on.

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Yeah.

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It's not going to be

like we're left going.

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What?

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Um, I think when we get into troubles

and when we begin to take some of

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the biblical imagery and try to

find what the correlation could

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be, you know, you get a revelation.

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You're like, well, this is clearly the.

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It's a lot of cock helicopters.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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And it's like, well, we

don't, we don't know.

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Okay.

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It could literally be locust given power

to state and turned loose and be weird.

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It'd be weird, but it's possible.

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah.

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The plagues.

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Yeah.

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All that.

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Okay.

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So I guess that, that

answers the question here.

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The scroll flying squirrel.

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This is what he's looking at.

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This is what he's interpreting and maybe,

maybe God will do something different too.

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To suit the audience that he appears to.

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And it'll make sense then.

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Could be.

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Yeah or not, he could

be actually on a horse.

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He could actually be on a horse.

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Well, it'd be interesting.

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That's the direction I tend to lean.

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Yeah.

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Aye.

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I guess I, yeah.

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I'm like, I understand that.

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And I could see how the horse makes sense.

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I wonder though, if the horse, I guess I

don't want to over symbolize what's there,

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but what it represents is the power.

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And the, the speed and the

agility of the one writing it.

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So I wonder if there's a way that Jesus

could still do all those maneuvers,

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but not wearing a robe with a sash.

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I guess that's another part of it.

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He's wearing a robe.

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He's wearing a sash.

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Yeah.

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Is that, is that legit?

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Should I be expecting a guy wearing a

robe and a sash with, you know, ancient

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near Eastern sandals on his feet?

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I don't, I don't think so, but if his

robe is dipped in blood, Does that

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actually mean he's wearing a road

or is it that his clothing, whatever

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it is for that timeframe is, is.

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You know, covered with blood because

it is the vanquishing of his enemies.

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Yeah, I guess I've, I've never, I've

never entertained the thought that it

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would be anything, but what it describes

it to be, but wouldn't it feel then

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like, okay, this doesn't fit the time.

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As Jesus locked in to Jesus

locked in the year 38.

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In other words, his clothing

has look as everything.

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Is, is that his person

for time and eternity?

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Well, he always be wearing a robe.

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Well, he always looked like.

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You know, a man from the 30 eighties.

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I guess I'm comfortable with that.

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That's that's the time period that

he chose to enter into that's who

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he was is the incarnate Christ.

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Um, Yeah, I.

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I don't, I'm not a Saint, I'm not saying

he should wear checker vans or anything.

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I'm just out of curiosity, like what.

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specific.

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If you were wearing them recently.

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Just out of nowhere.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And, and, you know, John

says he's riding a horse.

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He doesn't say he's riding

something like a horse.

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He says, he's riding a horse to Shea.

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Okay.

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Back to Zechariah chapter six.

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Yeah.

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Thank you for that.

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You just want them on a Harley.

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Um, I'm curious.

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And as to what that's gonna look

like, I don't, I don't run to

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anything else that has to be overly

modernized because the power.

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I mean, Jesus beats his

enemies by our word.

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The the time.

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Sure.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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So it's not as though he has

to come on an F 16 fighter

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jet or a Raptor and hold that.

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Right.

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Not thinking that I'm just thinking more

of the way that he communicates with us.

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Right.

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He communicates in a way that is.

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Comprehensible to us.

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And I'm not saying that imagery

is in comprehensible, but it's

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certainly an acronystic for us.

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But perhaps that's the point

it'd be so arresting, right?

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Maybe.

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Everybody to be like, this is different.

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I think a guy floating out of

the sky pretty much anyway, is

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going to be pretty arresting.

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It comes in a Volkswagen bus.

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Floating.

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At this guy.

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BP.

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Alright, is that grad chapter six?

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Uh, here's vision number eight.

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This is the final vision.

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And this one is for chariots that

emerged from the mountains of bronze.

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I got the chariots pulled by

red and black and white and

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dappled horses, respectively.

534

And these represents, again, God's

judgment on the nations of the earth.

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Anytime there's four coming from the Lord.

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Typically it's going to be judgment.

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The four angels going to the

four corners that there's.

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God judges and fours a lot.

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And so here we see that again,

this is the judgment of the Alydar.

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You again, pastor BJ 40.

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Stop that.

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This is God's judgment on the

nations of the earth, which will

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occur prior to the establishment

there of the millennial kingdom.

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We see the four horses, like we were just

talking about revelation chapter six.

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I'm not saying there's a one-to-one

correlation, but there is a similarity.

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There's a parallel there.

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It seems.

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And God's spirit is going to

rest, uh, Zechariah six, eight

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when the enemy in the north is

finally once and for all destroyed.

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And remember that the enemy and the

north is the direction that God often

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brought judgment against his people.

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So this is the opposite of that.

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The judgment is going

to come to the north.

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To those that threatened God's

people that would be new Babylon

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in the, in the millennial kingdom.

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Uh, beforehand is that great.

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6, 9, 3 15.

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Here's an interlude in a crown is

placed upon the high priest head.

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And this is symbolizing.

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Uh, not that the high priest is going to

be the king, but that there one day will

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be a king who is both priest and king.

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And that's going to come again

during the millennial kingdom.

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That's going to be Jesus.

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Uh, verse 13, the council, a

peace shall be between them both.

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Um, there will be harmony between the

office of priest and king, because it will

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be held by the one Messiah again, here.

567

Uh, you know, I, I, I struggle a little

bit, I don't know, PR if you came across

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this with the ESPs rendering of this.

569

Uh, because it seems like it's separating

these offices rather than combining them.

570

And in fact, I looked up the, the, the

NASB, uh, the Lexan English Bible, the

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new king James version of the NIV, the

NLT, the legacy standard Bible in none

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of them make this separation there.

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Uh, between the two offices, the

way that ESV does, in fact, in

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the, uh, Christian standard Bible.

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Um, I'm sorry, the, uh,

ch the NASB, it says.

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He will bear honor and sit

and rule on his throne.

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Thus, he will be a priest on his throne

and the council of peace will be between

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the two offices, priest, and king.

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So it's not separating them out there.

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It's, it's really pointed to the fact

that Christ is going to hold both of them.

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And I just feel like the

ESV for whatever reason.

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It seems to, to differentiate

these two offices in.

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Preserve the split a little bit more

than I'm comfortable with because he

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says, and there shall be a priest.

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And so it's like you got the king

and there should be a priest.

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Instead of realizing like these other

translations do, this is held by one

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person and that person is the Messiah.

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Yeah.

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It is a curious translation,

but they do have that little

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subscript there, which says.

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It says and there they also say, or

he shall be preached on his throne.

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Aye.

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I suppose the language does support it.

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At least the grammatic, the

underlying grammar supports it.

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Uh, wha where Haya.

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And he, or it chubby.

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You know, this shall be the thing.

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So it's it's is a, an

appropriate translation.

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The question is, is that the best one?

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And that's the question, right?

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Well, this is pointed to the one

that's going to rain as both priest

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and king in the millennial kingdom.

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Zachariah chapter seven,

then the people want to know.

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Uh, verses one through three, if

they should continue to fast during

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the fifth month, which was the

month the temple fell on Jerusalem.

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They're saying, Hey, we're

rebuilding the temple.

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Should we keep doing this?

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Is this what we're supposed to do?

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Uh, and, and they're, they're

chastised in response in verses four

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through seven for having fasted for

the wrong reasons to begin with.

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And in God kind of says, you weren't

doing this for the right reasons.

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You were doing this for the wrong reasons.

613

And so they still needed to repent.

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And that was again, part of Zechariah.

615

His purpose in his ministry was to.

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To call them to still hate.

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They're still sending the

camp, get the sin out.

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And this is one of the areas here.

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Make sure your motives are right.

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And when you approach God for

worship, you're worshiping

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him and not something else.

622

Yeah.

623

True.

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It is more important than the posture.

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He doesn't want your externals.

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He wants your heart.

627

Right.

628

Yep.

629

Chapter eight, then verses one through 17.

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The future favor of the Lord

is going to be upon us people.

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And that's what we see described here.

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The coming peace and prosperity

of zine as the header there,

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this is the millennial kingdom.

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Uh, this is when things are

going to be going really well.

635

This is when Israel is going to

be at peace from her enemies.

636

Uh, verses 18 through 23, they're fast are

going to turn to joy and the people will

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seek out the Lord and remember the Lords.

638

Uh, the blessings upon them and

realize the Lord's blessings upon them.

639

Um, and, and it's good at this point

to remember that that they're still

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facing significant opposition in terms

of rebuilding the temple in the city.

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So th this is casting that hope in

that vision for the future, when that

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will all go away and there will be no

more opposition to the people of God.

643

Chapter nine then verses one

through eight, the coming

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judgment on Israel's enemies.

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Many.

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See this as a reference to

Alexander the great and his conquest

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of the land, that this is an

imminent judgment that's coming.

648

Um, not necessarily the eternal judgment.

649

But that Alexander is going to

come through and, and, and take

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out all of these peoples that

were, uh, opposed to, to God, into.

651

To God's people.

652

Uh, verses nine through 13 Israel's

ultimate deliverance is going to come

653

from the Lord's provision of a king who

would bring peace and putting it into

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war, but not like they would expect.

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And this is the passage that we've

covered recently with the triumphal entry.

656

This is the one that's that's read.

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Oftentimes during Easter behold,

your king is coming to you.

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Lowly humble mounted.

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On a donkey.

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Um, and, and yet the context you get, why

they expected a conquering king, because

661

so much of this language, including

verses 14 through 17, Is is focused

662

on the conquering of Israel's enemies.

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And so even this, seeing Jesus

enter in, there's a reason why

664

they didn't immediately go to,

oh, he's humble and lowly on this

665

donkey, we should expect a suffering

servant, not a conquering Messiah.

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I at least I can empathize with the

people of Israel that they got a wrong.

667

I understand why they got it wrong.

668

Totally.

669

And part of what's going on here

is that often prophecy doesn't.

670

It doesn't flow in the way

that you think it should.

671

It's not necessarily

a chronological thing.

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It's a, again, we we've used this

illustration before, but like

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mountain peaks that look like

they're right next to each other.

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Oftentimes there are valleys between

the verses that you can't see.

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And so, even though it is true

in verse nine, Jesus did come

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lowly and mounted on a donkey.

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He is coming back as a conquering

king and he will vanquish the foe

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and there will be a blood bath.

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There will be.

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And that's going to be

the rope dipped in blood.

681

That's right.

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Or the clothes, it could

be more than a robe.

683

It could be, could be like, I don't know.

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Cammo camel pants, what's

a boots or something.

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Kilt.

686

Good day.

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I don't know, sweat pants.

688

No, definitely not that.

689

All right.

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Genes.

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I could see that.

692

How about.

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Khakis.

694

Um, he's not going into the office suit.

695

He's doing, you know, he's doing business.

696

I guess if you're thinking like

a, you know, like an assassin, I

697

guess, suit, I suppose, but a ninja.

698

No, probably not that.

699

All right.

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Well, Hey, keeping your Bibles.

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Let's pray and we'll be

done with this episode.

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Got thanks for your word and for the

encouragement that we find there in

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thanks for the hope in the future for

Israel, but also for us as believers.

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And we look forward to that day.

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In the meantime, as we talked about

at the very beginning, keep us.

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Uh, Lord, keep us by your power.

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Um, guard our hearts and keep us

believing by your power through

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faith for that salvation ready

to be revealed in the last time.

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That last day in hasten, the coming

of that day, we pray in Christ's name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Are y'all doing it again

tomorrow for another episode

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of the daily Bible podcast.