00:00 Introduction and Technical Difficulties

01:07 Humorous Banter and Self-Control

02:05 Ezekiel's Symbolic Actions

05:49 Judgment on Jerusalem

11:27 The Day of the Lord

15:50 Defilement of the Temple

21:37 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

Book Recommendation: Respectable Sins, Jerry Bridges

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another episode

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Even if you're still with us, that

is, I understand the last three

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days have been a little rough.

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'cause uh, you didn't get

so much a pastor rods.

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Mike, come in through.

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And here's the reason why.

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Pastor PJ and I had a fight.

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And he said, you know what?

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If this is what you, if it's

what you're going to do this,

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are you going to treat me.

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I'm going to get you back somehow.

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And I said, ah, we'll see about that.

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Next thing, you know, I'm

not coming through on the

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podcast, so we figured it out.

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We've worked it out.

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We're now friends again.

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And so now you can hear me again.

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And if you believe that, then

we've got some beach front

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property to sell you here.

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North Texas.

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That is just excellent.

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If you can purchase it sight unseen.

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That'd be ideal.

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That would be great.

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Yeah.

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Actually we have no idea what happened.

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Yeah.

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We were testing the connection.

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I don't know if it happens and by the

way, a lot of you guys, several of

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you guys reached out to me, I'm sure.

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Same for you, pastor PJ.

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To let us know.

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Thank you for that super grateful

that you helped put that on a radar.

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Uh, we don't know we're going to,

we're going to keep spot testing

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it and see if we can figure it out.

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Or if we, if we can recreate

it, that'd be ideal.

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And see if we can recreate it and

maybe figure out what the issue is.

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Yeah.

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Well,

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Hopefully, he's not doing that right now.

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We don't think so because we just tested

it a second ago and it worked out fine.

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It's fine.

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So we're hopeful that and optimistic

that it's not going to happen again.

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So here's, what's crazy.

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So while we record this, we both

wear headphones and the headphones

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tell us what it sounds like.

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Right?

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Give us our microphone audio.

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And when we were recording,

it was fine in our headphones.

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It was so fun.

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We sounded so good, guys.

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You don't even know there's

the best ones we've ever done.

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Likely.

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You fidget a lot, by the way, I'm noticing

I I'm, I'm setting my space in order.

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That's what I'm doing.

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But when I talk, I do talk with my hands.

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So.

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That I can't stay, tend to hit things

when you talk with your hands, because I

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have a microphone right in front of me.

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That's really hard not to hit.

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I talk with my hands and I'm

used to talking to people.

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Right here.

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Speaking of self control, that's going

to be the next men's Bible study message.

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Isn't it.

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And I would preach first Corinthians

chapter nine, but someone's like,

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oh, let's just use it for some non

discipline related spirit, spirit.

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The spirit like, uh, what was it again?

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Hope, faithfulness.

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Hope.

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Got to have discipline to have hope, you

know, what got to have discipline to have.

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Speaking of hope and faithfulness and

the Bible let's jump into the Bible.

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Alright.

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Oh, Hey, can we, okay.

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Tomorrow's podcast.

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We're going to talk about

our Dallas football.

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Experience experience.

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Okay.

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And that it was okay.

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Tomorrow's podcast.

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Zico five.

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Six seven and eight.

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Alright.

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Is eco.

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A five.

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Uh, opens up here with a command to get

a haircut and not just any haircut, he's

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going to shave his head with a sword.

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This is my kind of symbol.

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Yeah.

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I, this is intense though.

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I don't know if you've ever shaved

your head with a sword heavy.

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I would, if I, you know, during COVID.

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I got real close.

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Yeah.

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I was getting dirt.

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I was getting nervous and desperate.

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Well, he's got to shave his head with

a sword and, and shaving the head

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is, or was at that time, a sign of

mourning in disgrace and humiliation.

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Uh, what he does with the hair,

then points to the judgments

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that are coming upon Jerusalem

with fire sword, and then exhale.

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So, uh, this is another object.

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Lesson is EQL has a lot of these

that he you'll be reading about as we

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continue through the book where he does

things and is commanded by God to do

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things, to demonstrate, to illustrate

what God is going to do to the people.

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So this shaving the head, and

then what he does with the hair.

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There is a sign of God's and Penney

judgment on the people of Jerusalem, their

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fire, sword, exile, all those things going

to come upon the people of Jerusalem.

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Jerusalem there.

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So I think one of the things that is

helpful to realize is that in Israel's

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time, he had a lot of different ways.

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Tactics.

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Dietrich's if you will, to reach

them and to help them see what he

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was, what his heart was toward them.

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Uh, this is important for us

because God doesn't do this today.

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God is not having you cut off your

hair in the middle of a sermon.

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He's not having you.

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Thankfully, you're not having to bake

bread over human excrement extra.

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Thankfully, why not?

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Well in part, we've got the same God.

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Right?

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Same guy, but we have

the revealed word of God.

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We've got the scriptures

in our hands, something.

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Far better.

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Yeah.

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Equals not preaching to a group of

people where he could say, Hey, take

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your Bibles and open up to the Torah

and let's look at the law together

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and see where you guys all messed up.

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Um, they didn't have that.

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The way today, my job is the

preachers to stand up and not do a

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skit in front of all of our people.

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But to say open up your Bibles to

John and let's read in John's gospel.

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Uh, what we're going to study, what

we're going to learn about today.

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So that's why.

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It's not to say that he doesn't still

do things today and isn't is not

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still a God that is active today.

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We are not a deistic.

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Uh, church.

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In other words, we don't believe that God

is distant from us and separated from us.

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We believe that he interacts with the

life of his, his creation, but it's

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different today than it was at that point.

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Same thing with the spread of the

early church and the book of acts.

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I mean, Peter.

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I was able to heal a lame

man and caused him to walk.

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I'm not gonna be able to do that.

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And the bomber, the reason why

he was validating the message.

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Uh, and the messenger in that, that

moment by God enabling them to do that.

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Peter didn't have in his hands, the,

all the scrolls from the old Testament,

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that would have been impossible for him

to carry with him, but he had a message

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that he was preaching and to validate

that message, God allowed them to do

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things that are supernatural and they're,

they're, they're important in their power.

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I think it's a cool thing

that God did did do this.

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He condescended to humanity by saying,

I'm going to give you word images,

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word pictures by Kiehl's efforts.

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And this tells us that there's

nothing inherently wrong with

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helping people understand by using,

I don't want to call it theatrical.

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That sounds like a

negative connotation, but.

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Yeah, creatively saying, how can

I present this to somebody in a

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way that they would understand we

most readily do this with our kids?

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You know, we change our tone of voice.

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We use pictures or draw a

sun and we'll draw this.

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And to that to help them see that.

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Well, we're, we're kids

of a different sort.

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We're just, you know, the distance between

us and God is far more than the distance

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between us and our kids, our grandkids.

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So I would not look down on, you know,

Coloring books or, or, or creative

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ways that approaching, uh, the word

of God to help people understand it.

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I think that's something

good there that we see.

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Yeah.

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As long as the medium doesn't

distract from the message,

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medium has to serve the message.

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But I would agree.

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Verse six, the sins of

Jerusalem are greater notice

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than the nations around her.

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Uh, This is going to be a repeated

theme in the book of Ezekiel as well.

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We're going to read more about

this later on in the book that.

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And Judah's sins had multiplied so much.

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So in fact, in one of the chapters coming

up here, he's going to say, look, you

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had some area to the north in Sodom,

and you're worse than both of them.

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You're worse than the Northern kingdom.

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You're worse even than, than Sodom is.

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Which is saying.

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Quite a lot, needless to say.

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Uh, to compare and contrast

Judah with those two godless

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cities and godless nations.

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Uh, and so here in verse six, he's

saying, look, your sins are even worse

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than all of the countries around.

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You've rejected my rules and

have not walked in my statutes.

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Verses eight through 10, the judgment that

would come upon them would be horrific

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and lead them to do horrific things.

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Again.

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Uh, we'll lead you to, to read through

that, but these are gonna be things that

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no one would have ever imagined doing.

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And they're going to do

those in order to survive.

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Desperate to, to survive during a period

of intense suffering during the season,

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it's going to be late to the city.

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Uh, by Babylon there in the end.

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God is going to withdrawal

from his people.

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Uh, verse 11 and anger and fury

are going to be poured out on

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them in verses 13 through 15.

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Don't forget that you're, you're looking

at who's in Babylon and he's what, six

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years before this is going to happen.

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So we went backward in time, about 5 93.

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He went as equals receiving these visions

and he's pointing forward to 5 86.

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So don't forget.

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It's important.

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You don't want to forget that.

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Otherwise it's going to

be like what's happening.

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Who's Wednesday.

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Where and why?

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Is ETL is receiving messages

for Jerusalem about 5 93.

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This is yet to be happening in 5 86.

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And it's interesting because you wonder.

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I've been thinking a lot about

this because it continues right.

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As we're reading through the book, some

of these messages that are about Jerusalem

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for Judah, but you wonder if they're

for them or are they for the exiles so

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that as the exiles see this happening

before them they're understanding,

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this is all part of God's plan.

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And here's why this is,

this is taking place.

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The answer is yes.

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Yeah.

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It's it's built, but is equals not

traveling to, to Judah or traveling to.

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To deliver this message.

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He's giving it to the

exiles that are there.

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Yeah.

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About Judah and about Jerusalem

and they're all themselves

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former Jerusalemites.

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They, they lived there, they

were part of the nation of Judah.

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And, and so they're included

in a lot of this as well.

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Uh, chapter six then, uh, verses

one through three, the mountains

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are addressed here, perhaps because

they were the location of so many of

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the high places and they were also

a symbol of security for Jerusalem.

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I drew some thought.

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I'm good.

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I'm fine because I'm protected.

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I'm a city on a hill and

that was one of the defensive

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stronghold points of Jerusalem.

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You remember, we talked about it

when David first took Jerusalem.

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The inhabitants there,

the Gebbie site said.

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Even if you were blind

and lame, you wouldn't.

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If even if we were blind and lame,

you wouldn't be able to take the

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city because of how strong it is.

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Well, I think in part here, God is, is

mocking the mountains in the, in their

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sense of security and these things

around them as Babylon comes to li.

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Siege to the nation here.

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Uh, verses four through

seven, overwhelming death and

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destruction is depicted here.

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Your altars are going to become desolate.

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Uh, a lay dead bodies of the people

of Israel before their idols and

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scatter your bones around the altars.

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Just a, an overwhelming picture here.

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Um, of the judgment of God that's

coming verses nine through 10.

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Some of those survivors there are

going to repent and they're going

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to load themselves for their sin.

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Just a.

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Strong language, but.

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Appropriate language.

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Yes.

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As far as our response to our sin.

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Yes, absolutely.

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Versus the 11.

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11 through 14.

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Green man, this is awesome.

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Can you guys believe we don't script this?

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I know they wouldn't believe it.

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If they told them.

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Verses 11 through 14, then there's

no escaping God's judgment.

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Uh, it just think in the end, during

the tribulation, there's going

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to be no escaping God's judgment.

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There he's able to reach anyone anywhere.

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I was thinking about this.

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Uh, recently driving through kind

of some open territory to the

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wedding that we did a little.

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It was a beautiful day out a week ago.

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It.

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Beautiful.

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For Lewis and Che by the way, for Lucia

and you're driving through this farm land

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and you're thinking to yourself, okay.

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If like when in the future, when the

anti-Christ rises to power, you're

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going to have people that are living

on farms in the middle of nowhere.

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And is, is the antichrist going

to be able to get to them?

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Well, you know, maybe what about the

people that are in sustenance farming?

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Like they're taking

care of their own goods?

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Well, that's where the wrath of God

is going to come in and plague and

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pestilence and disease and famine, and

all these things are going to reach

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you no matter where you are, there will

be no escaping the judgment of God.

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And we see that here for Judah as well.

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God's wrath is going to reach

all of its intended targets.

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It's no matter what.

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You've probably seen this theme already.

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Um, But let me, let's just highlight it

and I'm sure we're going to highlight it

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multiple times as we make our way through.

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As ETL, but what are the primary

themes dominant themes of Ezekiel?

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Is it that God wants him

to know that it's him.

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Uh, that you shall know

that I am the Lord.

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You shall know that I am the Lord.

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You shall know that I am the Lord.

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They shall know that I am the Lord.

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God has a real strong desire to

have people know that he is Yahweh.

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He's the one who rules.

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He's the one who governs.

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Now that's an important point too, because

what you'll notice here is that the lo

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the word Lord is all caps, which we know.

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We know our Bibles, at least in

the ESV, the all caps refers to

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the personal name of God Yahweh.

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So it's not saying that I am add NY.

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Uh, even though that is the

implication, I'm the one who's

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ruling and leading, but I am Yahweh.

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I'm the one who does all these things.

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So as you read through Zeke,

you don't, don't miss those.

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I mean, you'd be hard pressed

to highlight all of them because

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it happens so frequently.

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He puts it all over the book,

but it is an important theme.

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Don't forget it.

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In fact, let that inform some

of your devotional thinking.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, he wants the glory, even

in the wrath that he pours out.

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Isn't that interesting.

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I want you to write a

dissertation about that.

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Uh, okay.

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Check.

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I'll tuck that away.

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Is equal seven.

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Uh, 77 chapters, chapter

seven, verses one through 12.

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There.

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Got it here.

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It.

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The end.

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Uh, basically this is the day of

the Lord over and over again, the

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prophet repeats, the time has come.

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Your doom has come, or some variation

of this, the judgment was on the

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doorstep and there was no escaping it.

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So there's day of the Lord,

future day, the Lord present.

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And so if you notice here, I mean,

the end has come and is upon you.

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Uh, behold eight comes and end

his company and his come behold,

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it comes, your doom has come.

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The time has come.

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That's just verses one

through seven, right there.

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It just whew, that phrase repeated

over and over and over again.

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The prophet wanted the people to

know at the time had run out the

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time for repentance had come.

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It had gone.

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And now judgment was there and

there was going to be no escaping

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in verses 13 through 24, the

judgment is going to be executed.

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And we read about that judgment here

in these verses and a lot of repeated

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themes that we've seen in other.

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Prophetic passages are repeated

here, but this is not anything

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that anyone wants to be a part of.

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And this is the judgment coming

upon Israel again for their sin.

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And then it ends in verses 25

through 27 of chapter seven here

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with just this idea that there's

again, no escaping the judgment.

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There's no peace to be found.

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This is not something that you can

run away from that because it comes

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from God who is the sovereign, the

omnipotent one, the omnipresent one

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that is everywhere at all times.

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There's uh, there's no one that's

outside of the reach of his.

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Of his arm of his judging.

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And so this is going to be a

dreadful day in the short term.

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This is going to come upon

Judah in the longterm.

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Th there's going to be a day when

we say the time has come it's here.

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It's now it's right now when

that's the final judgment.

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And that is going to be a, an even

more terrifying day at that point,

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then even this day was for Judah.

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I found that, especially concerning

in verse 26 of chapter seven here, he

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says, disaster comes upon disaster.

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Rumor follows a boomer.

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Uh, they seek a vision from the

prophet while the law parishes from

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the priest and counsel from the elders.

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Um, this is concerning because it

tells me that one of the evidences

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of God's judgment upon a people

is when the leaders of the people.

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Are not doing their jobs there.

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The law parishes from the priest.

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Counsel from the elders.

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In other words, they disregard God's law.

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The elders are fools biblically speaking

because they disregard his counsel.

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And so the leaders of the people.

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Are walking and they're blind guys.

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Jesus would use this imagery and this

terminology later in his ministry.

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And talk about the, the elders of Israel

at his point in time, your blind guides,

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the blind leading the blind, the lame

following the lane, something of that

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nature and what you have, this is here.

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Then I want you to think carefully

about the current time in which we live.

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And I don't want to implicate anybody.

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Um, because there are really

good pastors out there.

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There's godly leaders, but by and large,

it's not, you're not hard pressed to

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say, can you think of examples where

the leadership that we have is perhaps.

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Uh, the law perishing from them and

counsel from their, from their wisdom.

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It seems like we're in a time and place

where God's judgment is on display.

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It's not full fledged.

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We're not Israel.

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Again, we're not Israel.

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The American church is not Israel,

but there are parallels to our

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current time and place where we

can look at his email and say, man,

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this doesn't look good for America.

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It doesn't look good for

our people, our church.

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So one of the takeaways for us, Dennis,

to do what is equals people fail to do,

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which is to take sin very seriously.

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At least personally.

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And if your chapters we're going to

get into this time where God says to

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his EQL, people are no longer going to

say the fathers have eaten sour grapes,

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and the children's teeth are set on

edge, which is to say that the children

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suffered because of the father sins.

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No.

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He wants them to recognize

that sin is individual.

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It has corporate consequences

and that's, well, we'll come to

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that soon, but it's individual.

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So check your own heart.

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How are you doing?

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It's easy for us to point

out the evil in that party.

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And by and by and large, they are evil.

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They're doing evil things,

but what about your own soul?

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Do you ever read that book?

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Pastor PJ respectable sins.

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I did Jerry Bridges.

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What'd you think about that book?

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I think it's a helpful one.

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I think it reminds us that it's it's yeah.

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To your point.

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There's evil on the grand scale and

there's evil in our own lives as well.

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And we need to be aware of the fact

that because we've got these categories

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of sins, I love the book, title,

respectable sins that we would categorize.

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It's not that big of a deal

or not as big of a deal gossip

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line slander, things like that.

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Gluttony gluttony.

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Uh, then.

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Uh, we're, we're good because

these aren't the big ticket sins.

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Right.

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But their sins and they're an

offense against a hold of God.

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So it's a, it's a good book.

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It's, it's a sobering book to read.

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And that's probably one of those

books that might be good for you right

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now, because it's easy to see the

sins that are on full display on the

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evening news or on your Twitter feed.

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And, and those are sins that we would

say, oh, we don't participate in that.

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We're too good for that.

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And that's, that's a good thing.

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On the other hand.

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To fail to see this in, in your own life.

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And to judge that harshly

is to miss the point.

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God is a holy God.

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He wants his people to be holy don't

miss the point in it in Ezekiel.

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Yeah.

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Chapter eight begins a new section

here that specifically begins to

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focus on the defilement of the temple

and the wickedness of Jerusalem.

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Uh, in soon as equal.

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Eight one, we open up

we're in 5 90, 2, 5 93, BC.

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Uh, 5 92, probably September

is the timeframe here.

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And the scene suggests that the elders

who were also in exile gathered around the

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prophet, waiting for a word from the Lord.

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So they're gathering around as equal,

knowing that he's a prophet of the Lord.

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And kind of waiting to find

out, okay, what are what's?

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What does the Lord have for us?

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What's he going to say?

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And verses two and three.

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The profit is caught up by a figure

same as chapter one, possibly this, this

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figure that was above the, the expanse.

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And so it's possible that he's even

being caught by Christ himself here.

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Where the angel of the Lord, perhaps,

or something along those lines

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and transported by visions of God.

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It says in the text there to Jerusalem.

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So he's not physically in Jerusalem here,

but he's transported in these visions.

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To Jerusalem where he beholds the

temple, the temple of the Lord there.

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And the first thing he sees is what

he terms the image of jealousy.

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We don't know exactly what this

was, but it was a statue that

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was set up in the courtyard.

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I have some deity and this is

certainly not supposed to be there.

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Obviously, we're not.

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Any graven images, right?

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So is this an Asher, a pole?

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Is this something along those lines?

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We're not explicitly told what this

is other than it's the image of

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jealousy, meaning that God is jealous

for his name and for his holiness.

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And this has been set there to

provoke the Lord to jealousy.

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Verse four.

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Also present.

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There was the glory of the Lord that

he had seen back in chapter one.

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And so the vision is

going to be similar in.

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And throughout this, and

we're here for awhile.

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Uh, I think through chapter 11, We're

going to see the vision of the glory

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of the Lord and the temple there

together in the Lord is going to be

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communicating something about the

glory of the Lord that is going to

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have to do with the temple there.

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In, uh, in Jerusalem, you see these

abominations then in the rest of chapter

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eight, you have verses 10 through 12,

the, the worship of creatures in idols.

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And so you've got these things that are.

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Uh, depicted on the walls, abominable,

abominable things, creepy crawly,

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things, and idols and other things.

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And they're worshiping these

things that you think are Roman

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shepherd, want the worship of the

creature rather than the creator.

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Uh, is equal eight, 15, the

worship of this God to mus, uh,

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which was an agricultural goddess.

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And each fall, they would mourn her

death as the crops would, would be

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harvested and the ground would go.

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Uh, we'd go dormant for the

fall and winter seasons.

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So they would mourn the

death of Tammuz, but then her

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resurrection again in the spring.

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And so this is a false goddess that

has been brought into the temple and

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they're worshiping this false goddess.

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And then verses 16 through 17, you've

got the worship of the celestial bodies,

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the sun and the moon and the stars.

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And they're worshiping

DS in the temple as well.

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And so the conclusion there in verse

18 is I'm going to act in my wrath.

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My, I will not spare.

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Nor will I have pity.

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And though they cry in my

ears with a loud voice.

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I will not hear them.

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And so the indictment is issued

here in chapter eight, as

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the evidence is considered.

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Don't miss this in verse 16.

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You probably saw it.

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Maybe you read over it, but I just want

you to point out and you're at least

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in your mind, if not in your Bibles.

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Notice what's happening here, behold,

the, at the entrance of the temple

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of the Lord, between the porch and

the altar, we're about 25 men and get

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this with their backs, to the temple

of the Lord and their faces toward

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the east of the temple faced east.

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And they're facing east now and their

backsides are facing the Lord and they're

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worshiping the sun toward the east.

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So what are they doing

as they worship the sun?

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They are giving God

their literal backside.

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They are pointing their

posterior toward the Lord.

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Which is, I mean, filled with

shame there's dishonor here.

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The scripture is veiled in the

way that it talks about things

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like this, but make no mistake.

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The disrespect goes

several layers deep here.

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They're not only disregarding the Lord

worshiping in his courtyard, giving

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him their backside, but they're there.

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There weeping for Tammuz the false

God and the idolatry stuff that's

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happening here is so egregious.

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So awful.

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That any Israelite who had read

this, who love the Lord and has

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it as a fear of the Lord would

read this and say, and be a ghast.

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They would be, they'd be,

what are you talking about?

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This is scandalous and

that's exactly the point.

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God wants you to be scandalized because

his name is being severely dishonored.

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Now real quick, pastor

Peter, you talked about.

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The vision and.

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Uh, that, that people typically

call this section eight through 11.

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Yeah.

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Is he kills temple vision.

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Yeah, but he'll help us put this together

here, because here now, earlier on it

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says that the, the figure of the person.

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Put out the form of a hand and

took me by a lock of my head.

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So that's interesting.

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Took him by his hair,

picking him up by his hair.

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Oh, I wonder how that felt.

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Anyway, picks him up by his hair.

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And the spirit lifted me up between earth

and heaven and brought me in vision.

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So it seems like there's a

physical element to it, even

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as it's a spiritual experience.

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How do we put these two things together?

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Cause it seems like

physical and spiritual.

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Yeah.

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I don't know if we have a category two.

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To really wrap our minds around this

because it doesn't happen today.

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We're not receiving these visions.

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We're not having an angelic being

show up and take us in a vision

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to, to a different location.

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I tend to, to think that his body stayed.

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Where it was.

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I don't think that this was,

he was physically leaving from

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amongst the elders, even the hair.

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Right.

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Oh, okay.

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Um, I think this was, is equal to

describing what it was like for

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him to receive the vision and to

participate in the vision and to be

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carried in that sense in the vision.

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And I, I could be wrong.

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And I'm not going to, I'm not going

to go to the grave saying this

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is pound your fist on the table.

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But.

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I think this is.

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So it's all a vision and he's

trying to pick the vision.

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What I mean.

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The only terms that he had available.

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It was like, he took my hair and like,

he lifted me between heaven and earth.

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Even though the word like is not there.

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That's kind of the implication

that you're drawing out.

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Right, right.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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I mean, that sounds fine.

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You know, and in Daniel we get

visions as well as, as Daniels is.

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Prophesying and so forth and so on.

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And yeah, so I don't think he's

actually there in Jerusalem.

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Um, I could be wrong on that.

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It's totally possible within

God's abilities that he could

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have physically transported.

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Interesting.

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Yeah, I have to think about that.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's pray.

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And then we'll be done with today's

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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Hopefully with good audio,

hopefully we'll check.

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God, we thank you for this day.

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And we thank you for the

resources that you've given us.

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We pray that our equipment would work as

it is a distraction when it doesn't work.

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So we just pray that it would work.

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Or would you pray also for a sensitivity

towards sin that as pastor rod was

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talking about, we would be sensitive

towards not just the big ticket

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sins, but also the sins in our life.

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And, uh, and want to get rid of them

and want to confess them and want to

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battle them and want to hate them.

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Uh, with the same vitriol that we

hate, the sins that we see celebrated

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by our culture all around us, because

all of it put Christ on the cross.

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So God give us that sensitivity.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keeping your Bibles tuning in

again tomorrow for another episode

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of the daily Bible podcast.

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See you then.

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Bye.