00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:24 Discussing the Book of Isaiah

01:28 Understanding the Canon of Scripture

02:14 Vacation Bible School Recap

05:19 Deep Dive into Isaiah 23-27

09:42 Future Hope and Resurrection

16:56 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What does that mean?

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It's what's up?

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Okay, cool.

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Yeah.

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What's up?

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It's a slang.

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I gotcha.

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Yeah, it's Friday.

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In case those of you out there

didn't know, it's yeah, we're

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we're back with another episode.

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Pastor Rod's still here.

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He didn't go on vacation again.

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He's not back in school again right now.

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And so this is good.

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We're back together.

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I know you guys like this much better.

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In fact, we'll see.

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Don't make promises you can't keep.

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I'm glad that you're back.

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We've covered that because Isaiah is just

a bear to try to get through by yourself.

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It's not my personality, it's

just, it's too, you want to

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talk about Isaiah with you?

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Yes.

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You want me to?

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Misery loves company as they say.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Although Misery doesn't quite

describe it, it's just a challenging

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book, and I think they know that.

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Yeah.

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Isaiah is a, but it is also

one of the most powerfully used

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books in the New Testament.

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It's quoted quite a bit.

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Yeah.

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It's also Rich.

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Some people look at Isaiah like a mini.

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Canon because there are 66

chapters and the first 39

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chapters or so in the last 27.

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It divides like the canon in that the

final few chapters, not the final few, the

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final dozen, two dozen chapters of Isaiah

are pointing to the New Testament gospel.

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Yep.

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And there's a lot of that, the branch,

which of course refers to Christ.

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And you got the famous Isaiah Chapter

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And so there's a lot of

parallels to our current Bible.

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And people notice that and Isaiah,

and it's a very popular book.

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There's a lot of references to it in

pop culture more than I even recognize

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initially because they're in there.

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Isaiah is an important book.

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Yeah, it is for sure.

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Yeah.

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You mentioned the word canon.

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Maybe some of you're listening,

you're going, what is that?

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Is it a ja gigantic gun that fires a ball?

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It it is that, but it's not that in this

context the canon means rule or standard.

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And so when we talk about the canon

of scripture what we're talking

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about is the standard of what is

and what is not part of God's word.

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What is considered authoritative,

what is considered inert,

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what is considered infallible.

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And those are the books that are

canonized that become part of the canon

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and our canon's different than the Catho

the Catholic Canon, that, that's it.

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Yeah.

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The Catholic Canon.

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And they'll accuse us of

having left books out.

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We'll accuse them of having put books in

that, that aren't intended to be there.

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And there's reasons why, and we can

get in that maybe in another podcast.

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But the canon of

scripture is the 66 books.

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It's, these are the standard

rule of what is authoritative.

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That's right.

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Hey, it's it's Friday by the way,

and we are wrapping up a week of

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vacation Bible School, BES, which

some people know as Camp Compass.

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Camp Compass.

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We decided not to do that.

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Nope.

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Tell us why.

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Because I think the people that know it

as Camp Compass know it as Camp Compass

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out in California because it was a

brand that was established out there.

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It was something that was done for

a long time out there, and people

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said, oh, yeah, that makes sense.

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I know what Camp Compass is.

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It's their VBS.

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You come out here, you look around,

you're not seeing Camp Prestonwood

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or camp, Providence or Camp Trails.

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You're seeing.

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Vbs, that's what it's known by.

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That's the vernacular.

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Yeah.

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Out here.

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So being all thanks to all people, we

decided to probably make more sense to

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do Compass VB s rather than Camp Compass.

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So we're not mad at Camp Compass.

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Maybe someday some year it'll come back.

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That's a possibility.

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It could, but it makes sense to call it

VBS 'cause that's what everybody knows.

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Yep.

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Yeah, and it's been a great week.

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It's been awesome.

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I've been able to be there and interact

with our people, our volunteers.

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Man, it was just, it's,

I love our church family.

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Our church family is I, in my book,

unrivaled, on Unrivalled, people serve

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and are just, they're joyful to be there.

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They're working a long day and then

they're coming there after work

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and they're hanging out with these

cadet Jacob Sealander especially.

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I wanted to call him out.

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He's leading games.

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Oh, wow.

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I've been back in the coaches closet doing

some work, summer prep, things like that.

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And they do the games right on

the other side of that wall there.

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Oh, wow.

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And he's a saint.

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I know we don't canonize people as saints

like they do in the Catholic church,

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but if we did, we're gonna do it though.

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If starting today, if we did,

Jacob Sealander would be up there.

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Jacob Sealander, he's been

great leading games with Matt.

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Daniel has been involved in that too.

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We could sit here and name so

many different people that have

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been so crucial and integral to

the pulling off of this event.

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I know Mark and Ally would echo the fact

that this team has made this week go.

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So well, so thank you to you guys that

have been serving and laboring so hard.

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I know we've got family night

tonight should be a great time.

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Not just with the kiddos, but also

with the families that are gonna

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be there and going through all the

different stations with their kids

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to see what the week was like.

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So it'll be a good time.

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Talk about how many kids are part of

this camp that aren't part of our church.

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Yeah, so our total numbers were one 20.

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Ooh.

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Which last year we were at

98, so that's a good bump.

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That's huge.

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About a 20% bump.

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If my math is right there, which

is probably not, but it's okay.

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I don't do math rough and dirty.

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Yeah.

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But it's an increase from where we were

last year, which we love seeing that.

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And at one point, I don't know

if that carried through, but

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at one point when we were.

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Trending up towards a hundred.

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We had about half that were from

outside of our church as well.

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So we've got a large portion, maybe

40% or so that are from outside of our

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church that don't go to our church.

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Now, some of them are Christians,

so we're not saying that

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all of them are unbelievers.

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Oh, sure.

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But some of them are here because they

are, we're invited from you who are

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listening to this and they're part of

a family that doesn't go to church or

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they're part of a family that goes to a.

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Mosque or a temple.

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And this is the first time that

these kids are hearing about Jesus.

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And that's what this

whole week has been about.

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It's been about Jesus.

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And so what a good thing it

is that that we're doing this.

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Good job, mark.

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Good job, Allie, pastor Mark

and Ally and the whole team.

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It is pastor Ally is been awesome.

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Not Pastor Ally.

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Not Pastor Alley, no.

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Okay.

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Just making sure.

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No, it was a test.

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We changed some while you were gone.

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We did not change that.

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Yeah.

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Glad to hear it.

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Yeah.

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Otherwise I might have

to find a new position.

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I'd say.

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Yeah.

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That'd be, yeah.

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I, you could accept my

resignation too on that one.

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Alright.

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Alright.

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Hey, let's jump into Isaiah 23.

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Let's do it through 27 speaking.

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I, Isaiah, I love this book, man.

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It's hard, but I have enjoyed it.

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Yeah, I loved it.

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It's rich.

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You're loving it more and more at as

just we're talking about it right now.

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Maybe the more I talk about it,

the more I get excited about it.

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Okay.

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Fair enough.

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We've been talking about the nations

and we talked about Jerusalem

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yesterday, but now we're gonna shift

back to the nations a little bit here.

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And it's interesting, we, you mentioned,

okay, why do they go back to Fania here

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after he's been dealing with Jerusalem?

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And it would've made more sense, we think,

to go from Jerusalem to the whole world.

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But he's gonna have this pit stop

here with Fania, and that's Tyra and

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Seiden and and this is yet another.

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I think indictment of some people

that Israel may have been tempted

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to trust in, because these were the

boujee people, the tire and side.

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This was the economically dominant force.

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At the time they had trading.

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They had a, a good port city there.

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They were in an area that man, you,

if you lived there and you were

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part of the trade industry there,

you were doing well for yourself.

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And so God is gonna say to

them, Hey, you know what?

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The Assyrians are gonna come against you.

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Now, what's interesting here?

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Is assy will come against Tyrant

Sein, but their end is not gonna

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come until Alexander the Great

much later on in, in world history.

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So this is an interruption of things, but

this is not a complete end of tyrant Sein

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here as it has been prophesied about some

of the other nations that the Assyrians

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were going to come against There.

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Yeah, it's interesting because even though

the bullseye terminated on Jerusalem,

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now you're doing a backward funnel here.

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You're going up to Fania, and I think

part of the reason why, my guess

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anyway, is that these were included

after them because these had a larger

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presence, not just in their locale.

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But because they were they were

people of the ocean, they were people

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of the sea, they were travelers.

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I think that's what's happening.

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You have a reverse funnel taking

place with them, but then that it

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finishes on them, and then we go into

not just them, but everybody, right?

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Isaiah chapter 24 through verse or

through chapter 27, takes us not only

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to these nations, but also to the

world as a stage for God's judgment.

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Yeah, and that's really where we get to

that point in chapter 24 is the judgment

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upon the whole earth, which I think we

have to, at least from our understanding

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of eschatology, understand this to be

the tribulation period, the wrath of

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God being poured out during that seven

year period that's gonna be marked from

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the time of the rapture of the church to

the time of the second coming of Christ.

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That seven year period is

known as the tribulation, and

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this is going to be a time.

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In fact, in Revelation, one of the

arguments for why we believe in a pre

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tribulational rapture that is that

the church is gonna be taken away is

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that as Jesus is writing to the seven

churches, as he's writing to one of the

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churches there, he says, I'm about, I'm

gonna keep you from the hour of trial

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that's coming upon the whole Earth.

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So similar language there to what

we read about here, the Lord will

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empty the earth and make it desolate.

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So when you look at the judgment here.

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Once again I think our perspective

as pre-millennial, pre tribulational

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dispensational theologians makes the

most sense because that's a mouthful.

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You have to look at this

and say, has this happened?

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Has anything like this happened where

the whole earth has been desolated

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By God, has God done this yet?

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And the answer is no.

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If we're gonna be intellectually

honest, we have to say no.

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This is not taking place.

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So either we have to make this an

allegory somehow, either we have to

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look for partial fulfillments of this

over the course of history, whether you

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want go to an tikis epiphanies, or you

want to go to Nero or other situations.

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Or you have to say, man, this

is yet future because we haven't

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seen anything like this before.

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And I think the most logical

conclusion is this is yet future.

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I think this is talking about that seven

year period of judgment, and that's

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because we look at this and we see, even

though it, there's some symbols here that

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we would look at and say, okay, that's

probably symbolic of something else.

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We would also see as.

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Faithful Bible readers.

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This appears to be

something that is genuine.

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It is symbolic in nature, but there's also

a real event that's taking place here.

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A faithful Bible reader would have to

conclude, this is something in the future.

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We're futurists.

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We believe that there is a

future for Israel, but there's

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also a future judgment to come.

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I agree completely.

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In fact, lots of Bible readers would

call this section of Isaiah's text,

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Isaiah's Apocalypse because it points

to the destruction of the world,

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the destruction of unbelievers.

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And there's I can't even understand

how someone else would read this

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otherwise, except to say, okay, the

judgment is symbolic as well, right?

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God's wrath has poured out in a number of

ways and there's perhaps natural effects

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to tornadoes and monsoons and hurricanes

and things like that, but it seems much

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more fitting to look at this and say,

this is real judgment that God will

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affect at a real stage in human history.

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That is going to be a literal judgment.

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Yeah.

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In chapter 25 the

language continues there.

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And yet we get this glimpse of hope,

with this promise that we read about

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beginning in verse seven, that he,

God will swallow up on this mountain.

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The covering that is cast

over all peoples well.

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What is the covering?

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Cast over all peoples

everywhere at all time.

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And the answer is death.

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And that's what he says in verse eight.

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He will swallow up death forever,

and the Lord will wipe away tears

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from the faces and the reproach.

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Of his people, he will

take away from the earth.

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So while there's judgment on God's

enemies, there's the forecast

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of the fact that he is going

to extinguish the final enemy.

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The ultimate enemy, which Paul talks

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And that is the enemy of death.

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And so here we get a glimpse into not only

the millennial kingdom, but really the

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eternal state as Revelation 21 depicts

it, as well as the place where God is

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gonna wipe away tears from our eyes.

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Because death will be no more

because sin will be no more.

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It's gonna be completely

vanquished from the scene.

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In 25 you do get this interruption

here, as we've talked about with Isaiah.

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He does this, he talks about a lot

of wrath, and then he comes back

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and he talks about the hope that's

held out for people and the hope

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that's held out for God's people.

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And then in the meantime,

what are they supposed to do?

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Chapter 26.

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They're supposed to wait on him.

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And trust in him.

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And it says there in that great verse

in verse three, you keep him in perfect

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peace whose mind has stayed on you.

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This reminds me of what

we just saw in Habakkuk.

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When the prophet is told by God,

the righteous will live by faith.

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It's a similar concept here.

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I think I.

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As Isaiah is delivering a message

of impending doom and judgment and

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the tribulation in all these nations

being judged, what is the response

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of Isaiah's original audience?

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I think it's right there in verse three.

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You keep him in perfect peace

to whose mind has stayed on you.

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Trust in the Lord forever for the

Lord God as an everlasting rock.

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And so this would've been

unsettling for the original

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audience, and it should have been.

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And you think about those that were

faithful at this time that weren't.

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Part of the, those that were gonna

suffer under the direct wrath of God.

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But were still part of his

faithful remnant during this time.

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This is terrifying.

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And Isaiah is simply

saying, I think, Hey, trust.

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Trust in the Lord in this time.

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Yeah.

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And I guess I wanna point out

to you what's probably evident,

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but let me just highlight this.

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Notice that perfect peace comes

from trusting in the Lord.

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It's an obvious but

profound truth if you just.

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Spend a few minutes on it.

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Think about this.

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The more you trust, the more

peace you'll experience.

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There's a corollary passage in the New

Testament, Philippians chapter four.

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You know this one.

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Paul says that you can have the perfect

peace of God, which surpasses all

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understanding, guarding your hearts

and your minds in Christ Jesus.

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But here's how you get there.

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Verse five.

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Let your reasonableness

be known to everyone.

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The Lord is at hand.

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Don't be anxious about anything.

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Everything by prayer and supplication

with Thanksgiving will let your

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request be made known to God.

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That is essentially what Paul is referring

to when it comes to trusting in the Lord.

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Peace from God comes from trusting

God, so the more you trust in him, the

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more peace that you will experience

and that peace, again, Philippians

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four, four in particular, Philippians

four, six, and particular shows

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you what that trust looks like.

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Again, don't be anxious, but in

everything by prayer and supplication

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with thanksgiving, let your request

made known to God and then the

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peace of God, which surpasses all

understanding that will guard your

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heart and your mind in Christ Jesus.

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One of the neat word pictures that we see

here is found in verses 19 through 20.

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He's talking about the resurrection

of Old Testament saints in the future.

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And it says this, your dead shall

live, their body shall rise.

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You who dwell in the dust,

awake and sing for joy.

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And then here's the word picture for

your dues, the do of light and the

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earth will give birth to the dead.

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Such an interesting way.

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To depict the resurrection.

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And that's not only true for

the Old Testament saints.

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That's true for believers too.

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When Christ comes back and the rapture

takes place, one of the things that's

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gonna accompany that is, man, if

you're walking through a graveyard

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at that time you're gonna hopefully

be caught up together with the Lord.

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But those that are not believers walking

through the graveyard in that time,

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they're gonna see the graves opened up.

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And the bodies are reunited with the

souls, the glorified bodies being brought

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back to be reunited with the souls.

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This is the resurrected

body that God is gonna be.

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Prepare for us, and that's what

it means here, that the earth is

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going to give birth to the dead.

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They're gonna rise from

the ground literally now.

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It will be different because what is

sown perishable is raised imperishable,

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but it still will be our earthly

bodies will be made new and given

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a glorified nature that will be

prepared for eternity with the Lord.

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Yeah, that's one Corinthians 15 and I

guess what's really important about that,

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sometimes we think about heaven as some

kind of ethereal and only spiritual place.

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But heaven is on earth.

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God will dwell with man.

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He will tabernacle among us again and we

will be his people in perfect harmony with

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him because we'll be perfectly righteous.

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But on top of that, we will

enjoy a physical existence.

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Don't forget that we often talk about

the spiritual nature of our religion.

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This is of course, a faith in

and invisible God, who is Spirit?

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John, chapter four.

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But our future existence is not.

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Dissimilar from our present

existence in that it is physical.

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So we shouldn't think of heaven as

clouds and naked babies with wings.

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We should think about heaven as being

like what we have now, but perfected no

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sin, no brokenness, no death, no pain,

no cancer, but still very physical.

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Don't forget that's huge.

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And the resurrection of our bodies is

one of the reasons why we bury ourselves.

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You don't bury yourself.

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Other people bury you.

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Yeah, don't bury yourself.

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Please don't do that.

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That's dangerous.

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But we bury people.

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As part of our faith, as an as

a way to say, we expect that

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this body will raise again.

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In fact, for Christian burial sites,

they will face the body toward the

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east where they expect Jesus to rise.

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And they bury them feet first so that it's

easier for their bodies to go up into the

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sky and meet their Lord in the clouds.

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We believe in a physical bodily

resurrection because Jesus himself

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had a physical bodily resurrection

and therefore a physical.

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Future eternal home.

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Yeah.

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On earth with real stuff.

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Yeah.

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Don't forget that.

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That's huge.

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Yeah.

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That was such a freeing thought for me

because I used to think about heaven

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in such this this eternal worship

service where you're just sitting

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in pews or you're With the harp.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And then sounds terrible, right?

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I think the devil planted that thought

and it was always like, okay, but

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you're gonna love it 'cause it's heaven.

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You're gonna love it

anyways because it's heaven.

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Yeah.

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You're not gonna be a sinner.

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And it's okay, I guess I think

that's boring 'cause I'm a sinner.

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Which is true.

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I am a sinner.

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But when I started to read, but that's

not why you think it's boring, right?

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Probably the devil implanted that thought.

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Totally.

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Seriously, when I started to read about

the fact that there's gates that are

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open because the nations are bringing

their treasures into the, into Jerusalem.

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This is the new Jerusalem.

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That means that we're gonna

live in different countries.

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We're gonna have lives, we're gonna have.

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E existences.

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We're gonna do things, we're gonna make

pilgrimage journeys to the new Jerusalem.

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We're gonna populate the earth again,

not in a reproductive way but we're

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gonna live in different areas and

that corporal existence, and yet

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it's gonna be everything that we do.

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We're gonna know what it means to

do everything for the glory of God.

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Perfectly, and we're gonna be able

to experience that in the way that we

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enjoy creation and everything else.

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He's gonna be glorified through our

enjoyment of that, via physical bodies

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to the point that you're making.

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Yeah.

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Maybe it's a good idea for you to

read Revelation 21 after this, just

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to be reminded of what the future is.

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A hundred percent.

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Since this is apocalyptic, this

is pointing to the eschaton,

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the last things, revelation 21

tells you where it's all going.

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Yeah, and this is what's

so cool about our Bible.

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We have the beginning

and we also have the end.

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There's a lot of stuff in

between that we don't know.

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But because God knows the end from

the beginning and the beginning

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from the end, we can take great

confidence and rest in the fact

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that he's got it all under control.

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Even today.

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He does well.

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Chapter 27 as we just wrap up today's e

episode, oh, I forgot we were doing that.

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I thought this was it.

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If you go back all the way to Isaiah

five, I believe, is where he talks

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about planting the vineyard there and

how the vineyard produced wild grapes.

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This is the undoing of that.

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This is the reversal of that.

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So this is looking forward

to the future regathering of

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Israel, the millennial kingdom.

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The time that Israel is gonna be

God's people in Christ is gonna be

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reigning from the throne of David.

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This is what.

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Pictured here, and this time it's

not an unfruitful vine anymore

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because God is undoing what was

corrupted by the people originally.

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So chapter 27 is another glimpse of

that hope of, hey, God's gonna have

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another vineyard, and this time it's

gonna be the idealized vineyard under

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the reign of Christ while he is there

reigning from the millennial kingdom.

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That's exciting.

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Now we're done.

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Okay.

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Alright.

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Let's pray.

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God, thanks for our future hope in

an eternity that is exciting and

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and one that we should look forward

to and that we can look forward to.

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And even as we enjoy these earthly

pleasures here in our physical

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bodies, we can be reminded that those

things are gonna be maximized in

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your presence to, to read Psalm 1611.

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That in your presence is the

fullness of joy at your right hand.

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Our pleasures forevermore.

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That is the future that.

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Awaits us.

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And though, yes it's about your

glory and it's about Jesus.

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Part of your immense love for us is that

you've prepared an eternity for us where

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we will glorify you through through

the bliss of our existence as human

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beings there in a world without sin.

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Lord I'm reminded even of Dr.

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MacArthur's words lately, when before

he died, somebody was asking him about

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eternity and he said the thing he's

looking for most about eternity is not

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sinning anymore because he hates sin.

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And even just that reality, God, that

we will be in physical bodies and

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never sin against another person or

be sinned against is something that

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we can't wait for in the meantime.

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Help us to be found faithful here while we

do wait and we pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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