00:00 Intro

01:21 Question From Young Listener: Choosing Sermon Topics

05:35 Understanding Ezekiel 28-30

11:38 Judgment on Egypt

15:54 Conclusion and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to yet another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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It is Friday, so happy Friday.

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You made it through

the end of a work week.

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You did?

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Yeah, we all done.

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Yeah.

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Most of you did.

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At least some of you, maybe not.

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Maybe you're feeling

like I didn't make it.

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I didn't make it through.

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But, uh, coming to the end of the

week, the weekend coming up, weekend

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Services is coming up at our church

to make sure that you're already

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planning ahead of time to be there.

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In fact, our preaching text this week,

we've talked about it, it's helpful

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to read and be prepared ahead of time.

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So here it is, preaching text.

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This week is first Peter chapter one.

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14, 15 and 16, 14, 15, 16.

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So maybe spend a little bit

time, uh, reading those and,

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uh, we'll go from there.

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Why are you grimacing?

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Pastor Rod is, is grimacing

over across the, the, uh, desk,

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Rod: so the sound effects that you're

listening to that he can't hear.

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Are happening from our recording console.

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Oh, great.

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I just realized that there's effects

that I can apply anytime I want.

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Oh, good.

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Thank, thank you.

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Thank you.

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No applause necessary.

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PJ: Thank you for that.

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Applause, folks.

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I'm gonna, I'm gonna appreciate that.

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I'm gonna choose to leave my headphones

off 'cause I don't think I want to know

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what the, uh, the sound effects are.

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All right.

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Anyways, yeah, so you can,

uh, get ready for that.

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We talked about communion as well.

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Hey, we had a question written

in, uh, one, Danny Mayer Sr.

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Danny Mayer, the first,

if we, if you will.

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He wrote in a question and said,

Hey, it's not necessarily related

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to the podcast, but he's curious how

we choose what we talk about when

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we, when it comes to our sermons,

how do we choose what we preach on?

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And I Fair question.

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Um, he asks.

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Uh, about main Sunday sermons,

but also men's retreat, men's

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breakfasts, things like that.

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How do we land on what

we're gonna talk about?

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I think probably the easiest

answer to that question is, is

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to talk about Sunday mornings.

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Um, Sunday mornings are not, Hey, throw a

darter to dartboard and figure out what is

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a good book that we should study together.

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Uh, we're intentional about that.

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I'm intentional about it.

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And, uh, talk to Pastor Rod, pastor

Mark Lewis, others about, you

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know, what, what we feel like some

of the, the main areas that our

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church would benefit from hearing.

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And, uh, what some of the main areas that

need to be addressed are in the church.

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Now, the way that this is different

from a topical study is somebody might

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say, well, our church needs to, and

this is just thrown out an example.

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This is not necessarily true

of our church, but our church

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needs to learn about generosity.

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So we're gonna do a series on

generosity, and I'm gonna bounce

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around from passage to passage

and just do a bunch of different

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sermons on the subject to generosity.

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Rather for us, we stepped back and

said, okay, let's start with God's word.

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What, what book from God's word,

would be most beneficial for

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our church during this season?

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And so we look.

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Landed on the book of one Peter,

and if you were with us during our

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first sermon outta that gate, I

talked about the, the reason being is

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because we are called to be an exiled

church, not a vacationing church.

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And in our community, in our area in

Prosper, Texas, Salina, Texas, Frisco,

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wherever you happen to live, or McKinney,

Texas, it's easy for us to be vacation

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in Christians because we live in a

very affluent and comfortable area.

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And so first, Peter confronts us, uh, in

a helpful way with the call to be those

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that are living in exiles believers.

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And what does that mean?

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What does that look like?

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How should I be living as a.

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Christian.

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In fact, we'll talk a lot about

that this coming weekend on Sunday

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in our next text in First Peter.

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So that's how we do that, uh,

with regards to Sunday mornings.

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But, uh, pastor Rod, you are our

men's pastor, and so talk to us a

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little bit about something that's a

more, uh, one-off like men's or men's

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Bible study, something like that.

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How do we land on, how do you land on

what we're gonna talk about, what we're

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gonna preach on in those contexts?

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Rod: Yeah, I'll be brief about this.

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I, I will look for gaps and areas

where I think there's opportunity

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for us to say something different,

unique and tailor to the audience.

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So even though it's true that we typically

go exegetically through a passage in

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the weekend service, that's less the

case when it comes to men's Bible

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study, or even women's Bible study are

doing it differently than I'm doing it.

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And part of the reason is because we're

trying to say how many weeks do we have?

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How much can we reasonably get through

and what's gonna be most helpful?

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So it's not to say that we don't

think topical preaching has a

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place, clearly we do think that

because that's what we're doing.

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So when it comes to men's retreats,

men's bible studies, I'm looking at

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what their normal preaching calendar is.

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I'm thinking about what you've heard,

I'm thinking about what you need

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to hear, and then I make a decision

based on what, what makes sense.

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Uh, I usually conjure several ideas

and then land on one or two that

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are most helpful, or at least things

that I think are most helpful.

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I'll usually run it by.

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Uh, my wife.

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I'll run it by Kelly and Allie,

all the pastors of the church.

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That is, and then I'll ask Pastor

PJ and Pastor Mark what they think

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after I've had the chance to run

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PJ: through.

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Is there, is there a boo

sound effect that you have

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Rod: on there?

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No, but I have, I have clapping.

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Hold on.

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Okay.

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PJ: Oh, okay, good.

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Yeah, they're clapping for that.

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Rod: That's great.

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Just kidding, guys.

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I only, I only joke because it, it's safe.

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We, we don't, we don't

believe in female pastors.

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You guys know that.

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Um, anyhow, all that to say.

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Uh, that's, that's what I do.

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There's lots of prayer that goes into it,

but often, again, my role is different

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than pp J's role in that I get to think

about some of the areas where I think

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this would be helpful to talk about.

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These are the needs that I see in

the lives of the men and here's

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how I think I can best help.

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PJ: Yeah, that's good.

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That's good.

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And that's the same thing with

our women's ministry as well.

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My wife leads our women's ministry and,

and she and I talk through what that study

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is gonna look like, what that's gonna

be, but a, a similar mentality there.

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Yeah.

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We're, we're not against

topical preaching.

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Um, we don't think it's the

bread and butter of the main.

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The main service, but we do

feel like it does have its place

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in the, the church as well.

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So, well, let's jump

into our DBR for today.

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We are in Ezekiel 28, 29, and 30, and

chapter 28 is, uh, is, is quite a bit,

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and we're continuing on the subject of

tire and God's judgment against tire.

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We're dealing with the

Prince of Tire in chapter 28.

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Uh, one commentator said that.

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Ezekiel chapter 28 is one of the

most intriguing and one of the most

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difficult texts in the entire book, but

to encourage you, he said the central

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message of the, of the chapter is

simple and clear in the end, and that

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is that it, it basically, human pride

has to be answered by God's judgment.

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So chapter 28 is really

about judging the pride of.

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The nation of Tire.

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And we've talked about tire.

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We've talked about them a couple

times already in the podcast,

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that they were a wealthy nation.

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They were a nation of commerce and trade.

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A lot of people came to them to,

uh, build up their own wealth

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through doing business with them.

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So tire was in a position where their

hubris, their pride was, was readily, was

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readily evident, and it was easy for them

to, to feed that pride in that Hebrews.

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So God was gonna bring judgment.

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Where chapter 28 gets difficult is.

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There are portions of it, at least, that

people have argued and said, this seems

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to be describing the fall of Satan.

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And we talked about that.

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Jeremiah or Isaiah?

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Correct.

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Remind me.

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Pastor Rod, is it Jeremiah

or Isaiah or Ezekiel.

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Right.

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But the, is it, it's, uh,

is it, is it Isaiah 14?

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Or Jeremiah 14.

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That also has the passage.

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That's about the, the morning star.

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Isaiah.

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Thank you.

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So similar to Isaiah, people

have said this seems to be, uh,

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described in the fall of Satan.

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And I think, uh, they, they draw that,

well, I don't think they draw that.

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I know they draw that from verses

like verse 12, when it says you

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were the signe of perfection, full

of wisdom and perfect and beauty.

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You were in Eden, the Garden of God.

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And then later on, he's referred to

this person in verse 14 as a cherub.

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Uh, he's also referred to as a

guardian cherub down in verse 16.

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So.

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People look at this and say,

this is the, the fall of Satan.

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The difficulty that we have there

is the connection with Tyre.

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It seems to be somewhat outta place in

relation to what's going on in Tyre.

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Now, we've talked about the notion

that there are demonic beings and,

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and God's lowercase G that are.

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Behind a lot of the foreign nations

that are not Israelites, uh,

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that that could be the case here.

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That this is a reference to one

of those foreign lowercase g gods,

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the God of Tyre, whoever that is,

that's who's being addressed here.

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The power behind the king

of Tyre, is that Satan?

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I don't know that we can

get to that point to that.

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Degree or that level.

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And that's one of the things that

makes chapter 28 so difficult.

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But the main message of chapter 28

is God is gonna judge human pride.

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And that's one that we need to take

to account too and to make sure

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that we're guarding against that.

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And that pride, that sin of pride rather

comes up so many times in the judgment of

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the nations here in the book of Ezekiel.

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And it's worthy of our attention

because it's God getting our, our

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focus on saying this is something so

common and he will not put up with it.

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He is gonna judge and humble the proud.

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Rod: Yeah.

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The more I read this, the more I

have, I have to think that there's

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likely a double entendre here.

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That there is, he is talking about

the king attire, but also saying that

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the power behind the king attire is

actually the power of Satan himself.

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So I'm, I'm gonna punt a little

bit and say, I think it's both.

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PJ: So

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Rod: yes.

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PJ: Mm-hmm.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And, and I guess, yeah, I, I see

that it's hard not to, to get there

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with verse 13, you were in Eden.

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Unless we're gonna find some sort

of a metaphor that he's trying

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to communicate there about what

Eden really means in that context.

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And then we're in trouble because

now we're trying to make words

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mean something that they didn't

mean plainly in other areas.

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And so the best interpretive

practices, they probably say,

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yeah, that's what he means.

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You were in Eden, and the only demonic

being that we know for sure was in Eden.

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Is Satan himself.

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I, I guess the trouble for me is,

man, you, you think about all of the

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other nations, uh, you think about

Babylon, you think about Edem, you

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think about, you know, all of these

other nations that God has Egypt that

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we're gonna read about more tomorrow.

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Um.

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Why tire?

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And I guess we just don't know.

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Rod: Well, and that's I think part of

what gives me a little bit of confidence

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that this makes sense because God's not

saying Satan's behind all these guys.

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He's saying he's behind these ones now.

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Why these guys?

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Maybe there was a, a strategic place

that he can operate from a base, uh, of.

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Uh, something that made sense for

him, but the fact that he's localized

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to one region, to one king, to

one people, that makes sense to me

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because he's a singular individual.

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He's not like God.

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He could treat everywhere at all times.

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Now, that's not to say that

he doesn't have minions.

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He doesn't have other lowercase g

gods to work for him, but that he

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himself is concentrated in one place.

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We see that also in

the Book of Revelation.

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There's a church that dwells

where Satan's throne is.

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That's terrifying.

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I don't wanna be there.

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No, thank you.

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I'm moving out tomorrow.

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But that tells us that Satan is.

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He's not God.

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He is only able to be at

one place at one time.

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So for whatever reason, I

think tire was the place.

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He, he knew that that was

the best place for him to be.

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So it still makes sense for me.

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Uh, but I agree.

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It's, it's hard to think,

okay, well why this place?

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Why that time?

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And

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PJ: perhaps it's just their pride

and, and that we know to be the main.

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Offense that the, or at least

the original sin of Satan was his

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pride in wanting to be like God.

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And perhaps that's why he's associated

with tire, because tire, that was

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their main problem and their main sin

as well was, was the pride of tire.

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Verses 20 through 24 though,

we get another region.

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This is Sidon, S-I-D-O-N.

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This is a region often

associated with tire.

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They were another coastal city.

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They're gonna have judgments as well.

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This is a sister city there of tire,

so they're lumped in together here,

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but they're also singled out for

individual judgment for their own sins.

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And then as the chapter lands, you have

a, a flash forward again to the millennial

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kingdom that God is going to, in contrast

to the judgment that's gonna be poured out

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upon tire and sein, he's gonna gather his

people, he's gonna manifest his holiness

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in them in the sight of all nations.

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That's the main reason I would say

that this is, and that's in verse

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25, that this is a reference to the

future regathering of Israel, not the

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regathering that's gonna take place under

Nehemiah and Abel and the return of the

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exiles, uh, after the 70 year captivity.

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I think this is looking forward

to the millennial kingdom.

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His God is not gonna manifest

his holiness in the post exilic

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nation of Israel, but in the future

millennial Kingdom nation of Israel.

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Chapter 29.

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Then, uh, we're, we're actually in Egypt.

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I said tomorrow, it's, today.

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Uh, we're, we're back with Egypt here.

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And in chapter 29 we're dealing with,

uh, the, the timeframe is, is 5 87

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BC there in the 10th year, again,

we're going back to the 10th year

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since Ezekiel's captivity, 5 97.

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That, uh, deportation there.

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So 5 87 bc In fact, January

of 5 87 BC is the specific.

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Timeframe here.

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Uh, and this is going to indict the,

again, pride of the nation of Egypt.

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This time, uh, Pharaoh is gonna be called

out for boasting in the Nile as though

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he was the one that was sustaining it.

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In fact, God is going to use this

imagery of the agrarian culture

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of Egypt and the fishing, uh.

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Culture of Egypt and Pharaoh is gonna

be compared in verse four to one

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of the fish that he boasted about,

that he would become as one of them.

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And judgment was gonna come

on Egypt, uh, that that was

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going to be full and thorough.

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And this judgment we've seen

before, Jeremiah 43 through 44, uh,

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Nebuchadnezzar is very clearly seen

in that passage in Jeremiah as the

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instrument of judgment against Egypt.

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But he's going to come and he's going

to bring God's wrath upon the Egyptians.

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And the, the Egyptians

were the ones that had.

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Not only been the, the captives and

enslavers of God's people way back during

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the time of the Exodus, but even after

that, throughout this whole time of

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Israel's latter stages before captivity,

Egypt had been the one that they were

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most tempted to go to for support.

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Egypt had been one of God's biggest

rivals for the affections of his

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people, and they had betrayed the

people of Israel and proven to be that

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broken staff that they would lean upon

and, and so God is going to judge.

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Egypt.

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God is going to prophesy against them

through Ezekiel here and Egypt will

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eventually reach her downfall in 5 71

BC again at the hands of Babylon there.

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Rod: Why in verse 13 then, does

God say that he's going to.

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Gather the Egyptians from the

peoples among whom they were

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scattered and restore the fortunes.

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Why does God choose to restore the

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PJ: fortunes of Egypt?

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Yeah, I mean this is seen

in other prophets as well.

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In fact, some of the minor prophets

talk about this, that in the end, and,

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and I think this is again, this is

the millennial kingdom territory in

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timeframe, Egypt is going to once again

be a, A nation and God is going to use.

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Egypt to testify to his

glory at that point.

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As he is there with the, the Israelites

in the millennial kingdom, the

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response of some of these nations that

once stood against him is going to

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serve to magnify him and glorify him

because they're gonna be there in the

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presence of Jesus, the, the Messiah,

and they're going to pay him the, the

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honor and the homage that he's due.

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And so that regathering is not for

the sake of Egypt, but ultimately

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I think it's gonna be in the future

for the sake of God and his glory.

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That's exciting.

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Chapter 30, then we get the lament.

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So this has kind of been a pattern.

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We see the judgment coming, then

the lament, and then we, we move on.

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And so here's the lament.

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This is the durge.

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This is the, the morning

of the fall of Egypt.

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And in here, in verse three, you

see the reference to the day of

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the Lord, uh, the day of the Lord.

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Remember, anytime we see that phrase,

it can have an eschatological meaning,

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but it also can have a, a near.

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Meaning it can have a, a meaning that

has to do with the, the temporal context.

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And I think that's what's

in view primarily here.

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Uh, as again, the end of Egypt at

the hands of Nebuchadnezzar is in

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view, specifically named in verse 10.

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I will put an end to the

wealth of Egypt by the hand of

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Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.

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And what was gonna be attacked

specifically, verse 12 was the Nile.

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I will dry up the Nile and sell the

land into the hand of evil doers.

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Why the Nile?

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Because the Nile was the

crown of beauty for Egypt.

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It was the, the main

source of her boasting.

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It was the main source of her

thinking that she didn't need God.

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And if you think back to the Exodus,

that was one of the things that

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God went after was the Nile River

during the 10 plagues that he sent

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upon the, the nation of Israel.

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So the Nile is going to stand for the

pride of Egypt and God is going to bring

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that Egypt there or that that judgment.

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Against Egypt at that point.

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Yeah, we've got a little bit more

on Egypt tomorrow with, uh, a focus

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specifically on Pharaoh this time.

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But, uh, we are, are continuing in,

uh, this section of his ego again,

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God's judgment against these foreign

nations that he's going to judge the

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Gentile nations, uh, as part of what

he's doing on the, the world scene.

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It's not just about Israel.

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He's also executing judgment at

the same time on the nation's

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surrounding Israel as well.

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Let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, we just ask for wisdom to understand

the things of your word that are

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difficult, like Ezekiel Chapter 28.

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And we want to not draw conclusions that

are presumptuous, but draw conclusions

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that do fit the context of your word.

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So give us sharp minds and

minds that are hungry to know.

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I pray that we would ask the right

questions, that we would ask questions

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to begin with, that we wouldn't just let

our eyes glaze over this and, and maybe

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the question arises in our minds and we

just shove it away because we don't wanna

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do the hard work to find the answers.

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I pray that you'd keep us hungry

to know more, to learn more,

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and to grow more in our under.

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Standing of you through your word, and

so we pray that in Jesus' name, amen.

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Keep reading Bibles.

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Tune again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Maya.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for

listening to another episode of

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the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said