00:00 Introduction and Banter

00:57 Sunday Morning Reflections

01:10 Praying for Pastors

01:48 MacArthur and Piper on Faithfulness

02:48 Plans for Monday

03:24 The Importance of Health for Pastors

04:50 Zechariah's Prophecies

08:41 The Millennial Kingdom

15:12 Unity in the Gospel

16:53 Closing Prayer and Encouragement

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another episode

of the daily Bible podcast.

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We're back and a noisy right now.

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Yeah.

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Because, well, no.

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I was ready to go.

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But you're banging around

all your stuff over there.

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Getting.

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All set.

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Well, you.

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Do you want a brand new

log set up over there?

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You're in the wrong book.

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You're slamming your computer down.

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I just got in the office cause I

showed up from a leader meeting.

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So yeah.

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I know, I get that,

holding that against me.

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A little bit trying to do

the work at the Lord, bro.

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Sorry.

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Are you okay.

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Well, Maybe do it a little bit quieter.

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If you can do the work

of the Lord more quietly.

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I don't know if I can't.

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I.

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I don't know.

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Any promise either apparently.

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Yeah.

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How'd the leader meeting.

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Go.

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It was good.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it was, uh, it was shorter.

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Yeah, we had an hour and a half, so

it felt like it went by really fast.

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Yeah.

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And I think it did.

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But that's a good thing, rather.

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I'd rather have it feel like that, then

I'd be like, oh man, this is way too long.

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Yeah, so.

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It was good.

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Yeah.

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Hey, it's Sunday morning and,

uh, or Sunday, whatever time of

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day, you're listening to this.

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I know a lot of people

listen to it in the morning.

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So it's Sunday.

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Um, just a reminder.

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Just building off of the last

couple of days and everything

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else has gone on this week.

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And I was just going through partners,

uh, chapter six with somebody and

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that's on finding a good church and.

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Um, And it talks about in that

praying for your pastors and just a,

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another reminder and encouragement

to you to, uh, to be doing that.

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And are you praying for us praying

for, um, your, uh, pastors?

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That that, uh, our, our pastoring,

your local church, whether that's

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pastor, rod, myself, or if you go to

another church, be praying for us.

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We need that.

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In fact, Yeah.

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Still pray for us even

at your own local church.

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Yeah.

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Pray for us.

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Whoever you aren't, you

prefers, um, we'll take it.

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Uh, no.

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Reminded of that just.

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I was listening to a subsection

from an interview done with,

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uh, MacArthur and Piper.

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Uh, not long ago.

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And they asked him MacArthur a

question about, you know, Drawn

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to the end of his, his ministry.

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And MacArthur kind of made some jokes

about getting older and struggling

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to put on socks and stuff like that.

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And then he said, no, he said, you

want to know the thing that I most

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often think about and pray for is that

I will be found faithful in the end.

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He, he said that that's

what I'm concerned about.

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He said, I just pray all the time.

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Let me be faithful.

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And such a good prayer and needed prayer.

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And we need people

praying that for us too.

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And then yeah.

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Anyways.

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Yeah, but I mean, praying for

the faithfulness of pastors is

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going to be an evergreen thing.

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We, we need that more than ever.

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More than ever.

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I would agree, which is

why I'm really excited.

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We're we're doing something

this morning at church.

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Hopefully by the time you listen into

this P P J myself and a few others are

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going to be praying for our service.

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Yep.

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That's a great thing that

is that we're doing that.

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Yep.

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It's one of our distinctives, right?

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We have a general reliance on prayer.

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Nobody.

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Uh, putting that into practice for sure.

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So.

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Yeah, what else is going on?

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What's what's what are

you playing on Monday?

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Tomorrow is your day off, right?

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As pastors, we take Mondays

off, typically, what are

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you going to do tomorrow?

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What's the most exciting thing

that you're going to do tomorrow.

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Um, This is thrilling.

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Uh, yeah.

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You know, where they don't

have any plans for tomorrow.

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That's fair.

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My kids go to school.

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So we're going to have a lot of

times with them, but I, I typically

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do a lot of the same things.

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Wake up at the same time.

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I usually wake up at the same time.

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Go to bed.

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At a time that I like.

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And so I get good sleep for the weekend.

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30 PM.

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You know, CAX.

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6 45 on some really late nights.

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I'm getting crazy, you know?

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It's not that early, but I mean,

I don't make any bones about it.

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I do.

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I like protecting my, my sleep so that I

can be functional, you know, it's funny.

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Okay.

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So here's the thing.

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If you're an athlete.

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Like your thing is physical performance.

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So whatever hinders your physical

performance, you've got to make

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sure to protect that right.

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We're not that obviously, but we

are mental performers in a sort.

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And, you know, we, we need our

minds to work at their best.

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And one of the best ways for me to support

that is to support that and my health and

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the way that I eat, the way that I sleep.

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I mean exercise.

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I mean, all those things function.

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To support my thinking.

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And consequently my

preaching and my studying.

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I mean, everything from my

perspective, rises and falls on that.

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So.

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It's in the best interest of the church

for me to be as healthy as it possibly

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can be without being neurotic about it.

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So that I can be the best pastor I can be.

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That's what I think about it.

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But I'm glad I'm happy for you.

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That's your truth is great on that.

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My truth, your truth.

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What is, okay, what is your truth,

pastor PGL I'll play along with you.

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My truth is Bluebell ice cream

and, uh, you know, I never

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said you couldn't have that.

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The Costco size bag of Reese's

pumpkin, peanut butter.

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Uh, cups that I have in my refrigerator.

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Okay, well, I'm not saying

you can't have those things.

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I'm just saying all things

in moderation, right?

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Yeah.

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All things are lawful.

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Not all things are helpful.

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That's true.

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Oh, man, that should be a topic for

us on one of these podcasts intros.

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I don't know that we've got time for

it right now, but we should talk great.

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No.

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There's gray areas.

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What is a good idea?

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What.

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What do we mean by that?

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What do we do with that

light blue bell ice cream?

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Ah, no, that's not so much great.

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Is.

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That's green light all the way.

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Most of the flavors, not all of them.

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Hey, we're jumping into

Zechariah for today's Bible

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reading in Secora chapter 10.

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Uh, all the way through 14,

we've got five chapters today.

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Uh, so here we go.

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We're we're getting ready in chapter 10.

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Um, verses one through five, this section

is continuing the restorative work.

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That's going to be done by the Messiah.

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And so he's going to punish the

false shepherds who had done so much

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harm to his people and is going to

be with them with the people of God

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as their powerful military ruler.

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Um, so that's the first part there

of chapter 10 verses one through five

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chapter 10 verses six through 12.

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Then God promises to bring all Israel

back to himself as he had scattered them.

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So he would whistle for

them to bring them back.

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Now, all Israel's is unique here

because Paul's going to say in Romans

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that not all Israel's true Israel.

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And so, um, there's a question about

that in, in who is going to be saved.

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And it even seems that not even

all Israel during the tribulation

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period is going to be delivered,

but a portion of Israel during that

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period, it's going to be delivered.

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But those that God wants to bring,

he's going to bring here in chapter 10.

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What an exciting time.

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Yeah.

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Uh, chapter 11, then all of these

blessings that are going to come are not

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going to immediately come for Israel.

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Uh, because initially they're going to

reject the Messiah at his first appearing

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and they're going to suffer for it.

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And so verses one through three wrath

is coming from God as a result of that.

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Uh, verses four through 10 that the

people are going to reject the, the

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one that is their true shepherd.

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Um, and they're going to put his worth

notice in verses 12 through 13, at 30

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pieces of silver, which equal the amount

of one would pay for a wounded slave.

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Uh, in response to the money is

going to be cast to the Potter who

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was one of the most lowly among all

of the class strata at the time.

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And so this may sound familiar to you

because this is what happens with Jesus.

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In fact, today at church,

we're talking about Judas.

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We're not talking about the actual

betrayal, but we're talking about

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the preparation for the betrayal.

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And that's the one who fulfills this, and

this is alluding to and pointing to that.

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Oh, that rejection of the

Messiah at the first appearance.

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Where they are going to value his

worth at 30 pieces of silver Judas

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goes to the, the, the Pharisees there.

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It's not an accident.

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That that's the number

that they agree upon.

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That's actually in fulfillment of this

prophecy here in Zechariah, 11, 12 to 13.

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And then, you know, they, they take

the money after Judas dies and they

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go out and they purchase, uh, the

Potter's field to bury the ignominious

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people, the unknown people of the time.

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And so there's a lot of, of layers here

of symbolism that are ultimately fulfilled

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in that, uh, that event there with Judas.

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So can you talk then about the

fact that we would see this

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as a prophetic utterance here?

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This is, this is a prophecy that

Zechariah is writing down preserving for

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us, and then, you know, a hundred years

later, or I'm actually more than that.

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But a long time later, we

see this being fulfilled.

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But if you look at this text,

there's nothing in here that

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tells us this is a prophecy.

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How do we know that this

is in fact a prophecy?

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I think looking back, understanding

our doctrine of scripture, being that

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all scripture is God-breathed and

that there's continuity between the

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old Testament and the new Testament.

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We believe in the inspiration of

scripture, we believe that the

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new Testament writers were writing

under the inspiration of the Lord.

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We believe that the events that were

taking place were orchestrated by God.

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So as we consider the entirety of the

Bible, Both old and new testaments.

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When we understand what took place

in the new Testament, we can look

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back at a passage like this, which

contextually is talking about the

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rejection of the Messiah, his first

appearance, and see the parallels

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there and understand, okay, this was.

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Uh, not just happenstance, but

took place in fulfillment of

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these events back in saccharide.

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So even though this doesn't tell

us, Hey, this is a prophecy and

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you know, this is going to be.

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We referenced to the Messiah.

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Uh, because this, this is, this

is Zachariah right now, right?

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This is Zachariah is

the one who is speaking.

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He didn't want to say I

was priced at this number.

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It doesn't say here, by the way, this

is going to be true of the Messiah and

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this many years, but scripture tells

us that this is what's happening.

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And in fact, the fact that they

paid him, the 30 pieces of silver.

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Uh, I think we're led to make the

connection and say, even though this

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is not a specific prophecy, that we

would understand it as, as thus sayeth

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the Lord, this is going to happen.

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This is still evidently a prophecy

that we should say, man, that's really

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cool that we can see these talions.

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Yeah.

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12 to 13 then, um, really 12 to

14 pivot to the future redemption

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and deliverance of Israel.

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Uh, The primary focus of these chapters

is going to be the millennial kingdom.

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Th this is some of the most rich.

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Um, Descriptions of the

future visual that we find.

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This is, uh, there's,

there's a lot of import to.

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Our position is dispensationalist

that we find here in these chapters.

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Uh, verses one through three of

chapter 12, we have a glimpse

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into the battle of Armageddon.

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As all of the world leaders in

nations are gathered against the

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people of God, but verses four

through nine tells us that God wins.

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He wins in the end.

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He he's the one that is going to

be victorious and that's depicted

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for us in the book of revelation.

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But then we get into this chapter

chapter 12, verse 10 through all

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the way down through chapter 13,

verse nine, which really depicts

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Israel's spiritual deliverance.

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And so in chapter 12,

verses 10 through 14.

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The first thing that happens is

that that God gives them a spirit

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of understanding, uh, the spirit

of grace as it is, uh, alluded to

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recalled there in, uh, in verse 10.

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And that spirit of grace is going

to cause them to look back at their

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initial rejection of Christ and look

upon the one whom they have pierced.

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And they're going to more, they're

going to mourn over the error of

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having rejected him and they're going

to mourn and be sorrowful over that.

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And probably more over there.

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The fact that there were unrealized

promises because they rejected the

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Messiah at his first coming and

have endured so much since then.

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And yet at that time, same time in chapter

13, verse one, this fountain is going to

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be open to cleanse them from their sin.

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Where's that going to come from?

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That fountain is going to come from the.

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The blood of Christ.

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Okay.

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So how do we know.

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Oh man.

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Okay, where does this, these verses apply?

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What time in history are we expecting

these verses to come to the fore?

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Well, it hasn't happened yet, right?

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I would agree with that.

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So it seems to be.

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Tribulation period would

be to the 144,000, right.

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So I would agree that that was

going to be my, my, my inclination.

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And that was going to be, my point is to

say, look, we don't, this hasn't happened.

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I don't think any scholar or

theologian is going to argue,

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Hey, we've seen this already.

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We haven't.

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Right.

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Because they're looking on the one who

appears, obviously this is reference

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to Jesus who was raised on the cross.

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We're looking forward to the day when

this takes place, and this seems to fit.

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Best with the church off the scene.

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During the tribulation and the

144,000 takes center stage.

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And this, this is when this happens,

I think, I mean, cause that's what

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the 144,000 are doing right there.

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They're the evangelist.

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There's a revival for,

for, uh, for God's people.

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Israel.

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Which of course is going to lead

us into a different time and

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season of the millennial kingdom.

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I mean, this is, I think this

is so cool and such an important

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point that sometimes we can miss.

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Yeah.

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And that's a reminder to us too,

that the 144,000 are not going

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to be saved any differently than

you were saved or I was saved.

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They're going to be saying great point

through repentance and faith in Jesus.

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It's just going to come during that

period and not before that period.

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Uh, verses two through six of chapter

13 at this time, the land is also

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going to be purged of idolatry.

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False profits are going to be removed.

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And again, this is part

of the judgment period.

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During the tribulation season there

verses seven through nine, the redemption

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is going to cost the true shepherd and

the people as only a third of them.

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Are going to survive the fires and

in torment of the tribulation, that's

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what I was talking about earlier.

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It's not everybody that goes

into the tribulation period.

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Who's a Jew is going to be

part of the hundred 44,000.

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It's a specific number that

God is redeeming out of that.

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That will be as, as Paul calls them

true Israel during that period.

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Chapter 14.

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Uh, during this refining time, the nations

again are going to come against Jerusalem

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and the city is going to fall again.

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And this is the antichrist.

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This is the abomination of desolation.

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This is all of this taking

place here, there in Jerusalem.

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But in verses three through four,

the Lord is going to intervene.

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The Messiah is going to return it.

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This is going to be something else.

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He's going to come down

on the Mount of olives.

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And when he touches down on the

Mount of olives, there's going

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to be a topographical upheaval.

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The, the.

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The valley is going to open up.

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The mountain is going to split

and the people of God are going

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to actually flee into that valley.

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Uh, during the tribulation period,

they're going to be protected they're in.

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And then the Messiah is going to come in.

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He's going to judge, he's going

to, going to vanquish the foes.

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And then the millennial kingdom is

going to be set up at that point.

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And that's what we get

starting in verses nine and 10.

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The Lord is going to reign

over the whole earth.

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The land is going to be flattened.

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So this splitting of the mountain that

seems to have set off, not just that,

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but a lot of topographical upheaval

there because Zion is Mount Zion.

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Well, at this point, it's going

to be zine in the, in the valley.

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It's going to be on, on the, the floor

of this valley that's been created now.

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And a lot of people have said that's

that's to draw ultimately attention

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to it, that everything is going to

be filtered down to the, the city as

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the pinnacle of the area at the time.

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And the Lord is going

to rain from that time.

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Uh, the enemies of God verses 12

through 15, are going to be brought

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to a devastating and through a plague.

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That's going to be.

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Sent out to destroy both man and beast.

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Horrible imagery that he

depicts there with that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And then verses 16 through 21 there's

those that are left, including Israel,

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but also the other nations that are

left during the millennial kingdom

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there's regulations for worship.

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They're going to come and

they're going to worship there.

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In Jerusalem and show honor to Christ.

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So, uh, yeah.

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The book ends, which is this cool

picture of, of the redemption of Israel.

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This is the millennial kingdom

that we're looking at the

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thousand year reign of Christ.

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So we're leading or

reading a and chapter 14.

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Uh, Jesus coming at the

end of the tribulation.

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Is that right?

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Yes.

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Enter the tribulation leading

into the millennial kingdom.

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Correct.

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And when he comes at the end of

the tribulation, it's going to

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be an a cataclysmic event that

changes the topography that

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we currently see in Jerusalem.

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And that's going to mean he

establishes his rule and his reign.

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And this is going to take us to

revelation, which we're not going

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to read for a couple months, but.

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This is a really cool forward looking

into what we can expect from the future.

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And look at verse eight.

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On that day, living water

shall flow out from Jerusalem.

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Where are we seeing this before?

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Pastor PJ?

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Uh, we've seen that in previous.

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Visions of the temple and

Ezekiel is he Gil's temple.

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This is why we think.

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There's ETL, temple fits best here because

you have Jesus establishing his temple.

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And now the water, the living water

is flowing out from Jerusalem.

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We think has it sourced in the

temple itself, which is ETL talks

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about chapters 40 through 48.

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I believe.

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So this all fits together.

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Now some are going to ask, well, I mean,

other systems look at this and they've

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put the pieces together differently.

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And we would agree that there are godly

men and women who hold those beliefs.

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And we would say, Every, every reader

of the Bible had to say, what fits best.

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And I mean, let's just be honest,

people answer that question differently

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and they have sincere hearts.

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Yeah.

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We think with our sincerity, with

our knowledge of scripture, that

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the way that we understand this

is the best way to understand it.

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We wouldn't believe it.

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If it were different.

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Sure.

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Uh, but we would say our

brothers and sisters who hold a

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different eschatology, different

understanding how this works out.

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Hey man, we love them.

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We think they're wrong.

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And we think this is, this

makes more sense to us.

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Yeah.

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In in on that note I was talking

with, with actually my son recently,

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who was asking me a question

about one of those tier two issues

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with somebody at his school.

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And he was like, dad, what do I say?

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How do I engage?

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This don't even talk to him.

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I treat them as a tax

collector in a center.

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No.

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No, but I did.

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We did have a good conversation

about what, what defines somebody

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as a believer, not a believer.

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And we came back to the gospel

and for him, you know, he's at.

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Prosper high school and,

and there's, there's.

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Not a lot of genuine believers

that he's around there.

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There's a lot of, uh,

of ungodliness there.

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And I said, man, if you've got a brother

in arms with you there, both of you

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working together to push back the darkness

as believers, you know, don't alienate

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them because you guys have a different

opinion over this issue over here.

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And I think there's

something to that for you.

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If you're in your workplace and you've

got a friend in your workplace who has

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a different view of eschatology than you

do, or sign gifts than you do or whatever,

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I think there's room for us to say,

Hey, let's, let's major on the gospel.

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Uh, let's be together for the gospel.

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She started a conference like that.

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Let's do that.

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Um, And, and to, to work together

towards that end and that's.

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Unfortunately.

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W we've gotten that wrong.

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So often we we've, we've made

tier two issues, tier one issues,

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and we've been rendered less

effective as a church at large.

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That we could be if we

joined together on those.

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Yes.

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And amen to that, bro.

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Yeah.

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At the end of the day, uh, the

humility that we should have

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toward one another, especially

about things like this eschatology

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should not be a dividing factor.

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Sure.

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It is.

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It happens all the time because we get

passionate about things and I understand.

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We love our God.

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We have strong convictions and

those convictions come out with heat

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and sometimes very little light.

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And the Christians that God calls

us to be are humble and willing

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to concede things that don't need

to be a fight for tier one issues.

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Yeah.

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Uh, and I think that's the,

that's the takeaway from me here.

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Yeah.

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Let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, we thank you.

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Uh, for that reality that we have

one thing that, that we can all

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agree on and link arms together.

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And in that is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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So help us to do that.

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God, we pray for more like-minded churches

in our area that you would give us.

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Just good relationships with the

churches that are preaching the gospel

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faith, faithful here with those in our

workplaces and in all over that we can

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say, Hey, let's, let's work together to

be light in the midst of darkness here.

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Um, such an important task for us.

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It's it's why we're still here.

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So.

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Help us to keep the main thing, the

main thing, and not to be distracted

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over in fighting and bickering over

things that at the end of the day, we

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all have to hold somewhat loosely and

same in there's a measure to which

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we, we have to have conviction, but

we're going to hold some things with.

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Uh, white knuckle grip and said, we're

not letting go of the things we're

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going to hold a little bit more loosely.

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And humility saying, you know,

w we recognize that we don't

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have the full picture until

we stand before your presence.

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And even that we're going

to spend eternity learning

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more and more about it all.

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So we pray for that.

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Grace.

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Uh, from you to be able

to have that mindset, that

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humility, we pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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And then art y'all keep

her in your Bibles.

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And joining tomorrow for

a new book, asked her.

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Wow.

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But by.