00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:08 Birthday Shoutouts and Anniversaries

01:10 Christmas Tree and Holiday Traditions

03:44 Rat Infestation Stories

05:54 Daily Bible Reading: Mark Chapter 13

07:28 Discussion on the End Times and Rapture Predictions

09:54 The Importance of Community in Theology

10:12 Trusting Your Church Leadership

10:51 The Role of Community Groups

11:57 The Gospel and Modern Technology

13:11 Understanding the Abomination of Desolation

17:23 The Mystery of Jesus' Knowledge

19:35 The Kenosis of Jesus Explained

22:37 Conclusion 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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Hello, Thursday.

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It is Thursday, Thursday, November 6th.

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It is, yeah.

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It's a couple people's birthday today.

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It is a few people's birthday today.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yep.

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Anybody that you wanted to

shout out in particular?

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The first time I see here on my

calendar is Heather Pace, which

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I don't think she listens, but.

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It's Dr.

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Lucas Pace's wife from Compass Bible

Church av, and also this guy that does

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hands our church pretty regularly.

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I see Jeff Mooch.

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It's his birthday today as well.

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It is.

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It's also the Laverdes anniversary today.

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Happy anniversary Lavertis.

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Man, we, a couple years ago, if you've

been an OG with the podcast, we called

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out birthdays pretty much every day.

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Yeah, we did.

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We don't do that so much anymore.

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There's too many of you guys.

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There's a lot.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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But we do miss it.

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I do think about it all the time.

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When I see someone's birthday, I'm

like, oh, it'd be fun to shout them out.

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But I'm like, we'd be doing that.

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All the time it would be every podcast.

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So we appreciate you guys.

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We think about you we see your

birthdays pop up and we think

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happy thoughts about you.

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We do think happy thoughts about you.

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Yeah.

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Most of you anyway.

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I guess there's some probably, no,

not everybody, but most of you care

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to share any names on that one.

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I'm just kidding.

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I didn't really have anybody in mind,

but I thought it'd be funny to say that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, man.

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So I set up my Christmas tree.

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It is up.

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I noticed that.

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Yeah, like October 15th is what?

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The date stamp that I saw?

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Well, that's an incorrect date stamp.

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Oh, okay.

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It was it was actually

Monday, so of this month.

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Monday.

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Wow.

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That's really early.

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You know, I heard you and Pastor

Mark arguing about Christmas music.

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Yes.

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And he argued to keep it sacred and

special, and you're like, you know what?

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All days are alike.

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Doesn't matter which day it is.

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I know that you don't.

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You do it whenever you want.

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I don't know.

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I know that you don't buy that because

you listened to Christmas music in July.

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You know, I used to.

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And I think I'm changing in my

older age I feel like there's, and

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here's the thing, I'm torn because

I have to listen to it early.

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Yeah.

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'cause I'm preparing for Christmas.

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Right.

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So I've been listening to it

already thinking, okay, what

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songs are we gonna try to do?

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But I, I do like the idea of saying

for this season, however long it

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is, and for everyone it's different.

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I'm gonna reserve it.

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I wanna keep it special.

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Yeah.

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And enjoy those things when the

season makes the most sense.

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So I'm not dogmatic about it,

but I do think there is something

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special about keeping it special.

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Yeah.

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Well, we are fake tree people now.

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And so because of that, I

remember, I remember that this

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is a really new development.

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It is.

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Because of that, we decided to

grab the tree out of our attic.

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Wow.

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And we're gonna do it in stages.

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We don't have all the ornaments up,

but we, I thought you meant the tree.

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No.

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Like we've only got the base up right now.

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The base.

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Yeah.

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No, but one of my favorite things is

coffee By, in, in my Bible reading.

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Yeah.

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With the tree lit in the mornings, and

I wanna extend that as long as I can.

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Oh.

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And so keeping it up until March.

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No.

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After Christmas, I'm

like, let's take it down.

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Oh, wow.

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But beforehand, the anticipation

of it, I like having it up there.

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The difference though with a

fake tree is pretty palpable.

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It's.

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Because it doesn't smell the same.

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Yeah, that's true.

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Even the way that it

affects the air around it.

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I noticed that somehow or another,

the tree, because it either

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absorbs heat or absorbs cold.

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I forget how it works, but it also creates

a vacuum of cold air wherever it's nearby.

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I remember this 'cause the last time we

had a real tree was back in California

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and the tree made our downstairs

colder than what it would normally be.

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I don't know how that works, but I

do know that that's what happened.

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The smell amazing.

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Worth every bit of heating

that we had to pay.

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And in California rates, that's

a lot if you get a good one.

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But sometimes they're hit and miss.

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Like sometimes you get a tree

that is just not as potent.

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It's not as aromatic.

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That's true.

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I think there's certain breeds of tree

that are especially Yeah, aromatic.

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And I don't know what they are.

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Maybe you guys can let us know 'cause.

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Well, you know what?

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No.

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'cause we're not gonna get one.

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We have a fake tree.

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We've been doing it, although

this year I will say there

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are rat holes in our tree box.

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Oh.

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So I'm not sure I wanna open it.

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I might let the kids do it.

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I'll let them figure it out.

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Dude, I had to kill multiple rats so far.

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Have you?

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Yes.

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It's awful.

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It's awful.

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So here's the thing, we had this

rat showing up in our garage.

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Yeah.

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And Kristen's like, Hey,

there's a rat there.

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Like, okay, let's get this thing out.

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And I walked out into the garage.

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I saw him run and scurry.

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I'm like, perfect.

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Let me get this guy outta here.

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So we found him, we

caught him in a dust bin.

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Is that what that's called?

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Sure.

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Dust bin.

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And then I let him out in the field.

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Great.

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He lives, he's happy so long.

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But then I thought, you know what?

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I can't have rats in my garage.

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'cause then they end up in the house

and that's just bad news altogether.

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Yeah.

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So I put sticky traps next to

the holes in the garage door.

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Each side had a rat that same day.

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Oof.

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Can you believe that?

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That's crazy.

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And so these poor guys

were moving and wiggling.

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So I folded them up into the rat

sticky trap enough where their

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whole body was covered by this

thing and I disposed of them.

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I didn't throw them away first.

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I killed them first.

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Yeah.

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And then I disposed of them.

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Didn't it involve like a five

gallon bucket of water or anything?

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No, I did think about it.

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Okay.

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'cause I was thinking,

what's the most humane way?

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Yeah.

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To kill these guys.

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So there's as minimal

suffering as possible.

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And I didn't wanna drown them.

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We're not gonna call Kelly out.

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That would be unkind.

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But drowning a rat does not seem like the.

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The best way to do it.

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We're not gonna call Kelly out.

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That's not fair.

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That's, yeah.

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She has no way to respond.

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So let's not call Kelly out.

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Which Kelly are we calling out?

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We're not gonna call Kelly Smith out.

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Okay.

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She's not helpful.

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That's not, no, we don't want

people to know this about her.

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No, but I took a bat and I Okay.

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I disposed of them both.

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Yeah.

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And so I made sure.

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Yeah.

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Which was not fun.

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Yeah.

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I made sure and then I put

them in the trash and now we

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have two more sticky traps up.

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And so far today we haven't had any,

but man they've been coming out.

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Yeah.

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There's a lot of them.

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And as the weather turns, this is the

time of year that they try to find

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shelter that's warm, and so they're

gonna be seeking houses and, yep, yep.

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Yeah, I don't think, yeah, I don't

know about rats in the new Earth.

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Maybe they won't in invest

our houses or our dwellings,

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whatever those happen to be.

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Right.

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Maybe they'll play nice with them.

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Yeah.

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Who knows?

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Yeah.

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Well, I know you mentioned your neighbor

behind you having their tree up, so I just

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thought, you know, I'll try to compete.

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I'll try to, do you remember the date?

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I think it was early October.

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It was early.

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Yeah, it was like the

first week of October.

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Yeah.

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I should put it in my

calendar and find out.

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When they did it, he was ambitious.

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For sure.

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Well, let's get into our DBR today.

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We have a long reading one

chapter today, in fact, the next

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handful of days, only one chapter.

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So, maybe a good time to

jump in and read some more.

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If you've got an epistle, maybe you

wanna read first Peter through as we're

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studying that together on Sunday mornings.

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Be a great time to do that.

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Dive in and read a little

bit more there, but yeah.

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Mark Chapter 13 is a lot of the same

ground that we just covered yesterday in

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Luke chapter 20 and 21, specifically 21.

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You're gonna get the prediction

of the destruction of the temple

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again, 70 ad I think there is

the initial fulfillment of that.

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And then you're gonna get him

talking about the signs of the

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times, the signs in the end.

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And this is brought on by the.

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The comment about the destruction

of the temple the disciples

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wanna know when this is gonna be.

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And so he then says, you know what?

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Don't be taken captive by some people

that say it's happened already.

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But watch the watch for the signs.

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Watch for the things that

are gonna take place.

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And like we talked about

yesterday, there's gonna be a

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lot of things that we've already

seen, that we still see today.

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So we might be tempted to read a

chapter like this and go, okay the wars,

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the famines, the earthquakes, we're

seeing all these things take place.

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So it must be that Jesus

could come back at any second.

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And yeah, he could come

back at any second.

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But Jesus is also clear here

to say this is not the end yet.

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This is the beginning of the birth pains.

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So the creation, Romans eight, groaning.

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This is creation in labor, so to

speak, to, to produce the end.

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And this is a weird twist on childbirth

because you don't often think of the

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end in a or a baby's birth in a bad way.

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But this is the end in the

judgment that's gonna come.

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And the second coming of Christ

for the church, for Christ's a

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good thing, but for the rest of

the world, a bad thing for sure.

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It wasn't too long ago that we had

a lot of people saying the Rapture's

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next Tuesday at 4:00 PM or whatever it

was, these people were really sincere.

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Explain this and explain what our response

should be when we see these things.

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I saw it all over my ex feed.

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I saw it on TikTok.

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I saw people posting it on Instagram,

doing their stories, and people

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were I chuckled a little bit.

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I made fun of them a

little bit in my heart.

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'cause I said, Jesus told

us that no one knows.

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But these guys and some girls

were very adamant hits coming.

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And you saw their sincerity there.

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There was a clear passion for.

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The gospel, like Jesus is coming back.

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You know, you gotta be ready.

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Are you ready to meet your maker?

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People that were giving

in passion, please.

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So put that context on top of this

passage here and help us to figure

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out how to respond when the next

batch of people say the rapture is

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next week or next month or whatever.

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Yeah, I think there's two categories here

of those people that we're doing that.

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The category one are those that

were influenced by somebody who

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said that, some teacher who said

that and they bought into it.

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And so they are impressionable.

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They are maybe not overly discerning

and they bought into it, and so they

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were swept up to then go and perpetuate

the same thing, to jump on social

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media to say, Hey, this is happening.

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The rapture's coming, and I think this,

all the signs are there and so this person

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said this, so I think they're right.

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And so you need to be ready.

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Here's the rapture's coming.

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I think I give more of

a pass to that group.

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The other group that are

out there are those that are

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perpetuating this to begin with.

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The ones that are the ones

that are generating this.

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And as goodwill as they may be towards

the urgency of getting right with Christ

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I think part of the problem is they miss

what we read yesterday and what we're

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gonna read again today and in verse 32

of Mark, concerning that day or hour.

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No one knows, not even the son knows.

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And so Jesus's mission have

questions about that too, by the way.

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Go ahead.

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Yeah.

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Jesus' mission to the church

was not, hey, go and figure

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out when I'm gonna come back.

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Jesus' mission of the church was, be

ready for my return at any minute.

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And while you're waiting,

go and make disciples.

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And that's I think what these

people, well-intentioned or

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not kind of got backwards.

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They said, well, we will make disciples,

but really we wanna focus on when is Jesus

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coming back and we think he's coming back.

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Now.

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Yeah.

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So he says here in verse five,

see that no one leads you astray.

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How much responsibility does a

Christian bear to make sure that

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they're not captured by things like

the rapture or some other weird,

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strange doctrine that emerges?

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Yeah.

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Paul speaks to that too, right?

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When he talks about not being captured

by empty to sea and in philosophy.

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How do we do that?

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We don't know when people are telling us

the truth, and maybe we don't know our

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Bible well enough to know for sure is.

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Is that the right thing?

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Right.

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Have I been deceived all this time?

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And that's why being a part of a good

church is such an important thing.

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Being a part of a community.

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We talk about doing theology and

community together all the time, that

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we're not doing theology with our

favorite part podcast voice, that we

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don't know this person or a YouTube

person or somebody Discord community.

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Totally.

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Yeah.

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You need to trust your, the local

church that God has put you in.

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And I would give this caveat, if you're

out there and you're going, I don't think

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I trust the church that God has put me in,

man, that's a major red flag that needs

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to be worked through, at minimum a meeting

with your pastors to sit down and talk

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through things to say, Hey I'm struggling.

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Here's my things.

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Because you need to be in a church where

you can trust your leadership and you

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need to be in a church where you can trust

your brothers and sisters in Christ to do

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things like theology in concert together,

to show up at your community group and

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say, Hey, did you guys see this reel

talking about the rapture that's gonna

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happen and they've got a date predicted?

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What do you think about that?

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And to have your community group

leader and some brothers and sisters

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in Christ say, Hey, you know what?

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We should be ready for

it at any time, but.

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Mark 13 says, we nobody knows the day or

hour, and so let's be reminded of that.

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Oh, you know what?

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That's super helpful.

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Thanks.

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You're right on that.

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That's how we can be protected from

being led astray is as we do these

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things together in community, what a

good reminder for us to be in community.

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We should be a part of a community

group and doing life with other

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Christians, but on top of that,

we're doing life together around.

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Centralized around the word of God.

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This should be part of our conversations.

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We should be talking about this.

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We should be memorizing and meditating

upon it because we want our conversation

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to be word filled so that we can be

guarded against some of these errors.

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And I do feel for it.

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I'm with you.

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I feel for some of these

people that have been duped by

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people that should know better.

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Yeah.

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But they don't because they're

largely biblically illiterate.

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And one of the ways that we help with that

is by talking to people about the Bible

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and about things like this, which I know

for a lot of people is really interesting.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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From here he does encourage us to, to be

on guard or as disciples to be on guard.

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He makes a statement, he says, the

gospel must first be proclaimed to all

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nations before any of this happens.

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And so that's fascinating to even

think through the implications of that.

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What does that look like?

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Has that happened yet?

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I remember being younger and kind of

not wanting Jesus to come back yet,

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and there was some comfort to me in

that again, of going, okay, well.

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Surely the gospel hasn't been translated

into every language out there.

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So we got some time.

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I'll be able to grow up and get a driver's

license first or get married or whatever.

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Yeah.

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But man it's interesting when you

consider the advent of social media,

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you consider the advent of the

internet that the access, ai, ai, ai

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translates everything really well.

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Yeah.

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We're not far from this being

something that's a reality.

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Well, even then, there were people

that were arguing before the advent

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of AI and things that are especially

helpful that the gospel had reached

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every nation tribe and tongue.

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That's different, right?

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Because we still have unreached peoples,

but that the gospel had gone all across

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the globe and that the warning that

Jesus gives, that when this happens,

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you know that it's coming soon.

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We should have been, we should be ready

because those things have taken place.

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Yeah, I think there's a fair

argument to be made about that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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He goes on and talks about persecution

and then the scene shifts forward in

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verse 14 when you see the abomination

of desolation standing where he ought

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not to be, let the reader understand.

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And then he begins to shift and talk about

again, the end times this tribulation

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period that's taken place here.

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Okay.

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You gotta stop right

there and explain to us.

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Again, slowly this time.

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Slowly.

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What is the, because you were saying the

abomination of desolation had something

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to do with the Dodgers on Sunday, so

we're not sure what you mean by this.

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Can you explain what does

verse 14 mean and did Mark

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say, let the reader understand?

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Did Jesus say, let the reader

understand what's happening here

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and how do we understand this?

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Yeah, so let's start with the

abomination of desolation.

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We go back to actually Daniel.

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On this one because this actually

took place under the reign of

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Anki epiphanies the first time.

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And that was when Anki epiphanies

sacrificed a pig on the Jewish altar

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and also set up what many believe

was a statue of a Zeus in the temple.

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And so this was the desecration.

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And anytime you think desecration

you think of that, you think of

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something that is, is brought to shame.

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You think of something that is,

is dishonored and that's what.

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Anti his epiphanies did

in the Jewish temple.

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And that was the foreshadowing

of the greater reality of that,

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which is what Mark is referring to,

what Jesus is referring to here.

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And that is the abomination of desolation

standing where he ought not to be.

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And so I think this is a reference

specifically to the person of the

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antichrist who is going to come to

power during the tribulation period.

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Now I think he's going to do an act,

and this appears to be the time that is

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gonna be marked at the three and a half

year mark of the tribulation period.

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Where he breaks the treaty with Israel.

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So the first three and a half years of

the seven years of tribulation are gonna

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be marked by peace with Israel and the

antichrist, but then this is gonna happen,

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the abomination of desolation, whether

that's sacrificing a pig or setting up a

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statue, declaring himself, God declaring

himself God, that is going to be the

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moment where the antichrist severs that.

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Truce with Israel.

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And this is the time when that's

why Jesus goes on from here to

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say, Hey, you guys need to flee.

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You need to run Woe to those that

are nursery during this time.

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This is gonna be a bad season.

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And I think Mark is the one that

puts in the editorial comment there.

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Let the reader understand to kind of

draw attention to the fact that, hey,

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understand what we're, we've shifted here.

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We're not talking about the same context.

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This is, time that's yet in the future.

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And so kind of pay attention to

what we're talking about here.

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So Daniel's the first one to mention

the abomination of desolation.

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Daniel chapter nine, I believe, and we

see it fulfilled in Antiochus epiphanies.

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He was about one 60 something bc So this

is before Jesus Christ came on the scene.

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There is another fulfillment in

the desecration of the temple,

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80 70 that we're talking about.

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Yep.

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And we're still saying

there's another future.

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Desecration that's coming

during the tribulation.

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Right.

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So there's three

fulfillments of this, right?

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Is that right?

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Okay.

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So what we see then, it looks like

scripture when it gives a prophecy,

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doesn't necessarily mean that it's only

gonna be fulfilled once, that there

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could be recurring fulfillments of

that prophecy leading to an ultimate

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fulfillment of that prophecy, right?

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Yep.

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Kind of like what we see in

some of the Isaiah passages.

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Where for to us, a son

of a son has given to us.

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A child is born Isaiah's son, prophesied

the prophesy of is, what's his name?

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Maha Al Al ish.

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That guy?

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Yes.

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Isaiah's son.

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Yes.

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He was the one who was

delivered to the virgin.

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But we know that it

pointed to the ultimate.

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Son delivered to a virgin, which

would of course be Jesus Christ.

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So that makes biblical prophecy a little

more challenging than just saying, oh

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yeah, this speaks to December 14th, 1982.

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This is gonna happen.

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Right?

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And then this person's

gonna show up a lot.

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Unlike, what's that guy who does

the prophecies that people were

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like, oh, he does Harold Camping?

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Well, no, not him.

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The secular guy is,

does it start with a Z?

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He does.

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It's not Xtra.

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I keep on thinking thus spoke Z Thra.

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It's a guy that everybody knows and

they refer to this guy as being the

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one who's doing modern day prophecies.

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He's been debunked, but it's

He does specific prophecies.

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Yeah.

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Or at least more specific

than what we might be used to

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when it comes to scripture.

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Yeah.

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I'm gonna look it up while you're talking.

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Okay.

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From here he does talk about these

signs of the times and the things that

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are going to happen during that time.

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If you look at verse 19 from those

No Radus Nostradamus, that was close.

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Not a z Yeah, but it's in the

alphabet where Z is contained.

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Z is a silent, it's ZNOS.

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That's right.

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Verse 19.

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For in those days, there will be

such tribulation as has not been

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from the beginning of creation

that God created until now.

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And never will be.

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And so words, phrases like that

show us that we can't look in

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history past to find an example of

this because we haven't seen this.

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This is not yet happened.

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And he makes the point.

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He says, if the Lord had not cut

short these days for the sake of the

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elect, the elect that he's referring

to are the tribulation, saints the

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tribulation believers that are still

on earth during the tribulation.

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Those that get saved after the rapture.

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This time is gonna be

cut short for their sake.

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And this is just a it's a bad time.

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But Jesus' message to us is,

Hey, you need to be ready.

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You did say you had another question

though about the statement that

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Jesus made concerning the day or

our no one no is not even the son.

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How is that possible?

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If Jesus is God in the flesh, which

we argue ad nauseum will never

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deny that, how is it possible that

Jesus could not know something?

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I think this is part of his kenosis

from Philippians chapter two, which

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is the veiling of his full glory

with the fullness of his humanity.

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Okay, put that in layman's terms.

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So I think this is what is kenosis?

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This is the humanity of

Jesus that we're seeing here.

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I think this is reference

referential to his time on earth.

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During his life in earthly ministry.

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I don't know that this still applies

to where he is seated at the right

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hand of the father currently.

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I think now in his exalted form,

I think he's still waiting for the

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father, but I wouldn't say that he

doesn't know the day or the hour.

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It's possible that he's still submitting

to the father's will at this point in time

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and choosing, as part of that to remain

just submissive to that, to wait for that.

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Acknowledgement from the father

to say, now's the time to go.

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But I would say Philippians two,

he's been given the name that's above

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every name and he's been exalted

to the right hand of the father.

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I think that's a restoration

of his place of full glory.

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And I think with that comes

the dropping of that veiling.

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That was his frail humanity

when he was here on Earth.

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So we talk about Jesus being

truly God and truly, man.

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He's both of those things simultaneously.

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If he's never not God, is it then

that he chooses not to know something?

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Yes.

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Because he can't not know.

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Right.

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He's God.

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Right.

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So he has to then in some way say, I'm

just gonna not access that information.

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Is that what you're suggesting?

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Right.

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Okay.

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Because of that perfect

submission of the Father.

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Yeah.

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That's strange.

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That's hard for us to conceive of,

given that we're not fully gut or.

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Yeah.

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Anything like that.

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Sure.

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We're fully man, for sure.

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But that's really hard

to wrap your mind around.

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But that I do think that points

to the mis, the mystery and

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the majesty of what Jesus did.

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Yeah.

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It is so unique.

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It is so beautiful, so incredible that it

is hard to understand things like this.

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For someone who, like ourselves, who only

know what it is to be a man and not God,

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this doesn't make sense, and that's okay.

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It shouldn't make sense to you because

no one knows what this is like.

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Only Jesus.

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And so we take him at his word and

he doesn't know, but as the son

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of God, he could figure it out.

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Yeah.

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He could just access that

information he just chooses not to.

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Yeah.

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Which, okay, the kenosis

is Philippians chapter two.

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That's the Greek word behind

the phrase emptied himself.

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Yeah.

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He emptied himself out.

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And so when people speak about the kenosis

of Jesus, we're trying to say, what

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does that mean that he emptied himself?

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In what sense did he empty himself?

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And so what would you say to that?

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In what sense did Jesus.

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Empty himself.

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Well, it's actually answered for us

in Philippians chapter two in that

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same passage, because it says in

verse six, who though he was in the

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form of God, did not count equality

with God, a thing with to be grasped.

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But verse seven, emptied himself,

there's kenosis, and then he says

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this by taking the form of a servant

being born in the likeness of men.

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So it was an emptying through edition.

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In the sense that he emptied himself by

adding full humanity to his full deity,

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or adding true humanity is true, deity.

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And so that's why I

used the phrase veiling.

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He veiled the fullness of his glory

with the fullness of his humanity,

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the trueness of his deity, with

the trueness of his humanity.

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So taking that on as

how he emptied himself.

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Not that he became less than God, but

that he willingly set aside some of

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his divine prerogatives in order to

submit himself to the father's will

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and identify with us as human beings.

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Setting aside his divine prerogatives,

meaning he's choosing not to exercise

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some of those attributes that he.

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He could have, right?

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At any point in time, he could have

said, I'm just gonna do A, B, C, and D.

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Right.

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He just chooses not to, which again,

we don't have a point of reference for.

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Right.

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I guess you could say there's a small

reference when you say, when you're

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disciplining your kids, I'm gonna

choose to do this versus that, but

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even that doesn't quite capture the

significance of what we're seeing here.

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Jesus chooses not to exercise divinity in

all cases, but as one listener, astutely

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asked us about those moments, then when

he's walking on water or when he's, yeah.

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Reading the hearts and minds

of men, is that him accessing

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divinity or is that simply him

resting on the power of the spirit?

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And I think it's a mixture of both.

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I think there's moments of his.

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True deity on display.

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And I think he's doing that intentionally.

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I think he's pulling the curtain

back to reveal that if John chapter

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two the water to wine, I think when

it says that he was manifesting his

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glory, I think there's moments where

it's like, this is not doing this.

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So that when you're at home, if you

rely on the spirit enough, you're gonna

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be able to turn your water to wine.

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I was trying this weekend.

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Yeah, it did not work.

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But I'm doing this to show you

that I'm Lord Over creation.

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I'm doing this to show you who I am.

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Transfiguration being another one.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Maybe it's like if Michael Jordan

during his prime were to go play

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basketball with you, and he was like,

okay, I'll play one-on-one with you,

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but I'm not gonna dunk and I'm gonna

shoot with my left hand and I'm going

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to, you know, he's veiling some of

the fullness of visibilities there.

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He could, and he at any time do

whatever he wanted to do out there,

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but he's gonna say, you know what?

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I'm gonna condescend to you and

I'll play more on your level.

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So even in his condescension and

his veiling, there were still

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points where he decided, I'm

gonna show a little bit of this.

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Yeah.

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I still choose to exercise some of those

divine prerogatives, but not apart from

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submission to the father and not apart

from the empowerment of the spirit.

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So even then we could say.

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He's still choosing to play with

his right hand tied behind his back.

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Right.

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He's allowing himself to be led by the

Father, by the power of the spirit.

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Yeah.

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Fascinating.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's pray and then

we're done with this episode.

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Father, we are thankful for that

mystery of the kenosis of Jesus for us.

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And we thank you for that being part

of your plan that you would save us.

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And we thank you that he came

to identify with us as truly

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God and truly man, and we just.

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Are forever in awe of that, and

I think we'll spend eternity

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forever in awe of that.

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And so I pray that we would

live well and live for him as we

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live the rest of our days today.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep in your Bibles and tune in

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said