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Welcome back to the Daily Bible Podcast!

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We're so glad you've joined us.

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And now your hosts,

Pastor PJ and Pastor Rod.

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Yes indeed.

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Welcome back.

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We are back on a Sunday morning or

whenever you happen to be listening

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to this on Sunday with another

episode of the Daily Bible Podcast

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and we're excited to be back.

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We're excited for church this morning.

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Hopefully you are too.

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Continuing in one Peter.

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We're in verses eight through 12 of

one Peter chapter one this morning.

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Hopefully you're planning to

join us or you already have

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and it was a great Sunday.

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I trust, I pray and you are.

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Resting now in the afternoon,

maybe enjoying a little time on

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the couch, whatever it may be.

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We're grateful that you're tuning in.

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This is good.

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We were just talking about this,

praying about this beforehand.

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It is our desire for this

podcast, that it's not just,

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running commentary on a passage.

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You could get that by picking up an

ESV study Bible or the Bible Knowledge

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commentary or something else like that.

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We wanna do some of that, but

really we want to draw out

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some truths that are gonna be.

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Applicable and, direct and something

you can take away from this and say,

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this is how this intersects my life.

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This is the difference it

should make in my life today.

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And that's why we do this live

live ish, I guess every single day.

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We don't put them in the can and

once for all time be done with it and

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then roll 'em out and just say you

can access the podcast over there.

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We wanna keep this fresh.

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Because we live in a dynamic

world and a changing world.

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Your experiences are changing.

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Our experiences are changing, and

yet the word of God never changes.

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And so we can come to this

word all the time, every day,

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draw these truths out from it.

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And hopefully they are fresh.

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And the word relevant is a word

that's kind, kinda gotten a bad

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rap because people have taken

relevant and said we gotta change

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God's word to make it relevant.

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That's not what we're talking about here.

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But the application we draw

from it can be relevant to our.

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Specific time and context,

God's word is timeless.

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And that's what we mean by that.

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It's relevant for us today, just like

it was for the original audience.

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In fact, perhaps I would argue more so

for us than Jeremiah's original audience.

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And we're gonna talk about that this

morning because Jeremiah's writing about

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things that now we understand in so much

of a deeper manner, a deeper fashion

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than his original audience did, than

he did as he was writing these things.

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So we truly do live in

a privileged position.

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And our time in the word of God is not

just meant to be well, now I know more,

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but what we learn and what we develop and

the knowledge that we gain should then

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show up in our lives and how we live.

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It's really the same thing with preaching.

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When a sermon is preached, it's

not just preached so that we

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understand the passage better.

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That's a goal of the sermon, but it's

so that we understand the passage

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better and how our lives need to

be transformed by the spirit to

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conform more to the word of God.

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That's what we're here to do this morning.

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And and we hope that we hit that target.

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I know we probably do it better some

days than others, but that's our

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goal as we approach it every single

time that we do come across it.

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That's right.

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And it's a good goal.

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We don't always hit it, but

we're working toward it.

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Be patient.

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Please keep staying here and we'll try to

keep it interesting and exciting for you.

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We will.

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Speaking of interesting and

exciting, pastor Rod, you know my

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proclivity towards the beta software

programs with the Apple products.

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I think you're crazy for it, but yes I do.

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Yeah, I don't, I'm still not sure it's the

reason why, but my iPad crashed yesterday.

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Saturday, no Friday.

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I guess it, it was yesterday.

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Today is Saturday as we're recording this.

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So my iPad crashed on Friday.

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The screen went there, like some random

line and distortion on the screen, cutting

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straight down the middle of the screen.

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You immediately pegged it as a

problem with the beta software.

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I don't know.

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I don't know what it is.

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It's almost like somebody

took a magnet and.

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Dragged it down the middle of my screen.

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Yeah.

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I think that there's, I know it can

brick a phone, it can totally destroy

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the insides, so it doesn't sound

farfetched to me that it can have

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some kind of impact on the screen.

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Overheating, battery issues, betas

are notoriously bad on the battery.

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Yes, because.

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They're inefficient and

they're still being ironed out.

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So I could see how maybe those

interactions can somehow impact the

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screen itself and degradation issues.

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Maybe it was really hot in

that one center section.

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I don't know.

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I just don't think it's too

farfetched because my, these

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devices never have issues like that.

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It's a rarity and it's too

coincidental that you're on

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a beta and it has that issue.

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I also have AppleCare Plus though, and as

a result of that, they're gonna send me a

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new device and I send them that one back.

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And Bob's your uncle Transaction order.

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Yeah.

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Throwing tamales at the crowd.

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Yeah, I guess that

worked out well for you.

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Yeah, if you're gonna do it,

you better have the insurance.

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That's a good call.

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Yeah.

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So not convenient.

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And in fact, today I'm having to

preach for an older device 'cause

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I don't have my main go-to device.

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So I guess that's a problem with first

world problem when it comes to preaching.

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You should use some of that

older old tech like paper.

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Paper.

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Ah, I don't know about that man.

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One thing I appreciate about preaching off

of a device, off on an iPad is you don't

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get the distraction of the page turning.

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Which is not a major

distraction, but it can be.

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I've seen it done sometimes

where guys are like, it's like

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turning the page of a newspaper.

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They're flipping another

page on the, that's true.

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Pastor Hayden has one sheet

that's crazy and it's one large

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piece of construction paper.

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Yeah, so he has all of

his notes on one page.

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If you ever go to Compass Bible, Churchill

Country, I don't know if he still does it.

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This has been a while now, but he would

put everything on one page, which I

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appreciate, but it's this massive.

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Piece of paper.

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It's not a regular eight

by eight and a half by 11.

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It is A huge construction style,

construction size piece of paper.

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It's really funny.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We've got some listeners from down

in Hill Country, so maybe they can

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let us know if he still does that.

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If he still, yeah, if he

still does it, let us know.

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I think they have a special

printer for it and everything.

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Yeah, they might have.

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Hey, let's jump into the end of Jeremiah.

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We're in Jeremiah 51 through

52 today and in 51 work.

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Continuing a theme that we have

been already looking at, and that

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is the judgment of the nations,

specifically the judgment of Babylon.

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And if you look down at verse five, the

encouragement to Jeremiah's audience,

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the nation of Israel is seen here

when it says, for Israel and Judah

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have not been forsaken by their God.

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So remember contextually Jeremiah

is writing, not witnessing

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the downfall of Babylon, but.

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Witnessing the downfall of

Jerusalem witnessing Babylon come

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and lay siege to the city and the

people be carried away captive.

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And so he's writing to the

nation of Israel under judgment

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and encouraging them, saying,

the Lord is not forsaken you.

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The Lord is going to repay those that are

punishing you, those that are judging you.

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And it's gonna ultimately be

through the Meads and the Persians.

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And we read about them again in verse 11.

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The Lord has stirred up the spirit of

the kings of the Meads because of his

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purpose concerning Babylon to destroy it.

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He is coming after them.

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And notice here it says for

the vengeance for his temple.

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And so that's.

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God had said that Jerusalem was gonna

be the place where his name dwelt and

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the temple was gonna be the place with

the arc and the presence of the glory

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of the Lord was going to be there.

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And so with the Babylonians coming

in, they destroy the temple.

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And they don't just destroy the temple.

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They melt down a lot of the brass.

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And a lot of the metal works of the

temple, they carry off the golden vessels.

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We're gonna find out in the book

of Daniel, they're gonna use some

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of the temple vessels in worship

of the false gods that they serve.

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And so God is jealous for his temple,

and that's part of the reason that he's

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bringing this vengeance in Chapter 51.

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Continuing on in the chapter, beginning

in verse 15 Yahweh is gonna establish his

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power over the, in contrast to the power

of the idols, which is really nothing.

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He's gonna establish his identity

as the creator of all things, the

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one that stretched out the heavens.

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Verse 15 the two mold of the waters

and the heavens making mist rise.

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He makes lightning for the rain.

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This is similar language to

what we read about in other.

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Portions of scripture that

praise God as the creator.

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And then basically he says,

Hey where are the idols?

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What can they do here?

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And what can those who

follow the idols do?

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And the answer is really nothing.

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And so God is going to bring

judgment against the nations,

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against Babylon, against their

gods, and it's going to be complete.

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There's not gonna be any rebuilding.

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Verse 26, no stone shall be taken from you

for a corner, no stone for a foundation.

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So there's not gonna be a

Rebuild Babylon project.

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There's not gonna be

any recovery from them.

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So the opening at least of 51 is

continuing this focus on the downfall

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in judgment of God against Babylon.

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Yeah.

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This really is the end of Jeremiah's book.

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The last chapter that we're

gonna look at together is.

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Retelling the story of

Jerusalem's capture and demise.

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Here we're seeing the archetype

enemy of Israel, of Judah, of

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all of the nation in Babylon.

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You're gonna remember that Babylon's gonna

reoccur in a neo, neo Babylon in the book

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of Revelation as they represent really all

of the evil nations and peoples that rise

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up against the Lord and his anointed him.

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Alluding to Psalm chapter two here.

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And so what we're seeing is

not just what's happening to

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the present Neo Babylon, but to

the future Neo Babylon as well.

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God will soundly destroy her.

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He's, what's funny is that people

try to fight against God and it's.

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It's not even a battle.

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It's not even like he's struggling.

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He doesn't break a sweat, doesn't have

to worry about whether or not he has

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the resources or the time to deal with

this powerful enemy in God's side.

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These guys are nothing.

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They're amist.

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They're a vapor, and he's not gonna

struggle to take care of them or, and take

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care of them, as in to do away with them.

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So here what is God

encouraging his people.

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By saying, look, the people that

I use to judge you are not gonna

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get away without being judged.

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And so take comfort in the fact

that God is a just God who will care

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for his people one way or another.

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Even though initially he

used them for judgment.

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Yeah, and that's I find it.

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The application that the

correlation is difficult here for

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us because we've said this multiple

times and we'll say it again.

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We are not Israel 2.0

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here in the United States of America.

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So we can't look at the enemies of

United States, let's say China or Russia

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or one of these other nations and say

they're Babylon and so God's gonna go

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punish them for their crimes against us.

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It's, it doesn't work that way.

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We've gotta be careful not

to nationalize our faith.

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But for the believer as an individual,

we can draw the same principle for you.

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We can draw the same principle

that justice is gonna be done,

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that God is a God of justice.

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There's not that the nations that

you're gonna be able to specifically

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name eschatological there will

be against God's people against

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Israel as he re regather them.

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But for the church is

a multinational entity.

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It's not an entity with

a flag, so to speak.

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And so because of that there,

there's not a specific nation

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that God is gonna target.

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When we think about our current modern day

context the God is not the God of America.

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God is the God of the nations.

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God is the God of the church,

and he's a god of justice.

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But there's no modern day equivalent.

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We can't say China is like Babylon

was, and so God's gonna punish China.

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Yeah, that's a great point

and a helpful clarification.

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I would add on top of that.

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That it's very likely that

most of America is Babylon.

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True.

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Yeah.

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It's not only, not that we're not God's

people as those who are gonna be protected

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against the big bad enemies of China

and Russia, it's far more likely that

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America, by and large is Babylon 2.0

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or a 3.0

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or whatever number we're on right now.

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And so I.

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Thank you for giving me the chance to

clarify that for us as we read stuff

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like this, it's not another nation we're

looking really at ourselves as the church

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is saying, how does a church remain pure

such that we don't look like Babylon?

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Yeah.

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How do we ensure that we're

not doing what Babylon does?

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We're not living how they live.

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And really what I think Jeremiah's

partial answer to that is that we

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remain faithful to Yahweh through and

through we serve the one true God.

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We don't turn to idols.

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We don't give ourselves

over to false worship.

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And it's, again, we're not

looking at little statues unless.

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Your neighbors do them.

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Don't do that.

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But we're looking more at the

idols of the heart, greed, lust,

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power control, things like that.

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And here you have to be, especially

on guard because you don't have a

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physical figurine that we can point to,

to say, take that off of your shelf.

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You shouldn't be worshiping that.

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Instead, Babylon 2.0,

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at least in America, the

manifestation here is far more.

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It's e ethereal, is that

the best word for it?

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It's financial, it's power, it's control,

the things that I just mentioned.

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Yeah.

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Those are the idols that run

amuck in our neighborhood.

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Yeah.

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And that's why we're one of the reasons

why we're going through one Peter as a

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church because of how easy it is as we've

talked about back in week one, vacationing

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Church versus the Exile church.

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We can be the vacationing church and

show up at Sundays and have those idols

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that are present in our life and we can.

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Coddle those idols and we can fool

ourselves into thinking that we're fine.

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Because after all, I show

up to church on Sunday.

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I carry the right Bible.

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My kids are in adventure

club on Wednesday nights.

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Meanwhile, I'm giving my heart over

to these other idols that are present

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in my life and not putting those to

death, not realizing the dangers.

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They're not living like the exiled

church that Peter calls us to.

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Chapter there, there's a few other

things that are just unique here.

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Verse 34, for example.

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Jerusalem is personified here,

so this is Jerusalem speaking.

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When it says, Nebuchadnezzar

King of Babylon has devoured

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me, he has crushed me.

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This is not Jeremiah speaking.

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I don't think at least it, it seems

to be, as he says down there in

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verse 35, let Jerusalem say this.

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So the city is perfect.

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Personify it, talking about

the destruction that's coming.

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Verse 48, the response of the nations

to the judgment of God, the heavens

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and the earth, and all that's in them

shall sing for joy over Babylon, for

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the destroyers shall come against them

out of the north that clears the Lord.

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You mentioned the eschatological, Babylon.

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The heavens are singing.

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They're praising God when.

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The Neo Babylon empire is destroyed

and struck down, and we've talked

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about the difficulty with that for

us as Christians, to think about

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rejoicing in the presence of God's

wrath being poured out on somebody else.

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It's sobering, and yet we will be

rejoicing because of God's holiness being

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seen and displayed in the character of

God on display during those times as well.

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Yeah, I wonder if it would be something

like watching a movie in a movie.

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It's easy to tell the good

guys from the bad guys.

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My girls will always say,

oh, that, that's the bad guy.

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Especially Phoebe.

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She's learning about all

this stuff right now.

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And so she'll say, oh, that's the bad guy.

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And I, and usually she's

using the tells like music.

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The music becomes

foreboding and dark colors.

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Maybe they talk with a funny

an accent and they laugh.

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Maniacally.

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It's easy to see the bad guy in that.

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To say that's the bad guy,

they deserve the punishment.

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Right now it's a lot more complex

for us because it's harder for us

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to see each other as the bad guys.

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But when God shines in his glory

and his splendor and in his majesty,

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I don't think it'll be hard for

us to say He's the good guy.

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We're the bad guys and we deserve

exactly what we're getting.

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And plural, we, all of us, as in,

people who aren't on his side,

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we're gonna say they deserve it.

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God is in the right.

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There's not gonna be the pity that

goes out because we're gonna say,

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yeah, this is justice is being served.

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That's a great way to think of it.

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Chapter 52, you mentioned this

is a retelling of the downfall

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of Jerusalem and I think the.

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What Jeremiah provides for us is a little

bit more on the destruction of the temple.

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It says in verse 13, he burned the house

of the Lord, the king's house, all the

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houses of Jerusalem, every great house.

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He burned down the army, the Chaldeans

who were with the captain, the guard

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broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

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And that's significant because a city

without walls was absolutely defenseless.

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And so that was the last draw that

would say, this city is done there.

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There's no.

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Coming back from this, at

least not temporarily speaking,

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without the city there.

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But this is where we get more into

the fact that this was a desecration

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and a pillaging of the temple.

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The pillars of bronze were broken down.

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Some of this, these things were melted.

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The gold things were carried away.

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God's temple, his house, the place

where he had caused his name to

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dwell was ransacked and pillaged.

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And he allowed it to happen, but he

wasn't, this wasn't pleasing him.

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And he was gonna bring, as we read

earlier in chapter 51, vengeance against

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Babylon for a lot of these actions.

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There's a final exile, and then we

read in the end here about jehoiachin

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once more who was released from

his prison in Babylon there and

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allowed to dwell at the king's table

as the the book comes to an end.

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For your sake, as you read through this,

I just want you to know that there are

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really three deportations, three exiles

that take place upon the land, and there's

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also maybe a fourth that seems smaller.

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So 6 0 5 is agreed upon.

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That's the first one.

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6 0 5 5 97.

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5 86.

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5 86 is the big one.

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It's the one where they lose everything.

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This is the one where they're

the only, the porous stay there.

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Jeremiah is left there, but the

land is largely decimated entirely.

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6 0 5, 5 97 5 86.

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Maybe there's a smaller one in 5 82,

and some of the numbers that you're

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reading here at the end of Jeremiah 52.

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We're not entirely sure what system

of counting is being used here.

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In other words, are we just counting

a certain demographic of people?

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Are we just counting males?

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Where do these numbers come from?

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It's hard to know with certainty what

these numbers represent, but we do

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know that there's a lot of people here.

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In fact, these numbers seem

small, all things considered.

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So we're trying to figure out, we're

just talking leadership royalty, males.

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What are we seeing here?

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And that's hard to know.

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We don't know for sure, but we do know

there are three major deportations.

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6 0 5, 5 97, 5 86.

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Those are the big ones.

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Those are the ones that

you'll wanna commit to memory.

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There might be one in 5 82, a

smaller one that, yeah, I guess

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something happened, but we're not

entirely sure all that took place.

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So even with all the history that

we have, we don't have everything.

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But those are the big three to remember.

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That's yeah.

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Helpful helpful timeframe there.

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Yeah.

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Old Testament chronology is really.

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It gets sticky, it gets confusing,

and that's where a good study

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bible or commentary or logos,

something like that is, is helpful

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to help us understand those things.

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We're talking about something that

happened thousands of years ago.

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Isn't that crazy?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Thousands amazing.

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And we can date it, we can

know the dates for a lot of it.

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Yeah.

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At least, which is really awesome.

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So it's amazing.

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Yeah.

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Let's pray.

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God, as we started this podcast we

wanna make this not just an exercise

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in increasing intellect, but something

that results in lives that are changed.

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And so we pray that.

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We, meaning Pastor Rod and myself

would be able to have insight and

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wisdom to bring to the table to show

how these books matter still today to

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us because we believe that they do.

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You are a God who transcends time.

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Your word transcends time and

context and circumstances.

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And so help us to know how to take

these things and to figure out

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what we need to do with it today.

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And sometimes that's just standing

back in awe of who you are

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and worshiping you or being a.

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Increasing our fear of you when we

consider your judgment and your wrath

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rejoicing over Christ and the cross.

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When we consider these things these are

all ways that we can take things that we

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read about in the Old Testament and say,

how does this apply to where I am today?

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And so we're thankful for Christ.

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We're thankful for the cross.

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We're thankful that we don't fear

your wrath coming against us the way

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that it came against Jerusalem, or

the way that it will come against

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Babylon or the way that it came against

Babylon in the past or in the future.

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And so help us to be grateful

people for that and to live.

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Lives of gratitude and response.

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We pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep bring your Bibles tuned

again tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for

listening to another episode of

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the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said