00:00 Intro

00:15 Bernard's Return and Podcast Dynamics

01:27 Upcoming Events and Announcements

02:09 Daily Bible Reading: Jeremiah's Prophecies

04:04 Jeremiah's Indictment of False Prophets

07:19 The Good and Bad Figs Analogy

10:06 70 Years of Captivity and Daniel's Insight

11:18 Reflections on Bible Reading Plans

14:54 Closing Remarks and Prayer

15:46 Outro and Podcast Information

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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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I've been given my job back on one

condition: Pastor PJ prompted me to

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speak only the truth from here on out.

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So be it!

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muahahahaha.

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And now your hosts, Pastor

PJ and Pastor Rod...

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Hey welcome back, Bernard.

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You still may have your facts not

entirely right there about the whole

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me programming you to say everything.

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That's exactly true.

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I don't know that we talked about

that, Bernard, but we're glad to

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have you back and we're glad to

have you back listening to another

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episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Thank you for joining us.

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We are indeed.

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Happy to have you back.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And I heard mixed reviews on

Simon, but Bernard, I think

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he got a thumbs down mostly.

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I think so.

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Some people enjoyed them.

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They, the, those that liked the British,

television shows in the ses liked him.

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But overall I think

he, it was a good loss.

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He was too dry, a little too stodgy.

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He felt like that AI from Iron Man.

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It's funny that he felt like ai, strange.

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'cause all of us know

that Bernard's not ai.

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A hundred percent not, yes.

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Yes.

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In fact, I can be sure.

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He says as much.

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On the next podcast.

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Okay.

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I will let him know to be sure to clarify.

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Okay.

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People are wondering.

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Alright, so you're the one

that talks to Bernard then?

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Is that saying?

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I'm that, yes.

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Yeah.

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I am the editor of this

podcast, so I'm the one who goes

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between us producer, editor.

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Yeah.

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I'm the one who goes between

us to convey your wishes.

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Is that true?

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Okay.

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We'll have to, we'll have to talk

about how you're doing on that one.

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'cause I don't know that going

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I feel like it's working great.

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Alright.

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Hey, it's what is it, August

13th and we are back in school.

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We are halfway through August.

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The year is.

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Just trekking right along.

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We, we launched first Peter.

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We're in the next book study now.

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So things are going well.

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We've got women's bible study coming

up, not this Saturday, but next.

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We've got our women's retreat out there.

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Ladies, make sure that you

have registered for that.

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Men.

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Encourage your wives to register for that.

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We would love to help you out if you

need some financial assistance on that.

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I didn't mention this on Sunday,

but you can put a deposit down too.

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You don't have to pay for

the whole thing upfront.

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So if this is something that

maybe you'd like to make payments

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on, you can do that as well.

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And ladies, we'd love to get you

registered and make sure that you've got a

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spot for what's gonna be a great retreat.

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I'm excited about it.

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Talking to Amanda about some of the

messages that are gonna be preached

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there, and it's gonna be an awesome time.

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But let's jump into our daily

Bible reading for today.

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Gen Genesis.

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Are we, let's go back to the beginning.

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We're back in Genesis.

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It's that important.

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Yeah.

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Jeremiah, that's Ken Ham.

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Just, he just get to beat a little bit.

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He was like, yes, that's what I

was talking about this whole time.

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Jeremiah 23, 24, 25.

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So Jeremiah 23.

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Is another Messianic passage.

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It at least the first part of it

is it's dealing with the Messianic

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kingdom and with the Messiah himself.

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But one of the things of note here

is just how much God does care about

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having shepherds who are righteous.

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That is spiritual leaders who

really do care for the people.

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And this is a theme not just in Jeremiah,

but it's gonna show up in Ezekiel too.

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God is gonna really go after the lazy the.

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Overweight shepherds, the shepherds that

are benefiting off the backs of the flock.

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And of course we know that the shepherd

terminology is a metaphor for the

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way that the human shepherds, the

human leaders and religious leaders

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of God's people care for his people.

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And so he's gonna say here in

the millennial kingdom that there

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are gonna be good shepherds.

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He's going to give his people good

shepherds and the chief shepherd as.

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Peter our book study in the,

on Sunday mornings is gonna

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call him the Chief Shepherd.

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And from First Peter chapter five the,

this ultimate shepherd is gonna come.

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And this is gonna be a descendant

of David, a righteous branch.

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And this is a reference to the Messiah.

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This is a reference to Jesus.

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In fact, in Hebrew, the word

for branch is not there.

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And there's a lot of people that think

that this is the connection to Nazareth,

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that he, when the scriptures say that

he was gonna be born in Nazareth or come

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from Nazareth, that this was a reference

to the branch from the branch town.

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It's a little, maybe a

little bit of a stretch.

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We don't have any text in the Old

Testament, though, that specifically says

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that he's going to come from Nazareth.

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And so that would be the connection

there, but the righteous branch, that's

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gonna be the Messiah, and he's gonna

reign, he's gonna gather his people.

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Notice there in the middle section

there, verses seven and eight, there's

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the reference to the second exodus.

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Again, as it was once said that God

brought the people out of Egypt.

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So now it's gonna be said

that he brought them back.

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He gathered his people again.

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And so we've got a second exodus, a

greater exodus even that's gonna be

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this time in the millennial kingdom.

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But then from here the prophet

Isaiah or Jeremiah rather, is

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going to indict the false prophets

in the midst of the people here.

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And he really grieves over it.

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He says, my heart is

broken in all my bones.

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Shake later on, Yahweh in

verse 11 is gonna say, both

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prophet and priest are ungodly.

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So here's the contrast.

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God is saying in the future.

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The millennial kingdom, you're

gonna have good shepherds.

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You're gonna have the chief shepherd,

you're gonna have the branch,

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the righteous branches there.

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In the meantime, what's the

landscape look like currently?

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You've got prophet and priests that

are ungodly and Yahweh says, even in

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my house, I have found they're evil.

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And one of the main evils, and

this is indicative of the rest

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of chapter 23, here, is a refusal

to call the people to repent.

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One of the jobs of a prophet or a

priest, or today a pastor, is to.

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Call for repentance.

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That's part of the prophetic voice.

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If you look down at verse 14, the prophets

of Jerusalem have seen horrible things.

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They commit adultery and walk in lies.

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They strengthen the hands of evil doers so

that no one turns for his from his evil.

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So you've got these prophets and

priests that are scratching, itching,

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ears, and they're just allowing

the people to continue to run

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amuck and do what they wanna do.

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And not call for repentance.

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You see this again in verse 17 that this

is just something that they are letting

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this go on and God is done with it.

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They're what needed to be.

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The call for righteousness, the call

back to following the commands of God.

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And that's something that the religious

leaders of this day were not doing.

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Yeah it really it does help us to

recognize just how important it

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is to have qualified leadership in

our lives, trustworthy leadership.

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And Jeremiah is pointing to the

fact here that the religious leaders

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of their day were just not cutting

it, and that's putting it mildly.

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I would encourage you to be

sure that you are thinking that.

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As you look for leaders, that

you're thinking about what

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God qualifies as a leader.

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And that's an important feature

because there's a lot of disagreement

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about some of those qualifications,

and we don't have to talk about

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political offices and things like that.

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I know that's a whole other

conversation, but asking God to

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not only provide them for you, but

also to prayerfully support them.

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Those are so important.

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Do not take for granted if

you have good leadership.

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If you have good pastors,

thank God for that.

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That's not a given.

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In fact, scripture says that in the

last days, people are gonna look

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for people that will itch their ears

and say nice and pleasant things,

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not to unlike the prophets and the

priests here that Jeremiah accuses.

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So be on the lookout for that.

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Be sure to pray for these

people, and if you find them.

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Pray that God would keep them

and preserve them throughout

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the duration of their ministry.

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Yeah.

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In verses 23 through, down through

verse 32, basically here in this

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section, God is saying I'm not gonna

be mocked by these false prophets.

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He warns that judgment is coming

and that he will bring that.

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And then there's an interesting.

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The section here where I Jeremiah

is telling the prophets, Hey, don't

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talk about the burden of the Lord.

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In other words, don't say that what

Yahweh desires is too hard, it's

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too difficult, it's too burdensome

for us, and we can't do it as though

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you're impugning God's character by

suggesting that what he wants is not

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really right or good for the people.

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And so God in, in chapter 23 is at

the beginning saying, Hey, there's

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going to be a time where you're gonna

have great leaders, great shepherds.

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You're gonna have, the branch

is gonna be here, the Messiah,

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the king is gonna be here.

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In the meantime, we have

to deal with what's.

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What's presently here and that are,

that is wicked, evil, lazy prophets

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and priests who aren't doing the job

that they were called to do, and God

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was gonna bring judgment against them.

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Chapter 24, we move into a new message.

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And so there's these different messages

throughout the book of Jeremiah.

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And in chapter 22 here we find an, or

Chapter 24, here we find another one.

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And this is going to actually

be taking place timeframe wise

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after the second deportation.

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So we're moving around quite a bit in the

book of Jeremiah in these sections here.

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And this one we're now after the second

deportation, there's gonna be, three,

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three total deportations I guess a fourth

smaller deportation, but three main

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deportations of the people of Israel here.

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This is the second 1, 5 97 bc.

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The first was back in 6 0 5 bc.

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Then you have 5 97 bc and then

the final one is gonna be,

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and this is the largest 5 87.

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5 86 bc.

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That's after the fall of Jerusalem there.

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And so this is right in

the middle of things.

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This is 5 97 BC and I, Jeremiah's

gonna use a analogy that God

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gives him here of two baskets of.

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Figs, the good figs and the bad figs.

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And the good figs are those

that are going into exile.

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And these are the ones that, that

God said, Hey, remember, don't

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fight what I'm bringing against you.

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Don't turn to Egypt.

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Don't go to other places.

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But if you want to live and see your

days extended, go with this exile.

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Go with the Babylonians, who I'm

gonna bring against the people.

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And so the, some of the faithful.

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Daniel, Shadrach, Micha, AB Bendigo,

he and I ra Micha, they're gonna be

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gone, and they're going and they're

part of the faithful remnant.

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They're the good figs that

are gonna be there in Babylon.

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And he's even gonna say, you know what?

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You should settle there.

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You should live there.

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You should see the welfare of the

city as we're gonna see later on.

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But then there's the, also the bad figs.

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And these are the ones that are

gonna stay behind Zaka being

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the leader of these bad figs.

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And they're the ones that are gonna

still try to resist what God is

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doing here, and they're gonna fight

against what God is doing in bringing

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the punishment against the people.

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They're the bad figs.

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They're the ones that God is going

to going to end up destroying either

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with famine, sword, or pestilence.

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Yeah, so interesting to see that God

does say, accept your consequence.

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Accept the pain of this

and things are better.

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If you try to buck against

what God is doing, you're

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always gonna end up hurt here.

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And the fact that he uses this analogy

of the good figs and the bad figs,

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being the ones who are unwilling to

accept his consequences is still.

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At work today, there are lots of

people that are going to say, I don't

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wanna do what God wants me to do.

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I don't wanna own my sin.

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I don't want to confess those things.

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I don't wanna deal with

things that God gives me.

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I, I don't know if he'd call us a

bad fig, but certainly it's not bad.

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It's not good faith.

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That's bad faith to respond in that way.

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Best thing to do whenever you're in a

difficult situation is to accept the

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consequences and to embrace them and

say, yes, I sin in these ways, or, yes,

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I will do what you want, Lord, even if

it costs me my reputation, it's gonna

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cost me my convenience, my comfort.

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These guys are leaving their

hometown never to go back.

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They left and they'll never

return back to their homeland.

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That's a devastating and

difficult thing for most of us.

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Some of us anyway, not most of us.

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When we came to Texas, there's

always a chance that you can

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go back to visit, say, hello.

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These guys don't have a choice.

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They can't go backward.

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Trust the Lord with the consequences

of whatever it is that you're

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doing, and know that he has the

better plan than you will ever have.

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Chapter 25.

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Then we have a pretty significant chapter

here when it comes to one of the other

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books that we'll get to here shortly,

and that is the book of Daniel, because

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in chapter 25, Jeremiah finds out

from the Lord and records for us that

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there's gonna be 70 years of captivity.

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So this is over in verse 11.

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This whole land shall become a ruin

and a waste, and the nation shall

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serve the king of Babylon, 70 years.

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And one of the things that I love from

the book of Daniel is it's a glimpse into.

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The prophets reading one another.

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And so Daniel had, at the time, Jeremiah,

it says in the text there in Daniel

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chapter nine that he's studying the scroll

of Jeremiah and he realizes there that

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it's 70 years of captivity and Daniel's

gonna be towards the end of that 70 years.

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And reading this is gonna cause

him to go, oh, wait a minute.

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God prophesied 70 years,

it's gonna be 70 years.

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And so here we see Daniel trusting in

the trustworthy word of God, believing

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in the prophecies of God to be true, and

taking the measures in accordance with

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with what he needed to do by going before

the Lord and praying a corporate prayer

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of repentance before God and preparing

for this return that would take place.

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After the fall of Babylon under

the Persians, the Meads and

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Persians that came after him.

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So pretty cool here that we see this

intersection between the two prophets,

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even though they were separated by so far.

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Chrono chronologically.

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Speaking of chronological, this is one

of the reasons we love a plan like this.

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And even though we're not able to

splice it up as more as finally as

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we might want to do, this is still

really helpful because it helps

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put things in their perspective.

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Put things in their places.

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There's a few downsides to, to doing it

this way, but there's a lot of upside.

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So for those of you who are joining

us, or even if you're just starting

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to read with us, Hey, good on you.

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This is still valuable and it's still a

use to your Bible reading to your depth

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of knowledge to your understanding.

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So the chronological sequence that

we're trying to put together here, we're

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following Blue Letter Bible's plan.

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Is imperfect, certainly, but it's still so

helpful and so good that you're doing it.

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So thank you for being part of this.

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We're proud of you for doing it

and we hope that you'll stick

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with us the rest of the year.

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Yeah and I think we haven't landed

officially but we're leaning

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towards doing this again next year.

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You know what, as I was thinking

about this, I think why change it?

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Yeah.

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At least for the first

five or 10 or 20 years.

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Yeah.

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Maybe 20 years down the line, we'll think

maybe it's time to do a different plan.

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I love the regularity of it.

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Yeah.

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Even though there's thicker days,

I think it's just really good and

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it does shorten our time in the

New Testament, but man, I just.

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The Old Testament is so deep and rich in

having a better understanding of how all

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these things work together is so helpful.

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It gives you a much greater

appreciation for the New Testament.

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And we've never said that this is

all the Bible reading you can do.

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In fact, we would love for

you, I'd love McShane's plan.

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Have you ever done that one?

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I haven't.

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I've done Horner's plan.

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Horner's plan.

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So Horner's plan is, that's robust.

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Yeah.

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10 chapters a day.

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You're in 10 different

places in the Bible.

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I loved it.

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I did it for a season and I

found it to be incredibly.

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Wonderful.

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So do more.

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You can always do extra credit.

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Please don't see this as the

only Bible reading you could do.

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Do as much as you would like and

maybe spend some more time in the New

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Testament as might be helpful to you.

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I, we've, you've heard us plug them

before but audio bibles, maybe you

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have an opportunity to sit down in

the morning with your DBR and you're

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reading it on your device or in your.

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Your hands, but then on your

commute, you've got an audio, a

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chance to throw on an audio Bible.

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Dwell audio Bible is a

great resource out there.

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Oh, yeah.

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ESB has their own audio too, and you

can get more scripture in that way.

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We talked about this last year and I go

back and forth still, but the second part

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of chapter 25 when the prophet's taken,

sent with the cup of God's wrath to the

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nations we talked about whether or not

this is metaphorical or maybe a vision.

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And it's hard to land.

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I don't know that I feel great

about any of the options out there.

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I find it difficult to think that

he would go literally to all of

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these different nations and make

somebody there drink out of this cup.

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That seems like that would be an

odd thing, even back in this day.

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Unsanitary too.

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Yeah.

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But but maybe it was a vision that

he's doing this in his vision,

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or maybe it's just metaphorical.

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But God here in the end of

chapter 25 is saying judgment's

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gonna come against the nation.

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So you're gonna be in exile for

70 years and then God's going to

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gather you back and I think there's.

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Dual layers here of both the near

term fulfillment in regathering,

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the people outta Babylon, but also

the long term of when he ultimately

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rega gathers people out of exile.

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And that's still in the future

for the millennial kingdom man.

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God is gonna establish Israel

as the nation par excellence.

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And then everybody else is gonna either

have to bow the need of Christ or

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find themselves in opposition of God.

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One thing we can agree upon, and I think.

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Anyone who's a dispensationalist would

be quick to say, yeah, that makes sense.

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As es we read texts like this.

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It is hard for me to make this say

something else other than what it says.

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Yes.

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I have a hard time thinking, okay,

if I'm a covenantal list and I just

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think this isn't what it says, this is

actually pointing to something else.

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This is the church and the nations are

being sub subdued because of the gospel.

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I just don't see that.

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I think the better reading is the

more straightforward plain reading,

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which is that God's going to vanquish

the foe and he's going to subdue

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Israel's enemies and restore Israel.

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I think when he says Israel

here, I think he means Israel.

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So all that to say, I'm not trying

to throw dirt at my covenantal, his

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brothers and sisters and friends.

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I just think as I read this, it's hard

to look around it and say, I'm gonna

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read deeper than what the text says.

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I'm gonna read beyond it

than what the text says.

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There are times that do that.

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I just don't think this

is one of those times.

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Yeah, I agree.

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Let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, we are.

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We recognize, we confess that that we need

wisdom that is beyond our own capabilities

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to understand your word, even as we

were just talking about, to be able to

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understand when is it right to, to take

something literally versus metaphorically.

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And we just ask that you'd give us the

humility to, to do that with with charity.

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With, especially with brothers and

sisters in Christ that may take

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a different approach to things.

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We have to hold fast to the gospel,

have to hold fast to the center of

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the bullseye of the target there.

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But outside of that, we can really

make sure that we have a teachable

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about us as we come to the scriptures,

as we come to other doctrines.

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And that's not to say that we're

looking to be malleable and.

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And toss to and fro with

every wind of doctrine.

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But Lord, we, we certainly wanna avoid

the arrogance of believing that we have

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everything right and everybody else has

everything wrong, and so help us to walk

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that fine line, we pray in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep renew Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bye bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for listening

to another uproarious episode of

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the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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We're honored to have you join us.

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This is a ministry of Compass

Bible Church in north Texas.

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You can find out more information

about our Church at compassntx.org.

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you again tomorrow for another

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Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

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I need some brisket.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said