Shownotes
00:00 Introduction and Men's Breakfast Recap
00:17 Discussion on Book Study and Discipline
00:54 Men's Breakfast Logistics and Promotions
01:41 Office Challenges Without Kelly
03:16 Women's Bible Study and Teaching
04:46 Bible Reading: Jeremiah 49-50
05:29 Judgment on Nations and Prophetic Future
07:10 Theology in Community and Avoiding Heresy
11:04 Discussion on Edom's Judgment
12:35 Judgment on Damascus
12:59 Judgment on Kedar and Hazor
13:52 God's Sovereignty Over All Nations
14:51 Judgment on Elam
15:54 Judgment on Babylon
21:11 The Hammer of the Whole Earth
22:38 Conclusion and Prayer
Transcripts
Hey, welcome to Friday's edition
of the daily Bible podcast.
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:It's the best addition.
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:It is.
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:In fact, we had our men's
breakfast this morning.
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:We did what happened.
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:Uh, we are going over.
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:How many people showed up?
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:We had the numbers.
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:Did you guys talk about God's
ordained number of people.
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:And we talked about the subjects
that he wanted us to talk about.
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:I know it was great.
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:We were talking about disciplines
of a godly man chapter one.
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:So just introduction to one
chapter a week of disciplines.
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:He and di are you thinking that's
that's too little or too much?
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:'cause that's Stewart's book, right?
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:It's got Stuart, Scott.
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:No, this is our Kent Hughes.
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:Oh, that's right.
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:It is okay.
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:Hughes.
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:Yeah.
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:You're thinking of the exemplary husband.
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:Yes.
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:That's the blue cover.
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:Yeah, that's the one that's
a lot to try to work through.
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:It's the bit, the printer's thick.
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:I just think he has a lot
of like small chapters.
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:So I was thinking it'd be
like 25 weeks worth of.
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:Well, the chapters.
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:We're able to go slow, go slow.
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:Um, I guess there's no rush.
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:Yeah.
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:Now we're going through chapter one
on the importance of disciplines.
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:So it should be good.
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:So make sure you're there.
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:Men, if you're wiped up, wait, there.
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:If you're, I'm not, if you
are, if you are awakened up.
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:Please.
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:And be there.
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:What time is it?
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:Where is it?
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:It's six 30 and I hop in
first, go off Dallas Parkway.
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:All right.
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:Oh, you can eat pancakes deal on
for five bucks, five bucks for now.
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:And that's a special promotion.
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:Yeah.
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:So take advantage of it while you
can in tiny coffee cups, maybe
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:you should bring your own coffee
cup and have them fill that up.
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:Multiple men did last week.
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:It's brought their own coffee.
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:It was like a flex on iHub.
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:I can't, I can't condescend a drink.
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:You're slow.
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:I would drink their swell in a
larger cup is what I'm saying.
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:They do bring pitchers out there.
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:Stanley.
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:Yeah.
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:We're like the only people there,
us in some like high school
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:sweethearts that were sitting
on the same side of the booth.
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:You should invite the fellow to
come over and say, Come learn.
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:To impress your girl here.
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:We'll we'll help you.
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:Yeah, right.
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:Hey, we're we're surviving,
but Kelly's not here.
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:I know.
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:Uh, barely.
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:Uh, barely surviving.
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:That is, I don't see like the lights
aren't on things aren't working.
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:Right.
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:Printer.
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:I don't know how to work the printer.
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:Yeah.
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:I don't know how to print to it, but if
anything is required, we're in trouble.
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:Right.
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:And if the phone rings, we're going
to be like, what are you, what.
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:What do you do?
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:What do you say?
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:Who do you.
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:Uh, hi.
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:Who is this?
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:Do you remember the days when we had those
telephones that were connected to the wall
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:or, I mean, even just the ones that you'd
pick up and carry with you around that.
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:They used to call those phones.
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:Phones.
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:Landlines.
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:Do you have a landline?
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:I did.
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:I don't you don't anymore?
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:No, I stopped paying for it cause it
was like, I don't use it to make sense.
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:I used to have that for like my alarm
system, but then that's now you don't
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:need that anymore wireless to, yeah.
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:Well, but during a Nat national
disaster, I think a landline is
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:still probably pretty helpful
because those can still work.
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:They don't work off the, the
electricity, they don't work off of.
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:The wifi.
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:Everything else that we need now
requires electricity to operate.
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:Whereas in your phone, if it were
a landline, you could still make
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:phone calls through the landlines,
not operate off electricity.
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:They don't use the same utility.
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:So they, they can still work
if everything else is off.
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:Yeah.
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:By the way, Kelly's fine.
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:She's just on vacation.
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:If you're like, wait a minute.
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:Where's Kelly's Kelly.
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:You left us hanging.
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:We are giving her a much needed break.
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:She's done a great job for us.
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:And so she's getting rest.
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:So pray for her that she'll get that rest.
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:I don't think this is all of our
first times taking a vacation,
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:any extended vacation since
we've been here doing the work.
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:So it's definitely time for her.
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:She and Sean are spending
some time together.
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:You could pray that that goes
well, they had a great time.
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:It refreshing and relaxing and all
the things that go along with that.
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:Hey.
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:A women's Bible study is tomorrow morning.
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:That's right.
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:Who's teaching it is my wife,
your whack, my wife, my what?
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:Why did you teach him?
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:She sees you on a self-control.
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:So, yeah.
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:This is our last one.
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:The passage that I preached on this.
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:Oh, of course.
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:She's of course she's preaching that one.
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:She's preaching preach.
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:My legs out.
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:Out from under me.
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:She's preaching your, what
was your servant about it?
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:I think it was not even
related to south central.
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:It was, no, it wasn't discipline.
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:It was no.
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:Faithfulness.
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:Oh, You need, you need
discipline to have hope folks.
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:Thanks pastor PJ.
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:Now I'm not preaching first
Corinthians nine because it
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:doesn't make sense anymore.
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:Maybe I'm going to preach it again
and I'm going to place it differently.
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:Do it, do it.
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:It might we'll see if they
even notice it's inexhaustible
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:the depths of God's word.
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:And this would be a great.
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:It's a great way to go about it.
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:Yeah.
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:Anyway, she's teaching that.
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:So ladies be there.
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:Women's Bible study tomorrow morning.
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:All right, that's going to be good.
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:That's always a helpful sermon.
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:The one about self control discipline.
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:That's net.
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:You're never out of style when
you talk about that thing.
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:Yeah.
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:Helpful and convicting.
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:Right.
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:Always it's always can,
all of us can grow in that.
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:Yeah.
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:I might listen in on that.
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:Yeah, well, there you go.
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:Which I heard the, the gals
aren't even using the microphones
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:they're using their phones.
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:They're just using the phone to record.
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:No microphones.
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:We want high quality.
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:I want to preserve their teaching.
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:Yeah, distributed to the masses.
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:It's true.
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:What.
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:If CNN calls, Fox news is like, Hey,
we want the audio for your teaching.
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:And with the thing on the
website, it's not great.
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:I don't know.
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:We'll appreciate life.
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:We'll be like, okay, we'll
do a live sermon for you.
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:All right.
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:All right.
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:Let's jump into our Bible
reading for the day.
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:Uh, we've got Jeremiah 49 feet.
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:We're almost done with Jeremiah.
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:Yeah, we're pretty close.
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:Not really.
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:Because then we get to go into this book.
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:Number two.
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:Is it written by Jeremiah limitations?
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:Limitations?
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:Yeah, I think so.
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:He thinks so.
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:All right.
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:Did he tell you that.
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:Uh, he did.
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:We talked.
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:Yes.
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:This is a weird thing.
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:Traditionally, it is.
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:It is Jeremiah.
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:And maybe we'll talk about
that, but there's no name in
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:it that says this is Jeremiah.
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:It's technically anonymous.
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:Although most of, most of
conservative scholarship.
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:Traditionally have said probably Jeremiah.
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:And I like to think of myself
as a conservative scholar.
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:Well, I said most of not all love,
there's some, there's some reasons
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:why it may not be him, but we'll
get to that when we get there.
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:So for now put a pin
in it, put a pin in it.
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:But don't put a pin in Jeremiah 49 and 50.
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:Cause that's where we're at today.
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:Let's do it.
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:So we open up with more
judgment on the nations.
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:Remember that's what the theme is all
the way really through chapter 51,
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:which focuses on Babylon, we'll get
there tomorrow and tomorrow's reading.
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:But today Jeremiah 49 and 50,
you've gotten chapter 40 9:00
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:AM on an Edam in Damascus.
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:And so.
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:He's continually walking through
the, the judgment Oracles against
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:these nations for their sins, against
the people of Israel and all the
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:things that they've done wrong.
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:Uh, and the judgment is being doled
out here as God's systematically moves
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:through the nations against some of
them with a promise of future future
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:restoration, but not all of them.
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:So you've got am on here.
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:And the, uh, the opening of chapter 49
verses one through two for dispossessing,
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:the Israelites from their land, they
would be dispossessed by Israel.
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:Uh, this didn't occur historically, this
idea that, that the, the lands of, of the
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:Ammonites would be taken back by Israel.
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:This didn't necessarily.
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:Happen, post exile or anything else?
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:So there's question.
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:When does this happen there for
therefore, if it didn't happen yet,
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:historically, we have to assume
it's going to happen in the future.
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:So we're going to look towards the
millennial kingdom for the fulfillment.
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:Kind of our catch-all whenever we're
like, Hey, that doesn't fit in history.
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:That's gotta be a future
thing that, right.
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:And that might be like, and you're in
your mind, you might think, well, of
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:course, you're going to broad brush
stroke, everything as a millennial kingdom
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:prophecy, but I mean, it really, it.
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:It does justice to the text is
what we're trying to get at.
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:And its potential.
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:Maybe there's some other unknown time when
this, when this will kind of be slotted
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:in, but it just makes the most sense.
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:Jesus ascends, the throne, the
kingdoms are put under his feet.
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:Psalm chapter two kind of takes.
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:Takes a stage here.
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:Uh, it just makes the
most sense of the text.
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:So we're trying to handle it
honestly and critically Theresa,
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:where does this really fit in it?
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:Because it doesn't fit
the historical context.
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:We have to assume it's the
prophetic future, which means
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:it's still yet to be done.
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:Which on that note, and we've
been talking a little bit kicking
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:around the idea of, of heresy.
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:You know, And I've been talking
with a few people just in different
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:meetings that I've had and we've,
we've kind of come back to some
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:different subjects and different ideas.
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:There's a measure to which.
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:Th their safety and the simplicity of,
of trusting in something, you know?
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:Maybe it is broad brush, but at the
other hand, maybe it's just, we're.
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:We're taking out toward it
at what it seems to say.
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:And trusting in the simplicity of that
rather than trying to push it too far,
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:we're all going to, we're always going
to have questions that are unanswered.
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:We're always going to want more
information than what we have.
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:And that's where we got to fall back to
say the secret things belong to the Lord.
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:There's some things that we're
not going to be able to know.
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:Timeframes.
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:You know, exact.
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:Uh, who the particular people are
the referred to, who's going to
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:be this king, that king, who's
going to do this who's Gog.
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:And Magog all those things
that we long to know.
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:We have to be careful about pressing
that desire to know too far.
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:Cause when we press too far and don't
allow the mystery to remain the mystery.
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:That's where we can cross the
line into some of the realm
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:of, of heresy informal though.
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:It may be meaning not intentional here.
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:So we're not saying we're going to start
a Colt and deny the deity of Christ.
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:But we can still find ourselves at odds
with what God's word calls us to, which
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:is why good theology is, is a skill as
much as it is anything else to do theology
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:well, and to do what you're talking about
without going into the realm of error.
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:Or heresy requires some, a, a biblical
balance, having a really good handle
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:on what scripture says, and also be a
really good handle on church history
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:because lots of heresies have been,
uh, countered by the church and tend
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:to avoid current and future Harris'.
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:You will mean, okay, what did the
church already knowingly reject?
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:Let me avoid those areas.
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:In fact, some of the things that
we ask questions about today have.
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:I've already been kind of talked about
among Christians and there's a large,
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:well, there's a wealth of intellectual
history that the Christian Church has.
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:You just need to have time to go through
the resources that are available and doing
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:community, doing theology in community.
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:Oh, that's a good point is super
important to point, uh, not to
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:isolate yourself and say, well,
I'm going to come up with my own
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:perspectives and points of view on this.
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:Uh, because by and large, anytime
we find ourselves on an island,
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:that's not a super safe place to be.
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:It didn't work out for Gail again.
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:Right.
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:Well, that's true.
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:That's true.
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:Actually, they got saved.
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:I take it back.
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:It did work out for him cause he was.
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:It was one of the elect, but he was
with multiple people on the island.
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:He wasn't by himself.
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:And that's listen, that's not to say.
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:There are things that we have to hold
loosely as believers, but, um, But it's,
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:it's, it's safe for us to find that that.
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:Being on an island.
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:Uh, Or being with, with other
believers, doing theology and
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:community is a good thing to say.
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:Okay.
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:There's other people that are confirming
what I believe the text is saying here.
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:And, uh, and it's a good measure too,
to find yourself in that position.
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:Amen.
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:Uh, look at verse six, there's
going to be a future there.
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:The Ammonites are going to be restored.
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:Uh, again, we believe that that's going
to take place in the millennial kingdom.
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:We talked a little bit about,
okay, why are some of these
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:nations and in others, not that
that's another one of those areas.
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:We don't have a fully firma answer to.
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:It implied that I think.
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:The presence of Christ in all of
the events that are going to take
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:place before the millennial kingdom
are going to lend credibility.
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:To Christ in his reign and his authority.
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:But why the Ammonites and not others, not
the Edomites for example, I don't know.
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:Uh, I have a possible theory.
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:Again, doing theology and community.
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:And I'm just going to speculate
based on some of the things that
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:I already know about God, and
it's going to keep it simple.
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:God has a big heart.
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:He cares about Gentile people.
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:And therefore, I mean, even you're going
to talk about ITAM in a second here.
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:He says, in verse 11, let your fatherless
children, um, leave your father and
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:his children rather I will keep them
alive and let your widows trust in me.
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:So there's a, there's a sense in which God
has a heart that's far bigger than Israel.
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:It encapsulates not only Israel,
but it includes the nations.
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:That's what the fulfillment of Christ
reaching the Gentiles is all about.
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:Now why there's, why there's words for
them to be preserved and not others.
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:I I'm going to appeal to
Romans nine, for that.
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:There are some people that are.
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:Yeah, that was going to stay right there.
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:Yeah.
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:But I think that's it.
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:I think Melis, that's a part of it.
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:I don't know if that's the whole, but
that's, that's a part of it in my mind.
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:He eat them.
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:Yeah, they do have that, that
line there, but, but there's also,
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:there's no conclusion that promises
with Edam, at least that he's
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:going to restore their fortunes.
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:Like it says in the other ones, right.
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:Um, and I think with that, it's dealing
all the way back with, with the beginning,
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:with Jacob and Esau, with the forfeiting
of the birthright and so forth and so on.
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:And then how the Edomites
opposed the people who have gone.
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:Uh, but verse eight, the Edomites
again, Esau's descendants.
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:Um, And so they come from that
line verses nine through 10.
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:Implies at least I think
that the destruction is
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:going to be pretty complete.
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:With the edamame people there.
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:They're not going to be around.
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:Verse 16 for her pride.
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:Uh, that Eden's pride.
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:That is she was going to be brought down.
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:She was going to be judged.
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:The horror you inspire has deceived
you and the pride of your heart.
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:You who live in the cleft of the rock.
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:You who will hold the height of the hill.
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:Uh, though, you make your nest
as high as the Eagles, I will
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:bring you down from there.
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:So don't think that
you're going to be okay.
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:Don't think that you're
going to be secure.
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:You're going to be safe.
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:I'm going to bring you down verse 18.
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:Again, the destruction is going to
be complete like Sodom and Gomorrah.
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:Anytime you're compared to
Sodom and Gomorrah, it's not
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:going to be good that day.
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:Uh, and, and there's going to be
no one left to inhabit her cities.
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:Uh, and then there's again.
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:Nope, no promise of restoration as, uh,
this section on Edam concludes here.
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:It sounds a lot like Obadiah.
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:Uh, and w it's been a minute
since we looked at Obadiah, but
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:there's a lot of similar themes
here that you might have noticed.
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:And if he didn't notice that good
job, because you're, you're making
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:connections that are in fact.
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:Connections Obadiah wrote to Eden.
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:And he says much of the same things.
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:Next up, we've got Damascus Damascus.
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:Uh, the Syrians, not us
Syrians, but Syrian people.
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:Um, and here is a section of, of judgment
against Damascus that she will become
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:feeble and she will turn to flee.
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:Panic will seize her verse 24.
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:Uh, young men shall fall in her squares
or soldiers she'll be destroyed.
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:He will Kindle a fire in the wall
of Damascus and just like eat them.
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:There's no promise of restoration
here for the people of Damascus.
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:Next we get these two small
tribes or, or, uh, peoples the
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:people of Kadar and Huizar.
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:And these are nomadic tribes from
the best of our understanding that
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:we're probably trans Jordanian tribes.
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:In other words, living on the
other side of the Jordan river.
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:And it's perhaps that their sense
of self confidence and security
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:that caused the group to think that
they were not, that they were okay.
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:That they were fine, not recognizing
Galloway as the provider of that security.
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:And so there there's a.
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:Uh, threat of judgment
against them as well.
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:They're identified specifically again,
probably because it's so many of these
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:nations that comes back to pride.
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:Is as the reason why God is
judging them and bringing
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:the, the punishment upon them.
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:And it's interesting too, because
you wouldn't expect God to be
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:looking at a nation over there,
especially in nomadic tribes.
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:Like these guys, they
almost seem inconsequential.
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:I mean, when have you read about HotSauce
archi Dar I, I, I can't remember.
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:Right.
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:They don't come up in our, in our,
at our memory banks because we're not
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:really seeing a whole lot about them.
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:And then I think one of the points
that we ought to see here is that God
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:is not just God of the Israelites.
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:He's not just God of the Christians.
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:He's got of everybody.
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:Yep.
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:And even though not every knee is
bowing and every tongue confessing
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:that he is a Lord, it still is true
that he is the one who will rule
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:and judge Lee, just the nations.
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:And that includes.
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:Even every, a small group of people that
may be off the radar of most people,
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:God knows, and God is paying attention.
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:And that ought to give us a little bit
of trepidation and an awareness that we
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:are responsible as Christians, 2024, to
make sure that we're reaching the nations.
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:This is our job, Matthew 28.
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:This is our goal right now.
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:We're supposed to reach people like
this so that they don't fall under.
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:God's just wrath.
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:Yeah.
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:It also, I think historically speaks
to the power of Babylon as God's
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:instrument of justice, that, that Babylon
was going to take out anything and
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:everyone in their path to great point.
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:Even these nomadic tribes that, that
are, you know, nobody's from nowhere.
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:They're going to be subject to
the, to the Babylonians as well.
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:The classic phrase, that's helpful.
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:That is helpful.
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:Uh, Hey, all right.
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:Elan comes up next.
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:And so next up is ELAM.
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:Isla is a, another nation that
comes under God's judgment.
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:Now, yesterday on the podcast,
you may have caught that.
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:I mentioned that these are the Syrians.
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:I don't think they are.
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:I think that was just a full pot on mine.
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:I think I was just.
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:I don't even know what that's called.
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:When you make a conclusion that's wrong.
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:I think it's called an error.
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:Um, so where to.
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:Such things.
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:Yeah.
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:I've done such things.
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:It's almost as though I, we had
just deleted a big section of this
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:podcast because it's almost as though
I just continued with that error.
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:Until my, my, my faithful co-pastor said,
Hey, Um, How do you know that this is
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:the Assyrians and I was just left to go.
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:Because I'm because I decided
that I decided to stay on.
476
:Well, you, you, you are a doctor.
477
:So I do trust that.
478
:What you're saying is most of the time,
not a doctor, an old Testament traps, and
479
:it was, it's not, it's not the Assyrians.
480
:These are the Elamites and they're
going to be judged as well.
481
:Uh, yeah.
482
:First year is that of cash rain, 5 97 BC.
483
:Judgment versus 35 to 38.
484
:And then ultimately their
restoration comes in verse 39.
485
:There's going to be a
future for them as well.
486
:Not the same can be said about
who we turn to next in chapter 50.
487
:Babylon.
488
:dot.dot.
489
:Did it, uh, what was that band's name?
490
:David Gray sang a song called Babylon.
491
:That's not, who was thinking
about it is that there's like
492
:from the seventies, Um, Um, Nope.
493
:Close.
494
:No that's the heat is on.
495
:Was it an ACDC?
496
:No, no, no.
497
:Who's the other group that classic rock.
498
:This is not a song.
499
:That's not a song.
500
:oh, it's the heat is on.
501
:No, it's not that.
502
:I don't know.
503
:That song, I don't know that
song, but it's not that.
504
:He designed.
505
:Okay.
506
:Who sings that song?
507
:I don't, I'm going to Google it right now.
508
:Let me Google that for you.
509
:The heat is on.
510
:No, I.
511
:Panama.
512
:It's not, it's not, it's not Babylon.
513
:It's Panama.
514
:Panorama.
515
:You know, That's still, the heat is on.
516
:You're still singing.
517
:The heat is on Glenn Fry.
518
:No, that's not it.
519
:Yes.
520
:Yes, it totally is that can't be it.
521
:Yes, Hannah.
522
:Song.
523
:Lyrics.
524
:Or no, maybe yeah.
525
:Van Halen.
526
:That's what I'm thinking of.
527
:Van Halen, Panama.
528
:What on earth was that?
529
:This is the heat is on.
530
:I I've never heard that
song, dude, in mind.
531
:Well, You were just singing it.
532
:So that's amazing.
533
:I was singing accidentally.
534
:Somebody is going to run in and confirm
that you were singing at the heat of song.
535
:No.
536
:I was thinking this one.
537
:You know this one?
538
:No, I don't.
539
:Okay.
540
:Well, that's the one that sounds
a lot, like the heat is on that.
541
:I'm pretty sure that's
what you're singing.
542
:I think these guys were first.
543
:Anyways, speaking of the heat
is on, uh, how about Babylon?
544
:Babylon a nation from the north
verse two through three is going to
545
:come against Babylon and overthrow
her guess who that's going to be.
546
:That's going to be the
Mito Persian empire.
547
:So real quick flag.
548
:Flag on the play flag on the play.
549
:You're going to ask,
are they from the north?
550
:No, but do they come from
the north when they attack?
551
:Yes.
552
:There are people of the east.
553
:That's true, but.
554
:But both the nutrition.
555
:The direction of the north was.
556
:Prophetically known as, as a symbol
for God's judgment, that God's
557
:judgment would come from the north
from the direction of the north.
558
:In fact, Even in the book of
revelation when we see about some of
559
:the prophecies of the in time, right.
560
:We see that they're going
to come from the north.
561
:Right.
562
:And I think that's okay.
563
:My, my understanding
of Jeremiah chapter 50.
564
:We're about to tell me it's Russia.
565
:Don't tell me it's Russia.
566
:Russia as yeah.
567
:Putin is all over this thing.
568
:No.
569
:No, I think that this ha this
has to fit better with the
570
:eschatological destruction of Babylon.
571
:Now, does God actually take care
of them in a, in a near-term?
572
:Yeah, he does.
573
:Yeah, but the way that he describes it, I
think this is, this has to fit at the end.
574
:In revelation 17, 18, wherever that is.
575
:I think this fits better with
saying this is the ultimate ends
576
:cause Babylon never disappears.
577
:At least there is symbolically there
at the end, the book of revelation as
578
:the system that stands against God.
579
:And it seems like this better fits,
especially the first five verses.
580
:It seems like this is
what's being pointed to.
581
:Yeah, I think it's a, both.
582
:And.
583
:Yeah, I'm comfortable seeing
this as, as fulfilled by Persia
584
:attacking from the north and in the
Mito Persian empire, being that.
585
:Okay.
586
:I don't think it's a con.
587
:Conflict.
588
:I don't think we have to step back and
go, oh no, the Bible's wrong because
589
:the mill, they were in the east.
590
:Yeah, I'm not suggesting that at all.
591
:I'm just saying, so look at
verse five, they shall ask.
592
:The way design with faces turned
toward it saying, come let us join
593
:ourselves with the Lord in everlasting,
covenant, that will never be forgotten.
594
:I mean you don't, I don't think you
see that in history, which is why
595
:I'm not going to say millennial can,
maybe that's part of the millennial
596
:kingdom, but I also see this as.
597
:Fulfillment of God's destruction of them.
598
:And part of that is Jesus reign.
599
:Yeah.
600
:I would agree with that.
601
:I think verses four through 10.
602
:The return of the Jews.
603
:Yeah.
604
:Partially took place under
Cyrus in the Mead, but will be
605
:ultimately realized in the distant
future in the millennial kingdom.
606
:Uh, or would agree with that?
607
:We're on the same page there for sure.
608
:Cool.
609
:Verses 11 through 16, though.
610
:Babylon would exalt over the
destruction of Jerusalem.
611
:She would face her own destruction
before, too long in, yes.
612
:That's going to come
all ultimate longterm.
613
:But even in the short term, Babylon
as a nation is going to, I know
614
:you said they don't cease to exist.
615
:They do cease to exist in the
sense that they're conquered
616
:by the media Persian empire.
617
:And today.
618
:I mean, they're part of the Iran
area, I believe, but there's
619
:not a Babylonian people anymore.
620
:Uh, there's not the caldron.
621
:One nation anymore.
622
:That's there.
623
:Um, Modern day Iraq.
624
:Or I run is that I run or Iraq.
625
:I think it's Iraq.
626
:That's my first, my gut is Iraq.
627
:Yeah, it's one of those
two, they border each other.
628
:So it's hard to tell sometimes.
629
:Yeah.
630
:For 17 through 20 quick summary of
Israel's history here, north and
631
:south fell to Assyria and Babylon,
respectively, a judgment would come on
632
:those nations for their crimes against
God and Israel would be restored
633
:ultimately in the millennial kingdom.
634
:And so.
635
:Again, you've got that idea of,
of Babylon is going to be punished
636
:for being an instrument in hand of
God, which is an interesting one.
637
:And it gives us a glimpse into the, the
picture of God's sovereignty and man's
638
:responsibility that, that we can't say
God may be do it because he sovereign.
639
:And so therefore I'm not guilty.
640
:He is sovereign.
641
:He does ordain sinful actions.
642
:I mean, This Jesus delivered over by the
definite plan and foreknowledge of God.
643
:Right?
644
:So does Judas get to say, well,
I'm not guilty because this was
645
:according to the definite plan
of informed knowledge of God.
646
:No, of course not.
647
:He is going to bear his own
guilt and responsibility.
648
:And so God's going to
punish the Babylonians.
649
:Short term for there, their dealings
against Israel, even though he ordained
650
:that the book of Habakkuk, right?
651
:I mean, that's what we
have going on there.
652
:When Habakkuk says you can't do this.
653
:God says, don't worry, Habakkuk.
654
:I'm going to punish them as well,
but I'm also gonna use them first.
655
:To punish Israel.
656
:So there's the both,
and that we see there.
657
:Uh, it at work.
658
:Who's the hammer in verse 23, pastor rod.
659
:Um, Cyrus.
660
:Definitively definitively Cyrus.
661
:Yeah.
662
:Okay.
663
:The hammer of the whole earth.
664
:Yeah.
665
:I don't know.
666
:Yes.
667
:I don't know.
668
:Yeah, how the hammer of the whole
earth is cut down in broken Babylon
669
:has become a horror among the
nations, but we're going to see
670
:this, I think at tomorrow's reading.
671
:Th this has expanded upon there.
672
:The, the hammer.
673
:Imagery is, is expanded upon
in, as Jeremiah ends the letter.
674
:And we're left to say, who is,
this is this Babylon is the Cyrus.
675
:Is this Israel?
676
:Who is it?
677
:And, uh, and we'll get there
more in depth tomorrow, but.
678
:Uh, verse 25, the Lord has brought
out the weapons of his wrath.
679
:Uh, terror inducing statement.
680
:That is, I don't think I ever want to.
681
:The weapons of God's wrath.
682
:Totally picture ass.
683
:Yeah, but we don't want to
be on the wrong side of that.
684
:Uh, Jeremiah 50 verse 34.
685
:Notice the Redeemer of Israel is strong.
686
:The Lord of hosts is his name.
687
:He's going to plead their cause that
they make of rest of the earth and
688
:unrest of the inhabitants of battle on.
689
:So this is a, a hope filled chapter.
690
:I think for the people, as he's
saying, listen, Uh, judgment
691
:justice is going to come.
692
:God is answering that.
693
:That cry and in.
694
:In short term.
695
:Under the, the deliverance in the,
the reign of Cyrus, but in the
696
:longterm, ultimately, it's going to
come during the millennial kingdom.
697
:Reign with Christ is here on earth.
698
:Amen.
699
:Yeah, I know there's so much more in
this, but we've already been going for.
700
:Like 35, 40 minutes.
701
:Some odd amount of time.
702
:So we're going to wrap this up.
703
:Uh, let me pray for us.
704
:And then we will be done.
705
:God, we thank you for your, your
sovereignty and just that weightiness
706
:of your sovereignty, our responsibility.
707
:We don't want to, uh, void either
one of those things in our thinking.
708
:And so help us to walk that fine
line to understand that we're
709
:responsible for the lives that we
live in, that we need to do that with.
710
:With.
711
:Uh, trust and faith in you
that allows us to walk as, as
712
:faithful followers of Christ.
713
:And so we want to do that so that
when we, uh, ultimately stand
714
:before Christ, we do hear well done.
715
:Good and faithful servant.
716
:Um, and that we see more pass through
the fire, then be burned up in the fire.
717
:And so allow us to live.
718
:Sanctified lives to that
extent with prince Jesus name.
719
:Amen.
720
:And then, all right, keep, bring
your Bibles tune in tomorrow.
721
:As we finished the book of Jeremiah.
722
:See you then guys.
723
:Bye.
