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S2E72 Hosea 7:1-16
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Do you know the Bible is God's Holy Word? Do
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subscribe and support this podcast. So we are Maranatha Ministries
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and now Redemption draweth nigh. Welcome, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome
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to the program. We are your host, Hose and Matthew.
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Tonight we once again dive into the Greek of the
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twelve prophets. Tonight we are landing in the Hoseah chapter
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seven for the majority, well not for the majority. Jose
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is going to take the lead on this. He's going
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to take the reins, and I'm gonna jump in the
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rumble seat. Now. Of course I will be throwing in there,
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but I'll be perfectly honest with you. With the events
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of today, I probably need to try to bite my
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tongue because something happened today that, to be perfectly honest
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with everybody, I never thought I would live to see
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actually done. Yeah, I need to stop right there. Jose,
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you're opening comments on Hosea chapter seven place.
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Matthew, obviously you know where we're going through the profits.
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To see their profits.
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Right.
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So, God here is showing us what is.
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To come and it's our job to not only read
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this at the historical book and not only to read
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this at the oh, you know, to get some theology
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out of it, right of what God.
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Wanted to do, Matthew.
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But we're supposed to read this prophetically to see what
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is to come. That's the whole purpose that God even
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left it here.
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There's plenty of.
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Other books that cover what Hosea covers, you know, as
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far as how we're supposed to act, you know, the
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commandments we're supposed to follow, the spirit of the law,
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or the beattitudes that we're supposed to follow, the testimony.
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I mean, we can get that and every other book
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in the Bible, Matthew. So, so why is Hosea specifically here?
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What is hose showing us to what had to come?
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And Matthew, as I kept.
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Writing to this chapter, I just I just kept seeing
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the flares.
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Up pop off of the false prophet, the false prophet.
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How is he going to enter into the church, Matthew,
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How is he going to set up the abomination desolation.
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In the Holy Place? How is this going to happen?
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You know, this is just what I just I kept
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seeing it.
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I read through the chapter uh, you know, and and
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of course that that picked it.
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Everywhere in the Bible, there's plenty of places to correlate.
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The data and and and and you know, cross check
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everything that's being dead here in Odia. And so that
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that's what I focused on, Matthew, as that was even
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this chapter.
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Well, I'll be honest with you, I've I've read this
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chapter so many times. I couldn't even begin to tell
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you which way I first approached it. The only thing
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I knew was was that this was true. And I
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might not understand it was true, but that was completely
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and absolutely irrelevant. And of course when when when I
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was a boy being raised in the church, that was
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probably ninety five percent of it, right, Jose, I mean
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I really didn't yet. I mean I understand the easy
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stuff like, Okay, thou shalt not merk. Okay, let's go
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get a dictionary, let's look up murder, what's murder? But
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when you get to the prophetic narrative, and especially the
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twelve profits, you God is using twelve different profits from
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twelve different time periods to relate to you a singular
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message with perfect clarity. That's what he's doing. So you
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know this usually takes people by surprise. Everybody needs to
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consider this right now, because when I was growing up,
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I was never told that this was the minor profits.
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I was never told that. I never heard that. I
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didn't hear that until I got into an institution of
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higher learning and I was. I was offended then, and
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I'm offended now. For one, does everybody know that Jose
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is longer than Daniel? Yes it is, Yes it is.
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So that's the way I've always come at this is
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some of the things stated here, And I'm just going
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to pick one out of the hat, verse seven. I
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remember verse seven because it's the first time I realized
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the depth of their depravity. I realized when you how
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many verses line up with just verse seven, murderously diabolical
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is where well, what is their main term? Their main
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term in the Bible? Their main title is the children
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of Israel, right right, And they went as low as
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you can go. So that's how I've always approached it,
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is that this is a series of facts that I
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don't understand. So I have continually my entire life went
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through this and went through this, and went through this
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to try to figure out how else is true? Because,
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for one, thing. No one understands this, Jose. When God speaks,
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what comes out of his mouth was spoken craft was spoken, past,
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present in future. Most people don't even accept that, but
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it's true. So that's my opening thoughts on it. I'm
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just remembering back to when I was a child and
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reading this, probably for the first time, and scared of it,
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looking at it like it was a well you've looked
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at a calculus book before, having je Jose, Yeah, just great,
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big equations. It's just numbers. That's how I looked at it,
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and to be honest with you, that's how I still
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look at it. So anyway, that's my opening comments on it.
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Back to you.
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All right, well, Matthew, we can jump in. Would you
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like to read this chapter for us? And then I'll
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start sharing what would I have for everybody?
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Wow? Would I like to read this?
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Check?
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You know.
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What?
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I probably fairly will say that there's nothing I'd rather
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do than read this character. Actually, So tonight, ladies and gentlemen,
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we are going to be reading from the lea some
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English septuagen. I've said this before and I will say
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it again. Uh, this is the absolute best translation of
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the septuagen that I can get my hands on absolutely amazing.
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So we're going to talk. Take it right from the top.
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I was chapter seven and verse one, And the injustice
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of Ephrium will be uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria
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because they worked falsely, And a thief will enter toward him,
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a robber, stripping him on the way, in order that
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they may sing together, as singing in their heart all
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their wickedness, I remembered. Now their councils have encircled them.
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They have come off a sit in my face. By
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their wicked acts. They cheered kings and rulers and their lives.
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All are committing adultery, like an oven being lit for
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the cooking of the burning from flame, from mixing the
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dough until it is leavened, as for the days of
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your kings. The rulers began to be angry for wine.
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He stretched out his hand with flags, because their hearts
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were lit up like an oven. When they broke in pieces.
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Efriam was the whole night of sleep. In the morning
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they were born, he was lit up like a light
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of fire. All were warm like an oven. And they
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ate their judges. All their kings fell. There was not
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one among them who was calling to me. Ephrim was
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mingling with his peoples. Ephriim was a cake baked the
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ashes that was not turned over. Foreigners ate his strength,
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but he has not learned, and gray hairs flourished for him,
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and he did not know it. For the pride of
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Israel will be made glow to his face. Yet they
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did not return to their Lord, their god, and they
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did not seek him in all these things. And Efrim
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was like a selling digeon, not having heart. Egypt used
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to be called upon, and they went to Assyria. Whenever
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they go, I will throw my necks upon them, as
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the birds of the heavens. I will w them down.
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I will rear them in the sound of their affliction.
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Lot to them, because they have turned away from me.
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They are wretched, because they have acted impiously toward me.
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But I ransomed them. But they have spoken lies against me,
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and their hearts did not quite to me. Rather, they
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howled in their beds. They used to gnash themselves for
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corn and wine. They were taught by me, and I
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strengthened their arms, and they divide evil against me. They
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turned back to nothing. They become like a bent bow.
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Their rulers will fall by the sword on account of
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lack of control over their tongue. This will be the
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contempt of them in the land of Egypt.
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That's good stuff, Matthew.
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Oh boy, God can't be more clear about what's going
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on here, Matthew, about what he and tends to do.
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You can just hear he's fed up with it all
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and he's ready to tear it all down. That's that's
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what precipitates the day of the Lord, right, the great
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day and terrible day of the Lord. Before we start
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digging in, Matthew, I want to read from Matthew twenty four,
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verses twenty three through twenty five, and this was kind
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of what led me on the path where when I
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started studying this chapter until verse twenty three, then if
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anyone says to you, look, here is the Christ or
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there do not believe it, for false Christ and false
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prophets will rise and show great signed in wonders to deced,
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if possible, even the elect thee I have told you beforehand.
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So we're gonna actually coming back to Matthew chapter twenty four.
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But that when I read that part of it, Matthew,
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that just to me matched what I see that's going
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on here in Hodea.
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The first thing I want to jump did to Matthew.
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Is that name s Rayen, you know when you look
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it up at H six six nine in the Hebrew.
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But it gives a couple of definitions as double ass
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sheep or doublely fruitful. And that name always confused me
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because one sounds so good and one sounds so bad.
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You know, how can God put put the same thing
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in one name?
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You know, why? Why? Why do that? But when you
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read this chapter, Matthew, I mean, it's what we're always told.
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Right, you have the decision whether to do what is
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right or do what is wrong, and you do what
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is right, and you're going to be fruitful that when
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you follow the fruits of the spirit. We already told
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the lessons we're gonna get, Matthew. We already told our
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rewards where that our treasures light up in heaven. Right.
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But when we don't do, when we don't do what
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it's supposed to we're supposed to do, Matthew, when we
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you know.
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Gnash and fight against what God wants us to do,
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we choose to do our will and not His will,
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then we get that double sheet Matthew. And God's very
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clear with us. He lays it out. You know, do
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what is right and everything will be good. If you don't,
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then you're gonna have to pay the consequences.
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You know. He doesn't. He doesn't mince words, Matthew, he doesn't.
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You know, he's not shriaky with what he's telling us.
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He's asking us to choose that at double ash sheet
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or to be double's fruitful.
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And it's our toy, Matthew, And that point.
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And that's a stone cold truth, isn't it. Yes, that
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is a stone cold truth. I can't help but remember that.
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Earlier this afternoon, Rachel and I did Romans chapter nine,
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and it really is that simple, It really is. It's
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it's not difficult, it's not hard. And you know, him
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bringing up and Samaria, he's doing this for a reason.
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The chief tribe in Israel was Ephriam. Why, the first
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king that took over those ten tribes was from the
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tribe of Ephrim, and they made their capital Samaria. So
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he is unequivocably telling you this is your rulers. He
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doesn't mean anything else. This is sorely and squarely directed
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at what we call clergy Jose, you don't, ye, ladist
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and gentlemen, you don't have to appreciate it. I'm not
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even suggesting you appreciate it. But you better believe it.
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You better believe it. And oh my goodness, the things
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that he talks about here are true. Let me just
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say this. I'm getting ready to tell you a true statement.
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This is true. The Lord, my God provoked me one time.
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Don't know why at the time, but I had a
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clear impression from the Holy Spirit. Now, did the Holy
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Spirit tap me on the shoulder? Did I hear an
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audible voice?
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No?
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He has filled me with the Holy Spirit, and that's
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what guides me, leads me, directs me, and protects me.
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And he just said, you better find out where your
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money's going. Now, Jose, let's just be clear, just so
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you know. I've always paid my tithe, always for him.
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But for some reason, God was telling me, you better
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see where my tithe went. So I inquire, go to
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the church office, YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA. Was turned away.
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Oh we have to find all that information, right, Okay,
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So finally the district gives the authorization to give that
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information out anyway. To make a long story short, I investigated.
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I investigated, and guess what what churches will do is
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they will send their ties to other places. That is
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to say, let's say a mission and there's a real
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big one. Okay. At Christmas time, a lot of churches
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will send money for the Christmas shoe boxes. There was
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one organization we were sending money to my tie who's
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going to and come to find out they were just
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a aggregate five on one C three that turn around
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and sent that ties to other places. Guess where my
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tithes money was going. A portion of my tie money
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was going to plan parenthood, to abort babies. That's a fact.
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So you need to understand in here he is telling
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you exactly what the Kings of Israel was going to
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do illicitly, what the Bible tells you in other versus,
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most notably second Kings comes right out and tells you that, yeah,
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the Kings of Israel was taking money and giving it
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to Egypt and Assyria. Yes they were hus they were.
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So I'm just telling you all right now you better
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figure out where your tithe money's going, because it does
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not belong at the district, it does not belong in Samaria.
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And I'm going to tell you this clean. I'm going
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to tell you this true. Your tithe money had better
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be going to evangelize your city and the children in
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your city, and help the homeless in your city, and
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feed the hungry in your city, and help the elderly
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in your city. You better not let f Raim send
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it to Samaria. I'm just telling you, just telling you,
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point blank, you better not let your tithe money be
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sent somewhere else. Maybe I shouldn't went that far, Jose back.
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To you, all right, Well, Matthew, I think you kind
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of hit on the point that that I was looking at, right,
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f Rahim was that physical separation, right, They separated themselves
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from the other two tribes. They established their own pre
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worship apart from the Temple of the Lord. Right, frame
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didn't want their people going down to Jerusalem the worship.
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They've set up their own thing.
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But we're told that what's going to happen, you know,
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and Jesus himself tells us what's going to happen. Fraim
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is going to do that in the very Temple of
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the Lord, in the body of Christ, and in in
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the sheep, in the sheep polled. He's going to set
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up this abomination of desolation. He's going to enter in
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there and do that, Matthew. And so you know, like
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you said, the Lord chases after after what has been.
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You've repeated that over and over what ecclesiastic Ecclesiastes tells us,
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So we should see something similar to what happened to
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Frame in the past, is what's going to happen to
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to the to the Church, to the Church body, you know,
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in in in the end times, right in the days
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that are to come, Matthew, during the first pain.
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And so when I read right there in Hosea where.
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It says a thief will enter toward him, that to
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me just screams out the false prophet, that just screams
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out this, this spiritual idology that's going to enter Right
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Egypt represents the pleasures of the earth, Matthew, but at
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Syria represents that spiritual idology that's going to come in
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to the Church, that's coming to come in and you know, pollute,
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pollute the body of Christ. That that's that's the only
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way I can paint it, Matthew. And when it comes
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to this false prophet, the chapter that I go to
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over and over Matthew, is the Second Peter chapter two.
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So I'm gonna jump over there and and we're gonna
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read a little bit of that. I'm gonna read just
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read the first three verses for us, Second Peter chapter two,
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and I'm reading out of the New Team, James. But
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there were also false prophets among the people, even as
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that will, there will be false teachers among you who
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will secretly bring in destructive heritage, even denying the Lord
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who bought them, and.
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Bring on themselves swift destruction.
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And many will follow their destructive ways because of whom
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the way of truth will be blasting like covetousness. They
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will exploit you with deceptive words for a long time.
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Their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does
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not slumber.
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So I mean you, you, you lady. But caught me
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here on this one, Matthew. Where God said, even denying
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the Lord who.
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Bought them, right, He's he's already redeemed these false prophets.
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But they're turning against that, Matthew. They're they're turning their
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back on it.
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Right. So this is not this is again, this is
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clergy that should know better, Matthew. This is clergy that's
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been raised in the.
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Church, clergy that knows about God, about Jesus, about the
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Holy Spirit. And they're rejecting all that because they're false prophets.
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And and and when we read a little bit more
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out of Second Peter chapter two, we're going to see
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why they do it. But that's who they are, Matthew,
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this is not you know, I think when I read
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this in the past, when I was younger, I would
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I would imagine.
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You know, it being.
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Ungodly people, that it being you know, some kind of
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atheist or some kind of you know, Eastern religion that
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would come in.
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But but no, Matthew, these are.
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People who are raised Christian, who know the Bible, who
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understand what God has promised, and yet they're still turning
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their back Matthew on God.
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In spite that they do it. Yes, yeah, this this isn't.
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And how many people have you heard say that the
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anti Christ is going to be some new ager that
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just pumps all the religions together, right right?
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Yes?
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No, no, no, he's key. He is going to be
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one of Satan chepd. Now Ezekiel calls them bad shepherds,
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but whatever, right, I mean, as far as I'm concerned
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they're Satan shepherds and they're being supported by the entirety
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of the corrupt clergy. So yeah, you're absolutely hitting the
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nail on the head. These false prophets aren't from without,
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they're from within.
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Right right. Yeah.
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In verse twenty, I'm bringing right here from tewod Peter Matthew,
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it said, for if after they had escaped the pollutions
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of the world through knowledge of the Lord and Savior
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Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome
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the latter end, it's worse for them than the beginning.
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For it would have been better for them not to
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have known the way of righteous than having known it,
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to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.
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Matthew, exactly what you're talking about right now.
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It would have been better for them not to be born.
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Amen.
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Amen, it would have been better for them not to
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be born.
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So I think I remember hearing that in the Book
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of Joe. Matthew.
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Yeah, you might be right, of course.
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Yeah.
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You know, you can't really separate that chapter from the
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Book of Joe. You can't really separate it. It's really
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a reiteration of itself. But you know, it's imperative that
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everybody realizes that. That's why he's opening this up in
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this way. He's letting you know he's not talking about
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the sheep, right, he is talking about the clergy. He
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is talking about the rulers here, no doubt about it.
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I mean, I know, I mentioned let me talk about
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this first, you know, Jose, something stands out right here,
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and I have to bring it up. You know, when
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you study this chapter, if you're a true Biblicist, you'll
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tear this thing apart. And one of the very first
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things that I remember doing, I'm like, wait a minute,
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God's got to be talking about this, this, this oven
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and this leaven, and they're like a really hot, hot oven.
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He's got to talk about that somewhere else. Yes, what, Jose, No,
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they don't, No, he don't. Those ideas are exclusive to
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this very chapter verse four. All are committing adultery like
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an oven being lit for the cooking of the burning
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from the flame, from mixing of gough until it is
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leveled HM. That that idea of this Their hearts are
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burning like a hot oven that is exclusive to this chapter,
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that's exclusive to this right here. So that alone should
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get your attention if if you're a Biblicist.
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All right, so.
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Well can I can I take you and tell you
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where that took me, Matthew, that oven and that bacon there,
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sure that that took me to the Genesis forty verse five.
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The cup there and the baker.
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We know in that.
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Story, right, the story of Joseph in prison, and he's
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telling you he's interpreting the dreams for the cup bear,
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for the King's cup bear in the in the in
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the King's baker. Right, and yep, one is restored and
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one loses his head, Matthew, because of because of his punishment. Right,
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one has the cut bear has his head lifted up,
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and the baker has his head lifted off.
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That's right, It's exactly right. So I mean you know, yeah, yeah,
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that's where it took me.
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And of course you know that when I when I
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see that, Matthew, I mean that that immediately screams to me.
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The two groups that we you know, see in the
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book Revelation, those that are taking up the mountains ion
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to be with the Lord, and uh, you know, those
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that have to stay and and and suffer through the
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great tribulation and ultimately lose their head in order to
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to remain in the kingdom, otherwise they will worship the beast.
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Matthew.
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So, uh, yeah, I know there's a whole lot more
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about talking about with this oven, but that that's just
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where it took me.
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You know, it says a whole lot you what do
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you make a verse? Oh? Well, I want to be
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very careful here. Mm hmmm. Oh my goodness. This is uh,
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this is good. What do you make of verse six?
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Wow? Because their hearts were lit up like an oven
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when they broke in pieces. F Brien was sated the
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whole night of sleep.
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In the morning they were born, he was lit up
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like a light of fire.
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I don't know, Matthew, I'll be honest with you. I
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don't know. I did not look into this verse because
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there's a whole lot going on here in this verse.
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Well, you're you're you're right about that. There's a whole
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lot going on in this verse, A whole lot. You
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know that. That's an interesting way for you to put that,
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a whole lot going on in this verse. Well, first off,
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you know this, this word we're born here is gen
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ninety six denom it needs cost to be to generate.
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We've talked about that word before, right, right, we've talked
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about it before, and prophetically it just uh, you know,
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how far do I want to go? Do I even
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want to go there? Do I want to preach about it?
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I mean that that's the real thing. Do I even
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want to preach about it? That earning the end times?
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You all need to know this, that there is a
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thread through the Bible prophecy called the Slaughter of the Shepherds, right, Jose, Yeah, Now,
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make no mistake, ladies and gentlemen, is that the Lord
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Jesus Christ as a couple of different titles, and you
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need to understand that. Well, that's that's for a pretty
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good reason. But I'm going to read something to you,
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and you need to understand what's going on. This is
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the opposite of what is going on in Revelation chapter fourteen.
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Hey there, Jesus Christ is the first born from the womb. Right,
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he is the firstborn from the womb. He is the
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final atom. Correct, Yeah, it is because he perfected what
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Adam could not. Is how we get salvation. We are
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all dead to God in Adam sin we are all
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born to life through Jesus Christ, innocent. Correct, we know
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this the problem is is that I'll just do Colossians one,
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verse eighteen, and he is the head of the body
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the church, who is the beginning, the first born from
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the dead, that in all things he may have pre eminence.
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I'll also read Revelation chapter one, verse five, and from
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Jesus Christ, faithful witness, I was born from the dead
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and the ruler over the kings of years, to him
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who loved us and washed us from our sins in
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his own blood. So everybody needs to understand this, that
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the slaughter of the Shepherd is going to happen. And
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if you didn't know that a group of people is
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going to be sealed by God to go through the
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tribulation as sacrifices, well I'm sorry you didn't know that
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until right now, because you can go to Revelation chapter twenty,
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verse four, and it unequivocably states as such. It unequivocably
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states as much. Let me jump over there really quickly.
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One of this ministries made in stays, I would have
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to say, is this little portion of scripture right here.
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Who is Christ the first born from the dead? Of
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who were the other people who have died in Christ?
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Now take notes I've told you this many times. In
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the Bible, it plainly states there are those who are
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asleep in Jesus, and in the same verses it also
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has another group, the dead in Christ. Yes it does, Yes,
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it does. This is going to tell you about the
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dead in Christ. And I saw thrones, and they that
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sat on them. A judgment was committed to them. And
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I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded
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for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God,
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who had not worshiped the Beast or his image, and
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had not received His mark on their foreheads or on
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their hands. And they lived reigned with Christ for a
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thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not
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live again until the thousand years were finished. This is
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the first Resurrection. Blessed and holy is he as part
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of the first Resurrection. Over such the second death has
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no power. But they will shall be priest of God
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and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
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This is who he is, the firstborn from the dead.
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Of what I am telling you is true. This is true.
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This is a true statement. Jose your thoughts.
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Yeah, I'm Matthew.
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You know what, when you read that It makes for
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six that much clearer they are going to get broken
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in the people right that that you're you're, you're We're
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told that about the martyrs, We're told that about the
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bad Shepherd. You know, we're we're Jesus themselves told us
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that that's gonna happen to us. But prophetically, you know,
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this is what, this is what those that that have
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to go through the Great Tipulation they have to deal with, Matthew.
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They have to hold to the to the Commandments, into
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the testimony and ultimately be broken in pieces. And then
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we're told what happens when when they're part of that
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first direction, we're told that they're gonna roll and ring
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with Christ for its for that thousand years. So wow,
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like I said, so much backed into that verse, Matthew, Yeah.
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So much. Packages you know, I better get everybody, give
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everybody context, ladies and gentlemen. There is coming a tribulation.
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Trigger it is coming. The tribulation will eventually start. Now
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this creates a cutoff point in time because inside of
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time Rist is going to execute his second advent. There's
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only two advents Jose at the end of the tribulation
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and at the beginning of the millennial reign. So what
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happens to those who died during this time period? Because
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Revelation chapter twenty just told us that they're not going
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to paradise. Those people who die before the tribulation trigger.
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They are called those who are asleep in Jesus, and
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they return with Christ. Yes they do. I'll prove it
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to you. You need to write this down. Write down
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those who sleep in Jesus. That's one group, and that
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group is before then you have those who are dead
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in Christ. Which are those actor Listen one Thesalonians chapter four,
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starting in verse thirteen. But I do not want you
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to be ignorant, brethren concerning those who have fallen asleep,
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lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For
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if we believe that Geesus died and rose again, even
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so he will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus.
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For this we say to you by the word of
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the Lord, that we who are alive then remain until
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the coming of the Lord, will by no means proceed
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those who are asleep, For the Lord himself will descend
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from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel,
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and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in
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Christ will rise first. The dead in Christ are not
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I repeat, they are not those who are asleep in Jesus.
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You better check the Greek in these verses to completely
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different groups or seventeen. Then we who are alive and
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remain shall be caught up together with them in the
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clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus
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we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore, comfort one
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another with these words. If you didn't know that until
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right now, there's only one explanation for it. Because you
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didn't believe it. It was irrelevant that you understood it.
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What was fairmount was that you believed it. I just
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proved to you it was just a series of chapters, right, Jose.
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I just proved it with a series of chapters.
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Yep.
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And everybody better figure this out. If you're a part
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of the clergy, and I don't care what part you play,
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I don't care.
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If you're a.
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Pastor, I don't care if you're a board member, I
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don't care if you're the church secretary, you better figure
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this out. If you aren't right with God the Son,
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I suggest you resign and get in the rumble seat
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until you figure it out. Because the Lord he is God,
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and by God, he's coming. And you know what Hose
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chapter seven says. He says he's going to get in
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your face. Are all you church secretaries nervous because you
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know where you have sent the sheep's tithe? So I'm
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here to tell you have a chance right now to
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enter into the flock. Just resign your position and reserve
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yourself a place among the pews. Don't get up anymore,
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don't stand up in authority, because the Lord he's God,
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and he's coming now. Oaiah chapter seven uses really figurative
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language to say all this. But oh my goodness, when
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you're a biblicator, when you have saturated your psyche with scripture,
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then you can see it plain as day. No magnifying
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glasses required, no telescope, this was required, No eyeglasses are required.
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It is apparent what he's going to do. And this
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right here, he's made himself sickly clear. You think that
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the Lord Jesus Christ is going to come back and
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smash everybody in the other denominations, right, Jose, right, yep.
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I'm here to tell you the sheep are safe, and
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the sheep were always going to be taken care of.
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They will have to make their own decisions. But I'm
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here to tell you, if you're in the clergy, you
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God don't give a flying writ if you know he's
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coming or not. He don't care. Now, everything he said
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is going to come true, whether you believe it or not,
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and you better get on his page.
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That's yeah.
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I want to jump back to second Peter too real
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quick and share a few more verses, Verses twelve through fourteen,
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and again that's talking about those bad shepherds, those false prophets.
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But these like natural brute beasts made to be caught
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and destroyed, be evil of the things they do not understand,
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and will utterly perish in their own corruption. And we'll see,
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will receive the wages of unrighteousness. And those who count
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it pleasure to corrals in the daytime, they are spots
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and blemishes, corrousing in their own deception while they feast
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with you, having eyes full of adult tree that cannot
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cease from thin, enticing unstable soul. They have a heart
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trained and colstave practices in our cursed children.
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Now, madam, when I saw that word, that.
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Last word there for children, of course, you know that
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that sept off my radar and I had to look
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it up and it's g five zero four three four three,
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and it's it's a Greek, it's techna.
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But we we are more familiar with that term.
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Matthew, when we talk about the Technon Epigelia, it's children
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the promise. So again, like like we're saying before, these
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are not outsiders, Matthew. These are people that are part
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of the Technon and are choosing to chase after their
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own stins, to choosing to chase after their own flesh,
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their own desires.
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And bringing everybody else around them down with them. Matthew.
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It's it's just God just laid it, lays it out
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plainly where this corruption starts, and and and it makes sense, Matthew.
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If you're an enemy, you're you're going to try to
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get into the heart of, you know, of the of
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your enemy enemy defenses. You you're going to try to
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penetrate their defenses and and start start the trouble, start
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the warfare in their own camp. You know, if you're
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if you just set outside their defenses, then you're gonna
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get picked apart, Matthew. But if you can get in
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and you can, oh, you can steal, you can kill
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and destroy from within. Matthew. It just it's it just
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makes sense. That's what the enemy is going to try
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to do.
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Y you know, Jose, I've spiritually speaking, I would say
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this is probably the worst day of my honest what
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just came out of your mouth happened this very day
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in the pulpit, this very day. Jose, do you feel
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like it would be out of line if I read
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on air what was said today in the pulpit And
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I'm not going to tell you what church it was
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or any of that, But do you think I should
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or shouldn't Jose?
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I think we didn't know. Let people know what's coming. Matthew.
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I think it's important.
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Okay, this is the first Sunday in May, right, so
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I'm just going to step on the limb here. Most
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churches today had communion. Most churches had today. And this
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is what was said in a church in the West.
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This was said in a church in English. This really
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happened today. It really did happen today on Sunday, May
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the fourth, twenty twenty five. I quote, I am God's
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intermediary to you. I stand before God and represent him
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to you and in return, throughout the rest of the week,
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I stand between you and God, and I'm your intermediary,
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and I represent you to God on a regular basis.
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End of quote. Jose, give me one word definition for that.
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Yep, black sphemy, Matthew.
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And speaking evil things like what thee computer chepterty said?
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That's glasshoming, ladies and gentlemen.
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The New Testament repeatedly tells you that it is the
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Lord Jesus Christ resurrected as God, the son that stands
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at the right hand of God and is our intermediary
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and the propitiation for our sins. If you say otherwise,
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you are a hurricane. This joker just claimed to be
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the Lamb of God. He claimed could be God's intermediary.
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She even said that he represents you. And not only that,
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he said he represents God to you, ladies and gentlemen.
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This is coming straight out of Daniel chapter eleven. Yes
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it is. This is blasphemy. This is literally Daniel chapter eleven.
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That's exactly what is said of the little Horn. Yes
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it is. And you know what, he's even more astounding.
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These verses are no secret. They're just no secret. It's
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no secret. Daniel eleven verse the thirty seven. He shall
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regard neither of the lot of his father's nor the
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desired women, nor regard any God, for he shall insult
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himself above them all. If you are saying you represent
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God to God's congregation, you're a heretic. You are not
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the Lord Jesus Christ. And what blew me away? And
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ladies and gentlemen, it was not me who encountered us.
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This came from somebody else, and they brought it to
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my attention. Nobody done nothing. They all sat there in silence.
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You thought that, you know, it was cute that jose
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was reading from the Second Peter chapter two, and that
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was talking about somebody else, somewhere else, somebody speaking a
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different language, obviously not your denomination. Anybody anywhere else said this. No,
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it was said today in the West, in the global
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lingua franda. And so, mister.
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Blo, I'm telling you right now, if some joker got
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up in for you today and said this, you need
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to flee for your life, because the very first thing
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they're going to do, the little horn, They're going.
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To take their little nameless half of all members of
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the congregation and both commit that listing them with the
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excile of your face. I don't care what yourch You're going.
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You have no intermediary. You look it up, write it down,
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right hand of God, look it up. That is the
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Lord Jesus Christ alone. Only the Lord Jesus Christ does that.
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Nobody else, nobody ever can do that thing. I am
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telling you the truth. I am telling you the truth.
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I'm telling you the truth, and you need to know
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why it says what it says. And I'm just I'll
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say what say.
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Matthew. You know, I think it's hard to fathom, you know, people.
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From our age group from where when we were raised
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in church that not immediately setting off alarm bells with us.
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I can't even I can't even tell you when I
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when I.
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When I knew that Christ was are anymediary? I can't even,
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you know, think of a time where.
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I didn't realize that that the Lord Jesus Christ was
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our intercestor.
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So for this to happen in the church and have
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nobody object, nobody stand up, nobody say nothing. I mean,
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it's like everyone there is spiritually dead, Matthew, because as
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soon as you shared this with me, it's just like
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it was.
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Like a stab in my heart. It was like like.
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The pang of fear hearing that being said in the church.
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I just can't think of anybody who reads their Bible, Matthew,
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not not having that that being said in front of
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them on the pulpit, and not just having that having
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a reaction, having a physical reaction to to to the blasting,
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the blasphemy that's just said.
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That's that's what I thought. You know, whether whether.
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Everyone's too afraid to jump up and say nothing, or
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or people aren't as like you said, literate enough to say, well,
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is it is he saying what I think he's saying.
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You know, that's just it's it's just it's just scary, Matthew.
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And and it just tells just let us know that
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we're going to enter the birth things that That's that's
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what I feel, Jose.
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I'm gonna have to give you a bubble a biblical
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definition of what occurred. Okay, what occurred today at that
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church was the abomination of desolation. There was an acting
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head of the Body of Christ. What is the body
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of Christ, Jose, It's God's temple. Yes, it is, yes, yes, yes,
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And that head said he was God's intermediary and not
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only that that he represented God to that body of Christ.
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That Jose is the abomination of desolation. Yes it is.
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That's a textbook definition of the abomination of desolation. Yes
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it is. Now, look, this is the tribulation trigger, and
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you need to know why. So I'm going to tell you.
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I'm not going to read the whole chapter Hebrews, chapter ten,
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string of verse eleven. And every priest stands ministering daily
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and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices which can never take away. Say,
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but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for
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sins forever, set down at the right hand of God
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from that time, waiting till his enemies are made his footstool,
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for by one offering he has perfected forever those who
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are being sanctified. Now I can give you commentary on
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verse thirteen that happens on the Great Day of the Lord,
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that is the six seal event, all his enemies are
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put underneath his footstool. And you need to know that
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everybody who's being sanctified will continue to be sanctified until
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the Lord Jesus Christ is coronated. That coronation occurs immediately
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after the Great Day of the Lord, immediately after the succeal.
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This is why after that event, those who are martyred,
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they are not those who sleep in Jesus. After this event,
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they become the dead in Christ. What I'm telling you
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is the bona fide, unadulterated, uncontestable truth. This is true,
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this is what's going to happen. And what occurred today
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in this church in English was an abomination of desolation.
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And I need to make sure everybody understands that no
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one represents God to you. Nobody except the Lord Jesus Christ. Nobody, nobody,
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Nobody goes to God the Father and represents you outside
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of God the Son. Nobody, Nobody, nobody. Those are my
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closing comments. I am upset enough that I could literally
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preach for three hours straight. Now I'm just so you
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won't know. I did broadcast for over seven hours straight.
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And I'll tell you why. I'm afraid for you, ladies
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and gentlemen. The next time you partake in communion, I
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suggest you go by yourself, don't let your family members
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go with you. And I suggest you take a recording
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device or something and you make sure they don't say this,
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because there is only one who is the first born
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from the dead, and whoever standing up in front of
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your congregation, it ain't him, hose take over.
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Please all right, Matthew, I don't think there's very much
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I can add to that. I'm in whole agreement with
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what you just said. And I hope that the Ecclesia,
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the body that TechEd out epigalia. I hope and pray
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that you understand what is to come. That what Jesus
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told us in Matthew twenty four is going to happen
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to us during the birthday, and we need to prepare
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ourselves mentally, physically, and spiritually.
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For that of those events that are coming back.
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Amen.
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If you've got nothing to share, Matthew, I'd like to
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pray us out.
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Yes, please pray us out.
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Okay.
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I'm going to start with some scripture, Matthew. From Matthew
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twenty four. Now, as he sat on the Mount of Olives,
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the disciple came to him privately, saying, tell us when
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will these things be? And what will be the sign
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of your coming and the end of the age. And
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Jesus answered and said to them, take heed that no
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one deceives you, for many will come in my name,
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saying I am the Christ, and will deceive many. And
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you will hear awards and rumors of wars. Be that
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you are not troubled, for all these things must come
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to pass. But the end is not yet. Or nation
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will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there
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will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All
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these are the beginning of sorrows. Then they will deliver
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you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will
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be hated for all nations for my namesake. And then
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many will be offended, will betray one another, and will
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hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up
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and deceive many, and because lawlessness will abound, the love
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of many will grow cold. But he who endures to
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the end shall be saved. And the gospel of the
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Kingdom will be preached in all the world as a
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witness to all the nation. And then the end will come.
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Dear heavenly father, I ask that you remind us that
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your ecclesia, your body, your temple daily of what you
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have told us is to come. You have told us
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what's to prepare for. You have told us what to praise,
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for you have told us how we are to act
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towards one another, how we are to act to the world,
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how we are to act towards our enemies.
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As these things transpire, Lord, and I ask.
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That you remind us and you put it on our
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hearts to act and do your will and not our will,
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as these tribulations come upon us. Father, once again, I
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pray for the lost, and I pray that you help
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us bring more to you, Lord, before these events transpire,
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before your great day. And I ask all these things
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in the name of your Son, our Lord and Savior,
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Jesus Christ.
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Amen, Amen and Amen.
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Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, God bless God speed.
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