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S2E13 Fellowship: The Three Shepherds
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Do you know the Bible is God's Holy Word? Do
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you know it is inspired, in errant, and infallible? If so, like, share,
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subscribe and support this podcast. So we are Mere Nathal
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Ministries and now Redemption Draweth Nighe. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen,
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welcome to the program. I am your host, Matthew. Tonight
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we're doing a fellowship on the Three Shepherds, so I
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hope everybody's ready to do that. I have made a
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document those of you who can get into the Google
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meet the link is in there. And Laura, your mike
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is hot. So this is pretty important stuff right here
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in Zacharai eleven. Laura, please mute your mic. There you go,
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Thank you. That's what the background noise was, ladies and Jomal.
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Laura had her mike commuted, so to not I'm just
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going to start by reading this text. It is zachari
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chapter eleven, and it's very important that you pay very
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close attention. Listen very carefully, and if you have the
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document read along with me. Just take note. You have
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to pay attention because if you're not familiar with the text,
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it's going to well, you're not going to be able
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to realize what's going on here. Starting from Zachari chapter
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eleven and verse one, open your doors, oh elevenn let
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fire devour your cedars. Well, oh Cyprus, for this has fallen,
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because the mighty trees are ruined. Well, o oaks of Bhushan,
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for the thick forest has come down. There's the sound
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of wailing shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. There's
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the sound of roaring lions, for the pride of the
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Jordan is in ruin. Thus says the Lord, my God.
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Feed the flock for slaughter, whose owners slaughter them and
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feel no guilt. Those who sell them, say, blessed be
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the Lord, for I am rich, and their shepherds do
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not pity them. For I will no longer pity the
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inhabitants of the land, says the Lord. But indeed, I
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will give everyone into his neighbor's hand and into the
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hand of his king. They shall attack the land, and
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I will not deliver them from their hand. So I
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fed the flock for slaughter. In particular, the poor of
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the flock. I took for myself two staffs, the one
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I called beauty and the other I called bonds. And
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I fed the flock. Then I said, I will not
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feed you. Let what is dying die, and what is
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perishing parish. Let those who are left eat each other's flesh.
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Then I took my staff, beauty and cut it in two,
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that I might break the covenant which I had made
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with all the peoples. So it was broken on that day.
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Thus the poor of the flock, who were watching me,
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knew that it was the word of the Lord. Then
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I said to them, if it is agreeable to you,
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give me my wages, and if not refrain. So they
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wait out for my wages thirty pieces of silver. And
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the Lord said to me, throw it to the potter
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that princely price they set on me. So I took
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the thirty pieces of silver and threw it into the
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house of the Lord. For the potter, can I cut
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my other staff bonds, that I might break the brotherhood
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between you and Israel. And the Lord said to me, next,
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take for yourself implements for a foolish shepherd. For indeed,
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I will raise up a shepherd and the land who
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will not care for those who are cut off, nor
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seek the young, nor heal those who are broken, nor
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feed those that still stand. But he will eat the
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flesh of the fat, and tear their hools in pieces.
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Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock. A
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sword shall be against his arm, and against his right eye.
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His arm shall be shall completely witherr, and his right
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eye shall be totally blinded. Very convoluted message here. I
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mean lots going on, you know, Cherry, Can you come
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on and give me your thoughts about this chapter? What's
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your impression of it? Or is it just too much
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to comment on? What's what's your thoughts sharing?
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Well, there is an awful lot there, and and I'm
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gonna throw myself out on a limb and hope you're
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going to catch trust You're gonna catch me, so right
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off the bat. I was reading this morning in Isaiah,
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and in one chapter, one verse ten, I was reading
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about Sodom and Gamoran. Something struck me that I've never
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really thought about before. But the way it talks about
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Sodom and Gamor in that first chapter kind of made
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me think of, you know, it's it's uh, I don't
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really know how to say it. I guess what they
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did is what we're doing that makes God so upset
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that he destroys them. But I say that because in
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the Cedars of Lebanon and the Oaks of Bashan, for
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some reason, it's making me think Sodom and Gomorrah. And
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I know who the Cedars of Lebanon are and the
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oaks of Bashon, or at least I believe that I do.
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So there was that, And then the way that yours
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is worded is quite different from the like some English
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subtu agents. So that part I thought I was kind
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of maybe having a grip on it, And then I'm
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now I'm not so sure, because I almost hear to
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olive trees and two lamp stands there. But then I
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think it's when you get down to verse sixteen where
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it absolutely sounds like the Assyrian.
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So that is to say, there's a whole lot going
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on here, isn't there. Yes, And you're able to piece
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together some of what he's saying with other places in
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the Bible. That's what you're trying to say, quite overwhelm.
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Yeah, well I think that I am. I'm not one
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hundred percent sure I am.
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So take a look another, take another look at the document.
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Read for me verse eight.
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Hang on, let me get there. Okay, this doesn't have
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a verse eight.
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Really refresh it, just refresh it.
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I wonder, Oh there it is. Okay. It says I
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dismissed the three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them,
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and their soul also abhorred me. So I mean these
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shepherds are the false shepherds obviously, right.
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Well, well, you didn't get it the first time because
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I removed the verse. Oh, this is one of those
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instances where you could take the verse out and you'll
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never know it. Now that I put it back in,
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it's probably a sore in everybody's eye because I read
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it right through and you never noticed, did you, Well,
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you never realized what was going on. So just in
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that lets you know that. Boy, there's a whole lot
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going on in this chapter.
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Yes, in this version here says it quite differently than
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the other versions. When it started saying talking about beauty
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and it split it into and then the bands and
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it split it into that took me and I'm like, oh,
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what is that saying there? So I thought I understood,
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and now I'm now I am questioning all over again.
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So you're questioning all and you should. You should eventually
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get to the point where you realize that there's a
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whole lot of information here in this chapter. Yes, a
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whole lot of information here. So thanks Sherry, thank you
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for your comments, thank you for looking at it as
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intently that you did. You know, ladies and gentlemen, there's
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no doubt we have some serious things going on here.
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It's almost too much of a bite to take off. Really,
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we should have just tackled the first three verses, because
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the first three verses is obviously talking about the angels.
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And I say that, you know, whenever I've said that
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in the classroom, people that been in the classroom for
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a while, We've already talked about the oaks of Bashan
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the bulls of Bashan, and I've already been able to
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explain them that. Well, you have to understand how celestial
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navigation works. All air and nautical almanacs are based off
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the location of stars, Ladies and gentlemen. You plot your
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position on the globe off of the accompanying stars. That's
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how you do it. And you need to understand this.
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It was the Paladeans that first did this, and it
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was they that first understood that every tree points to
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a star. Our twenty three point four degree axial tilt
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makes it so that any tree is naturally so far
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north of the equator. Of course, this is how celestial navigation,
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that's why it's done. That's why the coordinates in the
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heaven are based off of twenty four, not three sixty.
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So if you go to write ascension, it's got to
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be one through twenty four. A lot of people don't
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understand that. So every single tree points to a star.
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This is why in ancient times, and you'll see this
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in the Bible, this idea coming up that people would
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go to trees to worship, and they were worshiping whichever
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star would pass directly over that tree, because every tree,
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like I said, points to a star as we spin.
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Okay you can do. Let's say if you go to
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my current latitude right now, my latitude and longitude, there
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is a group of stars that spin directly over my
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head during the course of twenty four years. The ancients
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knew this, particularly the Caribbeans knew this. This is why
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you have worship always associated with trees. That's why, because
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every tree will point to a particular star in any
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particular point during the day. You also need to know.
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This is the material used to build temples. He's obviously
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talking about temple because he mentions the door. So you
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need to realize that right off the that it says
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open your doors though Lebanon. Why Lebanon. Of course, that's
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where the cedars of Lebanon were that provided the wood
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for the temple. Why is he giving these physical locations.
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Why does he say Lebanon, Well, that's one of the
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borders of Israel. Why did he say the Jordan, Well,
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that's the border of Israel. That's why why did he
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say but Shan a border of Israel? More importantly, the
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Promised Land. So the first thing you need to realize
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is is he's absolutely relaying this idea to the priest.
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He's absolutely relaying this to the priest because they, of
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course knew they were worshiping angels. This is why the
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bell cycle took place during a particular time of year,
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because all depending on where you were at in the
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solar year, all dependent on what stars were passing directly
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over your head. That's why the bell cycle was done
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at a particular time during the year. That's why. So
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this should put you on another level when you realize
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he's obviously wanting you to see this. Now, there's other prophecies,
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of course, not only here, but in the other minor prophets,
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and of course in the major profits too. There is
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no doubt I mean, especially when you go to Ezekiel
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chapter seven, eight nine. There is no doubt what he's
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talking about, that these priests we're worshiping the host of heaven.
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That's what these false deities are. That's what they are.
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They're the falling. So this narrative, you should understand that
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set the cone. God is angry with the whole, the
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whole mechanation. It's the whole, it's the whole clergy. It's
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rotten from top to bottom. It's absolutely rotten from top
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to bottom. Let's talk about this, this removable verse, the
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missing verse. Why is this in here? Now? I dismiss
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three shepherds in one month. My soul loathe them, and
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their soul also abhored me. Of course, what he's really
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come out out and saying is that these shepherds are
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God has not only that he's saying that he hates them,
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but it is a it is a very very dire
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thing to have God say this of you, that he
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knows that you hate his guts.
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So to speak.
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You know, back when I was growing up, God gets
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you in big trouble. You could say that you hated somebody,
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but you were not allowed to say that you hated
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their guts. That's what he's saying here. And this sets
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up the hotel. Why does he do this, Well, he
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goes to great links to tell you why he doesn't.
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This thing is rotten from the root to the very
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tip top of the tree. This whole thing is bad.
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This is coming whether you like it or not. You
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had Batcher be professing to be in God's flock. You're
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saying you're a Christian, You're in God's flock. And he
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just said you're going to go through a period that
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is not going to be very pleasant. Ladies and gentlemen,
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you better come to this reckoning in your mind. The
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Lord Jesus Christ was not lying to you in Matthew
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chapter twenty four. You are going to go through the
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birth banks. You are going to go through the birth pains,
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and you need to realize that he's going to give
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you other information about this. I mean, let's take note.
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Where's the other times that this infamous three comes up?
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Because it's all over Bible prophecy. It's not just a
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few places. Daniel, chapter seven, verse eight. I was considering
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the horns, and there was another horn, a lit to one,
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coming up among them, before whom three of the first
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horns were plucked out by the roots. And there in
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his horn were the eyes, like the eyes of a
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man and a mouse, speaking pompous words, very clear, very precise.
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There were four, and a little one come up and
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ripped out three of them by the horns or by
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the roots. Daniel, chapter seven. That's very self, same chapter
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in verse twenty and the ten horns that were in
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his head, and the other horn which came up before
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which three fell, namely that horn which had the eyes
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and a mouth, which spoke pompous words, whose appearance was
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greater than his fellows. In verse twenty four. The ten
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horns are ten kings who arise from this kingdom, and
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another shall rise after them. He shall be different from
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the first One's an shouts to three kings. Zachariah chapter eleven,
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verse eight. The when we just read, God is emphatically
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telling you that there is coming a time when the
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whole land, and he says all the people here in Hebrew,
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he makes himself perfectly clear. A lot of people don't
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bring these things out, but you need to take a
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look at it. He makes several references here to the
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land verse six. Or I will no longer pity the
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inhabitants of the land, says the Lord. But indeed, I
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will give everyone into his neighbour's hand and to the
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hand of his king. They shall attack the land and
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will not deliver them from their hand. In Greek, of course,
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this is GHI debrew. Here is arats, which can be land,
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but the Greek this also means planet, the whole planet.
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Here when he says all peoples, take note. You're supposed
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to get that, You're supposed to put this into context.
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You're supposed to understand that he's talking about everyone on
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the planet. Everyone on the planet. Let's take a little
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read of some of this again, this time open your
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ears to what's really going on. Verse four, Thus says
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the Lord, my God, feed the flock for slaughter, whose
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owners slaughter them and feel no guilt. Those who sell
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them and say, blessed be the Lord, for I am
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rich and their shepherds, do not pity them. Think about that.
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You might as well be talking about today you might
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as will be talking about today's clergy, because this is
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how God looks at it. Okay, you need to know
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how God looks at it. His place, his house is
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supposed to be in your land, wherever you're at. Of course,
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we have more than one local church here, no doubt
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about it, more than one denomination here where I live.
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Take note, this is talking about all peoples. He's getting
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ready to say that here in a few verses. And
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I assure you that most of the poor people here,
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they're not even recognized by the clergy. I mean there's
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towns where churches are a diamond dozen. I mean, just
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the other day I was asking jose So how many
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churches are in Phoenix. They're everywhere. They're literally everywhere. I mean,
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if you get your set of white of a phone book,
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yellow pages and look it up, they're everywhere. Most of them.
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You can't even tell anymore because they will rent a
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bandon office space in these strip malls, so they'll be
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churches literally everywhere, and people won't even know they're really there.
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This is exactly what's being described here on a very
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grandiose scale. He's telling you where you're going and what's
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going to be happening around you when you get here,
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if you're a member of his flock. I mean I
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could mention names, but I don't need to. We all
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know there are big, main line pastors out there that
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are literally millionaires, and there are people that are Christians
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in their towns that don't even go to church anymore.
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But God sees these people as his people's shepherds. I mean,
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think about it. There's a whole lot of Christian parents
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tonight that is going to pray because their children will
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go to bed hungry, and they'll have to go to
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bed and go to sleep fussy. That's a fact. I
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don't know this by secondhand news. I know this because
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I volunteered at a homeless shelter. And like I said,
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you can turn on the TV and see pastors that
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are literally raking in millions of dollars. How can that
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be possible? How can that be possible when there are
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children within one mile of these churches that are going
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to bed fussy. These children are going to bed fussy,
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and they literally own lear jets. It is this very
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thing that Zachariah chapter eleven says provokes God to do
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what he does, because make no mistakes about it. I
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don't care how powerful you think the Antichrist is. The
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Antichrist is not in the Book of Revelation. Look it
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up for yourself. The Greek word for Antichrist does not
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exist in the Book of Revelation. And no matter how
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powerful do you think he is, he does not ache
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over the planets. If there's been any point in your
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Christian walk that a preacher or a teacher has convinced
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you that this anti Christ runs the tribulation, you're daft.
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There's just one creator that runs the whost show, just one,
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and he has not been created. He's the creator. Everybody
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and everything else is differentiated from him. We, including Satan,
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are created. This is where the end times begin, right
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here in Zachariah chapter eleven. And he gives you fantastic
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details as to how that's going to run down. And
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he just told you that it's because of these great,
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big mainline pastors raking in millions of dollars saying this
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very thing, saying this very thing, Blessed be the Lord,
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because I'm rich, And they grants around on parade on television,
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don't they. God is telling you this is why he
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sets up the Bad Shepherd. You're supposed to know from
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prophecies in Daniel that this whole planet gets divided into
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four horns. You're supposed to know that out of one
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of these horns come a little horn. This character right here,
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the bad Shepherd. You're supposed to know that Daniel is
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very illicit in relaying this information. Especially in Daniel Chapter seven.
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He says that four beasts are what's stirred up by
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the four spirits of heaven. Now take notes. Some translations
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say four winds of heaven. It's the same thing in Hebrew.
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It is the little horn comes out of one of
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these four beasts, and one of these four beasts exercises
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dominion over the other three. That's what's being stated here. Now.
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Of course, it's very easy to do this. Today one
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of them kind of distracts you, but it's really easy
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to do. You basically have the Chinese, you have the Russians,
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you have the West, and then you have something different.
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It's not a politic, it's a religion. It's the Muslims.
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The muslim we call it the Arab world. Everybody knows this.
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This is no secret on this planet, no secret God
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has given you detailed information as to why we go
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through the birth pangs. There is coming an event where
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this chapter is going to to play out in real time.
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You must go through the birth pangs. And he just
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told you why this thing is completely rotten from top
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to bottom. You know, if we were to go back
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and tell John Wesley, you need to write this name down,
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John Wesley. If we were to go back in time
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and tell John Wesley that there was coming preachers that
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would not give everything for the flock, but would take
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everything from the flock, John Wesley would not believe you.
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Because at the time when John Wesley rode from place
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to place to place, preaching and preaching and preaching and preaching,
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that now would have happened no matter what denomination the
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preacher was. But today, the bigger the better. I mean,
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I've got really big questions to ask people. We're going
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to bring this here locally. Here something I'm very familiar with.
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There's a great, big church in a local, big town.
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It's of a very particular denomination, and you do research
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on it and you come up with zeros, Where did
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this joker come from that's preaching there? Now? How did
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he get the money? Why did the bank loan him
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hundreds of millions of dollars to build this auditory. It's
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not a church, ladies and gentlemen, it's an auditorium. This
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guy was a no name joker from nowhere. Why was
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he funded on this level? Do you think they would
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ever give me the funding to buy property in a downtown,
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major metropolitan area and then all of a sudden, overnight,
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I'm famous and on TV. This is happening in real time.
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That's exactly what the shepherds are doing. And if you
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think God doesn't see it or done, or he doesn't understand,
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you've never read Zachariah chapter eleven, because this is why
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the birth pains begin. This is why, this is why
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verse six is stated. For I will no longer pity
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the inhabitants of the land, says the Lord. But indeed
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I will give everyone into his neighbor's hand and into
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the hand of his king. Wow, that's a direct quote.
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I mean, if you know how to read it, that's
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the first two writers right there. That's the first two
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writers right there, if you know how to read. These
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are hard words, but God set them and God is
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going to do them. God doesn't lie whether you like
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it or not. God doesn't joke. Verse six is really
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gonna happen. I want you to digest this verse seven.
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So I fed the flock for slaughter, in particular the
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poor of the flock I took for myself to staff.
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The one I called beauty and the other I called bonds.
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And I fed the flock. Ladies and gentlemen. When I
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point this out to you, this should be the worst
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words you've ever read in your life. Why does God
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do this? Because this is first person.
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This is God talking. This isn't Zachariah talking. God is
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dictating to Zachariah what he's saying. There comes a point
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when he dismissed three shepherds in one month. My soul
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loathe them, and their soul adhered me. Take note this
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fourth one, you'll take note. It didn't mention that one.
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It didn't mention the fourth one. This is when God
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picks up his aps.
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You don't have to like it. This is when the
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other three get trampled down by the little horn. This
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is when it happens. God does it, and he does
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it in one month, and from this point forward, the
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bad shepherd runs the show. If you don't know the
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prophecy about the rods or the staffs from Ezekiel, where
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one is Judah and one is Joseph. Your way behind
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the curve. You should have saturated yourself with that text first.
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But take note. Let's push forward. Then, I said, I
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will not feed you. Let what is dying die, and
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what is perishing parish. Let those that are left eat
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each other's flesh. And I took my staff beauty and
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cut it in two, that I might break the covenant
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which I had made with all the peoples. Take note,
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this is the first covenant that's broken with the whole
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planet everybody. This is everybody this point in time. You're
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talking over seven billion people. But take note. It reads
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in a way that you really can't see it. But
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he says, this is the first covenant which is broken.
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What does this mean at this point forward? You should
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be very worried. It's the only reason why you're alive.
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It amazes me when I talk to people, they take
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so many things for granted. For instance, a simple law
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of adhesion and cohesion. You completely take it for granted.
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You think that God had been entuned on his throne,
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and he has to he has to enact this law
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and enforce this law of adhesion and cohesion. Let me
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ask you a question, do you need anything about soil
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composition or what makes ground fertile or not not? A
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lot of people are underneath the misconception that it's all
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due to the acidity. You know that some of the
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soil isn't acid enough, and other soils too. Ask none, no, no, no,
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no no, try this on for size. You better know
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and understand this. Alls you would have to do is
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take soil and invert those things which were in it
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that were adhesive, change it to cohesive, and those things
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which were cohesive in it, switch it to be an adhesive.
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Then the water molecule would adddhere to different things that
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would completely change everything in that strata of soil. But
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for some reason, people think, people think in their minds
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that God just has to do these things. Take for instance,
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ladies and gentlemen, you've looked in the ditches after a
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good hard rain, right, and there's mud poddles everywhere. Right.
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Don't you have the wherewith understand that? Why? Surface? All?
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No reason? Why? Within one year, all the way up
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to the foot of the mountains, it all turned to
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mud and just wash away. Do I have your attention?
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Are you not aware of how much more water there
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is on the surface of the planet than dirt, because
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surely you've been child and plated mud puddles. Surely you
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realize if you go out to your backyard right now,
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take a handspade, get the dirt away, take a little
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bity hole, and take one glass of water and pour
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into that hole and see what happens. Ladies and gentlemen,
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the Rocky Mountain shouldn't be there, because within three years
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they should have turned to mud, and the tide should
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have just kept washing away. It would have washed away California.
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It would have been at the root of the Rocky Mountains.
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It would eventually washed because it all should have turned
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to mud. Why do all of you think that God
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is entuned upon his throne, No, he's not. This verse
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just said there's coming a time when He's going to
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break his covenant with all the peoples and ladies and gentlemen.
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He no longer has to keep a habitable envice for you.
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He never did. For some reason, people've never done enough
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scientific research to have ever done the double blind experience
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experiment with the light Ladies you know, I may prove
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a whole long time ago with these slits and a
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beam of light that when they would move the detector,
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all of a sudden, it would stop acting like a
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wave and would act like a particle. Now they've invented
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all this stuff called quantum mechanics to try to explain
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it away. But this much is true. You can do
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this experiment yourself with the double slits and the double blind,
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using equipment to record it. And when you do, when
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you try to record what the light is doing, it'll change.
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You need to understand that this thing extenuates to everything.
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It's quite simply put this way. God said let there
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be life, and that's the way it's going to be
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until he says otherwise. You think in your mind that
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the reason why there's life on this planet is because
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we inhabit the Goldilock zone around our star were the
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perfect distance from your star, and it's because of that
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that we have water here in all three phases gas, liquid,
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and solid. You think it's because of that. No, no, no, no,
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no no. The habitable zone around our star is only
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where the earth lies because God says so, no other reason.
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Consider what I just said when he says, he breaks
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his covenant with all the people. He no longer has
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to enforce the laws of physics to create a biosphere
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around you. We know this emphatically from Revelation chapter nine,
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where he orders death to flee from us. That is
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proof positive that obviously he removes a habitable environment from us.
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This verse should have you worried? Verse eleven, so it
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was broken on that day. That's the gore of the flock?
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Who will watching me? Knew that it was the word
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of the Lord? Does this verse have you worried? You know?
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This is twice he's mentioned the poor of the flock.
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He did so in verse seven too, And it is they,
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and only they, who knew the gig was up. So
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those of you out there that have all your hearts
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content invested in your retirement, you might want to second
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guess that decision right now, because as of right now,
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you completely have the time to hash out those four
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one ks. Now, sell those properties that right now you
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know you're just claiming them as a tax rite off.
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Right this abandoned office space that you write off on
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your taxes, Right now you have time to cash all
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that in and start feeding hungry mouths. You need to
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start answering prayers. Consider this. When you know of a
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family in need, especially parents in need, and meet their need,
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guess who's the first person they tell. Don't be stupid
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and don't be misled. I know because I've been there.
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The first thing I did was thank God. I told
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him first. God is saying there is coming a time,
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this magical window of time, that the poor of the
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flock would know the gig was up. He's pointed them
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out twice to you before he ever mentioned the bad Shepherd.
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It amazes me how today nobody preaches the coming of Christ.
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Nobody preaches it man, nobody preaches that you're supposed to
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live for Jesus Christ today, not tomorrow. You're not supposed
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to go to work and clock in and work for
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your retirement. You're supposed to work for the Lord Jesus Christ.
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New Testament comes right out and says that whatever you do,
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work as if working for the Lord, not for men.
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A lot of you have way more than and I have,
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and you don't even have possession of it, do you.
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I remember one of the conversations I was having with
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a sibling in Christ and they had over ten ten
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thousand dollars CDs that they just roll over. So at
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this point, now that the distance between when we had
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that conversation and now, I'm sure they've got several thousand
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more sets of ten thousand dollars CDs they just accumulated,
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so they're not in possession of it. They just have
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it just to have it. And I don't understand why
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they do it. It amazes me that it's like a
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hunger that if it manifested itself by way of physical hunger,
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they would literally kill themselves eating. They would eat themselves
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to death. They would I'm sure first or intestines, and
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then of course the inevitable would happen. I don't understand it.
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I mean, I just drove one of my I better
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be careful how I say that. Yeah, I just drove
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by a person's house that I'm familiar with, and I
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know how many people live in that house. They had
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three times as many vehicles as people in the house.
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Now they're all different types of vehicles. Make no mistake. Look,
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I'm trying to get your attention, and I'm not saying
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that having I better be careful what I say. I'm
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just telling you that this chapter has told you twice
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that the core of his flock would be curvy to
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what he's doing, and the other ones he would be
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mad at. And you have this opportunity right now. Choose
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that have that opportunity. Staff this let's straight forward. But
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I have to point that out to you because I
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don't need to be judged for it later first twelve.
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Then I said to them, if it is agreeable to you,
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give me my wages, and if not, refrained. So they
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weighed out my wages thirty pieces of silver, and the
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Lord said to me, throw it to the potter. Take note,
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you better figure out that this translation is. Yeah, this
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Hebrew word means to make potter. It means to fire.
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That's why the septilogen here has furnace. So I appreciate
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that the new King James version reached potter here, and
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that is a fairly good translation. But you need to
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know what it's saying here. He's saying the thirty pieces
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of silk is going to be recast into something else.
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That's what's being said here. The English reads like, you know,
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you're just giving to this this money to a person
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that makes pottery for a living. No, he's saying, give
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it to the furnace. And then he says something very strange.
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That princely prize they set on me. So I took
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the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the
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house of the Lord for the potter, ladies and gentlemen.
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Since when is there a kiln? That's what we would
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call that in today's terms. Since when is there a
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film in the house of the Lord. Now take note,
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he's not telling you what they're gonna make with the
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thirty pieces of silver. He never said that. That never
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escaped his mouth. He never what it was they were
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going to make with it. I mean, get ready to write.
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You need to write this down in the Hebrew. You
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need to look this up in the strongest concordance. It's
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h thirty three thirty five. It means to mold into
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a form. It means to put something in a kiln.
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That's why it says potter here. Now you switch over
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to the subtuagent, and you need to take a good
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look at this. You know, let's do this. Where is
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this word used in other places in the subtuagent? That
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should be very eye opening, and indeed it is. Yeah,
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read this from the subtuagent from First Kings chapter eight
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fifty one. Because we are thy people whom thou brought
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out of the land of Egypt from the of the
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iron furnace. Take note here it's not translated Potter. Let's
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try Malicky chapter three, verse two. And who can abide
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the day of his coming? Or who can stand his appearance?
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Since he is coming like the fire of a refiner's furnace,
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ding ding bing bing bing, that's the word, And like
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the soap of the fullers. Let's just cut to the chase.
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God goes ahead and tells you what they're gonna take
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the thirty pieces of silver and make intwo He's already
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told you what they're gonna make with that. And if
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you don't remember, well, I'm sorry about that. But once again,
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the teachers and preacher from today, they don't want to
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relay who it is that makes what you know. It's
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amazing to me how people forget simple verses. Revelation chapter thirteen,
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verse fourteen. And he deceives those who dwell on the
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earth by whose signs, which she was granted to do
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in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell
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on the earth can make an image to the beast
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who was wounded by the sword and lived. I hope
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you realize this also comes from Zachariah chapter eleven. I've
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already read it to you. If you didn't know this
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was what Zachariah eleven was talking about, it's because you
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never have been taught Zachariah chapter eleven. I don't care
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if you've heard somebody speak of it before now or not,
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because this is existentially, I can pull apart the Hebrew
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and the Greek and just run massive connection to these
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two chapters in the original language verse fourteen zachari chapter eleven.
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Then I cut my other staff bonds that I might
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break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. I hope all
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of you are New Testament Christians, because that's the only
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type of Christians that there is in existence. By the way,
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you are not a Christian by any other way than
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through the knowledge provided by the New Testament. That's it,
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and you need to know that Romans nine, ten and
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eleven existentially dictates to you we Christians are Israel. There's
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two types of Christians per those chapter. First there's Jewish Christians,
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and then there's everybody else. Romans chapter eleven in the
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Greek dictates. This is called fulfillment theology. Because there's a
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whole bunch of Jews out there that have rejected the Messiah.
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They are cut off, and we Gentiles who believe we
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are grafted in, and God just said that during the
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birth pains, this is going to come undone. Have you
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never heard this before, because surely you've heard of dispensationalism,
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haven't you. I mean, I just listened to a short
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segment today, this very day, from of course, a big
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time ministry saying that all Jews were going to be
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automatically saved, even the ones that they know have murdered
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all these children. Here in present times, it's been released
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in mainstream news. Imagine if you will, those Israeli perpetrators
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that have murdered these children. I mean, you need to
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get videos of it, don't I mean, you don't have
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to believe me. I mean, it's causing quite consternation right
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now in our own government. I mean, our vice president
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was supposed to preside over this speech from the leader
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of the Israeli Empire, and as a matter fact, when
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he was just just announced into this meeting, the government
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official called Benjamin Netanya, who's something that he shouldn't have
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called him. Anyway, Ladies and gentlemen, you need to know
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that I don't care what color or how tall a
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person may be. If you're not saved in the Lord
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Jesus Christ, you're doomed. More importantly, I'll go one further
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step so you understand what I'm trying to say. You're damned.
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You're damned if you do not seek the free gift
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of salvation through Jesus Christ, our Lord. And you need
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to know that this is saying that in the end
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times there's going to be great, big ministries promoting the Jews,
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and most of Western Christianity does this very thing. I mean,
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oh my goodness, how many whole denominations have been established
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here just within the past ten years on the Hebrew
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Rich movement. Have you never heard somebody address this? In
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Zachari chapter eleven, God stating this that during the birth pains,
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he's gonna You better know it's coming, and you also
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better know there's nothing you could do about it. You
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better know that he's also prophetically telling you something else.
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Judah is the ones who are supposed to be ruling
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over Israel. It is from Judah that the Messiah came,
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and you should already know if you've studied Ezekiel's chapter
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seven eighty nine. Judah prophetically, once again, we're back to
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the clergy. And of course, if you had the wherewithal
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to realize that God repeatedly calls the Messiah his shepherd,
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so you should realize that God is saying more than
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one thing when he speaks in this chapter. And you
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need to know this going forward. It's important. And the
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Lord said to me, next, take for yourself the implements
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of a foolish shepherd. For indeed, I will rise up
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a shepherd in the land who will not care for
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those who are cut off, nor seek the young, nor
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heal those that are broken, nor feed those that still stand.
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But he will eat the flesh and the fat, and
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tear their hooves into pieces. This, of course, is the
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very one I already talked about from Revelation chapter thirteen.
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Here's your false prophet, here's your little horn right here.
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Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock. A
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sword shall be against his arm and against his right eye.
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His arms shall completely withered, and his right eye shall
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be totally blinded ladies and gentlemen. This is the fatal wound.
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You need to realize that. You need to realize that
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if Zachariah chapter eleven hadn't been written, and we only
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had Revelation chapter thirteen, it would really be quite confusing
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as to what's going on here, as to most importantly,
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why it's being allowed to happen. But Zachariah chapter eleven
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explains that to you why it's happening. I mean, surely
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you all have the wherewithal to understand that your clergy
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is supposed to be is supposed to be shepherding the
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flock of the Lord Jesus Christ. Guess what they're not.
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This is why we go through the birth pangs. This
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is why there's a great tribulation. You need to know that.
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All right, let me ask if anybody has any questions
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or comments. Anybody, No, I've stunned into everybody into silence,
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So I find that hard to believe.
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H it's pretty cut and dried. I'd say, well.
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Think about what you said in the beginning of this program, Sherry.
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Did I cover any of those things? Yeah?
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I think you did.
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Did you expect me to talk about the image of
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the beast.
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Yes, I did.
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Wow, you did. I'm impressed. Wow, I must have done it.
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Go ahead, I'm gonna say it was in that after
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the tariffim. You know, so that that that's there, the tariffim.
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So we were talking about, Yes, yes.
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It is. Of course you're gonna have to fall still,
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everybody in what you're talking about? What's the terrafim? I mean,
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if you're a Baptist and you went to church this
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past Sunday and you've been getting a series about the
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Book of Revelation, they have no idea what a terrafim is,
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so so fill them in. What's a terrafim?
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You remember when Rachel stole the idols from her father's
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house and sat on them, and then she ended up
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being cursed by Jacob because of that.
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That's the terrifim that she stole from the house. Exactly, Yes,
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exact a mundo. That's it. Yep. So anybody else, nobody? Interesting?
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Well, I just I kind of want to talk about
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the Isaiah one and kind of eight to ten because
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it seems to be a reflection of everything that we
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just went over. Really, but I think it takes it
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kind of a step further. I don't know. It smacked
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me in the face and seemed to make things really
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clear to me.
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I don't see no reason why we can't read it,
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because it absolutely does. It's just that, you know, it's
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already nine past the top of the hour, but that
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doesn't But that doesn't matter because we're in a fellowship.
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So if you've got it ready, go ahead and read it.
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Why what translation are you going to be reading out of.
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I'm going to be reading from the like some English
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ship to a gent.
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Okay, very good, I'm gonna call it.
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At verse eight of chapter one of Isaiah, the daughter
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of Zion will be left behind like a tent in
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a vineyard, and like a garden's watcher's hut in a
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cucumb like a besieged city. And if the Lord Sabiel
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had not left us, see, we would have become like Sodom,
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and we would have been made like Gomorrah. Then this
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is a part that really struck me. Hear the word
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of the Lord rulers of Sodom pay attention to the
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law of God, people of Gomorrah. And then he goes
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on and the rest of the chapter, and he's talking
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about like you said, you know, take care of the orphans,
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take care of the widows. And if you do these things,
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then there might be hope for you, you know. But I mean,
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he's when he says, hear the word of the lord
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rulers of Sodom, and I thought, that is the perversion
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of the word by these false shepherds. Pay attention to
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the law of God people of Gomorrah, so they perverted
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the law. They're not doing these things, which is what
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led to the destruction of Sodomanngamorra. And it does say
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in the Bible in the Last Days that it will
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be like Sodomngamora.
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Can you reread the part where you said about abandoned,
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abandoned watchers huts.
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Uh that in verse eight, the daughter of person will
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be left behind like a tent in a vineyard, and
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like a garden watcher's hut in a cucumber bed, like
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a besieged city.
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It just made me think about, you know, those who
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didn't keep their lofty places, who weren't in their abode.
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I don't know. It just made me think, you know,
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they left their.
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Places.
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I don't know, I just kind of shortens them. It
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also kind of makes me think of when he said
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that those days were shortened and for a reason, so
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the very would not be deceived.
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Well, Sherry, to me, it said the same thing. But
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of course it should because we're in Isaiah chapter one.
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And take note the word Sodom is used in the
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Book of Revelation. Right, we've talked about that many times.
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That place, that place that is figuratively Sowdom and Egypt. Yeah,
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that's why he's that's why he's talking about this right here.
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And you're right, at this point, we have time to
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look after that which God wants us to look after, right.
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I've said that, yes, and I cannot impress that upon
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everybody enough. You know, I don't need to go on
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and on about it. I don't need to to be
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labor the I've said it once. That's enough. Most of
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you know exactly what I'm talking about. But you need
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to know Zachariah chapter eleven, you need to understand this
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that at the Great White Throne judgment, this is God's
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trump card against you. By God, you did know, Oh
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yes you did. Now I'm going to be there with
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you at the Great White Throne judgment. So when he
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looks over at me, I'm gonna throw my hands up
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and I'm gonna say I did tell them Lord, and
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he's going to point his finger at you, and he's
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going to say, yes, you did know, Oh, yes you did.
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I mean you have time. You better know where your
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tithe is going, because I've already told you that I've
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already caught Mike. Actually, a portion of it was going
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to support planned uh planned parenthood. We sent it to
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the district, and the district sent it here and sent
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it there, and oh my goodness, it took me weeks
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to figure out where because nobody wanted to tell me
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the truth. You know, I don't know. I don't know
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how to relay that information to you. If you think
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you're going to get away with writing your weekly tithe
-
check handing it over to somebody that's supporting plan uh
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uh planned parenthood and the murder of babies, I don't
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know why you think you're going to get away with that.
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But you're delusional, and I don't know why you think that.
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You know, if you own a bunch of rental property
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that's sitting vacant just so you can have a acts
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right off, I don't know where you think God's happy
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with that when there are literally parents this very night
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in your zip code that's going to be crying out
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to God because they've put their kids to bed and
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they're fussy because they're hungry. I suggest you put whatever
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translation you want, and I really don't care which translation is.
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Make it even a paraphrase, I don't care. You better
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memorize it, and you better know one understand this. The
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only ones who are going to be aware of what
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timeframe there is is going to be the core of
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the flook. I mean, I don't even know any preachers
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alive today that even have defined to the Lord's sheep
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what it is that makes you wealthy, because it's not
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having three vehicles when you can only drive one of
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them at a time. That's not what makes you wealthy.
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If you think something else gives you value outside of
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the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ that he willingly
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and freely gave for you, you're delusional. You are flat delusional.
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But guess what, on the Great Day of the Lord,
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you're gonna figure it out because that's what he says,
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and you need to know why he picks up an axe.
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That's why he wrote Zachariah chapter eleven. And you also
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need to know it's from this chapter that comes the
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image of the beast. And you will make it. Oh,
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yes you will, God said, So anything else, anybody, I mean,
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all of you know we're not bound for time here.
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I mean, I think Sherry remembers when we went on
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for seven and a half hours one shot. If all,
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if you were having questions or having insecurities, by all means,
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let's talk it away. You may not get another chance.
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I mean, consider this. You do need to know this.
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I have an abscessed tooth, which right now it's flared
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up again because this happened to what three weeks ago.
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I can't get in to get the root canal until
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August the fourteenth. So I called the dentists today to
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get more antibiotic because my face is swelling up again.
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And they said no. I said, yeah, but how do
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you expect me to make it all the way to
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August fourteenth without missing work? Well just take ibuprof and
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a title and all. That's what the dentist told me.
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So surely all of you have the wherewithal to understand
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that it's highly likely that at that time, at this rate,
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I could wind up going into septic shock. So if
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you have a questquestion, you might want to ask me now,
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because I don't care to be here now. I would
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rather I would rather be in paradise with those I
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belong with, because I really don't know a whole lot
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of people here that I belong with. Jamie, why don't
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you come and pray us out of here tonight there,
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because I'm worse.
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At this Heavenly Father, I just want to thank you
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today for bringing us all together as you do, and
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I pray. I'm just grateful for this fellowship and the
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ministry and the lesson tonight on the Three Shepherds, and
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I learned a great deal and I'm gonna study some
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more on this Google document and I just want to
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thank you for Matthew putting that together for us. And
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dear Father, I just want to thank you for the
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blessings that you've held over ud put on my life
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and the people that you surround me with. And I
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want to thank you for this group, and I ask
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for you to please keep our heart open and keep
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us have revigulant for your signs and wonders.
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And we just thank you. Amen, Amen, and Amen, until
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next time, God, bless, God speed. Thank you for listening
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