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Introduction to the Place Prepared
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Do you know the Bible is God's Holy Word? Do you know it is
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inspired, in errant, and infallible? If so, like, share,
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subscribe and support this podcast. So we are Maranatha Ministries and now Reduction Draweth
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Nige. Welcome, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the program. We are
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your host Jose and Matthew. Tonight, we are going to do another introduction
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tonight. It's going to be an introduction into the place prepared. So if
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you are not familiar with that concept, it is a very strong biblical thread
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that is tied all throughout the Bible. So this string of data goes from
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goes from cover to cover. So we're going to start out with prayer and
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we're going to close in prayer. Of course, Hose would you like to
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start out or would you like to finish? No? I I'll finish up.
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Matthew all right. Dear, having a father whom we serve through the
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Lord Jesus Christ, your son, Father and our Savior, we ask you
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to fill us with your Holy Spirit so that we might be pleasing and acceptable
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in your sight to Lord, our Rock and our Redeemer. Thank you so
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much for this time that you've given to Jose and I to share with your
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church, and we pray that you pepper our thoughts and you relay the words
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as you would have them relayed to your children. In the name of the
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Lord Jesus Christ. We pray Amen and Amen Amen. All right, Jose,
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what's your opening comments on this place prepared? Well, Matthew, I
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think there's there's a lot of confusion about the end times, about where where
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the woman's going to be once these events start taking place. What part is
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the woman going to be exposed to, what part is the woman going to
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be protected from? And there's a lot of fear surrounding that, and because
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of that fear, people sometimes put their hopes, hopes in in false,
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false teachings. So that's what I'm hoping that we can kind of dig into
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today is what does God actually tell tell us about what He's going to do?
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What what are the words he uses to describe the events that are going
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to transpire once once we know I mean we know he says it will have
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that great day when he comes down, and we know we're also told about
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that day when its sun returns. So what is it that God actually has
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set up for us and has told us about repeatedly in his Word about those
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events. So that's what I'm hoping to dig into, because it's really quite
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clear, Matthew, that God has a plan for the woman, he has
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a plan for what's going to happen. He's used different ways to describe that
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place, different ways to describe how that place is protected, and it's really
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quite amazing and quite awesome the way God set it up. So that's what
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I'm looking forward to, Matthew. I agree with your sentiments there one of
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thanks. For sure you can be left grasping for straws that there's no doubt
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about that, and especially when it comes to well, let's just take the
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text where it needs to go, because this is the point. First,
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Asalonians chapter five, it is included in here. Now, this is after
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it mentions the Great Day of the Lord. It is before it mentions the
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Parisia of Christ, which is at the end of that chapter. It says,
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for God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through
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our Lord Jesus Christ. So there's no real debate about whether we're going to
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go through the wrath of God. We're obviously not going to so everyone should
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immediately look for where's our destination? Now? The most popular destination, of
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course, is heaven itself. The problem with that, you are grossly lacking
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in the biblical narrative for that scenario. That scenario's origin is Isaiah chapter fourteen.
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That's the origin of that particular hypothesis. And it is not good at
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all. It's not good at all. Let's go there and read this,
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How you have fallen from heaven, oh star of the morning, sun of
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the dawn. You have been cut down to the earth. You have weakened
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the nations. But you said in your heart, I will ascend. I
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will arise my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit on
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the mount of Assembly in the recesses of the north. I will ascend above
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the heights of the clouds. I will make myself like the most high,
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So Jose. A lot of people don't realize that this is the extent of
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the biblical data concerning anyone aspiring to ascend into heaven. It's just not there,
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correct. And the problem with that is the New Testament Christ himself blatantly
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backs that up. Even when you die, you're not going to heaven.
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You go to Hades, you go to the place of the underworld. Now
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there is a special place inside of Hades, a place of elevation and separation,
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that is called Abraham's Bosom. It is also referred to as Paradise.
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But it's not Heaven. So when you get extremely familiar with the Biblical text
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and you realize that Isaiah don't say this, Jeremiah lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel,
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it's not in the Psalms. It's nowhere. This idea of God saying
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He's going to take you to heaven, it does not exist. So this
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would leave people grasping at straws if they are unfamiliar with the prophetic text.
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Because the prophetic text screams out what's going to happen to you. It calls
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it by multiple names. The first name that is used in the prophetic narrative.
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And I say that, let me clarify, and not only that,
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let me qualify why. I say that this term is picked up in the
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Psalms. Its origin is Psalm seventy four, which is from Asaf. Now
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take note, the Bible clearly states that Asaf would prophesy by the order of
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the king. So the king would order Asaf to prophesy, and he would
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prophesy and set his prophecies to music. There is no doubt he'd give this
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place of designation. In Psalm seventy four, he calls this addressing God.
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He states, your pastor this is God's pasture. Now take note, I'm
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going to read the first verse of Psalm seventy four. Take note how the
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nouns and verbs are set up. In this verse. Asaf is addressing God
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to his face. And the only way you can have a pasture is for
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God to be present first person. And this is what he states. He
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says, Oh God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your
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anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? He is prophetically calling this place
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where we are going to be taken to as God's personal pasture. Now,
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Joseh, we have massive amounts of data from the law concerning this, because
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it's in the law the first five books that the Exodus takes place, and
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we know how that mechanism took place. Yes, God's presence was in the
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pillar correct. Yes, So in the day God was in a pillar of
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fire or a pillar of cloud, and at night was a pillar of fire
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and The instructions are quite clear. They moved around for forty years, but
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they only moved. They moved forty two times. There's forty two stations in
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the wilderness, and that was accomplished by the cloud would go up. And
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when the cloud would go up, it would sit there and wait. Why.
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They would tear down all the tents, and then the children minaterer would
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follow God wherever he went. And then when the cloud set back down,
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that's where they'd make camp. This didn't go on for forty days, go
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on for three and a half yars. This went on for forty years.
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So God himself would choose the location of his pasture. There is no denying
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that. There is no way to try to to expunge that data from the
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first five books of the Bible. There's just no way. The law is
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literally built around this mechanism. So when you realize what's being stated here,
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it's a whole lot more important than anyone cares or dares to realize. Because
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this is a frightening thing. To think that there's going to come a day
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when you're going to be in the hands of a wrathful God. That is
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a scary thought. Jose Yes it is, Matthew, but this is exactly
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what he says states he states repeatedly that he is going to gather us.
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A second time. Isaiah's repleat with it. He says, He's going to
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gather us. He's going to gather us. He's going to gather us.
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And here in Psalm seventy four, he tells you he's going to gather you
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to his personal pasture, wherever that may be. And when you realize that,
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when you read the chapters that contain the entire timeline, just like Revelation
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chapter twelve, that's exactly what it states. That's exactly what the narrative states.
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So what's your thoughts? SoSE, Yeah, I'm trying to not just
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you know, so I'm going to start at the beginning. I guess that's
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the best space to start, Matthew. But the first thing I started thinking
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about is, of course, the land of Goshen and how it was set
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up heart in Egypt for God's people, and they were sent there specifically because
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they were shepherds, and those shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians. But more
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importantly, Matthew, were also reminded of, like you said, the Exodus,
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and I want to read from Deuteronomy chapter one, and I'm just going
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to read a few verses, and it's just going to repeat exactly what you
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just said right starting in verse twenty nine. But I said to you,
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do not be terrified nor fear them. The Lord your God, who goes
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before you, will himself fight for you, just as he did for you
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in Egypt before your eyes and in the wilderness, where you saw how the
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Lord your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, on
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all of the road which you have walked until you came to this place.
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Yet in spite of all this, you did not trust the Lord your God,
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who goes before you on your way to seek out a place for you
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to make camp, in the fire by night, to show you the way
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by which you should go, and in the cloud by day. And this
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is exactly what you just described here, Matthew. But God's saying he himself
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is going to carry us to that place that he has prepared for us.
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And He's gonna again that for that that fire by night and that cloud by
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day, that's what's going to guide us. So since the beginning, God's
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God's laid it out what his plan was. Oh, I think you're muted,
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Matthew. Exactly. This is this is exactly what he lays out all
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the time. So if you find yourself grasping for a heavenly uh placement,
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it's just not there. It's just not there. He states that what he
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has done before, he's going to do again. That's exactly what he states.
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So this is why you come up zero every time you try to find
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the prophetic narratives that states you're going to be taken to heaven. It quite
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simply don't exist. It is lacking in the biblical text. There's nothing for
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it. There is no place for it. The only place for that thought,
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like I stated, is Isaiah chapter fourteen. And that is extremely bad.
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It is not good at all. So once people realize this and you
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set down the groundwork and say, all right, let's study this out.
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If God is going to really gather us, what does he say about it?
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How is he going to to treat us when we're there, And literally
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you find tons of data as to what he's going to do, how he's
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going to do it, and we're going to be perfectly protected. The only
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way we can be attacked is from within. This is our main concern.
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And the Bible repeatedly warns us about the children of disobedience. It repeatedly warns
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us about straying from the path of holiness. That's what it always does.
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So with that in mind, you know, if you just crack open Psalm
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seventy four and just take a read through of it, it's twenty three verses.
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He comes out pretty clear and reassures the people that you really don't have
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to worry about anything, because it's right here. You have nothing to worry
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about. So grasping at straws about where you're going is what's keeping you in
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the dark. I mean, when God comes right out and says multiple times
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that you are the sheep of his pasture, I mean, let's try Psalms
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ninety five, verse seven. Here it says, come, let us worship
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and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord, our maker. Now,
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Jose, it didn't say let us go into a temple and kneel before
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an altar, right right, that's not what it said. It literally said,
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you're going to kneel before God himself. Okay, the next verset,
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for he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and
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the sheep of his hand. Today, if you will hear his voice,
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do not burden your hearts as at Maraba, as in the day of Massa
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in the wilderness, when your father's tested me. They tried me though they
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had seen my work, Ladies and gentlemen. Verses eight nine just qualified this
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has not happened yet. He is referencing what happened at Mahraba in past tense
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and telling us do not do what they have done. But this is clear.
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Verse six of Psalt ninety five made it clear you are not going to
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bow down before an altar or like in church, or it's not going to
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be in a tabernacle. It was quite clear we are going to worship and
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kneel down before God himself. This is exactly what happened during the Exodust.
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That's exactly what happened. Are God's exact words. The pharaohm was Matthew,
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that let my people go so they can worship me. That's that's the whole
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reason that they were to be let go. Yes, that was the whole
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purpose. And this is going to happen again. There is no doubt that
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the little horn will rise Jose. There's just no doubt about that. One
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thing is for sure. We will have nothing to do with him or the
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judgments that's heaped upon his head. It's not going to have anything to do
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with us. I mean, you go over a few songs to Psalm one
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hundred. It makes itself perfectly clear that we are the sheep of his pasture.
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It says it again, we are the people, the sheep of his
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pasture. We're going to enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise.
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We're going to give thanks to him and bless his It says, we're
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going to give thanks to him. Jose. It's literally saying we are going
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to literally be giving him thanks and praise himself to his faith. And there
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is just no way around it. That's what it states. That's what it
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always states. So if you're looking for this narrative of when we get carried
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away to heaven, it's not there. It was never there. But he
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says other things too. He doesn't just call it his pasture. He also
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calls it his vineyard. And when you see that, you realize how important
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this is. God is not playing around. He says that he will existentially
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take care of you. He will water, he will literally take care of
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you himself personally. There's just no way around it. And people get confused
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when I talk about it, but it is true. This is what God
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says that he is going to take us to his vineyard. I mean,
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ladies and gentlemen, the Apocalypse of Isaiah, which if you don't know what
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that is, it's Isaiah chapter twenty four through thirty five. It's called the
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Apocalypse of Isaiah. In that chapter twenty seven, he is very clear,
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he's very clean. He even comes out and he starts telling you about the
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time of the Red Dragon from Revelation chapter twelve. That's how it starts.
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Let me read just a few verses from it, Isaiah chapter twenty seven.
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In that day, the Lord will punish Leviathan, the fleeing serpent, with
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his fierce and gright and mighty sword, even Leviathan a twisted serpent, and
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he will kill the dragon who lives in the sea. In that day,
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a vineyard of wine sing of it. I the Lord am its keeper.
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I water it every moment so that no one will damage it. I guard
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it night and day. If you go on and finish reading the chapter.
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He is quite clear about what his intentions are, and this was the perfect
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way to start out this chapter. It basically starts out the same way that
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Revelation chapter twelve does describing the Leviathan. And here he's stating himself. This
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time he doesn't call it. He's not referring to us as the sheep of
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his pastor. He's saying that he's going to take us to his vineyard,
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and in this aspect were of course his grapes. And it's very clear that
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nothing is going to be able to touch us when we're in this place of
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protection. So if you never heard that God referred to this special place he's
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going to prepare for you as a vineyard, now you have a lot to
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look into. Now you have literally many, many many references that being to
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the sheep of his pasture and being referred to this place as a vineyard.
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You have all kinds of data you can look for. But like I stated,
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if you're looking for the data where the Old Testament says you're going to
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heaven, it does not exist. It repeatedly states you are going to be
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in His presence here on earth, just like you was during the Exodus.
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I mean, let's take a look at Isaiah chapter eleven versus eleven twelve.
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Then it will happen on that day that the Lord will again recover the second
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time with his hand the remedant of his people who remained from Assiri, Egypt,
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Parthos, kush Elam Shanar a Math, and from the isds of the
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sea. And he will lift up a standard for all the nations and assemble
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the banished ones of Israel. And he will gather the dispersed of Judah from
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the four corners of the earth Isaiah chapter forty. Like a shepherd, he
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will tend his flock in his arm. He will gather the lambs and carry
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them in his bosom, and he will gently lead the nursing ews. Ladies
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and gentlemen. This isn't in heaven. It's not in heaven. That's why
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you're grasping for straws, if that's what you're trying to accomplish. When we
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look every place in the Bible, it's always going to do the same exact
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thing. It will literally turn you down the same exact path. If you're
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off that path, it will direct you to a path, and you'll always
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stay on that path. But the things described so far about the children of
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Israel being in Egypt and being let out of Egypt, that's what fits the
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biblical narrative all the time. That's why he talks about it so often.
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Hose we probably ought to read Revelation chapter twelve, because there it states it
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succinctly. It puts it right in order how it should be. Yes,
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it does. Now we have covered this chapter many times, but it's only
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fourteen verses. But right here, remember ladies, so gentlemen, this starts
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out just like Isaiah chapter twenty seven does. Because right here you have,
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of course, the great red dragon. This is the Leviathan he was speaking
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of in Isaiah chapter twenty seven. It's the same thing, Hoseba. Would
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you like to read it? Yes, I can, so I'm going to
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read Relation chapter twelve out of the NASB. In nineteen ninety five, a
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great sign appeared in heaven a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under
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her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. And she
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was with child, and she cried out, being in labor and in pain
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to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven, and behold a great
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red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his head were
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seven diadems. And his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven
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and threw them to the earth. And the dagons stood before the woman who
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was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth, he might
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devour her child. And she gave birth to a son, a male child,
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who is to rule all the nations with the rod of iron. And
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her child was caught up to God and to his throne. Then the woman
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fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God, so
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that there she would be nourished for one thousand, two hundred and sixty days.
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And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with
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the dragon. The dragon and his angels waged war, and they were not
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strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven.
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And that great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old, who
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is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was
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thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
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Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, now the salvation and the
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power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come.
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For the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses
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them before our God day and night. And they overcame him because of the
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blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony. And
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they did not love their life even when faced with death. For this reason
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rejoiced, o heavens and you who dwell on them. Woe to the earth
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and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great
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wrath, knowing that he has only a short time. And when the dragon
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saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who
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gave birth to the male child. But the two wings of the great Eagle
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were given to the woman so that she could fly into the wilderness to her
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place, which she was nourished for a time and times and half a time
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from the presence of the serpent. And the serpent poured water like a river
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out of his mouth after the woman, so that he might cause her to
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be swept away with the flood. But the earth helped the woman, and
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the earth opened its mouth and drank up the river, which the dragon poured
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out of his mouth. So the dragon was a raised with the woman and
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went off to make war with the rest of her children who keep the commandments
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of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. That right there puts it
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as succinctly as you can get it. And take note. The prophetic narrative
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always tells you you're going to go through the birth pains, what Christ called
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the birth pains. You're going to go through those, and this tells us
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that at the end of those birth pains, we will flee jose. Yes,
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we're literally going to flee the cities, the YadA, YadA, YadA.
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We're going to flee out into the wilderness while this war is going on
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in heaven. Correct. It was very clear, yes, very clear,
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that we've only taken off into the wilderness for a very short time. As
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soon as Michael has defeated the dragon. Immediately that's when we are taken on
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Operation Eagles Wings, and from that point forward we are taking here. It
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says it very nicely. It says to a place prepared, and in that
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place the event that happens is exactly what happens during Kara's rebellion. In numbers
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chapter sixteen. What happens there is that the people that take part in this
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insurrection, everything happens just like Revelation chapter twelve just stated, because there the
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ground opens up and swallows this flood of rebellious people, does it not,
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That's what it says, Matthew. Yes, so it's telling us right here,
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the only thing we have to worry about is our own. The insurrection
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will come from within, it will not come from without. And of course
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we've been warned about this many many, many, many many times. So
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when you put this in place where it's probably properly supposed to go, it
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makes the entire Bible make sense. Not some of the Bible. It makes
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every single verse makes sense. Once you realize that you will go through the
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birth pains, those birth pains will stop with the Great Day of the Lord.
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The Great Day of the Lord will cause war in Heaven between the good
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Angels and the bad Angels. During this war, we will be fleeing out
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of the cities, will be fleeing away from civilization. But at the end
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of that engagement between Michael and Satan, we will take part in Operation Eagles
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Winks. This is exactly what the biblical narrative says all the time. It
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literally says it repeatedly. Excuse me, Ose, So you know, it's
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amazing that a lot of people don't realize that. Even when you go to
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Isaiah chapter forty, it lays it out here succinctly. I mean he he
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says verse thirty one. Yet those who wait on the Lord, Okay,
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how long you're going to have to wait? Jose, you already know.
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We just read it exactly. You're going to have to wait on the Lord.
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The duration it takes for Michael to engage Satan and defeat Satan and cast
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him out of heaven. That's how long they're gonna have to wait on the
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Lord. That's really what the Bible says, does not first Thessalonians chapter five
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start this way, I mean I know that earlier I read from verse nine
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that states that quite emphatically, we will not we are not appointed under wrath.
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So here, literally he's just given it to you, point by point
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by point. Ladies and gentlemen, you know now how long you have to
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wait upon the Lord, from the great day of the Lord until the end
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of that military engagement in heaven. Then the angels will come and take you
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to a special place that is prepared, and it is not in heaven.
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Once again, let me read this whole verse. Yet those who wait for
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the Lord will gain new strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles.
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They will run and not get tired. They will walk and not become
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weary. This aspect here, the biblical narrative uses other phraseology for this.
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It says that this is when we get our Heinz feet. This is what
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sawm eighteen states, it's what habited the chapter three states, this is exactly
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what it's talking about that during this time we're in the place that is prepared
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for this one thousand turner in sixty days. Ladies and gentlemen, you're not
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going to get tired. You will literally not get tired. So take note.
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Psalms Chapter eighteen, verse thirty three. He makes my feet like Hindz
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feet and sets me upon my high places. Chapter three, verse nineteen.
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The Lord God is my strength, and he has made my feet like Hine's
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feet, and makes me walk on my high places for the choir director on
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my string instruments. He's giving you additional information upon information upon information upon information.
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So if you keep looking inside the Old Testament for data that declares that
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you're going to heaven, it's simply non existent. You're grasping for straws.
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Because the Lord your God makes himself perfectly clear as to what's going to happen.
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He makes it perfectly clear. It is amazing to me that this is
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stated so many times in the biblical narrative. It's literally redundant. I mean,
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there's so many verses Isaiah chapter forty nine, verse eighteen. Lift up
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your eyes and look around. This is exactly what's going to happen. I
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mean, Jose, don't you realize what a state of shock we're going to
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be in. Yes, it's because we're not going to realize, right,
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I mean, we're not going to realize how we got to where we're at.
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This is gonna say exactly what We are literally going to be dumbfounded.
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Lift up your eyes and look around. What are you going to see?
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When you look around, ladies and gentlemen, You're gonna see Muslim Christians,
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You're gonna see Eskimo Christians. You're gonna see Russian Christians. Listen to what?
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Listen to what? This This is God himself speaking, Ladies, and
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gentlemen, let's take for instance, this pillar of cloud. How would you
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reckon what's going to happen to us in association with God presenting himself again as
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a pillar of a cloud. Here, that pillar of cloud is reckoned as
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a garment, because, believe it or not, for thousands of years,
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that's how people dressed. They would wrap themselves up in a garment. Listen
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to this verse. This is how it's really going to happen. Lift up
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your eyes and look around. All of them, gather together, they come
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to you, as I live, declares to the Lord, you will surely
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put on all of them as jewels and bind them on as a bride.
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Take note that you can. You can spend weeks investigating how the different tribes
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were set up tent by tint in array all around the tabernacle in the wilderness.
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Jose Right, it's amazing how they did it. It's amazing how literally
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the Bible describes it, that they were arrayed like the host of heaven.
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Yes, this is exactly what he's saying, right, and it just it
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boggles the mind that people don't know this. I mean, he's gonna say
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it again. Isaiah, chapter fifty four, verse seven. Now that I've
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already pointed out to you multiple times, you should expect what's going to happen.
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Look, let me say this again. Revelation chapter twelve is true,
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and this is what's gonna happen. The Great Day of the Lord's gonna happen.
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And you're gonna have to wait until Michael engages Satan militarily and defeats him.
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So you're gonna have to wait. Listen to what this verse says.
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That's exactly what it says. Again. For a brief moment, I forsook
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you, but with great compassion, I will gather you. He said the
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exact same thing, just using different phraseology. I mean, let's jump over
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a couple of chapters. Isaiah fifty six, Verse Saint O Lord, God,
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who gathers the dispersed of Israel, declares, yet others, I will
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gather to them, to those already gathered. I mean, this is really
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going to happen. It's really going to happen. He says it over and
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over and over. If you're looking for where the Bible talks about where you're
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taken to heaven, you're not going to find it. It's not there.
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How was that your thought, well, Matthew, on that point, I'm
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going back to Revelation twelve. It specifically says that the dragon was thrown down
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from heaven, and it says he was thrown down to the earth, and
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it was there where he persecuted the woman. It was there where it says,
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all right, the dragon was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted
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the woman who gave birth to the male child. And then it says that
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the serpent poort water out like a river out of his mouth after the woman,
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so that he might cause her to be swept away with the flood.
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But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and drank
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up the river. Was the dragon port out of its mouth. So right
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there, it's telling you where these events are taking place. This is not
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the dragon doesn't go after the woman in heaven, Matthew. He goes after
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her on the earth. And then I want to take us over to Deuteronomy
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thirty two, and we read these verses a few days ago, but I'm
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going to go over for him again. From verse seven. Remember the days
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of old, consider the years of all generations. Ask your father, and
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he will inform you your elders, and they will tell you when the most
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tie gave the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of man,
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he set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of
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Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people. Jacob is a lot,
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and of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in
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the howling waste of a wilderness. He encircled them. He cared for him.
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He guarded him as the people of his eye, like an eagle that
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stirs up its nest, that hub over its young. He spread his wings
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and caught them. He carried them on his pinions. The Lord alone guided
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him, and there was no foreign god with him. He made him ride
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on the highest places of the earth, and he ate the produce of the
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field. And he made him suck honey from the rock, and oil from
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the flinty rock, kurds of the cow, and milk of the flock,
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with fat of lambs and rams, the bread of bashan and goats, with
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the fineness of the wheat, and of the blood of grapes. You drank
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wine. So again, Matthew, this is everything that we've been saying in
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this program, God just giving it to us, you know, from a
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different direction, and there's a different point of view. It's got the eagles
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wings in here. He got himself being the protector, being the rock.
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Right, He's telling us about everything that's going to happen here, Matthew,
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of what we've been covering, it absolutely doesn't even mentioned they're the high place,
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amen, us getting our hindz feet and walking in our high places.
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So basically it mentioned setting the boundaries of the people, and the Hebrew it
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says according to the number of the sins, and of Visuel, and the
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Greek it says, according to the number of the agels of God. That's
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right, because when they were arrayed around that tabernacle, God told them,
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look, three tribes on the north, three tribes on the south, three
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tribes. Here he set it up. They were arrayed like the host of
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heaven. So it was the same thing, Amen. And that's exactly how
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he's going to do it again. So this is literally line online. You
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can literally string the prophetic narrative together all the way through the Bible. Prophetically,
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what he stated here in Deuteronomy is how Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel imitations. It's
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how everything is lined up that way. This is how Revelation chapter twelve was
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even written. This is how because that's the information, that's the data stream.
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It never changes, it just never changes. So once people realize that
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the event horizon for the thought coming into the Bible of anyone aspiring to ascend
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to heaven is Isaiah chapter fourteen, they begin to realize the ramifications of stating
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such a thing. Now we've mentioned first Thessalonians chapter five couple of times now,
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but there there it's literally put down the way it should be. If
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you realize in the Book of Revelation that the Day of the Lord is the
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sixth seal event, just like Joel states that it is, and this is
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what it's talking about, the thief in the night. It's not talking about
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the perusia of Christ, because the perusia of Christ is that the end of
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the chapter. That's not till verse twenty three. When you realize that Onetdscenalonians
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Chapter five is literally the tribulation, everything makes sense because here he states how
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you're gonna get from point A to point B. It says here in the
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Greek it uses so much psyche numa, your body, your mind, and
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your spirit. This is how it's going to happen as long as you examine
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yourself. Well, ladies and gentlemen, maybe I should you know, maybe
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we should read the whole chapter. Okay, because here you need to understand
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that there's dire warnings here about this rebellion that was mentioned about this this insurrection
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from inside the body of Christ. This is why nineteen says, do not
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quench the spirit, do not despise prophetic, prophetic utterances. All these things
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are going to be happening into one thousand, two hundred and sixty days.
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Ladies and gentlemen. This is when you're going to be in your high places.
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It's when the Holy Spirit is going to dump upon you all the gifts.
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That's what this chapter is staying. Maybe we should just read the hotel.
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We've got twelve minutes left, you know, hoose. Once you point
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out that's what this is saying, that God states he's going to him here,
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let me just read this verse at least. Now, may the God
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of Peace himself sactify you entirely, and may your spirit and so and body
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be preserved complete without blame at the coming of the Lord, Jesus Christ.
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He just told you God the Father was going to preserve your body, mind,
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and spirit until the perusia of Christ. That's what this word is in
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Greek. It's perushia verse twenty four. Faithful is he who calls you,
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and he also will bring it to pass hose, Why don't you read this
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chapter four us. Please, we've got enough time. It's not very long.
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It won't take you but a couple of minutes. All right now up
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to the times and the epochs. Brother, and you have no need of
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anything to be written to you, for you yourselves know full well that the
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day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. While
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they are saying peace and safety. Then destruction will come upon them suddenly,
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like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.
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But you, brethren, are not in darkness that the day would overtake you
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like a thief. For you are all sons of light and sons of day.
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We are not of night nor of darkness. So then let us not
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sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober. For those
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who sleep do their sleeping at night, and who get drunk get drunk at
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night. But since we are of the day, let us be sober,
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having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the
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hope of salvation. For God has not destined us for wrath, but for
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obtaining salvation to our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that
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whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with him. Therefore,
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encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are
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doing. But we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who
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diligently labor among you and have charge over you in the Lord, and give
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you instruction, and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their
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work. Live in peace with one another. We urge you, brethren,
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admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak. Be patient with
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everyone. See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always
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seek after that which is good for one another and for all people. Rejoice,
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always pray without ceasing, and everything give thanks, for this is God's
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will for you in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the spirit, do not
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despise prophetic utterances, but examine everything carefully. Hold fast to that which is
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good, abstain from every form of evil. Now, may the God of
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Peace himself, I'll sanctify you entirely, and may your spirit and soul and
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body be preserved complete without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Faithful as he who calls you, and he also will bring it to pass.
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Brethren, pray for us, greet all the brethren with the Holy kiss.
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I adjure you by the Lord to have this letter read to all the
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brethren. The grace of our Lord Christ. Jesus Christ be with you.
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You can't get a better timeline than what he just gave you. He gave
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you dire warnings. He told you exactly how you're going to be able to
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overcome this flood that Satan is going to issue from his mouth. And let's
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remember jose Korah was not just one of the common people. He was a
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priest. He was a part of the clergy. Yes, he was.
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This is where this came from. So when you line up the Bible this
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way, ladies and gentlemen, it's always going to say the same thing.
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It's never going to waver from that look. Ezechl Chapter thirty six, verse
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twenty four for I will take you from the nations, gather you from all
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the lands, and bring you into your own land. He never chan did
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he just state he was going to take you to heaven. MICHAELH Chapter four,
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verse six in that Day declares the look, what day, what day,
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the day of the look on the day of the Lord, on the
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sixth seal. Event this is going to happen on the Day of the Lord,
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which is the sixth syalivant in the Book of Revelation, on that day.
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Once it happens, you're gonna have to wait until Michael engages Satan and
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defeats him and expels him from Heaven at point, at which point he's going
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to be on earth with you after that happens. This is what God says
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he's going to do. So it would behoove you to believe the Lord,
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God of Host, because this is what he says. MICHAELH Chapter four,
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verse six in that Day declares, the Lord, I will assemble the lame
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and gather the outcast, even those whom I have afflicted. He doesn't change
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his tomb. Okay, when we're going through the first four seals, I
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just the day of the Lord is the sixth seal. So what about the
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four writers, the pocketlyps right, that's what's going through your mind. Yeah,
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those are the birth pains. Just like Jesus said, at the end
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of those birth pains, what is God says good Psalms one O six,
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verse forty seven. He's gonna say He's gonna say it again, and he's
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gonna say that once I do, he's gonna tell you what you're going to
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do. Once he does it, save us, o Lord, our God,
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and gather us from among the nations to give thanks to your holy name
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and glory in your praise. That really is what he intends to do.
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Ladies and gentlemen. It's this thing, and it's no other thing. It's
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no other thing. It's always that thing. There is no book we can
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go that. It doesn't state we could go to Jeremiah. It always says
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the same thing, Jose. But when you're looking for something that's not there,
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you're looking, you're grasping for straws that don't exist. How's that your
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comments? Well, Matthew, I'm going back to first Thessalonians, chapter five,
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and right there in verse twenty three, it says that God himself will
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sanctify you. There's no way, Matthew, you could even hope to get
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any close to Heaven, let alone get any even close to Jesus himself to
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be wed to the bridegroom unless you're sanctified. And that process has to take
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place. That's why God's prepared a place for us. That's why He's taking
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the woman there so that Kora's rebellion can take place, that flood can take
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place, and so that the woman can be cleansed and pureied and sanctified and
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be ready to be wed to the bridegroom. So, like you said,
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Matthew, all of this makes sense. All of these chapters line up with
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what God says he's going to do. He's going to gather us together,
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He's going to protect us from the wrath. But they're still cleansing that needs
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to happen in that place. There's still preparation that needs to happen in that
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place. And we need we need to really understand what God's telling us and
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keep it in mind and practice these things right now. Practice rejoicing, always,
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practice pray without ceasing practice. You know it says, do not quench
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the spirit right Examine everything carefully abstain from every form of evil. This is
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what we need to be preparing ourselves for, Matthew, because you don't get
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a second chance when you're in that pasture, in that vineyard, in that
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place prepared there, with the pillar of fire there and the pillar of cloud
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there. You don't get a second chance in that place, Matthew. And
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so that's what I'm taking away. Taken away now, we need to get
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ourselves ready, and we need to understand what God's already told us is going
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to happen, and remember those things so that when these things take place,
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we can help those around us. On one thing's for sure, Jose,
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you need to understand, ladies, gentlemen, this place also has another name.
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That Jesus gave this place another name. This is what's going to happen.
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Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered together all they found,
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both evil and good. And the wedding hall was filled with dinner guest.
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But when the king came in to look over the dinner guest, he saw
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a man there who was not dressed in wedding clothes. Ah. Yes,
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this is that flood that is issued from Satan's mouth. Jose, listen to
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what happens to them. And he said to him, friend, how did
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you come in here without wedding clothes? And a man was speechless. The
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king said to the servants, bind him hand and foot, and throw him
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into the outer darkness. In that place there will be a weeping and a
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gnashing of teeth Verse fourteen. Ladies and gentlemen, for many are called,
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but few are chosen. This is a direct reference to this flood that is
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issued from Satan's mouth. You better figure about it's coming, because it is
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coming now. At this point, my closing comments is this, this is
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how it's going to work. There's going to be birth pains. At the
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end of the birth pains, we go through a pre wrath relocation to a
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point we're going to be protected for one thousand, two and sixty days of
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the entire tribulation. At the end of that Christ will return and we will
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be post trib raptured. So we're pre wrath relocationist and post trib rapturist,
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even though I absolutely hate that Latin phrase. So that is to say,
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what you're calling a rapture, the Bible states is in a lagus muthea it's
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when we are changed. It's when we receive our anastasis, anatomy. When
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you look for these things, you will find them one hundred percent of the
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time. Just like I read to you about the wedding hall, right,
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jose Amen, Matthew, So it's his pasture, it's his vineyard, it's
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his wedding hall. He's told you about this so many times. But he's
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never called it heaven. He's never called it the throne room. He's never
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did that. He's always stated he's going to gather you together in a remote
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third location. That's what he's going to do. And you're going to have
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to wait until Satan is cast out of heaven for that event to take place.
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It's that thing. It's always that thing, and it's never anything else.
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I was you're closing comments, No, Matthew, I agree with everything
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you've said. God makes it clear, he repeats himself over and over,
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what the order of operation is, what we're supposed to be doing to prepare
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ourselves. We're supposed to gather that oil in our lamps and be ready.
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We're not supposed to be in the dark. We're supposed to be sober.
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We're supposed to be ready for these things to take place and understand when when
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the birth pangs begin. And if you if you're doing that, then you're
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ready for whatever God brings upon this earth. And you're ready for those seals
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to be broken, and you're ready to be taken to that place that God
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has prepared for you. You're ready to be gathered. You're rather ready to
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be carried on eagles wings, and you're ready to be in that place,
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in that wedding hall with your wedding clothes on. So those are my closing
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thoughts. Matthew, amen to that. I can't there's nothing I can add
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to that, So go ahead and pray us out. If you're a Jose
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okay, Deir, Heavenly Father, we give you thanks some praise for bringing
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us together. We give you thanks and praise for allowing us to study your
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word, and we give you thanks and praise for preparing us for what is
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to come. Father, I asked that the words that you've given us today,
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the words that you've left in your Holy Bible throughout history, that they
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prepare the ecclesia, they prepare the body, and they prepare the woman.
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Lord, I asked that you open the ears and open the eyes of those
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that have other doctrines and other fables that they've grown up listening to. And
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I just asked that you open their hearts, Lord and show them what you've
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shown us tonight, that you show them that they're not appointed to wrath,
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that you will protect them, but only if they are children of the light,
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and only if they hold in the testimony of your Son, our Lord
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and Savior. So Lord, I ask all this in his name, the
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name of your son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen and
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Amen. Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, God bless, godspeed.
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