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023 Abraham, Isaac, and Israel Pt 4
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Do you know the Bible is God's Holy Word? Do you know it is
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subscribe and support this podcast. So we are Maranatha Ministries and now Reduction Draweth
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Nigh. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the program. We are
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your hosts, Jose and Matthew. It's good to be with you tonight.
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We're getting back to this very important topic Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and
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tonight's instance, we have to look at it is all encompassing as far as
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prophetic events go. There's just no other way to put it. Things happen
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here that they happen systematically for one and prophetically, we need to understand that
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this is all tied up with when Christians are to celebrate the first of their
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year. Now, if you're not familiar with Exodus chapter twelve, you need
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to go familiaries yourself with that, because God very plainly and very strictly states
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your passover that is the beginning of your year, and he says that emphatically.
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Now, if you don't realize that, there's a whole lot of things
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going into that, because you need to understand it ladies and gentlemen. Jesus
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Christ was crucified on the Passover. And when Daniel says that the Prince of
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the Covenant will be cut off in the middle of the week, he is
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talking about the week of the feast of unleaven bread. And you need to
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understand that Jesus Christ rose in the middle of the feast of unleavened bread.
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Yes he did. And you're supposed to know as a Christian, the most
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important holiday is supposed to be the Feast of the Ascension. But the god
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haters have really played that up well. They changed its name to Easter.
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So Christians are so separated, they're so disconnected from the reality of what Passover
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presents. It's quite discouraging to those of us who have written the word of
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the Lord, our God upon our hearts. Because I don't even care about
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Rashashana. I don't care about the feast of trumpets. I don't care.
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I have the wherewethought of understand, there was two witnesses standing there with the
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disciples of that and they said, hey, by the way, and just
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the same way he went up, he's going to come back down. And
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if you don't know when that happened. If you don't know what was going
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on, it's, like I said, it's quite discouraging to those of us
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who know God's word. So, Jose, what's your opening comments on this
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particular chapter we're going to be looking at today. Well, Matthew, this
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this just plays off of all the recent episodes we've been doing, and we
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kind of started all this off discussing a has and everything he did to the
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to the Temple of the Lord, and so here we kind of see the
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culmination of that where his son has Akiah, who we know isocronal ly the
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prophet. Isaiah had that prophecy that let us know about a Manuel, and
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here has Akiah is playing his role as a manual. But this is where
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Hesekiah goes and makes everything right from what his that the evils and the blasphemies
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that his father was doing. And so I just think it's a fitting chapter
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that that it's at the end of this series, Matthew, that we've been
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looking over this Abraham, Isaac and Israel series, and again it's regarding the
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feast, it's regarding the passover, and but this is a very special one,
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Matthew. Not at the normal appointed time. But it is a time
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that ha has been accounted for by the Lord in the in the previous,
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in our previous readings of the Bible. So it's not something that the Lord
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did not foresee coming, because he made a provision for this type of instance
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to happen. So, boy, Matthew, this is just more more more
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data to cram into your head, you know, And it's it's almost like
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I didn't think there was room for more, but now now you now,
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I gotta stuff this in there and I gotta process it. You know that
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that data processors gotta gotta turn for a while to get this to fit in.
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But there's just this is again amazing chapter and the very fact that that
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God's using that that prayer of Abraham, Isaac and Israel in he in this
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chapter again, it's just fitting Matthew. Well, you know it's off the
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hook how this chapter ends. Something said here that I don't even well,
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I have looked at this at great length. I pushed my teachers about it.
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I've pushed my pastor about it. Because this verse is disconnected from a
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normal narrative. And I'll read it, and I'm sorry if you don't know
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anything about this verse, Ladies and gentlemen. That's not Jose and mine's fault.
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But if you didn't have a preacher point this out to you or your
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Sunday school teacher, it tells me that you probably never studied this chapter in
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light of Bible prophecy. But verse twenty seven, by the way, did
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we tell it everybody? The chapter it? I don't think we did.
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This is Second Chronicles, chapter thirty, verse twenty seven. Then the levitical
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priest arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their
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prayer came to his holy dwelling place to heaven. Ladies and gentlemen, What
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kind of statement is that? I mean, I know what prophetically it's speaking
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about. The book Revelation has this very same thing, how the prayers of
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the saints go up before the throne of God. Right, Jose, Yes,
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But did you I mean, we just we just studied when David gave
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his prayer and blessing right right. It doesn't say God literally heard that in
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his dwelling place in heaven, though, does it? No? And we
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got to admit that solemn prayed. I mean, you know, Paul prayed,
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right, Mary, prayed. But no, no, no, this
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is something different. Now, what's more important about this? You would think
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that you would think that only the Jewish people heard this, right, Well,
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you need to go back up two verses because it says something that shouldn't
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be here. All the Assembly of Judah rejoiced, and the priest and the
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levies and all the assembly that came from Israel, both the sojourners who came
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from the land of Israel and those living in Judah. Of course, if
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you haven't read the chapter, you don't know what's going on. You don't
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know who these people are. But something's terribly wrong here. How is their
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sojournals in with the Assembly of Judah. They're at Jerusalem at the Holy Temple.
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Nobody else is supposed to be there. So I hope I've got your
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curiosity gears at least rolling, because this is this is good stuff. And
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if you're not expecting it, you're going to hear about the Assyrian false prophet.
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It's he's impregnated into this chapter. So Jose's going to read this,
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He's going to read the whole thing. And uh, you need to listen
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with ears that can hear, because this is important. And remember, I'm
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going to remind you what Jose and I shared on previous broadcast. In this
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series, Ladies and gentlemen, a has was trying to kill the immanual child,
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but he didn't know he'd been caught out of time. He didn't realize
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that God had already already produced the child. It was Azekaya. But this
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is why it says that that his dad. It kept saying that he was
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sacrificing his children because Isaiah had told him he was going to have an emmanual
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child, so he was trying to sacrifice it because he had followed he had
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played the harlot with the Assyrian. So keep all that in your back pocket
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because you're going to need it when we read through this. So Jose,
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you ready to read? And how much A you're going to read? I
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really don't care if you break it up. Do your thing, Okay,
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all right, I can do that. So we're again, we're in Second
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Chronicles, chapter thirty, and I'm reading out of the NASB nineteen ninety five.
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Now Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah and wrote letters also to Ephraim
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and Manassa that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem to
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celebrate the Passover to the Lord God of Israel. For the King and his
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princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had decided to celebrate the Passover in the
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second month, since they could not celebrate it at the time because the priests
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had not consecrated themselves in sufficient numbers, nor had the people been gathered to
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Jerusalem. Thus the thing was right in the sight of the King and all
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the assembly, so they established a decree to circulate a proclamation throughout all Israel
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from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to celebrate the Passover to
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the Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem, for they had not celebrated it in
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great numbers, as it was prescribed. The couriers went through all Israel and
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Judah with the letters from the hand of the King and his princes, even
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according to the command of the King, saying, O, sons of Israel,
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return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that he
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may return to those of you who escaped and are left from the hand of
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the kings of Assyria. Do not be like your fathers and your brothers,
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who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their fathers, so that he made
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them a whore. As you see. Now, do not stiffen your neck
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like your fathers, but yield to the Lord and enter his sanctuary, which
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he has consecrated forever. And serve the Lord your God, that his burning
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anger may turn away from you. For if you return to the Lord,
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your brothers and your sons will find compassion before those who led them captive,
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and will return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and
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compassionate, and will not turn his face away from you if you return to
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him. So the couriers passed from city to city, through the country of
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Ephraim and Manassa, and as far as Zebulin. But they laughed them,
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to scorn and mock them. Nevertheless, some men of Ashure, Manassa,
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and Zebulin humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. The hand of God was also
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on Judah to give them one heart to do with the King and the princes,
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commanded by the word of the Lord. And I'll stop there from right
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now, Matthew, That's that's a pretty good place to stop right there.
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It's very apropos So here we have a tale that's almost perfectly described as an
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exemption in Numbers chapter nine. And it's amazing when you think that from the
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very beginning something had happened with a group of people that could not celebrate the
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passover, and yet the most important it is the most important date. That's
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why Christ was crucified on the Passover. It's amazing that he made an exception
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beforehand concerning this. And it's amazing that there's never anything like this ever in
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the Bible before or after it. After the kingdom had been rendered asunder,
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this is the only instance where they all come back together. And it is
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absolutely amazing that this happened, and yet this has never talked about as far
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as Bible prophecy goes. When you should know, ladies and gentlemen, that
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he's supposed to return in the same way that he left. And if you
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didn't think that was in regards to time, wow, I don't know how
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I can respond to that, But probably nobody listening to my voice was expecting
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me to say that, because Jose you know what ascension tide is, right,
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Yes, Matthew, Okay, what is ascension tide. It's when when
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Jesus ascended into heaven after he had been visiting with his his disyebosm with the
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apostles. And how long is ascension tiede? Well, we know he has
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said it forty days after he was after he was resurrected, that's right.
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So how many days was that before Pentecost? That should put us about ten
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days before Pentecost. That's right, ten days. That's why it's called ascension
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tide, ladies and gentlemen, it's the ten days between ascension and Pentecost.
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However, Judaizers will not use the word Pentecost, that's Greek for fifty.
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They use Shavuot in relationship to the counting of the Omer. So you need
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to understand that, ladies and gentlemen, of that that ten days is absolutely
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important because it's that lonely ten days that we were all hanging out waiting to
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get our promise of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Amen Jose, Amen
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Matthew. So if you didn't realize this, ladies and gentlemen, this is
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absolutely important. This is your ten days of testing. So when you overlay
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the circumstances here, it's enough to boggle your mind. And what's really amazing
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is the simple fact that most of the people didn't return, did they,
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Jose, No, it said some men of Asher Manassa and Zebulin humbled themselves.
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Isn't that a strange way to put it? Jose what what? Why
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does it say humbled themselves? Right? And then you notice that Efraim isn't
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in that list, Matthew Fhraim is not in the list. Asher takes the
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place of Ephraim, right, And there's just no getting around that. And
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we know from the prophetic narrative, especially from Ezekiel chapter thirty seven, that
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the stick of Joseph is in Ephriam's hand. Correct. Amen, So if
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you're unfamiliar with that, ladies, gentlemen, take note that there are two
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sticks that will be joined together in the millennial Kingdom and Cose. It's amazing
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to me how many people don't know how many different types of Christians there are.
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We're not going to talk about it today, We're going to talk about
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that another day. But it is absolutely just blows my mind when I ask
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people, hey, how many how many different types of Christians are there?
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Or I'll say, what's the two different types of Christians? They have no
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idea that they literally have no idea and I don't know why when the New
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Testament is very clear about how many different types of Christians there are, there's
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no debating it. So this is extremely prophetic in of itself that here Asher
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takes Ephyreim's place. Now take note that the hand of God was also on
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Judah to give them one heart to do with the king and princes commanded by
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the word of the Lord. Why is it that Judah. Did you catch
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that? Jose? Yes? Okay, Take note, ladies and gentlemen,
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that asher Manassa and Zebulin they humbled themselves. However, the Lord there God
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had divorcibly. Now I'm gonna say it again. You need to believe,
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I said asher Manassa and Zebulin they voluntarily humbled themselves, but the Lord their
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God had to forcibly humbled Judah, Yes he did, Yes he did.
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I'll read it for you again. Nevertheless, some of the men of asher
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Manassa and Zebulin humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. The hand of God was
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also on Judah to give them one heart to do with the King and the
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princes commanded by the word of the Lord. So take note, ladies and
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gentlemen, make no mistakes about it. The Jews had to be forced to
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do what Asher Manassa and Zebulin voluntarily did. Your thoughts, so was the
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well that that takes us right to verse six, Matthew, where God says,
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sons of Israel returned to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel,
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that he may return to those of you who escaped and are left from
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the hand of the kings of Assyria. Again, this is straight out of
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Revelation chapter twelve, where the woman's taken to the place that's been prepared for
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her, and then it goes on to say, do not be like your
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fathers and your brothers, who are unfaithful to the Lord, God of their
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fathers, so that he made them a horror. As you see now,
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do not stiffen your neck like your father's, but yield to the Lord and
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enter his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord,
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your God that is burning anger may turn away from you. That stiff neck
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people, Matthew, those are the ones that are going to have to lose
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their head when they dance with the beasts. And and he's making himself perfectly
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clear. Well, I guess that's not the case for people who don't have
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vice that can see what they're reading. Whose right? I mean? You
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realize I wonder how many people didn't see what God did in eleven and twelve,
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because I've done this in many classrooms before, and every single time people
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are like, what are you talking about? It's plain to the text Asherman
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assen Zebulin. They voluntarily did it, but God had to force you to
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do it, and it said the hand of God. Amen. Okay,
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So if you don't see that's prophetic and it's ramifications. Is this not what
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Romans nineteen eleven plainly states about the present day Jews? Yes, it is,
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Matthew. It plainly states that. So I did it amaze this to
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me that those texts plainly state that they're not cut off? Are they?
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No, even though everybody wants to put that for some reason, Jews everybody
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crossed this planet have one or two places for Jews. They're either eternally damned
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or they're eternally saved just by them being a Jew. I've never understood that,
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when the New Testament is perfectly clear, a Jew must be saved through
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the Lord Jesus Christ in order to ever be safe I don't understand where this
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narrative comes from that Jews get saved just because they're Jews. Do you know
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where it comes from? Where's that chapter and verse that? No, it's
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not, it's not in the Bible at all. Even even when he brought
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him out of Egypt, right and he had them before Mount Sinai, Mount
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Horeb, and he passed down his laws and his testimony and his statutes,
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it plainly says they're what they're supposed to do. And we all know pathetically
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that's pointing too to his son Jesus Christ. And so the gospels, I
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don't know how many times the Gospels set it over and over and then they
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reject their their Lord, they reject their Savior, and that's what opens it
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up for everyone else, Matthew. And that's a good thing, correct,
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And that is a good thing. But and the scripture plainly states that that
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we as gentile should be pretty careful because you know, if if if he
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cut off the natural branches and ingrafted this sin, you better be careful.
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Then he goes on to say, how much more so will the natural branches
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be ingrafted back into the tree? Correct? Amen, I don't understand why
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people don't accept that, but this narrative is a perfect example of it.
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In every way, shape and form, This is a perfect example of it.
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It's just absolutely amazing. I'm gonna take some time and I'm we're going
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to go to numbers, chapter nine, and I'm want to read the first
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fourteen verses because you all need to know. This comes from the beginning,
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why it happened, and how it happened, that this exception was already put
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it. Now, look, it's going to blow your mind. This exception
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was put in place for the emmanual child. Am I confusing you? Look,
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it was Isaiah that told the king, the bad King, the Lord
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says, you can ask any sign you want to and he'll perform it.
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And of course the bad king says, nah, no, I'm not going
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to do that. So Isaiah says, this is what the Lord says.
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Anyway, behold, there will be a child, and that child will be
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called Emmanuel. This is the emmanual prophecy you all know about. It goes
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on to say that Hezekiah, or the bad King, kept desperately sacrificing his
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children, and the reason why was because he had thrown aside Isaiah and his
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God and started following the God of Assyria. So he was trying to sacrifice
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that child that was going to be Immanuel. And did he know the child
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had already been born. It was his child has Akaya. All this was
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done way back in Numbers chapter nine, in preparation for what is to come
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Numbers chapter nine, verse one. Thus the Lord spoke to Moses in the
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wilderness of Sinai in the first month of the second year, after they came
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out of the land of Egypt, saying, now, let the sons of
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Israel observe the passover at its appointed time on the fourteenth day of this month,
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at twilight. You shall observe it at its appointed time. You shall
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observe it according to wallets, statutes, and according to all its ordinances.
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I'm going to break here. What month is he talking about? He is
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not talking about Tisserine or Rashashana or the feast of trumpets, because you're supposed
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to already know. The first of your months is now the seventh month.
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Kid is time this month his Nissan. I'll continue. So Moses told the
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sons of Israel to observe the passover. They observed them over in the first
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month, on fourteen they at the month at twilight in the wilderness of Sinai.
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According to all the Lord had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel
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did. But there were some men who were unclean because of the dead person,
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so that they could not observe passover on that day. So they came
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before Moses and Aaron on that day. Those men said to him, though
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we are unclean because of a dead person, why are we restrained from presenting
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the offering of the Lord at its appointed time among the sons of Israel.
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Moses therefore said of them, wait, I will listen to what the Lord
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will command concerning you. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, speak to
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the son of is Isul, saying, if any one of you of your
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generations becomes unclean because of a dead person or is on a distant journey,
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he may, however, observe the passover to the Lord. In the second
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month, on the fourteenth day, at twilight, they shall observe it.
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They shall eat it with unloving bread and bitter herbs. They shall leave none
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of it until morning, or break a bone of it. According to the
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Statue of the passover, they shall observe it. But the man who is
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clean and is not on a journey, and yet neglects to observe the passover,
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that person shall be cut off from his people, for he did not
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present the offering of the Lord at its a point in time. That man
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will bear his sin. If an alien sojourns among you and observes the passover
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the Lord according to the statue of the Passover and according to its ordinance,
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so he shall, I'll do. You shall have one statue both for the
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alien and for the native in your land. This perfectly covers the people from
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asher Manassa and Zebulin that came perfectly, perfectly fits it. Even the point
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journey. Their native land was not Judah. This literally fits the bill to
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at So this is just absolutely amazing that this was already put in place.
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This was done literally in preparation for Second Chronicles, Chapter thirty. Ose.
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Amen. But it amazes me how Christians don't know what their first month is.
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It's the seventh month. Everything's tope turvy for you. We are not
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Judaizers. We don't care when the new moon is. Outside of the simple
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fact, once you see the sliver of the new moon. You count fourteen
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days to the full moon, and that's when you get this shin did started.
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And that just that just infuriates the juda Isers. It infuriates them.
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They hate that. I hope everybody caught that, because that's what's going on
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here. God is by every stretch he's trying to forcibly get you to reject
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the God haters timeline. He's trying to get you to reject their chronology.
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Just reject it. We're not like them, we don't keep time like them.
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They all celebrate the harvest, right Jose, Yes, ah, yes,
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that's when we are our big celebration, like the one we just had
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this very day, right Halloween. Right, Okay, don't let's not mince
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words, Jose. They're celebrating the bringing in of the crops, right,
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yes they are. No, no, no, no, no, we're
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Christians, Jose. We celebrate the bringing in of the classover on a full
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move. That's what we do. So we're literally being forced to be thankful
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before we have anything in our hands, right right? Can I ask you
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stupid question, Jose? Sure? So the Lord taught us how to pray,
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right, yes he did, Matthew, Why why Oh, why did
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the Son of the Living God, Why did he command us to pray in
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thus fashion give us this day our daily bread? Doesn't that just destroy the
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entire your humanistic worldview? Yes? No, no, no, we're supposed
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to work for and reap great, big harvest because now we have combines,
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right, and we're supposed to build our barns Matthew, to store all that.
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Amen, ladies and gentlemen, you need to reject this generation's chronologies.
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And if you don't understand what I'm saying, you need to go read Exodus
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chapter twelve, because your beginning of days was on the passover, when the
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Lord your God passed over you and gave you a free ride. All right,
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Jose you ready to get back to the text or you want to bring
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out some more about this. Yeah, let me just add one more thing,
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Matthew, as you were reading through numbers nine, that this came into
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my head that if that great and terrible day of the Lord, that sixth
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seal is on passover, Matthew, this is the one festival of the Lord,
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the one feast of the Lord, that we can actually do once we
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are in that place prepared. Because he's added this revision. Well that well,
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I mean that would mean I mean, why did you say that?
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Because it's kind of irritated me. Why did you decide to bring that up?
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Because in saying so, and now I understand why brother Johnson was so
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infuriated with me when I did it, Because that would mean what you're saying
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is that we get to that place within thirty days. That's what you're really
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saying, right, You're really saying that the great Day of the Lord happens.
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And because we're scattered everywhere, we know that ten days after that we're
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going to be taken on Operation Eagles Wings, right Amen. That means we're
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traveling, don't it. Yes, so that means we will not be able
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to celebrate the passover with supposed people will have to force ablics. We can't
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do it in three months, right right, You can't do it in two
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months. In one day. You have to do it exactly the next month.
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So that should tell you that you should be in the sweet spot within
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thirty days. Amen. Amen. I bet people's just stunned at what I
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just said. And they're stunned that, well, how did jose even see
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that? Tell me? Jose by all means, how did you see that?
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Well, I saw that because of what I'm what I'm reading in Second
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Chronicles, chapter thirty. As we continue the timing of this event and the
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fact that it points us towards ascension tide, well that means then by all
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means reading all right. So picking back up on verse thirteen. Now,
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many people were gathered at Jerusalem to celebrate the feast of unloved Bread in the
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second month. A very large assembly. They arose and removed the altars which
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were in Jerusalem. They also removed all the incense altars and cast them into
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the book Kidron. Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth of the
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second month, and the priests and levites were ashamed of themselves and consecrated themselves
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and brought burns offerings to the house of the Lord. They stood at their
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stations after their custom, according to the law of Moses, the man of
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God. The priests sprinkled the blood which they received from the hand of the
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levites, for there were many in the assembly who had not conscated themselves.
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Therefore, the Levites were over the slaughter of the Passover lambs, for everyone
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who was unclean in order to consicate them to the Lord. For a multitude
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of the people, even many from Ephraim and Manassa, and Isakar and Zebulen
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had not purified themselves yet they ate the passover otherwise than prescribed for. Hezekiah
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prayed for them, saying, made the Good Lord pardon everyone who prepares his
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heart to seek God, the Lord, God of his fathers, though not
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according to the purification rules of the sanctuary. So the Lord heard Hezekiah and
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healed the people. The sons of Israel present in Jerusalem celebrated the feast of
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unloved Bread for seven days with great joy, and the Levites and the priests
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praised the Lord day after day with loud instruments to the Lord. Then Hezekiah
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spoke encouraging to all the Levites who showed good insight in the things of the
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Lord. And they ate for the appointed seven days, sacrificing peace our reigns
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and giving thanks to the Lord, God of their fathers. Wow. So
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why don't you read verse eighteen again? Or a multitude of the people,
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even many from Ephraim and Manassa, Issachar, and Zebulen, had not purified
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themselves yet they ate the passover otherwise, and then prescribed for Hezekiah prayed for
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them, saying, made the Good Lord pardon everyone who prepares his heart to
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seek God, the Lord, God of his fathers, though not according to
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the purification rules of the sanctuary. Have you ever heard anything like that before?
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No? I haven't, Matthew. Okay, So now we go even
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one step further, because well, now not only Efriam is in the mix,
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but now it's car is as well, right right, because at the
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last minute they hadn't purified themselves, right right? Well, I just read
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numbers chapter nine. They're supposed to be cut off, right, correct.
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Who is this has Akayah? I'm going to tell you who he is.
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He's a manual. Now, am I saying that Jesus is not a manual?
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That's not what I meant. It's a nico chronal event, and you're
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supposed to see it. I mean, since when, I don't care if
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it's the King or anybody else. Since when, and somebody pray for you
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and not just your sins be forgiven you're a li out to observe the passover
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since win. So this is just this breaks all the rules, doesn't it,
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Hosea, Yes it does, Matthew. You're literally breaking every single rule
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there is to break. And well, that's why the crescendo of this chapter
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is the last verse. It is. Yes, it is, so you
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know, maybe I should, maybe I should live up my words. Jose
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What say you? No, Matthew, I think that's that's the key part
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of that stanza, the fact that those that just by Hezekiah's prayer, the
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Lord made these people clean. That, like you said, that's uh,
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that's not supposed to happen. That's that's like where God himself intervenes in our
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timeline, right. That's that those are these are these are the parts of
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the Bible that have the lawyers and the scribes scratching their heads and flipping through
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pages trying to see what God is doing here, because that this should not
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be possible. But again, if we understand the immanual prophecy, we understand
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what that means prophetically, then we can see exactly what God's doing here.
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Matthew, I'm sorry, I'm gonna read nineteen and twenty. I've already read
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eighteen to Let's try to look everyone who prepares his heart to seek God,
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the Lord of his fathers, So not according to the purification rules the sanctu
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work. So the Lord Hurd has a kayah and he healed. What does
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that mean? I understand forgive right hose right, Yes, I understand,
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make clean right right? What does that mean that the Lord heard has a
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k and he healed the hoose? What could that possibly mean? What could
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that possibly be talking about? I mean, your honest thoughts. What's your
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honest thoughts, boy, Matthew, I mean I I don't I'm on the
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lost right now on what he's healing here. Fact, you're right, It
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doesn't say that that that he's you know, that he's forgiving their sins.
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It doesn't say that this is something physical, which we understand that the wages
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of sin is death. That is true, no doubt about it. And
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one thing's for sure if anybody's wondering, this is the Hebrew word rafa what
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you call h seventy four ninety five. It means to heal. No,
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we're not. God's not being tricksy here. Yeah, that's the word raffa.
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It means to heal. The other thing, Matthew, that I'm considering
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is the fact that those that escape from the kings of Assyria. We know
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that they were intermingled with the Assyrians. That's their bread and butter. Yep,
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that's right. That's why the nation individual and that was never able to
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re establish itself because they they were no longer just just Israelites anymore. Yeah,
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they were Samaritans, right, yes, kay Assyria. So that's a
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good point, is that what he's saying here? Because oh my goodness,
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ladies and gentlemen, you can't fight it, can you? You cannot fight
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verse twenty because this chapter came right out and told you the very reason why,
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and it made itself perfectly clear. Jose already read it. There is
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no running from it. This chapter ilicitly states in verse six that he may
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return to those of you who escaped and are left from the hand of the
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kings of Assyria. There's no way around it. So you should know I
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already brought it out to you. You should know that these special people was
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only Efraim and Nassin Zebulin. So, whether you like it or not,
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I already pointed this out to you that well, now all of a sudden,
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efeminissit car is involved. Now you can be well rest assured that what
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is unspoken. Here is this. They showed up in faith even though they
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were tainted, and I Manu Will prayed for them. And whether you like
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it or not, they were healed. God was gracious, God was compassionate
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and did not turn his face away from them. May I know what verse
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nine says. So this is just, but this chapter says some of the
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most difficult things there is to hear it in the Bible. Jose. Yeah,
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like I said, Matthew, I'm struggling to keep the top top of
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my head on right now. Well, I guess we should put the cherry
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on top because he's not done. Because once again, you can't do this.
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You can't do it, So go ahead, start reading in verse twenty
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three and finish it out, all right. Then the whole assembly decided to
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celebrate the feast another seven days, So they celebrated the seven days with joy,
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for Hezekiah, King of Judah, had contributed to the assembly a thousand
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bulls and seven thousand sheep, and the princess had contributed to the assembly a
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thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep, and a large number of priests consecrated themselves
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all the Assembly of Judah rejoiced with the priests and the Levites and all the
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assembly that came from Israel, both the sojourners who came from the land of
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Israel and those living in Judah. That was great joy in Jerusalem, because
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there was nothing like this in Jerusalem since the days of Solomon, the son
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of David, King of Israel. Then the levitical priest arose and blessed the
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people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy
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dwelling place to Heaven. Okay, stop the bus, since when are you
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ever allowed? We'll just celebrate it another seven days. Have you ever heard
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such a thing? No? Okay? So you learned about this in youth
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group? Right? No, Matthew, okay, So you learned this in
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a Sunday sermon? Right? Nope, I haven't heard it. Surely you
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heard of this in Sunday school somewhere. How about vacation, Bible school,
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nothing or either, Matthew, Okay, ladies and gentlemen, if you never
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heard this, Ladies and gentlemen, this is the most prophetic chapter in the
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Bible outside of well outright, how do I put that? This is the
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most prophetic historical incident in the Bible, and now that you've been brought up
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to speed, the simple fact that, by the way, Hezekiah was the
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immanual child and his dad tried to sacrifice him to Kelly and did so.
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You see, but his dad thought that it was the new babies being born.
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One of them was going to be a manual. That's why he was
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sacrificing them. I mean, once I've shared that in the classroom, I've
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had people just literally dumbfounded. They were just dumbfounded when they realize ku Isaah
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I was talking to he was talking to Hesekiah's dad, Yes, he was.
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And when you realize, well, that's why this chapter's no wonder this
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was allowed to happen because you know what this is going to happen again in
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the place prepared, isn't it, jose Amen Matthew. Matter of fact,
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it wouldn't surprise me if we just keep right on celebrating it, right,
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I mean, it wouldn't surprise me at all if this last for if possible,
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if it weren't for Kara's rebellion, It wouldn't surprise me if this last
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for the entire one and sixty days, And obviously Kara's rebellion breaks it right.
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Well, that's what numbers nine says, right, Matthew. If this
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person neglects to deserve the passover, that person shall be cut off from his
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people. I am absolutely dumbfounded because you actually saw it. I didn't have
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to say it. Say that one more time, because that's why I read
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it. So numbers nine thirteen. But the man who is clean and is
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not on a journey, and yet neglects to observe the passover, that person
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shall then be cut off from his people, for he did not present the
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offering of the Lord at its appointed time. That man will bear his sin.
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If you need a hint, ladies and gentlemen, you ain't got a
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clue. And it's too bad that you spent all these years studying Bible prophecy
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and never knew these things, because nobody was ever going to tell you if
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they did not love the Lord their God with all their heart, soul,
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minded strength, if they had not rejected man and just taken the Bible and
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absorbed it. Because that's what it takes. It doesn't take sermons, it
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doesn't take Sunday school lessons. You can go to vacation Bible school at a
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different church every week for all summer long, and you'll never know these things.
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You have to literally take God's word, make it a lightened to your
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feet and a lamp and to your path. That's what you got to do.
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But it amazes me that it hit Jose like a ton of bricks.
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That's Koro's rebellion. Because, ladies and gentlemen, once you've been taken to
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a place that's prepared for you by the angels, you're going to rejoice.
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You don't have to. You don't have to punch into a time clock anymore.
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No one can tell you what time to get up. Ladies and gentlemen,
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you don't even know what freedom is. You don't even know, do
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you, because all of you literally have clocks everywhere, don't we, Jose,
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Yes we do. Matthew. Well, I'm here to tell you,
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when you get escorted to a place prepared for you by God, by the
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angels, you don't have to do anything anymore. You don't have to punch
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the time clock, you don't have to beat all these appointments on time.
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You don't have clocks anymore. And secondly, you don't have currency, you
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don't you don't have currency anymore. You don't have to worry about buying a
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cup of coffee doesn't exist. So it is amazing to me that when you
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put these things together, especially these two chapters together, it all makes sense.
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God has literally been preparing you for this time since the very beginning,
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since the very beginning. And it amazes me how often Jose says this.
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I don't say it very often, but Jose says it all the time.
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He says, God repeats himself all the time, because no matter where I
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take Jose, we went through Micah, we went through two Timothy. What
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did God say? Jose says the same thing over and over. Matthew,
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he says the same exact thing over and over. It never changes, He
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just changing the way he says it right, And that is paramount to the
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situation, isn't it. Yes, Ladies and gentlemen, if you don't know
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this, I'm gonna share something with you. The totality of the end times
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is thirty five sixty days. Let me say that again, three thousand,
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five hundred and sixty days, because there's two thousand, three hundred days of
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birth pains, and the tribulation itself is forty two months, it's and sixty
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days. It's three and a half years comprised of forty two months of exactly
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thirty days. Because that time is not like this time, ladies and gentlemen,
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God changing time. So you put those two integers together and it's three
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thousand, five hundred and sixty and you need to know that right now,
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and you need to know that what begins. The whole sequence is loudly described
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multiple times in the Bible as being the four spirits of Heaven stirring things up.
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Is that not the case? Jose, Yes, it is, Matthew.
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That's where it starts, and it's the only thing that's going to get
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you today two thousand and three hundred. That's the only way you're going to
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get there. And something's going to happen forty five days before that last day.
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You need to know about it because of Lord Jesus Christ illicitly warns you
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of that. Is that not what he did in Matthew Chapter twenty four,
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Jose, Yes, that's exactly what he does. Matthew. He comes right
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out and tells you, He tells you him last forty five days are gonna
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be hell on earth. But it's not the tribulation. The tribulation is not
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survivable, Ladies and gentlemen, it's not survivable. It's a terminal event for
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everyone thought in the outer darkness. Jose, you're closing comments. Well,
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Matthew, we started off this program talking about Ascension title and second Chronicles.
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Thirty points us there exactly when you look at this time frame, the second
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month, thirty days after passover is supposed to be is the appointed time of
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passover. Then you add in the feast of unleavened bread, which was seven
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days, and there's additional seven days that they celebrated the feast, Matthew.
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That puts you right in that timeframe of ascension tide. And it makes me
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wonder if the reason why our Lord was here an additional forty days was to
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allow for that second passover, Matthew, that second month allow for those sojourners
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to come in and be a part of his passover. But like I said,
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Matthew, this chapter is just blowing my mind right now. I'm gonna
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have to go over it and over it and over it because there's just so
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much here. It's almost it's almost unbelievable how much information is jam packed in
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here and where it takes us, and how many dots it connects and how
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much it seements everything else that God has said. Yeah, I just don't
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have the words. Matthew. Well, that's a little frustrating to me.
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Kase. I thought you were already supposed to have studied this, which you
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did. Correct. It's amazing how the how when two or three are gathered
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together, It's just amazing how the Lord will Just you thought you studied,
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didn't you. Yeah, I mean you thought you were coming, and you
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thought you were going to come into this program. You just knew at all,
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didn't you. I know better than that, Matthew. But you know,
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but ladies and gentlemen, I've got to push you. The Lord God
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does not lie. And if you just get up off your chair, grab
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at least one sibling, find one. There's got to be one Christian around
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you somewhere. Get them and get it at table and start studying the Bible.
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I mean, where two or three are gathered, where is he at,
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Jose? He is there, Matthew in the midst Jose, take us
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out of here in prayer, Please, Der, Heavenly Father, whom we
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love and serve once again and continually. I give you thanks and praise for
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allowing me and my brother Matthew to gather together. I give you thanks and
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praise for allowing us to share your word with the ecclesia. And Lord,
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I pray that these words have edified the ecclesia, that it has strengthened them
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and they will enable them to endure what is to come. Father, Lord,
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I ask for your Holy Spirit to come to these listeners, to understand
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your word, to help spread your word so that we may find those lost
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sheep. Lord, you have told us that that one lost sheep is more
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important than the ninety nine that have been found. And I just asked that
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you help us, Lord, to gather your people together so that they may
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be prepared for when you return and when your son returns. And God,
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I ask all this in the name of your son, our Lord and Savior,
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Jesus Christ. Amen, Amen and Amen. Until next time, ladies
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and gentlemen, God bless, God speed. Thank you for listening to Marinath
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