018 Abraham, Isaac, and Israel Pt 2A

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Nigh. Welcome, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the program. We're your

host Jose and Matthew. Tonight we are continuing the study of this well.

In my opinion, it's one of the most important phrases in the Bible,

God's Holy Word. It is Abraham, Isaac and Israel. And every single

time this comes up, literally prophecy is wrapped around it. And what amazes

me is how many times I've been speaking with people about the infamous of how

do I put this time's time and half of time? Now, we know

that the Book of Daniel says that two different ways. It says that once

in Hebrew, then it switches to language and says it a different way.

You know, time's time and the dividing of time. We know the Book

of Revelation. It adds to the mix. It says time's time and a

halftime it says and sixty days, and then it turns around and says forty

two months. But you need to know where that comes from. God didn't

pull this out of a hat. This came from somewhere, and I'm willing

to bet that of you listening to my voice, you have no idea where

it comes from. So I have to make that the backdrop for what Jose

and I was going to share, because immediately when Jose talks about what we're

going to be sharing tonight, your mind will immediately go to to the entertainment

industry, all the entertaining things that this particular prophet did. And there's no

doubt about it that this prophet, boy, this prophet is different. This

story. Many Jewish rabbis don't believe it's real. They thinks it can't be

real. Now I'm telling you the truth. I've talked about this in their

own synagogues. I mean, when I say his name, it's just good

to trigger remembrance serves within you. It's just going to trigger you. So

I'm not going to say the name. I'm going to pass it over to

Jose and then let him talk about it. But before you you listen to

this, no one understand time's time and a halftime comes from this event.

And if you don't realize that God is expecting you to realize to build an

entire end time timeline around these events. You are extremely shortsighted. And that

is to say you've never learned the polysemic proper interpretation of scripture. You've never

even heard of that, have you? But I'm telling you that's what's required

in order to see with your eyes and hear with your ears. That's what's

required. So Jose bring us up to speed wire. Were talking about this

phrase, Abraham, Isaac and Israel. Tonight? What chapter are we going

to? Well, we're going to one Kings eighteen as the next time this

phrase appears in the Bible. And I've been re listening to our Social Name

series, Matthew, And of course, even though we've already did those broadcasts,

it still blows me away when I go back and listen to them.

But social nime, we know, means those who will be changed. Right,

especially in the Greek, it tells us that, yes, and and

you've repeated over and over the meaning of Israel is those who in God straightens.

Heymen, So when you see that the normal phrase that we usually see

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, when God changes that to Israel. It should

we already know all God's word is prophetic, but we need to like sit

up and rub the rub the sleep out of our eyes. Right, splash

some water in your face, because because you know that when you see that

the way that that Phrasin has put there Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that

God's given us another. He's He's given us a big bright alarm bell saying

wake up. I'm talking about prophecy here, I'm talking about the coming Israel.

I'm talking about my people, right, Matthew. And so as Christians,

we understand we've been told in the New Testament in Romans that like you've

you've repeated the last I don't know how many episodes you've you've repeated yourself,

Matthew, we have been grafted in and as Christians we are Israel. And

so this is for us, and especially in this chapter, Matthew, like

you said, the three years and six months that mentioned that's indicated here in

this chapter points us to not only Revelation eleven in the time of the two

witnesses, but also points us to Revelation twelve and the time when the woman

is taking to the wilderness. Amen so again, if you're the ecclesia,

you are the woman and you're trying to prepare yourself to become the bride.

So everything that's that's God telling us about here, whether or not anybody believes

it's true, God is telling us what is to come. He is always

telling us what is to come. I know it seems kind of like,

why do I keep repeating myself? But this is not just a toy.

This is a story. This is not just a tale that God's put in

here to add excitement to his Bible. He's given us prophecy here. He's

telling us what is to come, and so we need to figure this out.

Matthew, Well, you know, let's read from the book or from

Wikipedia for a minute. Concerning this prophet. God also performed many miracles through

him, including resurrection, bringing fire down from the sky, and entering Heaven

alive by fire. If you need a hint, you ain't got a clue.

This is why many of the rabbis believe that this really isn't true.

They think it's really really just a parable. But take note, Oh my

goodness, these chapters are loaded. They're absolutely loaded. But ladies and gentlemen,

if you didn't know. This is where the three and a half years

comes from. I don't even know what to tell you, because you're obviously

unfamiliar with the Bible, God's Holy Word. And I'm saying that very forthrightly,

because I'm just going to read four verses. This tale begins in the

prior chapter, First Kings, Chapter seventeen, verse one. It says,

now, Elijah the tishup Bite, who was the settlers a milliad, said

that Ahab As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives before whom I

stand. Surely there shall neither be due nor reign these years except by my

word. Now let's skip one chapter exactly one chapter, chapter eighteen. This

first verse says this, Now, it happened after many days that the word

of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, go show

yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the face of the earth.

So to write here you would be hesitant if you didn't know the biblical

HEREDI Luke chapter four, verse twenty five. But I say to you in

truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when

the sky was shut up for three years and six months when a great family

came came over all the land. Now, if you don't like the Gospels,

let's go to the Book of James, Chapter five, verse seventeen.

Elijah was a man with a stature like ours. He prayed earnestly that would

not reign, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and

six months. So if you can't see plainly that God was beaten around a

bush with first King seventeen and eighteen. He didn't want you to know the

exact dates, but he sure fire made sure that information was relayed to the

Lord Jesus Christ. It was three and a half years. Oh, yes

it was. It was three years six months. You should immediately know.

Well, that's why God told the angels to manipulate their message in such a

way that Daniel would get that. You have to structure this around the prophetic

of instant already happened that I instigated with my servant Elijah. So the angel

that was hovering over the waters relate to Daniel the information based off a three

and a half year sequence. Yes, he did rate it this time.

You might want to try believing it when you do, because it did come

from these events in these chapters. I mean, this is the whole reason

why he goes to the widow, This is the whole reason why the widow

son dies. And I can go on and on and on and on and

on, because if you don't know that Revelation chapter twelve is built around these

events, you're so shortsighted that I'm going to be speaking Greek to you.

You're so unfamiliar with the Bible, God's Holy Word that I really can't relay

the information to you. It would sound like a cipher or or a foreign

language. So you need to write these down. Okay, write these verses

down first, King seventeen one one, Kings eighteen one, Luke four,

and James five seventeen. You need to memorize those and understand those before you

ever go to Daniel, and before you ever go to the Book of Revelation.

Is if you do, you're just going to confuse yourself because God is

going to be referencing things that you know nothing about. Ose. Yeah,

I'm Matthew, It's I just don't it. Sometimes it's it's people just don't

believe what's actually said in their Bible, and they they I don't know if

they just look at it. You've got the scholars, Matthew that get in

here and and they just start trying to piece this apart and trying to,

you know, say, well this is more likely than that, and you

know we have you know, they just they just they don't believe it.

I guess that's what I'm gonna say. They don't believe it. Okay,

So when you when you when God tells us in the New Testament the timeframe

that this took place, we need to believe it. And any Christian worth

their assaut Matthews is going to understand the importance of that time period, what

it means just on the Book of Daniel alone, let alone the other references

that that that are that are in the Bible. But but the Book of

Daniel. I mean that's everyone you know who pretends to study prophecy reads the

Book of Daniel and and tries to come up with their own interpretations of it.

So this this when we're told, we're told by by Uh in the

New Testament that that's that's where this time fame comes from. So I'm just

I'm just kind of looking over looking over words here, Matthew and the Hebrew

trying to fully understand what God's saying here. But yeah, this is this

is a good chapter to cover. If this is a good chapter, you

just well you've said it correctly. Knowing this, it makes you very hesitant.

You realize that, no matter what you're going to glean from this in

the next you know, forty eight than minutes, you're not going to have

enough time. Right, You're not going to be able to say everything that's

here, Jose. You're not going to be able to do because the Lord

is with you. And when the Lord is with you, oh, you

don't have to worry about content, Okay, you really, the only thing

you need to worry about is time. I've got sixty minutes to do this.

So what is it that God wants me to share out of all this

data that I know? And the way that can be related should via the

Holy Spirit? Jose. So believe me, every time I get up in

front of people, every time I push start for us to record, I'm

nervous because I fear God. Let me say that again so you understand what

I'm saying. Ladies, din'm if you didn't know that the fear of the

Lord is the beginning of wisdom. I don't know how, Jose, and

I can help you if you don't know that, But I'm here to tell

you I'm literally shaking in my boots before I go up in front of the

congregation, before I get up in front of the classroom, before I do

these episodes, I fear God. So let's get to the text, Jose.

We obviously should read this, but how much should we read? That's

the question? Right, This is forty six versus just this chapter when really

we need to read all of seventeen two to get the entire contact. But

what's your thoughts? Well, for sure, we have to cover the second

half, but I mean, how could do that without the first half?

Matthew? Right, Because if you do that, if you skip the first

half, you skipped Obadiah yep, yep. So maybe we can just roughly

talk about that. What do you make of this intermediary that works between Elijah

and a What do you make what on earth do you make of him?

Well, Matthew, he's he's a servant of a have But it says that

he loves the Lord, he fears God. Right, that that's what it

says. And when you when you read, when you read try to read

a little bit of history on him. It indicates that he's the prophet that

wrote the Book of Obadiah, and we know the prophetic importance of that book

and what it says. It also tells us that he hid a hundred prophets

when Jezebel was going around killing the prophets of God, that he himself hid

a hundred prophets and fed them two separate groups of fifty. He freed them

bread and water, and Matthew, I couldn't find anything to confirm it,

but I have a feeling that those two different groups of prophets, you had

one at least one group that were very young and I would I would say,

I would say children. And again I have not found any biblical evidence

for that, but that's just my feeling. The fact that he separated them

into two groups, the fact that he tells us about the most Shaim he

knew a little bit more about what was going on, and him witnessing what

Elijah did here, Matthew, I think went a long way to putting that

spirit of prophecy in him and God using him to spread more prophetic word.

Well, I'm gonna have to jump in here, I'm going to have to

take everybody to Second King's chapter two and verse three. Okay, I quote

and the Sons of the Prophets. Ladies and gentlemen, you did know there

was a group that was called the sons of the Prophets, right, you

didn't know that? Okay? Once again, everybody, you need to get

you something to write with and something to write on, and you need to

do so right now. Second Kings chapter two, verse three, And the

sons of the Prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha and said,

unto him, knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from the

head today? And he said, yes, I know it. Hold your

peace. Okay, okay, back up, back up, back up,

Just just stop the bus and let me get off. At this point,

why is this this group of prophets, Why are they called the sons of

the Prophets? And how is it that they know that Elijah's going to be

taken to heaven before anybody else does. Okay, So you're supposed to be

familiar with the Bible, God's Holy Word, You're supposed to be familiar with

it. I've read this in the thousands of times. Have I read the

Bible all the way through in the thousands, So if I'm talking about things

you don't understand, And where did these sons of the prophets come from?

Of course it's in the Bible because after Elijah went to heaven, Elisha his

successor. You know, the biblical narrative kind of works out in simple fact

that Elisha took it over as the lead role of the school. Okay,

and the school was called the Sons of the Prophet. Now, come on,

Jose, why on earth hold that you wouldn't name a bunch of old

men the sons of the prophets. No, if you need a hint,

you ain't got a single clue, ladies and gentlemen. Jose is quite correct.

You're supposed to know at least I would hope you would know Revelation chapter

twelve, because Jose and I over the past thirteen years have read it to

you. Jose, what would you say? Would you say? Ten?

Twenty fifty one hundred? No? Yeah, times ten to multiply that by

one hundred, Matthew, Okay, you're supposed to know this. There's two

groups in that chapter, and there are probably two groups of fifty because they're

both numbered. Let me say that again. Yes, ladies and gentlemen,

both group is numbered. One is the male child and the other is.

In the last verse, it says the rest of her children. So have

we even got started yet? Oh my goodness, we haven't even read the

text. Well, just to add Matthew, I mean, obviously I didn't

have that reference to the sons of the prophets, but I just knew they

had to be there because of everything else we've been reading, because of how

many times God's repeated himself, and because of who Obadiah is, you know,

and and so I expected that there, and so the fact that you

were able to provide confirmation, that's a blessing to me. Thank you.

Well. As always, Jose, I've got to be good for something,

ay man, else I'm good for nothing. So I think how much time

we wow? All twenty minutes past past the hour, So we need to

just start reading the second part. Yeah, we really don't have time to

read the first part. So what are you gonna pick it up? In?

What? Verse twenty? Maybe? Yeah, I can do verse twenty.

Maybe I'll hit three stanzas there and see what we can cover. All

right. So I'm reading out of nasb nineteen ninety five one Kings, chapter

eighteen, and I'm picking up in verse twenty. So Ahab sent a message

among all the sons of Israel and brought the prophets together at Mount Carmel.

Elijah came near to all the people and said, how long will you hesitate

between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him, but if

Ball follow him. But the people did not answer him a word. Then

Elijah said to the people, I alone am left a prophet of the Lord.

But Ball's prophets are four hundred and fifty men. Now let them give

us two oxen, and let them choose one ox for themselves, and cut

it up and place it on the wood, but put no fire under it.

And I will prepare the other ox and lay it on the wood,

and I will not put a fire under it. Then you call on the

name of your God, and I will call on the name of the Lord.

And the God who answers by fire, he is God. And all

the people said, that is a good idea. So Elijah said to the

prophets of Baal, choose one ox for yourselves, and prepare it first for

you are many, and call on the name of your God, but put

no fire under it. Then they took the ox which was given them,

and they prepared it and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon,

saying, oh, ball answer us. But there was no voice and

no one answered, and they leaped about the altar which they made. It

came about at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, call out with a

loud voice, for he is a god. Either he is occupied or gone

aside, or is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and needs

to be awakened. So they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves

according to their custom, with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out

on them. When mid day was passed, they raved until the time of

the offering of the evening sacrifice, but there was no voice, no one

answered, and no one paid attention. Then Elijah said, do all the

people come near to me. So all the people came near to him,

and he repaired the altar of the Lord which had been torn down. Elijah

took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of

Jacob, to whom the word the Lord had come saying, Israel shall be

your name. So with the stones he built an altar in the name of

the Lord. And he made a trench around the altar, large enough to

hold two measures of seed. Then he arranged the wood and cut the ox

in pieces and laid it on the wood. And he said, fill four

pigers with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.

And he said do it a second time. And they did it a second

time. And he said do it a third time, and they did it

a third time. The water flowed around, the water water around the altar,

and he also filled the trench with water. Wow, that's a mouthful.

Yes, why this repetitive action you think? I'm not sure, Matthew.

One thing's for sure. It sticks out, doesn't it. Yes,

it it truly sticks out, and it it you know. Let me just

give some some some things to get us thinking the right way. Have you

ever tried taking seen south? There's four hundred and fifty profits of bell here.

Have you ever tried taking that into a and forty four thousand for fifty?

Yeah? Yeah, it was just for fifty. I get three twenty,

Matthew, just a nice even number three twenty h that's pretty amazing,

right, right, So that should get people's attention when I just say that,

and I've already mentioned that these well you did. I didn't say that

you did that. There were two groups of fifty that he put in separate

caves. Amen. So let's talk about this this phraseology that he uses in

the beginning. He says, he puts it very particular that you call on

your God, and I will call on the name of the Lord and the

God el who answers by fire, he is God. So did you pick

up on that? That that the way this is praised in Hebrew is very

magical. He's making sure that they know that that you call on your God,

whoever that might be. But I'm calling on the Lord right right.

And that's the tetragrammaton right there, Matthew, that's the tetragrammacrat that's YHVH right

thing. Yes, So, and he says whoever answers, he is l

he is God. So very delicate. How he puts this to them.

Why do you think they agreed to do this so readily? I mean they

jumped right on the bandwagon, right, yes, they did. This is

a good idea. This is a good idea. Now, wouldn't that make

you think they had seen this before? Amen? Yeah, and it certainly

does bring to mind the magicians of Pharaoh, right right? And I mean,

are we told that that's the false prophet has also given those powers?

Matthew, that's right. You are exactly correct, And that's where I really

wanted to go. Most people don't realize that this plainly stands out and makes

the simple fact that the case must be that these prophets had seen this happen

before. So we're not dealing with well, let's talk about that word false

prophet, okay, hose, Okay. We all know people who that purport

to be able to do matter, right, Yes, and you would call

those false or fake magicians, right, yes, No, this text is

reading as if these prophets of Bail were real magicians, and he fully expected

Bail to answer by fire, and as a mitter of fact, they thought

that Elijah was going to make himself look like a fool. I wonder how

many people had realized that simple fact before. Now, what's what's your thoughts

on this? What I'm what I'm what came to mind, Matthew. If

we see these prophets about sacrificing. Well, I'm sorry, they're they're performing

magic right for all intents and purposes there, they are performing these sign and

wonders. I'd i'd have to I'd have to say that what accompanied this was

was child sacrifice, and it's going to be those sons of the prophets,

Matthew, that that partook in a lot of the sacrificing. Yeah, it

tells us that Jezebel was killing the prophets of the Lord. But I mean,

I don't see I don't see why they wouldn't sacrifice the sons of the

prophets to to their god. Bah Matthew. Well, jose we just talked

about this the other day. Has it left your mind so quickly? Who

was a has trying to kill? Yeah? His sons Immanual. He was

trying to Immanuel. Now, this has happened many times before, when I'll

say something and then two or three episodes later, I'll talk it about it

again and I'll get a response from it. These people were shell shocked.

I had shocked their psyche in such a way that they just they had forgotten

that I just talked about it three or four episodes before. So if I

just rattled your cage, you need to go back and listen to that show

again, ladies and gentlemen, because the text is very plain. It's very

clear that A has kept sacrificing his sons. When Isiah told him that the

Lord was going to forcibly give him a sign, the Lord was going to

forcibly give him a child, and that child's name was to be given the

name Emmanuel. And A has was sacrificing those babies. So if you weren't

putting two and two together, this is why the two groups had to be

separated. Oh you didn't catch that, did you, Ladies and gentlemen.

Look, if the king caught the older prophets, they would just be murdered

outright. But if he caught the sons of the prophet, those would be

sacrificed. They wouldn't be murdered, they'd be sacrificed. So Obadiah said,

man, I got to separate them. I got a fifty to fifty chance

that if somebody does get caught, it won't be the children. But if

I put them all together and they get caught, the older men will be

spared. They'll be killed. Quickly, but the children will be sacrificed.

It's and you're supposed to know about this group. The sons of the Prophet

is the entire backdrop for this. And the only way you can know that

is to write the Bible, God's Holy Word on your heart cover to cover.

That's the only way to do it. I instinctively know these things.

I instinctively know what to look for because I've I've so familiarized myself with the

text. I can't ignore it. I literally can't ignore it. So you

know, you look at this text and you're like, WHOA. So they're

dancing around, they're crying out with wild voices. They started cutting themselves,

ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen. If you haven't read the historical accounts

of child sacrifice all over this planet, you have no idea what you're looking

at here. This is exactly the things you would do before you sacrificed the

child Tojse So, Matthew, I jumped over to Second King seventeen and it's

talking about Israel, and it says here in verse sixteen, they abandoned all

the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of

two calves, and they made an astra and worshiped all the hosts of heaven

and served ball, and they burned their sons and daughters as offerings, and

used divination and omens, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of

the Lord, provoking him to anger. That's exactly what they were doing,

Matthew, Yes, I know. Whose it's just everybody else that doesn't know.

And if they don't know, even if they'd read this text before,

they had it completely out of context. They had no idea what it was

saying, did they Nope? So was that in mind? We better push

on, all right? So, picking up in verse thirty six, at

the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet came near

and said, Oh Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel.

Today let it be known that you are God in Israel, and that I

am your servant, and I have done all these things that your word.

Answer me, Oh Lord, answer me, that this people may know that

you, o Lord, are God, and that you have turned their heart

back again. Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering,

and the wood and the stones, and the dust and licked up the

water that was in the trench. When all the people saw it, they

fell on their faces, and they said, the Lord he is God,

The Lord he is God. Then Elijah said to them, seize the prophets

of do not let one of them escape. So they seize them, and

Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slew them there. Now Elijah

said to Ahab, go up, eat and drink, for there is the

sound of the roar of a heavy shower. So Ahab went up to eat

and drink. But Elijah went up to the top of Carmel, and he

crouched down on the earth and put his face between his knees. He said

to his servant, go up, now, look toward the sea. So

he went up and looked, and said there is nothing. And he said

go back seven times. And it came about at that seven times that he

said, behold, a cloud as small as a man's hand is coming up

from the sea. And he said go up. Say to Ahab, prepare

your chariot and go down, so that the heavy shower does not stop you.

In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind,

and there was heavy shower, and they have rowed and went to Jezreel.

Then the hand of the Lord was on Elijah, and he girded up his

loins and out around Ahab to Jezreel. Wow, there's a lot there.

So can I ask you a crazy question? Sure? Well, here we

are transported back to Exodus thirty two. So here who is this unnamed servant?

I mean, this poor servant was like, all right, go up

there on the hill and look and tell me what you see. I don't

see nothing, right, Look, he tells his poor servant seven times to

run up. We're runn up there right right? Who is this guy?

I mean, did nobody realize that Elisha was here the whole time? Well,

we had the same thing happened to us up on SINAI right right.

You didn't have to like it. God came out out and told you,

now, who heard the cries of the camp? No? No, no,

no, no, it was not Moses that heard it. It was

Joshua. So here you have this, I mean, this is I mean,

you realize there's no reason for these verses to be here, right right?

I mean Elija had already told a have three years six months before this,

it's not going to rain unless I say, now, when you know

that Elijah knew full wet? Look, how did God burn the rocks up?

Oh? So everybody missed that part? How did everybody miss that part?

Let me go back in and read it. Okay, it says and

I quote, well, maybe I should Greek the KJV, maybe it'll say

something different. Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the bird sacrifice,

and the wood aged the stones and the dust, and licked up the

water that was in the trench. I mean, if you're not catching it,

ladies and gentlemen, that fire was so intense it made magma. I

got another crazy question. So why did Elijah take the prophets of bell somewhere

else to kill them? Jose Verse forty again. Yeah, yeah, I

see. I see that it says seize the prophets of ball did not let

one of them escape, So they seized them, and Eliza brought them down

to the brook Kishon and slew them. There isn't What do you know about

this place Kishon? Do you think that's important to the text. Yeah,

i'd have to say it is. Yeah, I have to say it is

too. But I see it showing up in Judges chapter four and chapter five.

You already searched for it. Yeah, how about Judges chapter five,

Well that's where Muaz is spoken. Ah, yes, verse twenty three.

Now you know about morales, right right, So, ladies and gentlemen,

this is this is Let me read verse well, ose, if you're already

there, why don't you start reading in verse twenty and read down to all

read read twenty three. Okay, the star fought from heaven from the courses,

they fought against Cicera. The torrent of Kishon swept them away, the

ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. Oh my soul marched on with strength.

Then the horses hoofs beat from the dashing, the dashing of his valiants deeds

curse, Maraz said. The Angel of the Lord utterly cursed its inhabitants because

they did not come to the help of the Lord. To the help of

the Lord against the warriors. Now read the next one four twenty four.

Most blessed of women is Jaiel, the wife of Hebrew, the kenknighte.

Most blessed is she of women in the tent? Won't you clean read the

next verse? He asked for water, and she gave him milk in a

magnificent bowl. She brought him kourds. That's enough, we're hetting too far

off course here, Just so you know this reference here is well, we

have to use polysemic interpretation here because here this river is being likened to the

Milky Way. Amen. So now you're getting to why didn't Elijah take him

there to kill him? One thing's for sure. He wanted to make sure

that nobody thought he was sacrificing them, right, Amen. So this is

just gloaded with prophecy. This is just wow, it's just off the hook

prophecy. Right. What's your thoughts? What's jumping out to you? The

one thing that stood out to me, Matthew, especially with Mira's coming up,

you had two sacrifices. Why, one for the Lord and one for

ball and that I just couldn't help. But but think about Azazel, and

I know that that's that sacrifice references to goats. But but I just I

just had the same, the same parallel here God has. God has one

sacrifice and the other one is it's for a for all intents and purposes.

So obviously we saw which one was acceptable to the Lord, which one he

chose and the other the other one was not sacrificed the same way that that

with the with the scapegoat as a zel. So that that's that's what I

when I started reading about the sacrifices, that's the first thing that came to

mind, Matthew, And especially when when we tie it back into to a

Judges chapter five. Well, okay, can we can we say this?

Has anybody looked up the references to time here with sacrifice? Now, I'm

just asking tell me, this is a very strange tale that we see here

that what was a hap doing? Why did he go up to eat?

Did you catch that? What did you think about that? Was that was

the weird thing for Elijah to tell him to go do? Well? Yes,

it is because in Lune verse thirty six. Read verse thirty six again,

at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, what on earth

are you talking about? Uh? Oh, so nobody realized that this must

be a specific offering. No, nobody caught that. So when you realize

this, okay, Jose, you were taking things just realizing that something must

be going on here, because there's two sacrifices and once for the Lord and

one for the scapegoat, right, right, So why didn't these verses trip

the wire with you? Why is this being done on a sacrifice day?

Which sacrifice? I mean, I'm not jesting, I'm being serious, yep,

okay, So which so this is a high holy day. This is

happening on a high holy day. Now now look read verse forty one.

Now Elijah said to Ahab, go up, eat and drink, for there

is a sound of the roar of a heavy shower verse forty two. So

a I went up to eat and drink. If you didn't see, this

was a festival your blood. So let me get this right. So there's

a festival in Israel that you have a sacrifice and then after it you eat

a festive meal, right right. And I would probably guess that was pretty

important in the context of this, right absolutely, because it tells you in

the New Testament, this is exactly three and a half years on the dime.

Amen. Amen. So once you know that, once you know the

high holy days, you begin to calculate, you begin to riddle yourself,

and you realize that's why this is three and a half years, because at

the beginning of the first month is when this started. And in the first

month there's one set of high Holy days, and then three and a half

years later, mean that this would have ended on the second set of high

Holy days in the middle of the year, right, Jose, Yes,

Matthew, So if this sequence began on Russia, shot, it was going

to end the passover right or vice versa. Correct? Correct, And he's

telling you which one is which. But the Lord, he's God, and

he speaks to us in riddles by the command of the prophet Asaff Amen,

Amen, I mean people get confused me. And I said that because I

say it with authority, because I know the Bible got totally word. The

reason why the Lord Jesus Christ spoken in parables because that was commanded by the

prophet Asaf. And Asaf is the only prophet ever that prophesied illicitly by the

order of the king. He was ordered to prophesy. So please look these

things up in the Bible. So when you know this, you realize that's

why this whole sequence has taken place. It's magnifying the two sets of high

Holy days. One of these sets of holy days starts the civil year.

We don't care about those because we're Israel. We are God's chosen people.

Now we are Christians through Christ, So we really don't care about that.

We care about the high holy days and the religious calendar which begins when Jose,

does it begin at rash shaa or Passover? No, Passover, Matthew,

Passover, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, it does that, which is

probably is very confounding to your psyche because every single year in September you hear

the rapture, the rapture, the rapture, the rapture. It's going to

happen because it's rasha shan, because it's a feast of trumpets, right,

Jose, Right when the two angels stood there looking around at the disciples as

they were just staring dumbfoundedly into heaven, and they said something very very strange.

They said, just as he left, he's going to come back.

He was expecting you to know that ten days from that specific day was going

to be Pentecost. I mean, if you need a hint, you ain't

got a clue. So I've said a lot of boy, I've just dumped

a lot of information on people. Is it important do you think that?

Verse forty three says that and he said go back seven times. Yes,

just like just like you referenced the pouring of the water, the repetitiveness,

this is another repetition seven times that he had to go back to just to

look. I would say that's pretty important, this being an Elisha though,

because I mean, wouldn't you have to say that Elisha was the greater prophet

because I remember even when a dead body was thrown and it hit the bones

of Elisha, the dude come back to life just by touching Elisha's bones.

But anyway, this is obviously massively important, and that stuffs people when I

say that when technically the apprentice, the person unnamed here, which was Elisha,

he was actually greater in miracles than Elicha. But anyway, I'm just

trying to point out simple fact. We should probably consult the alpha numerics in

this whole chapter, shouldn't we. Amen, This is probably prophecy all over

it, right, But like I said, I mean, this is forty

six verses. This is boy, this is a lot could bite off in

one chew. Another thing that we need to bring up. Does everybody realize

that all this is not happened in the Southern Kingdom. This is happening in

the Northern Kingdom of Samaria. Did I say it strangely for you? Did

that confusion? Yeah, this is happening in the north. So normally we

call that Israel, right, but no, geographically speaking, this text calls

it Samaria, right, because that's where the capital of the Northern Kingdom was,

was in the city called Samaria. But that location was also called Samaria,

but it was Israel. This is the this is the ten northern tribes.

That's what we're dealing with here. Yeah, Elijah didn't go to the

Jews. Uh oh, I mean, Jose, do you realize I really

just confused people right now? Yes, Okay, read for me verse two

please, of one eighteen, first King's eighteen. Yes, so Elijah went

to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. This

is after the kingdom is divided. Ladies and gentlemen, this is not Elied.

You never had anything to do with the Jews. This is the Israelites.

Did you take that into account? Jose? Oh, yes, definitely,

Matthew, we probably piqued some people's attention. There is more here then

we can possibly cover. I mean, and there is no joke to that

there is more here than I can possibly possibly share. There's just too much

information here, just way too much, and there's no reason for me to

even attempt it. I'm gonna give you a good bonus though. So remember

I had you do that calculation. You take one hundred and forty four thousand

and divide it by four point fifty. You come up with three twenty.

Right. Yes, Have you taken a look at G three twenty No?

I haven't, Matthew, really, so do you have access? You can

do that real quick. Let me see if I can find that cooks.

These tears are turning. They keep changing all these all these computer programs on

in, Matthew, and it's sometimes frustrating. Yep, you get used to

one. Okay, So I have here G three anagnosis. Yep. Now

pull it up and read the definition for us feminine noun knowing and knowing again

reading, Yes, reading, that's it. Go down to does it tell

you the verses that it's in? Yes? Okay, go ahead and read

those three verses. Acts thirteen fifteen. After the reading of the Law and

the prophets, the rulers of the Synagogue sent unto them saying, ye,

men and brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people,

say on two Corinthians three fourteen, but their minds were blinded for until this

day remains the same veil untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament,

which veil is done away in Christ and one Timothy four thirteen, till I

come give attendance to reading to exhortation through doctrine. You might want to write

those three down, ladies and gentlemen. You might want to take a study

of those He read the KJV, and I appreciate that probably a little difficult

for some people. Check it out in well, just do yourself a favor

and check it out, because I haven't revealed a hundredth of the information that

I could hose. You're closing comments, Well, Matthew, you just can't

help but read first King's eighteen and it takes you to the two witnesses.

In Revelation chapter eleven. You not only have the mention of the three years

and six months, the twelve hundred and sixty days. I'm sorry that the

three years and six months, the twelve hundred and sixty days, the forty

two months. You also have the reference to these two witnesses having the power

to shut up the sky so that rain will not fall. And then you

also have Matthew the seventh Trumpet in Revelation chapter eleven, and we read referenced

to seven times that the servant had to go and check for the for the

rain. And I want to read verse nineteen of Revelation eleven, and the

temple of God, which is in heaven, was opened, and the ark

of his covenant appeared in his temple, and there was flashes of lightning and

sounds and peals of thunder and an earthquake and a great hailstorm. So yeah,

God's pointing us right here, Matthew. I mean, I don't know,

I don't know how you could you could deny it. Well, let

us hope that this inspires people to dig into this chapter because we just don't

have time to. I mean, our time is up, Yes, our

time is up. So I appreciate that you've been listening to the show shanime

series again, and then I bet since you've been re listening to them,

you've learned twice as much as I shared initially. Right, Yeah, absolutely,

yep, Because God's word has that effect, doesn't it. It does,

Matthew. And when we're talking about it, you know, my one

side of my brain is working because we're discussing things. But when I'm just

listening, I got like both halves up open, and now they can Now

my brain can work, right, Hey man, hey man, all right,

Jose, pray us out of here. Please all right, Dear heavenly

Father, whom we love and serve, we thank you, we praise you,

we glorify you for your word that you have given us, and for

allowing us this space and this time to gather together. Lord. I asked

that this each blessed the listeners, whether that be in now we're in the

archive, and I ask that it edified the Ecclesia, because that's the whole

purpose for us doing this. This is not to glorify ourselves. This is

not to glorify any doctrine. This is not to glorify any traditions of man.

Lord, This is to glorify you and edify the Ecclesia. So I

asked that that be done, whether it be one person, whether that be

one lost sheep, Father, please let let this be so. Lord,

I pray for those in need for those in sickness, for those in fear,

and I pray that as the birth pangs come along, that you remind

your people that this is what is supposed to come. We were told by

your son, this is what is supposed to happen. Please remain with your

people, Please help us endure the coming birth pangs, and please help us

to continue to read your word and to pray for each other, Lord,

as we wait for your son to return. And we ask all this in

the name of your Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen,

Amen and Amen. Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, God bless

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